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Author: Volucris (due to the fact we have two people sharing this FF account i have to put this...)

Warning: Slash/ Yaoi/ Shonen ai

Pairings: It will be Itanaru or Sasunaru (or both?)

Disclaim: If I owned Naruto what are my doing in school? I'll be out there in less than one second and you will see Naruto – Lemon Yaoi edition

N.B: Naruto and Sasuke are both 22 in this story, due to the fact I dislike OC's there won't be any in this story unless necessary, I think there will only be one slightly OC character in this story...but again could you really call the Kyuubi OC...

Anyway this is my first fic and review please?

Notes:

"Blah" Talking

'Blah' Thinking

Blah First Naruto's letter then Flashbacks...

Akatsuki - the organisation Itachi belongs to...

If there are anything else please ask

Chapter I -Prologue

When the first ray of light hit the Uchiha residents, it was still a quiet place. The halls of the massive Japanese styled building were as cold as ever. They look like never ending tunnels, leading nowhere. No wonders that the people who lived here almost always had a tragic live.

In fact the only benefit of the Uchiha mansion was, in the midst of summer the usually freezing halls could provide a cooling effect, of course, that's only if one can take the spiritual darkness that surrounds these halls.

Despite all of this, we begin our story on a pleasant, warm summer morning. As the birds first started with their song of life around the mansion, a certain dark haired boy sat up on this bed.

Uchiha Sasuke was never a heavy sleeper unlike someone. The boy cursed at the thought of his previous team mate.

"Great way to start the day" He murmured as he got out of his bed, again we must state out that the great Sasuke would never murmur, but it is still four in the morning... "Now I'm talking to myself, what did Sakura say this was?" He never really paid too attention to his pink haired team mate, at least not as much as she had hoped for.

Ignoring his previous thought about talking to himself, he slowly crawled out of bed, picking up his cloths on the way to the toilet.

After the daily routine of brushing his teeth and taking a shower he slowly made his way into the Kitchen/living room. The Uchiha mansion was big, but he never used most of the space. Especially the main house (which had the proper living rooms and kitchens) since his parents were killed there some years ago. Although to some extend he was no longer after his brother, going to the main house still made him uncomfortable.

Anyway, after finishing preparing his breakfast- Ramen, Sasuke sat down at the dining table, which was made of extremely beautiful red oak. Once again he sighed at how much this place lacked the basic characteristics of a home.

Everything in the Uchiha mansion, for as long as he can remember reeked of money and power. His father's favoured colour was maroon and his mother's a dark purple, which almost resembles black. For this reason the whole house was decorated in different shades of red and purple which puts Dracola's palace to shame.

As the grandfather clock struck 6 Sasuke was all ready to go. Checking again that he looked ok and adjusted his expression: I-don't-care-even-if- the-world-ended-within-the-next-second, he made his way to the 5th Hokage's office.

Konoha hasn't changed much over the years, the damaged buildings have long since been rebuilt and as much as he hate to admit it, for the better. It's been 9 years since Orochimaru's attack on Konoha and things pretty much returned to normal. That twisted old maniac was sent to where he belonged- hell. The only major difference was, Konoha was unusually quiet after the death of Orochimaru. This again, wasn't because of the old maniac. In fact most people came out and cheered for 2 whole weeks (shows how much that old maniac was hated).

No, the reason that Konoha has gone quiet was because...

"Sasuke, here you are." The 5th Hokage is outside the Hokage tower, which he's suppose to visit

"I'm sorry to call you at this early hour, but I think we have some leads on him."

She stilled looked as young as ever, although much more formal. Come to think of it, she was always formal, but nobody noticed it due to the fact that his ex-team mate would always run up to her as if she was nothing but a good friend.

"Hn" Sasuke replied, or more like didn't reply. After 9 years we can't blame the guy for not knowing how to respond.

Tsunade stared at the boy, or now the young man before her. Knowing to well that he cared "He was seen" she paused, as if to go over the information "by some villagers in the neighbouring village." "Hn" "Sasuke," She paused again, the young man before her was getting impatient, why the hell does she keeps on pausing!

"Be ready" She handed him a envelope.

Sasuke carefully opened the envelope and took out the letter inside. The letter paper was a thick hand pressed paper of the finest quality, the edge was not smooth like most paper but a uniquely crafted zic- zac pattern lined with gold leaves. The paper itself was a beautiful pale gold, which almost reminded Sasuke of the old parchments during the medieval time. The writing was however, less promising. It was rushed and barely legible.

"To the person reading this,

Hi stranger, you were unlucky enough to pick up this note so I'm not gonna make it harder for you. Don't worry, you don't need to send this note to more than five people or suffer a unlucky love life for eternity. However if you don't pass this to the Hokage within, say five hours of finding this letter, I have no choice but to eat all of your food, drink all of your wine and put dirt of all of your cloths. So if you don't want this to happen to you START SENDING NOW!

(P.S. I may also kill the person you love if you don't send this...)"

Sasuke refolded the letter and looked questionably at the Hokage 'Her age must be catching on...' Tsunade saw the look on the boy's face (to her he will always be a boy) and sighed "Sasuke, don't give me that look. You must do a seal."

With her hands she performed a simple seal and said, "break". More messy writing started to appear below the previous text.

"If you performed this seal I will suppose that you are the old hag (unless she were stupid enough to lose that...). Anyway it's me, Naruto, I'm in the near by village right now. I want to come home (cries), I'm so lonely out here (boo hoo...). So I thought to myself, it's time to come home. I hope Konoha still welcome me, or in fact "will" welcome me this time. No, I know what you are thinking; I'm not in trouble. I just need a stable place to stay for the next few years. So expect me within the next few days.

(PP.S. I wouldn't really kill the messenger's loved ones...but I'm serious about eating their food...in fact, I think I'll do it anyway...) "

Sasuke sighed, Tsunade can't tell if it was for relief or the stupidity of the letter. "That dobe used his real name."

Tsunade smiled, Sasuke did care after all. "I don't think you need to worry about that. The seal that I just did is between him and me only. We are the only ones that can do the seal." She said as she took out something, which looks like a key.

"You remember that necklace that he always wore? This is the other part of that necklace and the seal on this letter was placed partially with that necklace. This is also how I knew immediately that this letter was written by him."

Sasuke was stunned, to think that the dobe would think of something so clever. He kept his face expressionless although the emotion in his eyes swell up and refuse to be hid.

Tsunade looked at the boy in front of her and smiled. "Sasuke, I want you to take a few days off and wait for that stupid brat."

The dark haired boy smiled slightly at her childish resort, there were only one person who can make her act this way, the news of the return of his former team mate started to sink in. "Hai, Hokage sama."

After they said goodbye to each other Sasuke started to circle Konaha slowly just in case if the dobe decided to turn up today. He was going to ask the Hokage a few days off even if she hadn't offered him the "special job". Sometimes he swear that that woman can read minds...

The time is now nine in the morning and most places are starting to open. Ichiraku, Naruto's favoured restaurant is amongst those places.

Kakashi joked on many occasions that the only reason that Ichiraku didn't go out of business after Naruto left was because Sasuke and Sakura picked up his habit and visited the small restaurant every week. Sasuke always thought that Kakashi took Naruto's departure much harder than he showed, but because he had to be there for Iruka (who cried for weeks...) and Sakura (see Iruka) he hid his emotions well.

He saw his ex-sensei search for Naruto long after most people had gave up...

Sasuke himself was in no mood to joke after the blond left, he only started to brighten up after almost two years after that little talk between him and Tsunade.

--------Flashback --------

"Sasuke, sit." The Hokage looked at the boy in front of her. He is even colder than before, if that's possible. Unsure about how she should start, she patted the boy's head and said (after a long silence) "He...will be back."

Sasuke stiffened at this and snapped "No he won't! He left without saying a WORD! What make you think he cared about any of us at all?!" what he really wanted to say was 'he didn't even say goodbye to me...' but the words just won't come out.

Tsunade suddenly looks much older and took away her hand from the now standing boy's head. "Sasuke, this is his home. No matter for what reason one will always return to his home." She smiled and sat behind her desk "you would know best ne? You came back didn't you?"

Sasuke bit his lower lip "That... is only because he came after me." He saved me from the darkness...

"He was there when you needed him and you should be here for people who needs you right now. Sakura isn't taking this too well either. She turned much louder in the past year and Kakashi, he cares more than you think." Tsunade sighed, everyone is trying to get on with their life. It's hard, but they must go on.

"Sasuke, I'm going to repeat to you what I said to Neji, Shikamaru, Kiba and Chouji, as you know they were close to Naruto too. They were his team mates and that mattered more to Naruto than anything else. Naruto had his reasons to leave. I vaguely know why, he didn't tell me, but I know. However, he will tell you when he is ready."

--------End of Flashback--------

After that Sasuke slowly became more open, but still he was never able to return to his old self.

"The memories..." Sasuke is now in the forest, jumping from tree to tree. This was one of Naruto's favoured training, apparently it feels like he had wings or something. Naruto's sudden outbursts of power never failed to amaze him. He still doesn't know why but a feeling tells him that's the reason Naruto left.

Tsunade had to put Naruto as a missing nin after a while, but she never send Anbus after him. Although Kakashi, Gai, Asuma and Kurenai sent them in search of Naruto, it had proven to be more than fruitless.

The day quickly came to an end and as Sasuke made his way home as he saw lorries and cars in front of the Uchiha mansion.

'What the hell...' he thought as he made his way towards the men who are currently carrying different furniture and decorations into the house next door.

"So you noticed too." A calm voice came behind him. Hyuga Neji stud there, the Uchiha clan and the Hyuga clan lived in this area for God knows how long. In fact the Hyuga mansion is just two doors away from the Uchiha mansion (that means few miles away due the large gardens possessed by both clans).

The house, which is been filled up right now, lies between the Uchiha and Hyuga mansions and has been empty for many years as it apparently belonged to the Yondaime.

"It's hard not to." Sasuke replied with the same calm voice, Neji's voice lost the harsh sound of hatred and became calm and smooth whilst Sasuke's voice remained cold.

"Uncle told me to come over and see who our new neighbour is." Neji explained, it seems like the Hyuga clan finally came to it's senses and realised that neither Hinata nor Hanabi wants to be the heir of the clan.

Neji was made the official heir last year. Of course the seal was impossible to remove, but again, Hinata is too nice to kill anyone. Hanabi knows that if she killed Neji then she had to be the heir and say sayonara to her dream of travelling the world.

"Hn" Sasuke noticed the basket of fruit in Neji's hands. The Hyuga clan really did have the weirdest traditions...why fruit out of all the things?

After a few hours (during which Sasuke and Neji just sat outside and waited, Sasuke can't get home due to the Lorries in front of his house and Neji said something about manners...) the lorries and cars finally started to leave.

The new owner of the household paid the drivers the money and waved goodbye to them. He was wore a black cloak lined with sliver edges and the kanji symbols Akatsuki no Kana.

'Isn't Akatsuki the organisation that Itachi belonged to?!' Both Sasuke and Neji thought at the same time. 'How could the Hokage let someone from the Akatsuki into Konoha.'

Of course non-of them voiced their thoughts, after all if this person is wearing that cloak in public then there must be nothing wrong with it.

The cloak prevented the face of their new neighbour to be seen, as he turned back home. Neji and Sasuke too started to move towards Sasuke's house. After a few minutes Sasuke realised that Neji was in fact still following him "Why the hell are you following me?"

Neji now had an annoyed look on his face, is this guy the biggest antisocial or what. 'The Hyugas unlike the Uchihas have manners.' Thought Neji to himself before replying to Sasuke, "I need to stay in your house for a few minutes and in the mean time you will get what ever you can find in your house and bring it as a gift to our new neighbour."

"Why do I need to go?" Sasuke is really getting pissed off now. It is enough that he had to suffer all those countless missions with Neji where he lectured about pretty much everything... but on this rare occasion where he don't need to work with his partner, Neji can still find some way to lecture him. Why was Neji placed with him after they became Jounins! Why!

"Doesn't Uchihas have any manners at all? Uncle said that we, the most powerful clans of Konoha, must go together. Don't ask me why ok?"

Sasuke growled, but soon gave up because he doesn't want to be lectured again. As they entered the Uchiha mansion Sasuke asked Neji to wait outside in the front garden.

Even after all those years he still wasn't comfortable to let people into his house.

Sasuke went to the kitchen and quickly scanned around for possible gifts for the new neighbour. 'Damn, I don't even have fruits at home...'

He searched the house and decided that there were nothing suitable as presents, unless his new neighbour wants Ramen as a gift.

'Ok think, Sasuke, think...we can't let Neji start lecturing again.' The thought of the elder ninja lecturing him about how he should always have gifts at home just in case was just too much. He looked out the window into his back garden 'well, last resort...better than nothing...'

Sasuke made his way towards bushes of beautifully grown roses, the sudden cooling of temperature in the evening left condensed water droplets on the delicate pedals.

"Red is for love, so we can't have this one..." He moved from bush to bush, remembering the flower language Ino told him when he was resting in the hospital.

"Violet...violet roses, great, I don't think they are for anything." He took out his Kunai and cut a few branches of the violet roses. Then he went home and wrapped them loosely in clear wrapping paper (which he found beneath the pile of gifts from the girls).

As Sasuke made his way into the front garden, he saw Neji resting at the large tree in the middle of the garden. During spring this tree produces the most beautiful cherry blossoms which covers the whole garden when they fall giving the Uchiha mansion a soft touch...

--------Flashback--------

Naruto's mouth hang widely open as he followed Sasuke into the Uchiha Mansion.

"Sugoi! This place is massive!" Naruto looked around and made an exaggerated movement with his hands.

Sasuke silently watched him as a small smile crept onto his features. 'Always so full of energy…'

Today was the first time Sasuke let anyone into his house ever since the Uchiha massacre and his excuse was that this is a mission.

"Alright! Should we get started!" The blond shouted excitedly. "God, we really have a lot to do!"

Naruto eyed the place again, this is as dark as hell itself…the Uchihas really aren't very happy people are they. 'I suppose you can see that from the Uchiha brothers…'

"Hokage sama said that we need to brighten up this place." Sasuke clamly explained to Naruto, the Hokage had a little talk with him after Naruto returned him to Konoha. Apparently he needs a completely new environment. Something about the mansion effecting his mood…

"Hey! That's what I'm here for! The old hag was right! This place could drive anyone crazy!"

Sasuke ignored that last comment and silently agreed with Naruto. The Hokage sama told him to let Naruto give him some advises, apparently only someone as hyperactive as Naruto can brighten up this place… but who is complaining? This is the first time he got Naruto into his house…

Naruto is now wandering around the garden "hmmm…"

"I know! Let's put some flowers here!" Naruto pointed into the clearing in the middle of the garden. "How about red roses?"

Sasuke shivered at the thought of blood red roses in the middle of a near black mansion…

"Ok fine…how about cherry blossoms?" Naruto said dreamily "It's just like Sakura chan's colour…" Naruto looked at Sasuke, he is not after Sakura anymore. In fact he hasn't been ever since that fight between Sasuke and him on the rooftop. Naruto figured that those two will be together eventually…so decorating the house in the bride's colour seems like a good idea.

Sasuke frowned at this… he just had to focus on other people right now…

"How about sunflowers?" Sasuke suggested coolly.

"Wha-? No way! Those are so ugly and in your face!" Naruto never liked sunflowers. Someone told him once that he was like a sunflower. Naruto think that's why he dislikes sunflowers so much…maybe he never liked himself.

"What's wrong with them?"

Naruto avoided the question and run towards the back of the house "Never mind this, let's go and look at the back garden first."

Sasuke sighed and followed 'He doesn't trust me…'

--------End of Flashback--------

That was the night before Naruto left Konoha… and since Naruto never made another suggestion he had a cheery blossom tree plant there after a year or so…

"What took you so long? And it's time to come out of that daydream of yours."

"It doesn't matter, let go already." Unwilling to waste anymore time. He has to get up early tomorrow just in case the dobe decides to turn up early...

Sasuke and Neji stud outside the mansion, Neji knocked three times before stopping and waiting for the answer. After a few minutes the door was opened without much hesitation.

A young boy appeared behind the doors, he had dark hair and blue eyes, which has a tint of red near the pupil. He, too is wearing a cloak, but this one is exactly like Itachi's- Black with red clouds.

"How may I help you?" The boy spoke calmly and had a maturity about him that reminded Sasuke much of his younger self.

"I'm Hyuga Neji and this is Uchiha Sasuke, we are here to welcome you and your family to our neighbourhood." Sasuke had to admit when it came to manners Neji definitely had more than he did.

The boy stepped aside to let them in, but after just a few steps they heard a loud crash and the boy ran towards the main house. Neji and Sasuke quickly followed him into the room.

The person they saw earlier with the black cloak is currently sitting under a pile of collapsed books and scrolls.

"Kana!" The calm exterior of the young boy is broken and anger broke out.

"I told you to be careful." The person sitting still had the cloak over half of his face, but somehow they could feel his smile.

"Hai hai" he stood up and dusted his cloak, without turning towards the boy or Sasuke and Neji "Kyuubi, you didn't tell me that we have visitors."

"That's because I heard the crash" The boy, or Kyuubi replied harshly. Looking up at the taller man.

"Anyway, those two are the ones you want too see, ne?" Kyuubi asked impatiently, he was getting tired, and now he had to tidy up this mess.

"I said we will see them, not that I want to see them." Still with his back towards the others, he sighed.

Neji and Sasuke were getting really annoyed now, after all those two have been talking as if they weren't there and the mention of the name Kyuubi, still sends chills down their spines.

"Whatever. Kana-nii chan is such a dimwit sometimes. " Kyuubi started to pick the books and arranging them in piles. Ignoring the blond in front of him.

"Kyuubi, you are so much like someone I know. I think you two will get on perfectly with each other..." The cloaked figure sighed, and finally turned around "...ne, Sasuke?"

TBC....

Author's notes:

I don't even know that to write...

First GCSEs are OVER!

(Calms herself down...)

Anyway, I know there are lots of those story going around right now but I really wanted to write my own

So I'm sorry if this annoys you O

I hope to create my idea, so if anything in this story looks like any other stories please tell me. I haven't had the time to read all of them, but I hope there are no clashes!

Suggestion are welcome, I think I'll make this story ItaNaru (NaruIta...) 'cos there are already too much SasuNaru on the market...

Tell me if you like it or not

Thanks for reading