Ok. Second chapter of 'Sincerely Yours' came sooner then I expected, but I've been in the writing mood lately, so…. Yeah. I dunno. I just really felt like writing the second chapter of this. Hah. I think 'Changes' by Three Days Grace is my inspiration song.

Anyways, I'll just put up the things you guys should know.

DISCLAIMER: None of the characters in this story are mine. They all belong to the maker of Naruto, Masashi Kishimoto

WARNING: This may contain swearing, hints of shounen-ai, violence, etc, etc. Rated PG-13!

Review Remarks:

Kin Uchiha: It is awkward, but remember, this is Naruto writing XP. And it is disgusting, bad Sasu-kun is a evil, sexy person XD;;;

Rurikat: Glad you like it . And the book is awesome! Hope you like it!

Kyuubi-kun: The first mistake was unintentional, but the second was on purpose, because Naruto would forget something like that, I think XD;. Thanks, and here's my continuing!

Hieisbestbuddy888: I watch both the anime and read the manga . And thanks for liking it! Yes, it is a letter to 'you'. And it will be a slight Sasunaru in later chapters .

Tyranimo: I know, I saw that mistake almost immediately after I posted the story, and I fixed it ;;. And he is unique XD. And thank you!

Suicidal Skies: I do not rock, you write the best original fiction ever, and thank you! XD. ATD before we start? XP

NOTE: Yes, I did fix the age mistake. But the second 'mistake', with mentioning the school name, was intentional, because I thought Naruto would forget that. But I changed it anyways.

So… Yeah. On with the story!

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Dear Friend,

I'm sorry for mailing you TOO soon now, but I have something really exciting to tell you, and I can't believe it happened!

I actually got a present!

A real, God-given present! It's a choker, with a little leaf-looking thing on a metal plate and spikes decorating where it isn't. It's so cool! I even wore it after I got it! I love it! Oh yeah, I forgot to mention who gave it to me! Iruka-sensei gave it to me! He even took me to Ichiraku after that!

This was the BEST BIRTHDAY EVER!

He even came on a Sunday to give it to me. He said it was more special on the day I was born then the day after I was born. He came over at 10 in the morning, and I was still asleep (well, awake, but I just woke up because of him buzzing for me to get up there), and then he made me breakfast well I was in the shower! So I spent the whole day with him, until 4, then he took me to Ichiraku, and gave me the present! He even took me to a movie! That was the best day ever!

Even better, in the last two days, people haven't looked at me weirdly or with lotsa hate, and Sasuke hasn't really insulted me. I've been hanging out with Shikamaru and Chouji more (and this new guy, Kiba, who is totally obsessed with dogs. I don't know why he wasn't there the first day of school. Something about his family's dog having puppies…), and Sakura even talked to me with out insulting me!

My life is really taking a turn for the better! I'm so happy! This has been the best few days of my life!

Oh yeah! I forgot to mention, Iruka invited me to stay at his house on the weekends, because he knows about me living alone now. But I told him that he had to promise not to tell, and he did. So Iruka is my most precious person ever! He's the best! He's also the first person whose ever wanted to come near me… Which is kind of depressing, considering that I've lived for 12 years. I mean, 13! I have to get used to saying 13, now that I am an actual teen!

To tell you the truth, I really don't consider people that are 13 or 14 teens. I think 15 is the official age where you hit 'teenage' years, even though teen is at the end of 13. But I'm getting off topic! I'll tell you about school now!

In my last gym class (I only have it twice, sometimes 3 times a week), Sasuke AND Sakura were actually impressed by my moves! I'll try and describe them as best as I can…

First, Sakura did some cartwheels and then jumped up into the air and did a cartwheel with NO hands. Which was really, really, REALLY cool! She smiled really wide in my direction, and I smiled back, but she didn't do anything, so I looked behind me, and there was Sasuke, that bastard! Really unimpressed and stealing Sakura's attention away! I really wanted to hit him, but I decided that I would show him up. Because I've gotten really good! So I told him to go first, and he looked at me all weirdly and I smiled, kind of freakily. I think I scared him (though I know the chicken-shit would never admit that) but whatever.

Next Sasuke did a lot of moves. And I have to say I was impressed, even though I hate the bastard. I mean, c'mon! He went 10 feet away from the starting mat and ran at it, and about 5 feet away from it he kind of hurled forward and did a one-handed flip, then a another flip, a cartwheel, a kind of jump thing that made him go really high, and then he flipped and twirled at the same time, and landed on his feet. It was really cool, though I didn't say that! I just grinned and said "I'll beat you, you bastard!"

And I did, which is the best part!

I stood 5 feet away from the wall and ran straight. And kept on running until I was 5 feet away from the wall. Sasuke and Sakura were both giving me strange looks, but I smiled as I past them and kept on running towards the wall. And this is where my moves started, because I had practiced by running off the wall at my home, and got a lot of complaints about it, but it was worth it!

I ran a few feet off the wall and twisted so that my stomach was facing the floor, and did a flip. So I did a flip before landed on my hands, and it kind of hurt at first, but I continued. I did 2 more solid flips, one with a scissor like kick, with my hands, before I did another flip with 1 hand, and then a cartwheel with no hands. And then I did another flip with no hands, and rolled and jumped. Then landed on my hand for a one-handed hand-stand and that was it!

You should have seen their faces! I wished I had a camera!

The most amazing part that Shikamaru and Chouji, with a girl named Ino, who were in my class, started clapping slowly. And then a few more people started clapping, and then the whole gym started clapping (except for a few jocks and stupid idiots that don't appreciate my amazing skills!)! It was amazing! I got this really fuzzy feeling, and I was blushing hard. But it might have been because I was still upside down.
I'm sure it would have been way more amazing if you had seen it, because I suck at describing and writing things.

Anyways, the teacher, Kakashi, told us that the show was over and we should go change. And since it was right before lunch, everybody hurried up and got changed, while I was stuck dragging the mats back to the equipment room, because "If I could do that little performance, I could do a little more work." I think he was just lazy, but whatever.
So I got changed, and I was kind of eager to get going to lunch, because I could get some spaghetti, since it's Tuesday. I have no more ramen at home. I have to go shopping.

As I was coming out of the bathroom, Sasuke just appeared out of NO WHERE and stared at me. And you have to understand the way the school is built, because it twists a lot, so you don't know whose around the next wall, or hiding in a little hole or something. Here, I'll try and explain….

The boys bathroom faces right towards the wall, with a little turn so people can't see directly in it, like normal schools have, right? And the girls' bathroom is directly across from the boys'. Then it goes down a hall, which is about 10 or 15 feet. When you get to the end of it, and you go left, it's not even really a hallway, but it is, I guess. It goes off into a small hole-in-the-wall type of thing that is actually five feet deep or something. And that's where the water fountain is (and a cross above it, but I don't know why it's there. The school ain't Catholic or Christian or whatever) . But then, to the right of the water fountain, is another little hall. You turn right at that end of the hall, and there's the janitor's room thing. But, going back to the end of the longer hallway, you go to you're right, go down a lot more, then turn left (which is the only way to go), go down a little, and there's the gym. Another door leads out to the rest of the school. So, basically, it's like the girls' and boys' bathrooms are in an entirely different section, but if you go outside, there's nothing sticking out. Kinda weird…

Anyway, I was getting a drink from the water fountain (people usually use the one outside of the gym), and Sasuke just… appeared. From the janitor's office, I guess.

I kinda screamed (and it's not like those one of those comical girl screams, where they put up their hands and then faint or whatever), and then started swearing really loudly. I'm surprised no one heard me, but then it was a long time since the bell rang.

He just kind of gave me a look that said "You're an idiot, I'm superior, blahblahblah".

And I called him an asshole, and he was still looking like that, so I tried to hit him. He caught it (I wasn't trying! At all!), and I took my hand back, and… Yeah. We just stared at each other before he looked away and mumbled something.

I swore at him (again) because I couldn't hear him, and then he looked up and glared hard before saying something a little louder. And, HOLY SHIT, you know what he said? He said "That was kind of cool, what you did in gym."

So he complimented me.

Sasuke Uchiha, 'I am an asshole and so much better', complimented me, the great Uzumaki Naruto.

IT WAS AWESOME! Someone finally said something that made me feel happy until right now. That hasn't happened before. I usually get sad when I eat my supper (spicy ramen for supper!), and no one is there to eat it with me. Because, you know, it's kind of sad when you look across the table and see no one is there, right? You're all alone and that?

NOT SINCE LAST SATURDAY HAVE I FELT LIKE THAT!

Hah hah. And the week doesn't even stop there.

I guess I had a grin after what he said, because he just looked away and said, even more clearer then than the compliment, "Stop grinning like an idiot, Usuratonkachi, and let's go."

I grinned even wider and slapped him hard on the back, like I usually do to Chouji when I beat him in a Ramen eating contest (We've had three so far! I've won two!). He looked sort of surprised and glared at me real quickly, and all I said was "Awww, is little Sasuke embarrassed? You can compliment someone once in a while, ya know. It ain't that hard. And what does Usur-what-a-what mean anyway?"

We even walked to the cafeteria together, because he refused to tell me what it meant and what the hell language it was. I was trying to convince him the whole way.

It took through out all of lunch. Which meant that I sat with him at lunch. (I'm pretty sure Kiba, Chouji, and Shikamaru didn't mind).

So, things I learned about Sasuke, that I really didn't need to know about, but I did anyway, and, oh well, I actually learned something:

1) He's a half-Japanese person with the whitest skin you've ever seen. He wouldn't tell me what the other half of him was, the bastard
2) Usuratonkachi means idiot, basically. I hit him hard for that, cuz I am not an idiot!
3) He definitely does not like the attention he gets (I was teasing him about dating one of the girls, like Sakura, cuz I wanted to find out if he would date her and if I had a chance. He hit me. Hard. On the head.)
4) Reason he gets so much attention is because he's a wealthy inheritor of the Japanese police in some Japanese city. He wouldn't give the name of which city, though. So he has his life planned out, which would suck.
5) He wouldn't tell me about his parents, which usually means something bad.
6) He has a brother that goes to a gifted academy, somewhere. He's in his final year of that school, and it basically starts you off in university too, so he might be in university already…
7) He's really smart, too. He's supposed to be in grade 10 already!

8) If he wasn't supposed to inherit the police place with Itachi, then he would have had a career in basketball. He didn't like talking about this one.

9) He can be a pretty tolerable when he isn't insulting you.

And you wanna know something really weird that happened right after he spoke about his brother?

Sakura came over to the table we were sitting at. And since it's empty, except for us, it was pretty obvious who she was coming to visit.

Yeah. Sasuke. She sat down right near him, so close Sasuke could hardly move his elbow to lift the fork he was using to his mouth! I even have to admit that I wouldn't enjoy the kind of love Sakura was giving Sasuke to that extent.

But, yeah. Soon as she sat down, Sasuke moved over a tiny bit, and she backed off real quick. So, yeah.

Then she started talking. And talking. And talking. I never even knew girls could go on and on about the kind of things she was talking about for that long.

She said something real cool, though! She complimented me on my moves! She said "Oh, and Naruto, what you did in gym was, like, so cool! All the girls thought it was just so totally awesome!"

Then she over-complimented Sasuke, saying she never even knew guys' bodies could move like that (which had a double meaning because she got this real… Snarky grin on her face after she said it). He ignored her and asked me what I had after this. What class, I mean. Geez, I really shouldn't write in pen.

Anyway, she kind of shut up a second after this, but… Yeah. All of us just chatted after that, and it was kind of boring, but I got to sit with Sakura! Even if it was for only 5 minutes.

I have to explain something before I end this letter, though, ok?

We're all only in 8th grade, and we're at a high school where all the grades are in one building, which is separated into two parts. It's a huge school. And we have cheerleading. And Sakura is in what everyone calls the 'CIT'. The Cheerleaders in Training.

These are the most popular girls in the west part (junior high and elementary, kindergarten to 8), and then high school in the east part (high school, 9 to 12)). This group has the prettiest girls in the west part! Of course, Sakura is in there, along with Ino (a girl with long blonde hair), Ten Ten (she's Chinese), Temari (a real sarcastic girl), and kind-of Hinata (she isn't that popular, but she sits with this group of girls and talks with them all the time. She has white eyes. Creepy), along with a few other girls I don't know the names of.

So… Yeah. Nothing else to say. I hope that this year will be as good as this week! Seeya!

Sincerely Yours,

Uzumaki Naruto

Thursday, October 14th, 2005

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Dear Friend,

These past few… Argh! IT'S BEEN PISSING ME OFF!

I found out that I might not make the basketball team because of the stupid coach, Sakura said something bad about me, I have this kid following me around, Haku has to move up 3 grades because he's so damn smart and his guardian won't let him stay in this grade, Iruka might be transferred…

God. I'll explain it in detail.

First of all, you have to know that I am in love with basketball! Best sport ever, good for you, blah-blah-blah, you don't want to know all my reasons, right? It would take up 10 pages! I swear! Anyway…

I think I'm pretty good. Actually, I know I am at least good, because I lost to Sasuke 18-22, and he was supposed to be the big basketball star.

We had try-outs 2 days ago, and a LOT of guys showed up, cuz it's the second most popular sport compared to football, and only the real jocky guys go for that sport.

The next day only about half of the guys were there, and I was still there. So was this guy named Neji (he kept to himself, and he has white eyes, too), Shikamaru, Chouji, Kiba, Sasuke (of course), Shino (guy obsessed with bugs), a creepy guy named Kankuro, Lee (a REAL flamboyant guy. He's not gay though. Something about this one girl…), Haku (A real girly guy that Zabuza is lusting after. I can tell!), Kidoumaru (REAL creepy guy), Jiroubou (He's as fat as Chouji!), and Yayuya (He's almost as girly then Haku, who I thought WAS a girl), and Kimimaro (He's…freaky. Quiet and he seems like he's going to murder you). There is supposed to be this other guy coming on our team in a week, but he went for surgery or something and is getting out only then. I don't know why HE got to skip practices.

But, yeah. On with the story.

The coach is a guy named Ebisu (along with Zabuza, a real evil guy whose fair. He wasn't there though), and he really hates me. And I mean REALLY hates me. Maybe because, in grade 7, he got in biiiig trouble for yelling at me, thinking I did this one prank to him that I 'didn't' do. But I did. And, fuck, I'm glad I did it!

So, he called me into the office yesterday, after practice, and I was the only one being called. So I just went, thinking…while, I wasn't thinking about what was going to happen, to tell you the truth. I was thinking about ramen and how hungry I was at the moment. And how I might be able to mooch a ride from 'Sasu-chaaaan!' (It's my nickname for him, since 'chan' is Japanese and you add it on a girl's name or whatever. That'll teach him to try and teach ME another language).

I was in his office, right? Just sitting there while he stared down at these papers and shuffling them like they were important. I think he was just doing that to piss me off. And it did, so I yelled at him "What do you want, coach!"

He glared at me real hard core before answering (after putting down the papers), "I think you can't be on the basketball team, Naruto."

I'm thinking 'What the FUCK?' here, but I didn't say that… Just something like it. I asked why, kind of jumping out of my seat, and you know what he said!

"You're grades are a little too low for you to be participating in sports."

So I told him that Kiba AND Kankuro had grades as low as mine (I only know this because we were fighting about it in the locker room, seeing who was the stupidest and smartest of us three), and asked him why he only wanted to talk to me. He said something about them having 'adequate parenting', and them being able to afford help that won't affect their time on sports.

So… I kind of exploded. Well, who wouldn't? Taking a shot at my parents, for Christ's sake! And the fact that I'm poor. It really pissed me off. I called him a bunch of names and told him, in not so nice terms, to shut up. Then I stormed out, because I felt like I could kill the guy.

The only one that was in the bathroom was Haku when I started beating up on the wall, punching and screaming and wondering why I was the only one being booted off the team (not that yelling at the guy helped me much). I didn't even notice he was there until he put his arm on my shoulder and told me to calm down.

I told him he wasn't being kicked off 'because of the lack of money and inadequate parenting', and he just smiled and asked me what happened. So I told him about what happened in the office, and he kind-of frowned and said too not worry so much about it. I asked him how I could not worry about it, and he just told me it would work out.

But as soon as he turned around, I started punching the wall again, so he stopped me again and did this little disappointed thing, where he smiled and then hung his head, as if deciding what to do. Then he told me to sit down, and he would tell me a sad story, because… It made people feel better or something.

He told me that he didn't have any parents either and he had just been adopted recently, by some sleaze ball (his eyes darkened when he mentioned the guy, but he wouldn't say why). He had been living on the streets the whole time, and he told me about this one story of this guy that took him in briefly because some gang had been chasing him. Turns out the guy just sold him to the people after he fell asleep, and he had woken up beaten and bloody and alone.

I was silent after that, anger forgotten, and he just smiled and said "Are you angry any more?"

I think he's one of my best friends now, just for that simple reason. Haku is one of those people that will listen and solve your problems automatically. He's like…an Angel or something.

So we walked home and I joked about him being my Guardian Angel, and he just kind of smiled and said that he couldn't tell me if he was, else I'd be extra nice to him and still do all that bad trash I usually do.

I didn't know what to say after that, but he had to leave, so we said bye.

Then I learned today, that he has to move up three grades because of that sleaze ball guardian saying something about as soon as Haku is out of school, he's going to start 'providing for the family'. So he has until before the end of November to move, cuz he has to pick classes and stuff. That means he's going off the team, too, and I'll never see him during class, because I'm in the west wing and he's in the east wing.

I only found out because I was at the office today for 'talking too loud', and his guardian was there, talking about it. I confronted Haku about it, and he only smiled again and said something like "I'll still be able to see you, Naruto."

Thing is, now that I actually found a friend that knows how cruel the streets are, I don't want to let him go. He might find newer, better, more cool friends! So I think he might leave me for other people. So much for Guardian Angels.

Then, when I was in lunch today with Shikamaru and Chouji and Kiba and Sasuke (he only sits with us sometimes), Sasuke had to leave for a second, saying he forgot something in the changing rooms.

I ate my ramen real quick (in two minutes), and then I went running after him, because I wanted to know if I could mooch a ride off of him again. I got to just before the part where you turn, and then I heard Sakura's voice. And she sounded upset. I was thinking Sasuke rejected her, and my natural curiosity got the best of me. I started to listen.

And… what she said really hurt. It was something like…

"God, Sasuke! Why do you hang out with that loser, Naruto, anyway? Like, he has no parents, you know. He's probably going to get all attached to you and never let you go!" Then she laughed, and I felt the pit of my stomach swallowing up my heart. "You should just get rid of him, like, quick here, before he turns into a fag! Me and the girls are already betting on it."

I couldn't really take much more, you know, so… I ran. I didn't care how loud I was, and I knew I was being loud, because I heard Sasuke's voice saying my name and a gasp and an 'Oh my God, was he there!' from Sakura.

And I'm here now, real depressed and angry because of that, and of what happened on the way home and at home.

There is this kid that lives right near me, a block away. He's annoying. His name is Konohamaru, and he has this big scarf that's really stupid.

I was running home through the back alleys, and I must have been really distracted because I went into the wrong alleyway and kept on running. Then I came to this kid, and he was running. We both kept on running towards each other, and then I noticed some guy was chasing him. He tripped, and this guy came up to him and started kicking him.

So I ran even faster and started yelling, because this was a good way to get rid of anger, beating up somebody with no name to you.

After I kicked the guy's ass, he ran away, and I helped the kid up (he had been kicked a lot before I finally got to the guy, who had a fucking knife!). He started swearing at me, telling me he could have kicked the guy's ass himself. So I punched him (a bit hard), and he started whining because you're not supposed to kick a guy when he's down. I told him to shut up, because he was swearing at me, and I wasn't going to go for that.

I don't know what happened, but he started following me, telling me his life story.

Turns out that Konohamaru's mum is a bit of a meth addict, along with a few other bad habits. The guy was chasing him because his mum hadn't paid him in awhile, and he was getting pissed off, was going to beat up Konohamaru for a warning message Konohamaru's mum.

I told him to go away, and he said only if I go and see him tomorrow at the park. He wouldn't leave until I promised, so I promised and he left.

Then I got in and slammed the door to my apartment, and I got a knock from the guy upstairs. I just ignored him. Fell asleep right away.

I was woken up by a loud knocking from the door and I was thinking 'Oh, good. All of that was just a dream. It's time to go to school'. Then I noticed it was only 4, so I went to open the door with a kind of sad face on.

It was Iruka, and he had a bunch of groceries. So he started cooking a supper for us after asking me how I was, then I want to get a shirt on. He does this a lot for me. Comes over and cooks I mean, because 'Ramen isn't a proper diet'.

We were sitting in the living room (I don't have a proper table), eating the Tonkatsu (a Japanese dish of chicken or pork) and rice he made, just watching 'The Simpsons', the one where Homer thinks Bart is gay. I was laughing at the real gay guy's lisp when he turned the TV off (he had to reach over. I got one of those old ones, with the buttons), and turned around to me, putting his food down and smiling nervously.

He was acting weird all night, so I finally asked him what's wrong, and he told me this whole little story about the school system before he told me he might be transferred to another school, one that was about two miles away from this school. Across town from me. You have to know that he doesn't have a car, and he lives close to the school and close enough to me so that he can take the bus. So if he moves across town, it'll be difficult for him to come here…

I kind of sat there for a moment before I quoted Haku and said 'Don't worry about it too much, Iruka! It'll all work out sooner or later!'.

Then he smiled and told me I was right, helped me clean up and left. He just left now.

So… I wrote to you. Because I don't know what else to do, and I don't want to cry, and… Argh.

I hope you never have to go through any of this, or had too. Now I have too leave, because I need to go for a walk. I don't care if something happens to me. I don't.

Thank you for reading this, if you do. Bye.

Sincerely Yours,

Uzumaki Naruto

Thursday, October 21st, 2005

PS

I'm sorry if it is a little smudged. I couldn't keep from crying a little.

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I HAD to be cruel in this one, because…. I don't know. No special foreshadowing, except for maybe a few things, but I'm glad I finally finished it.

So… Second chapter of Sincerely Yours, finished! God, I've been on a writing spree XD.

Until the next update!