Its a dark night, probably around two in the morning, dark storm clouds covered the nights half moon, bathing the street in pitch blackness.
through the streets of the village ran a shadow, darting from cover to cover, seemingly unaware that its stealth skill were no match for the shinobi of the leaf. But they recognised the shadow, and let it be.
The shadow had a destination in mind, an objective, its mission.
And soon it came upon it, the shadow stood in front of it, a towering 20 story apartment complex.
evem in the pitch blackness the shadow could see the decrepit state of it, the cracked brick walls, the obscene graffiti, the boarded up windows.
The shadow knew this was in the slums district but come on.
The building was dark, no hint of light eminating from any of the windows, which made it harder for the shadow to pinpoint its target.
the shadow frantically searched the windows for any sign of life, it didnt have the time to search every room.
But then he saw it, the tiniest glimmer of light from the middle of the top floor, it was probably from a tv or sterioe.
The shadow now had its target.
The shadow lept through one of the broken windows on a lower floor, landing as quitely as it could.
Moving quickly but quitely through the complex, the shadow found the stairs and quickly ascended them to the top floor.
Fnally reaching it and looking ahead of itself, the shadow found itself in a hallway, each wall lined with doors, or where they would be if most of them didn't appeared to be broken or gone.
The hallways paint was faded and and peeling, half of the wooden floorboards looked so rotton the shadow dared not trust them.
Moving carefully,the shadow appraoched the middle door on the left side of the hall, one of the few that actually still had a door.
the faded metal number 96 hung crookedly on the filthy wood.
The shadow, now practically shivering with anticipation, reached for the rusty doorknob.
A slight turn and it clicked open.
The shadow didn't even have time to react as it felt the noose tighten around its ankle.
The shadow let out a yell as it felt the floor beneath it give way.
The shadow fell, and its foot was nearly torn off as the noose around his ankle went taut.
The shadow whimpered, looking down, in the hallway below where the shadow was now dangling above, was a sea of rusty metal spikes staring up at it.
Rusty kunai on sticks, sharpened iron rods and what looked like a carpet of sharp, jagged glass.
"give me one good reason not to cut this rope" a voice threatend from above.
Straining its neck the shadow could see a black haired boy in red boxer shorts, rubbing the sleep from his eye with one hand, and holding a kunai dangerously close to the rope that was keeping the shadow from its very unpleasent demise.
"because if you do my clan will have you ."
"And which, pray tell, clan is that?".
The shadow ripped of its mask.
"The mighty uchiha! The most powerful and influential clan in all of konoha!" the unmasked shadow yelled with pride.
The boy above was silent for a moment, then he reached out to a switch on his left, and the lights slowly flickered on.
The dark clothed intruder blinked a few times as his eyes adjusted.
"Sasuke? well shit, i heard you Uchiha pricks were an arogent bunch, but to try and assasinate me just cause i beat you in a fight brings new meaning to the word", Naruto laughed down at the hanging form of Sasuke.
"i wasnt hear to kill you!" Sasuke defended.
"oh? so what were you doing sneaking into my home at two in the morning?"
"becasue i wanted to,err, i wanted to, um, test youre ability to, um, make traps. yeah. thats why".
Sasuke's escuse failed. epicly.
"sssuuurrreee you were Sasuke', naruto laughed.
"Let me go", Sasuke seethed, oozing killer intent at Naruto.
Not at all fazed by sasukes feeble attempt at intimidating him, Naruto started pacing around the hole that Sasuke had fallen through.
"i'll tell you what". Naruto said as he clasped his hands in front of him.
"i'm going to go back to bed now, and when i wake up, and, by chance, youre not stuck down there anymore, well both forget it ever happened. and if i do find you down there, ill tell everyone at the academy how the mighty Uchiha was caught by a simple trap.". Naruto explained as he entered his room again.
"oh and by the way". nartuo said as he paused at his doorway.
"the trap you fell into was just a warning, try and enter my room if you escape and youll find out what life of a villiage pariah does for one's trap making ability.".Naruto laughed again, and closed his door.
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PUMP IT-Black Eyed Peas
Naruto yawned and streched as his sterio started playing.
Throwing off the blanket and rolling off the mattress on the floor, Naruto grapped the sterioes remote and turned the volume to max.
singing along, Naruto got dressed and boiled the jug, grabbing a container of instant ramen from his cubord, choosing chicken and bean flavor from the dozens of other flavors. waiting for the jug to boil, Naruto couldnt help but start dancing along to the music,spinning in place and pumping his fist in the air, moving his entire body to the beat.
Fininshing his ramen, Naruto grabbed his mp3, turned off his sterio,locking the apartment behind him, Naruto nearly fell into the hole in which Sasuke still hung.
"you've got to be kidding me!", Naruto laughed incrediously.
Sasuke woke up with a jerk, staring up at the laughing boy above him." ." he growled.
"you mean to tell me", Naruto managed to say in between breaths,"that even after 5 hours, you havent managed to climb that rope?" Nruto burst out laughing again.
Sasuke growled again,
the noose had somehow wrapped around his ankle in a way that caused extreme pain when he tried to bend upwards toward the rope.
he'd try'd for a few hours but then gave up.
im pathetic, Sasuke thought to himself.
A click and a flash of blinding light brought Sasuke away from hid thoughts.
He looked up to see Naruto holding a camera in one hand, and waving a developing photo in the other.
"You wouldnt dare".
Naruto grinned and laughed again, sprinting off to the academy, leaving a panicing Sasuke behind.
...
Iruka sighed.
in front of him was his students, all present except for two.
Which usually wouldnt bother him if it wernt both Naruto Uzumaki and Sasuke Uchiha.
Iruka New how the Uchiha were, and being beaten so badly yesterday must have been a big blow to Sasukes ego.
Iruka decided not to worry about it, he was sure that Naruto could handle himself, besides, it wasnt his fault if one of them killed the other, just meant more paperwork.
Paperwork, he could deal with, kids on the other hand, not so much.
He wasnt expecting either of the two absent boys to show up, at least not until later, so he was slightly surprised when a blur raced past him to the blackboard.
"Naruto?" he asked the young boy.
Iruka saw the boy grab the sticky tape from his desk and use it on somthing that Naruto's body obscured for the moment.
Then Naruto Grabbed some chalk and hurridly wrote some word above what he had stuck, he didnt even have a chance to put the chalk down before a blue blur spear tackled him from the side, sending them both sprawling to the ground, clearing the view of theboard.
on it was a picture of a rasther distressed Sasuke, dresses in black, and hanging from a rope above what looked like spears of somesort.
above the picture were the words" GUESS WHO CAUGHT SASUKE".
Needless to say the class was stunned silent, but only for a moment before nearly all bursting into laughter.
Iruka quickly quickly tore the photo from the board and erased the writing Naruto had wrote.
And then pryed the the homicidal Sasuke off of the hysterical Naruto.
Dragging them both outside Iruka asked."would you mind telling me what that was all about".
Sasuke was too bust staring daggers at Naruto to care about answering irukas question.
"It was nothing iruka-sensai, we was just messin' around, right Sasuke?".
Gritting his teeth, Sasuke, for his own sake, replied "right".
Not beliving them, but with no harm really done Iruka let them Back into class.
Naruto took his seat next to shino.
"Man, what is that prick Sasuke's problem. he snuck into my house last night, i think he was gonna try and kill me or somtin''.
shino looked at Naruto. "It would appear that Sasuke is put under immense pressure to be the next Uchiha prodogy, like his older brother itachi.".
'who is this itachi guy i keep hearing about. i hear people talkin' 'bout him all the time but people still havent told me who he is".
"itachi Uchiha, Uchiha clan heir,proclaimed prodogy of the Uchiha, graduated the academy at age seven, at the top of his class.
Mastered the sharingan at age eight, passed the chunin exam's at age ten, and became an ANBU captin at age 13.", Shino spoke as if he was reading from a textbook.
Naruto let out a low whistle.'damn, that dude must be some badass".
"indeed' Shino replied.
Naruto zoned out as Iruka began to speak.
AU
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