Title: All Because of a Scroll

Summary: After being chased by angry villagers again, Naruto hides in the Hokage Mansion and he comes across an interesting mission scroll. "…the scroll said that Itachi was supposed to assassinate everyone in his clan!" Naruto has a Kekkei Genkai. SasuNaru

Pairing: SasuNaru (though it may seem like NaruSasu at times, it is SasuNaru)

Warnings: Yaoi, Naruto has Kekkei Genkai, Shounen-ai

Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto. The Kekkei Genkai though, is mine.

Note: I made this on a whim.

Chapter One – The Scroll that Holds the Truth

'I can't take this anymore,' Naruto thinks as he runs through the woods at the foot of the Hokage monument. He stumbles a bit, but he regains his footing and moves faster with his eyes closed and his head down. 'I don't want to run anymore! I'll just have to hide!' Naruto opens his eyes and looks in front of him. 'The Hokage mansion? Perfect! I can hide in one of the empty rooms!' Naruto hops the wall and quickly runs through the courtyard. When he reaches the building, he quickly and quietly opens the window, the voices of the men that were chasing him growing in volume. 'They're getting closer.' He hoists himself up and crawls through the window. He slowly and quietly closes the window and turns around to see what room he ended up in. 'The mission scroll room? I have to find a different room. People come in here all the time!' Naruto gets up and makes a bolt for the door, but in the dark, he bumps a cabinet and a scroll falls out and opens. Naruto stops and looks back at it. 'Oops…' He gets down on his hands and knees to roll it back up. 'I have to get this back where it belongs quickly, or else I'll be…found?' Naruto looks confusedly at what was written on the scroll.

Mission Type: Assassination

Mission Summary: Assassinate every Uchiha on the record books. Once you have completed this, you must leave the village as a traitor and a missing-nin, never to return to the village again. Stop the Uchiha coup d'état from happening.

Mission Reward: nothing

Assigned To: Itachi Uchiha

Accepted.

Time to be carried out: Sundown on the day of acceptance.

At the bottom of the scroll the Hokage signed and dated it. 'Wait…that's today! Kill the Uchiha? That's…THAT'S NOT RIGHT! I've got to do something!' Naruto rolls up the scroll and puts it in his pocket, unknowingly stuffing a stray piece of paper with it and runs back over to the window and opens it. He crawls out and closes it. He runs over to the wall and clumsily climbs over it. He gets on one of the streets leading away from the Hokage Mansion and speeds off in the direction of the Uchiha compound. 'The sun went down not too long ago. He already started…SHIT!' Naruto picks up his pace as he passes his house. 'Even at this pace, I won't be able to make it if he kills quickly. NO! Sasuke would…Sasuke would die! I CAN'T LET THAT HAPPEN!' Naruto tries to increase his pace once more. 'He's too young to die. There are women and children in that clan! What's the reason they have to die? That's an extreme punishment! I can't think of any crime worthy of such a punishment as this!'

Suddenly Naruto gets an idea. 'I'll get there faster if I run on the rooftops!' Naruto jumps atop some barrels and then jumps up on taller stacks until he's high up enough to jump on the roof. At first, he had some problems with jumping from roof to roof, but once he got used to it, his speed increases ten folds. When he gets to the road leading to the Uchiha compound, he jumps off the roof and lands on his feet. He runs faster and faster and he stops dead in his tracks when he turns into the compound. He looks at the gruesome scene before his eyes. Dead bodies decorated the ground and lower walls as blood splatter painted the walls in an eerie aura.

He takes a hesitant step forward. 'Oh god…' Naruto can barely keep down the ramen he had eaten earlier.

He feels it climbing up his throat when he hears a quiet voice ask, "Naruto? What are you doing here?" Forcing his stomach to calm itself, Naruto turns around to face who had just called out to him.

"Sasuke! What are you doing here?"

Sasuke frowns. "Well, this is my clan's compound…why wouldn't I be here?"

"No. I didn't mean that…I meant: YOU'RE ALIVE!" Naruto says happily as he lifts his arms in excitement.

"What do you mean, 'I'm a…live'…?" Sasuke says as his eyes wander past Naruto to the corpses of his fellow clansmen lying scattered around the ground. His eyes widen in terror as his brain registers what was on the ground. "Wha…WHAT HAPPENED HERE!" Sasuke shouts with tears in his eyes. He attempts to run into the compound when Naruto holds him back. Sasuke glares at him. "What's your problem! I have to go see if my family's alright!"

"No."

"WHAT DO YOU MEAN, NO?" Sasuke shouts, impatient that Naruto won't let him go.

"If you go in there, you will surely die!" Naruto says, pulling Sasuke away from his home.

"LET ME GO!" Sasuke shouts and tries to pull his arm away from Naruto.

"I'm sorry, but I cannot do that, Sasuke," Naruto says, "I'm also sorry for this."

"Sorry for wha—" Sasuke begins but is unable to finish because Naruto hits the side of Sasuke head.

Hand still raised; Naruto stares at Sasuke's limp, unconscious form on the ground in front of him. "Well…I was just hoping to knock some sense into him…not knock him out. Oh well…" Naruto says as he bends down and clumsily lifts Sasuke onto his back. He turns away from the compound and runs off in the direction of his apartment, not daring to look once more at the gruesome scene he is leaving.

Naruto sits on the floor at the foot of his bed the following morning, twiddling his thumbs. 'Oh god. How will I explain this to him when he wakes up? He will surely hate me… There cannot be a thing in this world that would make him believe me,' Naruto thinks as he clutches his head. Sasuke is still lying unconscious on Naruto's bed, the exact same way that Naruto had put him on it the night before. Suddenly, Sasuke starts coming-to with a low moan. Naruto blinks and scrambles to his feet. When he's standing once more, he turns around and looks at Sasuke who is stretching and groaning quietly. 'Oh god! He's waking up! WHAT AM I GONNA DO!' Naruto starts panicking and looking around his room frantically, searching for some excuse.

Sasuke sits up, scratching his head. He frowns as he sees a slightly worried—no, a frantic—Naruto in front of him. 'What the…?' It all came back to him. Everything that had happened the previous night. Sasuke jumps off the bed and speeds to the door. At this, Naruto stops his panic and watches as Sasuke puts his shoes on opens his front door.

"WAIT!" Naruto shouts as he runs up and pulls Sasuke shoulder, causing him to stop.

"WHAT! WHAT COULD BE SO DAMN IMPORTANT THAT YOU WOULD STOP ME LAST NIGHT AND THIS MORNING!" Sasuke shouts, his anger growing with every word.

Naruto fidgets, "I…I don't know how to explain…but please don't go…at least let me try to explain…it's kinda a long story…" Naruto says, not expecting Sasuke to listen.

But instead, Sasuke sighs, closes the door, slips out of his shoes and goes and sits on Naruto's bed. "Explain."

"Well, I was running away from…from the villagers…and I took refuge in the Hokage Mansion. I know, not the best idea, but I knew no one would dare go in there. I was looking for an empty room that no one would go into. I ended up entering through the mission scroll room. I got up to leave and on my way to the door, I bumped a cabinet and one scroll fell out. I went and picked it up. When it fell, it had opened and the scroll said that Itachi was supposed to assassinate everyone in his clan! I just…didn't want anyone to die…but I was too late. I just…when you came up behind me, I just couldn't pass up the chance to save someone from dying! So, I took you away from the compound," Naruto explains, hoping that Sasuke would believe him.

Sasuke stares at Naruto and says, "Bullshit."

"What! It's true!" Naruto shouts defensively. Sasuke gets up to leave. "Wait!" Naruto shouts, "I… You've gotta believe me!" Naruto runs his fingers through his hair exasperatedly.

"Let me leave, Naruto," Sasuke says as he bumps into Naruto on his way to the door, causing something to fall out of the blonde's pocket. Sasuke and Naruto both look at what fell out of Naruto's pocket. "A scroll?" Sasuke inquires out loud.

"Oh yeah! I forgot…I had put the scroll in my pocket instead of putting it back," Naruto says picking it up. He hands it over to Sasuke. "See for yourself."

Sasuke takes the scroll and opens it. His eyes widen at the contents. "So…you were…telling the truth?" Sasuke asks as he looks up at Naruto, causing the blond boy to nod. Sasuke looks back at the scroll. "My clan was trying to start a coup? That's…" Sasuke pauses as he closes the scroll. He looks back up at Naruto. "Why can't I say it wasn't possible?"

"Because you don't believe it? I'm sorry." Naruto says quietly, looking away. "Do you…do you want something to eat? I can go get something…" Sasuke shakes his head and pockets the scroll. "Are you okay?" Sasuke nods. "Are you sure?" Naruto asks, concern clearly evident in his voice. Sasuke hesitates, but eventually shakes his head. "Do you want a hug?" At first, Sasuke frowns, but reluctantly nods. "Okay," Naruto says and pulls Sasuke into a hug.

First chapter, DONE! Okay…I wasn't expecting it to be this long…oh well. Please tell me how you think of it! Thanks! ^.^