Hi all! This is PonderingSoul! I guess I managed to get up the courage to actually try to write a fic. I am not sure how long this one will manage to be, but I do know that the main pairing is sasunaru and there may be side pairings. I want good critical feedback because this is my first fic. Sorry for any grammatical errors. By the way, this is a high school fic.

Finally, the grand season of fall was about to begin. This meant that school would be starting back up again, and for Naruto Uzumaki that meant that he would be able to talk to friends he hadn't seen all summer. Of course he was always hanging out with his good friends Kiba Inuzuka and Shikamaru Nara, but one person in particular had been evading him all summer for reasons unbeknownst to the poor blonde sophomore. Sasuke Uchiha had been a friend of Naruto's since early childhood, but in the last few months of freshman year Naruto's raven companion began avoiding him and they grew so far apart that no one in Naruto's circle had been able to contact him successfully. He didn't think that anyone had seen Sasuke around all summer. He wasn't at the fair or any other event that seemed typical for a high schooler. Though Sasuke only ever did do anything social because Naruto dragged him along.

"Oh well, as long as he didn't move or anything." Naruto muttered to himself as he walked through the park thinking about these things and heading to rendezvous with his friends from school. Of course he had been hanging out with Kiba and Shikamaru most of the summer, but it was hard for him to get the time to go to the other side of town to see his other friends. He did have a job after all he had to pay for food and other stuff even though his long passed parents' left him a large sum of money and Jaraiya, Naruto's godfather, paid the house bills. Though Naruto was lucky to even see his godfather these days. Jaraiya loved the boy, but it takes work to be able to keep a home, even if it is a small apartment in the suburbs of the metropolis known as Konoha. At least the park in the area was nice. Beautiful evergreen trees made the view on the park's pathway accompanied by the occasional bench or trash can. Of course there was a beautiful field beyond this layout of trees that people used for romantic picnics and other things. The kids likes to play games on the field during the summer and one of the hills had a great view of the local fireworks during festivals. All in all, the area near Naruto's apartment had at least one feature that brightened up people's lives.

Naruto finally reached that good ole' fountain he knew so fondly; the fountain that had a lion as the centerpiece that he was always in awe over in his early childhood. It was surrounded by concrete benches and three different paths that led to this shining limestone centerpiece and where most of his friends were gathered at the moment for a summer reunion. As he walked up Naruto saw Neji Hyuuga and his cousin Hinata talking to Kiba, whilst Ino and Sakura were socializing and most likely talking about boys together as they so often did. It looked like Shika ,as Shikamaru was nicknamed, was lying in silence under a tree silently sleeping while Shino examined local insects, most likely prospecting for another good pet for himself. Not everyone in the good ole' gang, but Naruto didn't expect some to be there so soon. They did have to get to the park all the way from the suburb of Suna, after all.

"Yo guys! How was your vacation?"

Neji was the first to respond when he and Hinata had found that he'd slipped over to them without anyone noticing. "It was really great Naruto. Sorry we didn't manage to keep in touch that well. Hinata and I were out at the Hyuuga Summer house and there is no reception so we had to settle with letters. How have you been Naruto?"

"I've been okay. Me, Shika, and Kiba got to hang out together for most of the summer and Iruka sensei and Kakashi sensei gave me some rides to the movies, so all of us that were in town managed to talk sometimes."

"You mean you always managed to get us kicked out for being too loud." came an annoyed tone.

"Wha- when did you wake up Shika?! And I did not get us kicked out!...it was just the first few times…"

"I suspected that your story seemed a little bit lax in detail, Naruto" came a comment from Shino, who was listening from a distance and whose family also had a summer home.

"Oh come on you guys! It was just a cruddy movie! It's not like it was any good…even the book was stupid."

Suddenly a strange pair of angry auras began to engulf the smaller figure of a cowering Naruto (he is only a couple inches shorter than your average 16 year old guy, but he was cowering lol).

"You never got past the fist chapter of twilight Naruto! What do you mean it was a bad movie!" growled a very annoyed pink haired girl.

"U-um…I meant-"

"You don't know anything about good teen dramas and we both had to go separately from you to watch it all dammit! That cost us extra!" the blonde girl joined in.

"…Uh…I'll pay you back? (intense glares)...hehe.." at this point Naruto remembered that he was running away from these two when they last got together. He almost didn't survive that time…

All of the sudden the calm peace in the park was disturbed when two war cries and a very non-manly shriek of terror filled the air near the fountain.

"Troublesome" was the only other word said for the moment as the girls pummeled their blonde friend to a pulp and the four other friends watched on and three others finally arrived from Suna to the scene to find that things were getting back to normal for the crew.

Yup, things seemed almost normal…almost. There seemed to be one thing (or person) missing from the atmosphere.

Meanwhile, at the quiet Uchiha Mansion, a certain raven was laying in bed and wondering if he could ever face his friends again after what happened...

I think my first chapter went well! I am boulding up stroyline in this one but would like feedback on how I did. Also pease point out any errors in spelling for me please!