A/N: Yo. I'm finally writing a story after I deleted all my others.
The pairing is of course SasuSaku (Sasuke and Sakura).
I've noticed that in most high school stories Sasuke is always the rich one and girls always fawn over him and nothing bad ever happens to him. This time he'll have all of the fame and fortune, and it's going to get ripped out from under him. Yes I know I'm so evil, but I want this to be good. I hope it's original. And in most SasuSaku stories it's usually just based on Sakura's life. Now there's a lot to Sasuke too, but also heaps to Sakura.
Also, Sakura deals with Inner Sakura in her head usually, right? Now she deals with Inner Sakura every time she sees herself in a reflection. It helps Inner Sakura and her dastardly ways.
Anywho!
Summary: He was spoilt. He was rich. He was a player, and now… he's a gardener?? Kicked out of his own home, Sasuke comes across the Haruno Residence, finding food, shelter, a well-paying job and… the annoying pink-haired housemate. Now without his riches, he finally comes to realise that there is more to life than fast cars and wooing the ladies. – SasuSaku. Rated M for Language, Death and Violence.
Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto or Naruto Shippuden or any of these awesome characters. They belong to Kishi. However, I do own this story and this plot. No stealing.
Enjoy and Review if you want! And don't be afraid to give your thoughts on how you liked or disliked it. It may help me improve. If you're going to flame, at least have a sensible reason why. Or I'm going to go ape shit.
Prince Of The Hedges
Prologue
Awkward Silences. Never a good sign.
Silences were not unusual in the Uchiha mansion, but since it was awkward… It was just strange. It's not like it bothered him or anything though. He just knew something was going to happen.
His father and his mother sat on the opposing lounge, seeming casual enough, but he could see the emotion in his mother's eyes. Sadness, confusion, acceptance. In his fathers, there was anger and frustration.
"Sasuke." Fugaku started firmly, staring his son straight in the eye. The Uchiha's were a brave family. They would not dare look away for it showed a sign of weakness. Sasuke knew this and followed by it without hesitation. Weakness was not an option. Failure was not an option.
Not for an Uchiha.
"Your Seventeenth birthday will be coming up soon, correct?"
He gave a slight nod, leaning back into the couch. He had a date with Karin that night. He didn't want his mood to be ruined even more by his father. He was gloomy enough as it was.
Karin was pretty, but she was also a complete bitch.
Everyone knew that, yet everyone still wanted her. For Sasuke, Karin was just for his reputation. A mere tool. She knew that, too.
But he was good-looking, rich, and popular. He had a car; a motorbike, a boat…and most importantly, he had contacts. If someone was annoying her, if there was someone she didn't like… Let's just say that that person wouldn't be in town for much longer.
Seriously, Why wouldn't she go out with him?
The entire female population wanted him. The entire male population wanted to be him.
Life was good for Uchiha Sasuke.
So far.
Fugaku interrupted his thoughts, "When you are Seventeen, We are going to kick you out."
It was a shock. An ice-cold stab to the heart.
His expression did not change, although his skin colour visibly turned a shade paler, and his eyes had a brief glimmer of panic. He quickly hid any surprise, and narrowed his eyes to show that he was irritated.
"You won't."
"Sasuke-Kun!" It was his mother, Mikoto, now. Her voice was cracking, but she kept speaking even on the verge of tears. "You need to understand what you're doing. We spoil you and we can't help it because you're our son and we love you. All you do is… is go to Karin's house. You skip school, you don't have a job, you barely talk to us, I'm afraid that you've done incredibly disgusting things with Karin when you've only been dating her for… a few weeks!? You only come downstairs to eat and stay in your room all the other times unless you're out. You sneak out of the house at night, you go to parties that supply alcohol! You're sixteen and we've had to bail you out of juvy twice already!"
Sasuke simply grunted and folded his arms.
It was Fugaku's turn again. "We have thought long and hard about this, your mother and I, and we believe it is the right choice. You need to learn to grow up, and staying with us will not help."
"I'm going to work under you."
"We don't need you, and you already know it. We have Itachi."
Sasuke paused, his facial expression resembling a blank page. His face showed nothing. No Anger, No Happiness. He was considering what his father had just said.
This did not last long though.
Suddenly, in a split instant, he was on his feet, eyes narrowed dangerously and his lips curled back into a snarl. He launched his arm out, knocking the glass coffee table over which was blocking Sasuke from his parents, and breaking the porcelain vase filled with bright red roses.
Mikoto screamed and covered her face at the sudden outburst, Fugaku standing protectively in front of her with a glare on his own face, ready to fight back with his younger son.
But Sasuke did not attack.
Instead, he balled his hands up in fists, his glare intensifying.
His voice was low and threatening, almost feral. "Fuck Itachi." And stormed out of the living room, purposely treading on the roses, which lay crumpled on the floor, leaving his mother sobbing and his Father frozen in place.
What more could they possibly do for their broken son?
On the other side of town, a young woman stood in the bathroom, examining herself and her flaws in the mirror.
The figure that stared back at her rolled her eyes and spoke loudly, her voice wavering in a way that it felt like a dream, or an echo, if you payed close attention.
"Stop looking at us you brat. We have to deal feeling this way all the time. It makes it worse to see ourselves so ugly."
The woman stared back at herself, "Hey, Who said you could speak? You're not even real. Just a figment of my imagination."
Her reflection snickered, "Believe what you will silly! But I'm apart of you, nevertheless, so you'll have to deal with me talking to you every so often."
"Uh-Huh." She raked a hand through short pink locks, continuing to stare at herself – or her other self's – appearance.
"You know, Outer, staring at us all day won't make our breasts grow any bigger."
"Are you just bent on being crude or are you the bitchy part of my mind?"
"Probably both", the figure admitted and grinned, "Now say goodbye to Mama and Papa or you'll be late for school you pink fuzz ball."
The young woman sighed and ran out quickly, snagging her red bag on the way. She ran half way down the steps and jumped the other five, landing straight on her butt.
Muttering incoherent curses she scrambled up onto her feet and poked her head into the lounge room.
A small shrine stood in front of the old, unusable fireplace, decorated with different things like some car keys, a scarf and a hat and other items.
In front of the shrine were two pictures. The first one a man, the other a woman.
"Bye Papa, Mama! I'll be back after school!" And left the house in a hurry.
The small household was left empty of people, the only life inside being an almost faded memory.
Two broken people,
Will come together as halves,
So they can finally become whole.
A/N: All right, done the prologue! Nothing fancy.
I'm not too happy on how this started out, but whatever. Maybe others will like it?
Since the first part of this story is about Sasuke, I made the prologue more to do with him, and as you can see I didn't mention Sakura's name even though it's already plainly obvious that it is her by her Inner, and her hair colour, but I done that because you're supposed to be more focused on Sasuke at this point, but still interested in what's going on with Sakura.
YES I do realise Sakura's mother is alive in the anime and possibly her father too. I KNOW in the anime she is supposed to be the only one with a family in the team.
But you have no information in Shippuden whether they are alive or not, and since they're like 16-17 in this fic it'd be around the time of Shippuden so there, her parents are dead. Wah-Lah!
As you see above I put that thingy-magig in italics. It's basically summarising the story plot (although I have a different summary for the actual story) and you'll see how this unfolds throughout the story since I like this plot and I want to continue it.
Sorry if nobody likes how much of a jerk Sasuke is acting. He'll get better, I promise!
Please Review if you like it ^_^