Disclamer: If I owned Naruto, I would so seriously not be here...
Hullo again. This here is officially my first story posted that isn't a one-shot. Whoo-hoo,go me .
But, uh, yeah. This story is AU, and it is how I imagined it would go if they became friends as children. I liked how it came out, and I hope you enjoy it.
Chapter 1: Defying All Odds
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A break from schedule. An adventure. At least, in the eyes of six year old Uchiha Sasuke, that was what this unusual change in routine looked like.
Class at the academy had just ended for the day, and this was his free time. An hour and a half, all to himself, to do whatever he wanted, although he usually trained. Only, today, he had been confronted, interrupted, if you will.
By none other than the outcast of Konoha, Uzamaki Naruto.
But why was that so unusual? Uzamaki Naruto had talked to him before, so why should this be any different?
Because this time, Naruto was actually asking, nicely, no less, for training. And Sasuke, Uchiha Sasuke, the child every parent wished for, was breaking a rule.
He had said yes.
Which is how Uchiha Sasuke and Uzamaki Naruto ended up together, deep in the forest, throwing kunai at a practice dummy they had borrowed from an academy store room.
Okay. So he was breaking about three rules.
At the moment, Sasuke was watching Naruto throw at the dummy, trying to figure out what Naruto was doing wrong.
And he was doing something wrong, because the first six kunai that Naruto threw completely missed their mark. Well, actually, they completely missed the dummy altogether.
"Stop! I figured it out. But yeesh! Really, how did you get this far at all!" Sasuke asked Naruto, standing up, and sounding exasperated.
Naruto looked torn, unable to decide what expression to show on his face – either the loud-mouthed grin he normally used, or the pained expression that belonged there.
But before he could choose, Sasuke blushed, thinking of the pain it caused him when his father talked about his efforts like that, and feeling ashamed of himself. "Sorry, I didn't mean it. But your grip is off. That's what's wrong. Mine was when I started, too." Thinking back on it, Sasuke blushed even harder. "It was fixed. Painfully."
"Well at least you had someone to fix it," Naruto grumbled, looking down.
And then, in that second it took Sasuke to breathe, he had made a decision that would have taken aback every adult in Konoha, and befriended Naruto once and for all. "And know so do you, dumbass," he retorted with a grin – and breaking a fourth rule by cussing.
Naruto looked up cautiously, his past making him untrusting, until he saw that Sasuke actually meant it. Then he answered "Glad to hear it, jerk," grinning with real happiness for the first time in a long while.
And so started their friendship, defying all odds, and strong enough to last through the scolding they got for borrowing the dummy from the academy.
And then for going out so far alone in the woods.
And after that, practically being dragged apart by the older members of the Uchiha clan, which was followed by a lecture on behavior for Sasuke and many glares and declarations of worthlessness for Naruto.
And through all the mischief and trouble they would get into as time went on.
About 7 month's later.
"She's looking at you again," Naruto told Sasuke, casually leaning back for a better view of Haruno Sakura, the "she" he was referring to. "I don't care, bonehead," Sasuke muttered, but it was ruined with a blush.
Naruto grinned, asking "Then why are you blushing?" Squirming and blushing more, Sasuke grumbled a bit before answering. "It makes me feel…self-conscious."
"Ha ha! Someone has a cru-ush!" Naruto teased, knowing that it wasn't true.
"I DO NOT!" Sasuke burst out, taking the bait.
"Uzamaki! Uchiha! Quiet down, and pay attention to the lesson! I'm sick and tired of this. The next time I have to tell someone off, they get a detention!"
Naruto took his que. "Hey, jerk, watch a master at work!" he whispered at Sasuke as he leaned towards the kid on his other side.
Which happened to be the sleeping Nara Shikamaru.
After a few seconds of doing something to Shikamaru's face that Sasuke couldn't see, Naruto leaned back to his original position.
"5…4…3…2…"
Shikamaru snored. Loudly.
The teacher snapped. "NARA! That is IT!" "Wha-?" Shikamaru was finally roused by the yelling of his name. "Detention! Today, after school! And that goes for you, too, Inuzaka!" That stopped Kiba's loud laughter up short.
Naruto grinned at Sasuke, and he grinned back. Then they both dropped their grins and faced the front of the room when the teacher glared in their direction. But as the teacher returned to the lesson, content that the interruptions had been dealt with, they continued their original conversation.
Sakura was watching Sasuke, like Naruto had observed earlier, but she was also watching him.
They were such unlikely friends. It had been a shock when they went off to train that day. Sakura had been amazed. But what was even stranger was the friendship they had developed and kept.
"Dead last" Naruto had gotten better, and the "perfect" Sasuke had changed, and now even participated in pranks, like the one just pulled on Shikamaru.
Okay, so that had been funny – Sakura had even laughed, albeit quietly, so she didn't get in trouble.
But that wasn't the point! Uchiha Sasuke had pulled a similar prank on Kiba two days ago! Sasuke!
And actually, that one had been quite a bit more extensive, considering Kiba had been awake…Sakura laughed in spite of herself, just thinking about it.
The teacher paused, mid-word, to turn and yell at her. "Haruno! I expected no less from Nara and Inuzaka, but from you! You know have earned yourself detention, too!"
"Ah, man, mom's gonna kill me!" Sakura muttered, feeling cross. But she supposed she was excused for that, considering the thought of spending two hours alone with the spazzy teacher, the lazy Shikamaru, and the loud and bragging Kiba. It looked rather gloomy…
Suddenly, there was a very loud burp, emanating from somewhere in the vicinity of where Naruto and Sasuke were sitting. It was followed by the thump of Naruto falling of his chair with laughter.
The teacher nearly had an apoplexy.
As it was, a vein started throbbing in his forehead, and his left eye started twitching. "UZAMAKI! UCHIHA! It pains me to have to shame such a worthy name as your family's, but you BOTH have DETENTION!"
Having already observed that they got themselves into this on purpose, Sakura had just one thought.
Well. This is going to be intresting.
