This is Shakespere's Romeo and Juliet, done Naruto style. Names and places have been changed to protect the innocent and not so innocent.
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Two households, both alike in dignity
In fair Konoha where we lay our scene
From ancient grudge, break to new mutiny
Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean
From forth the fatal loins of these two foes
Whose misadventured piteous overthrows
Doth with their death bury their parents strife
The fearful passage of their death-marked love
And the continuance of their parents' rage
Which their childrens' end naught could remove
Is now the traffic of our stage
The which if you with patient ears attend
What here shall miss, our toil shall strive to mend
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Act 1 - Scene One
Normally a peaceful city, Konoha has recently broken out in civil strife. The two major families, the Uchiha and the Hyuuga, normally peaceful in their mutual hatred, have started gathering allies; and their allies have been taking the battle to the streets. It was this battle that Uzumaki Naruto came upon suddenly in the middle of the market place during a leisurely stroll. His blue eyes flashing, he drew a kunai and rushed over and grabbed an Uchiha ally by the shoulder, breaking him away from the fray.
"You fools! Stop it! Do you know what you are doing?!?" He cried out, pulling the aggressive nin away from his opponent. The man struggled against him, when he heard a voice from behind him.
"Fighting with commoners, Uzumaki Naruto? Shame, shame. Turn, and face death incarnate." He looked to see the impassive face of Hyuuga Neji, one of the most well trained and feared warriors of the Hyuuga Clan, with a parrying kunai drawn.
"I'm trying to stop them, Neji. Come, put it away and help me!"
"Tch. You say that, but you have a weapon yourself. Is this your idea of keeping the peace, Uzumaki? Well, I hate your idea, as I hate all Uchiha and their pitiful allies!" Neji flashed forward toward Naruto, who put up his kunai just in time to keep it from sinking into his shoulder. He shoved Neji back with an open hand and looked at him incredously.
"Bastard! What do you think you are doing, Stop this!" Neji came at him wordlessly and ducked under his guard, grinning. With blazing speed he hit Naruto in the chest sending him flying backwards and through a storefront window. Groggily the blond stood and just dodged another of Neji's attacks, but couldn't dodge the second, which sent him flying back across the street and through the opposite buildings window.
Having heard of the commotion, the family patrons, Hyuuga-sama and Uchiha-sama had both arrived just before Naruto went through the window and had engaged each other. The rings of steel on steel and cries of the injured and dying were growing louder and louder.
Then, with a rumble of broken ground, it stopped. Hyuuga-sama and Uchiha-sama had been thrown back to near opposite ends of the street, Naruto and Neji were being held apart at the collars by a woman. The tall blonde hokage herself had stopped the two young men from killing each other. Naruto's fully formed Rasengan was held out just infront of the face of Neji, and Neji's pale blue chakra could be seen extended from his fingertips about a half inch from Naruto's throat. ANBU dropped all around, securing Uchiha, Hyuuga and al the other combatants.
"Hyuuga, Uchiha! Explain! No, you know what, don't. I am tired of all the excuses for all this," Tsunade looked down at the two struggling young men in her superhuman grip, "Stop that you two, or I will send you both off for a session with Ibiki." Raising her voice again she shouted at the two heads, "Keep the reins on your men, both of you! On pain of death keep going, on pain of death start this again. I dare you to test me on this!" Turning on her heel, the tall hokage stalked off, leaving both groups stunned in her wake.
"Naruto, come, we leave." Uchiha called to the young man as he turned.
"Yes, follow red-eyes, like the dog you are," Neji hissed at him under his breath.
"Dont start with me," Naruto muttered back, "we finish this another time. Don't let Hyuuga use that seal on you, slave, till I have had my chance." Shocked, Neji stood and cocked his fist at Naruto's retreating form, but was halted by a call from across the battlefield telling him to return.
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Uchiha and Naruto walked slowly back toward the compound and the older patron looked down at him, "So, tell me Naruto, what started this? Were you there?"
Naruto nodded, "I came upon a few of your men fighting with a couple Hyuugas, I pulled a kunai and tried to seperate them unsucessfully. Neji came along and refused to help, then attacked me," Naruto just shook his head.
"So my son was not there then? When did you last see him?"
"No, Uchiha-sama, he wasn't. I last saw him this morning. He seemed to want some alone time. I followed him out into the forest away, but he must have sensed me and hid. I figured to let him alone."
"Hm," the older man considered this a moment, "he does seem a bit anxious and irriatable, even for him of late. I wonder what is bothering him."
"Have you asked around?"
"Yes, friends tell me nothing, and neither does he. It has bothered me somewhat, Perhaps, Naruto..." Uchiha trailed off.
"Of course, Uchiha-sama. I will find out what I can. And speaking of which..there he is. I will go talk to him now." Uchiha nodded and vanished in a rustle of leaves.
Naruto jogged up to the dark haired boy in front of him and matched his pace. "Mornin', Sasuke."
"Still that early is it, dobe?"
"I really wish you wouldn't call me that, teme, but to answer your question, yes. It's not even ten yet!" Naruto frowned, "Something the matter, Sasuke?"
The dark-eyed young man ignored the question, posing his own, "Was that my father who left so quickly?"
Naruto nodded, "It was. Now, what is the matter? Why is time going so slow for you my friend?"
"I dont have what would make time go fast," he answered, leaving Naruto slightly puzzled. Realization dawned on him suddenly, "In love?" he asked.
"Out."
"Of love?"
"Of favour, or love I suppose." Sasuke sighed as they stopped on a bridge spanning a small creek. He leaned on the rail and stared out into the water.
Naruto chuckled at him, "Well, cupid does look rather cute, figured he would be a right bastard huh?"
"He does always hit me with his arrows. Too good a marksman. Why always me? Why never returned? Why must I be the one lying awake at night wondering, waiting, dreaming. Love looks so good from a distance but when you get close up it is ugly and painful, why must we all suffer this fate? It is never easy, always so hard. Why can she not return how I feel?" Sasuke looked over at Naruto who was laying on the ground suppressing laughter, "Find my suffering funny, dobe?"
"Not...at all..." Naruto said between snickers, "I'm actually...crying."
"At what?"
"Why...at your suffering, my friend," at this Naruto could hold back no more and began to bawl with laughter and roll around on the bridge deck.
Sasuke sighed, "Dont make things worse for me. Adding your 'suffering' to my own would crush me." Sarcasm dripped from his voice as he turned to walk away. Naruto regained his composure and caught him by the shoulder as he turned, "I'll go with you."
"Dont bother, Naruto. The real Sasuke isn't here. He's..." Sasuke gestured vaguely, "off somewhere that way." The blond grinned and looked over at his saddened friend, "So, come on, who is she"
"And why should I tell you?"
"Come on Sasuke, who is she?"
Saskue sighed, "A beautiful woman."
"Well, duh!"
"She's unattainable though. Beautiful, smart, and a medic. But she wont even look my way."
"So forget her then," Naruto shook his friend by the shoulder, "Take my advice on this."
"And how am I to do that, hm?"
Naruto grinned lecherously at him, "By checking out other beauties, that's how!"
"That will only serve to remind me of one who is more beautiful, more charming and otherwise better than the ones I would be checking out. It is wasted time, Naruto. Just let me be."
"I will get through to you, Sasuke, just you wait!" Naruto turned and chased his friend down the street.