Life Starts Now (Revised) NaruSasuNaru

Like I Do (Slaves)

'I don't let go cause I don't know who I'd be without this pain'

Sasuke was sleeping rather peacefully. For once in a very long time he had allowed himself to sleep in, unfortunately a certain friend of his wall hell-bent on ruining it. "Sasuke," a voice called, interrupting his sleep. He tried to ignore him but he could hear Naruto laughing as he watched Suigetsu try to wake Sasuke up which only irritated him more. "Sasuke," he called a little louder, shaking his friend. "Come on Uch..." his sentence was cut short by Sasuke quickly turning over, tackling his friend to the ground in the process. "What the hell Sasuke?" Suigetsu asked, finding himself pinned to the floor by an angry Uchiha.

"Shut up," he said threateningly. They both knew that Suigetsu was about to call him by his last name, but Suigetsu didn't know why that angered the man so much. He had called him by his last name on multiple occasions and he never received such a reaction. Suigetsu looked at him curiously but it was clear he wasn't going to receive an explanation.

Sasuke didn't want Naruto to know his last name, mainly because he didn't want to be treated differently by the blonde. When people would first meet him and realized who he was, they'd usually pity him and he didn't want that from Naruto.

"What were you about to insult him or something?" Naruto asked confused as he looked at the scene in front of him. "Or are you really not a morning person? I mean tackling someone seems a little extreme if you're not a morning person," the blonde continued. He'd never seen someone react so violently to being woken up.

"Both of you, just shut up," Sasuke said angrily as he got off of his best friend, refusing to help the other man up. He sat on his bed, knowing that he shouldn't have reacted so recklessly, it would only cause more questions that he didn't want to answer. Sasuke knew that it was a little bit of an extreme way to shut someone, but he felt it was necessary.

The tension in the room was broken for a moment when they heard, "Suigetsu! Sasuke!" They both immediately knew that it was Karin yelling for the two, sounding rather angry. "Open up and let me in," she said, banging on the door. "I'm serious Uchiha, open the door," came from the other side of the door.

Sasuke got up angrily, "It was unlocked you moron." A redheaded girl, Karin, stood in the hallway, "Well how was I supposed to know that?" She pushed her way into the room, "Now tell me what happened last night." The girl was persistent and didn't care if it upset Sasuke. She wanted all of the details from the guys' night out, not really paying attention to anything else going on around her.

Naruto sat on his bed, shocked, by finding out Sasuke's last name. He didn't know how he didn't realize it before; Sasuke had all of the Uchiha features. 'Is that why he's such an asshole?' Naruto wondered, staring at the other man. Part of him felt bad for him, but then he realized that it wasn't an excuse for him to act like an asshole all of the time.

Sasuke hated the way Naruto was staring at him; it was as if he pitied him. The one thing that he liked about his roommate was that he didn't know who he was because it made things easier. "Ask them, I'm going to take a shower," Sasuke practically growled as he stormed into the bathroom.

Karin looked at the expression on Naruto's face, "You didn't know his last name, did you?" Naruto just shook his head. Karin nodded, "He must not have wanted you to know." In that moment she felt a little bad, she knew how most people treated him because of what happened all those years ago. Those that thought they knew everything pitied him and probably would have pitied him more if they knew how he had felt growing up, the pain he tried to hide.

Suigetsu frowned as he realized the reasons behind Sasuke's actions, "That's why he stopped me this morning from doing it." He looked at the blonde and said, "Really it'd just be better if you act like you didn't know." He paused before adding, "He really doesn't like to be pitied."