Brothers

Prolouge.

Naruto was sitting in the acadamy dreading what was coming up next. The shadow clone test. Sasuke was called and made 2 clones. 'Great, now Sakura-chan is going to like Sasuke even more because he can do 2 clones and hate me more because I can't even do one.' Naruto thought as his name was called. He walked up and closed his eyes. 'Please give me a miracle anything to impress Sakura-chan a little.' Naruto begged in his mind as he raised his hands and performed the jutsu, not only did he form 3 clones, more than Sasuke, he created 10 duplicates! They then poofed away and he jumped in joy as Sakura thought, 'how on earth is it possible for Naruto to beat Sasuke? Whatever I'm glad he's happy for a change, latley he's been real moopy.' She starts to smile then gets a weird look on her face as she realized 2 things. 1) The fact she didn't think Sasuke-kun, just Sasuke, and 2) she was happy Naruto was happy?!? She felt funny. "SAKURA-CHAN DID YOU SEE THAT?" Naruto was right there giving her his signature fox like smile.

"Yeah, I did, good job Naruto-ku-I mean Naruto" she caught herself about to call him 'kun'. It was odd to her why she would be doing these things so suddenly.

"Thanks Sakura-chan! Mind if I sit with you?" he asked with high hopes, even though he prepared for a strike to the head just in case. Sakura looked back in time and noticed it hadn't been so sudden that she was acting differently. It started about a month ago, when Naruto was first showing signs of his sadness and depression. It was raining, and he came in late, drenched, with his head down so no one can see. He didn't apologize for being late, he just took the seat nearest to him, which happened to be closest to the door. Naruto never sat there, normally he sat with Kiba, Shikamaru, and Choji in the back. He kept his head down and even when people were laughing and making fun of him for what looked like he was crying a little bit, he didn't do anything, just sat there not even saying something under his breath at all. Iruka walked up to him and bent down to his eye level. He put his hand on Naruto's chin very compasionatly and lifted his face up to be seen. It was only a brief moment though; Naruto very quickly took his head away and looked the opposite way. Sakura noticed something different about Naruto's face. Even though it was so quick it was all in slow motion to her. When she saw it, it had bruises all over with cuts and his eyes were beat red obviously from crying. She felt terrible, even though she didn't do anything. Having noticed this as well, Iruka took Naruto outside the classroom for a moment and talked to him. When the door opened a couple minutes later, only Iruka came back. Kiba stood up

"Iruka-sensei is Naruto in trouble?" he asked obviously conserned.

"No Kiba don't worry we're taking care of Naruto, now lets begin."

"Sakura-chan?" Naruto asked waving his hand in front of Sakura.

"Huh?" she shook her head getting back into the present.

"Can I sit with you?"

"Oh sure go right ahead." Sakura answered with a light blush. They were in a conversation about really nothing of full importance just talking about life and stuff. Sakura wanted to know what happened that day. She decided to bring it up,

"Hey Naruto?" she asked a little nervous.

"Yeah?"

"What happened that day a month ago when they took you outta class?" Naruto frowned and stared into his lap. He gulped as he simply answered.

"I'd rather not say, those are some memories I'd like to repress." He said this coldly with no emotion at all except depression. She felt terrible, for taking that last ounce of happiness away from him. She hugged him and said

"I'm so sorry Naruto-kun, I didn't mean to hurt your feelings." She didn't care about hiding the 'Kun' anymore, but she was slightly embarrassed that she just went for it like that. He gave a slight chuckle and said

"Thank you Sakura-chan, I realy needed that, no one ever gave me a hug before." She was surprised; no one EVER gave him a simple hug? And she wondered why he wasn't like this all the time. She let go and gave him a smile "no problem Naruto-kun." He smiled back. Later a couple days after, they were assigned their squads. When Team 7 was announced Sakura didn't mind Naruto and her being on the same team. She didn't really care about Sasuke anymore maybe because he had so many people to care about him anymore it really didn't occur to Sakura maybe he has too many and it sorta grown out of her like a bad habit. She stopped calling Sasuke 'Sasuke-kun', just Sasuke, and Naruto 'Naruto-kun' all the time instead of every now and then. When he asked her out after the bell test, instead of saying never in a million years and hitting him on the head, she said

"Sure why not?" this simply made Naruto the happiest guy alive. Their date was great and they started going on more and more dates as the times went by that finally they moved it a step further. Right when they got back from the mission to the Land of Waves, to become boyfriend and girlfriend. This is where our story starts. Kakashi was telling his students that they are enlisting in the chunin exams.