So this is a modern story about our favorite team 7 and friends. The story does not take place in USA though I will be using dollars, I'm not from america myself so if a price seems off, do tell. Well I hope you will enjoy the read but let me warn you, there will be many problems through their lives since I want to bring out what happens to them in the manga/anime and the consequences of that. I hope you enjoy the story.

Chapter 1

A young pinkette with bright green eyes walked down a well-lit hallway, with a box of affections under her arm. She was looking for apartment 607, where she would live with two roommates who would, like her, attend Konohas special program for gifted children.

"How the hell did I get to apartment 687" The Pinkette sighed, and as if send by heaven a tall blond boy with cerulean eyes walked by. "Sorry to bother you, but could you show me where apartment 607 is?" Sakura asked pleadingly, the blond boy grinned and nodded.

"Of course, the name's Naruto" Naruto extended his hand.

"My name is Sakura Haruno" The pinkette said as she took his hand.

"So you're our new roommate? I kind of expected a guy" Naruto scratched the back of his head, while leading Sakura back down the hallway from which she came.

"What do you mean new roommate?"

"Well the papers said that an S. Haruno would move in with us, I guess that's you" Naruto said as he walked to the elevator. "Now since we live in the student apartment area, you have to push 6.2, then the other elevator door will open, and the 10 apartments belonging to the students will appear" And just like he explained another hallway appeared on the other side. "Our other roommate Is Sasuke, He is like a brother to me, have been ever since we were kids" Sakura nodded. She had hoped that she would be living with two new girls, though she had heard about the school wanting to break down the gender barrier.
the two of them walked to apartment 607, only to be greeted by a seemingly angry man. The man, Sasuke, did some sort of weird salute with a furrowed brow towards Naruto.

"What did I do?!" Naruto yelled, which to Sasuke responded by pointing at the pantry. "Are you mad because I bought us food?" Sasuke did several hand gestures including a fist to his temple. "I didn't only buy ramen cause I knew you'd nag, I also bought some tomato soup" Sasuke did a few more gestures, again ending it all with a fist to his temple. Which is when it dawned on Sakura, he was speaking sign language.

"Why did he just call you an asshole?" Sakura asked Naruto, Naruto sighed.

"I don't know, I thought I would be nice and buy us some food but nooo nothing I do is ever good enough for Mr. prissy pants" Naruto exhaled. "Don't worry about him, he's just being a bastard" Naruto suddenly turned his gaze to Sakura. "You know sign language?" Sakura shrugged.

"Just two words really, asshole and octopus" Sakura gave a light laughter. "So which room is mine?" Sakura asked. Sasuke gestured to a small hallway with four doors

"there's one big room, one not as big and two smaller ones, we were thinking of having contest to see who gets the big one" Naruto said with toothy grin.

"What kind of contest?" Sakura was so into the idea of winning the bedroom, but looking at the two young men, she had to win with her smarts.

"We were thinking of having a fight, but then he started talking about school regulations" Naruto said with a sigh.

"We could have a Jenga tournament" Sakura suggested.

"Works for me" Naruto looked at Sasuke who formed a fist and nodded it. "He said yes" Sakura smiled at Sasuke and nodded.

"They have the game down at the pup" Sakura said as she put her box down.

"We're sixteen, how do we get into a pup?" Sakura sighed along with Sasuke

They don't check ID before eight in the evening. Sasuke gestured with his hands. Naruto smiled with a huge grin and nodded, and then they left. At the pup Sakura spotted a booth in a corner and while Naruto went to get the game, she and Sasuke sat down.

"I'm sorry I didn't properly introduce myself, I'm Sakura Haruno, your new roommate" Sakura extended her arm to shake his hand, but saw that he was texting something on his phone. Sasuke showed Sakura his screen where it wrote I'm Sasuke Uchiha. He then took her hand and shook it. Naruto returned with Jenga, three beer bottles and three shots of something dark brown almost black. Normally Sakura would have said no to the drinks, since it came pretty much from a stranger. But since she was going to have to get to know these to handsome young men, she was going to step out of her comfort zone. As they set up the game, they decided, or Naruto decided, that the youngest would begin. The youngest happened to Naruto. To Sakura, I didn't seem like Naruto had a specific tactic, even if the game was about finesse and speed. Naruto pried a piece out, and began a small victory dance.

You have to put the piece on top of the tower Sasuke gestured to his friend.

"What do mean? If I did that, then how would we keep score?" Naruto crossed his arms in disbelief

"There is no score, the one who knocks over the tower loses" Sakura explained. "The two remaining will then play another game, so the winner of that game will have first choice of the rooms" Sakura explained, Sasuke nodded in agreement as he pulled out a piece with ease. Sakura eyed the tower, and pulled out a bottom piece. Naruto pushed a piece but realized it was good and stuck, but as moved on to another piece, Sakura stopped him. "We're not playing kiddy mode here, when you touch a piece you commit to it" Again Sasuke simply nodded. Naruto groaned.

"Why do I feel like the two are ganging up on me" Naruto moved his hand back to former, and with a swift move, he yanked out the piece. To Sakuras surprise, the tower still stood.

"So how did you two meet?" Sakura asked. She could see a grin spread across Naruto's face.

"We went to the same school, and later we lived in the same home" Sakura raised an eyebrow.

"Your parents married?" Sakura asked and looked at the two boys. Naruto grinned again.

"Our parents are dead, we're orphans" Naruto and Sasuke eyed each other, Sasuke nodded to Naruto as if giving him permission to continue. "My parents died the day I was born" Sasuke sighed and removed a piece from the tower. "I'm told that my dad was some important official, so they were going to assassinate him, but when they shot at him, my mom took the bullet for him but then they just shot him anyway" Naruto smiled at Sakura "But it's okay, I'm fine and I grew up with a nice man called Iruka, and when I turned eight, Sasuke moved in with us"

"I'm so sorry Naruto, it seems like the two of you went through a lot" Sakura slowly removed a stubborn piece.

"It's alright, out of the two of us, I think I drew the lucky straw" Sasuke flashed him a glare, and then he just sighed and nodded. Naruto removed a lose piece from the tower. "At least I can't remember what happened" Naruto looked at Sasuke, whom was carefully wedging out a piece from the tower. "I guess this conversation calls for another round of beer" Naruto got up from his chair and headed for the bar.

"Sasuke" Sakura said while looking straight at him. "this must be a difficult subject for the both of you" Sakura sighed. "So if you don't want to tell me, it's okay" Sasuke shook his head, and began texting on his phone.

You are going to find out anyway, both Naruto and I have regular visits from our guardians. Naruto may not remember what happened to his parents, but it still left him very angry which is why he sees a shrink every other week. And as for me, they believe it will help me if I talk about what happened with my parents, so I see a shrink twice a week. Sasuke put down his phone when Sakura nodded. Naruto returned with three new beer bottles, and three new shots. Sakura looked at Sasuke.

"You were not born a mute, where you?" Sasuke shook his head.

"at first the doctors believed he a suffered a trauma to his vocal chords, but after a year had passed and he still wasn't speaking they ran out of a medical way to explain it other than the event itself was to blame" Sakura nodded and pulled a piece out of the tower.

"Wait, don't tell me you are the boy who survived the Clan massacre, they wouldn't release the name of the clan or the survivor due to his age and status in the clan" Sasuke nodded, while Naruto attempted to pry lose a piece. Naruto tried one of his swift moves, but were unsuccessful, and thus the Jenga tower collapsed. "I was in the hospital they day they brought you in, well my mother was" Sasuke raised an eyebrow as he stacked the tower anew. "I remember, there were police everywhere and then there was this boy being questioned by all kinds of people, it was really uncomfortable"

"why was your mother in the hospital?" Naruto asked after taking a sip of his beer.

"She has terminal cancer, they keep telling her that she only has about three months to live, but she keeps proving them wrong, she has done so for eight years now" Sakura shook her head. "By now she and my father are joking about her outliving both him and me" Sakura sighed. "But let's not dwell on that, let's get to know each other" Sasuke and Naruto nodded, and the two remaining competitors kept playing Jenga.
As the game proceeded, Naruto would once in while get another round of beer. Sakura, the lightweight that she was, was getting quite tipsy. She could feel the giggling before she made the sounds, and Naruto who was equally tipsy, would tell that she sounded cute and looked beautiful. Sasuke would shake his head at their antics, and concentrate on winning the game for the largest room. It didn't take him long to win. Naruto kept yapping at Sakura for carefulness, and to prove him wrong, she tried to flick a piece out of the tower. Not surprisingly, the tower collapsed.

"I guess that means the biggest room is yours" Sakura said and smiled. "I'll buy us one last round, then I guess it's time to head back" Sasuke shrugged and wrote on his phone.

They will begin to check ID in an hour, we can down one last beer during that time. Sasuke signed to Naruto, who repeated it to laughed and nodded. Sakura and Naruto talked about which classes they would take, even if the first year was a pile of mandatory bullshit, as Naruto gently put it. On their way out of the bar, Naruto grabbed Sakura's arm. He looked too drunk to walk on his own, so Sakura gladly assisted him while his motor skills where lost in grabbed the other arm, and nodded approvingly to Sakura. She blushed, and then she smiled. "I was thinking we could go furniture shopping tomorrow, I mean we need beds and a sofa I have most kitchenware and I'm thinking we should invest in a small duel oven" Sasuke nodded and grabbed his phone out of his dark jeans

We also need a fridge, and some shelves for our bathroom. Sakura nodded at Sasuke's text

"I guess we will figure out a budget tomorrow, I mean the things we buy together and the things we buy separate" Sasuke smirked as they reached the door to their apartment complex.

"You.. such a bastard Saskeee" Naruto slurred. "But the nicest bastard who was ever a bastard" He giggled while Sasuke and Sakura dragged him through the door and to the elevator. "I'm glad we got a sweet roomie like Saaaakuraaa" Sakura slightly blushed at his comments. "Can we please eat some ramen when we get back, ramen sounds nice doesn't it?" Naruto smiled his sweetest smile at Sakura, which made her agree to his request. Damn puppy eyes. Back at the apartment, Naruto began making three cups of ramen, while Sasuke began to blow up an air mattress. Sakura just stood there, not knowing what to do till she heard the 'click' noise of the electric kettle. Sakura took two of the three ramen cups with plastic forks on the side, and gave one them to Sasuke. Sasuke was already laying on mattress, waiting for Sakura and Naruto to join him on the floor. Sakura laid down in the middle, with Sasuke to her right, and Naruto to her left. Sakura scooched to side and dug out her phone.

"Can I please have a picture with my wonderful new roommates?" Sakura asked and held out her phone. Sasuke sighed while Naruto grinned and hugged Sakura, they both leaned towards Sasuke to include him in the picture. "Beautiful evidence of our first day together" Naruto Nodded as he ate the last of his ramen. The gang fell asleep on the mattress, and even if this special program was going to be challenging in every way, at least they could lean on each other.

Thank you for reading
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