Sasuke came home from school on Tuesday with a strange feeing that the universe wanted to fuck with him.

Of course, not in those words.

"Why would Sakura have lunch with anyone but me?" The boy wondered. He never saw her even exchange a greeting with any of his other classmates. She was pretty shy, now that he came to think of it. One of the main reasons he knew her was from their parents being lifelong friends. The two had shared a crib as babies when Sakura's mother had to run home and take care of something beyond his knowledge. He was with her almost every waking moment from the beginning of school, to when they would walk to his house and talk about anything. Sakura did do most of the talking, though. Sasuke Uchiha had no idea how Sakura Haruno became such good friends with the small blonde boy, but he had every intention of finding out.

Sakura was his.

"Sasu-chan! How was my little boy's day at the Acadamy?" Mikoto asked cheerfully as she set aside a small plate of sliced tomatoes in front of where he sat at the dining room table. "No answer yet. Hmm...around this time Sasuke would be telling me something he learned as he ate his snack." Mikoto sighed, grabbed her tea, and sat in front of her youngest son. "Sasuke, is something wrong?"

While his mother was his greatest support, even on the smallest issues, the small five year old sat silently. He took a small bite out of a slice of tomatoe in favor of telling his mother he had no friends now. This wouldn't last long though, for around two short minutes later, Sasuke lost it.

"Sakura got a new friend!" He hugged his knees up to his chest and quietly whimpered about how now he was alone. However, his mother was speachless.

"Why dont you make friends with him too?"

"I dont want her to have a new friend though." He didnt say this. He knew it was selfish.
He didn't care.

Meanwhile, Sakura was getting along wonderfully. The young Uzumaki, as she later learned was his last name, was the most cheerfull person in the world. She loved talking to him about anything at all, for instead of just listening, he talked with her, almost more.

"Oi, Naruto-kun?"

"Yes Sakura-chan?"

"The reason I was crying before..It was because I really liked this boy, Sasuke-kun, but he didn't like me. Thats why I was in the forest before." It took alot of courage for Sakura to confess to someone else her feelings about Sasuke-kun. She was still somewhat shy about the ordeal that had taken place not even six hours ago.

"Oh, Sakura..I'm so sorry you had to deal with such a Teme. I bet everyone in the world likes you except for him." Naruto was somewhat upset by this. He knew he had only just met the rosette, but he harbored a small crush on her, and was disappointed to know that she had feelings for someone else. "Would you like for me to talk to him for you? Maybe we can all be friends, and if he decides to be mean to you, I'll always be there for you to kick his butt!"

Sakura Haruno agreed, and the Kyuubi vessel walked her home. Because of the yelling from the living room, however, Naruto had to help the young girl climb into her bedroom from the broken down trellace. She quietly told the small boy where he could find Sasuke-kun, and closed the window.

'Naruto-kun was so sweet."

Sakura didn't understand why her parents were always so upset with eachother. They were supposed to love the other, right? Other parents did. The young girl sighed, and climbed under the blanket her mother had sewn the year before. The only thing Sakura didn't like about her family is when her father came home drunk. He always gave the same excuse for it, too. "I'm a shinobi," He would say. "I could die any day now. At least let me be happy when I do." At this point, her mother would quietly tell her to go upstairs. When she was younger, Sakura wouldn't be able to get upstairs, and she still remembered what would happen to her mother.

Her own father would emotionally blackmail her mother. Back when Sakura was born, she tried to file for a divorce to protect herself and her precious daughter, but when Mrs. Haruno had come home from the Hokage Tower, she had found her Schizophenic and Alchohalic husband with a kunai to his neck, and several senbon stuck into his right arm. At that moment, Mrs. Haruno gave up on trying to leave. She loved her husband, and when givin the choice, she would rather see him live. She just wished he would be stable enough to help raise their daughter.

Of course, Sakura knew nothing of this.
She only thought her parents argued more than others.

With the Cataclysm raining down, Insides crying "Save me now!"
You were there, impossibly alone.

Naruto was somewhat lost.

Because of all the villagers that hated his guts, the lone Uzumaki tended to stay outside the village gates, only coming inside for the occational bowl of ramen when he collected enough dropped money. Therefore, finding a small training ground was a problem. Sakura hadn't really specified anything special about it, just that it was small and had a tiny cherry blossom tree Sasuke liked to sit under when he could get a chance.

After 20 minutes of straight up wandering, Naruto thought he found the tree.

Only there was no Sasuke.

So, being the smart little ninja Naruto was, he left a note.
That'd solve everything and make Sakura-chan happy.
"Yeah."

That blonde kid was under his tree. Jerk.

Sasuke mentally frowned. First Sakura, now this kid is taking his other cherry blossom too?

He hopped down from the tree he was currently occupying and examined it no make sure the idiot didn't mess it up. The flowers still looked beautiful, and nothing was out of place except for a sticky note. It was orange with a cute little bowl of ramen in the corner, not that Sasuke would ever admit it was cute. The note read,

"Sasuke-teme. come for ramen with me and Sakura-chan tomorrow night at Ichiraku? We can all be friends. -Naruto Uzumaki"

He knew he'd go. But only to get back Sakura. That's it.

When the three small kids met up, Sakura was red, Naruto was giggling, and Sasuke was pouting. The first words said between the trio was from Sasuke, suprisingly.

"The only reason I'm here is to get my friend back."

Sakura turned more red, Naruto laughed like it was impossible, and Sasuke climbed on to one of the stools.

He wouldn't like it, but they could be friends.

AUTHOR'S NOTES!

1)You guys really disappointed me. No reviews except for one,from TCurry, who this chapter is dedicated to. I hope you like it. :D

2)I'm thinking about doing a short Shika/Ino oneshot today, so put me on author alert to know when it comes out.

3)I'm really doing this for the constructive critisicm, so no reviews=no chapters.

4)This story IS romance/angst. Its about to get really dark into the next chapter. If you dont approve of reading about self harm/depression/shit like that, I suggest you leave now.