CHAPTER 1

Cloudy days, they always seem to go by slower than the other days. The hours seemed to drag on and on, never ending. You could never tell apart one hour to the next, it was so dimmed down that it all looked the same. A steady drizzle kept the grounds of Konoha damp, which made it unpleasant to do much of anything outside, so people typically stayed in. Soft rolling thunder had started about an hour ago and lingered around, the darker clouds of a thunderstorm started to darken the sky slightly as impending rain kept it's place in the clouds until it was ready to let go.

Days like this made Naruto melancholy for some reason, he always would just stare out the windows of the Hokage's office and down at the streets, observing the villagers hurriedly make their way down the thoroughfares to escape the rain. He wished he could be out and walking around like them, even if it was rainy. He felt like there was never an escape from his endless paperwork that just seemed to multiply, hour by hour. This is not was he was expecting whenever he imagined becoming Hokage, but he guessed that it was a good thing, it meant that everything was peaceful and the way it was supposed to be. It didn't satisfy him though, nothing much satisfied him these days, he was left feeling empty and useless. Constantly tired and lifeless, he sent his shadow-clones out to his family and friends in hope that they could maybe live the life that he so desperately wanted to live, maybe fill in that hole that he was needing to fill.

This wasn't him, he was Naruto Uzumaki; the life of the village, the one who never gave up, the most determined, hard-headed ninja there was. Now he didn't even recognize his own face in the mirror, bags had formed underneath his eyes that seemed to never go away. His eyes; the gems that always seemed to glisten and sparkle like diamonds, seemed to grow dull and void of color, his haircut was unruly and unkempt, it was starting to grow long again, going through that ugly stage prior to it's original length before he regrettably cut it. Hinata bugged him about getting it cut again but he didn't want to bother with it, he wanted it to grow long again. This was not him.

Onyx eyes stared out the window at the rain dripping from the roof into a little puddle on the ground, it had slowly built up over the last half-hour and decided to stand, having nowhere to go in the soaked earth around and beneath it;stagnant and trapped. That felt familiar. A heavy sigh emitted from the dark living room where Sasuke sat staring out the sliding glass doors that lead to the backyard. His eyes fixated on that small puddle for what seemed like an eternity, his thoughts occupied with various topics that kept him stuck inside his own world.

He enjoyed sitting in on days like this, being by himself was nice. For once a day where Sakura was not down his throat, getting on him about just sitting around and not doing anything, or sleeping too much, or being lazy. It was always something. It had been like that ever since they moved in together. He didn't expect things to end up like they have, but somehow the world reared it's ugly head in and gave both of them a wake-up call.

He was just so tired. Nothing excited him anymore, there was no more passion, for anything. Once he came back from his trip, his passion dwindled out into nothingness. He wanted to press forward, to keep on doing something to get him excited but it never came. So he was just kept here, stagnant and trapped.

A/N- SasuNaru has been a very fond pairing of mine since I started watching this show, and one day the idea hit me to make this story, it's still a work in progress because my mind is kinda stuck right now as to what to do next, but here is the first chapter. It's kinda short, but that's just how I do them.

I also wanted to make some things clear about this story, this is more of an AU than canon setting in this story. Naruto is around 19 in this story, he is like he was in The Last. He is Hokage as you can see. Hinata is his girlfriend, not wife. Please remember this, I don't want there to be any confusion going on. The same thing is with Sasuke and Sakura.

This is not going to be a "cheating" fic so to say, I'm not going to have any sex or anything like that going on while these two are with their girlfriend's, I don't believe in that. It will be a gradual climax, like most affairs are, it's not going to be BOOM suddenly they are having sex on Naruto's desk and then they break up with their girlfriends, no. It's going to be realistic. All affairs have to begin with something innocent, then things lead up to it.

I hope you enjoy this story!