Theme: Sticks and Stones

Pairing: Sasuke/Naruto

Description: AU Some lessons always stay with you.

The raven haired child narrowed his eyes at the retreating back of his mother. She'd dropped him off at the new daycare with a carelessly tossed, 'have fun, Sasuke' over her shoulder before disappearing to do whatever she got up to when she left him.

Have fun? With these idiots? He looked over the group of children playing around the room. A fat kid munched on pretzels while talking animatedly to a spikey hair child doing a puzzle. Another boy sat outside the open sliding door with a dog in his lap talking to a girl who turned red every time he looked at her. Further out in the yard a boy with sunglasses knelt beside an anthill and seemed to watch the ants in their line as avidly as the last two girls stared at Sasuke. It made his skin crawl, them staring at him like that. He definitely wasn't going in that direction.

The last child in the room was a sunny haired boy sitting in the back corner by himself with his arms around his knees. Sasuke decided to go over by him; he was quiet and far away from the two creepy girls. Sasuke decided right then, he did not like girls. When Sasuke got closer, he realized the blond boy was crying and almost decided that he didn't want to sit by the crying child but he caught a glance of his face and changed his mind.

The little boy was beautiful. He had three scars on each cheek and pretty blue eyes. He wondered what they would look like when they weren't dimmed by sadness and tears. He sat down beside the boy and poked him. "Whatcha crying for?"

The boy jerked around and Sasuke got a closer view of the pretty blue. The boy wiped his eyes with the back of his hand and glanced over at the pink haired girl. "Sakura was mean to me. She called me names." He confessed sadly.

"Hn." Sasuke glared briefly at the girls who looked away nervously, then back at the boy. "You shouldn't let her get to you. My big brother taught me, 'sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me'." He gazed proudly at the boy for remembering his older brother's sage advice.

The boy eyes widened in horror and he slid closer to Sasuke, half hiding behind him. "They don't have sticks and stones do they?"

Sasuke blinked, he hadn't said that… "Hn." He looked away as the teacher entered the room and began passing out juice to each of her prisoners.

"I'm Naruto." The boy whispered to Sasuke and watched warily as if he expected that to mean something to him.

"Sasuke." Sasuke replied accepting the juice handed to him. He glared at the two girls as they stated to approach and they scurried away again.

"We're best friends now right, Sasuke?" Naruto grinned widely at Sasuke, his eyes finally bright enough to rival the bluest sky, no more sadness in them.

"Hn." Sasuke replied, his normally stoic face relaxing in a small smile. "Idiot."

Naruto's eyes widened at the insult but then, he began to smile tentatively as he realized that Sasuke was teasing him. "Bastard."

Sasuke choked on his juice.

Fifteen Years Later

"What the fuck, Naruto?" Sasuke groaned, following Naruto as they ran out of his parents home. Naruto had just announced to his parents that 'Sasuke is moving in with him because he wanted to spend more time with his boyfriend'. Never mind Sasuke's parents didn't know he was gay let alone had been dating his blond best friend for the last ten years. Eight year old Sasuke had announced that Naruto and he were dating during class one day after learning from his older brother that people dated before they got married and Naruto had just smiled and agreed and so as far as they, and everyone who knew them, were concerned, they'd been in an ever-developing relationship since.

"You know you love me." Naruto laughed as they slammed into the packed car and headed off to Naruto's…their apartment.

Sasuke looked at the handsome blond man who'd been his best friend, then his boyfriend, now his lover, and felt the familiar surge of love, protectiveness, and happiness that the man always inspired in him. "Hn. Idiot."

Naruto glanced over at him, a bright smile lit his face as his eyes flashed that stunning brighter than a cloudless sky blue that it had only when he looked at Sasuke and he linked their fingers together with his free hand. "Sticks and stones, Sasuke. Sticks and stones."

I know...adorable and cliche! LOL I personally loved this one! Until next week!

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