I'm really sorry guys. I mean it. I would've been a bit quicker with the updates, but life has been a bitch recently, and I'll have to admit that my inspiration for Naruto has been fading fast because of it. Don't worry about me not continuing, because I will. I definitely will, but my updates won't be as quick anymore. Also, thank you all for reviewing, favouriting and following! There's over one hundred followers now, which, I have to say, is pretty awesome. Also, the reviews are nearing the hundreds, and we've barely even begun the story. Awesome people. So, to make up for my lateness, there's a little bit of an early present for you SasukexKuroki fans, but I'll give you guys the benefit of giving me some 'fluff' ideas between them. So, give me a review on the story once you finish, but add in a scene you'd like to see with them, though only in the story's present time, meaning I can't randomly post a chapter with Sasuke and Kuroki all grown up when they're not even 12-14 yet. So, sorry guys! I am, but you know how life is. Fucks shit up for all of us. I do hope you enjoy, even though it may be a little weird because of the inconsistent typing times I've had. And it's really short because my inspiration is gone. For now.

"Uh...Kuroki-chan?" A voice called to me. My vision was clouded in darkness, a groan escaping my lips as I weakly protested to open my eyes, my eyelids sealed shut and hurting when I attempt to open them.

"Kuroki-chan. It's lunch time." Another voice informed me, and I reluctantly opened my eyes, squinting and blinking a few times to adjust my vision. I was surrounded by Sakura, Kiba, Shikamaru and Naruto, who were all staring at me. I sat up, yawning and rubbing the sleep out of my eyes.

"I'm up. Let's go." I said, standing and and stepping onto the desks, then jumping from each desk to get to the exit of the classroom. It was a hell of a lot quicker than walking.

We all began to walk to our normal lunch area, Naruto making conversation with Kiba, Sakura talking about something to me (I wasn't listening, obviously) and Shikamaru being silent as usual. Over at the large shady tree we all sat at, Choji and Sasuke were already waiting for us, but Sasuke was hiding behind the tree and poking his head out every few seconds to see if he was being followed. When he saw me, his eyes widened and brightened up, seeming to forget the vicious fangirls and sprinting towards me. A grin crept its way to my face.

"Kuroki-chan!" He exclaimed excitedly, jumping up and basically tackling me as he wrapped his arms around me. I automatically wrapped my arms around him and kept us upright.

"Sup, Sasuke?" I asked, finally letting go of him to see his face. He reluctantly did the same, and looked up at me, soon remembering his situation and keeping an eye out.

"Nothing much...just trying to hide from the fangirls..." He replied in a whisper, quickly running back to the tree which Shikamaru had walked to when I was greeting the Uchiha, now sitting next to Choji.

"Hahaha! Teme's so popular, it's a curse!" Naruto laughed at his rival's misfortune. We made our way to the tree.

"Shut up a little, will you, Naruto?" Sakura asked in annoyance, but wasn't shouting like all hell, which I was grateful for. I sat against the tree trunk as usual, Sasuke quickly making his way next to me before anyone else could.

"Sasuke has enough on his plate already without you mocking him, okay?" She explained to the blonde briefly. I was kind of proud of her. It's been three weeks since she's joined, and the group didn't have many problems with her. She even got over that artificial crush she had on Sasuke, making the latter more comfortable around her. Although it took some convincing to get the Nara to comply.

"Getting burned by a girl, huh idiot? You're becoming even more pathetic everyday." Kiba mocked, a toothy grin on his face. Akamaru barked from Kiba's lap. He finally brought the dog to school.

"Agh! Shut up! Kuroki-chan's a girl and you get burned by her all the time!" Naruto exclaimed in protest, throwing his hands up and glaring at his other rival. The rest of us who weren't loud mouths were getting our lunches and putting them in the middle for all of us to share. I yawned as I drowned out their arguing voices.

"I hear that next year, we're going to be in that same class until graduation." Sasuke said softly, grabbing an omusubi and biting into it.

"You mean I might have to be with Kiba and Naruto until graduation?!" I cringed at the thought of having to be in their class for three years straight...is that dango?!

"Sounds troublesome as always." Shikamaru commented, staring up at the leaves that gave us shade from the sun. I quickly grabbed the dango and grinned evilly at it.

"You're going to die, dango. And you're going to taste amazing." I stated with a demonic chuckle, soon devouring the sweet whole. My god! It tastes amazing.

"How come you never gain any weight even though you eat so many sweets all the time?" Sakura asked, an envious look in her eye.

"Because I train." I replied dully. I thought that was obvious.

"I thought you had a brain, Pink Stuff." Kiba teased the pinkette, whose cheeks became bright and growled at the Inuzuka.

"Shut it, Kiba. I have more brains than you." She retorted sharply, making me snicker.

"That's true." Shikamaru agreed, smirking lightly. Choji was digging into the chips he had.

"You wanna go, Pink Stuff?!" Kiba challenged, jutting his fist threateningly toward her. Kiba was brash, and apparently being around me, the only female other than Sakura, he's gotten used to treating the pinkette like a guy. When I glanced to Sakura, she had her eyes closed with an annoyed expression.

"Do you have any idea how to treat a lady?!" Sakura yelled as she rapidly stood up and grabbed the nearest thing, instantly throwing it at the Inuzuka with some impressive speed. A large smacking sound echoed as Kiba was literally thrown back by a water bottle, Akamaru jumping up and successfully landing unharmed. I went into a full blown laughter as I saw Kiba a metre away from him previous spot, his face a little bloody and swollen. Damn fool was knocked out. He was twitching too!

I heard a sigh beside me over my informal laughter, and attempted to calm down. Naruto was having a fit, he was shaking on the ground, his voice louder than the smacking sound, which was fucking loud.

"It's gotten more loud lately." Shikamaru sighed. "Troublesome idiots."

"It's more lively, I think. Having Sakura-chan around may have been a good thing." Choji pointed out softly.

"Yeah. Sakura-chan's not so bad once you get to know her." Sasuke smiled sweetly at the said pinky, who had calmed down and returned to her formal seating position. A light blush tainted her cheeks.

"Thank you, Sasuke." She thanked the Uchiha in a manner that showed us she wasn't obsessed with him anymore. Thank fuck.

"Hey, Sakura-chan. What happened to using honorifics?" Naruto asked after calming down. Instead of how it's normally pronounced, Naruto pronounced honorifics as 'honor-righ-fics'.

"It's pronounced with a short 'i' Naruto." Sakura informed the daft blonde. "And Kuroki-chan said not to use honorifics for you guys."

"So why say Kuroki-'chan'?" Naruto inquired on. I saw the irritation in her features, it made me grin.

"Because Kuroki-chan is my sensei in the art of social skills for boys." Pinkette stated professionally.

"Seriously?" Sasuke asked, a little surprised.

"Why do you think she's no longer a fangirl?" I asked absent-mindedly, deciding to pick at the options our lunches provided. Glancing up at the Pinkette, she was looking down with a darker blush.

"Please don't mention that...I'm so ashamed I was like that only a few weeks ago." She nearly whispered. Yeah, I'd be ashamed too if I acted like fangirl her. Least she won't be as annoying in the future.

"I'll always like you, Sakura-chan!" Naruto beamed proudly, grinning like a goof and scratching the back of his head nervously. I leaned a little closer...yeah, he's blushing.

"Shut up, Naruto!" Sakura scolded, punching the blonde in the shoulder and looking flustered. The rest of us who were conscious could see the chemistry between them, but then what happens with Hinata if they do ever get together?

"If you're not going to eat, then I will."

"Whoa, whoa! Kuroki-chan! Don't eat it all!"

"Serves you right for flirting, Dobe."

"Shut it, Teme! You're always clinging to Kuroki-chan, so you have no say!"

"Shut up! I can be close to the girl I like, can't I?!"

"So he likes you, huh?" I glanced to Shikamaru as I began to eat some shrimp.

"Mm." I replied, getting another one.

"I guessed as much." He commented lazily. "He makes it kind of obvious."

"No way. I had no idea until he told me." I replied, astounded by my dense attitude to romantic feelings.

The damned Nara knew this dense part of me, and smirked. "Sounds like you."

"Pscht. Shut up, will you?" I smirk-grinned.

"Bye Kuroki-chan! Sasuke!" Sakura waved us goodbye as she walked in the opposite direction of us. We waved back, then turned to walk to the training ground closest to my home.

"She didn't say my name!" Naruto whined dramatically, making a distressed pose whilst walking. Does that make sense?

"Because you're annoying." Sasuke replied with a smug smirk. These days, he's been a bit more reserved than he used to be, not like 'I'm going to take revenge on my brother and be a fucking dick' though.

He's...become a bit more mature in a sense, I think.

"Agh, shut up Teme!" Naruto growled at the Uchiha, glaring at him. "I don't get to live with the girl I love like you!"

I yawned and decided to focus on a bird conveniently flying in the same direction as us.

"What's that got to do with Sakura-chan?" Sasuke retorted calmly, how different.

"I don't know!" The blonde whined, messing up his hair in frustration. "It's not fair. It's not fair that you get to to live with Kuroki-chan, the girl you love, while I can barely get Sakura-chan to smile at me."

"You're too young to worry about love, Naruto." I commented absent-mindedly. I found out that becoming focused on something else calms me down when 'love' is involved.

"So are you." He replied childishly.

"Why do you think I react strangely to romantic things?"

"Do you?" Sasuke asked.

"I wonder." I said softly, I kind of forgot what we were on about.

"Ah, Kuroki-chan's in a daze again! Hey, we're here!" I turned to the left, seeing that we were, in fact, at the training grounds we normally trained at.

"That was...quick." I was surprised by how quick. It was probably because I hadn't been paying attention.

"Yo, you brats." Kuroi greeted us as we walked towards him, a light smirk on his face.

"Hey, dad." I greeted, a similar smirk taking my lips.

"Hey, Kuroi-sensei! What are we going to do today?!" Naruto inquired enthusiastically, grinning widely as usual.

"Some combat training. You and Sasuke as usual." Kuroi informed as he folded his arms and leaned against a tree stump that was conveniently behind him.

"Seriously?! But I want to do some cool jutsu!" The damned blonde complained.

"You just don't want to fight me again because you'll lose; as always." Sasuke grinned mischievously. I randomly grabbed a lock of his hair, which made him blink and turn to me.

"What, Teme?!" Naruto yet again growled at his rival. I let go of Sasuke's hair and jumped onto the tree stump Kuroi was leaning on.

"Do some exercises first. I've got to talk with Kuroki." Kuroi instructed casually.

Sasuke nodded silently, glancing at me before turning to go with his routine, Naruto reluctantly following along.

"What's up?" I asked, sitting down and crossing my legs whilst looking to the sky.

"How's he holding up?" My father asked, now sitting on the edge of the stump with me. I glanced to the Uchiha and Uzumaki, who had somehow as usual turned their exercises into a contest. Unfortunately for the blonde, Sasuke was winning.

"Better than I expected." I replied honestly. "I mean, he's been a bit more reserved as of late, but that may not necessarily be a bad thing. He doesn't emit much hostility to anyone, not even Naruto."

I saw Kuroi nod his head. "That's good. He still sleeps in your bed?" I glanced at him, and he was already looking at me, a smug smirk on his damn face.

"Kuh." Is what came out of my lips, like a sigh, but with a 'k'. "Yes, if you must know. He doesn't like sleeping by himself because he feels all alone."

"Understandable." Kuroi nodded again. "He's a tough kid. You said he hasn't cried since the day it happened?"

"From what I know, yeah. Who knows, maybe when he's by himself, he lets it all out." I replied, cracking my neck.

"Well, anyways. Enough talk. Time for some training."

"We have to work on my genjutsu," I informed him, jumping off the tree stump I used as a seat, "and on their teamwork." Naruto and Sasuke were now in a fist fight, yelling and throwing blows to each other. I grinned, even if they were fighting, they seemed to be having fun.

"Right." Kuroi agreed, pushing himself off the stump that I continue to mention. I'm going to name it Stumper.

"Oi, you idiots! Get over here. Time to test your teamwork."

Naruto and Sasuke ceased their little fight, both looked roughed up. They steadily made their way to Kuroi, both giving each other glares and smug smirks or grins.

"I can't work with Teme, Kuroi-sensei." Naruto commented, folding his arms for emphasis. Sasuke rolled his eyes.

"If you don't work together to grab the bells from Kuroki-chan, no food for both of you." Kuroi smirked evilly. I smirk-grinned at the sadistic consequence. No food is horrible. Don't think otherwise. Seriously. Food is important. Especially bacon and sweets.

"Wait, what?!" Naruto exclaimed in a deafening tone, I cringed as his voice pained my sensitive ears. God fuck, how am I going to handle those three who use sound waves or some shit in the chunin exams?

"Shut up, Dobe! You're too loud." Sasuke scolded, covering his ears as he glared at the blonde.

"But does that have to be our punishment?" I'm going to hit this kid soon.

"Quit your whining, Naruto. I chose that because it seems to give you some motivation. Now form a plan with Sasuke and work together, understand?" Kuroi instructed, mostly eying Naruto than Sasuke, who was more compliant than that blonde idiot.

"I'll...do my best." The Uchiha responded, nodding his head lightly then grabbing a hold of the blonde's arm and dragging him away.

"Can you add more chakra to your weights to slow you down?" Kuroi asked as I watched the two distance themselves from us to plan.

"Yeah, sure." I replied casually, though a smirk escaped me. "I doubt it'll increase their chances though."

Kuroi returned the smirk, then we began to prepare for the little test. I wonder how shitty they'll do this time.

I had forgotten that time had a way of passing by rather quickly, because I was already physically twelve now. I was sitting on that grassy hill that held lots of memories, staring absent-mindedly up at the sky, watching the birds soar through the air. In the past two years Sasuke, Naruto and I had been training to better ourselves. The two brats had improved on their teamwork quite a lot, and while they bicker a lot, it just shows how close they are. My eyes shifted to the trees.

"I know you're there, Sasuke." I commented lazily, smirking softly as I saw rustling of the leaves and a raven-haired boy land on the ground below.

He walked towards me with his hands in his pockets, soon sitting next to me. My shifted back to the sky, but I soon closed them as I leaned on the Uchiha, who didn't seem to mind the extra weight.

"You got an offer to graduate, didn't you?" He asked, his voice had matured only in the slightest since he was eight. I felt myself smile.

"One of the teachers saw me training by accident, they said I had the opportunity to graduate at any given time." I replied, sighing. I knew this would happen sooner or later.

"Will you?" Sasuke asked, trying to sound nonchalant, but I could hear the worry in his tone. I opened my eyes, shifting to glance at him. A smirk-grin took my lips as I saw he was staring ahead with a light blush on he cheeks.

"Would you miss me if I did?" I teased, causing the Uchiha's blush to deepen and his onyx eyes to lightly glare at me.

"Of course I would." He replied immediately, his eyes showing how serious he was. I leaned back, laying down and using my arms as a pillow.

"I'm not going to accept, obviously." I said, sounding as though it was the most obvious thing in the world, causing the raven-haired boy to glare even more at me. "There's a reason why I started late, you know."

"Want to share that reason?" He asked, deciding to lay back on the grass with me. He had mellowed down from his energetic self, though had yet to become a douche. I'm so proud of myself. Thank me, otakus of Naruto who hate Sasuke! I have made him a new man! Well...that sounded a lot more dirtier than I expected. "Why are you grinning like that?"

"Huh?" I turned to him, having been snapped out of my thoughts. "Uh, yeah. My bad. Thought of something amusing, you see." I decided to tease him with a smirk. "It involved you."

"Wha-?" He looked surprised, then his surprise turned into a smirk. "Couldn't get me out of your thoughts, huh, Kuroki-chan?" Oh, touche Uchiha.

"No." I admitted, he was on my thoughts a lot, though just not for the reasons I was on his a lot. Didn't mean he wouldn't blush at the blunt answer.

"Hey," I started, tilting my head to the side as I watched some birds interact with each other, "when you get your forehead protector, where are you going to put it?"

I could see his movement of glancing at me, though I decided to just continue staring up at the sky. "Why?" He asked, but I just shrugged.

"Curiosity, really." That's truly all it was.

"I think I might put it on my arm." The Uchiha replied, I turned to him, and thus began another staring contest. Putting it on his arm instead of his forehead is different to the canon.

"What for?" I inquired curiously.

It was his turn to shrug. "I kind of want my bangs to fall over my forehead. If I have a forehead protector there, my side bangs will apparently look like duck wings." Pfft!

"Hahaha! Oh, shit! You remember that?" I blurted out, holding my stomach as I began to laugh uncontrollably. I mentioned that a while ago, but he still seemed to remember it. How cute.

"Well, of course idiot! Isn't it normal for me to be conscious of what you say?" He exclaimed to me, more so with embarrassment than frustration.

"Stopping making that goofy smile!"

"Wait, goofy?!"

"Yes, goofy!"

"Take that back, dammit! I have no goofy mouth movements!"

"No! Goofy like Naruto!"

"How dare you compare me to that monkey-like thing!"

"Hey, Kuroki! G-Get off me!"

"You're red, Uchiha. Any particular reason why?"

"You're on top of me, maybe!"

I wrapped my arms around his neck as I used his body as a bed, my forehead leaning against his as our eyes stared into one another. Now that just sounds romantic. Well, it wasn't. To me, anyways. At this stage, he's friend-zoned to the point where I could literally lay on him without any intimacy in my touch. Sasuke, though. When he rested his hands on my lower back, I could practically feel the affection radiating off his hands.

"You don't want me off, do you?" I teased with a small grin.

I felt him frown at me, but his pouting face was extremely cute, making my grin widen.

"Obviously not..." He shifted his weight, making me lay on my side as we continued to hug each other. I closed my eyes.

"Can you believe it?" I murmured.

"Believe what?"

"That we've been together for six years."

"No way." I opened my eyes to see the surprise in his eyes, but soon a smile appeared on his lips.

"I know. I still wonder everyday how you still manage to like me, even after these two years." I admitted, absent-mindedly staring at the Uchiha's nose.

"Stupid." I frowned, moving my eyes to make contact with his, but I froze only a second later. Want to guess?! ANYONE?! I'm fucking mentally hyperventilating because my body refuses to move! Is that even possible?!

My heart pounded against my ribcage. We were so close, her arms wrapped around me with her forehead against mine, those eyes...those eyes that seemed to be the only thing that made her self-conscious at times.

They were staring into mine, but I could never tell what danced around in her eyes other than the occasional amusement and anger. I was burning up, I knew. I was probably as red as a damn cherry right about now.

I was smiling. For six years, I'd known her. For six years she's been in my life. I don't care what others say about kids not being able to love. I love Kuroki. I do.

"I still wonder everyday how you still manage to like me, even after these two years." She said, staring at my nose. I frowned at her.

"Stupid." I said, and almost instantly she frowned, moving to glare at me but I did something I'd been wanting to do for a long time.

I kissed her.

My hands wrapped around her, pulling her to me as I squeezed my eyes shut. My hands were sweating as I clutched to the cloth of her hoodie, my eyes squeezed shut as I pressed my lips to hers. They were...soft.

She was probably frozen, and after I felt like I couldn't breathe any longer, I pulled back, panting lightly as I slowly opened my eyes. I refused to look at hers, keeping my eyes on her lips which seemed to be wide with frozen shock.

"I don't care what anyone says...I'll always love you, Kuroki." I whispered, finally gathering the courage to look at her eyes. I was surprised that she was still frozen with a completely shocked expression. It was mildly amusing.

I felt myself grin, feeling mischievous. I leaned closer again, but still got no reaction. I leaned even closer, and still nothing! Deciding; to hell with it, I'll have died with no regrets, I kissed her again, and finally, I got a reaction.

"WAARGH!" I screamed, pulling back and unwrapping my arms from the damned Uchiha. I rolled away on my side, then shifted to my knees, looking in horror at the child who had taken this body's first kiss.

"What the fuck, man?!" I yelled, my mind in chaos. I was never able to handle kissing well.

"Snrk..!" The brat made some kind of sound, trying to hide his impending laughter. Little shit.

"You little sh-"

"Cute." I blinked.

"What?"

"You're cute, Kuroki." He said, beginning to snicker.

"Incredibly cute. One of the many reasons I continue to love you." He said, soon calming down and grinning brightly at me. I frowned even more than I seemed to already be doing.

"Shut up. You're cute too, you know." I said, sighing and shifting to sit down. I watched as his face became as red as I knew mine was.

"W-What? No way." He denied with a stutter, currently fidgeting uncomfortably now. My turn to grin, bitch.

"You are. I think you're cute all the time...When you smile, when you get jealous..." I started, moving to crawl towards him. He remained silent, but I swear he'll overheat at this rate.

"But I've got to kill you now." I said matter-of-factly, pouncing on him and wrapping my arms around him in a headlock.

"K-Kuroki! Let go, dammit!" He struggled as I grinned like a maniac.

"Never! You're going to pay for taking my lips!" I cackled...I knew it. I'm going to be insane and kill everyone who defies me. Aha...Ahahaha!

"Kuroki~! Let go!" The Uchiha whined in that...that voice of cuteness.

"Aha!"

"Fuck!"

"You want to get off, Uchiha?" I frowned at the at the top of the head of the oh, so wonderful Uchiha. His arms wrapped around my waist now.

"Not a chance, Taidana." Little shit. I can hear the smirk. Hear it.

"Well, well. Should I leave you two alone?"

"The fuck?!" I looked up, and saw...Kakashi.

"It's been a while, Kuroki-chan. I see you're busy, so I'll leave you to it." He seemed to smile, wave and began to wander off. I called out to him.

"Hey, wait! Don't leave me with this leech!"

"Kuroki..."

I looked down. "What-Holy shit, you're as red as a baboon's ass."

And there we have it. The long awaited chapter eleven. It's shit, I know. Go on, kill me. Kill me for being incredibly late, then you'll never get the future chapters. How about that. I do love you people. And I'm sorry. Thanks again for the reviews, the favourites, all of it. Review, my lovelies. Review. The program where I edited the chapters is down, so it may be incredibly horrible in the punctuation department.