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Truth: The Miracle

Sasuke woke up with his breath coming out ragged and his forehead dripping with sweat. He stumbled from his bedroom to the kitchen and got a drink of water. He slumped onto a chair and sighed. Tonight was the second night that he had had the same dream that made him uncomfortable to say the least.

He had dreamt about a golden person with pointy ears and graceful sensual body. Of course this person was naked and teasing him; coming closer then backing away oh so swiftly. But the thing that pissed Sasuke off the most was the fact that he could not see the person properly. Sure, he saw bits of the body. But his gaze was always fixed on one particular part of the body and he seemed to zoom in, so not seeing the whole picture. He saw those elegant yet strong legs but then his eyes moved to the expanse of golden across the flat broad chest. He saw ears and blond hair, yep blond hair and the person slipped n and out the shadows again. But if Sasuke saw this person in real life, he would not be able to tell. Because first he does not know how he looks in clothes. Second, Sasuke had not idea how his face looks or what the colors of his eyes are.

The fact that Sasuke could not see properly and drink in this mysterious person's beauty was not the only problem. The rather huge problem that refused to go away was that this dream gave him a really hard… hard-on which would refuse to budge until he took a long cold shower to scare it off. Even though the dreams pissed him off he was looking forward to it.

Sasuke just sat there, going over in his mind what he dreamed. Then it hit him smack in the middle of his big fat head. He was dreaming about a guy. A hot sexy guy who gave him a hard on when a girl pressed up against him could not give him one. A hot sexy guy who did not exist who nonetheless made him want to fuck till the sun went down and came up again. So, what did that mean? Was he… gay? Sasuke realized now why girls did not appeal to him all on any level. They were rather annoying and brass. But there were a few guys that had caught his attention but never held it for long. 'So,' Sasuke thought with resignation, 'I'm officially gay.'

The next day, Sasuke came down to the kitchen for breakfast. It was Monday. It was sure to be a crappy day. His mother turned to him with a big smile and a big breakfast in her hands. As she set the pancakes down in front of Sasuke she said, "Happy Birthday sweetheart." 'Oh, great' was Sasuke's thought 'A bad day definitely.'

His mom, seeing the scowl on her son's face, tried to reassure him "Sasuke, you aren't still holding on to the notion that your birthday is a bad luck day are you?

Sasuke forced a smile and replied, "no mom, that's just nonsense." His naïve mom who hoped everyday sighed in relief.

As she turned around to fix more pancakes, the jug of freshly squeezed orange juice spilled over Sasuke's favorite shirt. His mom dared not turn around when she heard Sasuke yelp but knew that something bad had happened. "I'll go change my clothes." Sasuke said and quickly left for his room once more.

After he changed and reappeared downstairs, all the pancakes had disappeared courtesy of his brother Itachi. His mom saw that and when she started to say that she was gong to make more Sasuke just said, "It's okay. I'm gong to be late. I'll just have cereal. Well, would you believe his luck. They had run out of milk too. Sasuke sighed. There really was no getting out of it. And he was going to be later if he didn't leave in exactly seven minutes. Seven, a lucky number for some, but for Sasuke it caused hell of a problem.

"I've got to leave now." Sasuke said, pushing off from the chair.

"It's summer," replies Itachi, "Where do you have to go so early in the morning?"

"Gifted program testing." Sasuke grunted.

His father finally looked up from his newspaper, "Good luck but I know you won't need it. And Happy Birthday."

"Little Brother, you are finally 16." His brother smirked, "we'll have a talk about your freedom later." UHH… this had been gong on forever or as far back as Sasuke could remember. Itachi was going to spin a stupid tale expecting him to believe what ever he was told. As if, he wasn't a kid anymore.

Sasuke arrived at the testing center at his school; where outside seven other people were waiting. As far as Sasuke could remember, he and the seven others had always known each other. Although Sasuke wasn't really close with any of them, they got along…okay. Seven, counted Sasuke, something bad was definitely bound to happen today.

"Sasuke-kunnnn." Sakura and Ino squealed when they saw him. "Happy birthday!!!" They shoved a big pink box in to his hands.

"Sixteen huh?!" Kiba said very loudly, "Did you get a car?"

"It's arriving today."

Shino inclined his head to acknowledgment of his birthday and handed him a glass container that hada caterpillar inside.

Hinata gave a tiny shy smile and gave him a small blue bat. "Happy Birthday Uchiha san." She mumbled.

Choji said something through his full mouth that sounded like "Happy B-day man."

Shikamaru looked at him, sighed and mumbled something incoherent.

These people were divided into two groups one consisting of Shikamaru, Choji, Ino and Sakura the other of Hinata, Kiba and Shino. Sasuke was a group by him self and preferred to be alone. In middle school Ino and Sakura used have huge crushes on him and follow him around everywhere. Sasuke being the Uchiha he is ignored them blatantly.

"Hello everybody!!" They heard a cheery note in their long time examiner's voice. At least today he was not late. Kakashi walked slowly and languidly to his students, his hand holding a orange book. It was surprise to everybody that he was on time because he was always late and had kooky excuses like "I saw my destiny and chase after it."

Now you might be wondering what the hell is going on. Ok, this is how it is. These eight students were the most elite students from their year. They excelled in one this or the other and no one could best them. They were like the celebrities of their school. But every year, in the summer they were required to take a test of some sort. Anyway, it was easy for all of them of course and it was more for show than anything.

Kakashi ushered them inside. They all took their usual seats but soon realized that there were extra seats at the back of the room. There had never been any other people but them. So, they had thought that there would be no other people their exclusive…club? No not the right word….Group? Sort of…they hung around the same place and their parents knew each other and were friends if not good friends. Although the two groups interacted amongst their own group and Sasuke as was said before preferred to be alone and not talk to anyone. It was like his biggest hobby next to hating the world of course.

So when they saw extra chairs, they all had a confused look on their faces. Sasuke as always looking at the bright side thought, 'Great, I just knew this was going to happen. Annoying kids who don't know their place.' Oh ya Did we mention how Sasuke was on his very high, high horse? Ya, him and his Uchihaness. Sasuke one loves among many things was "routine." He preferred to call that normalness which will disappear once these kids decide to show up. He forgot that there 'kids' were the same age as him. He loved everything to be ordered and calm. He wanted quiet and there was soon none as Kiba started chatting up a storm and Ino and Sakura started squealing like pigs again.

During the commotion, Sasuke had closed his eyes- having gotten a headache of course- and started rubbing his forehead trying to find the center of calmness in his mind, his lips drawn in to an upside down smile. Nobody noticed there boys step into the room as the door quietly shut behind them. From the right to the left, the boy on the right had black hair, black eyes, and a non-descript face and wore all black, a blank smile gracing his face. The boy on the left had red hair that was not naturally possible but it looked normal enough on him, he had no eyebrows and above his left eyes-which were sea-foam green- there was a tattoo stating 'love.' Through his beautiful eyes he was shooting daggers at the world in particular and was standing in a defensive stance. The last boy and the one in the middle had blond hair which was layered and longest of it wisped over his shoulders seeming to float. He had wide blue forever smiling eyes and a smile that could have been stolen from an angel or the devil. He had three whisker-like lines on both sides of his face giving him a fox like appearance. He was wearing a orange skintight shirt that made his eyes look brighter and black jeans that made the orange shirt look brighter.

"Ahem" Kakashi tried to call attention; but it failed. "A-hem" Kakashi tried again. The blond one looked to the black haired guy who nodded. He walked over to the blackboard took a chalk and harshly dragged it across. It made a really high screeching sound that had Kiba trolling around on the floor clutching his sensitive ears, everyone else just cringed.

"STOP that."At which the black haired guy stopped. "You are ruining a musician's ears."

The blond cheerfully shouted back, "Well, you are ruing my refined eats." Everyone glanced at his ears, which were covered by his hair. Sasuke, who had kept hi eye close throughout the… what ever you might call it…cracked open a lid when he heard the musical lilting voice. His breath caught in his throat when he beheld the sight of the blond; he was absolutely stunning.

Even Kiba shut up when he heard the blond but started talking again voicing his opinion. "Man, you got a great voice. You here for the musical program?" Kiba was the musical genius, being able to play any instrument at all, his ears highly sensitive to any sound but his own voice which he could handle. The blond just shrugged but grinned, his plump red lips parting to show a perfect showcase of teeth, his blue eyes twinkling that had the girls blushing and stuttering. Sakura was red as her punky hair, Hinata fainted after getting a nosebleed and Ino, being as flirty as she was gave him a seductive wave of her fingers and smiled at him. To which the blond answered with a wink. He looked about to say something when was stopped by the scowl of his red-headed friend.

"Alright," Kakashi said, "As you can see these three are here for the same reason as you are. They are going to be attending our school and are in the same scholarly program as you guys." Kiba raised his hands, waving wildly. Kakashi sighed "what?" "Why do they have to take the test?" Everyone including Sasuke sweat dropped. "Why are you taking the test Kiba?" "Oh" was the answer.

"Right. School board requirements. They have been cleared by the higher up and are already enrolled in the program.." He looked over at the three, "Introduce yourselves?"

"Yes!" The blond enthusiastically replied when the redhead started to say no.

"Hey! My name is Naruto Uzumaki. This is Sai and this is Gaara." He said as he pointed at them respectively. "We've known each other forever. I live everything. Well almost everything. Nice to meet you all." Naruto was jumping up and down like a hyper little kid which seemed to suit his small and slim figure and his cheerfulness was contagious.

Sai apoke up. "We haven't known each other forever, but it is close to that."

"stop being so literal." Nartuo pouted, protruding his cherry lips at Sai. Gaara glared at Sai then his eyes shifting across the room glaring at everyone. "Stop hating." Naruto turned his put to Gaara. He smiled at the people in the room and said, "Don't mind Gaara, he's just like that. Don't take it personally."

Sai spoke up, a fake smile that could be spotted a mile away on hi face, "Gaara is just mad because he had a small penis." Before anyone could let out a snicker, Gaara hands found Sai's neck and started choking. Kakashi tried to pull them apart. Mean while Naruto just laughed, "Don't worry they won't kill each other." After he pulled them apart he said, "Let's get this test underway."

At the half time break, Kiba rushed to Naruto and started to talk. 'So, they've integrated into that group.' Sasuke thought. Then Sakura and Ino butted in and Naruto left none of them out. 'So which group is it?" He looked to the blonde's companion, who just sat there not looking away from the blond for even a second. They seemed content just watching the blonde although Sai spoke up a few time infuriating Sakura. He flicked a glance at Naruto, who looked up at him. Naruto grinned, Sasuke frowned. Perfect opposites. Naruto excused himself from the group surrounding him and it looked like he was about to walk over to Sasuke. Sasuke's heart started hammering and his mouth got dry. But Naruto just walked past him to talk to Choji and Shikamaru. Sasuke felt a blow to his big Uchiha ego. After a few minutes, Naruto turned to let Shino and Hinata in to the conversation. At that point, Gaara and Sai dragged their chairs over to Naruto to sit beside him. Kiba darted over too muttering about stupid women. Ino and Sakura realizing Naruto had left hurried over also.

The whole group minus Sasuke was together for once without any people forcing them together. But it wasn't complete with Sasuke sitting across the room. But nobody seemed to notice. Sasuke looked up from the text message from his brother and felt a stab somewhere in him. Naruto caught his glance once again and again replied with a smile blossoming from his red full lips. Sasuke looked away.

He was fine. Sasuke liked being alone. Then why was he feeling…lonely?

The test ended. Nobody looked worried about anything. They did not rush to go over the answer or to check if they got something wrong or right. They were not worried at all. They knew this test was more for show than anything else.

Kakashi checked to make sure all parts of the test were collected. He waved at them, dismissing them. Everyone did not rush out of their chairs and run out of the cool air conditioned room to the hot blazing outside world. Kiba's group was the first to go.

"Naruto, man I'll give you a call."

"Yea, sure we'll meet up. Bring your dog and I'll bring mine."

Sai and Gaara left both murmuring "I'll get the car," at the same time. They glared at each other, looked away then raced to see who would get there first. Kakashi had somehow disappeared. Ino and Sakura squealed, "See you later Sasuke-kunnnn, Naruo-chaaaaan." Sasuke as always did not say anything. Naruto waved at them and replied, "Laters gaters." Shikamaru and Choji slipped out with a nod from Shikamaru and "Bye" from Choji.

Naruto collected his Gaara's and Sai's stuff. "Damn, they left their stuff for me to carry again." He brushed past Sasuke. He looked at Sasuke, smiled (once again), "believe" he whispered.

Sasuke's brows shot up at that. Did he hear correctly? He looked at Naruto as the blond pushed his hair behind his ear. Sasuke squinted and Naruto floated out of the room. Were his ears elongated? Nah, couldn't be must have been a trick of light.

And Sasuke, believe? In what? Nah must have heard it wrong. So how come Sasuke wanted to believe that Naruto had whispered something to him that no one else heard? Sasuke scowled as he walked by the door. He smelled an aroma of something familiar. He took a breath in, letting the smell wrap around him. What did it smell like? Naruto, it smelled like Naruto? Wait, how does he know how the blond idiot smells like?

Ok, I need people to help me with something.

Do you guys want a Naruto harem or narusasu?

Based on your answers I'll write the rest of the story. Anything is possible at this point.

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