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Song of inspiration for this chapter: Welcome to My Life by Simple Plan

I suggest listening to it while reading the chapter

Chapter 3: Welcome to My Life

Sasuke woke up and got ready for school. As usual his parents weren't home and the house was silent. Since their prodigy child had left for college they hardly saw a reason to be home. Sasuke didn't matter; he was just their extra child.

At school most people avoided him while fan girls, or more gold diggers, followed him around. It did not make for a pleasant school day.

Naruto started to realize how people avoided him, he felt bad. He saw the look on Sasuke's face. Before it was unreadable to him, but now he could see the sadness. Maybe he could see it now because he wasn't blinded by the fact that he thought Sasuke was just a jerk. Sure he still thought he was a jerk, but now he felt bad for him, Sasuke had no friends.

Sasuke didn't have work today, so he went right to the park with his guitar. He thought for sure that he blonde wouldn't appear there. It was only three fifteen and Naruto had said four. He sat there and played his guitar. As he played he thought about his life, his parents, his lack of friends, everything was wrong and nothing was right. There really was no purpose for him to be alive, or so he felt. His parents couldn't care less, his pervert of a boss would replace him with another boy, he had no friends to care, and if he were to go no one would care. Sometimes he just felt like breaking down because of everything in his life, so he sang about it.

Naruto was once again in his tree, curiosity gets the best of him and he just always wanted to hear what the pale boy had to sing. He thought when he sang; it was the truest feelings you'd ever see from the dark haired boy. Though today, Naruto wasn't sure he liked the song. It wasn't that he didn't like it; on the contrary, it was a great song. The problem was the words, the fact that he had been apart of the world that made someone feel that way and he hadn't even known it.

Naruto did know what it was like to have no one, he was an orphan with a bitch of a guardian and nothing felt right until he met Kiba. Kiba had saved him. That's probably why he held so tightly to Kiba's friendship. 'Sasuke needs a Kiba,' Naruto thought.

Naruto wanted to hug the poor boy. He knew that Sasuke was not the greatest person but that wasn't the point. The point was that no one deserved to live like that. Sasuke felt like no one was there, like no one cared. 'Deep inside he's bleeding? Breaking down? What could be going on in Sasuke's life that makes it this bad?' Naruto wondered.

Naruto looked at the boy whom seemed to be getting madder by every word. He knew that the song came from his heart; it wasn't just a song you could write without experiencing something so bad that it made you feel like this.

'Itachi. Sasuke wouldn't let me say his name. It must be something to do with that!' Naruto finally realized.It had finally clicked in Naruto's head just who was the root of all that Sasuke felt inside. Itachi was indeed that one thing that had made Sasuke's life a living hell, everything that went bad was because he wasn't up to his brother's level, of course Naruto didn't know this yet, but soon enough he'd find out.

Sasuke got up from where he had been sitting and walked to underneath the tree. He leaned against it and hit his head into it. Yeah it hurt, but he wanted that pain, it made him feel alive, like he was real. He had closed his eyes and not before long he felt two arms warp around him and pull him into a hug. His eyes snapped open and he saw a certain blonde boy hugging him. Naruto could feel Sasuke tense up. Sasuke quickly pushed the blonde off of himself.

"Naruto what are you doing?" he tried to be mean when he said it, but the words didn't come out right.

"You need a hug," Naruto said as if it were obvious.

"No I don't," Sasuke glared. Physical contact in an affectionate way was not like an Uchiha, they just didn't hug, cuddle, none of it.

The glare didn't affect the blonde anymore since he's been on the receiving end of it so many times. Naruto let the subject go and looked at him, "So you ready to tutor me?"

"Yeah," Sasuke sighed. "Aren't you early?"

"So? Might as well get a head start," Naruto smiled.

"Hn, I guess," Sasuke shrugged. 'That way I can get rid of him sooner,' he thought.

"Cool, let's go to your house and study there," Naruto suggested.

"My house?" the raven asked, surprised.

"Yeah, it's closer," the blonde pointed out.

"The fact that you know that makes you sound more like a stalker," Sasuke smirked.

Naruto growled at him, "Just go."

"Oh I'm scared now," Sasuke said sarcastically.

Naruto pulled him up to his feet, "Come on!"

"Fine, the faster we start the sooner we can be done with this," Sasuke sighed.

Naruto just rolled his eyes, "Sooner or later you'll be my friend."

"But you were just messing with me before Kiba came in remember?" Sasuke said angry again.

"That was then, this is now," Naruto smiled.

"Nothing has changed," the dark haired teen said.

"Yeah something has," Naruto smiled.

"What?" Sasuke asked, obviously not convinced.

"I don't know yet," the blonde shrugged.

They got to the empty Uchiha mansion, "Maybe we should have gone to my place."

"Why dobe, are you afraid of my house?" Sasuke asked with a small chuckle.

"All it's missing is the thunder," Naruto said.

Sasuke rolled his eyes and unlocked the door. He didn't bother saying he's home; there was no one to say he's home to. He walked into the kitchen, followed closely by Naruto, to find a note.

Sasuke:

Your father and I are going to be late; we're going out to dinner tonight, so you're on your own again.

She didn't even bother putting love mom at the bottom anymore. She stopped doing that a long time ago. 'What else is new? They always do this,' Sasuke thought as his eyes took on a look of anger and sadness.

"Are your parents usually gone?" Naruto asked, curious as to what Sasuke's life really was like.

"Yes," it was only one word, but it was said with enough hate that there didn't need to be anything else there.

Naruto looked at Sasuke, feeling bad about Kiba's idea. "Well, where are we gonna study?" he asked.

"Up stairs, do you want anything to eat or drink?" Sasuke asked, figuring it was rude of him not to.

"No, I'm good," the blonde responded.

Sasuke went up the stairs and was closely followed by Naruto. Naruto felt that he could get lost in the house.

TBC…