Hey everyone! This is my newest story. I took a break from writing for a little while, as not to wear out muse. Thanks to anyone who read my last story, Changes feedback from that was greatly appreciated. I hope that you guys like my newest story, and to prevent being late in my updates, I am going to try and set dates for when I have to do these. I have a lot of stuff to do, so I will be updating this every one to two weeks on friday.

Thanks for reading, and enjoy!

Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto, or any of its' characters.

Warning: Yaoi/Shonen-ai, swearing, some dark themes. Normal world universe, AU /Non massacre/.

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Naruto covered himself as he backed away, a large figure looming over him. "Heh, stupid kid. Thought you could get away, didn't you?" the man grabbed for Naruto, but was surprised by the small child kicking back at him. The man stumbled away is Naruto got up and ran. He ran and ran and ran. Lungs burning he didn't dare look back. He ended up in front of his neighbor, Kakashi's house. Pounding on the door, Naruto screamed for him to come out.

The man slowly walked to the door, "What do you want, Naruto... it's," the man checked his watch, "three in the morning." Naruto calmed down his breath. "We-we just got robbed, an-and I don't think mom and dad are gonna be okay..." the boy started to break down in tears. Kakashi abruptly moved away, running to the phone. Dialing 911, he explained the situation, and help arrived within minutes the police force arrived.

The two headed back to Naruto's house. By the time they were there, the police had already been in his house. An ambulance arrived with medics. That had given Naruto hope. But it was soon crushed, when he saw the status that his parents were in. He began to sob uncontrollably. Kakashi picked him up and soothed the small boy. "Everything is going to be fine, Naruto. It'll be alright." Naruto nodded. Looking back to his parents he was surprised to see them okay. He ran to them. But... they sounded odd, they almost moaned in their talk, "Naruto... how could you leave us?" they asked together, "Why did you not save us?" they began to yell, "You coward!" He tried to turn away, but was greeted with the horrid sight of their battered, bloody bodies.

"AAH!" Naruto awoke in a rush. Breathing heavily, he slowly got up.

That had been the third time this month that he'd had that awful dream. After being in the adoption system and hopping from guardian to guardian for six years, Naruto had been adopted by Iruka. Originally, he thought Kakashi would adopt him, but the man had regretfully said, "I'm sorry Naruto, but I barely have enough money to live in my cheap house. I'd hate give you any less space or food, and you're a great kid. I'm sure there's a better fit family for you out there."

Iruka had been a great father figure to him. He was going to be an instructor at the nearby high-school which Naruto would be enrolling in at the end of this month. When it had all happened, Naruto had been ten. He had stayed in the adoption system until he was sixteen. Quickly growing a strong bond with Iruka, the two got along very well. He would be a junior at the school, and would be entering a month late. It would be inconvenient for Naruto to be there late in the year, but Iruka had to move closer to the high-school as he had been laid off from his previous job, and lived close, but not close enough to it.

Iruka had been worried though. He had thought of homeschooling Naruto because of his troubled childhood. A few of the homes he had been in had been not been the best to Naruto, leaving him with emotional scars. He just hoped that this school would be kind to him.

Waking up early was not Naruto's thing. As the alarm beeped loudly, Naruto swatted at it, but failed miserably. A loud thud echoed about the room as the boys body hit the floor. "Damn stupid technology waking me up..." the boy hit blindly at his alarm, finally turning it off. Iruka called up the stairs, "Naruto! Today's the first day of school. I've gotta leave in a bit or else I'm going to be late, so unless you want to take the bus, or walk, I suggest you get your butt down here!" Naruto was startled awake by that. He'd almost forgotten how early school started. He got up off the floor, and ran to the bathroom. Taking a quick shower combing his hair, as it had begun to grow out over his eyes, grabbing his glasses, then hurrying back to get dressed. He put on concealer over his whisker scars, as he'd grown self-conscious about them, his favorite orange button up shirt, leaving it unbuttoned to show his black shirt underneath. He threw on a pair of jeans, and ran down the stairs, grabbing a piece of toast Iruka had prepared. Stepping into his skateboarding shoes, Naruto grabbed his backpack and called to his dad, "I'm ready!" the man replied with a, "Wow, record time, ten minutes."

They jumped into the car, and headed off for the high-school. Arriving there in about five minutes, Iruka walked into the building, followed by Naruto. He took the boy into the office and introduced him to Tsunade, the principle. The woman greeted him, and handed him his schedule, "This will be your schedule for the rest of the year, we tried to get you into the classes you wanted, but on such short notice, you're lucky to get the ones you wanted!"

Period one: Art, Deidera.

Period two: Gym, Maito, G.

Period three: Advanced math, pre-calculus, Hatake, K.

Period four: Advanced social studies: Sarutobi, A.

Period five: Lunch A, Study B, Umino, I

Period six: Language arts, Umino, I.

Period seven: Biology, Orochimaru.

Period eight: Culinary arts: Yuuhi, K.

Naruto looked over his schedule, and began to leave. Tsunade just told him that if he had any questions, he could come back and ask her. Naruto walked through the school, getting adjusted to his new surroundings. He walked to his locker, and started to pack up his stuff.

With hanging up a few pictures, shelves, his books, binders, pencil bags, gym clothes, and his lunch, he was finally finished. It was around 7 when teens began flooding the building. There had been a few who had come early, nobody near his locker, though. He hadn't been told who he would be sharing his locker with, but he was sure they would get along fine.

As people came towards his locker, he waited and waited to see if his locker buddy would come along. He didn't, so he stood up and looked down at his schedule, couldn't be too hard to find his room, right? Wrong.

He had enough time to talk to the teacher by the time he arrived, but not as much as he'd like. He went up to the... woman? Long hair tied up in a ponytail, and draping over the right eye was what he was greeted with as the teacher turned around. "Hello," the person greeted, "are you new here?" Naruto nodded, and explained his situation. Deidera nodded, and told him, "Naruto, you can sit back there." he pointed, " And just to tell you, I'm a man." he laughed as Naruto walked away awkwardly. Today was going to be odd.

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