Prologue:

You live life, you learn. You fight beside someone and really never truely know who they are, or where their motives lie. Can you honestly tell me you didn't see this coming? The slaughter of an entire clan or the lonelinees of two boys who share the same background or the fact that technically both boys' clans were exterminated in one form or another. What makes them different will bring them closer faster then they could ever have hoped, both boys thought that they would rid themselve of the other. Oh how were they very wrong.

Chapter One: The Fallout

He fights against the bonds that hold him, against the unfairness of having saved their asses from what most would call utter destruction. He is blindfolded, bound and restrained to a chair some like prisoner of war. What did he do to deserve this? He hadn't done anything wrong, he hadn't abandoned the village, so what if he took a stint of absenses, he did'nt orcastrate what had happened to the villlage. So why is he a prisoner while others who have done worse walk free?

"Sasuke?"

He knows that voice, knows it all too well.

"Na-Naruto?"

His throat is parched, dry and itchy from the lack of liquids. He does not struggle anymore in favor of hearing his dobe speak.

"I promise that I will get you out of here, I brought something but we must hurry before I get caught."

He didn't understand until the blindfold was slipped down by slender fingers, nor until the bonds instantly vanished from his wrists. In front of him; on his lap, was a meal that made is mouth salivated. Slices of juicy steak topped with brown gravy, mashed potatoes next to it and tomatos; his favorite. He looked at the blonde as if he was crazy but all he got in return was a slight smile and reassurance.

"Eat." Naruto looked him dead in the eyes with a seriousness that he knew not to question, "I can only pull so much being the hero of the village, k."

He nodded and didn't need to be told twice and he began to eat everything infront of him, what touched him the most was the Naruto rememebered that he loved tomatoes, and to see them sitting upon the tray almost wanted to make him huge the blonde, but he didn't. Instead he ate everything infront of him knowing that he would not get another meal such as this for a while. Many questions where flying through his mind, such as, how did Naruto get in here in the first place, how had his voice sound so far away when he was right before him? He kept all this inside as he finished his meal and took the offered water bottle from Naruto and drank as if his life depended on it.

"Why?" Is all he could ask when he was finished.

"Because, you may have severed our bonds but I had not. It takes two to do such a thing." Naruto looked behind him for a moment making him feel fearful, "I must be going Sasuke, I'll be back though."

He is left with his thoughts and words on his tongue that he had wished he could have spoken before the blonde had disappeared, he hangs his head and silently thanks Naruto for his kindness.


The Hokages office:T

"You have to let him go!"

Naruto all but shouted as he balled his fists and punched the the sixths' table, Kakashi Hatake had become the next after Tsunade. The dents left in the table symbolising just how much Naruto had grown from being a mere genin.

"I cannot until he is evaluated."

"The tell your fucking guards to actually feed him!" Naruto roared.

"Wait, what?'

Kakashi looked at Naruto as if he had grown a second head.

"I...I visited Sasuke using my clones, he is nothing but skin and bones and he ate the meal I brought him like it was his last." Naruto walks over to Kakashi not caring if he is the Hokage or not, "He is being starved by Ibiki and the others, I won't tolerate it."

"I-" Kakashi looks Naruto dead in the eyes for any deception; he finds none. "I will make sure this is corrected-"

"No you won't because you have no say in this," Naruto spat, "I will take Sasuke and move him into my home. Under twenty-four hour supervision until the blithering elder's can figure out how to pull their heads out of their asses."

"You-"

"Shut up Kakashi, you know me better than that. Don't waste your words, show me action."

"Naruto," Naruto's name being spoken stopped him from opening the door to the office, "I will respect your decision, please keep him safe."

Naruto looks at his former sensei, "You know I will, I never go back on a promise. Just keep to your end and all will be good."

With that Naurto bowed to show respect and exited the Hokages office with a new purpose and a new goal, set the Uchiha free.


He didn't know what day it was or what time it was, he was tired of pissing himself because no one would let him go to the bathroom. He is tired of smelling the urine and the musk of his own body, he had never felt like this, even when his parents had died. He had always been clean, no matter what. Now he sits in his own shit and piss praying to whatever gods may be out there that something would happen, and soon. No sooner had he thought the thoughts did his cell open; he could hear the metal scrapping upon the floor, and that his blindfold disappeared and the restraints where gone. He is met with glowing blue orbs and a smile that actually warmed him up,

"Lets go teme, I got you out under one condition."

"And?"

"You have to live with me until the elder's make a decision."

"Hn. Not so bad."

Naruto face plated an iron bar not expecting that reaction out of Sasuke, he looks at the blonde as if he were insane.

"Um okay, well lets go then." Naruto stammers out while rubbing his forehead.

"I have one question before we leave," Naruto turns to him, "Why did the Hokage change his mind?"

Naruto grins, "Because I know Kakashi better than the elders. Now lets get going before anyone tries to stop us."

"Right."

He responds and follows the blonde out of his would-be prison, he is glad to be rid of the place and hopes to be rid of the smell too.

A/N: Depending on if you guys want more, I will continue this. Sorry for the short chapter, this is just an into, let me know what yall think and where this should go. Hope to hear from yall