Title: Youth of the Nation
Summary: No one was going to take care of them; no one cared who they really were. No one wanted to know them. So they leave. They run away. And maybe they'll learn something along the way. AU
Pairings?: Not sure if they'll be any...But I know that they'll be implied in some kind of way.
"Last day of the rest of my life, I wish I would've known, 'cause I didn't kiss my mama goodbye"---Youth of the Nation by P.O.D.
Disclaimer: I own nothing. Not Naruto. Not the song that inspired this story. So please enjoy.
The pink haired girl ran to her room panting. She closed the door and put a chair under the door knob. She picked up her back pack and dumped out her school stuff and went to stuffing it with clothes.
"I've got to get out of here." She muttered frantically to herself. Her mumbles stopped when the banging on the door began. And she froze and stared at it.
"Sakura! Open this fucking door!" Her step father a brute man yelled. She zipped up her bag and ran to her window throwing it out on the ground. The moment she swung her leg over the window sill the door was busted open. Sakura gasped, but swung her other leg over and climbed down jumping before she was even half way down.
The last thing Sakura heard from him while running down the street where the yells of his threats.
Hinata Hyuuga walked into her room, pissed off. It wasn't likely that the shy, calm girl got angry. But she was sick of everything. Her uptight family, her father expectations for her, and the mistreatment her father had toward her cousin Neji. She didn't understand it. Hinata was always called weak, and useless but her father was constantly telling her that she would take over the business one day and she would agree.
She had no interest in the company, and to prove that point she brought up that she thought that Neji would have been a better choice to take over the company. She gave valid points though her father shot them down and turned on Neji. Asking how much he bullied her into saying what she did. And what made her even angrier was that Neji did not defend himself like he normally would have. It was as though he simply didn't care anymore. It was like that for the last couple of days actually.
Standing up Hinata grabbed her bag and packed clothes into it. Done doing that, she left her room quietly and knocked on the door next to hers. The door opened to reveal her cousin standing there looking at her strangely.
"Neji…Can I come in?" She asked in her quiet voice. Again Neji looked at her with a strange look but stepped aside closing the door.
"What is it?" He asked crossing his arms.
"Neji I think we ought to leave." She said boldly. Neji raised an eyebrow, but said nothing. "I know, it's stupid…And really strange coming from me…Not to mention father would think you'd kidnapped me…but I think it's time to go."
"Are you sick Hinata?" He asked. Hinata shook her head. "You're serious…" Neji rubbed the bridge of his nose before sighing. "There's nothing to lose, I suppose."
The blond boy sat on his roof seeing as there was no one at home. Not like that was a surprise. They were never home, and when they were they were still working. Not even to stop and mentioning a hello to their only son. It was times like this that Naruto wondered why he'd even stayed there that long. He'd practically raised himself and they got all the damn credit when he did something 'good'. That's why he decided to be the clown, may they'll notice...they never did.
Naruto was pulled from his thoughts when he saw a friend of his walking down the street. Every now and then turning to look over their shoulder as if being chased.
"Oi! Sakura-chan!" The girl jumped and turned toward the boy before looking over her shoulder once more. "What are you doing out so late?" He asked.
"Um. Naruto. I can't talk…I've…I've got to go…" Naruto raised an eyebrow.
"Sakura…Are you running away?" He asked her. Sakura didn't say anything which made the blond stand up on his roof with a sad smile on his face. "I guess this mean we're finally going to take that road trip." He said. Sakura stared up at him and shook her head.
"Naruto, you don't…" He cut her off.
"I'll be right down. I'll call the teme too. He's slowly going insane; the fresh air will do him some good." Before Sakura could reply he had already went inside and closed the window.
All he was to everyone was the Uchiha boy. Everyone pitied him, even the girls that claimed to like him, they only pitied him, and that's why he hated everyone and everything. Sasuke lost both his parents one night in a car crash; he was there and so was his older brother Itachi. From that moment Sasuke and Itachi lived alone. Both boys were independent. Sasuke had stopped depending on his older brother a long time ago, but that didn't mean he still wasn't pissed or upset when his brother left in the middle of the night.
And when people find out about that, 15 year old Itachi left. 12 year old Sasuke was pitied even more. And for the last three years he's loathed more than anyone could think possible. Sasuke's trip down memory lane ended when the phone on his bedside table rang. He flipped open the offending object and placed it to his ear.
"Dobe…" He said into the phone.
"One day it's going to be someone else teme." The voice said. Sasuke rolled his eyes.
"What do you want?" Sasuke asked. He could clearly hear Naruto rummaging through things on the other line.
"Well Sasuke. I saw Sakura and guess what." Naruto told his friend.
"Naruto…" Sasuke said in a dangerous tone.
"Ok. We'll she's leaving…Like running away. And I'm going with her. Want to come?" Naruto asked causally as though he were asking to go to the mall. Sasuke looked around his room quietly for a long time. "Hello? Teme? You still there?"
"Hn. Just thinking…" He trailed off. This was his chance to get away from the crazy fangirls and all the adults afraid of making the boy shatter.
"So are you going or what?" Naruto asked clearly he was getting impatient.
"Meet you at the bridge."
"Tenten be a doll and get me and my friends something to drink." A woman said to the girl with the two buns that adored her head. Tenten growled slightly as she went into the kitchen and fixed their alcoholic drinks. It was completely against the law for her to be dealing with the liquid, but not by her mother's terms.
Tenten fixed the drinks and wanted nothing more than anything to spit in the one she was going to give to her mother, but alcohol killed most germs.
"Thanks, hun. You can go to you room now." She said
"Oh thanks for the permission." Tenten mumbled before retiring to her room.
It was always like that. Most people knew Tenten because of who her mother was. No one wanted to know her for Tenten. They'd see her and normally ask Oh you're that Irootoko(1) kid. How long until you snap? Yeah no one knew her for great things, only that her father went missing some odd years and the only thing they found was his pinky finger…It was thought and believed that her mother killed him...Though no evidence was ever found.
Tenten sighed as she stared up at her ceiling. It was times like this she wanted to get away. For once go somewhere where no one could possible know who she or her family was. Konoha was definitely not a place for her at the moment. She picked up her phone and decided to dial the only person in her small group of friends that she talked to constantly.
"Hello? Neji?" She asked even though she knew it was him. He always picked up when she called.
"Hn. Tenten."
"Where are you?" She asked when she heard the sound of cars in the background. She glanced at the clock, a quarter until midnight and there were cars in the background…Hyuugas were always home before ten-thirty.
"We're heading through your neighborhood." He said causing the brown haired girl to raise an eyebrow.
"What? You and who?" She asked looking out her window to see if she can see them.
"Hinata." He replied.
"What Hinata!?…What the fuck are you guys up to?" She asked him.
"Hn. We're running away, Tenten. Hinata's idea...I thought she was . I knew how pissed you'd be if we didn't take you with us so we were coming to get you personally."
"You should have called me; I would have been out there already! I'll be down in no time!" Tenten hung up and packed her bag. She peaked outside her room and walked passed her mother.
"Where are you going?" Her mother asked her head lying on the shoulder of some guy.
"To walk the dog." Tenten said. Her mother smiled in her drunken state.
"Oh well then can you pick me up some things from the quickie mart?"
"Yeah yeah whatever. Bye." Sometimes Tenten liked having a completely waste of a human as her parent.
Ino sat outside with her neighbor and childhood friend Shikamaru. Shikamaru of course was only out there because of the constant bickering of his parents. Ino on the other hand was out there because her parents just wouldn't talk to one another. The silence is excruciating.
"You know Shikamaru I've been thinking lately…" Ino said breaking the silence. Shikamaru looked at her lazily.
"And?" He questioned.
"I was thinking about taking the first bus out of here." She said looking over at him.
"You mean runaway, Ino?" Shikamar asked.
"Yeah. Just get the hell out of here. I mean our parents are so fucking absorbed in their lives that they've blocked us out of it."
"And you think that running from them would make it better?"
"Think about it Shika…When the school called to report that you had skipped three classes...What did your parents say?"
"They told the school never to call again unless I were in a body cast…" Shikamaru said.
"And you really want to stick around?" She asked.
"Ino. Of course not. It's just going to be so troublesome."
"Come on Shikamaru…I think it's about time we got out of here, teach what it's like to be forgotten. To wonder when they'll ever be coming home again. It's our turn." She said. Shikamaru sighed and rubbed his face.
"What a drag…I'll meet you back here in a few minutes…" Ino smiled and ran back to her house sneaking through the window.
(1) Irootoko- Tenten's last name in my other story, Welcome to Camp. It means Lady Killer.
So I was listening to this song and it kind of hit me with inspiration. I had to write it. I hope you liked it. If not...Oh well. I believe that after Welcome to Camp is over this will be my main story...
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-TwilightRaver
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