Enter Prince Charmings:

Sasuke Uchiha was beyond furious; first his mother hadn't been able to drive him to school because she had gone out with some of her friends so Itachi, his teasing older brother, had driven him and it had been horrible in a number of reasons.

"so, little brother, you going to come out of the closet yet?" Itachi asked not two minutes into the drive.

Sasuke chocked noisily on his own spit, he glared at his brother; Itachi only knew about his preferance because he had gone rummaging through Sasuke's draws and had found his stash of Playgirls.

"shut it." Sasuke snapped.

Itachi grinned widely, "come on Sasu." he said cheekily, "what could be so bad? You'll lose those so-called 'friends' who only like you for your money and looks."

Itachi himself had been popular at school and had been closeted gay, fearing rejection from friends and their father but in his last year it hit him that he didn't care and came out. Their father was far from happy but took to ignoring it and getting on with life like nothing had happened.

"if I don't see it then I don't care." was what their father had said sharply.

Sasuke sighed, "i'm not like you, I can't be like the Uzamakis'." he huffed.

"The Uzamakis'? You mean those twins?" Itachi asked, "what would be so bad about that?"

"they're freaks! I wouldn't want to be beaten up every single day -"

"i'm pretty sure you're the one doing the beating." Itachi suddenly cut across.

Sasuke turned furiously to his older brother, his dark eyes blazing angrily, "how dare you accuse me of that!" he fumed, turning fully in the leather car seat.

Itachi took turned his identical eyes on his baby brother, "oh come off it." Itachi snapped, "i've heard you on the phone to Sakura boasting -"

Itachi was suddenly cut off by a loud splashing sound from outside the car and someone yelling; out of panic Itachi slammed his foot on the break, the car skidded to a halt and Sasuke was thrown forwards slightly.

Taking a deep breath Itachi checked the wing mirror and saw two figures on the side of the road, by a rippling puddle, dripping wet.

"crap." Itachi breathed and jumped out of the car.

He quickly approched them, as Sasuke looked on from the car with dread setting in his stomach; he reconigsed the boys instantly.

Itachi was confronted with the most angry eyes he had ever seen, but also the most beautiful; one was bright blue and the other was deep green. The owner of the eyes, apart from being soaking wet, was handsome with midnight black hair and pale skin but he was wearing an ugly look on his face.

The other boy was blond and blue eyed, with soft tanned skin and a perfectly aborable face; Itachi suddenly remembered Sasuke mumbling once about a blond boy and doing something rude to the tanned boy.

"i'm sorry" Itachi said quickly, feeling his heart flutter slightly.

The black haired boy snarled, "i bet you did that on purpose." his voice was worn for one so young, "think you're too good for us?"

Itachi blinked, shocked that someone could think so coldly about someone they had just met, he suddenly became nervous, "of course not. My brother was arguing with me..."

Sasuke couldn't take any more, his brother was making a fool of himself, "Itachi! I'm going to be late for school!" not that he care whether he was late or not.

His heart leapt into his throat as Uzamaki Naruto made eye contact with him; Naruto was a mystery and a wonder, always hiding behind his brother and trying to keep the calm but there was something so much deeper to him and it was drawing Sasuke dangerously close to him.

Itachi yelled through his thoughts and then said something to the twins.

The elder Uchiha was struggling and he had no idea why, just the look of the black haired boy was making his mind mush so he did the only thing he could think of, "want a lift?" he asked.

"you've got to be kidding!" the boy snapped and his blond brother shrank away slightly, "do you think we are stupid?"

and then Itachi saw it; the barrier the boy had put up to protect them both. Of course Itachi knew of their background, of their parents and of their murder as he had been nine when it had happened and he had heard of everything from his mother; it was only natural.

"drop your wall for a second and trust someone." Itachi whispered as he looked the boy deep in his odd eyes and was rewarded by a light blush.

With an encouraging word from the blond twin the still soaking wet twins followed Itachi to his car and Sasuke felt slightly sick; he had to keep his distance from both of them, far from Midonatio because they had had more than their fair share of fights and from Naruto because of the feelings the ball of sunshine stirred up inside the youngest Uchiha.

Sasuke took some verbal swipes at Midonatio, his heart just wouldn't let him attack Naruto, but the dark haired boy gave back just as bad. For a spilt moment Sasuke did wonder why he wasn't actually friends with the younger Uzamaki, they were alike in many ways, plus it would have meant he could get closer to Naruto, but he quickly cast those thoughts from his minds as he spotted his usual group of friends though his brothers tinted window.

Suddenly Sasuke's insides began to panic as the twins climbed out of the car with him; with full panic in gear, mainly from being rejected and living a life he didn't think he could handle, so he just said whatever came to the front of his brain first; "did you think that if you were seen with me then your status would go up."

Midonatio snorted, "don't kid yourself Uchiha, why would we want to be associated with the likes of you." he could be very arrogant when he needed to be.

"likes of me?" Sasuke retorted, "at least I'm going somewhere with my life."

"yeah, being exactly like daddy." Midonatio snapped back; it angered Sasuke when anyone insulted his family in anyway.

Naruto tried to pulled his brother away from Sasuke, saying his usual soft words and for a moment it seemed like it was going to work but Sasuke was still wound up and was still letting his mouth do all his thinking.

"at least I have a father. A family. Where's yours? oh, that's right, they're dead!" the youngest Uchiha knew he had said the most terrible thing he could; he knew the Uzamakis' parents died ten years previous but he didn't know how. Either way Sasuke felt physically sick when he noticed the look in Midonatio's odd eyes.

Sasuke expected what would come next but it was so much worse than ever before; he felt the punches, the kicks and at one point a headbutt. Blood trickled gently out of Sasuke's busted lip and his eye swelled greatly in a short space of time.

And, as quickly as it had began, the fight stopped; Naruto rushed his younger brother into the school halls and out of sight while the girls in his group, Sakura and Ino, fussed greatly over him.

"What a messed up freak." Kiba snarled, his large white teeth shining in the sun as his lip curled back angrily; he always reminded Sasuke of a dog.

Sasuke battered Sakura away as she dabbed his lip, "tell me about it." he mumbled and felt his fat lip spilt again.

"why were they in the same car as you Sasuke-hun?" Ino asked; her blond hair pulled back so tightly her eyebrows were in a constant state of shock.

The heavy feeling was back in his stomach; the Uchiha didn't care what the teachers had to say about him fighting but if Itachi ever found out what he had said to the shadow boy.

The bell went for first period, freeing Sasuke from more questioning until break or lunch, so with a tissue pressed tightly to his lip and fringe over his blackened eye he trudged to class.

Sasuke Uchiha felt a million times worse than he had before he had gotten into the car that morning.