CHAPTER 1

Scene: 6:00pm, 1809 Price Drive, Konoha.

Narrator: "Ehem. Well our story starts here, in a large Estate owned by a rich family known as the Uchihas. You may have heard of them from their huge company that is responsible for many banks and other economic businesses, including small ones, like the Inuzuka Company that takes care of the animal shelters, or the Amichi Company that owns all big restaurants. But the Uchiha Corporation pretty much owns all those companies.

"But anyway. Our story starts here, and if we look in a certain young man's room, then we'll find that the Young man and his girlfriend are busy talking like the lovey dovey couple they are.

"Let's listen in on what they're saying, shall we?"

~~~~End Narration~~~~

"Hey Sasuke!"

"Hn?"

"We should go out somewhere instead of hanging around this dump of a place you call home."

"…"

"Oh come on please? You never take me out anywhere anymore! We could at least go out to a movie! Fly around in a jet and go skydiving! Bungee Jump!? Go To a Water Park? Anything! You probably have enough money to buy all the water parks in the world and yet you won't take me out to a nice restaurant every once in a while!"

"…Hn…."

"Ugh! That's IT! We're through you here me! Through! I've had enough! You may be the hottest guy that ever lived but I get the feeling that you don't even care about me, or love me! I don't deserve to be treated like this! You hear me Uchiha!?"

Said Uchiha just stayed silent, unwilling to comfort his girlfriend.

SLAM!

"…."

Sasuke looked at the large wooden door to his room, where Sakura, his annoying girlfriend left out of… Well she's not his girlfriend anymore apparently.

To Sasuke's relief.

The only real reason Sasuke had agreed to go out with Sakura was because she was also wealthy (well not as wealthy as the all-powerful Uchihas) and she was also very popular in Konoha High school, so that would help him with his image, which would please his father…. But in the end she only ended up being even more annoying than the other fan girls… I guess that's why they made her leader of the Sasuke Fanclub. Hopefully she'll stop stalking him after this fight.

"Little Brother?"

Sasuke looked up at the door from staring at the floor to see his older brother, Itachi.

Itachi…

He was the only one in the whole Uchiha family that Sasuke could really trust with anything. Everyone else was just that: 'Everyone else'.

Sasuke didn't care about much. The only things he cared about were keeping his image good so he wasn't constantly being compared to Itachi by his father, and he also cared about his brother (in a way), but Sasuke wasn't a big fan of 'love'—Not that he didn't want it in his life someday; he just didn't know how to express it very well.

He couldn't express it with Sakura at all, because he didn't even like her in any way.

"Sasuke?" Itachi repeated when said little brother still hadn't answered him because he was still in deep thought about random things.

Itachi sighed and, thinking that Sasuke was still upset about Sakura, tried to cheer him up.

"Hey Sasuke, it'll be alright. Sakura wasn't the best choice for a girlfriend anyway. She was too demanding… and annoying as hell." He said while ruffling up Sasuke's duck-ass-shaped hair. The younger still wasn't paying any attention and was completely missing what Itachi was saying.

"Say little brother, how's about we go someplace with a few of your friends, that way you can forget all about your silly little X-girlfriend whom you were so desperately in love with."

"…" Still no answer.

"……… I'll take that as a yes." Itachi chirped while dragging Sasuke to his car.

Sasuke finally decided to join the living when the passenger door slammed shut and the car engine roared to life.

"….?"

Scene Switch: 6:00pm. 225 Whirl Road, in a small little one bedroom house, with a kitchenette and a small living room area.

"Hey, Kyuu!!!"

"Kyuu!!!! Where are you!?!?!"

….

There was no answer to the desperate calls of the young blonde teenager.

"Kyuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu!!!! Please come here!!! I made some food!!!"

…………..

"Kyuubi No Kitsune, you get your furry ass in here for dinner, or I swear I will neuter you!!!"

Finally, there was a sound to respond to the youngling's calls… well they were more like threats.

The sound was quiet, but it was the unmistakable sound of tiny footsteps. Soon enough the sound grew louder until the teenager could turn to see Kyuubi, a black collar hanging prettily around his neck, which stood out nicely against his bright red fur.

"It's about time. Do I have to threaten you every time I want you to come eat with me?" the blonde asked with a pout.

…

Kyuubi blinked and then bared his teeth towards Naruto.

`"Well, that depends. Are you going to quit feeding me that shit you call Ramen? Because I told you that I've been wanting to go on a diet…"` Kyuubi snapped back with a twitch of his bushy tail and his chin held high.

"We have this argument everyday, Kyuu. You know that I love Ramen, and besides it's easy to make and it's affordable for me. Maybe if you start working then we can afford other food, but until you put an effort to help me then you'll eat what I give you, you ungrateful sonuva bitch." The teen replied with a huff as he placed his tan hands upon his hips, glaring at Kyuubi through long bangs that constantly covered his pretty blue eyes.

`"First of all, I'm a fox, so who the hell is going to offer me a job. Second, even if some crazy ass did offer me one, they wouldn't be able to understand me, seeing as you're the only human who can. And third, quit acting all upset and grumpy, it doesn't suit you at all, especially when you're wearing that ridiculous apron."` Kyuubi said as he jumped up onto the table where two bowls of hot ramen were waiting. Kyuubi may not like the stuff, but he knew that if he didn't eat this then he'd most likely starve, because he had promised the kid that he would stop hunting rabbits and mice and stuff. So there wasn't anything else he could eat.

But as soon as he dipped his head to take a bite, he almost got his head chopped off, but thanks to the fox's great reflexes (and the fact that he was sort-of expecting this), his head was still intact. The table shook slightly, rocking the ramen bowls, as the blonde dug the butcher knife deeper into the wood of the table.

"You know that I hate it when you make fun of this Apron. Iruka gave this to me as a gift and—"

`"'It's precious to you because it was one of your fist real gifts.' Yeah yeah, I know. Take a chill pill, Naruto. Ya know I'm just pushing your goddamn buttons. Shit man. Can we eat now?"` The grumpy fox hissed and started digging into the food before Naruto could even get out another word.

The teen smiled lightly at his friend before sitting down at the table and digging into his ramen happily.

Time Skip: 6:30.

After the two finished their meals they sat on the couch, Kyuubi lying comfortable on Naruto's lap, and the blonde was busy combing his fingers through the fox's soft red fur while clicking the remote with his other hand. He was randomly poking through the few channels he had, to see if there was anything interesting on, but there wasn't. You would think that there would be plenty of things to watch, especially on a Friday, but all that was showing were over-dramatized soaps and talk-shows, which didn't have much meaning to Naruto. Kyuubi and Naruto had watched the news for a little while, but everything that showed on the news had to do with some kind of tragedy; either another child was raped and murdered, a criminal was sentenced to death, a natural disaster hit somewhere or another, or some teens were rioting some stupid company. It was all the same bullshit, and Naruto believed that you could never really trust everything they say on the news anyway.

Finally Naruto just turned off the 6 inch screen TV with a bored sigh. Kyuubi closed his eyelids, hiding his fiery-orange eyes.

It was silent in the small house for a while as the two just sat there in the dark living room area. Naruto took his fingers and gently scratched the back of Kyuubi's right ear, making him tilt his head that way, and the blonde could feel a sort of purr vibrating throughout the fox's petite body, but then he stopped scratching, which made Kyuubi's ears fold back. The fox opened his eyes slowly to look back towards the blonde, who was staring towards the ceiling, a bored expression on his face.

…

There was an awkward silence before Kyuubi decided to break it.

`"You should go do something."` Kyuubi said suddenly, making Naruto jump.

The blonde was silent for a while longer. He stared his baby blues into Kyuu's stern stare.

"Like what?"

Excellent question.

Kyuubi rolled his eyes.

`"Go out somewhere. Party. What about hat little club near that tattoo store? There's no school tomorrow so I'm giving you permission to go have fun. Actually, I'm ORDERING you to go out somewhere."` Kyuubi demanded, while hopping off of Naruto's lap.

"I'm being ordered around by a fox… great…" Naruto laughed softly while picking up Kyuubi again and hugging him close. The fox struggled against the cuddling human of doom but Naruto's bear-hug was impenetrable.

"Thanks Kyuu… but I want to stay here with you, and besides I don't have anyone to hang with and I don't have any money to go anywhere 'fun', besides the park…" Naruto said while putting down the irritable animal.

Kyuubi turned his head to lick his ruffled up fur before turning back to say, `"Wait here one second. I'll be right back."` And with that Kyuubi disappeared into the darkness and scampered into their bedroom.

The blonde could hear Kyuubi scuffling around and a few things were moved about, then he heard the animal's small footsteps coming back towards him. The fox sat back on the Naruto's lap, and their faces were at the same level so Naruto could instantly see the envelope that the animal was carefully carrying between his sharp canines.

Naruto took the crumpled looking envelope from Kyuubi gently and opened it.

Inside was a wad of money. Naruto immediately closed the envelope and looked at Kyuubi in bewilderment.

"WHERETHEHELLDIDYOUGETTHISMONEY!?" Naruto screamed, his words getting jumbled together in a way that it was hard to understand the teen at first, but since Kyuubi has lived with the kid for so long, he was able to decipher the sentence with ease.

`"Don't worry I didn't steal it if that's what you're thinking. It's just some money I've been saving up for a little while. I wanted to give it to you when I thought there was enough for you to at least go out and have a few drinks and have some fun, neh? And you don't need to worry your smallish brain about where I got it from."` Kyuubi explained, which made Naruto calm down a little.

"B-but… But you earned this money, I don't want it." Naruto huffed while shoving the envelope back towards the fox's paws.

Kyuubi looked down at the money then back at Naruto.

`"Naruto… What the hell am I going to do with this money? I'm a wild animal for god's sake. Besides, you've been giving me food and a place to sleep for a long time now. I feel like a free-loader. This is the least I can do, but don't expect such kindness from me all the time, got it?"` Kyuubi laughed and then rubbed his muzzle against the side of Naruto's tan cheek affectionately. The blonde smiled but still shook his head stubbornly, refusing to take the money. Kyuubi nipped at Naruto's shoulder, making the kid yelp in slight pain.

`"Take the fucking money, or I'm gonna bite you for real this time."`

The blonde was smart enough to quickly grab the money and stuff it in his pocket because he knew from first hand experience that when Kyuubi threatens to do something he WILL do it.

"Fine I'll go out and get a drink but then I'm coming straight home and you get back the money that's left over." Naruto snipped with a pout. Kyuubi smirked.

`"Look, kid, if you really wanna do something for me then get me a hamburger on the way home but you're not allowed back in this house until after 11:00. Got it, brat?"` Kyuubi said and placed his paws on Naruto's chest.

The blonde turned into a sobbing chibi at that exact moment—Bubbly/watering eyes, quivering lips, sniffling sounds and all. Then Next thing Kyuubi knew he was being crushed into a big hug, but the fox didn't mind this time. He rested his furry head onto Naruto's shoulder and sighed contently.

What he wouldn't do for this kid.

`"Have fun okay? And Happy almost Birthday."`

Scene Change: We now go back to our grumpy Sasuke Uchiha , who we find brooding at a table in a party club that was popular to all the Senors in Konoha High School.

The amazing young heir was surrounded by a bunch of kids he usually hung around during school, though he could only call a few of them 'friends', the others were merely for looks, and to keep up his popularity and all. Everyone was completely shit-faced though and tripping over each other, well, except for Sasuke and a few select people who are named Neji and Gaara. Even Sasuke's brother was completely drunk but the older Uchiha was much better at keeping his balance then the other idiots. But Sasuke wouldn't be surprised if Itachi stripped until he was only in a pink thong while singing 'Baby Got Back' on the stage, though the stage is usually for performers, like bands, dancers, singers, comedians, and strippers. Though the strippers were only allowed during Mondays, and only adults were allowed in then.

"Hey, Sasuke?" Said Uchiha turned towards Neji with this bored/annoyed expression on his face, though Sasuke had trouble hearing the other boy, because of certain drunk idiots yelling and singing 'Lollipop'.

"Hn?"

"So who are you gonna ask out now, since Sakura dumped you and all." Neji yelled over the 'music'.

Sasuke shrugged uncaringly.

"Well you have to ask someone out soon." Neji said.

"Yeah? And why's that?" Sasuke asked while leaning his elbow on the polished surface of the round table and resting his chin in his hand.

This is where Kiba enters the picture. Kiba isn't really someone that Sasuke hangs out with, he's more or less one of the losers in the school, but Sasuke needs to acknowledge him because he's the son of one of the owners of a company that his father just so happens to own. But anyway, the idiot's completely drunk and breathing all in Sasuke's face.

"'Cause DUDE!!! Ifz yo dunt halve a date at da PROM then yo wunt bee ableto bee Prom KING!!!! 'andz yo HALVE TOOZ!! I Betz dis guy 200 bux dat yo were gona bee da PROM KING DUDDDEE!!! Fuuuckyyy!"

Sasuke scrunched up his face in disgust as Kiba's alcoholic breath puffed into his nose.

"Yeah, and what does that have anything to do with me!?" Sasuke yelled, loosing his temper for a second and slammed his fist down on the table, which accidentally got most people's attention. Sasuke quickly calmed himself down in order for everyone to gradually go back to what they were doing.

It wasn't usual that Sasuke lost his temper, but it does happen on some occasions.

Neji decided to help poor Kiba by taking over the topic.

"Kiba does have a point though. Didn't you say that Itachi didn't even go to the prom?" Neji pointed out, which got Sasuke's attention.

"Hn…. Go on…" Sasuke said, leaning his elbows back on the table.

"Well if that's true then if you go to the prom and become prom king then that'll be an achievement that Itachi didn't even get. Plus, it'll give you another trophy to add to your collection, neh?" Neji said. His explanation both helped encourage Sasuke to find a date, and it saved Kiba's skin from the rage of an Uchiha Sasuke.

"I guess I see your point… but who would I take to the prom? I've pretty much gone out with most of the popular people, and either I've dumped them because they were too annoying or they dumped me because I wasn't 'loving' enough." Sasuke said. Neji was surprised that Sasuke said so much.

'I guess he's serious about beating Itachi in this department.' Neji thought.

"Don't take out anyone you've dated before, because either they won't want to or you won't have any… 'chemistry' with them. Do you see what I'm getting at?" Neji said.

Sasuke raised an eyebrow curiously as a sign that he didn't quite understand.

Neji sighed.

"Look if you pick just any regular tramp from the school cheerleading team then it'll be too easy. You could ask anyone out—guy or girl—and they'll say yes. Not many people can resist you, and so we need to find someone that'll be a challenge!" Neji continued explaining. Kiba, as drunk as he was, was actually getting the idea and seemed excited about it.

"I wanna pick da skank he hash ta do!" Kiba volunteered, but mostly everyone ignored him.

"Hn… But I still don't know who to ask out then… But I guess it doesn't matter. Just like you said, no one says 'no' to me and even if the person isn't good-looking, I can make them into the prom queen just like that." Sasuke said and snapped his finger to demonstrate 'just like that'.

"Gaara and I will choose your challenge, then. Plus, this way not only will this be more fun but it'll make you feel more like you accomplished something. Seeing as Itachi didn't even GO to the prom—because I'm sure if he would've gone then he would've made prom king perfectly, even if he didn't have a date…" Neji said, but he shut up as soon as he saw the glare on Sasuke's face. He rambled a bit too much that time.

"But then again…." Gaara said and then he flicked his chin forward to signal them to look behind themselves, which they did.

Neji almost died from laughing so hard, but he did fall off his chair, and Sasuke went into a rage of twitches as he watched his older brother dance around the stripping pole in the middle of the stage in a pair of black pantyhose and a tight net shirt, then the older Uchiha—encouraged by the wolf whistles, cheers of the crowd, and the alcohol in his system—he got on his hands and knees and began crawling sensually towards the growing audience.

"Strip, Strip! Strip! Strip, Strip!" Kiba and the others (except Gaara, Neji, end Sasuke of course.) began chanting.

Sasuke slapped his forehead and covered his eyes so he didn't have to watch anymore of this shamelessness. But just as he covered his eyes, that's when his brother went unconscious.

The guards came out afterwards and dragged Itachi's limp body off the stage and towards the door, where they would probably just leave Itachi's body in an alleyway somewhere. Sasuke thought that maybe, just MAYBE he should be nice and bring his brother back in here so that he wasn't like raped or killed or something, but Sasuke decided that the moron deserved it for drinking in the first place. Well maybe he didn't deserve to be KILLED but Sasuke didn't care at the moment.

"HHAHAHAHAAAHA! OKAY! I take back what I said! Oh-my-god! That was so fucking funny!" Neji wheezed out between fits of laughter.

"This is the reason why I don't get how my Father adores Itachi so much…." Sasuke brooded… though his brooding could've been mistaken as 'pouting'… but Sasuke believes that Uchihas don't 'pout'. "Well anyway. So who do you guys think that I should ask out to the prom?" Sasuke asked, getting straight back to the topic at hand, though Kiba had disappeared somewhere.

"Well… let's see….." Neji said and he lightly held his chin in thought.

"How abo—" But Neji was cut off as they heard a loud crashing noise coming from the table next to them.

Sasuke and the others turned to see two people. One was a short waitress, and the other was a boy who looked around their age. He had long spiky blonde hair, tan skin, he's around the same height as Sasuke, but Sasuke couldn't see his eyes because his bangs cover almost half of his face. He was wearing a baggy worn-out-looking orange t-shirt, some faded jeans, and a pair of blue converses. The only thing that caught Sasuke's eye out of his clothing was the blue diamond necklace that hung from his neck. Sasuke had remembered a very popular surgeon that his father did business with used to wear a necklace just like that.

Ehem. Well, back to the incident.

The waitress had her hands over her mouth and she looked both worried and embarrassed.

"I'm so very sorry, this is my fault, here, let me pick these up." The boy said in a shaky voice as he knelt down, and that's when Sasuke noticed the fallen tray and glass cups. It was a good thing that the place was carpeted because if it wasn't then those cups would've smashed into many, many pieces.

"Oh no please let me get that!" The girl yelled/suggested. She bent down and quickly grabbed the tray and the cups from the boy's grasp. He seemed completely embarrassed that he caused such a ruckus.

The waitress was gone in no time and the boy was just left standing there. The only people left looking at him were Gaara, Neji and Sasuke Uchiha.

"Isn't he in our Calculus class?" Neji said as he looked at the boy with interest.

"His name is Naruto Uzumaki. He's a 'nobody'; just a poor little kid who was just dealt the wrong cards in his life, like some of us. He has no parents and lives alone in a one bedroom house. He also works in a little Japanese Restaurant." Gaara said as he eyed the blonde.

Sasuke and Neji looked at Gaara curiously.

"How do you know so much about this kid when I barely even remember him being in our Calculus class?" Neji asked, and Sasuke was wondering the same thing.

The redhead just shrugged.

"I used to hang out with him in middle school, and last year we got into a fight… and he beat me. He's the only one to have been able to beat me in a fight, besides you, Sasuke. He could've killed me but he didn't, and he probably should have…. He's actually quite the character." Gaara said, his eyes still following the blonde, who was now sitting at the bar, probably still blushing from the little incident.

"He doesn't look like he could beat anyone in a fight, let alone you." Sasuke said while examining the blonde carefully.

"Well whatever you do, just don't get on his bad side." Gaara warned.

"Alright that settles it! Sasuke, he's your new challenge." Neji announced. Sasuke looked uncertain about it, and Gaara was shaking his head.

"I wouldn't do that if I were you." The redhead cautioned in a mystifying tone.

"And why not!?" Neji argued, while narrowing his ghostly white eyes.

"Trust me, Uchiha, I know you wanted a challenge, but I highly doubt that you'll get Naruto to bow to you and even if you did, then good luck getting him to the prom. Tch." Gaara snickered evilly. "But by all means, if you want him then go get him." Gaara said while combing his fingers through his blood-red hair and smiling that sadistic smile that only he could pull off.

"Well. If I go after this guy and take him to the prom, then I can just dump him afterwards right?" Sasuke asked, getting used to the rules of this 'game'.

"Yes of course. Okay wait… here's what you have to do to win this… You have to get This Uzumaki character to go with you to the prom… And it HAS to be Naruto. Then after you use him to get the title of prom king then you dump him. But if you're not able to go through with this or can't receive the title as prom king, then when you take over the family business you have to let the Hyuuga's take over and you shall become MY partner. So are you up to the challenge my friend?" Neji asked with this smirk in place, which Sasuke just wanted to punch off.

"Of course. I can handle anything. Okay so let's see how 'challenging' this guy is."