A very different story with an actual plot x3 its Sakura x Naruto and their… interesting relationship. You'll like it, I hope :-/ I came up with the plot as I wrote so ya.

He jumped in without hesitation. The only thing he could never hesitate in. How could he ever doubt his love of it? The first burst of power as he kicked of the wall, the feel of the water against his skin, the power he felt in himself. The speed… no the thrill of competition made all the after school practices worth it. Or maybe he was lying to himself. Maybe it was to escape. Escape, oh how he loved that word.

Don't get me wrong.

He wasn't an emo and this story is a lot deeper.

It's just he couldn't stand it! Maybe he should start from the beginning. This is his story after all and who could explain it better?

Main Character P.O.V:

"I'll start with my birth, it was unconventional at best."

"I was a test tube baby…" the girl who sat next to him widened her eyes to the point you'd swear she was imitating an owl and her jaw slackened visibly.

"Something that wasn't natural," he continued as if nothing happened, "the family who ended up raising me seemed nice… for a while. To everyone but me they where the perfect family. It turned out my foster mother was deeply religious… deeply being the keyword. I'll talk about her later." His voice shook slightly and she patted his shoulder in comfort.

"I mean my foster father was cool I guess, everyone told me I was lucky he was my father. He was the head scientist who worked to make my birth possible, a kind middle-aged man, couldn't wait to take me home. Taught me loads of things you won't fin in our textbooks to, he would spend hours with me on his lap showing me diagrams and charts of his current projects that weren't so classified."

"Anyways, as I was saying I was a government funded birth so the government wanted me close by at all times but also wanted me to have a seemingly normal childhood."

"My brother was cold. No other word for it. Maybe it was because he didn't like me for ruining his perfect life or maybe it was because his father ignored him after I came in? Well anyways, he hated me. Which worked out great, I grew up to hate him back. We fought all the time, his name is Sasuke Uchiha," she gasped and immediately put a hand to her mouth her eyes grew large.

"Your Naruto Uchiha! Now I know where I had heard your name before! I did a project on you once for school! Sasuke's your brother? Oh wow who would have known? I mean come' o-" he cut off her rant with a grimace and she looked at him apologetically waiting for him to go on.

"You have to understand, my foster family, well at least my mother and brother, weren't the type of people who could accept a child like me," he sighed a rubbed the back of his head.

"My mom believed me to be a complete abomination, that's what she told me at least. I was unnatural to her and the people at church would talk about how they pitied her to have such a weird boy she said. No belly button they would say, well of course, no need for an umbilical cord!"

"She shunned me because she believed me to not be gods creation," the girl next to him frowned and he just shook his head, "it was fine, I got away with a lot of things because of that. At school I slacked and would play pranks to get attention, everyone knew I was weird. Their parents told them I had unnatural birth. They feared me. I haven't really ever had a friend... hey don't look at me like that!" the girl next to him named Sakura just kept on frowning.

"I'll be your friend." She said with confidence and a smile aimed at him.

Shock.

Absolute shock.

A spasm went through his body and the numbness.

Then twitch at the corner of his face indicated a smile was forming and that it did. One of the first that had formed on his face in a long time. And he loved it. He wanted to feel this happy giddy feeling some more and immediately pulled her into a hug and whispered in her ear, "Then you'll be my first." She blushed and smacked him on his arm and pulled back.

Sakura's P.O.V:

"Don't say it like that! It sounds so wrong!" she said indignantly. He just smirked, a smirk that reminded her so much of his brother.

'Probably where he picked it up from.' She thought in an annoyed way. 'Whoever thought I'd be making friends with the famous Naruto? The one everyone told me to avoid along with the gays and the Goths, maybe even more so. The weird class prankster who no one liked and was to be treated like the plague he was. Ino's gonna freak.' She grimaced.

Sakura had just moved here to America from Tokyo. She had had a hard time fitting in till her new friend Ino, who was semi-popular, stepped in and gave her a makeover to make her more Americanized and sexy as Ino put it.

Sakura has weirdly been born with pink hair, seeing as her parents both had plain black hair it was a mystery left alone. Her father did want to believe her mother may have cheated on him as he loved her dearly. Her mother did want to know how this was possible so also avoided the subject.She had not allowed Ino to dye her hair, she thought it made her unique. Also her bright green eyes, but Ino didn't want to touch those she said her eyes where gorgeous enough without any help.

She then introduced her to everyone in class as a girl who was exotic, cool, and with dyed pink hair. Sakura tended to shy away from the crowd but Ino gave her one great push so she ended up being in the center of it. She thanked Ino with all her heart for what she did for Sakura and trusted Ino very much and respected her opinions. But she believed Ino was wrong about Naruto.

'Naruto is just misunderstood!' Her inner conscious yelled to the world with a mighty fist punched high in the air.

Her and Naruto met while she was walking out the back of school a week ago. Sakura was bit of a bookworm. Any book would do, she loved learning new things or imagining worlds far off filled with mystery and wonder. But she preferred medical and science books the best. So she wanted to find a spot in the school that she could avoid Ino and the class during there lunch break to sit and read a good book. Everyone needed to break away sometimes.

She had wandered past the tennis courts and the football field to end up at the Olympic side pool where their looked to be a nice dry bench. She sat down and immediately immersed herself in a world of scalpels and human body parts. Absolutely fascinating in her opinion.

When Sakura read she wouldn't notice anything else around her so it was her surprise when a huge splash and a few water droplets landing on her awoke her from her stupor. Looking up she noticed a boy had started to do a few laps in the pool. She couldn't really tell who he was, all she could see was he was male and that yellow swim cap and goggles.

Deciding that it wasn't a big deal she continued reading till he got out of the pool. One problem. Reading the same sentence over and over wasn't much fun. She sighed and got up, as she couldn't concentrate with the boy swimming by her. She then realized something. He wasn't swimming anymore.

The boy had taken off his goggles and cap and stood in front of her, back facing her, stretching. He was a vibrant blonde and very lean and tan. Muscular but not overly.

'Well duh, a swimming athlete.' She thought to herself.

He then turned and she was shocked. He had no belly button.

It went on from there. Her inquiring about his belly button and him avoiding the question with one of his own. Being as fascinated with medical books she was wondering how this was possible and him being stubborn avoided her questions. Giving up she sighed and walked back to her bench. She had now dubbed it hers. It was a nice spot.

He surprisingly sat next to her. He leaned over making her blush and pulled the book gently from her arms. They talked about its contents. He knew an awful lot and they had a nice conversation about it.

And it went that way. She would come every day that week during her break to the pool to talk with him and then a week later they ended up like this. Him pouring his life story to her.

And now she knew. The boy she was supposed to avoid, someone who could damage her image and friendship with Ino. Naruto.

Who was also an Uchiha?

The boy whose brother was her current crush.

They brother he hated and now she was his friend.

The boy who was a test tube baby with no friends but her.

What a tangled web we weave.

The first Chapter of 'Tangled Web' is finished. Well spelling and grammatical errors abundant I had no time to be too thorough. I hope they didn't keep anyone from enjoying the story. Just the beginning to a long plot line… (sigh) Oh ya and other then the main Naruto characters all the other people have American names. xP I'll find a way to explain the Japanese names later I'm sure.

Preview Chapter 2:

"Oh I already knew." He shrugged nonchantly.

"What! Why didn't you tell me? I mean all these years!" she screeched while tugging on his ear.

"Hey watch it!" he pulled his ear out her grasp hastily. "Look it wasn't my secret to tell. It was easy enough to deduce anyways. It was also all over the news when we where babies and I just happened to come across an article in my mom's drawer about a year ago to confirm my suspicions." He sighed and laid back on desk chair making it tilt dangerously on two legs as Ino sat on the desk interrogating him.

"You still should have told me! And why the heck did your mom have an article of that in her drawer?" she asked perplexed and he just looked back at her thoughtfully for a second and then frowned.

"This is to troublesome…"