Oh no Naruto lost the match :( what is going to happen now... I don't know! lol jk I do know, but you don't! (mwuhahahaha) I don't own Naruto T_T and with that lets begin!

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Face down in the mud he doesn't even want to move, the humiliation of losing like this he should've just gave up to begin with. Sakura rushes to his aid gripping his shoulders and pulling him from the muck, using her own shirt she attempts to clean his face, but he just pushes her away. The crowd cheers as Sasuke catches his breath, Sasuke glances over to Naruto for a moment and a small smile crosses his lips. He walks over to the fox sulking in the mud and reaches out a hand. "Hey, good game." Shocked, and utterly surprised Naruto looks up into Sasuke's dark coal eye and slowly takes his hand. Cheeks flush red beneath the dirt on his face as Sasuke gracefully lifts him up from the ground, and for a moment the world seems to disappear as Naruto loses himself at the sight of Sasuke's pale face and dark hair drenched from the pouring rain, his slightly baggy clothes clinging to his sculpted body. At a lose for words Naruto looks down and mumbles under his breath, "Sorry, I didn't quite get that?"

"Thank you." Sasuke looks down at the blonde and almost like his stomach flutters he can't stop but think how adorable and childish he looks with mud caked on his face, and the little pouty look he is making, how badly he wants to just hold him for some strange reason, but he holds his composure and puts his hands in his pocket. At this point Sasuke's entire team surrounds him.

"That was an awesome game!" Kiba shouts slapping Naruto on the back practically knocking him over.

"Yes, the whole school is practically here." Choji stands off away a bit looking around the field.

"Sasuke you guys were amazing! You gotta let Naruto join!" Kiba just jumps up and down with excitement like a dog with no leash. Everyone stops and looks to Sasuke who's happy attitude now completely dissipates.

"No."

"WAHH!"

"No, the deal was if he wins he joins, but if you lost he can't and... he is my servant." Naruto stands there dumbfounded, after all of that still Sasuke won't let him join, the admiration he felt just a moment ago is now completely gone, rage taking its place he looks over to Sasuke reeling his fist back to make another swig, but this time Sasuke saw it coming and easily dodged then grabbing the arm Naruto extended to punch flips him over back into the mud.

"Naruto!" Sakura shouts rushing back to his aid, but Sasuke team stops her.

"This is one reason why you could never be apart of our team, you are too hot headed you don't think about what you are getting yourself into. I will admit you are good, and would make a great asset to the team, but there is no dedication to sports, and you lose your temper too easily. What if the other team taunts you as I do what will you do? Just have an all out fist fight and get everyone kicked out of the league? I will not allow that to happen. Besides a deal is a deal." Sasuke looking down at the young man in front of him extends his hand out again just to have Naruto slap in away. Sasuke glares down at him, and just as Naruto is about to get up Sasuke pushes him back down with his foot, "And as my new servant," Naruto looks up at him teeth clenched, "Is to clean up all the garbage on the field, because we can't really have a dirty field to practice on tomorrow. Oh, and make sure it gets done tonight." lifting his foot off Naruto his says nothing else and goes back into the school to change, silently the rest of the team follow heads hung low at how helpless they were to help Naruto.

Once the team is gone Sakura rushes over to help Naruto again, "Naruto are you hurt, talk to me" gently he pushes her away and stands up on his own his face down cast hair covering his eyes, luckily it is raining, or Sasuke would've seen him cry. Sakura kneels next to him in the mud, raining pouring down on them while students walk by throwing garbage and kicking mud on him. "Naruto..." she looks at him not really knowing what to say; they sat in the mud in silence for a while as all the students left the field, Naruto stands up and begins cleaning slowly and quietly. Sakura follows not speaking a word they clean the field. Hinata who stood back and watched everything hides by the school trying to build herself up to get the courage to talk to Naruto. Continuously peeking around the corner blushing like a little grade schooler, heart racing, and ears pounding she fidgets with her fingers furiously. Quietly she mutters a few words to herself, then taking a deep breath she walks out from her hiding place just to find both Naruto and Sakura had already finished cleaning and were now gone. "Wh-wha-what? When did they go?" speaking to no one in particular she frantically looks around the field, finally she sighs and sadly faces down at the ground, "I took too long again..."

The next day at school, was absolutely terrible, left and right kids pushed him around, laughing, and tripping him about like he was just some kind of toy. Even at lunch he could hardly eat with how many kids threw their trash at him, but the worse was the humiliation he felt at being a servant to Sasuke's every whim. And the things Sasuke has made him do, are just embarrassing like holding his backpack, tying his shoes, and with every command he has to answer with, 'Yes Master'. At lunch Sasuke decided to give Naruto, so he sat down with Hinata and Sakura as usual though lunch this time around was not anywhere near peaceful. "Wow, Naruto... Sasuke really letting you have it now isn't he?" Naruto nod setting his tray aside since some kid came up and threw his chewed gum in it.

"Ya, and I am already getting sick of it... if I just hadn't slipped I wouldn't be going through this right now. And I also never joined a club so Granny Tsunade was yelling at me all morning... what am I going to do?." then Hinata shot her head up eyes open wide, and for her practically screamed.

"You can join my club!" her cheeks flushed a cherry red and she began to fidget with her fingers, "I mean if you want to... I work on the newspaper club, it is small but we really work hard. And if you wanted we really need a photographer and since you like art maybe... maybe you would like to... you know... take pictures. If you don't want to I would understand, I just thought since everyone else has turned you down..." Naruto manage to give her one of his famous grin.

"Hinata you are totally amazing of course I will join your club, thanks!" and then with a thumbs up she faints, Naruto looks at her chuckles and he and Sakura both just shrug it off considering she does it practically everyday. "Sakura lets do it together, and we can use the Newspaper to get back at Sasuke!" he chuckles in a low whisper. The laughed together and continued the rest of the week. The bullying never really let up, Naruto would go home, his clothes would be messed up, he would have gum stuck in the messy hair of his, and at one point he showed up with bruises though he shrugged it off and said that he tripped down the stair Minato still worried but didn't push the issue.

Quietly they sat down for dinner, Naruto playing with his food, and Minato staring down at his plate without making an effort to touch it. Chives walks in the room to remove the empty dishes to find the food has gone cold, "Is the meal not to your liking masters?" he speaks gently dumping and refilling their water glasses with ice water. Minato waves Chives away from his glass and gives him a gesture to leave the room... reluctantly Chives gives him a slight bow and leaves in silence. A few more moments pass before anyone decides to speak. Adjusting himself in his seat Minato clears his throat and rubs his brow.

"Naruto... are you going to tell me what is going on?" Minato's sky blue eyes fall on Naruto who slowly grows smaller in his chair, "I have been silent for the past few days about it, but now today you come home with bruises? What is going on?" his voice stays calm and collective as he gently folds his hands in front of himself moving his food aside. Naruto looks up and his father slightly while his long blonde hair covered his face and what he sees is a tall strong man who shares his face, but is everything he is not. To him Minato is a man who seems so far off in the distance, a man that he will never reach. So quietly he keeps playing with his food not really knowing what to say. "Naruto..." Minato sits back in his chair crossing his arms in frustration, "Naruto I am your father, I am here for you, but I can't help you if you don't tell me what is on your mind... if you just tell me what is wrong I can help you?" he stares down Naruto desperate for a response, just to receive silence. "I know what happened in one of your past homes Naruto... I know about the bullying and what it lead to. I don't want that happening again, I won't have that happen" this time Naruto cut him off...

"What do you know..." his voice so quiet you could barely hear him.

"Excuse me?"

"What do you know about the bullying, you weren't there..." gripping his wrist Naruto talks through grit teeth, "You just sat in your mansion without a care in the world while mom and I suffered, so what would you know about what happened. You left mom alone to take care of me... it is no surprised she never mentioned you before." gradually his voice grows louder in anger and frustration, "And when she died where were you! Where were you when she got sick, when she was attacked by that man, or when she was working 80 hours a week just to make sure I had clothes on my back!" at this point Minato had had it with Naruto.

"How dare you!" he kicks his chair back with so much force it breaks against the wall, "You have no idea what happened between your mother and I, so don't you bring her up in this! Naruto this is about you! About your well being, I am just trying to protect you... my past with your mother has nothing to do with this, and frankly you have no idea what happened so don't you dare bring her up in this conversation!" Minato's voice booms over the room until everything falls silent. Naruto stands up and throws his fork down.

"I am not hungry." he leaves the room without another word. Minato stands there shocked at his sudden outburst, never in his life has he yelled at anyone like that not since the day Kushina left him alone. Tears begin to pour from his eyes as he looks down at the busted chair.

"Kushina, what have I done... I pushed him away... I let my anger get the best of me... Kushina." knelling on the ground he sits there helpless not knowing what to do for his hurting child, a child that just for a moment seemed so close, and now feels a million miles away.

Naruto marches up the stairs ignoring Chives who stood in the hallway silently polishing the brass lights that lined the walls, once he reached his room he slams the door and throws his back against it sliding slowly to the floor, "What does mom have to do with this? She has everything to do with this! She is the only thing that connects the two of us and she is gone... she's dead and you weren't around for her. And now you just want to walk into my life like we have known each other for years, no... no that is not how things work!" his voice shakes from the tears the run down his face as he talks to himself. He lift his head and looks around the room he has had for a couple months yet, slowly since the day he moved in he has made it his own, Minato gave him permission to paint the walls the way he wanted. Which he created beautiful abstract murals from floor to ceiling in vibrant bright colors. Slowly since that day this place has become his home, and no matter how angry he may be he doesn't want to leave. He wants to stay, because he finally has a real place to call 'home' so he sit there just holding his wrist close to his chest muttering to himself. "Why am I so pathetic... why aren't I stronger?" from that night and the following days Naruto and Minato pretended that the fight never happen, both of them barely able to look each other in the eye. Naruto continued to go to school bearing the constant humiliation, and as the days went on Sasuke began to pity Naruto.

Towards the end of his servitude Sasuke started to feel bad, because of their stupid game Naruto has become the laughing stock of the school. At one point some kids broke into his locker and fixed it so paint would explode in his face once opened. Never did he imagine kids would take the jokes this far... but the worst day was the last Naruto had to serve Sasuke, they got another new student. His name was Ryo. Sasuke was bossing Naruto as usual in the gym having him get basketballs, fetch him water, and get him towels for the group. Gai just shakes his head and let everyone have a free day to do whatever they wanted and walked away. "Naruto, lucky you today is the last day of being my servant." Sasuke smirks at him sitting on the ground cross legged mutter curse words under his breath. "So how about this, today I will make it easy on you just get me a cool bottle of water and you will be done." Naruto raise an eyebrow towards him, during this whole time Sasuke went out of his way to get a laugh out of making fun of him and suddenly he is being generous... for a few moments he sits there contemplating. "Is there a problem?" the rest of the sports team is off else where in the gym smacking each other in the face with dodge balls leaving Sasuke and Naruto alone in an empty part of the gym for those who need to stretch.

"No, why are you being nice all of a sudden, typically you would be calling me names and have me do ridiculous tasks, but today it has been simple things like getting towels and water... like a towel boy would do?" Sasuke chuckles and folds his arms behind his head and lays back on the ground.

"Maybe I am just bored with making fun of you..."

"That's nice to hear." Naruto snorts standing up and walking out of the gym to complete his final errand. Watching as he walks away a smile finds its way on Sasuke's face.

"Or maybe I am just tired of others hurting you?" he whispers to himself and shakes his head at his thoughts.

Standing in front of the vending machine Naruto counts out the change in his pocket as a tall dark figure creeps up behind him. Oblivious to his surroundings the dark figure reaches out and smacks all of the change out of his hand, Naruto turns around teeth grit just to be forcefully shoved up against the vending machine the dark figure's face only centimeters away from his own. And for a moment his heart stops, any anger that he just felt burns into a deep fear and his voice gets caught in his throat. A low chuckles vibrates in his ear and then a voice like venom poisoning his body still, rumbles quietly through his whole being, "Long time no see... Naruto."

"R-Ry-Ryo" his eyes opened wide, his voice shakes, and his tan skin now as pale as freshly fallen snow. Ryo holds Naruto's face in his large hand while a malicious smile curls it's way across his lips.

"I've missed you... it's been too long little buddy, you haven't grown much taller." he looks Naruto up and down slowly with that creepy smile plastered to his face, and then just lightly pats Naruto's face and steps back. "We can recap later, it is too crowded here." and with that he walks away as if nothing had happened. Naruto falls to the ground as if he was just punched in the stomach full force the urge to throw up slowly coming to realization.

'Why? Why is he here? After I worked so hard to get away... and it is too crowded here? What was that suppose to mean?' Naruto kneeling on the ground on all fours doesn't even notice Sasuke kneel down beside him.

"Hey, are you going to be sick?" Naruto practically jumps out of his skin at Sasuke's sudden presence.

"No! No, I am fine... I uh... um... just dropped my change and bent down to pick it up and suddenly got dizzy." he looks up into Sasuke's coal black eyes trying hard not to show the fear he just felt. Sasuke stares down at him and then at the change scattered on the floor and just nods slowly picking it up. And together for a moment the picked up the change in silence, while Sasuke hands it back to Naruto he pops in his own money and gets two sodas. Naruto watches him not really registering anything around him until he sees Sasuke's pale hand in front of him.

"Come on get off the floor the bell is going to ring and you need to get changed." reluctantly Naruto accepts the hand, and then Sasuke hands him a soda. "It will make you feel better, your service is done, you don't need to do anything else for me." Sasuke waves off as he leaves down the hall at the same moment the bell rang. Naruto stood there for a bit holding the soda in his hand, confused and scared of what will happen next.