Disclaimer: No, I do not own Naruto and its characters.
(A brief explanation of what happened before the actual story starts taking place.)
Chapter One: What we have in common
The Uchiha family used to be a poor one.
Sasukes father worked in a big company, in a factory, trying to make ends meet. But one day, he overheard some discussion of the company bosses he wasnt supposed to, about some dangerousfor the public health ingredients that they inserted in the foods they producted,
that werent deadly but could cause some bad symptoms or chronic illnesses. Still they used them because they were addictive substances and kept the people obsessed over the products in a light but stable way.
The people spotted him eavesdropping and the next day they fired him from the factory. Thus his family had really no money at all at that point. Sasuke was 7 years old when that happened.
Then after some days, his father was murdered while he was out looking for jobs, at night.
Police found his dead body in a river out of the town and next day his family got a call from the company saying how they should keep their mouths shut too, if they didnt want to have the same fate, since they knew the dead man had told them surely about their dirty doings.
In the same time, that company belonged to the Haruno family. Sakura's father ran it. Her mother was a doctor.
But it wasnt her father who was behind all this.
It was the people he shared the company with. He opposed to all of this, to all the little dirty plans they had but they had build an inner mafia to clear out everyone that would get in their way of profit.
So as he didnt want to have anything to do with those pigs, and seeing as it would be dangerous for him to keep on meddling with them and he couldnt make them quit cause anymore they had taken big part of the company in their hands, he decided to quit.
But they wouldnt let him, they said they needed his name to grace the company, since everyone around knew he was a right man, with values and this gave the company the cover they needed to act dirty on the behind.
So they made a deal. They would never touch him or his family, or kill any of his relatives or himself and he would give them his company to run totally theirs, but he would also let them use his name for it.
Since people already knew it as the Haruno Company and changing the name wouldnt profit them much in advertising reasons. The people already knew it that way, since the company had been around for many years.
Around 12.
And so it happened.
He signed to give all the company to them, whilst allowing them to keep his name in it. And he did it, to protect his family and himself but most of all his own ethic code that he couldnt accept to break anymore for anyone and anything.
Sakura's father quit and since after that he couldnt manage to find some steady source of income, he had to go outside of the country to find a good work and make a new start. He would send his family money every month, and they still lived fine but it was nothing like before.
Of course, almost none really knew her father had quit the company. The deal said he wouldnt let it become known to anyone other than his family.
Her mother was a doctor but since her father had left, she didnt manage to raise a kid as well on her own since she always had to be away.
And after a certain disease she had, she was forced to stay home all the time, as she couldnt anymore stand on her feet for a long time. Thus the only income they could receive anymore was from her father.
And slowly with only one income, they resulted almost poor.
They had to sell their rich big mansion since they couldnt run it or pay the bills and they settled in a less bigger house, very small and narrow.
Her life had taken the downhill, mostly when her mother was infuriated with her husband and his general moves so far, that for his stupid values, he had left them get so downhill poor. So, she demanded a divorce, and soon after a year the divorce was out and her parents had split up. The custody to her mother, even though of her illness.
Her father would still send them money every month, to help her raise Sakura.
And he was devastared cause he loved his daugther a lot.
Her mother had become very cranky out of this and was almost always a bitch to Sakura but Sakura couldnt blame her since she saw she was in pain and despair.
Her mother knew french very well, cause she was a university student at Paris when she was young, so she had to learn it. And for a living she decided to give private french language lessons, inviting kids over their house.
Gladly, the lessons would be done always and only in her office, so Sakura had some privacy. But most of the times, the students were not kids, they were teens or young adults and some of them even dated her mother later on which disgusted her.
Anyhow, thats how her life rolled till her mother got over her illness and started being able to walk more, and now she was signed as part time personal nurse in various houses of people who needed to be helped while in their house, mostly elders and handicapped people.
Her mother wasnt happy that from a whole good doctor she had resulted in being a personal nurse but she couldnt do otherwise, because her illness woulndt still go fully away and she couldnt always be on the foot, as it would be needed in a hospital.
Things after that started going a bit better and her mother seemed to get better as time passed, but it was a very slow process.
In the meantime, Sasuke's brother, Itachi, who was fairly a lot older than him, had matured a lot after their father's death.
He was 18 when it happened and ever since he enrolled in a economics university where he graduated after 4 years as an excellent student and took already working in a bank and he was so good as an accountant.
Later on, as years went by they promoted him higher and in the end they proposed him to become an important member of the bank since his mind was useful to them.
So he started making lots of money fast, and this surprised his family to no end, that now bought a new house, big, luxurious mansion and moved in, in a rich neighboorhood.
Sasuke's mother was overall too happy with this. She was a very devoted mother, which is why she hadnt kept herself busy with work while she raised her kids. She believed spending time with them would help them more than a bigger income.
However , she did have worked a little after their father's death, doing here and there small and unimportant works.
She had studied styling when she was younger but never had the time to work on it fully as it wasnt a good paying job unless you were someone famous,like top model stylist and so on.
So now that she wes rich finally she had the luxury to spend some time working as a stylist, as Sasuke was anymore not as young to devote herself fully to him all the time.
Itachi was 26 years old and Sasuke was 15. A whole 8 years had passed after his fathers death and his life had changed so much.
He remembered how sad he was the day they found out his father had been murdered.
And even if he was young then, he still had kept the name Haruno in his mind and he would always blame that family for the death of his father.
Revenge had crept up to him and ever after his father had died, he had promised to his mother who went through heavy depression for 4 years ever after the kill, that he would take his revenge back one day and make Haruno family pay for what they did to his own family.
His mother was a simple woman but she had a nice heart and she would always tell him to not set his mind on revenge. His best revenge would be to become like his successful brother Itachi and just do something good and important in his life.
But even though Sasuke sometimes felt jealous that Itachi had such a good route in his life, he couldnt help but put revenge first. He was secretly more emotional than Itachi and his mother knew this deep down.
However good his mother was, she still didnt want to have to do anything with the Haruno family. And after they got suddenly rich out of Itachi's job, she still remained good deep down but she had become a kind of snob, hanging around all the rich people and so on.
She had made it to hide her past very well from the neighboors and everyone she met at her job and she always told to her boys to do so as well.
And they complied. Itachi didnt care, with his carefree attitude and Sasuke always faithful to his mom, he did as she told him.
Especially, after her had lost his father he had come closer to her, she had become more important to him because he was sure she would be the last person in his life that he could ever love. With Itachi he was distant or hateful, sometimes, their big age difference didnt help matters either.
11 years separated them.
Their mother loved them both and was equally nice to both, but secretly Sasuke was her favorite because he was so younger than Itachi and she felt him still like a little kid needing protection.
Itachi knew it and was grateful for this because he knew if there hadnt been their mother to keep them up, Sasuke would have killed himself long ago after his father died, cause he was really close to him too.
But from what he knew, his father always loved Itachi more and admired him and always said Itachi one day would become a great man.
He never had said anything similar about Sasuke but he was really affectionate with him when he was little. After that he just started getting distant which had left Sasuke confused and cold.
Sakura on the other side, was now 15 as well.
2 years had passed since her parents had divorced and their economics werent as good but at least they were stable.
Her father would ocassionaly drop into town and call her mom to let her know he was there and ask her permission to see Sakura.
And her mother accepted, unwillingly. And then Sakura would meet him. He would take her out for ice cream and go to the movies together or to the theme park.
He was always very loving with her and this always brought a little light into Sakura's dark life.
She missed him and she wished her parents could always get back together but her mom always stommed out how she hated her father for quiting the company for his stupid weak moral reasons, she called him a pig and in general all those bad words that show how you hate someone and you look down on them.
So Sakura knew there was no hope for them to get back together. Her father would stay for 2 days maximum at the town then he would leave saying how his job needed him back and so on and he always promised he would be back.
Sakura had kind of matured by all she had been through but her heart was still pure and kind, unlike Sasuke's that it was full of hatred and coldness.
She just had learnt to not complain about anything in her life and to go through all of it silently, so as not to be a burden. She thought that would be her own way to become stronger.
But actually she was wrong. She was only bottling up everything or ignoring it, thus making it worse. But she could never tell. That was her problem. She didnt know how to interpret her own feelings when it came to her.
So here is where out story starts, after all this info.
Sasuke Uchiha, 15 years old.
Sakura Haruno, 15 years old.
Both enrolled at the same school. It was in general considered a good school, but not the best.
Sakura lived close to it, only a few meters away, so she insisted a lot to get enrolled in this, since her mother had no car to drive her anywhere and public communication transport always confused her.
And her mother accepted as the school was public and not some sort of pay thing.
It was an old school, though. One of the first that had been built in Konoha.
And so seeing as Sasuke's father and mother and even Itachi had been in it, Sasuke wanted to keep the tradition and asked them to enroll him there. If his father was in it, he'd go,too.
Itachi would still live with them in the same mansion, since he was a huge play boy and never could decide on settling down. He was too young after all, as he said himself.
So since he was actually the one feeding them, his mother was more than willing to live with him still in his 26 years.
And she had started improving her social status too, as she had got a good job in a model company and now she was around famous models, most of the time. Her skills were good and people seemed to praise her work.
So, not only was Sasuke rich but, he had a fairly important mother, too.
Sakura was just above poor, something you would call medium.
They still coped by. Her mother was doing a decent job as a private nurse and her health was stable and slowly getting better.
And that is the point, where the two heroes come to meet in their lives.
An encounter that is going to wake up a big tainted crush between them, lots of sadness, excitement, hatred and break downs. And even, even…love.
Sometimes, two people arent meant to ever get close to each other.
Cause it can be destructive. For both of them. Cause the relationship they form is karmic.
It can be Karma…