DISCLAMER: I do not own Naruto

So this story has been complete for a while and after a little break I am ready to tackle it again. Some parts were rushed and my writing has improved since 2008 when I started this so here's the first part of the new work.

The story will remain much the same but bulked out a bit in ares.

Hope you like the improvements :)

~Ku

[updated 04/09/12]

Prologue

They were only thirteen yet they were being sent out into the world to take the lives of those who threatened to hurt their village. They had to grow up fast and harden themselves from the world they lived.

They knew what it was like to love and be loved, even with a family destroyed he knew that there was someone in the world that could still make him smile and make his heart race.

They had to grow up fast in all respects.

They had been friends for a long time and then they started to learn about each other while sat on the hill, their hill. It started with the slightest of contact between their hands that reminded them that they were not alone in the vast wilderness of the world; there was always someone to ground them to the earth.

Soon they were leaning on one another during their alone time mostly for warmth but also as a sense of security for the one who fell asleep while his companion watched the clouds. Then it happened their first kiss, it was more like a light brush of lips, when the raven haired child last of his clan left one night to go home.

The two teens sat on the hill looking up to the clouds floating above them. The taller of the two resting his head on crossed arms lying in the long grass of their hill while the other used the bicep of one arm to rest against.

It had been a long time since they had been alone together, away from the fan girls and home from a mission. They had to grow up too fast in many respects; they no longer had a childhood because of the job they had taken at such a young age.

The dark-haired genin soon got restless as cloud gazing was not his favourite past time, even if it was with him, they had been lying there for the past hour or so and there was only so much he could take. He rolled on top of the other in order to distract them from the clouds above and bring him back to the present.

He had been nervous all day, not that it showed, knowing what he had to do and had to say…he couldn't find the words that he wanted to use. There were no right words to use this time.

He leant forwards and kissed the one below him lightly on the lips and a pair of brown eyes locked onto his black ones.

The teen looked into the others eyes that had now fully opened from their half dozed state.

"Wait for me?" He whispered against the lips.

"What?" the other teen asked, unsure what response the other wanted.

"Wait for me Shika?" he whispered again, "please."

The other quietly replied, "Always."