Disclaimer: Hajimemashite, Kishimoto here hahaha kidding...or am I? But if I wasn't I would say I don't own Naruto.

Warnings: The rating went up to M, just for some small things nothing major. Implications mostly.

A/N: The next chapter won't come out as fast cause it's not done. I do know what's gonna happen and I'm very excited about it!

"This school is weird we only have four classes." Naruto declared.

"Yeah but they're each an hour and half and we switch to another four classes next semester, its troublesome" Shikamaru put in.

"Still" Naruto said "four classes."

They headed for History their first class, everyone stopped to stare at Naruto like an enigma.

One brave girl stepped in their path, and when they approached her she put her head down bringing her body into a bow. Her dark hair flew over her shoulders, she held up a letter and tiny box. They heard a voice come from her head. "Naruto-sama please accept this."

Naruto pushed Neji to the side and lifted the girls chin up; he looked into her dark eyes. With the sultriest voice he could muster he said "I'll accept anything from such a lovely lady."

He let go of her chin staring into her eyes. She blushed madly and stammered "N-Naruto-sama…I…I love you!" without another word she ran off down the hall, Naruto smiled after her. All the girls around him were blushing, most wouldn't even meet his gaze, he shrugged his shoulders and continued to class.

"Why do you do that Naruto?" Shikamaru asked genuinely curious. "You never turn down a gift and they know they don't have chance with you."

"It would be rude not to accept." He smiled. "Plus they normally give me my favorite thing." He opened the tiny box. "Chocolate!" he yelled like child and gobbled it up. "And then the letter normally makes me feel good about myself. So everyone wins don't they?"

"Whatever" Shikamaru said opening the door to the classroom.

They all stopped suddenly, the almost empty classroom had a sole occupant. There sitting in the last row was a very bored looking Uchiha Sasuke reading a novel. The group eyed each other, everyone but Naruto nodded in agreement. In a whirlpool of movement Chouji pushed Naruto in the classroom and slammed the door, staying outside. Naruto stumbled trying to stay standing. When he finally balanced himself he panicked and ran to the door, only it wouldn't budge. He looked through the glass and saw his three 'friends' smiling smugly. They nodded toward Sasuke, urging Naruto to talk to him. Naruto knew no one would be leaving or coming into this classroom until he did. He turned staring at Sasuke thinking of something to say.

Sasuke lifted his head, he saw Naruto standing there staring at him with a blank look on his face. He grinned slightly and went back to his book.

A million thoughts passed through Naruto's head. Why's he in the class, he wasn't here yesterday? Why's he here so early? Wait. It's test! A test to see where I'd sit, they both obviously wanted something from one another, that had been established at the assembly. The question was; who wanted it more? I'm not that easy bastard. Naruto went to take a seat on the opposite side of the room, in the very first row. They sat there in absolute silence daring one to speak to the other.

Neji, Shikamaru and Chouji stayed outside barricading the door till they were forced to open the door when Kakashi came.

Everyone settled and Kakashi took role.

He stopped when he saw the addition of Sasuke "Uchiha" he said looking up, Sasuke raised his hand not looking at him. Kakashi smiled "Missed me did you?" Sasuke looked embarrassed for a second but then scowled and turned his head toward the window. Kakashi continued role call and then handed out their textbooks.

Sasuke watched Naruto's every move. A pink haired girl talked to him a lot, he took a mental note to expel hair dye. He hardly paid attention at all to Kakashi's lesson it didn't even matter, there was no way Kakashi would fail him.

Naruto played with his thumbs a lot he twirled them under his seat and once in a while he'd turn toward Sasuke, Sasuke would pretend to be looking past him or he'd quickly turn away.

He got used to the back of Naruto's head, he memorized his hair length it wasn't long it just looked long from the spikes that seemed to form themselves. His neck was slightly tan like the rest of him and his shoulders were perfectly built. He had already removed his coat which left him in the long sleeved dress shirt. Sasuke noticed the way it fit around his shoulders, laying carefully, sculpting his lean muscles.

Ding-dong, ding-dong

The tower bells rang and students packed up. Sasuke was snapped out of his observations as Kakashi call to him, "Sasuke do you mind staying after?"

He did mind but stayed after anyway ignoring classmates giving him questioning looks. As the last student left Kakashi slammed the door and locked it. He turned toward Sasuke.

"Why'd you transfer to my class are you trying to distract me?"

"Heh" Sasuke crossed his arms and smiled "You wish, this isn't about you remember? I ended it last year."

Kakashi turned away mad at himself. "Who is this about then?"

Sasuke crossed the room toward Kakashi and walked past him toward the door. Anyone could see the longing in the gray-haired man's eyes. Sasuke looked at him straight in the face as he passed leaving the classroom letting the next class's student's file in. Kakashi was left to recuperate while Sasuke went off not giving a second thought to the silver haired man.

The rest of the day continued as the first class, Sasuke and Naruto both avoiding each other completely. It would have gone on for good but fortunately in French they were seated alphabetically, so when Sasuke came in, Anko stopped him, putting an arm on his shoulder.

"I thought you weren't going to take French 7-8?" She bit into an apple, splattering juice everywhere.

Sasuke looked at her disgustedly ignoring the arm wrapped around him and said "Well I changed my mind?"

"Whatever Uchiha, well your seated here" she went to one of the back seats and tapped it; she made a few changes on her clipboard and walked back to the front of the class.

Sasuke sat down at the table; he liked arriving in class early it made him feel in control. The warning bell rang and students filed in.

Sasuke felt someone standing by him he looked up to see blue eyes staring at him. He looked like he was about to say something when Anko interrupted "Uzumaki! You're now one seat to the left of Sasuke got it and it looks like he's your new partner." She went to the board and started to write their warm-ups.

Naruto stood there for a second, Sasuke couldn't resist. "You're in my way dumbass." The rest of the class laughed and Naruto sat down looking embarrassed.

"Okay now with your partner practice saying the vocabulary for this chapter out loud. Comment dit on?" Anko looked around for a second then sat at her desk reading a book.

Naruto didn't turn toward Sasuke; he sat sulking with his head resting in his arms. Sasuke didn't move either. They sat in silence uncertain of what to do. They were both yanked out of their silence when Anko suddenly burst "UZUMAKI! UCHIHA! Get to work now I'm not gonna go easy on you just cause one of you is a celebrity and the other is The Emperor." She gave them both a look that promised a fate worse than death if they didn't start soon.

Naruto finally broke the silence "Comment dit on the hospital?" he spoke without glancing at the other boy.

Sasuke had no choice but to answer. "L'hospital. Comment dit-on the Beach?"

"La plage. Comment dit-on..."

Halfway through the lesson Naruto forgot all about his grudge. "Nice speech by the way. Does that mean you don't wanna be the emperor or whatever?"

Sasuke looked at the blonde scanning his textbook.

"Well I'm an Uchiha it's to be expected I guess, mainly on my fathers part, it's a pain."

The blonde raised his eyebrows finally looking at him. Sasuke met his eyes, they held their gaze for a moment before they looked away embarrassed.

"So how does he force you to do it? I mean does he hold a gun to your head or something?"

Sasuke looked at Naruto slightly annoyed before answering "If I step out of line in ANYWAY my father will disinherit me. He doesn't care about passing his empire to me anyway; he has my older brother for that." He frowned thinking of Itachi.

Sasuke briefly wondered why he could talk to the blond so easily. He found most people annoying or completely untrustworthy, yet he felt he could trust this boy.

"What about you? Why did you come back to school? "

Naruto shifted uncomfortably in his seat under the Uchiha's gaze. He repeated the lie he'd practiced in his head. "I needed a change, the acting world isn't as glorious it's made out to be, it sucks. I want to live a normal life… so what's more normal then school?" Naruto shrugged "but I also wanted privacy so I chose a private school and I wanted to go to one located in my home city…so here I am" He laid back in his seat as if on display.

Sasuke watched him with curiosity, Sasuke could tell what kind of person Naruto was, he was like a magnet people were naturally attracted to him; he would always be the life of the party. People couldn't help but be drawn to him.

"That's the reason? Seems kind of stupid. It's something an idiot would do." He sat back in his chair and closed his eyes, it's something he did when he was annoyed which was practically all the time.

"Hey listen here bastard. Just because you wouldn't do the same doesn't make me an idiot."

Naruto huffed and put his head on the table facing away from him.

The next hour they spent conjugating verbs, Anko was pretty strict so everyone was quiet but sometimes Sasuke would catch Naruto looking at him and vice versa, they would scowl and look away.

By the next day they had completely forgotten their quarrels and continued where they left off. French became their sanctuary, in other classes they seemed to forget the other one existed. They both excelled in French so they had a lot of free time on their hands. They would ask questions about each other continuously, wanting to know more and more. There conversations ranged from religion to the weird.

Sasuke walked in one day to find the idiot laying across their shared desk; he looked like he was sleeping. Sasuke decided to deliver a nice wake up call by smacking him across the head.

"What are you doing dobe? Get up!" In response Naruto merely grunted and kept his eyes shut.

Sasuke sat down and faced Naruto's body sprawled out in front of him; he saw his chest lightly moving along to the rhythm of his breathing. It was a hot day so Naruto's clothes clung to him molding the shape of his long toned body. He probably has to be fit

Sasuke thought, with all the movies.

Naruto rubbed his abdomen absentmindedly, slightly exposing his tan stomach, his pinky stroked the smooth skin. His hand rested there for a second before he continued grazing his own skin. Sasuke couldn't help but gulp, feeling suddenly hot and claustrophobic Sasuke darted from his seat and ran to the bathroom.

He splashed icy water on his face. "What's that dobe trying to do?"

The warning bell rung, he composed himself but loosened the necktie bringing the black tie into a loose fit. He rushed to the classroom happy to see the blonde was sitting in his own seat.

In the back of Sasuke's mind he couldn't help but feel as if Naruto was doing it on purpose, then he reminded himself that the blonde was an idiot and therefore was prone to do idiotic things.

They started their usual warm ups or in Sasuke and Naruto's case conversing. Sasuke turned toward Naruto who he had his eyes shut. He poked one eye open and looked at Sasuke.

"It's hot." He declared as he laid his head against the cool desk. "Cover for me will ya? If she comes around conjugate away."

"Yeah whatever." Sasuke mumbled turning to his own desk, he opened the French book and actually thought about studying. He tried to concentrate but he saw a blue eye at the corner of his vision, whenever he turned to look at it the blue eye would close.

"What are you doing dobe?" He saw the face grin and he opened his eye again.

"I'm watching you." He said singsong.

Sasuke turned away from him. "Well stop it, it's annoying!"

Naruto smirked and sat up again, "Why don't you like people watching you?"

"It's not everybody it's just you, now shut up, I'm trying to study." Sasuke wondered why he said this; he wanted them to continue talking as they were.

"I was just thinking." Naruto said as he leaned back in his chair and put his arms around his head.

"What?' Sasuke couldn't help but ask.

"Well you'd be perfect as Jean Van Der Belt."

Sasuke's eyes widened for a second. "What are you saying idiot?" He replied not turning away from his book.

"Well he's a character I played in Hunters of Darkness, he was a vampire prince well anyways I was just thinking you would of made a much better Vampire than me…I mean with your freakishly pale skin and your dead eyes." Naruto snickered slightly

"Hmph." Sasuke dove into the textbook again.

And Naruto resumed his futile attempt to cool off.

Weeks dragged on the summer turning into fall. Sasuke sat in Kakashi's class staring at the beginning of the falling leaves. Although he would never admit it; he actually liked the campus. It was large and the buildings were old and gothic looking. He loved the feel of it, the trees were scattered throughout campus, bringing seasonal colors to the campus throughout the year. He wondered why his great –to however many degrees- grandpa Akiro opened the school; he knew he was rich but a school of all things?

"Sasuke… Sasuke?" he heard a familiar voice say. The voice triggered a random flashback to him and Kakashi laying in bed, Kakashi gently whispering his name. (-1-)

"Huh?"

His eyes met the gray haired man's. "I was wondering if you would oblige us to the answer of number seventeen."

Sasuke looked down at his homework, mad at Kakashi for interrupting him. He answered and gave a Kakashi a scowl. Kakashi stared back at him boredly.

Sasuke wondered what he ever saw in this twenty five year old man. Last year had been a mistake. Oh great now he couldn't get Kakashi out of his mind! But last year Kakashi had appealed to him, maybe it was the fact that he was a new teacher that tempted Sasuke. Or was it the fact the he wore that mask? He claimed he was in the witness protection program so he had to wear it, everyone knew he'd made that up. And whenever he was asked he'd invent a new ridiculous excuse. Kakashi had told Sasuke the real reason; it was as ridiculous as his fake reasons. The older man had cried to him revealing that his father had almost killed him when he was a child. Nonetheless Sasuke had kissed his scarred face not caring about the aberration, he accepted him as he was.

But those days were over now and Sasuke was now sitting in his class in the middle of a fall day.

"Hey bastard you say if you don't obey you'll be disinherited. Does that mean you are gonna be obedient your whole life?" Naruto had asked one day.

"It's not that simple dobe." Sasuke sighed looking for the right words.

"You're always so serious Sasuke-teme you need to lighten up. You know relax, you do know what that is right?"

"Hm" Sasuke turned away.

Naruto left him alone; he learned not to go too far with Sasuke especially when he was in a bad mood. So he settled on putting his face on the cool desk, as he so often did, muttering "Sasuke-teme"

One thing none of them expected was how well they got along with each other, they were practically opposites but they understood each other in a way no one else did.

"What's it like acting?"

"I hate it!" The blonde said disgustedly "You pretend you're something you're not."

"Well why do you do it?" He asked curiously.

Naruto rolled his eyes and made a 'duh' motion. "I retired didn't I?"

"Well why didn't you earlier?"

Naruto laid his head on the desk and muffled. "I needed something."

"What?" Sasuke asked confusedly.

"Nothing" he said almost sadly.

Sasuke quickly changed the subject. "What about your parents?"

"Dead" Naruto answered quite bitterly, He looked into Naruto's eyes the normal cool blue seemed to light on fire, he was staring right at him and for the first time he thought he saw a hint of hate in his eyes. Sasuke made a mental note to never to ask about his parents again.

But he seemed to calm himself down, "Well what about your parents, I know your dad's the owner of an evil empire, what about your mom?"

Sasuke was the one who put his head down this time. "Same as yours."

Naruto looked at the back of his head he could tell he was sad.

"But." Sasuke said sitting up. "I have my grandma, from my mom's side, she reminds me of her."

Naruto studied him as he said this, he had a kind look in his eyes, but in the next moment it was gone, replaced with coldness.

One day Naruto came in and of course Sasuke was already there, he slammed his backpack down.

Sasuke didn't say anything he just looked at him.

"I got an F on my English paper! That Jiryaya is too much, he expects us to write while he's giggling in a corner writing perverted things."

"Perverted?" Sasuke asked intrigued.

"I saw some of his outlines that he's always writing and it was practically a porno."

Sasuke let out a short laugh and Naruto's head snapped toward him. "Was that a laugh?"

He asked leaning toward him a huge grin on his face.

Sasuke glowered and suddenly a picture was snapped, they both looked to see Kiba holding a camera.

"Hey guys. I'm taking pictures for my photography club."

"Well why take it of us?" Sasuke asked irritated.

"Let me see!" Naruto leaned over the desk and browsed through pictures with Kiba. At one picture, Naruto commented "Who's that!? She's hot!" he looked backwards to look at Sasuke.

Sasuke clenched his fists a little but his face remained stoic.

"All right break it up! Break it up!" Anko announced her presence as she came in holding her clipboard silently taking role.

"Alright you know the drill warm ups then review. Go!" She sounded like a military leader.

"So you got an F on The Catcher in the Rye." Sasuke smirked smugly.

"Yeah so what?" Naruto said.

"Did you read the book?"

"Surprisingly yes. I mean I didn't get why it was a 'literary masterpiece.'" He sighed "but I actually liked it, I mean I felt like I understood Holden." Naruto blushed feeling like a geek, so he covered his face by laying his head down. He soon forgot about it and jerked his head back up, "Hey you can probably answer this; Why doesn't anyone ever answer his questions?!"

Sasuke laughed in response. Then continued like it was never asked, "What do you mean? Holden's an immature weirdo…oh wait now I see why you like him cause you are like him."

"Hey you didn't answer my question! Ah whatever forget I said anything!" He rested his head once again, facing away from Sasuke.

"You do seem like him." Sasuke said quietly and that was the end of the conversation.

Sasuke walked into French class one day only to see Naruto talking to the same pink haired girl as their English class. He didn't even know that girl was in their class. Sasuke scowled, he'd forgotten to expel hair dye. He walked up to his desk where she sat and loomed over them.

The pink haired girl looked up at him with green eyes. "Oh Sasuke-kun, will you be coming too?"

"Where?" he asked looking at Naruto for answers, instead the girl answered.

"To my Halloween party the one I throw every year, but you've never come"

Naruto snorted. "HAHAHA that's just like Sasuke bastard." He continued to laugh merrily.

"Oh and I suppose you're going?" he asked mockingly but really wanting to know.

Naruto stopped giggling and said "Of course, a party's not a party without me." He beamed at both of them.

Sasuke licked his lips. "Okay I'm in."

Sakura squealed. "Yes!! Sasuke and Naruto at my party, I'm gonna go tell everyone." She ran off to the other side of the room and started bragging.

Naruto smiled mischievously "So what are you going as?"

Sasuke scoffed "I'm not gonna go dressed up as anything that's child's play."

Naruto laughed again. "I should have known a bastard would say that."

Sasuke ignored him. "What are you going as Dobe?"

The blonde got a serious expression on his face and leaned in really close to Sasuke, Sasuke felt Naruto's warm breathe on his ear, it spread throughout his body tingling everywhere till he thought he was gonna burst . "It's a secret."

"Are you making any progress?" Neji asked hopefully "you guys don't even seem to talk."

"Neji I've told you a million times, we talk in French, the class you dropped for Art."

"I hate French" Neji said defensively. "That's not the point! Anyways have you started you know..."? He cleared his throat looking at Shikamaru and Chouji for support, but they were lost in their video game. "Seducing him?" Neji whispered.

"Don't worry about it. Anyways are you guys coming to the Halloween party on Friday?"

"Well we sort of have to, don't we? But I guess it sounds more fun than school." Chouji chimed.

"When are you coming to visit me?" the frail voice asked on the other line.

Sasuke was stooping over the phone his hand on his other ear straining to hear his grandmother's voice. "I don't know grandma; I'll call you later okay?"

"Okay I love you."

"Bye"

"Is your father there?"

Sasuke hung up on his grandma. He stood from the ugly green leather couch in his fathers study. He turned to leave hoping he could get out of there as fast as he could so he could breathe. No such luck, as soon as he reached for the doorknob. "How is your grandmother?"

Sasuke turned to face his father behind the desk "She's fine." He said quietly, he needed to get out of there, he needed to breathe it was too hard in that room. He tried to hold himself up.

"You may leave." His father turned to his paperwork and Sasuke bolted out the door toward the nearest bathroom down the hall.

He threw himself in, slammed the door and kneeled over the toilet emptying the contents of his stomach. He leaned over the toilet for a second but felt too dizzy, he leaned against a wall but still felt like the world was moving. He closed his eyes and concentrated on breathing, he felt like something was suffocating him. He even felt himself spinning where he sat, he spiraled deeper into darkness, he opened his eyes and his vision was blurred he closed them again feeling even more queasy. He covered his eyes willing it all away. He tore at an invisible rope around his neck; he wanted to breathe in sweet air. He heard his own distorted cries sucking in for air, it echoed in his ears. He didn't know how long he stayed like that but finally he was able to take a big breathe and opened his eyes again, the world was still.

He sat there making sure everything was fine again and stood up as he looked in the mirror at his pale reflection. He turned on the faucet and bent his head over it, soaking his face with cold water. He closed his eyes becoming himself again, he opened them and he felt like Sasuke again.

For as long as he remembered he had attacks, he never understood why they came but he once snuck away to the schools psychologist and nonchalantly asked her what they were. She answered that they were panic attacks and they were a way of coping with stress.

Recently they were more frequent and worse than before, they also lasted longer. He looked in the mirror again, and then lowered his face into the sink soaking his face again. Feeling dirty; he splashed and scrubbed until his face burned. He straightened and this time ignored the mirror. Sasuke left the room and ran toward his own room climbing the long winding staircase.

He welcomed the darkness of his room, glad he'd chosen dark blue curtains. He lay on his bed looking at his pathetic room; it was plain for a teenage boy's room.

The bed was the dominant feature and besides that there wasn't much else. There was a dresser with a picture of him and his grandmother and one of his dead mother. Then there was a desk that was neat and organized. Besides that there were other necessities such as a trash bin and clothes hamper.

He lay on his bed closing his eyes and concentrating, on what, he didn't know but he stayed like that for a while. Out of nowhere a thought sprung into his mind, he went to his closet and pushed aside his hanging clothes. This exposed a hidden shelf holding several old, seemingly innocent, shoe boxes. He reached into one and pulled out a folded poster, he unfolded it revealing a blonde, beautiful young man about the same age as himself. He stared at Naruto gazing passionately at an empty space. Sasuke had already torn out the picture of the woman. 'Starring Uzumaki Naruto and Hinata Hyuuga' was written across the top. In bold blue letters in the middle it read 'The Land of Tomorrow' and in smaller subtitles: Will time stop them from meeting?

He stared at the picture for awhile and folded it shut. He walked to his bedroom door and locked it so his father wouldn't come in like last time. Yes, last time had been a mistake he'd gone too far and his father had seen him. He lost it and threatened to disinherit him. After weeks he finally forgave Sasuke but he was even stricter than he was before. He told him he was disgusted with him and that incident would never happen again. Sasuke had no choice but to obey he would after all be disowned if he didn't. He put the picture back into its box hidden behind his clothes and walked to his shower; he had the image fresh in his mind.

And so it was; Sasuke was in love with Naruto before he ever met him. Before he ever laid eyes on him, before he even talked with him, before he ever laughed at him. Uchiha Sasuke was in love with Uzumaki Naruto long before that.

(-1-) It's not what you're thinking perverts! They really are just relaxing.

All reveiws are loved and appreciated as always.