Okay, hi, i really shouldn't be updating until i get at least 5 reveiws... I'm VERY SAD! Wah!

-BankotsuChick

BEFORE PROLOUG:

"Shhh..." A raven-haired boy whispered to another. He was taller, much taller than the one he was speaking too as if he were an older sibling. "Don't let them hear you, Histuki."
"My name's not Hitsuki! It's Sasuke!" He hissed, feeling the tears spring to his eyes again. It was wrong, it was so, so wrong...Mother and Father would greatly dissaprove...He swallowed. Mother and Father. A fist met his flesh and he stumbled back, amazed he was still keeping his ground.

"You will not ever, baka..." The other spat. "Ever repeat that name. Sasuke Uchiha is dead. We have to start over, Hitsuki." He put a hand on the blue, starry kimono Sasuke had worn at his mother's funeral, his only arctical of clothing left. He wiped the blood off his cheek and the specks of dirt from his hair from the impact of the fist and being out in the dark in the middle of the night.

"...Please, brother...don't hit me...I'll be good, I promise." The older nodded, Sasuke's sleek figure illuminated by the firelight of the torch. Didn't he feel anything when he hit me?

"Let's go. Only a little bit farther."

THE DAY BEFORE PROLOUG:

He was a simple man with simple needs, a simple life and a simple job. Simple house, simple town in a simple world. But, if only that day he would know that he would not meet a simple boy.

The roughness of his shorts made him curse and walk in a somewhat odd fashion, receiving stares from bystanders and vendors.

"...dammn..." He hissed. What he had to carry everyday, what he had to carry to the vendors and what he had to carry home each night late after the darkness was turning to light made him slump, let alone the crappy weather and dismal mood.
"Sit up...Kids these days!" An elderly woman sampling dango screetched. Why was everyone always against him in some way? He looked up as if asking kami, though he received no answer. The crease on his fair face that would have been his smile slumped even farther downwards.

Twards hell, he would think to himself. Twards hell.

The roots in Naruto's soft blonde hair were already seeping with sweat, the soreness of his wounds only feeling the pain of the imaginary salt of life. The bait and the fishing pole was slipping off his shoulder, making him curse with impationce.

Stopping to tie his sandel but sighing as the light was blocked by a figure, he rose and looked the shorter man who had just appeared in his eyes.

"Hyuuga."

"Uzimaiki."

"Good to see you."

"Good to see you as well."

"Listen I-" They said at the same time without noticing, rubbing an arm akwardly.

"I'm sorry about, you know..." Naruto said. Neji flashed a small, sad smile with his brilliant white teeth and dusted his blue jacket off nervously though not a spot was on it.

"It's okay! Really! It just wouldn't have..."

"Yeah..."

Silence. Nothing but the sound of shoes scuffing and hearts beating.

"Have you heard about The Uchiha family?"
"Of course."

"The only two sons died in a fire yesterday. Quite sad, quite sad, I knew the little Sasuke quite well."
"You were one of the few." He said, trying to put a tinge of sadness in his voice, though he felt nothing except for the loss Neji might feel. Sasuke Uchiha had been slightly elusive and the envy of every one. He was stuck up and rich, second to the Hyuuga family in Konoha, and the most beautiful person Naruto had ever laid eyes on. But his eyes were scary, captivating, sent chills down his spine.

"Well, I have to go." Neji said, checking his watch. Naruto wished he had a watch, one with a leather strap and glossy glass dial and hands that ticked.

"Okay...see you around."

But Neji had already dissapeared.

Naruto sighed again, his encounter with Neji still on his mind. Neji was always avoiding him, and he knew that the brunette had left not because he had to but because he wanted too.

"It was never to be," Naruto whispered. "I shouldn't feel anything. Nothing at all."

Suddenly, as he picked up the fishing pole that had fallen once again, he smelt somthing close to the smell of roses and cinnimon. He lifted his head, and looked around the courner, and saw a boy under a parasol, hiding his eyes. Naruto was instantly stunned.

That had to be the most beautiful boy he had ever seen. Long slim legs, perfect hips, small torso, locks of georgeous raven hair, plump, rosy lips and amazingly pale skin.

But the thing he noticed most was his eyes. His beautiful, cold eyes that instantly sent chills down his spine.

He had only seen those eyes once in his life, in the dead Sasuke Uchiha. But no one eles looked like that, he noticed, eyes trailing the dark beauty, black and red kimono.

That was Sasuke, Sasuke Uchiha.
Neji was wrong, he thought thinking of how he could use this to talk to Neji again. He slipped off his sandals silently in the early light and picked them up, sprinting after him.

But who was the man next to him, the old one, the fat one he kept calling tenno-sama? Master? If he knew one thing about Sasuke Uchiha, the person he had never met, was that he didn't call people master.

"To hell with work." He said, knowing how he would regret that later. "I'm going to get to the bottom of this if it kills me." He knew wasn't that ambitious for saying 'if it kills me' but then again he didn't know how very close to killing him it would come.

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-BankotsuChick