Prologe

'I will not lose to him!'

Naruto ran up the tree while focusing his chakra to his feet. Naruto had that same thought running through his head constantly. Though, at the same time he was consentraiting on not crushing the tree with it like Sasuke did on his first try.

Sasuke. Uchiha Sasuke.

The young man that occupied his thought the most after being put in the same group as him after the 'incident', as he now refered to it as. However, thoughts of Sasuke were often about rivalry and naruto having to train more. But ever since they had started the tree climbing training, naruto's thoughts about sasuke had strayed from their usual criticisms. A matter of fact they had taken a U-turn and went towards ...dare even think it...compliments? Some times even past that! But lets not go there. Naruto thinks that he just fell on his head to hard when he started tree climbing. But little does he know that it is the start of so much more.

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Sasuke glanced over at naruto, who lost his footing and quickly marked the tree before marking the tree. Sasuke only got about 15 more steps before he, too, lost his footing and jumped down after marking the tree. Naruto was getting better at this, quickly.

Naruto. Uzumaki Naruto.

The blond-haired, blue-eyed teen that he found himself so very intrigued by. They were so alike but so different. Sasuke was calm and reserved were naruto was wild and untamed. However, sasuke and naruto both in some way lost their parents and knew what true loneliness felt like. Sasuke had felt similarities to Naruto long before Sakura had told him that Naruto had no parents and lived alone. Like him. Sasuke knew that his feelings were more than friendship. So he refused to act on his feelings even in a minor way, in fear that he would let something slip and get hurt. The only thing sasuke feared was the hurt of emotions. He did not fear hate, sadness, or anger. He feared the most wonderful and most cruel emotion in existence. He feared love.

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hi readers! for all you clueless people out there this will have SHOUNEN-AI CONTENT!!! don't like, don't read! Ok people I know that 'Naruto' takes place when there 12 but I want the older so I can have sasuke and naruto making out w/o feeling squicked! So they are about 15. There will be no adult content in this story, BUT there might be mention of it later.