Authors' Note:
I'm back again and with chapter two of the new story...that I seem to always start without ever finishing something already started first...and I'm sorry bout that. Also warning...I make up my own character which is sadly my myspace name...But anyway, this is going to be probably a much longer chapter than the last one so get comfy and Happy reading and reviewing.
Meant to be
When our eyes first met
When Naruto got home to his appartment, he placed his bag on the kitchen table and threw himself onto the couch in the living room before turning the television on. Sasuke was home in his family's estate at the other side of the city. Sasuke had decided to move in there when he moved out of Iruka's place since he was old enough, and now he was able to face his past without having an episode, Naruto was the big help in that. But Naruto always thought that Sasuke should move on to bigger and better things and put the house up for rent or make it into a hotel, but he never voiced these things out incase Sasuke threatened him or something, the Uchiha's were too proud of their homes to let others' sleep in the beds that they so well slept in. But Naruto got back up and went to get a few notebooks that he bought on his way home and started writing something, like a book but about his past...he threw in what Iruka had told him before he adopted Naruto, he was also going to throw in everything that Sasuke told him, but he was going to wait and ask since that was later on in his little plan, he also had an Idea for the book cover too.
Iruka was walking the streets, wondering if he should get married and have a kid or just adopt a child that had no parents. He was kind hearted like that, always trying to help someone...even if it meant something bad would come out of it...it was in his personality. But when he entered the children's home, he looked at all the kids and knew that this was going to be a challenge. Iruka was twenty nine, single, possibly gay, and was looking to adopt a child...what could possibly go wrong...
"Good morning sir, is there something I can help you with?" A woman at the front desk asked.
"Um...y-yes, I'm looking to adopt a child, a boy actually...doesn't matter what age." Iruka stuttered.
"Ok, but we require that all adoptees spend at least an hour or so with the kids, you kow...to get to know all of them and then come in either the next day or later on the same day they came in to decide on what child they want." She told him. "And the name's Yumeko Yami, if you have any questions I'll be here and there on the first floor."
"Ok, so where are the kids now?" He asked. "And is this all of them?"
"Oh, they are all in the back room playing, and no this isn't all of them, one of them is in the hospital for his regular check up." Yumeko answered.
"May I ask his name, and do you know when he'll be back?" Iruka asked.
"His name's Naruto Uzumaki, and he should be back here quite soon, and a little warning before hand, he's in a wheelchair right now." She answered, whispering the last of her sentence.
"What happened to him?" Iruka asked, a little worried that someone would be in a wheelchair at such a young age.
"Well...he was in a car crash...both is parents died on impact and he escaped with three shattered spinal disks and some badly broken legs." She answered still whispering. "And Dr. Tsunade says he's making a wonderful recovery."
"Ok...who were his parents?" Iruka asked, it was like he already made up his mind on what child he wanted to adopt and the kid wasn't even here. "I'm kind of new to the city and don't know much about the area."
"His father was Minato Namikaze, but Tsunade doesn't want everyone to know that the deceased President's child is in foster care...through investigation from the police and the FBI, the crash wasn't an accident...they don't even want Naruto to know until he's a full fledged adult about his parents. Tsunade's asked him some small questions but he doesn't even remember what happened, let alone that he was only two years old."
"Oh my...how old is he now?" Iruka asked, it was the most cruicial question he had to ask.
"He's turning three in November." Yumeko answered as she looked through her papers.
"Ok." Iruka smiled. "I'll be with the other kids until Naruto gets back, oh and the name's Iruka Umino."
"Ok Iruka, see you soon." Yumeko smiled and showed him to the room of kids.
Iruka tensed up a little bit because as soon as the door opened, the kids looked back and started laughing, they had a big person to play with and got really excited, except for those few that played video games on the tv.
"Hello kids, this is Iruka Umino and he'll be here to play with all of you for a little bit, just don't fight over him ok?" Yumeko introduced.
"Hi Irukaaa." The kids chimed, all their faces lit up with smiles, it was so cute.
"Also another warning Iruka..." Yumeko whispered in his ear. "Naruto's always been neglected by the kids cause he's in a wheelchair, they think he's not able to do the things they can do even if it's playing video games or finger painting...they leave him alone so if you see a little blond boy looking at a book blankly like he's trying to read, that's Naruto."
"Ok." Iruka nodded before he was pulled by the kids to all different stations in all different directions.
"Come play finger paint with me Iruka." One girl asked.
"No, he's too manly for that girly stuff, come play with me and my train track." Another boy asked.
"I'll play with all of you, but here's a little game, first I need to know all of your names."
"Yura...I'm Tora...My name's Ishida...Mori..." A few of the kids said at once.
"One at a time please." Iruka laughed.
Once the kids introduced themselves one at a time, the door opened behind Iruka and a blonde boy was wheeled into the room by Yumeko, she just looked at Iruka and smiled before leaving again and went back to her desk.
Iruka only got a glimpse of the boy before his attention was grabbed and was pulled to the finger painting station, then he was dragged to the train tracks and then the video games. Only when the kids got bored of him is when he went to say hello to Naruto.
"Hello there, my name's Iruka Umino, may I ask your name?" Iruka asked as he knelt next to the small boy.
"M-My name's Naruto...um...Uzumaki." Naruto answered hesitantly, his eyes never meeting Iruka.
"Is there something you wanna play with?" Iruka asked as he put a gentle hand on Naruto's shoulder.
"I would like to read...but I don't now what the pages say...only the pictures." Naruto answered as his eyes were averted from the book to Iruka and back.
"I can read it to you if you want." Iruka smiled.
"Please?" Naruto asked and gave Iruka the book willingly.
"Ok...ooh this is a good book, it's Green Eggs and Ham by Dr. Seuse." Iruka smiled as he took the book from Naruto and began reading.
Iruka never thought someone so small could smile so big when he was done reading the book, "You liked it didn't you?"
"I loved it, it sounded so funny!" Naruto laughed and clapped his little hands which made Iruka laugh a little at the sight.
"You're a good kid Naruto." Iruka smiled and ruffled Naruto's hair a little bit. "But I have to get going now ok?"
"Aaw...don't go..." Naruto said sadly, his smile completely gone now and his eyes filled with sadness.
"Don't worry Naruto, I'll be back shortly." Iruka said and stood up, "I promise ok?"
"Ok, don't forget." Naruto warned with a small giggle.
"I won't." Iruka smiled and walked to the front desk where Yumeko was sitting.
"How were the kids?" She asked as she looked up from her paperwork.
"They were all wonderful...but I think I've made my choice already." Iruka said as he leaned on the counter.
"Ok, there's just some paperwork that has to be filled out in my office." She smiled. "If you could follow me please?"
Iruka nodded and the two went to the office. Iruka filled out the adoption papers and payed the small fee that came with it and they came back to the childs' area, both with smiles on their faces but knew that the kids would have sad faces because they knew only one of them could be chosen to go home with a big person. But when Iruka came back, the only child that looked up was Naruto and his face beamed with excitement, he was going to be able to have the book read to him again and that was all that mattered to him at the moment.
"Naruto, this lovely man is going to take you home with him." Yumeko said as she knelt down next to Naruto, her hands gently on his shoulders.
"Then he'll be able to read this to me when ever I want." Naruto said happily, his voice a little too girly but Iruka was sure it'd deepen when he hit puberty.
"Mhmm." She nodded with a smile and stood up. "Tsunade's been coming over herself and picking him up for his appointments, but I'll call her when you guys leave. His next appointment's next month on the eighteenth at eleven in the morning."
"Ok, and it's at Konoha hospital?" Iruka asked as he nodded.
"Yes, she does have a doctors office but she's too busy at the hospital in the emergency room to get there so she's having all her patiencs check in at the hospital on the second floor in the childrens' area, for kids that have his...problem." She explained, whispering the last few words, Naruto was too occupied to hear what they were saying.
"Ok, and thank you so much." Iruka nodded. "I'll make sure he's there on time."
"Alright..." Yumeko started saying but was interrupted.
"Can I take this with me?" Naruto asked as he raised the book, it was still the same book.
"Of course you can Naruto." Yumeko nodded with a smile.
"Yay!" Naruto was excited now.
"I have his car seat up front, why don't we get going Naruto." Yumeko said and wheeled him into the front room.
"I walked here, do you think I can come back and pick him up?" Iruka asked, almost completely forgetting that he walked here. "I live just down the street from here."
"Ok, we'll be waiting in my office ok?" Yumeko said and nodded.
"Ok, be right back Naruto." Iruka said and patted Naruto's head and ran home.
The first thing he noticed from Naruto, was that he had nightmares. They started coming about a year after Naruto moved in with Iruka. Naruto kept saying he saw red everywhere and broken dolls in front of him, Iruka noticed immediately that Naruto was talking about his parents and the crash and brought this up with Tsunade on the next appointment Naruto had with her which just happened to be the week after. She said he had nothing to worry about because Naruto was starting to remember what happened and she prescribed Naruto some really weak sleeping pills and Iruka was to only give him half of one pill a night for about a week, if the nightmares were to continue, Iruka was going to have to take Naruto to see a shrink and talk the nightmares out of him until he no longer had them. Iruka didn't like the idea but followed anyway and thank he thanked god that the pills worked, Naruto never had the nightmares again after that week of sleeping pills.
Two years later, when Naruto was tucked in bed and sound asleep, Iruka decided to watch the news...something he hadn't done in a while and something was compelling him to watch it tonight, like something bad was going to happen, it was just a feeling in the pit of his stomach. And as he turned on the tv and flipped it over to the news, the headlines read. 'Uchiha clan Massacre, only one known survivor.'
"Oh my god!" Iruka cursed under his breath, trying to make sure Naruto didn't wake up in the next room.
"The police reports says, well what they're letting out, is that the entire Uchiha family has been killed, they won't say who it was that survived or how the murders' conveyed right now all they're saying is that they're still investigating..." The news lady said, the words 'only one known survivor' rang in Iruka's ears and head...it was like a broken record that kept playing and he didn't know how to turn it off.
"Tomorrow I'm going to go to the hospital and see who it is..." Iruka vowed and turned the television off, he didn't want to hear anymore at the moment, there wasn't anything else to hear and he didn't want to hear how the family was killed even though he did at the same time.
But Iruka went to bed and said nothing about it to Naruto the next morning, Iruka took him to daycare and he went to the hospital before work, he was a teacher for Konoha Academy and taught preschoolers and kindergardeners.
Three years...it had been three years now since he decided to adopt a child, Iruka was getting tired for being only thirty two years of age and Naruto was walking again. Tsunade was doing her regular check up during the second year of intensive healing and Iruka had just walked into the room and Naruto jumped out of his chair and ran all the way over to Iruka on the other side of the room, baffling Tsunade and her nurse Shizune, but litterally scaring the living shit out of Iruka who thought he'd fall and hurt himself but the time never came. Tsunade just told him that she was going to take more x-rays of his back and also said to keep Naruto from walking and running too much, if it were to start hurting, Iruka was to bring Naruto in immediately and be put in a splint...it was mainly a small lower body cast that could come off and it was meant to keep Naruto from walking at all costs.
When Tsunade had looked over his x-rays, she told Iruka that Naruto still had cracks in the three spinal disks that were broken and said she would wait until he hit full growth and put in metal plates around them, she wanted him to grow to his full heighth before she did this, Iruka had years ahead of him before the big surgery for that so he was glad. He had to pay half the surgery from his own pocket, his insurance company was denying him coverage on Naruto because they said that this was a forseen problem. It just made Iruka mad which scared Naruto because Iruka was rarely ever mad around Naruto, but it was only a once in a life time scare because Iruka made sure it never happened again.
"Hey daddy...can I have a brother?" Naruto asked as he woke up one morning and sat at the table for breakfast.
"Um...I'll think about it ok?" Iruka smiled as he turned to look at Naruto.
"I want a brother about my age..." Naruto noted as he kicked his feet over the edge of the chair.
"Alright, want to go in and play with the kids while daddy talks to Yumeko tomorrow?" Iruka asked as he walked over to the table and served up some sausage and scrambled eggs on two plates, one for him and one for Naruto.
"Yea!" Naruto said happily as he rose his fork up into the air, a large smile plastered on his face as he began eating.
Iruka just laughed at the sight, Naruto always had a way to make anyone smile and laugh, no matter what it was...unless he did something stupid and he always did something stupid...one time he tied little cloth bags around a neighbors' cat's feet and then got it wet with a hose on purpose when he was watering Iruka's garden. Iruka just laughed but he punished Naruto and told him to take the bags off the cats feet and to dry the cat...afterwards he regreted it because Naruto came back when he was done covered in scratches...Iruka labeled the cat a cat from hell. But Naruto kept getting it wet with the hose every summer after that.
The subject of wanting a brother hadn't come up again, Iruka had just thought that Naruto forgot he asked for one but he was wrong, Naruto had waited two more years because when Naruto and Iruka went to the childrens' home, Naruto didn't like any of the kids still there, most of them were the same, some of them were new and they just didn't like him, Iruka was afraid that none of the kids were ever going to be friends with him in preschool when he started...and Iruka couldn't afford the fee this week, last time it was ten dollars and this time it was almost fifty.
"I'm so sorry Iruka, but parents just aren't adopting kids like they used to, raising the fee was the only thing I could think of because I have to make sure these kids are fed and clothed." Yumeko explained.
"It's alright Yumeko, I understand cause I would do the same thing." He said shaking his head a little. "Do you think we can do some advertising?"
"Like television and newspaper advertising?" Yumeko asked. "Some charity would work nicely for these kids too now that you mention it."
"I can help you get started on advertising and helping to set up a charity." Iruka offered.
"That'll be amazing Iruka." Yumeko said and nearly attacked him with hugs but kept her composure.
"I'll be back with some ideas next week." Iruka said, offering a date to when they could meet. "I'll bring everything I come up with."
"Alright, how does Friday sound...and around four in the afternoon?" Yumeko asked as she started writing down the date and time.
"It's perfect, I don't work that day." Iruka agreed and stood up, Naruto was sitting on the floor next to him looking at the same book he brought home from the child's home...Green Eggs and Ham.
"Ok, I'll see you and Naruto then ok?" Yumeko smiled and Iruka and Naruto left with good byes and waves.
'He wasn't there...maybe someone already adopted him.' Iruka thought as he and Naruto walked home, Naruto's book in hand...he was still frustrated that he couldn't read the book on his own but always loved it when Iruka read it to him, it made him happy.
It was Friday now and Iruka was all ready to meet Yumeko again with the plans for advertisement that he came up with, he even researched on how much it would cost and everything else. The newspaper ads were going to be more expensive than the television advertisement but he was going to put the ad in once a week for about a month...just on the Sunday paper. The television ad would come up as soon as he called the news broadcasting to set up a date when they'd get on television the Charity he planned. The kids would have fun selling cookies, brownies and other baked goods, Iruka had everything planned out and he was paying for more than half of it, which he had planned
all along.
Iruka was getting breakfast ready when he heard Naruto get up and walk into the kitchen, his little feet patting the floor lightly and the chair scoot out of the way.
"Morning dad." Naruto said in the middle of a yawn.
"Morning Naruto." Iruka smiled as he kept his focus on what he was making for breakfast.
"Where we going to today dad?" Naruto asked.
"We're going back to see the children today, we even might pick someone new there." Iruka mentioned.
"Really!" Naruto squeaked, he was fully awake now.
"Yep, and you can have a longer time to play with the kids today than last time alright?" Iruka promised.
"Sweet, what's for breakfast?"
"Chocolate chip pankakes." Iruka answered as he flipped one of them that was in the pan.
"Yay!" Naruto was happy now, he loved chocolate chip pankakes.
When they got to the children's home around two, Iruka walked up to the front desk and let Naruto go and play with the kids as he talked to Yumeko for a little bit, his arms were holding a few small folders that he had organized out for them to go through for the advertising and charity.
When Naruto entered the kids room, he saw most of the kids he knew but someone new was sitting in the far corner where he used to sit...the corner where the book shelf was. Naruto walked over and saw a dark haired and pale skinned kid who looked no older than he was to him and he tilted his head to the side.
"Hello, my name's Naruto Uzumaki...what's yours?" Naruto said as he held his hand out for a small hand shake, he copied that from Iruka.
"..." The boy remained quiet, his arms hugging his knees to his chest as his eyes stared off into nothingness in front of him, like he was day dreaming or hypnotized.
"I said, what's your name?" Naruto said louder, then poked the kid on the shoulder hard on accident, he hated it when people ignored him.
But when Naruto got no answer, he just sat down next to the kid and did exactly what the other was doing, hugging his knees to his chest and stared off into nothingness. It was a few minutes before the kid noticed he was even there.
"...Who are you?" The boy asked as he turned his head to look at Naruto.
"The name's Naruto Uzumaki." Naruto smiled and looked at the boy.
"Sasuke...Sasuke Uchiha." The boy finally answered and a small smile formed on his lips.
"Wanna be friends?" Naruto asked as he held out his pinky to Sasuke as a pinky swear.
Sasuke looked at it like he didn't know what it was but smiled and pinky swore with Naruto. It was Naruto's special gift, to be friends with those around him no matter who it was, and he was the first one that got Sasuke to talk in months.
"D-Did you just see that?" Yumeko asked, both adults were looking through her window which was near the bookshelf.
"See what?" Iruka asked, "Oh Naruto playing with the kid? Not really what did he do?"
"He got him to talk, the doctors at Konoha Mental Institution couldn't get him to talk for months." Yumeko answered. "We just got him yesterday."
"Wait...who is that kid?" Iruka asked as he finally recognized the face.
"Sasuke Uchiha, the last known survivor of the Uchiha Massacre." Yumeko answered without even looking at her paperwork, anyone would remember what happened...and for a long time they would.
Iruka stared at Naruto and Sasuke, they were talking like they knew each other for a long time...well, Naruto was doing most of the talking...but Sasuke was talking too and that was enough for Iruka. "I'll adopt Sasuke."
"Thank god, the last person that came by that wanted him looked erie and scary, Sasuke kicked the guy's knee and ran off, I found him two hours later under the bed in his room." Yumeko answered. "I think his name was Orochimaru or something of the sort."
"Well I'll take any paperwork fee for him." Iruka said, and that was that.
Naruto got his wish, he had a brother, and with the person he just became best friends with. When Naruto had seen him, it was like they knew each other...
'When our eyes first met Sasuke...I knew there was something in common between us.' Naruto thought to himself as he smiled as big as he could when he heard the news that Sasuke was going to be his brother, he was overly excited now that he had a playmate his own age when Iruka was busy with work at home.
Authors' End Note:
I know it's not much longer than the last chapter but it's still longer, and I like how I keep fitting the name of the chapter with the last sentence of phrase of the whole thing...creepy...but it's cool at the same time. Chapter three should be longer and it's still the past right now, but a few more years ahead in the future, now they're in middle school and...YEA YOU THOUGHT I'D SPOIL AGAIN DIDN'T YA? Cha!...oh god, there it is again, INNER SAKURA'S TAKING ME OVER! lolz. Well see you guys in next chapter.
Chapter nineteen in Vampire's Kiss; Forbidden Love is slowly coming to me as I type this story out, but this might be finished first...don't know just yet, ideas for nineteen are still a blurr and guess what? I'm on ficionpress now, account name is suicidal-incubus-123 =3 Read and review! I think some of my fans for my vampire fic will love one of the stories I posted...but we'll see now won't we? Bwahahahahaha!
