Disclaimer: Loveless- Yun Koga

Naruto- Misashi Kishimoto

Claimer: I own the plot and OCs like Haruka, Sterling, etc.

Warnings: There MIGHT be limes later, and no characters from Loveless are in this series.

Pairings: SasuOC, there MIGHT be more

BOP

The people that I know and that know me have appeared for the soccer practice I set up with Kiba. Naruto and I are passing the soccer ball between us by hitting it with our heads. He was a bit bad at it before, but now that we've done this for ten minutes he's gotten the hang of it. He had told me that this was his weak point in soccer.

Temari, Ten Ten, and Hinata are passing the ball in between themselves as fast as they can go without losing control of the ball. Kiba and Shino are trying to see how many times they can juggle the ball on their feet. Ino and Sakura are trying to make goals in a certain spot, trying to impress Sasuke who's trying to do some tricks to confuse an opposing team player.

"Hey, Haruka~!"

Naruto catches the ball in courtesy of me turning when my name is called so I don't get hit on the head with the soccer ball. Sterling is coming onto the track with a few of his friends in tow. Everyone is looking, but they don't do it for long before they go back to what they're doing. I run over to Hinata and tell her to go ahead and start head butting the ball with Naruto. She blushes and goes over to help him.

I take a quick glance at Sasuke to see his tail twitching with fur on end and his ears are flat, but not against his head, and he's not facing me. I see Sasuke staring right at Sterling as the inu-gin walks right up to me with a big grin and wagging his tail.

I don't know what it is about Sterling, but for some reason today he seems to have his attention on me more than he has. When he gets to me we high five each other since he put his hand up. He's wearing a nice green soccer shirt with some black shorts and black cleats.

"Hey, I'm sorry that we're ten minutes late. One of my friends over there couldn't find his ball, but he got it now," he explains as if it matters. I shrug in a way that says it doesn't matter since this isn't real practice. I glance at his friends to see that they're beginning to do their own thing. "So I'm just gonna ask before there's something that'll interrupt me. Do you want to go out to eat sometime?"

I look at Sterling with a bit of shock. I can feel my ears stick up in surprise and my tail rise in response. Sterling is waiting patiently with a nice smile on his face to wait for my answer. I tilt my head a bit, trying to see if this is a joke, but I can tell it's not a joke at all.

All of a sudden I see a soccer ball coming. I shove Sterling so that he's out of the way. Unfortunately that's all I had time to do before I see black and white straight up in my face. The soccer ball then collides with my face, causing me to fall over.

I land on the ground roughly and hit my head, but it doesn't hurt too much since there's grass on the ground. I curse my reflexes since I have a feeling that the ball was meant to hit Sterling's head and not my face.

While I'm trying to get my breath back, since it was knocked out of me, people rush up and loom over me. I notice Temari, Ten Ten, Kiba, and Shino. I blink a few times as they help me up. For some reason I end up yawning so I decide to use that as a sign to downplay what just happened so I smile and say, "Well, now this is soccer practice."

I can't help but notice that my nose is throbbing, but I can tell it's not broken. I turn to Sterling who is now standing up with his friends beside him. He smiles at me to assure me that he's okay and thankful that I had got him out of the way, although I think he would've preferred that he took the hit instead of me.

"Dang, you still have a mean tackle. Thanks, Haruka. I guess I kind of owe you now, don't I?" he asks with a smile. "Now we can definitely go out to eat."

His friends look taken aback. Temari nudges me and I can tell that Ten Ten is be smiling. I start waving off everyone so that they'd get back to whatever they were doing because I don't want them to think too hard on this. I haven't accepted Sterling's offer yet, and I hope he doesn't notice. I even wave off Sterling while he's starting to think of when to have this little date. I won't give him time to tell me.

Once everyone is finally gone I rub my face which has soccer ball marks that I can feel. I hear footsteps stop beside me and I turn to see Sasuke pick up the ball that had hit me in the face. He stands up straight and turns to me with ears laid back in embarrassment and his tail wrapped around his own leg with a slight blush.

"Er… I'm sorry about that. That was meant for Sterling," he mutters an apology.

I smile at him and say, "Its okay, Sasuke. I thought that was the case. It's just my reflexes kicked in there."

"It's just that…" Sasuke doesn't finish what he's saying and he suddenly turns to his soccer ball as if it suddenly became so interesting.

"Go ahead and say it, Sasuke. We're going to have to be completely honest with each other if the bond is going to get stronger," I press. I suddenly feel like the more mature one, even if I'm more naive.

"He makes me angry and it's not fair for you since you don't know his full reputation," he finishes.

I don't know how to respond to that. I blink at Sasuke, not really sure how to take this. He doesn't give me anymore time to take it in because he turns around and goes down the field so that he can do what he was doing. I scratch my ear and decide to go back to what I was doing, too. All I can accept for now is that Sasuke is trying to help, and I should listen.

"Mom!" I call out into the house when I open the door.

"I'm in the kitchen making some dinner, Haru-chan!" my mother calls back.

I turn to Sasuke while taking off my shoes. He's looking around and analyzing his surroundings. The place still looks a little empty, but that's because we've just finished unpacking so we need to start to make this house our own. Sasuke takes off his own shoes and wiggles his toes into the plush carpet. I lead him to the kitchen and when we get there my mom's back is turned to us.

She has long wavy brown hair and has a normal sized body. She's about thirty-three now and had me when she was twenty. We live just fine compared to where we could be.

The air is filled with the aroma of chicken. The pan on the stove is crackling and smoke is coming out through the wire mesh above it. There's a pot that's leaking steam and which could only be the rice. Sasuke is standing beside me and I can hear him take a deep inhale of breath in order to get the full smell of chicken and rice being cooked by my mother.

When my mother turns around she widens her eyes with surprise. She's wearing dark blue capris, a gray shirt, and a frilly pink apron. She gives a wide smile as she sets her eyes on Sasuke and he gives a respectful bow. She shoots a quick glance at me when he's bowed and I don't let my face reveal anything to her.

"Oh! You didn't tell me we were expecting company, Haru-chan. Who's this?" she asks with a pleasant smile.

"This is Uchiha, Sasuke. I invited him over for dinner," I explain.

"I don't mean to intrude, Aki-san," he says politely. My mother laughs and flicks her gloved hand to wave off Sasuke's serious, polite tone as she says, "It's no problem at all, Sasuke! I don't mind having another place to set for dinner. It's good that Haru-chan is starting to get friends. Go ahead and make yourself at home. Show him around, Haru-chan!"

I can feel my tail move back and forth with contentment as my mother shoots one last smile then turns around to tend to the food. Sasuke follows me out of the kitchen as I head to the stairs. As we're going up Sasuke talks a bit quieter than usual when he compliments, "Your mom is nice…"

I didn't notice his slightly sad tone as I smile and say, "She sure is. I really love my mom. My dad can't be here, though, since he died of cancer three years ago."

"I'm sorry," he says as we reach the top of the stairs. I turn to him with a smile and say, "Don't be. It wasn't your fault. Anyway, the bathroom is the first door you see if you look straight ahead. My mom's room is up here along with a guest room, and I sleep downstairs in my room. We just finished all of our unpacking so everything looks spick and span for now. We have a basement, too, but that's not special enough to go and see. You can go ahead and use the bathroom."

I push past Sasuke and go downstairs. I don't hear him follow so I know he must've gone to the bathroom. I go straight to the kitchen and start grabbing stuff to set up the places we'll be eating. My mom laughs at how I'm helping out faster than usual.

"That boy is very polite and serious. Who is he, Haru-chan?" my mother asks as I go and set the place mats, plates, and silverware down on the table. I come back into the kitchen and answer, "He's the other Timeless, mom."

I turn to her to see her slightly wide eyes. My mom and dad had known that I had a name, obviously, but they didn't expect me to find my Sacrifice. I know that this terrifies my mom, seeing as she doesn't like to know I could get into trouble, or worse, be in danger. But my mom gives a warm smile that I haven't seen since my dad's funeral. I tilt my head at this. She puts her hand on my head then gives me a hug which confuses me, but I hug her anyway.

"Be careful, alright Haru-chan?" she tells me. I nod in agreement and she lets go with that same smile. "You can go ahead and tell Sasuke that he's welcome here anytime."

"Alright mom," I say with a nod.

She goes back to the cooking and I can't help but wonder what this is for. I know that she knows about the danger of being a Fighter Unit. I guess she likes Sasuke plenty more now because she knows he'll be sticking around for a long time. Even though she is nice, she knows about cracking down the law so she can get awful scary in a nice way, which just makes it creepy.

When Sasuke comes downstairs I'm just setting down my plate of food. I tell him he can go get his food now. He nods then goes into the kitchen. I take a seat and glance at the fourth place that doesn't have anything since that's where my dad sits. I heave a sigh and then turn to my food.

Sasuke comes back after my mom. He takes a seat after she does. With a smile my mom starts eating which is her way of saying that we can start eating now. As we eat my mom makes small talk with Sasuke and I end up finding out things I didn't even know I would ever find out.

Sasuke doesn't have his parents or any family, for that matter. While at a family reunion, which Sasuke couldn't go to because of school along with his brother Itachi—which I didn't know he had—there was a fire that ended up with him losing his entire family. His older brother is off at college which leaves Sasuke alone at his house.

When Sasuke tells us all of this, this causes something in my mother to change. I can see that instead of a delighted attitude toward Sasuke she ends up getting a delighted motherly-care attitude toward him. Along with this change I can see that Sasuke is getting more comfortable being here. I can't help but feel like I'm beaming with happiness as I eat.

At the end of dinner Sasuke offers to help wash dishes which my mother happily accepts. To me it's starting to seem that she's turning into a bit of a fan for Sasuke herself, but not in the same way as the girls around our age. I end up watching some TV as they do that and I listen as my mother continues to do most of the talking. He ends up doing the washing while my mom would dry and put away the dishes.

Later he ends up coming into the living room to watch some TV with me while my mom continues to dry and put away dishes. I glance outside and notice that it's dark and I wonder what Sasuke will do when it's time for him to leave. I wait for Sasuke to say something, but he doesn't. He continues to watch TV. I just assume that this is too nice for words, and I wonder how long he's been alone.

My mother comes out from the kitchen with no apron this time. She smiles at Sasuke and he glances at her then gives a polite thanks to her for the food as he stands up.

"Oh! It's so dark out! I wouldn't dare let you go out by yourself! You can stay in the guest room, Sasuke," my mother offers.

"I couldn't. That's asking too much," Sasuke politely declines with an excuse.

"That's nonsense!" my mother jeers. "You can stay the night here. I can drop you off at school tomorrow, too. It's nothing, really! It is Hump Day after all."

I glance at Sasuke to see that his shoulders are sagging a bit along with his tail and ears. We both know that he can't wiggle his way out of this. He admits defeat by saying he'll stay. My mother almost bounces with happiness and leads him upstairs while saying that she'd find some old clothes that he can use as pajamas. I just giggle to myself at how my mom so innocently forces her will on people.

I hope you guys like this update. I'm glad that I left you off at such an interesting cliffhanger. ;D

But just to dash your hopes, nothing nasty's going to happen! Perverts! XDDD