A/N: Right... The prologue to my brand new story, Love Is A Circus. This is going to be a long story, meaning quite a few chapters. I'm warning you now that I might need some time to complete and update new chapters, but reviews always work wonders (I hope you get my point xD)
Okeydokey, here we go!
Prologue
Never underestimate a newcomer, especially when his name is Sasuke Uchiha. My life was turned upside down from the moment I met him, and it stayed that way. So many memories…
My name is Naruto Uzumaki. I used to work in a circus as an illusionist. My speciality was creating clones of myself, sometimes up to a few hundred. Many called us circus people freaks, but we saw ourselves as a patchwork family with special talents and abilities. Shikamaru, our boss and sort of big brother (although he was about our age and the smallest boy), always told us to hold our heads high and be proud of what we are; and that's what we did. We fought ourselves through the hard daily life, never resting, never pausing to hesitate, always moving on.
From what Orochimaru told me during his campfire-story-telling-evenings, I had been found lying near Shikamaru's father's tent as a baby; no-one knew who my parents were. I never wanted to know who they were, and never will. They abandoned me for a reason, so maybe they don't want me to know them either.
The earliest childhood memories I have are the ones of me trying to ride Akamaru Senior, a dog used for the dog show in the circus, and almost being bitten by one of Orochimaru's big snakes for attempting to poke its eye.
There is one memory which has burned itself vividly into my mind: The arrival of Sasuke. I was already fifteen then and really excited to meet my new brother. It turned out that Sasuke was a year older than me. And a bastard know-it-all.
From the moment I saw him, I knew he meant trouble. And trouble he was. Turned my world upside down, and then became the centre of it. Stupid baaka.
A/N: Tadaa! Now, review! xD