Hello, it's me again. I would just like to say that I do not own Naruto or anything affiliated with it. Now that the prerequisites are out of the way I would like to say that this is a yaoi story. In no way shape or form do I condone cutting suicide or rape. If you do not like this kind of story by all means go read something else. This is rated M because of strong use of language and adult themes.

Please enjoy.

Chapter 1: Just His Luck

The story of a life no one wants to have. A tale of sorrow and pain and fear lived and relived day after day. A horrible nightmare than never ends, this is how Sasuke Uchiha would describe his life had anyone ever asked him to. School was tiresome, his friends were jackasses, home was enough to make him want to die and to Sasuke that was just the tip of the iceberg.

Sasuke strolled casually through the pale green halls of Konoha's public high school, weaving his way through the familiar corridors to someplace he'd spent more time in than the actual classrooms themselves. As he rounded a corner he was met with a few girls crowded around their lockers gossiping and fixing their makeup. They hollered hello to him only to be flatly ignored with a roll of his eyes. Surely they had something better to do than skip class and wait in the hallway all day for him to walk by.

At the end of the hall Sasuke barged through the door on which rested a plaque that read Office and another which read Principal. He didn't wait for the receptionist to announce him; he was such a regular customer that no one would be surprised to see him. Even though he had been called to the office during first period he'd just come in during the beginning of third, no other students were in the office at that time every day, no one to mock him, and no one to give him that look of awe and disapproval and fear all mixed into one. He hated that look.

He sat down in the sole chair that had been placed before the great oak desk of the principal and crossed his arms over his chest impatiently. Principal Tsunade stared back just as annoyed while Director Sarutobi looked on sympathetically over her shoulder. Since Sasuke couldn't be expected to be sorry for what he'd done Tsunade sighed and leaned her elbows on her desk to begin.

"Sasuke," said Tsunade, "do you know why you're here?" Sasuke said nothing but stared straight ahead. He hated their beat-around-the-bush shit.

"It's because you were caught fighting on campus. Again." Tsunade looked over her shoulder at Sarutobi before continuing, "The Director and I have been discussing what to do with you. It seems as though giving you detention hasn't taught you anything."

That's because it hasn't. Sasuke thought sourly.

"We think that what you need is some responsibility to occupy your mind from any sort of destructive behavior and so, to eliminate two of the problems we've been facing recently, we've decided to present you with a choice."

"Your first choice is that from now on each altercation you get in with other students or staff goes on your permanent record which gets sent to any college you want to attend," Sasuke scowled at her, "and your second is to open up your home to one of your fellow classmates… as your roommate."

Sasuke's eyes shot up in concern and anger. "No." he growled.

"Yes," retorted Tsunade, "if you want us to sweep this fighting thing under the rug and keep it from your permanent record you will do as we say and take the damn roommate without a fight!" she slammed her fist on the desk causing the two men in the room to jump. Tsunade sighed and ran a hand through her pale blonde hair; she really needed to get a handle on that temper of hers once she started yelling at students. She started again, calmer.

"He was kicked out of his apartment recently and has no place to go. We thought he'd be a good fit for you because he lived alone too, he knows what it's like. If you want us to go ahead with ignoring your behavior here at school you will house him this entire year until the two of you graduate. Is that so hard?"

Sasuke hissed a string of curses under his breath. His nose wrinkled in displeasure and he glared at the both of them. Tsunade beckoned for Sarutobi to go, he returned a moment later with the exact same blonde ignoramus Sasuke'd punched earlier that day. The exact reason why he was being punished in the first place.

"Hi!" the guy beamed beneath the plethora of bandages and bruises on his face, "I guess we're going to be living together for a while, you and me!"

"Shit."