This is Hiei's Queen03 reporting!

This is a rewrite of the Love Blossoms fic I did a while back and I decided to rewrite it from another perspective.

Disclaimer: All characters that appear in this Fanfic are sadly are not a part of my ingenious thinking. That credit belongs to Masashi Kishimoto. However, The only thing that I can claim is Jin and the plot that was created out of my mad little mind.

000

Ring!

Uzumaki Naruto groaned as he rolled over to turn off the alarm clock, falling off of the mattress in the process.

"Ugh! Another boring day at school," he thought as he struggled to get up off the floor and towards the bathroom to get ready for the day. About a half an hour later, he had showered, eaten breakfast, and attempted to tame his impossible jungle of blonde spiky hair.

As he came out of the bathroom, he reached into his dresser drawer to retrieve a pair of socks, and attempted to get them on while standing up, only managing to lose his balance and stumbled into a pile of clothes that had not made it into his hamper. Noticing his favourite black and pink screen t-shirt among the pile and after smelling it to make sure it was at least somewhat clean, he grabbed it and yanked it over his head.

There was at least one good thing about today: Naruto had a date with Sasuke!

This meant he needed the perfect outfit, so as quickly as possible, Naruto grabbed a pair of tight black jeans, struggling slightly to get them on as he dug around in the disaster that was his closet. It took a little while but he emerged with a triumphant cry, holding a black studded belt and a pair of sneakers. This completed his perfect outfit! Naruto was fairly certain that Sasuke wouldn't be able to keep his hands off.

000

When Naruto got to school, he slowed his pace, as he loved to jog to the school. It wasn't too far from his house and running around Konoha Academy's aged yet prestigious looking buildings, greenhouse, track field, and garden always calmed the rambunctious blonde before the school bell rang.

He jogged, humming quietly to himself, and he soon had run a full circle and arrived at his favourite spot, and sat down under the enormous Sakura tree.

He loved to sit here, especially in the springtime, until his best friend showed exactly five minutes before the homeroom bell rang and he and Haruno Sakura would go into the school together.

He had been best friends with the pink haired girl ever since first grade, when the rosette had stood up for him when a group of kids had bullied him on the playground and had stayed close to the blonde ever since.

She knew all of his secrets, every single one of them, including how much he had been hurting every since his parents were murdered and his brother started working at the CSI lab as a weapons analyst.

While he was waiting, a tall raven approached from behind.

"Hey, Naru," he purred in the smaller boy's ear.

The blonde jumped and then looked up to see his boyfriend, Uchiha Sasuke.

"Oh! Hey Sasuke," Naruto said, recovering, "what's up, sexy?"

"Nothing. What about you, dobe."

The blonde made a face at the last word, but gave him a chaste kiss on the lips anyway. "I'm good, teme. Are we still on for tonight?" Naruto asked, pulling away quickly.

"That's what I kinda wanted to talk to you about. It's just not going to work."

"Oh. That's okay," Naruto was only slightly surprised by the raven's aloof behaviour, but knowing that Sasuke could sometimes be a jerk, he didn't dwell on it for too long. Unfazed, the blonde smiled and asked, "How 'bout Friday?"

"Yeah… Friday. I'll see you later," the raven haired boy said, smirking as he left.

Naruto frowned at this.

He and the moody raven had been together for three months ago, but as of late, the raven had been distant.

Naruto started to panic as he wondered if the Uchiha had found out he had only fallen for the dark haired brooding yet handsome Adonis because he could never hope to get with the man of his dreams: Gaara Subaku.

However, he pushed those thoughts out of his mind with a shake of his head.

The blonde smiled as he thought back to the first weeks of their relationship when he would open his locker every morning to reveal chocolate or a long-stemmed red rose from the dark haired Uchiha waiting for him. Sasuke had even bought him a stuffed fox, that Naruto kept on his bed, when they went on their first date.

Things weren't going good between him and the raven right now, but the kitsune knew that Sasuke loved him.

Moments after the Uchiha departed, Sakura arrived and raised her eyebrow in a silent inquiry for the blonde to explain what just happened between him and Sasuke, however, Naruto just brushed it off as Sasuke being on his period. After sharing a laugh about the Uchiha, the two friends hurried towards the school and walked in together as the bell sounded for homeroom.

000

For some reason, as he was walking to his class, Naruto couldn't shake the bad feeling in the pit of his stomach. All throughout class, Naruto kept noticing that the popular kids kept looking at him and whispering when they thought he wasn't looking.

This made the blonde curious, and he decided that he would ask Sasuke when he saw him at lunch.

000

When the bell rang, signaling the end of the period, Naruto grabbed his lunch and sat at his usual table and waited for Sasuke.

As he got his lunch out, a boy at the end of the table looked up at the blonde and gave him a funny look.

"What?"

"You can't sit here," a boy said.

The blonde gave the boy a goofy smile.

"Sure I can," Naruto said, looking at the boy like he had gone mad, "I'm waiting for Sasuke."

The boy sneered."Sasuke doesn't want you anymore. He said that he broke up with you, so you can't sit at this table anymore."

At those words, the blonde visibly flinched as if he'd been slapped.

Sasuke said he broke up with you.

That couldn't be true, could it?

These were just baseless rumors that someone had started just to break up our relationship. That's all it was. Naruto tried in vain to convince himself of that, but the uneasy feeling in the pit of his stomach, from earlier this morning was back and it was stronger than ever and it throbbed—like someone had taken a spear and stabbed him in the gut. He had to find Sasuke; he was the only one who could clear up the ridiculous rumors and make this feeling go away.

He searched frantically around the cafeteria. He found his boyfriend. Sasuke was seated at a different unfamiliar table talking to another boy. It was a redhead and it took Naruto a minute to realize that Sasuke was talking to Subaku Gaara. The blonde's heart skipped a beat as he stared at Konoha Academy's most intimidating, yet most beautiful boy.

Huh? Naruto thought to himself. That's weird. When did Sasuke and Gaara start talking.

Naruto made his way over to the table and walked timidly up to his boyfriend, drawing the attention of two piercing gazes. Sasuke's obsidian eyes were filled with a dark amusement, while Gaara's cold, emerald gaze was completely bored. The power of those stares sent an icy shiver down his spine, but he couldn't back down now. He had to find out the truth.

"Sasuke, can we talk?"

"Not now. I'm busy."

The blonde almost flinched at the harshness of his voice.

"So is it true? Did you tell your friends that you broke up with me? That you didn't want me anymore?"

Gaara frowned as he saw the tears well up in the blonde's eyes as his voice cracked on the last syllable.

"Yeah, I did. I just couldn't take being with you anymore. "

"B-but why would y-you do that to me?" Naruto said, the tears spilling down his cheeks.

The raven looked him up and down, incredulously.

Look at you, Naru!" Sasuke said, loud enough to cause everyone in the whole cafeteria to stare, "You're effeminate! You dress like a slut, and you're a weak! I mean, you're a good uke, but there is such a thing as too submissive, but maybe that's why you dress the way you do, hoping that some boy will be turned on enough to fuck you."

And as Sasuke turned his back on the blonde, Naruto couldn't control his reaction. Tears cruising down his cheeks, he turned quickly, to run out of the cafeteria, to the laughter of the popular kids.

000

Sakura wasted no time storming over to the table where her best friend had been standing moments ago. Her emerald eyes were gleaming with fury and her pink hair whipped around her like Medusa's snakes, poised to strike. Her rage led her to stand directly in front of the Uchiha, who she slapped across the face with every ounce of her strength.

A stunned silence settled over the cafeteria as Sakura Haruno glared at the stunned raven in front of her, hands on her hips.

"You bastard!" she yelled shrilly, "Go to hell!"

And she turned on her heel and stormed out of the cafeteria.

Sakura made her way to the gym, which she knew was one of the blonde's favourite hiding spots. The rosette would often find the kitsune hiding here or in the campus garden, where no one dared ventured, when he felt really down and felt like crying. Just like him, the quiet helped him think.

"Naru?"

"I'm over here."

The blonde came out of his hiding place, tears still streaming from his face.

"It'll be okay," she said, hugging her friend, "you're too good for that Uchiha anyway. He doesn't deserve a boy as good as you."

000

One other person that wasn't impressed with the Uchiha was Subaku no Gaara.

Gaara had a dark and dangerous personality that surpassed even Sasuke's, and he was pissed.

"You haven't changed at all, Uchiha," Gaara growled, "If you wanted to break up with him, you didn't have to do it in public, damn it."

"Why do you even care, Subaku?" the raven haired boy said, smirking, "no one would want to be with a dobe like him anyway. I like a man to challenge me, not a little boy who'll give into whatever I tell him to."

The redhead's eyes flashed dangerously.

"Hn. Why don't you try being one yourself for a change?"

"What did you say?"

The redhead simply rolled his eyes and got up.

"Since you're so smart, I'll let you figure that one out, Uchiha."

As the redhead walked away, the image of the crying blonde kitsune burned in the back of his mind and Gaara decided that he would prove the Uchiha wrong and make Uzumaki Naruto his so that the blonde would never cry again.

000

That night, Naruto was curled up in a ball on his bed, crying for the second time that day.

He knew he and Sasuke were going through some problems, but they were supposed to be going on a date tonight to work those said problems out.

But he never thought that the raven would dump him and do it in front of the whole cafeteria.

Now, he just wished that his brother would come home early, but he knew that was asking for too much.

Since his parents died when he was eight, his older brother Jin was all he had left.

Jin was the head of the best CSI team in the state, so with the rash of teen boys being murdered in the surrounding cities, he often didn't come home until eleven at night at the earliest.

000

Jin finally pulled into the driveway, and sat in the car for a minute to collect his thoughts. It was a worn 1980 Mustang Cobra. The car had definitely seen better years. The red pain, once shiny and rich like a candied apple was now dull and rustic. The body had several dents along the driver's side, and one of the tail lights was cracked. Yes, the car was a classic and it had been through a lot, but its past was what gave it character, much the same as its driver. The only thing that mattered was that the car drove like a dream, the engine purring like a jungle cat as it idled in the driveway. Jin loved his car, and he made certain to check it over only a weekly basis, performing maintenance when necessary to assure that he wouldn't be caught unaware by a sudden malfunction.

The worn Cobra had been a present from his parents for his sixteenth birthday. That had been the year he had graduated and two years before they were murdered.

He had been hoping to get things at the office wrapped up in time to make it home at a descent hour, so that he could talk to his little brother for a little before the blonde went to bed.

But no such luck.

He would just have to shoot for the weekend, the redhead thought as he got out of the car and unlocked the front door.

Walking into the kitchen, he groaned inwardly as he looked at the digital clock from the stove, which read, 12:35.

He knew, or at least hoped, that his younger brother would be fast asleep.

As he turned to walk out of the kitchen, a bright orange sticky note attached onto another piece of paper caught the redhead's attention.

He sighed as he picked the paper and looked at his younger brother's math test.

"That kid never ceases to amaze me," the redhead muttered to himself, a bittersweet smile crossed the elder's lips as he saw 81 written on the paper in red ink.

A note was written underneath in handwriting that Jin recognized as Iruka Umino, the blonde's current and Jin's former math teacher.

It read: good work Naruto! I knew you could do it! Now if you could just stop goofing off a little in class. Tell your brother I said hello!

Jin laughed to himself as he put the paper down and made his way to the blonde's bedroom.

He quietly opened the door and walked into the warzone that was his brother's room, trying not to make a sound.

However, his smile faded as he got closer to his bed. He saw the tear marks on the blonde's face, he that made the redhead wonder what had made his little brother upset and he decided that they would definitely talk Friday night when he got home.

000

Seeing that this is a very different direction from what I took the original in, tell me what you think. What will the next day hold for our favourite lil kitsune?

You'll have to tune in to find out.

BETA NEEDED!

As as always R&R!