Who Likes FanFicts?!

[Uzumaki Naruto]

Yeah, so I wrote a Naruto fanfict, and I was wondering if anyone would like to read it. It's SasuNaru <3 just so you know. It's about PG-13 and still in progress.

[Akemi-san]

I do ^^. Oh SasuNaru is awesome! That is like my 3rd fave pairing in Naruto. They are so perfect for eachother. Once you get it done you should post it. Oh I am writing a LeeSaku fic, if anyone wants to see that when I am done...

[Uzumaki Naruto]

Haha. I'll definately read it!! I'm going to post it section by section. I've finished through chapter 4, but some chapters have more than one section. So... here's chapter 1.

Things Change
by Steve

‘Things have really changed…’

Or so Sasuke happened to be thinking at the time. The teen lay awake in his bed, silently staring at the ceiling as if it held the answers to questions that swarmed his head. He found it hard to believe that the reality of just five short years ago and the reality of today were one and the same reality. But, in fact, they were.

Uchiha Sasuke: five years ago, he was the rookie of the year, and an unbelievably skilled fighter. He excelled in nearly every aspect of training, easily surpassing his classmates and teammates. Other shinobi found interest in his natural abilities. He also was known for being popular among girls his age, and not just for his skills. It was like his cold, elusive nature made them ever more inclined to try to win him over. He found they just couldn’t take the hint. They constantly followed him and wanted to hang out with him. They bickered and fought over him behind his back, like he was a possession or something. Especially Ino and Sakura, who seemed to have their own I’m-gonna-get-Sasuke-before-you competition of some sort.

And on the other extreme, there was Naruto.

Uzumaki Naruto: prankster, laughingstock, reject, just to name a few of his distasteful titles. The blonde boy was silly, clumsy, and rash. Many adults, especially those who knew of his rocky beginning looked down upon him and kept their children clear of his presence if at all possible. Almost no girls had romantic interests in him, and the one girl he liked detested him. Naruto, put simply, just failed at success.

So what had happened?

Sasuke had always relied on his natural born talents to see him through. He had bred strength and of course there was the sharingan. But poor Naruto had to struggle, partaking in painfully difficult training daily, just to try to keep up with the older boy. This became his way of life: training hard every day until his body could take it no more. Sasuke trained, too, but with Naruto and the rest so far behind him, he didn’t stress it too much.

But natural talent only carries one so far. It was as if, after a certain point, Sasuke had outgrown his generic skills, and his progress slowed dramatically. Naruto, on the other hand, continued to get better and better, following his way of life. Before either knew it, the blonde had surpassed his elder. The new contrasts caught the eye of several nearby. Adults and elders began to show more respect for Naruto, his peers challenged him frequently and began to include him in social activities, and even girls were seeing him in a new light. The tables had turned for the worse for Sasuke.

Naruto was now the most popular boy around. Even the knowledge of the Kyuubi within him no longer frightened his friends, but rather attracted them to him ever more. In these short years, the blonde had dated several girls and, as rumor had it, perhaps even one or two boyfriends in recent weeks. But he was notoriously flighty, and rarely managed to hold onto a relationship for more than a month. Most believed there was one person Naruto was after, and he was holding out for them, though no one was sure who.

[Akemi-san]

That is really awesome so far! Keep it up ^^. I am not done with chapter one of my fic yet, but once I do I will post section by section as well ^^