I'm back! I'm sorry, but I just got a hold of my 2 other cousins and they had completely forgotten the challenge. They said they'll get right onit. So in apology I'm going to write a multichapter story. Wish me luck, because I tend to get distracted easily. This is the prologue! Tell me your thoughts, onegai.

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When Naruto and Sasuke are 6 years old

It was a calm and peaceful day outside and you could see two little boys sitting outside just look at the clouds.

"Promise me you won't leave me behind," was the simple statement said by a little blond boy.

"What do you mean?" a question asked by his confused ravven-haired friend.

"Just promise me, onegai, 'Suke. I don't wanna be alone."

"Alright, 'Ruto. I promise that I won't leave you behind. Ever."

A simple promise between two friends. A promise they'll never forget.

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2 years later

Once again, it was a calm and peaceful day, but this time there was only one boy outside. He was waiting for his friend, who was unusually late.

"They're all dead!" a raven-haired boy cries hysterically.

"Sasuke, what do you mean?" asks his blonde-haired friend.

"Itachi killed them all! I don't know why!"

"Killed who, Sasuke?" asks Naruto while trying to calm Sasuke.

"My family! I'm all ... alone now," Sasuke voice lowers in volume as the information settles in.

"You're not alone. You promised to never leave me, and I promise to always be there for you, no matter what," another promise made, but by Naruto this time.

"Always, even if I leave, if I decide to get revenge?"

"Always. I'll be there always."

--

Whatever year it is that they join Iruka's class

Naruto and Sasuke were sitting in a little clearing just staring at the clouds. Well, Naruto was anyway. Sasuke was trying to fidgure out a way that they'll be able to keep their promises to eachother. Just as he was about to give up he remembered something he had overheard one of the older students complain about.

"Naruto, you know that Genin are divided into groups of three after they graduate?"

"Yeah," he answered, wondering where this was going.

"I think I figured how it is they are divided."

"How?"
"They divide us according to our talents and grades."

"That's great! Now that we know that we can make sure we're never separated!" Naruto wanted to keep his promise.

"But how do we do it?"

"I don't know."

"We can try to match our grades and get right in the middle of the grades so we're teamed up with someone equal to us." Sasuke thought that this plan was brilliant. He didn't want to get stuck with someone who would hold him and Naruto back.

"We could try that, but there's still a chance that it won't work. We don't even know what they consider 'in the middle.' Besides I don't think that the village would like it if you had the same grades as mine. Why do they hate me, Sasuke?" Naruto, with a simple statement was able to crush Sasuke's idea, and with a simple question showed his one weakness.

"Because they're stupid. But you're right, that plan might not work." Sasuke hated seeing Naruto down, especially due to stupid villagers.

"How about I become the deadlast and you try and reach for the top of the class, we both know you can easily do it." A simple solution.

"You can do it just as easily and I don't think it's fair to you anyway." And it was one that Sasuke was definitely not happy with.

"It'll be fine, as long as we're on the same team I'll can deal with it." Naruto refused to be separated from Sasuke and would do everything he could to stay by his side.

After that Naruto's grade starting slipping and while the teachers never took notice nor cared, the Hokage was wondering why. He'd sit there and wonder, 'why, he's such a bright boy. Why?'

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After a particularly nasty comment to Naruto

"Naruto, don't worry about it, they're not worth it," Sasuke says, all the while despising the villagers for making Naruto feel this way.

"But why do they hate me so much?" A simple question that Naruto asked himself a lot.

"I don't know. Just ignore them, they don't matter," 'Only I should matter to you, Naruto,' Sasuke thought, desperate for Naruto to understand.

"They don't matter to you?"

"No. Only you matter to me. Do they matter to you?"

"No, I guess they don't." Naruto replied, knowing that Sasuke was the only one that mattered to him.

"Come on, let's practice the moves Iruka was showing us in class today, and don't forget to pretend to get frustrated when I get it right in class. You almost forgot the other day."

"I know, I know. Sometimes it hard to act like I hate you and love Sakura. She's annoying with how she's always obsessing over you."

"I noticed. Now, come on," Sasuke said, wanting to get Naruto's mind off all that don't matter.

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Naruto finds out why and becomes a Genin

"Sasuke! Sasuke!" Naruto yells, jumping on Sasuke's bed to wake him up. He's had a spare key since the massacre so Sasuke wouldn't have to be alone all the time.

"Ugh...what is it, Naru-chan? It's like... 2 in the morning. Naru-chan...Naruto, what's wrong?" Sasuke could see Naruto crying in the dim moonlight.

"I found out why they call me a demon."

"You did? Why do they?" Sasuke asked. 'Please, tell me.'

"Because I really am a demon!," Naruto replies then starts to cry.

"Naruto, what do you mean? You don't look like a demon and you don't act like one either," Ssuke's confused and he doesn't like to be confused.

"I'm a jinchuuriki. I'm the host of the Kyuubi! The container!"

"What?" Sasuke is officially lost.

"You probably hate me now, too, don't you?" Naruto asks, fearing the answer.

"No, I don't hate you. You said it yourself, you're the container of the Kyuubi, not the Kyuubi itself," Sasuke says in an attempt to calm Naruto down.

"But I have the Kyuubi in me and it caused so much destruction," Naruto is getting hysterical by now.

"Think of it this way, you have a glass and a carton of milk, okay?"

"Okay."

"Now you fill the glass with milk, but does that make the glass itself milk?"

"No."

"Exactly. The demon is in you, but you are definitely not a demon. Understand?"

"I guess so."

"That's good. Hey, is that a hitai-ate?" Sasuke asks, his curiousity getting the better of him now that Naruto was calmed down.

"Huh? Oh, yeah, I'm a Genin now, just like you," Naruto proudly proclaimed, wanting 'Suke to be proud of him.

"How, I thought Iruka failed you?"

"He did, but he passed me after ..." and Naruto goes on telling what had happened.

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Iruka calling out the teams

"Team 7: Sakura, Naruto, ... and Sasuke," Iruka called out, a little apprehensive considering Naruto and Sasuke hated eachother.

Naruto had jumped up in false cheer when Sakura's name was called but he immediately pretended to sulk the moment Sasuke's name had been called, despite how happy he truely was. He was finally a Genin and on the same team as Sasuke. They could keep their promises to each other. He couldn't be happier.

I hope you enjoyed it! I even denied myself the sims until I was finished with the prologue. And now that I'm done I can finally get on the sims. Yay!