Dedicated to Gabby, Emily, Marina and all anti-SasuXNaru fans I know.

Disclaimer- I don't own any of the following characters in Naruto or the series itself. I do own the complex theme of the story and the ambition I have for writing it. Don't worry it's clean. I have a plot so it wont just jump into Yoai.

Chapter one

The Key

It was dark. A young boy with blonde spiky hair firmly held onto his stomach, as he groaned. He was extremely hungry, having eaten nothing in weeks. He was fourteen, all he owned at the moment was the empty pit of a stomach and a sense of loneliness. The shops and people outside the alley he was currently in rejected him in this cold night.

He used to own an apartment until one day he came back from school to find it engulfed by flames. It soon burned to the ground. The Third Hokage imprisoned the humans responsible for it; that is, if you can consider them to be human. Naruto could barely stay awake in class, therefore his work ethic sucked and his world was slipping before him. The people of the village seemed to hate him. He didn't know why. Iruka scowled the young boy almost every day. He always seemed to say. "Why can't you be like Sasuke?"

Who would want to be like Sasuke? He lost his entire clan in one day. He good at everything, He got all the attention.

"Hell, I want to be like Sasuke." The young boy muttered hopelessly to himself. At least Sasuke had a home. He heard footsteps, he looked up to see the Third Hokage, Sarutobi.

"Naruto, there you are. I have good news for you. I found a place for you to stay." Sarutobi announced, sticking out a hand to help Naruto off the floor where he was sitting. Naruto's face brightened as he got up.

"Really! Are you serious?" Naruto exclaimed as he stood up.

"You will also have a roommate." The sound of a roommate made Naruto ten times happier than he was a second ago. He was literally jumping up and down.

"Who is it Hokage? You gotta tell me!" Naruto cheered, waving his hands in the air.

"His name is," The Hokage was suddenly cut off by a loud shout in the shop street.

"COME BACK HERE! YOU CAN'T Take THAT IT'S NOT FOR SALE!!" A Shopkeepers voice screamed, the sound of gunfire was heard.

"Hold on Naruto, I got to deal with this." Sarutobi ran onto the street summoned five clones, two of them got people to calm down one healed the injured man who got shot in the leg and the real Sarutobi caught the bandit and took him to jail.

"That was awesome!" Naruto roared, energetically as Sarutobi watched two black ops take the bandit away, a third black op took the merchandise and returned it. "Man I wanna be Hokage one day!"

Sarutobi walked back to Naruto.

"where was I?...Oh you new roommate is Sasuke."

"WHAT!?" Naruto shouted at the top of his lungs in bewilderment.

"Well, Iruka told me how you two don't get along I was hoping this would solve the problem." Sarutobi explained. "unless you don't want a house to live in."

"no it's fine! Here give me the key and the address and I will go now." Naruto Exclaimed, Sarutobi did just that.

"Now then when you find it be sure to say hi to Sasuke for me. If you'll excuse me, I have more important matters to report to." Sarutobi vanished in a puff of smoke.

"Damn it!!" Naruto cursed under his breath. He then walked out of the alley way and reluctanctly turned toward Sasuke's apartment.

When Sasuke first heard that he'd have to share an apartment with Naruto, he rushed to clean the house. He certainly didn't want Naruto to think he was sloppy. He also stocked up the fridge and the cabinets. When He was finally done he sat on a couch and waited 'til Naruto finally showed his face.

Naruto scratched the spot in the back of his head and slowly walked up the stairs. Naruto was annoyed and slightly nervous. He had never lived with anyone before. Not to mention the person he was going to live with was something like his sworn enemy. Each step was a step closer to Sasuke's house and each step came down slowly. Naruto carefully examined the numbers of each door, until he came to the right one. Taking a deep breath he put the key in the door knob and unlocked the door ripping the door open entering the apartment. He pulled off his shoes and entered the living room and found Sasuke who just glared at him. Irritated Naruto glared back.

"Loser."

"Shit for brains."

"Dunce."

If looks could kill they would both be dead and this Fanfiction would come to an end, which is so unlike me. So, I shall continue this tale.

Naruto unwillingly took a seat next to Sasuke, while trying to come up with another insult.

"Show off."

Sasuke Smirked. "Is that the best you could come up with, moron?"

Naruto crossed his arms. 'I thought something would change because we are not in school.' Inner Naruto complained. Sasuke stood up and walked toward the kitchen.

"Let me get this straight, I can't stand you." Sasuke didn't even look back to Naruto's reaction.

"Well, I can't stand you either!" Naruto shouted jumping up from the couch.

Sasuke walked closer to his room. "Glad we have that settled. Enjoy the couch." He walked into his room and slammed the door. For him life got very interesting.

Naruto twitched in irritation as he discovered a blanket and a pillow piled on the side of the couch. Naruto pulled of his goggles and his headband. He then pulled the blanket on him so that it covered his body. He closed his eyes and rolled over. Tomorrow marked three days before the exam. Living with Sasuke was going to be extremely annoying.