The pair woke up eventually, both unable to speak.
"Sign your name right here," Mikoto said, pointing to a line on the form.
Naruto slowly nodded and signed his name.
Sasuke laughed. "YES! NARUTO IS MY ADOPTED BROTHER NOW! HOORAH!" He proceeded to dash to Itachi's room, immediately announcing, "Naruto is our brother now, Itachi!" Before his elder brother could respond, Sasuke was back with Naruto, saying, "Itachi is happy! He practically screamed with joy when he found out! Itachi cares for you just as much as I do! He was crying with joy after finding this out!" 1
"Urusai," Itachi said simply, whacking Sasuke on the head.
The next day had the two new siblings walking to the academy building to get put into teams. "What if we're on different teams?" Naruto fretted. "I'll go mad! We'll hardly get to spend any time together!"
"You barely graduated, and I'm at the top," Sasuke replied. "No offence, but they always put to best with the worst. We'll be together for sure."
"YAY! Hey, how come you know this?"
"Itachi-nee-san told me."
"So nobody knows anything about last night yet, right?"
"Nobody at all, except Hokage-sama and my-OUR-family."
"Cool!"
They took a seat next to each other, only for a bunch of girls (including Sakura) to charge up. Naruto happily spoke up. "Kon-ichiwa, Saku-"
"OUT OF THE WAY, LOSER!" Sakura snapped, pushing him out of the way and sitting next to Sasuke.
The raven-haired nin wasn't too happy about that, but he and Naruto had talked over what they would do in this situation on their way to the place. "Pleasure to see you again, Sakura-chan."
"What about me?" Ino asked, curiously.
"You too, of course, Ino-chan," Sasuke replied, grinning. Naruto surpressed a laugh.
"So," Sakura asked with a romantic sigh, "who gets to be your first kiss?"
"Neither of you."
"WHAT?"
"I can't love a girl who pushed my brother to the floor."
"I NEVER PUSHED ITACHI-SAMA TO THE FLOOR!" Sakura insisted.
"NEITHER DID I!" Ino added.
"You did one minute ago," Sasuke replied, smiling. He got up and helped Naruto to his feet. "Oh, wait, you thought I meant Itachi? Sorry, no."
"NANI? THAT LOSER ISN'T RELATED TO YOU!" all the girls screeched.
"Think you know everything that goes on in my family, do you?" Sasuke asked with a smirk. Naruto giggled and sat back with Sasuke.
The raven-haired Genin held out the adoption form in front of the girls, who screeched and sat across the room.
"That was definitely funny," Naruto remarked.
"Those forms are real?" Shikamaru asked from in front of them. "You're kidding me."
"Nope, they're real, all right!" Sasuke replied happily.
Sure enough, the teams were formed.
"Team seven; Uzumaki Naruto-"
Naruto turned away from his conversation with Sasuke and Shikamaru.
"-Haruno Sakura-"
"GYA!" Naruto moaned. "WHY IS THE WORLD SO CRUEL?"
"HA!" Ino laughed. "YOU GOT STUCK WITH AN IDIOT!"
Sasuke tossed a glare at her.
"Why, why, why?" Sakura complained. "Why am I stuck with HIM?"
"Uchiha Sasuke."
At that, all three stood up with a, "YES!"
"I'M WITH SASUKE!" Naruto cheered. "THE BAD PART OF THE DAY IS OVER! LIFE IS GOOD AGAIN! Wait, what do I mean by again? My life was good before? Lessee… When was my life good…" Naruto pondered for a few seconds.
"SHUT UP AND MOVE OVER!" Sakura hissed, dragging him away and placing herself next to Sasuke. Naruto got back up and sat down, Sakura now in the middle. Sasuke had an annoyed look on his face.
After the rest of the teams were announced, the three left the building. "So, Sasuke, since we're a team and all, shouldn't we have lunch together?"
"I suppose it's necessary," Sasuke replied with a shrug. "Come on, you two."
Sakura sighed. "Why do we have to bring him with us?" She spat the word, 'him.' Naruto winced.
"Well, you could always eat alone," Sasuke replied.
"Then again, I think I can stand that moron with us!" Sakura changed her mind.
Team seven sat down in a small park, eating lunch on the grass. "So, Sakura, me and Naruto know each other well, can you introduce yourself to us?"
"Well, you already know my name, Sasuke… Also, I really want to know why you adopted Naruto in the first place. He's a loser!"
Naruto looked away, hurt. Sasuke glared at her.
"Call Naruto a loser again and you'll regret it."
"But why, Sasuke? Why'd the noble Uchiha clan adopt HIM?"
Sasuke slapped her. Naruto turned his head towards the sound. "Sasuke!" he gasped. "Don't do that!"
"Give me one reason why I shouldn't!" Sasuke demanded.
"Because we just learned we're going to be on the same team as her and she hasn't gotten a chance to know either of us very well yet, other than being your fangirl! So stop it!"
"Fine… If you say so, I suppose…"
Sakura was still in shock. She slowly regained her composure. "Sorry, Sasuke… I'm gonna go eat somewhere else right now."
Both the boys watched her walk away, still under slight trauma. "Sasuke?" Naruto addressed.
"Yeah?"
"I'm going to go talk to her-alone," he added.
"You sure?"
"Yes, very."
Naruto walked up from behind the pink-haired girl on the bench. "Sakura-chan?" he called.
Sakura turned around, eyes red after all the crying. "What do YOU want?"
"I'm sorry about Sasuke, in all the time I've known him, he's never done something like that," Naruto began. "So… I hope you aren't hurt. Forgive me, please, it was on my account that he slapped you."
Sakura turned around. For a moment she looked like she was going to forgive him, but then… She punched him. "FORGIVE YOU?" she shrieked, nearly breaking the blonde's jaw. "It's because of you that Sasuke doesn't like me! All because of you! I bet your parents are still alive, they just disowned you because of how horrible you are! You ruined my chance of having a relationship of Sasuke, you… You MONSTER!"
Naruto took a step back. The word at the end had hurt… A lot.
"Sakura-chan, I-"
"SHUT UP! Don't act as if you have the right to even SPEAK to me! You're a lowborn demon-spawn who I hate! You're just laughing at me on the inside, aren't you?" She punched him again, blackening his eye.
"Please, I'm-"
"URUSAI!"
More punches, more kicks, more taunts…
He had thought this was over… Boy, was he wrong…
One more punch, and his confidence that his life was going to take a turn snapped.
He fell to his knees, crying. Sakura paused, looking down, slightly shocked. She hadn't expected this.
"Please…" Naruto whimpered, "I'm sorry, okay? I didn't know I was such a burden to everyone!" He slowly got up and walked away, the tears still coming. "I just wanted to say sorry…"
Sakura just watched him, and lowered her fist. What have I done?
A/N Guilt, guilt, guilt! MWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! I'm so EVIL! And also, sadly, I've been nicknamed "Pervy SCC" (well, they use my actual name, of course) because of my love of yaoi lemons. Don't know what lemons are? Well, don't start searching for them. They can either become addicitive or scar you for life. No, it isn't a lemon-eating contest between the characters in the summary… -.-' Oh, and now my friends are asking whether it's the "Ero" or the "Sennin" part that means pervert. Strange… I once knew, but I forgot. Does anyone remember? I'm so disorganized, I can't even keep the files in my BRAIN neat and tidy… -sigh-
1-Yep, as Fruits Basket watchers know, I stole this from the part where Yuki's brother was ranting about how eager Yuki was to go to his store. XD So imagine the Scottish-sounding music if you read it over.