My first attempt at a fanfiction. My version of Naruto is a smart and complex person who is not as blind as a lot of people think but in his own way he's just as vibrant and bouncy. My version of Sasuke is of course gifted but hes not as cold or as up to speed with certain things as Naruto is. This story will eventually be boyxboy NaruxSasu but not for a few chapters and after the time skip I don't want to give too much of my plot away.
I own nothing Naruto is not nor ever will be mine *sigh*. All characters belong to Masashi Kishimoto (lucky bastard) who we all will be eternally grateful to.
Eye's Wide Open
Chapter 1
Eyes Wide Open
Naruto took one last look around his apartment and double checked everything he had packed for his journey he sighed and then he walked out of the door into the night only one last stop to make before he left his village for good.
He infused his legs with Chakra and he leapt onto the roof of his apartment building and began the journey to the Uchiha compound the journey seemed to pass in a blur of familiar landscapes and green trees until he found himself at the gates of the compound ordinarily he would have rung the bell and waited patiently for an answer but considering the time of night Naruto knew the chances of Sasuke letting him in were slim to none so he decided to hop the fence and find Sasukes window and take it from there.
He silently leapt up on to the roof knowing Sasukes room was on the opposite side of the big garden that was in the centre of Sasukes personal quarters in his old family home. Whether or not Sasuke had always slept there or just decided to after the Uchiha clan massacre was unbeknownst to Naruto he hated the idea of such a huge place with only one tenant. If it were him he'd feel like the last peanut in a tin, rattling around all alone.
He found the window with ease and peered in at the sleeping Uchiha not taking the time to laugh at how defenceless he looked right now he was on serious business but to be honest he was surprised that he'd managed to get so far without being confronted by a livid Uchiha Sasuke demanding to know how he dared enter the Uchiha compound without permission. He pushed on the already slightly open window to create a gap big enough for him to enter when he did he entered silently pausing as Sasuke stirred in his sleep he was not looking forward to a rudely awoken Sasuke but he had business to discuss.
"Uchiha wake up" he said in a loud but calm voice. Sasuke groaned in his sleep and rolled over Naruto fought and won the urge not to burst out laughing at Sasukes behaviour and repeated himself until Sasuke finally seemed to be conscious.
"You know for a ninja you sure seem like your asking to be killed in your sleep" Naruto said his voice full of sarcasm.
"Dobe is that you?" Sasuke replied his voice husky with sleep but filled with slight panic his eyes pinging open as he sat up straight ready for a fight.
"Your a bit late to get on the defensive now if I was an enemy Shinobi you'd already be dead" Naruto replied his voice still full of sarcasm.
"What the hell do you want?" Sasuke snapped as he allowed himself to flop back on his back as if ready to sleep again he was clearly too tired to have a full blown argument.
"I have something to tell you" Naruto moved further in to the room away from the window and sat on the edge of Sasukes bed.
"Can it wait for morning?" Sasuke asked the tiredness creeping back into his voice.
"I'm leaving" the seriousness in Naruto's voice caused Sasuke to sit back up and Naruto could feel his eyes burning holes into his back.
"Leaving? Why? Where are you going?" Sasuke sounded wide awake now as he demanded answers from the smaller ninja.
"Anywhere away from here to be honest." Narutos voice dipped with sadness.
"What's wrong with Konoha?" Sasuke demanded.
"What's right with it?" Naruto scoffed. "This place has done nothing but fail me from the day I was born" his voice distant and angry.
"In what way?" Sasuke asked regretting it as soon as the words left his mouth.
"In what way, ha Uchiha you must be blind even with the god damn Sharingan. In every way. Do you know who my father is?" Sasuke failed to hide his surprise at the unexpected question.
"Ha ha do you even know dobe?" Sasuke didn't know why he laughed at Narutos question it must have been the shock of his outburst everyone knew Naruto was an orphan and the question seemed bizarre to Sasuke but not as bizarre as the blondes answer to his own question.
"Namikaze Minato". Sasuke couldn't detect any deceit in Narutos voice but despite himself his immediate response escaped his lips
"Liar there is no way the yellow flash was your father" he accused.
"You wanna bet Uchiha" Narutos voice sounded almost amused but the seriousness still radiated from him. "Do you know how he died?" This question annoyed Sasuke everyone knew how the Fourth Hokage died.
"Where is this going dobe?" The Uchiha snapped.
"How did he die? Say it." Naruto yelled his hands twisting into the sheets of Sasukes bed.
"Fine he died when he stopped the Kyuubi." Sasuke answered begrudgingly to be quickly surprised by the blondes yet again by the blondes response.
"When he stopped the Kyuubi haha that's a good one."
"But he did." Sasuke insisted annoyed at Narutos foolishness.
"Did he fuck. He sealed it away there's a difference." Naruto spat to the confused Uchiha.
"How is there at the end of the day he stopped the village being destroyed he saved hundreds and he died have some fucking respect. Especially if he's your father". He said the word father as though it was in air quotes.
"He is my father ask the god damn Hokage." Naruto snapped back annoyed that Sasuke seemed to really think he was lying.
"What's that Uzumaki Naruto bad mouthing two Hokages in one day. You must be an imposter your far too dark to be the Naruto I know." Sasuke intended his words to sound sarcastic but both he and Naruto noticed the panic in his voice.
"Do you really think so Uchiha?" Naruto twisted round to face Sasuke again. "I'm the real Naruto all right, its just after today I've had a lot to think about and I've decided I need to get out of this fucking shit hole." His voice was steady and calm and his eyes never leaving Sasukes.
"Now I know your not the real Naruto he would never bad mouth Konoha especially after how this village raised him." Sasuke sounded more like he was talking himself than to Naruto.
"Raised me? Are you blind Uchiha? This village despises me. I am less than scum to almost everyone in this village and do you want to know why?" The sudden venom to Narutos voice almost caused the Uchiha to wince.
"Why?" Sasuke dropped his head breaking the eye contact between him and the Blonde as he waited for his reply stopping his eyes from betraying his curiosity and his genuine anger and pity for the way the villagers treated his team mate. He heard him take a breath and then he began to speak.
"The fourth hokage did not stop the Kyuubi he sealed it away in a newborn baby his own son. Me Uzumaki Naruto, if you've ever wondered why some people think its acceptable to spit on me in the street ha, not that someone as self obsessed as you would. Its all because of him and do you know the worst thing the fourth Hokage wasn't actually that great my own mother, his wife for fucks sake Uzumaki Kushina had to sacrifice her life to help him seal the god damn Kyuubi in me." Narutos voice went from steady to angry to utter sadness and as he was speaking Sasuke again regained the eye contact but
"It was the right thing to do though he obviously did it for the village."
"Yeah he did. The same village who as a collective seem too fucking stupid to realise that me and the Kyuubi are two separate beings that each had no intention of ever being brought together. No idea of each others existence even. And yet I've faced so much hatred and so much rejection by the people my parents died to save."
"Your starting to piss me off you imposter. The Naruto I know used those feelings to make himself a better ninja to protect the people who looked down on him to make them see him as a real person."
"The Naruto you know is stood right in front of you and you know what Uchiha for once his eyes are wide open and I just might have a proposition for you."
My first serious attempt at a fanfiction. I hope you liked it and that its not too hard to read since I am terrible with punctuation. This is just the first chapter in what I hope will become a decent lengthed fanfiction. I hate to write this but please please if you can leave me a review just to let me know if its worth carrying on with if you liked it or if you hated it.