A/N: Hello, all!! Creeper here, and let me say that it's good to be back!! Yes, long ago I had an account on here, but I got lazy and didn't want to update it so I just deleted it and made a new one ^-^ Smart, eh? Anyways, this is one of my best stories thus far, even if it IS a little graphic and angsty.. I have it uploaded on both TONFA and AdultFanfiction under the penname Firesong, but I felt I should probably try posting it on here as well, so more people can read it. Just be warned, my chapters are notoriously short. Which is why this, as well as (at least) Chapter 2, are actually combined Chapters 1 and 2, and 3 and 4. I may end up combining more of them to make them at least a bit longer ^^;

There are a few things I should explain before I get started. This is an AU story, so I put it in, basically, our world. I just used names from places in the series Naruto, like there's "Konoha High School" (sooo original, I know T_T). Anyways, there's also this: Sasuke and Naruto are in their sophmore year of high school, which makes them about 15 or 16. Itachi is 5 years older than Sasuke (I don't know how old Ita-sama is in the series, so I decided to just make him thus and thus age).
One last thing before the disclaimer: This story contains incest and a fairly-detailed noncon scene. If you don't like it, don't read it.

Disclaimer: I do not, in any shape or form, own or associate with the author of, the publishers of, or anything else to do with the series Naruto. If I did.. well, I probably wouldn't be stuck writing fanfics now, would I?

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The black, almost hearse-like car pulled up to the front of Konoha High School and the front passenger-side door opened to reveal a darkly handsome boy. The contrast of his black eyes and dark hair against his pale skin made him appear almost sickly. He closed the door after grabbing his bookbag off the floor, giving the driver one last glance.

"I have a meeting at work. I won't be home until late." His brother absentmindedly tapped the steering-wheel with his purple-painted fingernails. "Work on your homework when you get home, don't forget to eat something at least marginally healthy for dinner, and don't stay up to late." The younger brother made a noncommittal sound and the car drove away, leaving him to walk up the steps to the school's front gate alone.

The noise level tripled the moment he stepped inside the front gate. A slight twinge in his left temple warned him that a migraine was brewing happily within his head, setting up all sorts of fun aches for later.

He cursed under his breath, scanning the hall for a sign or some other marker showing the way to the Principal's office, where he'd been told he needed to go. Finally he spotted a rather nondescript plaque on one of the doors to his left reading "MAIN OFFICE". Somewhat relieved, he started towards it--

-- Only to collide with a blonde, spikey-haired blur. With a loud yelp from the "blur" and an undignified squeak from him, both boys fell to the floor.

"Watch where you're going, teme!!" the "blur" yelled in the suddenly MUCH quieter hall. The blonde pulled himself to his feet, casting a murderous glare at the boy slowly sitting up a few feet away. The slightly smaller brunette boy tried to stand up but winced when he tried to put weight on his left foot.

"You're the one who plowed into me, baka." he muttered, still not really looking at the blonde. "And, thanks to you, I think I twisted my ank--" He cut off as his own eyes met those of the stranger's. For a second he though he was drowning in those deep blue, sapphire-like orbs.

The trance was broken by the blonde's voice saying: "Damnit.. I'm gonna be late anyways now.." Those blue eyes caught his own dark brown and held them before looking away and scratching his head.

".. Well, I guess it can't be helped." The blonde offered him an arm and for a second he just stared at it. Then he hesitantly leaned against the slightly taller boy's arm and they both headed down the hall to the nurse's office. After a moment of awkward silence, the blonde spoke up.

"I'm Uzumaki Naruto, by the way." The brunette looked up at him with an unreadable look on his face. Then he finally answered the unspoken question.

"Uchiha Sasuke.." He said in his quiet but curiously powerful baritone. Little did Sasuke know his voice was sending shivers up the spines of those within hearing range. He had a quality in his voice that suggested he'd seen more than anyone wanted to even know about.

"Nice to meet you."

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"-- I heard his brother's the one who killed their parents.." Sasuke sighed, trying to ignore the gaggle of girls currently talking about him. I'd wondered when they would make that connection..

The quietest, a brunette girl with silver eyes spoke up. "Really? He's THAT Uchiha? I thought he's older than us.." Don't they have anything better to do than just stand around, gossiping and twittering like birds?! Stupid girls..

"No, Hinata-chan, he's the YOUNGER brother. The OLDER brother's the killer." The current speaker was the oldest in the group, a senior with sand colored hair. Some of the others gasped, jumping to Sasuke's "defense".

"Temari-chan!! Nobody's PROVED Sasuke-kun's brother was the killer. Besides, I think Sasuke-kun's cute." A pink haired girl said with a giggle. Sasuke groaned. The only ones worse than the gossips are the fangirls!!

The headache threatened earlier had arrived, just as bad as Sasuke had feared. It was made worse by the fact that the school day was only half over, and no place was quiet with all the girls following him around like stray puppies. It would have been fine if it were just the quiet ones like that girl, Hyuuga Hinata, but they were only a fraction of the whole picture.

"Sakura-chan, Sasuke's not worth your attention." Sasuke's heart attempted to do a flip inside his chest at the sound of that voice. He didn't even have to look up to know the shadow falling over him was Naruto. Damnit.. what does HE want?! The blonde continued to talk in his obnoxious-- yet almost arousing?!!-- voice.

"I mean, you should have seen him in the nurse's office this morning!! Acting like he was so much BETTER than everybody!! He's just a self-centered bastard!!" Sasuke looked up as he heard a loud "thunk" noise, produced by Sakura's fist connecting with the blonde's head.

"Shut up baka!! He's way better than YOU!!" The pink haired girl hissed and glared at Naruto, who clutched his head and was in turn glaring at Sasuke.

"And look at him now!!" Naruto yelled, pointing an accusatory finger at the brunette. "He's just sitting there, pretending he isn't listening!!" That's it. Sasuke stood up abruptly, inwardly cursing his still sore ankle. Walking away, he thought: I'm going home. At least it's quiet there. Ignoring a teacher's questioning glance, he left the lunchroom and started towards the front gate.