"Mmm...hehe. That's right Hime-chan, just like that...yea...hehe" Uzumaki Naruto, fifteen year old academy student, mumbled happily in his sleep as he groped the pillow that he was hugging tightly against his chest. After a few more moments of lecherous sleep-talk, the young blonde rolled over on his back and his mouth opened in a loud snore...which was quickly drowned, literally, by a bucket of water that splashed into his face.

Naruto coughed and choked on the water as he began frantically clawing the air and rolled over on the bed until he fell off and hit the ground with a loud thud.

"Dammit Naruto-kun! I've been trying to wake you up for the last twenty minutes! You're going to be late getting to the academy, and your brother is going to be late as well since he's outside waiting for you!" Came the exasperated voice of the most important woman in Naruto's life.

"Aww Kaa-chan! I could've been ready and at the academy in less than a minute! Why'd you have to wake me up so early?' Naruto grumbled as he pushed himself off the ground and groggily walked over to his closet where he began to dig around for something to wear. 'I was having such a great dream too." He mumbled, though not low enough. The bucket his mother had used to bring in the water sailed through the room and smashed into the back of his head causing him to crash into the closet.

"What the fuck?!" He yelled out from under a pile of clothes that had fallen from their hangers.

"Get dressed. Brush your teeth. Wash your face, and get to class!" His mother growled out, standing above him in a pose that all children recognized as the infamous 'Mother-of-Doom' stance.

Naruto looked up, after pulling a rather smelly shirt off his head, at his mom and chuckled. His mom was quite the looker, and he had no shame in admitting that- in his mind at least -black silky hair, dark eyes that sparkled with mirth even if her impassive face seemed otherwise; pale, soft skin and a body that many in the village of Konoha would kill to catch a glimpse at in something other than her everyday house-wife outfit. Yes, Uchiha Mikoto was quite the woman.

"Alright, alright. I'll be ready in three minutes; tops!" Mikoto narrowed her eyes at her youngest, adopted, son for a few moments before nodding her head and marching out of his room, closing the door behind her.

As Naruto quickly put together an outfit, beige baggy pants; a white muscle shirt with a black, unbuttoned, vest over it; black military-style boots and finally, a pair of black sunglasses. He knew it was impractical, especially the boots, but he didn't care. 'I have to look good for the girls, after all.'

As he exited his room and headed towards the restroom he briefly thought over how he had come to call the ever-beautiful Uchiha Mikoto, "mother".

He had heard the stories many times in the past, especially when he was younger. His birth-mother, Uzumaki Kushina, had died the day he was born. Both she and his father, actually; apparently a large claw, from a hundred-foot-tall bijuu, through the chest would do that to you. Well, his father -Namikaze Minato- had died more from the seal he had used to put the Kyuubi inside of his newborn child, but that was neither here nor there. Honestly, Naruto didn't have an opinion on his parents; he thanked them for bringing him into the world but that was about it, he certainly wasn't going to thank them for the spastic beast currently inside of his gut...or head...or wherever it actually was inside his body.

Anyway, his mother and Uchiha Mikoto had been real close friends since their genin days and they had, at some point, made one of those promises you read about in novels or see in movies where they vowed to look after the other's children if anything was to happen to them. The day after the sealing of the Kyuubi, Uchiha Mikoto had promptly stormed a council meeting in which the fate of young Uzumaki Naruto was being decided. She didn't speak a word; she simply walked up to the Sandaime Hokage, whom was holding the newborn, and took the babe from his arms. She then walked to the doors before stopping and looking back over her shoulder at the council.

"If anyone tries to argue with me, my right, to watch over my dead friend's son...I'll kill them." With that, she left the building. An hour later her husband returned from that same meeting and showed her the adoption papers that proclaimed Naruto as her son. It was a unanimous decision by the council.

Naruto smirked, his mom was a total bad-ass. He then frowned, it sometimes sucked that she was his mom because he couldn't perv on her, at least not openly.

'Dammit.'

Naruto stepped out of the Uchiha Clan Head's estate and stepped out onto the main street of the Uchiha compound. He instantly saw his brother and casually made his way over.

"Morning bro, been waiting long?" He asked cheerfully.

Uchiha Sasuke, wearing a pair of black slacks and the traditional Uchiha blue-collared shirt with the clan symbol on the back, stared back at him impassively. Naruto slumped with a groan.

"Aw c'mon! It's too early in the morning for your crazy antics." He tried. Sasuke blinked as he turned away and jumped towards the nearest roof, Naruto quickly following after.

"What if I said I had a very sexy dream about Ino-chan?"

"..." The duo, that had been roof hopping, landed on the divider-wall of the compound and jumped down to the ground below.

"What if I said that her mom was in the dream too?"

"..." They had taken to running through the village, jumping over civilians; carriages; onto and off walls; over roofs, and through a few trees.

"What if I said they were helping me sow my oats, so-to-speak, in the dream?"

"..." They had arrived inside the academy grounds and looked up to see students filing inside, they had made it just in time.

"What if I said that this morning, when Kaa-chan woke me up, I was still dreaming and kissed her full on the mouth?"

Sasuke tripped and turned to Naruto in shock and disbelief, which quickly turned to anger when Naruto began laughing and waving a hand dismissively.

"Ah, I was just messing with ya; you know I would never do that...at least not with dad around." Naruto laughed again and ducked out of the way when a kick sliced through the air where his head had just been. Still laughing, he quickly moved inside the building.

As Sasuke entered through the double doors he saw Naruto waiting for him, leaning against a wall just five feet into the building. Naruto's previous behaviour was absent and now he wore a bored look on his face. The young Uchiha shook his head, sighing internally, at his brother. Ever since they were younger, Naruto had always been an energetic person. He was loud, obnoxious, rude and easily the most aggravating person anyone could ever meet; then there was the other side of Naruto. It was the cold side of the blonde. It was like a light switch; while 'on', Naruto was bright and cheery. When it was 'off' Naruto became someone else.

It was only in recent months that Naruto had gained some sort of middle-ground, not that anyone truly noticed. No one outside the clan had ever seen Naruto's 'off' side. They attributed his 'calm' side as just him growing up and maturing. The girls seemed to love it, at least. Then again, they had also grown to love his 'on' side as well.

By now the brothers were walking side-by-side down the hallway. Despite their mother's persistence in their being present at the academy, they were both soon-to-be graduating students and, as they were in the last semester of the year, they had joined the tutoring program for extra-credit on their shinobi profiles. The extra-credit really didn't do anything for you if you were going to be a front-line shinobi but for other parts of the military, that credit could really help sway a person's mind during recruitment.

The brother would sometimes sit in a class, go over basics, or just help out one of the instructors, sometimes even take over a class for an absent instructor, but mostly they just monitored the halls. They had even formed a little group within the program; the members were all hand-picked by them as well. In fact, here comes one of their female members now.

"Sasuke-kun! Naruto-kun! Good morning!' Came the bright voice that belonged to none-other-than Haruno Sakura. The pink-haired girl had been a friend to both boys for as long as any of the three could remember. It was mostly because of this friendship that Sakura hadn't turned out like many of the other girls in the academy by becoming a fan-girl to either Sasuke or Naruto. Though, she admittedly would love the chance to date either boy even if she couldn't decide which one. Sakura was also one of the smartest students in the academy, only being beaten by Sasuke, with Naruto at a very close third place.

Naruto grinned and pulled the girl into a hug, swinging her in a circle before putting her back on her feet. "Morning Sakura-chan! What's the word?" Even with the hug and spin, Naruto had kept pace with Sasuke and Sakura had been forced to catch up after regaining her balance.

'Every day, like clock-work.' The Uchiha thought absently. Sakura meanwhile was trying to fight the blush on her face down as she busied herself with digging out a small note-pad from her the small pouch tied to her belt. She brought the note-pad up to her face to further hide her blush as she began reading to herself. Naruto simply smiled, not even paying attention to the girl as he walked with his hands behind his head. After a moment Sakura looked up, the blush finally gone.

"Oh, well you guys were right about Rock Lee! He was picked up as a genin after all. Might Guy, a taijutsu-specialist jounin, took Rock Lee as his apprentice.' When Sakura saw the lack of reaction from Sasuke and the slight narrowing of the eyes from Naruto she quickly continued reading over her notes. 'But! Rock-san has a stipulation against him that he cannot be promoted past the rank of genin and he can only go on missions outside the village as long as there is no less than: one jounin, two chunin, and any number of genin. It doesn't matter how strong Rock-san becomes under Might-san, as long as he is unable to mold chakra outside of his body to disable a genjutsu and use a basic healing jutsu, he will have this stipulation on him."

Sasuke remained emotionless and Naruto seemed to relax, to which Sakura breathed out a sigh of relief. She was one of the few outside of the Uchiha clan that knew Sasuke and Naruto as well as she did, she had gotten to a point where she could read through Sasuke's emotionless looks and impassiveness, even his silence. Naruto, she could see through him just as easily, though he did have the habit of misdirecting her on purpose just to mess with her head but that was just the way he was and she more than welcomed his teasing, it just meant he was in a good mood.

The trio had just arrived at their office, which was located on the third floor of the academy in the southwest corner of the building, when Sasuke stopped and looked off into space. Naruto frowned and closed his eyes; spreading out his senses, Sakura quickly followed suit. Sasuke sighed.

"I have something to take care of. Naruto, call a meeting. Sakura...good morning." Naruto shrugged while Sakura sweat-dropped a that belated greeting as Sasuke moved down the hallway and vanished around a corner.

"So...Sakura-chan; we're going to be all alone in the office until he gets back, or the others show up, what say you and I have some fun?" A punch to the back of the head by a heavily blushing pinkette was his answer and he watched as his friend rushed into the office and disappeared inside. He chuckled as he followed her inside, he loved messing with her.

Uchiha Itachi stood across the field from his enemy. He stood calm, confident, and ready. His opponent was gritting his teeth in obvious anger, fists clenched at his sides.

"Take back what you said!" His foe demanded. Itachi didn't so much as roll his eyes, he was better than that.

"How foolish of you, to believe you have any power to demand anything of me." He responded. Even though he was confident, his opponent was a Sarutobi and he wouldn't make the mistake of underestimating him. After all, Sarutobi Hiruzen was the 'God of Shinobi' and that kind of power has to run in the blood. By that logic, his opponent could be just as strong, or could be someday.

"Why you bas...uh...I mean...this isn't over yet!" With that, his foe left. Itachi had seen the Sarutobi's eyes widen in, first, surprise and then in fear. Looking out of the corner of his eye he launched himself forward and then spun mid-air, launching two kunai at the unseen newcomer behind him as he did so. Itachi watched with wide-eyes as the kunai hit the newcomer right in the chest before falling to the ground.

"Blunted-kunai. Honestly, one would think you'd try a jutsu if you were going to be carrying around such insufficient weaponry, Itachi."

The Uchiha looked up from the fallen kunai to the person they had struck. He had recognized the voice immediately, it couldn't be anyone else that had caught him so off-guard. Gulping slightly, he raised his eyes and locked onto those of the person standing across from him, the ten year old mustered all his courage before speaking.

"Sasuke-Oniisama."

Literally, this came to me while I was lying down trying to go to sleep. I had thought of something almost similar to this before, where Naruto and Sasuke are really good friends and they "run things" so-to-speak. I decided to take a page out of the relationship between Takayanagi Mitsuomi and Tawara Bunshichi from Tenjou Tenge. Sasuke being the former and Naruto being the latter.

As I was thinking about it, I thought of how it would be fun to lead the reader on in the first scene, making him/her think that it's Kushina waking Naruto up. Instead I decided to go with Naruto being adopted by Mikoto.

The Uchiha clan is still around, though they don't play any major part in the story, they are about as important as the Hyuuga clan.

There was no attempted coup.

Naruto is still a jinchuuriki, but because of Mikoto, and the Uchiha clan's backing, he doesn't catch crap from the villagers. Also, his personality is a bit different. He's strong, and extremely confident in his abilities. He's also a bit of a playboy, which is why the boys are 15. Decided that the age-limit needed to be up'd. The academy accepts applicants at the age of ten. The students then spend 5 years, no exceptions, in the academy learning everything they need to know. At 15 they test to become genin.

Sasuke isn't emo or anything, nor is he strictly canon, he's just a stereotypical Uchiha, though he's stronger than most for his age. He's also the clan heir, so a lot is expected of him which shapes his personality. He's not all arrogant either, none of that "I'm an Uchiha! The Elite! Give me all the powers of the world!"

Surprise! Itachi isn't the eldest, or a traitor. He isn't canon-Sasuke either.

So, what's the verdict?

C.D the XPG!