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Prologue – Run or Be Caught

Sasuke's POV

In my home city, it's run or be caught. There are three classes of people around here: the Average Citizen, the Rich Masters, and the Runners. Now there's a means of an explanation. The average people go about their everyday normal lives, working and taking care of their children; trying to make sure that they don't become part of the Runner side of the population, but it inevitably happens anyway...with interest in running the roofs of course, but most children listen to their parents; rarely will you ever see a rich kid become a Runner, but it isn't unusual for an average kid to become a Runner (Runner children stay with what they were born into of course). The Rich Masters are the people who have all sorts of connections from all around the world. They claim Runners as their "pets" if they're able to catch them and keep them in their oversized mansions on the outskirts of the city...I'm telling you right now: it's like a border of mansions where no Runner would ever DARE to go.

As for me, well, I'm a Runner born from an Average family, but it wasn't always this way. I had friends that were Runners and they taught me the Ways of the Roofs. My parents would always tell me to get friends from my own class, but my brother Itachi would tell me I can befriend whoever I think will help me in the future, no matter what it is. It wasn't until my parents and brother left for what they do every day (I never knew because I was always on the rooftops running) and didn't come back did I find out that the Rich Masters knew about me running, and since my family was well known in the community, it was a bad look on the city if one of the children of Fugaku and Mikoto Uchiha became a Runner, especially the youngest – me...Sasuke Uchiha, and ever since that day I've barely spent any time in my own home. I've been staying with a friend who was ironically an Average Citizen – Naruto Uzumaki, and this is where my story begins: in the home of my best friend.

3rd Person POV

The raven-haired teen had his face buried in his pillow; the clock sticking 10:00 am; which was usually when a blonde, spikey-haired boy would wake him up.

"Sasuke."

"Mn..."

"Sasuke wake up it's 10 in the morning."

The Runner groaned and turned over.

"C'mon...my parents are going to be up soon, and you know what they'd do I they found you here."

"Yeah yeah I'm up..." Sasuke said with the wave of his hand.

"I'm gonna watch for them. Hurry up."

"Okay...calm down would ya?" Sasuke said as he smoothed his jet shards out of his face; only for them to fall back into place. The boy got up and slid his indigo hoodie over his head; having slept in his cargo pants and white muscle shirt.

Naruto glanced back at his friend. "I think they're waking up."

"I'm on my way out don't worry too much." Sasuke said with a small smile before opening the window.

"I'll see you later then." Naruto said before shutting the door and walking downstairs.

Sasuke shut the window behind him and walked along the seam of the pointed roof with extreme ease. He looked out at the rooftops and sighed. "And so it starts again..." He thought before jumping to another roof. Sasuke started his normal morning routine with walking along the very edges of the roofs and gutters; only making very unnoticeable dents in the metal gutters.

"Sasuke!"

Sasuke stopped in the middle of one of the roofs and looked around to find the owner of the voice he just heard; only to see his friend Kiba.

"Oh it's you Kiba. What's up?"

"Word on the roofs is that the Rich Masters are researching you and keeping a look-out for ya. What did you do?"

"I became a Runner..."

"They're still hung up on it then?!"

"Yeah...stuff like this doesn't just blow over like it used to." The raven-haired teen said as he stretched a little.

"What about your family? They still missin'?"

"Yeah...more like taken...they were moved to a new city..."

"You knew?!"

"I wasn't about to go with them! That's exactly what the Rich Masters want me to do so they can catch me, and so far I've proven to be uncatchable and I'd like to keep it that way. I won't be anyone's pet."

"Okay...chill. I get it."

Sasuke looked beyond the skyscrapers and saw the border of mansions.

"You okay man?"

"Yeah...just...being cautious, and you should be too...just in case. Be careful out there Kiba." He said before continuing with his morning routine.

At around 12:45 in the afternoon Sasuke stopped on the edge of a skyscraper; having found a way to the top without setting foot in the building itself. He sighed and let the wind gently move his jet bangs. Sasuke could just make out the figure of a man in one of the windows of the mansion directly in front of the skyscraper he was standing on. "A new face...great...another hunter..." He thought before walking back the way he had gotten up to get down. He walked on a roof closer to the street calmly; only to be stopped by another Runner dashing by. "Whoa...watch where you're going! Someone could've gotten hurt!" He said. He watched as the Runner ran toward the mansion border; his eyes widening in fear. "He's crazy! I've gotta stop him!" He thought. He ran after the man. "Hey! Hold up!"

The man continued to run.

"Yo! Wait a sec!"

The man still ran.

Sasuke stopped after trailing the man as close to the mansion border as he wanted to go and caught his breath. He saw the Runner get very close to the mansions and get grabbed by some men in heavy armor. Sasuke backed up a little; his eyes wide with fear. He turned and ran as fast as he could with the breath that he had to a safer distance from the border. He stopped again to catch his breath; leaning on his knees this time. "That could've been me...if I kept running after that guy..." He though as he knelt down.