Disclaimer: Do not own! *Sad face*

Pairing: NaruSasu. More to be added as story goes on. (Don't want to give it away. If you have a preference and I'm not using the characters already, let me know.)

Warnings: I have never done a smex scene and am skeptical I will now, but there will be some action and gore, along with the language. Rating and Warnings will change accordingly.

Just a little FYI, depending on POV: opinions, outlooks, thoughts, perceptions, and all that comes with being an individual, will vary. Some slightly, some greatly. They don't represent everyone's thoughts; or even the actual thing, person, or event that they are thinking of.

This chapter: Negativity? (It's Sasuke, what do ya expect?)

Hi, and let me start this off with saying THANK YOU! for deciding to read my story. This isn't my first FanFic of these two, but is the first that I've gotten interested or confident enough to get past the first few chapters.

Most of the info you need is above, but if you do have questions I'd be happy to answer if they aren't too ahead of the plot line and give away things I wish not to be known just yet. (Though most of this will be very cliché and follow usually story line formation, lol.) From now on AN's will be at the bottom of the chapter, if you guys like it enough to post another chapter, of course.

~Enjoy

Prolog: It's all in the wrist.

Sasuke P.O.V.
I remember the view. At a different time, of course, and under completely different circumstances. I remember thinking how beautiful the far waters looked on the horizon. How amazing the lights of the constantly moving city looked against the inky black of the sea and sky. How great the wind felt running threw my hair, and how, if able to, I'd do anything to spend the rest of my life up here, with him.

But we couldn t. He had to leave. I had to stay. And slowly the world blurred into nothing but chaos without his slow, calm, clear words to straighten it all out for me again.

And now?

Now all I can see is the end. Not forever. Defiantly not our forever. Not even our end. Just mine. The black sky only seems to hold secret monsters. Hidden from sight, but just as ready to swallow you whole as fast as the sharp colors threaten to cut you to pieces the second you step out of line. Guess I've stepped out of line. Some invisible line no one felt the need to inform me of.

Because now, as I looked down from the top of the fifty-floor hotel, I know there is no way the colors and blackness will give me a warm welcoming when that hand on the small of my back finally works up the ever building nerve to push me over the little glass wall that lines the edge of the roof.

And still, with death dancing before my eyes -Or is that tears?- all I can think about is him. His hands, his warmth. The sound of his voice whispering my name in greeting and the feeling of being wrapped in his arms. And the overwhelming sadness in both our eyes as he was torn away from me by his past. And that's not to mention his brightness, and how, if here, he'd shine even with all the suffocating darkness that seemed ready to take me.

Pressure. On my back. Cold flesh pushing through the thick fabric of my jacket, and the thinner one of my shirt, to my own cold flesh.

"It'll work. It has to. Cause we love each other." She whispered behind me. I want to scream at her. Make her see that no, he doesn't. That this will do nothing to buy his love for her. But then all I can hear is the whispering sound of the wind in my ears as my body tilts forward. I don't try to right myself. There's no point.

I can't help but gasp his name as the world blurs and I fall over the small glass railing and toward the waiting concrete below.

"Naruto!"

"Sasuke."

I snapped my eyes open only to be greeted by the dull colors of mid-day city.

"Get out." I look to my left where my brother is leaning in toward the sleek black car, hands braced on the door and roof as he looks at the previously unresponsive younger Uchiha. "We're here."

"Hn."

Itachi straightens back up, shutting the door and slipping the car keys into his jacket pocket, before moving to the trunk and popping it open to start pulling our few pieces of luggage out and up into the building.

I slide out of my seat to help, clicking the lock button on the door on the way out, and slamming the door just a little too hard to be necessary just to spite Itachi and his newly bought and paid for car.

This wasn't the suburbs anymore. We will have to have a lockdown on all our belongings to keep it from being taken by the multiple gangs of teenagers I m sure drift around looking for trouble. I swing my backpack onto my shoulder, filled with all my possessions too important to be shoved into a suitcase, grab my two back suitcases, and follow Itachi up the side-walk toward the front doors.

The doorman waves me, along with Itachi who had a few more bags then me, toward the elevators that will take us up to our new apartment complex.

"We'll be getting our parking place in the underground garage tomorrow." Itachi says motionlessly as we wait for the arrival or the elevator. I just nod my head slightly and pop one i-pod ear phone into my ear closest to Itachi as we load onto the elevator.

Mirrors line the walls, reflecting my irritated scowl, and the Itachi s impassive face back at us, as the metal box lifts us higher into the atmosphere, dinging the floors away. On floor twenty-eight it finally stops and we shuff off and toward apartment 28-05.

Our new home. In a new town. Or city, really. A new life, with a new school, new friends, and new problems. Or, really, just the old ones wrapped up tightly in the back of the our minds, festering, only to be taken out and examined in the privacy of our own rooms and the comfort of the black blanket of night, dramatized by the hustle and bustle of the city.

At the end of this thought I can't help but mumble, "Fuckin' great..."

How was I to know that there were more than just these few things I would have to worry about? Old family wars? A world I never even dreamed existed? Sunshine and tanned skin and blue blue eyes? Never even crossed my mind.

Thanks for reading. See you next chapter! (maybe?)

~FT