AN: YESS!!! I have been trying to upload this since forever!! its my personal favorite and I hope you all like it! thanX!!

(ok, everyone the mistakes are fixed. You see what happened was that my mom's all like "HEY GEWT OFF THE COMPUTER RIGHT NOW!! so instead of checking it and fixing it and putting lines in between...i actually had stars dividing the scene switching I just submitted it real fast. so thanx everyone and ja-ne!)

Disclaimer: If I owned Naruto, Sasuke would just get his arse back in konoha where it belongs. So obviously I don't.

Uchiha Sasuke woke up at exactly 5:00 AM.

The same time he had been getting up for the past ten years, ever since he had started school. He stood up and headed straight for the shower without a moment's hesitation. Following his precisely 15 minute shower he got dressed and pulled out his schoolbooks.

He pressed a button on his dresser and 2 minutes later a maid entered bearing a tray with his breakfast on it.

His traditional breakfast that he had been eating for, you guessed it, the past ten years. A bagel with extra thin cream cheese topped with tomato slices. The maid quickly made his bed and rushed out of the room.

He had one hour and thirty minutes before he had to go. No big deal.

Although I have a personal rule against writing long, boring descriptions, it is absolutely necessary to describe Sasuke's room or the rest of this story will make no sense whatsoever.

Sasuke's room is about as big as your living room.

Times three. Bathroom not included.

His room was on the very top floor of the mansion in which he and his brother lived. One wall was covered with VCRs DVD players, sound systems and a giant TV.

This was not to suggest that he watched a lot of TV.

Quite the opposite actually, but Sasuke was Sasuke therefore he had to have the best of everything.

Another wall was actually a pair of giant French doors that led to a balcony, the sun was now beginning to rise and light was streaming in through the glass.

Sasuke bit into his bagel and began working through his homework, subject by subject.

This may seem odd to people like you and me, but just as I have a personal rule against descriptions, Sasuke had a personal rule against school.

School time was from 5:00 AM to 3:00 PM, that was it.

Sasuke would not spend another second thinking about school unless it was absolutely necessary. This is why he refused to spend his waking hours after school doing something as meaningless as homework.

Sasuke was now finishing up his least favorite subject, English (or Japanese, or whatever).

He slammed his books shut and stood up glancing towards the gilded clock that hung on his wall.

6:45… well there was no point in going to school early… Sasuke normally left at 7:00 and Sasuke was not one to interrupt his routine… EVER.

Sasuke loved his monotonous, never changing, sometimes boring lifestyle. It was EVERYTHING to him.

So he decided to get in 15 minutes of training before leaving. Training was his spare time activity it was what he ALWAYS did in his spare time.

ALWAYS.

Since I know, and now you know as well, how much dear little Sasuke Kun loves his routine, schedulized, preplanned lifestyle, I feel somewhat sorry for what is about to happen to him.

A resounding crash threw Sakura from the top of the bunk bed.

"AAAAAAAH!" She screamed as she hit the floor.

"Ouch…" she muttered rubbing her head.

"CHANDEROU!!!" Her inner self screeched. That was not how she would have preferred to get up, but when you live in an orphanage when do things ever happen according to your preferences?

"Fight! Fight! Fight!" the Kids around her shouted.

"Huh?" she thought in confusion, she didn't want to fight anyone… Then she realized they weren't speaking to her.

"Take it back!" Naruto shouted. Sakura stared at her best friend in confusion, who should take what back?

"Like hell I will!!" Inuzuka Kiba shouted defiantly wrenching his head free from where it was stuck in the bed frame.

"Ah," thought Sakura, "so that's what woke me up."

Sakura stepped in between the arguing pair like the peacemaker that she was. "Stop it you two! Why on earth are you fighting so early in the morning?!" She shouted indignantly.

"Uzumaki called Kiba a mutt" a tall lanky teenager said. "Kiba made fun of Hokage though!" a girl with a high pitched voice said.

"Ooooooh" said everyone. No one with half a brain would ever make fun of Hokage in front of Naruto… EVER.

Sakura swallowed nervously, "enough is enough Naruto!" she said insistently. "What if the matron comes by?"

That got their attention. The crowd rushed out of the room.

Kiba began straightening everything up and Sakura and Naruto each grabbed one end of the bunk bed, turning it around so the dented part would face the wall, invisible to the matron.

"Gomen ne, Sakura-chan" Naruto said sheepishly.

"That's all right, daijabon." She said simply.

Everyone stiffened as they heard footsteps, but it wasn't the matron, it was only Ino.

Sakura sighed in relief.

"You guys are really late hurry up and eat breakfast or there won't be anything left." Ino said, and she was probably right. Ino never misses breakfast but she never eats it either.

"Right," said Sakura "let me just finish up here."

"Yeah sure" replied Ino heading back down the hallway. "Oh by the way," she said poking her head back through the doorway "Tenten and Neji are…" here she trailed off and finished the sentence by raising her pinky finger. Then she laughed like mad and left again.

Sakura dropped the blanket she had been folding.

"Whaa-"she said in confusion "Eh! Ino wait! Chotto Matte!"

She ran off leaving Naruto and Kiba to finish the room. They did so in absolute silence only shaking their heads every so often.

Yes, the 11 genins we know (minus Sasuke) were orphans living here at this orphanage, truly believing (especially Neji) that they were destined to stay at this orphanage for the rest of their lives, never to be adopted.

They were wrong of course. Very wrong. Soon they would all be adopted together…

Having finished his training, Sasuke snapped his fingers and a maid rushed forward to do his bidding. "Get my things" he said simply heading towards his limousine. She rushed off to gather his things and managed to hand it to the driver 5 seconds before he sat down.

In 15 minutes they arrived at the school building. Sasuke looked around cautiously before making his way to the double doors.

He stealthily grasped the handle, then glanced around the grounds one last time before pushing them open… only to have the world's most hideous monster jump on him.

"Sasuke!" Ami Hitakitekate shouted happily.

"How did you know I'd be here?" Sasuke demanded shoving her off angrily.

"Don't be silly, Silly!" She replied with a laugh. "You always walk through these doors at exactly 7:18!"

She pinched his cheek.

He slapped her.

Well, he didn't, but he wanted to.

Instead he just settled for letting his eyebrow twitch like mad. Worse, was the fact that he couldn't give any reply. He DID always walk through those doors at exactly 7:18 every single day, but that was part of his routine, he wasn't about to change it not even for Ami Hitakitekate.

Yes, her name is Ami Hitakitekate, but most people just call her "Kit Kat". Sasuke stormed off, he did not want to spend one second more around Ami Hitakitekate or any of his fan girls than necessary.

He headed straight through the hallway to his homeroom and science class. Seating himself in the desk at the front and far left he instantly settled his elbows on the desk and clasped his hands in front of his face in the typical Sasuke pose.

He stared at the window and behaved as if he were completely oblivious to the world. Because he knows, just as we know, it doesn't get any cooler than that.

Eventually Orochimaru walked through the door. Sasuke struggled to ignore the smile his science teacher was beaming at him.

Some said Orochimaru was gay. Sasuke believed it; after all he was Orochimaru's victim.

Orochimaru licked his lips with his 20-foot tongue in a disgusting manner. "Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeewww" said all the students, except for Sasuke; he was just too cool for that.

"All right," said Orochimaru, heading to the front of the classroom, "Everyone take out the diagram of snake anatomy I assigned yesterday." They all pulled out their diagrams.

"Oh my gosh!" squeaked Orochimaru as he rushed to Sasuke's desk.

"What a beautiful diagram!" some kids rolled their eyes, Sasuke was tempted to join in.

"This is sooo cute! What a shame I have to look at all the other pathetic ones after seeing this fantastic diagram!"

Sasuke knew it wasn't true, but it didn't have to be.

When your mentally challenged teacher decides he likes you, you can turn in chicken scratch and get an A+. Not that he would.

"Now Sasuke," continued Orochimaru, " would you please collect the diagrams?"

"No." Sasuke replied simply.

"Ok" said Orochimaru with a shrug, "Ami, you do it."

Ami jumped up and swayed around the classroom like a drunkard collecting everyone's diagrams. There was more eye-rolling.

"Ok!" Orochimaru began "Everyone take out your books and turn to page 312."

There was reluctant shuffling as everyone followed his orders. "Sasuke please begin reading at the top of the page." Orochimaru said with a smile peering down on his favorite student.

Sasuke sighed but what choice did he have?

"Snake Transportation, Teleportation, and Telekinesis."

He blinked, had he read that correctly?

"For many years mankind has believed that snakes were just ordinary animals. This theory was proved incorrect when snakes proved themselves to be one of the rare species that can perform telekinesis" he continued, blinking 7x as much as he normally would.

"This was proved when a garden snake activated its powers of telekinesis and landed George W. Bush on a monkey's head. This video can be seen at www. youtube. com"

(THIS VIDEO DOES NOT ACTUALLY EXIST)

What the hell? Why couldn't his teacher make them read from normal textbooks?

"Very good, Sasuke!" said Orochimaru "Now, what does that mean?"

Sasuke gave his teacher a dry look reconfirming his original suspicion that his teacher was a retard.

Sakura mopped the floor vigorously. The matron had insisted that the entire front hallway be spic-and-span for the "big shot" guests that would be coming.

It made no sense to her, the matron had never insisted on special treatment for anyone.

However Haruno Sakura was not expected to argue, she was expected to work which is exactly what she did, but she wasn't a robot and she would wonder about it as much as she pleased.

"Whoooa!" Naruto exclaimed slipping across the freshly mopped floor. Sakura grabbed him just in time to keep him from knocking down the bucket of mopping water and steadied him.

"What is it Naruto? What do you want?" She demanded with her hands on her hips.

"Eh hehe, Sakura- chan we gotta get outta here!" He said waving his hands around.

"Huh? What do you mean?" She asked in confusion but she was already picking up the bucket and mop.

"I just saw a big black limo pull up to the orphanage!" He said dragging her along.

They heard footsteps,

"Quick!" Naruto said, eventually they collapsed into an orphan unit wildly out of breath. Sure enough, they soon heard the voice of the matron welcoming someone into the orphanage. Naruto grinned at her and they both burst out laughing.

Naruto went with her as she dumped the mopping water and told her everything he had seen, which wasn't much.

"And this guy was all wearing this fancy schmancy suit and he had this uber rich kid with him! I think it was his son!" Naruto concluded enthusiastically.

"But…" Sakura began sensibly, "If he already has a son why would he want to adopt someone?"

Naruto pondered this, "uh… I don't know, Sakura-chan…" he trailed off trying to figure out the answer.

"It's all right, never mind" She said with a smile. Picking up the now empty bucket, they went inside together as Sakura placed both bucket and mop in the utility closet.

"Sakura! Naruto! There you are!" Ayame, assistant to the matron, shouted running up to them.

"Hurry up the Matron wants you in the head office, now! And Sakura for heavens sakes get that white cloth out of your hair you look like a maid!" As they ran trying to keep up with Ayame, Sakura wondered why it would matter that she looked like a maid, hadn't she been working like a maid ever since her first day in the orphanage?

They came to the door of the head office and Ayame pushed them inside, closing the door behind them.

"Ah! There are our darling little stragglers! They don't do this normally… eh he he." The matron said in a false show of kindness.

Sakura stared at the people in the room in surprise.

There was the man Naruto must have been talking about, and his son, who was, she hated to admit it, very handsome.

Furthermore, standing in front of the father and son was every one of her good friends and they were standing in this order: Shino, Chouji, Shikamaru, Ino, Hinata, Neji, Tenten, Lee, Kiba, and then there was Naruto and Sakura standing at the doorway.

The father and son glanced at her, then at Naruto, then at her again.

Sakura blushed and instantly realized why Ayame had wanted her not to look like a maid and she wished she had followed her advice.

She felt so out of place standing before these brilliant men in their polished clothes, while she was expected to change her own clothes only once every three days.

"Well, what do you think Itachi?" Asked the older man.

His son merely replied with an arrogant gesture and said "Why ask my opinion when you're already clearly determined to do something foolish."

Sakura liked him instantly, honest, to-the-point, and not afraid to speak his mind. You don't find people like that every day.

As the Matron and the Father of Itachi made arrangements, Sakura self-consciously rolled down her sleeves and pulled the white cloth from her hair folded it and put it into her pocket.

"Sakura-chan," Naruto whispered.

"Nanio?" she replied. "I think they want to adopt us." He said.

"Don't be stupid!" She replied not wanting to get her own hopes up. "Would they ever want to adopt all of us?" she gestured at the rest of them standing there in line.

"I don't know," Naruto began "but I think they want some orphans and the Matron instantly decided to get rid of the orphans she likes least."

Sakura thought about that. "That sounds plausible…" she said "but I wonder who they are going to choose."

She suddenly grasped Naruto's hand. "I hope we get to stay together" she whispered.

This was not to say that Naruto and Sakura had a romantic interest in each other. Naruto was the closest thing Sakura had to a brother; he had helped her through various situations. Now she was not sure she would be able to manage without her dearest friend.

"Sakura" said Ino somewhat irritatedly, "can you at least try not to look like a pathetic forlorn orphan girl?"

Sakura stared at Ino with a raised eyebrow, if she looked that way she was not doing it intentionally.

"Stop bothering me, Ino-pig" she hissed under her breath.

Their conversation was cut short when they heard the matron gasp.

"A-All of them?! "She asked in shock.

"I believe that's what I said" Itachi's father replied calmly.

"Oh my!" the matron had to grab a chair and sit down.

"If it doesn't seem too forward I would like to ask, why would you do something like this all of a sudden?"

"Of course," Itachi's father said quite jovially "I've decided it is time for my money to be put to a good use."

The matron smiled "of- of course well you'll just have to sign these papers."

She then seemed to realize the orphans were still standing there and quickly shooed them out the door. They decided to hold a council to discuss their future.

Sasuke headed to his favorite class not knowing it would be the worst class of his day.

It was Math, which was normally taught by Hatake Kakashi, the only person Sasuke ever bothered to occasionally call "sensei".

Sasuke was not expecting the fat, balding man who sat at Kakashi's desk.

A substitute teacher.

This was a broach of Sasuke's routine. "What a bad omen…" thought Sasuke with irritation.

"Sit Dooown!' The man barked spraying spit all over Sasuke.

Sasuke blinked.

He then made a big show of grabbing a tissue, wiping his face, and then throwing it away as if it were contaminated, which, in fact, it was.

Sasuke then headed calmly towards his seat.

"Now listen here!!" Yelled the man, spraying even more saliva in Sasuke's direction.

"I'm the teacher!! And I don't want no wannabe rich no-good prissy boy messing around in my class!!"

Prissy boy? Oh no, he didn't. But yes, in fact he did.

Sasuke narrowed his eyes at the man, and said calmly, "I won't warn you twice."

The man said , "That's it! They warned me about you! But I never would have expected this! That's it! Principals office now!"

Sasuke felt as if he had involuntarily gone swimming.

He merely sighed and reached into his pocket.

He took out a cell phone. All the students gasped.

The teacher only looked at him in confusion.

Sasuke sighed once more flipped the phone open and dialed auto 1.

He then showed it to the teacher.

The fool sneered, "Itachi?" He asked "You're calling a weasel?! How pathetic, GWABWAHAHA!"

The students reacted differently. "He's calling Itachi?!?!" "Oh SHIT!!" "$# RUN FOR COVEEER!!!" They all cowered under their desks.

Itachi picked up on the 2nd ring.

"Hn?" was all he said.

"Ohaiyo," said Sasuke. "Nisan, we have a problem."

3 minutes into the conversation the principal came in and fired the man on the spot. This left Sasuke and his classmates with a free period.

"Man! We sure are lucky Itachi didn't come in person!" One guy said. "Damn right!" agreed another.

Math was his last period and since it was over, he decided to head home early.

The limousine was there in moments and Sasuke sank into the leather seats wearily.

"Sir," began the driver. Sasuke raised an eyebrow, that was awkward.

Servants don't talk.

"Nanio?" he drawled. School had really taken its toll on him.

"Your brother left you a note." Sasuke was no longer lazy he sat up straight and reached for the piece of paper that was offered to him.

Sasuke,

Father is home. Be prepared.

Itachi

That was it, but it was enough. His Father wasn't supposed to be back for another week. That would make it the third broach of routine in one day. A very bad omen. He gripped the paper tightly, something was definitely up.

"It makes no sense" said Tenten.

"According to what the matron said, The Uchiha family wants to adopt all of us," said Chouji.

"Why would they do such a thing?" Queried Neji inquisitively.

"Let's just see what happens, there's no point in getting our hopes up for no reason." Sakura said reasonably.

"If it does work out, we'd all be rich!" said Ino. "We'd be shopping day in and day out."

"There is more to youthfulness than shopping Ino-san." Said Rock lee wisely.

"I know that!" Ino snapped "I'm only saying it would be fun. For how you guys act, you must think I'm a dense dumb blonde or something." She paused, "wait, don't answer that."

They all laughed. The people who ever laughed did anyway.

"For now," said Shino "I'm in favor of what Sakura said; let's not make plans over nothing." Sakura shot him a grateful glance.

"Hey has anyone seen Naruto and Kiba?" asked Sakura.

They all looked around, but there was no doubt about it, the two weren't there. Just at that moment, Naruto burst through the door, closely followed by Kiba.

"They ARE adopting us! ALL of us!" They all blinked at him.

"It's true!" Said Kiba, "We were hiding in the closet when everyone else left, they made plans and signed papers and we have to go to their mansion TODAY!"

"Kiba," said Shino, "that was a run-on sentence."

"WHO CARES!?" Shouted Naruto indignantly.

"That means… we'll be getting all our things back." Said Sakura.

There was a moment of silence; everyone had some treasured possessions that were taken away for "safekeeping" when they first entered the orphanage.

Sakura had a necklace her mother had made for her, it was a necklace with a white stone that curved delicately and tapered to a point at the end.

The stone wasn't valuable, and it didn't hang from a chain, just a bit of black wire but they had taken it from her anyway. She mourned the loss of that necklace every night until she met Naruto.

"Well…" said Tenten. "I can scarcely believe we are all gonna stay together."

They all grinned. Friends stuck together. And they were doing a fairly good job of it.

Ayame eventually found them and told them to pack their things. They went off to do as they were told, and for once, nobody was complaining.

Sasuke was expecting something; he thought he was ready for whatever his father would throw at him.

He was wrong.

Itachi had told him to be prepared and he had tried, but he had failed.

There was no way his father could expect him to actually agree with him.

"What?" he asked, he must have heard wrong.

"You realize the situation I'm in, the media is attacking me from all sides. They're saying I'm a miser. Playing a loose hand for my own luxuries without any concern for anyone else." Uchiha Fugaku explained.

Sasuke knew what the media was saying, but that didn't meant it was true. His father donated 2 million dollars to nonprofit organizations annually.

"Now they're trying to convince the government to revoke my position. We can't let that happen!" Uchiha Fugaku insisted.

"I understand all that," said Sasuke rubbing his temples "but why adopt 11 orphans why not one or two?"

Sasuke was now beginning to see he would have to give in, but he wouldn't give up without first setting his terms.

"Because!" exclaimed Fugaku, "It's never been done before!"

He was wrong, of course, but for kindnesses sake I'm going to let him imagine he's right.

"That's not true," said Itachi.

"Well at any rate I'm not going to adopt any more than eleven. 11 is enough, give the media something else to talk about." Fugaku said.

Sasuke sighed again.

When you are in a grand house, surrounded by luxuries, you may be proud of all your possessions, but when it catches fire, you quickly choose which few you value most and save them.

This was the dilemma Sasuke was experiencing.

First and foremost was his privacy, he didn't want anyone in the rooms on either side of him, so he made a quick decision,

"Very well but I want the room on my right and the one on my left." He demanded.

Fugaku looked confused by this. "Why?" he asked.

"Because I want it, isn't that enough?" Sasuke had never tried this approach before and he wondered how well it would work.

Fugaku shrugged and agreed.

Itachi instantly saw the wisdom of Sasuke's request and quickly made the same demand. Fugaku agreed once more.

Sasuke did not have to worry about the room in front of him seeing as that one was occupied by Itachi.

Sasuke sighed and stood up. He bowed to his father and said "I thank you for including me in this counsel of your actions. If you so desire, I will be content with what you decide."

Fugaku nodded. "They will arrive in an hour."

"WHAT?!"

That one woke the neighbors up, or it would have if they had been sleeping at 4:30.

"Do you mean to say," began Sasuke "that you adopted these orphans without so much as speaking to me about it?!"

"I have spoken to you about it." Countered Fugaku.

"After you adopted them." Sasuke said through gritted teeth.

Itachi gave him a look, it was one of those, it's-completely-hopeless-so-let's-just-drop-it looks.

"Don't make a fool of yourself. Just go get decent before they arrive." Fugaku said firmly. Sasuke wanted to say something like, "Like they would know the difference" but he thought better of it and went to go take a shower, again.

A/N: MUAHAHAHA! That was so much fun! Yeah, I wanted Fugaku to believe he was right but clearly Itachi didn't. Sasuke's substitute was laughing because Itachi's name means "weasel".

Well, tell me how you like it and I'll try to upd8 asap! Best of luck, Ja-ne! 8 pages!! I'm on a roll!

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