The first time he ever saw Naruto smile was a couple of days after his clan had been murdered by his own brother.

It was the day after he checked out of the hospital against the doctor's advice, not that he really needed to stay as long as he really did, and he was already annoyed. He had passed by his home only to find that there was a whole bunch of people he had never met. They were still cleaning the dead bodies and blood out of the homes. He had heard that they only recently started cleaning it because they had to investigate to try and find the culprit. Not that they needed to. He had been pretty adamant about how his brother was the person that destroyed his life, but they didn't believe him because, apparently, kids have large imaginations and like to use them to try to explain something bad happening. They thought he had a grudge against his older brother. Oh yeah, he hated his brother, but not because he was jealous. While he was passing his home all the people seemed to stare at him with pitying eyes.

He had arrived at the school that day and was immediately bombarded with all of the teachers telling him how sorry they were for him. He was thankful that none of the students understood what was going on so they couldn't treat him any differently. At least he hoped. The moment he walked into the room his own teacher was right on top of him with all these questions about if he was okay and asking him if he needed anything. He hated it. He wanted them to leave him alone.

"There's a fight!" yelled one of the students pointing outside.

"Damn it!" yelled the teacher as he turned to see the fight with some of the older students. He turned back to Sasuke and very politely said, "Would you please sit down Sasuke?" He left the room rather quickly and Sasuke went and slumped into his seat.

"Hey Sasuke!" yelled on of them, more loudly than he probably meant it to be, before he could even get comfortable, "Where ya' been?"

Sasuke groaned and laid his head down as his classmates made up different reasons why he was absent. It only continued for a few seconds before a loud sound of someone's chair scraping against the ground as they got up. Everyone turned to stare at the source of the noise and Sasuke could hardly resist the temptation to do the same. He didn't have to resist for long because soon the blonde haired boy, he thought he remembered his name being Naruto, that sat in the darkest corner of the whole class. He was actually surprised by how bright the kid looked in the sunlight. Naruto went straight to the front desk and put a tack that he found on the desk onto the teacher's chair.

Sasuke had a fleeting thought that maybe Naruto was doing this just for him and he didn't even get angry. Immediately he crushed that thought and watched as Naruto turned to the rest of the class. His face was emotionless as usual until he turned to Sasuke. Sasuke was more than shocked when Naruto's face lit up into a bright smile. Not one filled with pity, but one of happiness and pride that a child would show to someone he looked up to when he did something he thought he should be proud of. For a moment he felt happy that Naruto looked up to him. Sasuke shook his head briefly and glared at the boy trying to convince himself that he was not worthy of anyone's respect, but he immediately regretted it when Naruto's face fell back into the emotionless expression he always had and he simply went back to his own dark seat.

The teacher came in soon after and gave the class a suspicious look since he didn't have to tell them to calm down so he could start class. The teacher sat down and immediately shot out of his seat as the class erupted into fits of laughter. Honestly, Sasuke was surprised that the class was able to hold out as long as they did. He couldn't resist the temptation to turn and see if Naruto was laughing, but the boy didn't even look happy about it. Actually he seemed pretty upset about it. He only got to see Naruto's face for a moment before Naruto threw his arms up to cover his face and had a tack imbedded into his arm. Sasuke held back his gasp as he turned to see his teacher, who was red in the face, start yelling at Naruto as though he was a monster. That was also the first time he ever saw someone treat Naruto that way.

so this is the first of 6 chapters for this story...i'm on a trip and have nothing to do, but write so i thought i would upload this...hope you like it