anticoree
Naruto and Sasuke are the last of their clans-two broken legacies sitting side by side in the back of a classroom.
Naruto hides his brilliance behind silence and self-hate, living under a name he believes he dishonors.
Sasuke hides a buried, unnamed affection behind cold walls, terrified of anything Itachi once approved of.
Both are alone.
Both are angry.
Both are waiting for someone to understand.
This story follows their childhood-not as loud rivals, but as quiet prodigies shaped by grief, pressure, and the strange pull between them.
Guided only by Genma and Kotetsu, they grow through missions, awaken their bloodline gifts, and recognize the bond fate tried to turn into a feud.
It is the story of two boys who should have hated each other...
but found something neither of them had ever been offered:
someone who sees them.