Disclaimer: Not mine. I so wish they were. Hmm, I wonder is K. Masashi has bodyguards. I hope not… jks : P

A/N: Omg, new fic! I'm so sorry! I know I said I was going to update the others but seriously, I had to write this! I'm so sorry!!! I'm getting onto the others now! I promise! Please don't hurt me! Pleeease!

Warning: Yaoi/Shonen Ai, Smut, Cussing, Slight OOCness

Running Away
Chapter 1: The Stranger

A blonde haired 17 year old trudged home with his headphones blaring in his ears. It had been yet another bad day at school, with teachers picking at him for long overdue homework and the school bullies teasing him in class. He hated school. He had no friends there, or anywhere else. The only person who ever acknowledged him was his primary school teacher, Umino Iruka. The brunette had been like a parental figure since the day they met.

Naruto was an orphan, and had been put into a home a few days after his parents had died. He had been just six years old.

The blonde expected to at least have some friends and comfort there but he had been wrong. All he found was an angry carer named Orochimaru and some very mean elder children. Now that he was older, the other orphans had moved out, but Orochimaru just wouldn't let Naruto leave. No matter how much he begged he just wasn't allowed. Orochimaru wouldn't give him the money to support himself, and no matter how hard the blonde worked at his job, the owner just wouldn't give him a raise.

The blonde pulled out his key and let himself into the house, not wanting to get into another fight with his caretaker. He tried to creep inside but at that moment Orochimaru came down the stairs. This is why the blonde always dreaded coming home.

"Ah, Naruto, I see you are finally home. Time to start your chores then. Put your stuff down, get changed and hurry up."

A few minutes later the blonde emerged from his room and Orochimaru lead him out to the backyard.

His carer smiled (if you could call it that), sat down on a chair, and ordered Naruto to mow the lawn. Orochimaru just sat there watching the blonde get out the lawn mower, his eyes fixated on every move the blonde made. Naruto was used to this behaviour. Lately Orochimaru had been watching him consistently, not even blinking as he did. It was quite scary actually.

Naruto bent down to start the mower, but as he did he could've sworn he saw his caretaker lick his lips. Naruto was really starting to get creeped out, but he ignored it and began mowing.

Finally, I'm done. Naruto turned off the mower and wiped the sweat from his forehead. He slowly pushed the mower back into the shed and walked back inside with Orochimaru following close behind.

Naruto spun around to tell Orochimaru that he was going for a shower but he was pushed backwards by Orochimaru, slamming his back into a wall. He winced at the pain.

"What the hel-"

Then, suddenly, Naruto felt Orochimaru's lips crash against his own. He immediately shoved his "carer" off himself, but the snake just smirked.

"Do you have any idea how long I have wanted, no, needed, to do that? And I just could not resist anymore, you just look so appetising covered in sweat."

He licked his lips before slamming his mouth back on Naruto's. The blonde, however, was ready this time and he immediately punched the snake in the guts. Winded, Orochimaru stumbled back a bit, before regaining his breath and glaring at the blonde.

"You will regret that Uzumaki."

The blonde smiled coldly, "No, I don't think I will. I'm leaving."

With that Naruto ran upstairs, gathered his clothing, possessions, and whatever money he had, and stuffed it into his schoolbag. He was lucky he didn't own many items.

He quickly dashed back downstairs, wanting to get away as quickly as possible, but Orochimaru stood there, in front of the door, smirking.

"You have nowhere to go Uzumaki. You will have to come back here eventually, and when you do you will be begging, begging, for me to let you back in my house."

"No I won't! Anywhere is better then here!" With that he shoved the snake out of the way and ran out the door, leaving behind an angry ex-carer.

He had been running for hours, but it felt like days. A cold breeze brushed across his tanned face which made him shiver slightly. His muscles ached for him to stop running, but he wouldn't. He couldn't. He didn't even know where he was going; he wasn't paying any attention at all to his surroundings; all he knew was he had to get as far away from Orochimaru as possible.

He kept running until his stomach grumbled and brought him back to reality. The blonde stopped running and bent down, holding his knees and breathing loudly. He was covered in sweat and he was cold.

Naruto stood up and began walking along a footpath. He didn't recognise this place, or the people who were staring at him. He continued walking. He was used to people staring at him. Naruto had been stared at since he was a little kid and it had never affected him before, and it wasn't about to now.

He began looking around for a place to eat. He knew why people were staring at him now. He had somehow made his way into a rich part of town and he stuck out like an elephant in a shopping centre. Finally he spotted a restaurant. Naruto made his way up to the front entrance but was stopped by a hand holding him back before he even got a chance to even take a step inside.

"Do you have a reservation, sir?" asked an older man who was looking as though touching the blonde was going to give him some deadly disease.

"Uh, no, but I rea-"

"No reservation, no food." With that he shooed off the blonde.

From inside the restaurant, a raven-haired, red-eyed, pale skinned, elder man had been watching the whole incident through the windows of the restaurant. He was seated with his younger brother, who looked like a younger version of himself, except with deep onyx eyes.

"Would you excuse me, otouto? I have some business to attend to." The younger of the two glanced up at his aniki.

"Whatever, Itachi." With that the younger raven went back to his food.

Itachi quickly made his way out of the restaurant and looked from left to right for the blonde. He looked around just in time to see a bit of the blonde's hair disappear around the corner and into an alleyway.

Itachi quickly followed the blonde. It had begun to rain down and he was getting soaked, but he didn't care. He rounded the corner and spotted the blonde crouched down on the ground next to a dumpster trying to shield himself from the rain with one of his jackets.

Itachi walked up to the blonde and placed his own coat around him.

"What's your name?"

The blonde looked up, confused, "N-Naruto." He was shivering. Itachi placed and arm around the blonde and helped him up before grabbing up the blonde's backpack and placing it over his own shoulder.

"W-what are you doing?" Naruto asked.

Itachi smiled warmly, "You need a place to stay, and I'm giving you one," Itachi stated.

"What?! Why?!" Naruto was confused; he had only just met this guy. Hell, he didn't even know his name!

Itachi was stumped. He didn't even know why he was doing this. The blonde watched as the raven opened and closed his mouth dumbly, it looked like he was imitating a goldfish. Then, a limousine pulled up and stopped right in front of them. The driver got out and opened the door for them and Itachi climbed in and gestured for Naruto to follow him.

Naruto stared. He had never been in a limousine before, let alone with someone he didn't know. Though, somehow, he did look and sound slightly familiar. Slowly and cautiously he climbed in. Even if he does turn out to be a creep, this is still better then sitting out there in the rain. Sooo much better.

As the car left they sat in silence. Naruto hated silence. Whenever there was silence he fidgeted. Itachi hated fidgeting. Whenever there was fidgeting he felt homicidal. However, the blonde's fidgeting didn't annoy him. At all. In any way. Though, his fidgeting did annoy someone. Naruto. Naruto hated silence, and Naruto hated fidgeting, and the silence and fidgeting was becoming way too much for him.

Suddenly, Naruto burst.

"Okay! Who the hell are you?! Where are you taking me?! Are you some criminal homicidal rapist?! Oh my god, you are, aren't you?!"

Naruto backed up against the car door, wide eyed. Itachi looked at him weirdly then… laughed?

"Hey! What's so damn funny?!"

The raven began laughing louder. He couldn't help it. From the front seat the driver was staring at Itachi in his rear vision mirror. It was the first time he had seen Itachi laugh. The first… ever. And he had been driving Itachi for years. As he slowed down for a red light he turned to look at Itachi.

"Itachi-san, are you okay?" he asked sarcastically.

"THANK YOU! I FINALLY GOT HIS NAME!"

The raven looked out the window and calmed down before turning back to the blonde and saying, "We're here."

Naruto turned to look out the window and immediately jumped back and gasped. He then blushed and quickly moved as he realised he had landed right on Itachi's lap.

"This is where you live?!" Itachi nodded, smiling slightly. Naruto stared out the window at the humungous mansion in front of him. It was a huge, white, house with a balcony on the topmost floor which was held up by four tall, white pillars. They got out of the limo and Itachi lead Naruto inside.

"Do you live here all by yourself?!"

Itachi shook his head slightly, "I live here with my otouto."

Naruto just gaped. "Wow."

"Aniki," Naruto spun around so fast he almost fell over. He knew that voice from somewhere, "Where did you go earlier…" He suddenly stopped talking when he saw Naruto. "Dobe…?"

The blonde stared at Sasuke. He then looked from the younger Uchiha to Itachi then back to Sasuke again, staring. The elder Uchiha watched as the blondes face changed between several different emotions as the two teens locked eyes. There was pain mixed in with those emotions, and Itachi felt like ripping up his brother for causing the hurt in those gleaming blue eyes. Though, he didn't exactly know why.

"Teme… what are you…" Naruto trailed off. You could practically hear the gears in his head turning before it finally clicked. Naruto spun around and pointed a finger right at Itachi's face.

"I knew you looked familiar! You are Uchiha Itachi! Teme over there," Naruto flung his arm around to point at a glaring Sasuke, "Was talking about you the day before he moved to a private school!" Then Naruto spun around, glaring. "You didn't even tell me you were leaving! You were my only friend and you just left me there!"

Sasuke looked like he was about to say something back but he stopped. He turned to address his brother.

"Aniki, why is Naruto here?" he asked sternly.

Itachi opened his mouth to reply but Naruto quickly cut him off.

"Itachi, I won't stay here if Sasuke is here. Sorry." Naruto spun around to leave but Itachi grabbed Naruto's arm to hold him back. Sasuke's eyes flashed at this, though no one noticed.

"You have nowhere else to go Naruto-kun. Please, stay here with us."

Naruto shook his head frantically as he replied, "I can't! It was so fucking stupid of me to follow you in the first place! I don't even have enough money for food, let alone paying you ba-"

"You don't have to pay me back, Naruto-kun. I'll pay for everything that you need, including clothes and schooling. You can go to Sasuke's school-"

"I don't want to be anywhere near that bastard!"

Sasuke looked up. He hadn't been paying attention at all but Naruto yelling out bastard in that tone had brought him back to reality.

Itachi looked at the blonde. He didn't know why he was fighting so hard to get him to stay. "Naruto-kun, please follow me to your room."

The blonde considered it for a moment. He was really tired, and he was dripping water onto the tiles, but then again, so was Itachi. But what about Sasuke?! He was going to be going to school with that bastard, not to mention living with him! But then again, Itachi was right. He had nowhere else to go except back to Orochimaru. He shuddered at the thought.

Naruto turned back to Itachi and nodded to him. He glanced back at Sasuke for a moment. The pale Uchiha stared at the blonde like he was trying to find something to say but Naruto just turned away and followed Itachi up the stairs.

Finally they reached the top floor. Itachi gestured to a room and Naruto placed his hand on the doorknob and turned it. He gasped as he saw the size of it. There was a huge bed in the centre of the room, a huge closet across from it and two double doors that lead out onto the balcony. There was also a huge ensuite bathroom with a huge spa and shower.

Itachi smiled. "Your room is next to mine, and Sasuke's is just down the hall. Want to see the view?" The blonde nodded enthusiastically.

Itachi walked over to one of the sets of doors and pulled them open. Naruto walked out and stared. It was beautiful. It seemed rain had stopped a while ago. You could see everything from here. The lights from the towns, the city, he even thought he could see where he had left from, though he wasn't quite sure.

A cool breeze blew and Naruto shivered. Itachi noticed. He lead Naruto back inside and closed the doors. He left the room and a few minutes he came back with his arms full of clothes.

"I have some clothes and pyjamas of Sasuke's that you can wear until we buy you some of your own. Have a good night Naruto-kun."

Naruto mentally scoffed at the idea of wearing the younger Uchiha's clothes but he was freezing and most likely all his packed clothes were sopping wet as well. Itachi handed Naruto the clothes then left the room, closing the door behind him.

Itachi had gone downstairs after he had gotten changed. The elder Uchiha found his brother in the lounge room lying on their overly large sofa. Sasuke jumped when Itachi spoke.

"How do you know Naruto-kun?" Itachi glared. Sasuke glared back.

"We were best friends in high school, but then you moved me."

"You asked me to move you, otouto. Why didn't you tell Naruto-kun you were leaving?"

"It's none of your business."

"Of course it's my business otouto. If Naruto-kun is going to live here then I need to-"

"WHAT?!"

"Naruto-kun is going to live here." Itachi repeated.

"WHY?!"

Itachi was starting to get annoyed.

"He has nowhere to go, so I invited him to live here."

Sasuke looked confused. "What about his carer? I thought he was still living with him. What happened?"

Itachi looked down at his brother. He had never even thought to ask the blonde boy what had happened. "I don't know."

They didn't speak much after that and after a few hours they both went to bed.

Early the next morning Naruto bounced downstairs. His hair was wet from his shower. He was wearing some baggy blue jeans with a short sleeved, slightly large, black t-shirt over the top. As Naruto entered the kitchen he spotted Itachi and Sasuke eating breakfast.

"Thanks for the clothes Itachi." Naruto beamed up at the elder Uchiha. To Sasuke's utter surprise, Itachi smiled back. "Now, where's my ramen?"

Sasuke almost smirked as he handed Naruto a ready-made bowl of miso ramen. Naruto didn't even look at Sasuke as he grabbed the bowl and sat down at the table. Itachi got up looked away to pour himself a cup of coffee. When he turned back, Sasuke was handing Naruto another bowl of ramen.

Sasuke knows Naruto well. The blonde cleaned off his first bowl and then quickly moved onto the second. Itachi sat back down at the table and began speaking to Naruto.

"You two should be leaving for school now. I've already spoken to Tsunade about it and she said it was fine. Naruto-kun, you will have to go to my otouto's classes for now, until you pick your own." Naruto growled at this. "Here's some money for your lunch, your locker is next to Sasuke's, and I'll be picking you up from school today so that we can both go out and buy you your own clothes. Sasuke, Kakashi will be taking you both to school, he is outside. Oh, and he will be bringing you home after school." Sasuke glared at his brother. Itachi handed the blonde some money and a dry backpack with a few books in.

Naruto was speechless. Itachi had organised all this overnight. The blonde beamed at Itachi before jumping up and hugging him.

Itachi smiled then started coughing.

"Uh, Naruto-kun, I can't breathe."

Omg! I hope you liked! I wrote this mostly at school seeing as I have been banned off the computer… Please review!! Pretty please!