I don't own Naruto and I never will. I can only wish.

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Sasuke had just walked into a dark place on the more uncivilized side of town. At least that's how his parents would have put it. Sasuke didn't have a problem with it though. It gave him a small thrill and something he felt he could have all to himself.

The place Sasuke just walked into was a club called "Club Rain"; the walls were painted a dark blue, the lights hazy in one area and brighter on the other side. It had tables and booths, a dance floor and a stage in the corner by the entrance.

Sasuke looked around for Naruto, who he had called earlier and who told him to meet here. Not seeing the pink-haired boy anywhere, Sasuke decided to sit down at a booth and wait.

As Sasuke waited, he noticed the club was getting fuller and fuller by the second. He saw a few people who were at the bar yesterday. It was the same type of crowd: wild hair, piercings, dark clothing with random splashes of color. Sasuke was wearing a plain black t-shirt and jeans so he pretty much fit in.

Sasuke was scanning the crowd again looking at some random guy's hair wondering if he would want to try that type of hair style when a tap on the shoulder caused him to jump. He quickly turned around in his seat to see a short, blond kid with bright blue eyes.

'Naruto?!'

"Hey Sasuke! It's so cool that you could make it. How long have you been waiting?" Naruto asked.

"Um, a-about five minutes." Sasuke stuttered, still staring at Naruto's hair. He liked him blond. It made him look, well, it made him look nice. It was still spiky though, but Sasuke still had to ask, "What happened to the pink?"

Naruto looked at him with big eyes then gave a small chuckle.

"I washed it out."

"How do you wash out dye?"

"It was only temporary dye so vinegar and shampoo pretty much did the trick." (1)

"Oh. So then you dyed it blond?"

"No, that's natural."

"Really?!"

"Yup."

Sasuke shook his head and decided to change the subject. "So, why did you want me to meet you here?"

"Oh yea, that's right. That band and I are playing here tonight. I thought you might like to watch. You said that you needed to get out of the house so I thought that you might like to come here.

Sasuke nodded his head in an affirmative. This placed seem pretty cool.

"When do you go on?" he asked.

"Not for another hour or so. I called you here a bit early so we could hang out."

"Okay, cool."

Naruto sat down on the other side and they talked. They talked about they're favorite colors: Naruto orange, Sasuke blue. Their favorite type of music: Naruto alternative rock, Sasuke metal. Where they lived: Sasuke Jersey City, New Jersey and Naruto Plainfield, New Jersey. They even talked about what school they were going to in the fall: both planned on going to NYU, however there was one problem.

"What do you mean your parents don't know that you got into NYU and that you're going there?!" Naruto said incredulously.

"It means exactly as it sounds. I got in on scholarship. They won't know until I move into the apartment that my parents also don't know about. I bought it with money I've saved up for years. They think I'm living in the dorms at Yale."

"Wow!" said Naruto, amazed. "You are one sneaky bastard."

"Thank you."

Naruto just rolled his eyes and gave Sasuke a small smile.

Sasuke's heart fluttered and it felt like his stomach did a summersault.

'What the hell?!'

Sasuke pretended not to notice his reaction to the smile and continued to chat with Naruto.

"Hey, I noticed something about you." Sasuke said,

"What?" Naruto asked, cocking his head to side innocently.

"You have an accent. Did you live somewhere else?"

"Yea, I lived in Japan until I turned fifteen. My guardian, Iruka, is a photographer and he teaches at the local community college. The pay was pretty good so we moved."

"Oh, so that's why the band's name is Yoshi."

"What?!" Naruto was looking at Sasuke as if he had grown a second and third head.

"Yea, you know from the Nintendo games." (2)

"I know who Yoshi is. I grew up with him (3). But that's not our name."

"Oh…Then what is it?"

"You were pretty close. The band's name is 'Yoshiaki'. It means Righteous Glory. Kinda cool, huh?" (4)

Sasuke nodded his head. It was pretty cool.

"So are you all of you Japanese?" Sasuke asked. He was a little curious.

"Yea, well except for TenTen. She's Chinese."

"Hmm…So does everyone's name mean anything specific?"

"I don't know about everyone else's, but mine does."

"Tell me."

Naruto blushed. "I don't want to."

"Why?" Now Sasuke really wanted to know.

"It's a little embarrassing."

"Come on, tell me. It can't be that bad."

"Fishcake." (5)

"Huh?" 'What?!'

"It means fishcake. My name." Naruto said looking at the table, the tips of his ears red.

Sasuke choked down his laughter. He didn't want to upset Naruto, but he was doing to save that dirt for another time. So he just changed the subject.

"You don't look Japanese."

"Huh?" Naruto said, his eyes wide.

"You don't look Japanese. Big, blue eyes, blond hair. The only thing that could pass you off as Asian is that you're shorter then average and your eyes are slanted. Slightly."

"Oh my dad was French. He was in their army and was based in Japan. He met my mom and that was that."

"Do you have duel-citizenship?" (6)

"Yes. I'm a Japanese-Frenchmen. If I stay in America long enough I'll be a citizen here as well."

"Wow." That was rather impressive.

Naruto was looking out at the crowd, lost in his own world. The two boys sat in a comfortable silence for a few minutes.

Then suddenly Naruto asked, "What time is it?"

Sasuke was slightly taken aback, but quickly recovered and looked at the clock on his cell phone.

"It's 11:19." Wow, Sasuke hadn't realized he'd been there that long. He got to the club around 9:30ish.

"I've got to head backstage." Naruto informed Sasuke. "We go on at 11:30. We're only playing one song today. This place likes to book their band slots full so that way they have different styles and therefore more customers."

Sasuke nodded his head. It made sense.

Naruto left Sasuke, saying he'd be back when the song was over.

And at 11:30, just as he said, Naruto and the others came out on the stage. But there was someone Sasuke had never seen before and he guessed that must be Kabuto, the person they wanted him to replace.

Kabuto was a skinny kid with spiky white hair pulled into a pony tail, sickly pale skin and glasses that would glint in the light.

The band started playing and Naruto began to sing.

'We tried so hard to understand, but we can't. We held the world out in our hands and you ran away.'

If anything Naruto sounded better then the last time Sasuke heard him.

'Cause all we know is falling, it falls.'

But…

'Remember, cause I know that we won't forget at all.'

It sounded a bit off. They still sounded good, but the flow. Something wasn't right.

That was when Sasuke looked at Kabuto.

'This isn't what you wanted. This isn't what you wanted.'

Kabuto's playing was sloppy; he couldn't collaborate with Shikamaru on bass, and couldn't keep up with the pace of the song, going too fast on slow parts and going too slow on fast parts.

'Remember, cause I know that we won't forget at all.'

Basically, he was a mess.

When the song was over instead of meeting Naruto back at the booth they were in, Sasuke decided to sneak backstage and get him.

Once Sasuke got backstage he saw Kiba and walked in his direction.

The first one to spot him was TenTen, who was waving him over enthusiastically. When he got there she pulled him down to whisper something in his ear. She was a bit on the short side.

"Now you see why we want to replace him." She whispered, "He sucks. We only let him play because we thought he could get better, but he's not even committed."

"I thought he sprained his wrist yesterday?" Sasuke whispered back.

"Yea, we thought so too, but today's he's miraculously healed. What a joke!" she spat. "You're, like, a million times better then him."

When Naruto showed up he was shocked to see Sasuke there. "How did you get back here?" he asked

"I snuck back here."

Naruto stared at him for a minute, the said, "You should be, like, a ninja or something."

"Maybe I am." Sasuke said, giving Naruto a wink.

Naruto blushed. Sasuke liked it when Naruto blushed.

Sasuke and Naruto waved good-bye to the others, Sasuke pointedly ignoring Kabuto. There was just something about him he didn't like. The two boys walked outside and stood in the cool summer air. They stood side-by-side and Sasuke was looking out of the corner of his eye at Naruto. That's when he got an idea.

"Hey Naruto, can you help me with something?"

"Sure, what is it?"

Sasuke bent down and whispered something into Naruto's ear. When he stood back up, Naruto was grinning his huge fox grin. "I know the perfect place. And they're open late."


Sasuke had just got home after dropping Naruto off and it was around 3 o'clock. His parents would be pissed, but he really couldn't bring himself to care. He walked through the garage and opened the door to the kitchen. Sasuke wasn't even trying to sneak, he knew his parents were up and waiting for him.

Sasuke walked into the living the living room and just as he thought, his parents were sitting on the couch waiting.

"Where the hell have you-", but Fuguka was cut off when Mikoto suddenly screamed, "What did you do to yourself?!"

Sasuke just smirked and said, "What? You don't like it?"

His father just stared, mouth open so wide he could catch flies.

Sasuke had done the unthinkable.

He cut his hair and spiked the ends. He dyed the ends a dark blue that was still visible even with his raven hair. But worst of all there was a shiny ring embedded in his lower lip.

"What are we going to do with you?!" Mikoto yelled.

"Nothing." Sasuke said calmly, catching both his parents off guard. They expected him to yell back, but then Sasuke hit then with a low blow, "Just stay out of my life. You may be my parent, but you can't govern how I run my life."

"So you did this just to s-spite us?!" Fuguka yelled.

"No. I just thought it looked cool." And with that, Sasuke turned around and started walking up the stairs.

Suddenly Sasuke stopped, turned around again and faced his parents once more.

"Oh and I forgot to tell you. I'm having a friend staying over tomorrow. Naruto. You remember him right?"

Then he continued up the stairs to his room and closed the door.


I bet you thought he was gonna kiss him. Well haha not yet.

1 This actually does work

2 Nintendo is a Japanese gaming system and Mario is one of their top selling games

3 Didn't we all

4 OMG you have no idea how long it took me to come up with a band name. But yea that's what it means

5 Yes, this is accurate

7 This is when you are a citizen to more then one country at a time

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