Life Is Like A Fairytale

Brothers & bonds

Few days later…


Everyone was so excited to hear the new event coming up that they hardly paid any attention to their teacher afterwards. It was the circus and Umino Iruka, the teacher of the kindergarten was going to take his class to the new circus in the city.

That was the reason of the rise in excitement.

The brunette teacher sighed, it was hopeless. None would listen to a single word he uttered after he told them the news. “Okay the class is over! Everyone pack up and leave in a single line!” he announced at last.

“Ok Iruka-sensei!” everyone chirped in unison.

He smiled watching everyone hurry and pack up their school bags excitedly. Noise of desk hitting by the school bags and chair shifting rumbled through the air.

“Iruka-sensei…” the said person looked down to find a pair of curious blue eyes looking back at him.

“What is it Naruto?” the blond already had his bag pack on his back, it didn’t look like the boy was going to ask him to find his school bag again.

“Um… you know… the… the circus…” the small whiskery cheeks turned slightly pink as he found something interesting to look at rather than his teacher all of a sudden.

“Yes… the circus, what is it about?” the brunette smiled and ruffled the blond locks.

“… um… you know… I… I want to know what it is…” a small sigh as he continued, “I asked Sakura-chan but she said she’s too busy right now… and Saske won’t tell me anything and… and he called me that word again!”

That word only meant ‘dobe’ by Naruto, which their teacher forbids anyone to use, specially the Uchiha kid. “Oh…” Iruka sighed. Sasuke never listens to that. He keeps calling Naruto ‘dobe’ and Naruto keeps getting beaten up by the girls if he attempts to say anything against Sasuke. No matter who started the fire, Naruto would be the one to be pointed out as the guilty one by the others. If there was a time where it was clear that Sasuke started the fight, then everyone would cheer for the raven haired kid and say how cool he is.

“I’ll tell Sasuke not to call you that again.” ‘Where does the Uchiha learn all those words from?’ he pondered miserably.

After mumbling something like ‘but he always does’ he went back to the previous topic, “So… um… are you going to tell me what this circus is?” the blue eyes found themselves back at the teacher’s with glint of excitement in them.

The teacher nodded and started explaining, “It’s a small fair where many kinds of performers appear.”

“Performers?”

“People who has special talents. Like… someone who can walk on a giant beach ball or breathe fire or tells fortunes-”

Two hands found their way up on the cheeks as the eyes grew bigger with each words uttered, “WALK ON A GIANT BEACH BALL?! BREATH FIRE-”

“Not so loud Naruto!” the teacher exclaimed covering his ears.

“Oh sorry. But how can people do that?!” Naruto gasped, it was beyond his belief.

“Its their special talents.”

“Do I have a special talent like that too Iruka-sensei?”

“Uh… no, Naruto. Its really not very safe to have those talents sometimes.” He shouldn’t encourage anyone trying to join a circus and specially NOT this dumb blond. ‘Maybe I should just take them to the zoo instead…’ he started to re-think.

“Really?”

“Really.”

“Okay… Sankyuu Iruka-sensei! See you tomorrow Iruka-sensei!” a foxy-grin spread on the mouth before the little blond dashed for the exit, the classroom was almost empty by now.

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A week later…


“Okay everyone! We’re here but we all have to stick together so that we don’t get lost, okay?”

“Okay Iruka-sensei!”

“So no running off in a different direction when we’re walking.” Everyone just nodded halfheartedly as they looked around the place with excitement. “I hope you heard that too Naruto.” He looked wearily at the little blond who scowled.

“Why do you always pick on me Iruka-sensei!”

“Because you’re always causing trouble dobe.” Sasuke snorted.

“What did I tell you about using that word Sasuke?”

“…”

Seeing it was hopeless to get the raven haired kid to stop uttering those words, he gave up and turned to focus on the others instead. “Alright, if everyone’s ready then follow me but no wondering off alone.”

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Hours later…


“I can’t believe you got us lost dobe!” Sasuke yelled while strangling the blond.

“I… didn’t… get… us… lost… Saske… let… me… go!” the blond yelped trying to get free.

“Its all your fault dobe! Why did you have to go after your dumb balloon when I told you that you could have mine!”

“I told you I don’t want yours! I don’t like blue balloons!” he shot back after freeing himself. But it didn’t take long before both were engaged into another fight.

“What are you two doing here alone?”

Sasuke’s hands froze where they grabbed some blond locks and Naruto’s hand stopped squishing the other’s neck. Turning around both saw two dark haired teens standing behind them, looking at them back and forth. Both gaped at the people who interrupted their little fight before the blond pointed at them and shouted.

“Saske! Look! They look just like you!”

Snapping out of the stupor Sasuke gave glared at the blond before turning his attention to the others, “Big brother! Shisui-san! What are you two doing here?”

One of them smiled while the other looked away for some reason, but he didn’t miss the slight change of color in the other’s face. Before Sasuke knew, he was flicked on the forehead by his brother. “Foolish little brother,” Itachi chuckled crouching down to meet with his brother’s eye level.

“Big brother!” Sasuke flushed in embarrassment, rubbing at his temple where he was flicked.

‘Big… brother?’ Naruto just stared at the people in front of him in awe.

“So what are you two doing here alone?” Itachi asked again, looking at the blond he reached out and ruffled his hair giving a soft smile. “Aren’t you supposed to be with the others?”

“I’ll be back Itachi,” the other dark haired teen told and the other gave a nod before he left the three to themselves.

“We WERE until the dobe had to lose his stupid orange balloon and chase after it everywhere without telling Iruka-sensei where he was going!” Sasuke gave a murderous glare to the blond who equally glared back.

“I never asked you to come with me! Besides! It was YOUR fault that we lost the map into the cotton candy machine! Now all the cotton candy will be ruined!”

“You CAN’T read anything properly! If you’d just let me-”

“Okay okay! I get your points…” Itachi waved his hand in front of them to cut the invisible electric shock wave that was shooting out of their eyes trying to kill each other. “… come with me now, your teacher must be worried if he found out you two are missing.”

Grumbling both agreed without breaking the death glares and followed the older Uchiha silently.

“So… Naruto… isn’t that your name?” Itachi asked when he saw it was impossible to get them out of the dangerous negative auras surrounding them.

Naruto looked at the teen and nodded. This time he noticed something different about the other’s eyes. It wasn’t exactly the same as Sasuke’s. His classmate had one strange black dot in each of his eyes while his brother had two of them in each eyes. “What’s your name? And there’s some dirt on your eyes, Saske only has one in each of his eyes and he refuses to wash it off.”

“That’s NOT dirt you dobe!” Sasuke scowled before hitting the blond on the head.

“My name is Itachi, I’m Sasuke’s big brother.” He told the blond while bringing the blond in front of him and away from his devilish little brother then warned the other, “If you hit your friend again then I’m telling mom, Sasuke.”

“He’s not my friend!” Naruto snapped, rubbing his head gingerly.

“He isn’t?” Itachi looked amused before turning to see his little brother’s eyes become the size of dinner plates. “Sasuke told me you’re his friend-”

“Can you take us to our teacher big brother?” Sasuke cut in before the other could finish his sentence and started walking faster, hiding his face under his dark locks.

The said teen smirked, “I will be taking you there as soon as Shisui-chan finds your teacher and classmates. Sasuke come here and stand with Naruto-kun for a while,” he told before walking towards the shop to his left and returned with two balloons in both his hands. “Here,” he handed the bright orange balloon to the blond, “And this one is yours,” he gave the baby blue one to Sasuke just then his cell phone rang.

“Sankyuu Saske’s big brother!” Naruto gave a foxy grin closing his eyes, making the whisker marks on cheeks curve a little. He didn’t care that he forgot the other’s name so quickly, the fact he got his orange balloon, he was in heaven now.

“Your welcome Naruto-kun,” Itachi chuckled before answering his cell phone.

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Later that day…


The teacher thanked the two Uchihas when they informed they found the missing students before returning them to him. After a short lecture from the teacher the little criminals apologized. Now it was time for the bus ride back to school.

The blond stared at the raven haired boy when he came to sit beside him this time. When they set off to come here, he was sitting all by himself at the back of the bus, occasionally harassed by a certain Hyuuga.

“Why are you here?”

Sasuke turned around to glare at the blond, “Why is there a problem if I’m here?”

He wanted to stay away from his awful female classmates from the beginning. Getting lost in the circus was a part of his plans. He hardly felt comfortable sitting with anyone except the dumb clueless blond, who likes to compare him with himself and call him a rival even if he’s way below his level.

Silence.

The raven haired kid really didn’t like it when the blond became quiet or ignored him when he wanted his attention. The mere thought really angered him than surprising, he never really thought he wanted attention from anyone, because the annoying girls ruined the interest of getting attention from anyone long back.

“No.”

A short reply came from Naruto as he pulled the string of the orange balloon down and grabbed it with both hands before turning to look out the window as the bus started to move.

A small smile of relief graced on the raven haired kid’s face.

“………. Am I really….” Naruto looked down at the round orange object. The usual loud hyper energetic blond sounded almost timid as he continued to speak softly, “……. your friend?”

Sasuke blinked in surprise, he didn’t think the other would remember that conversation since the blond always seemed to forget everything else.

“I…”

Pride.

Why did that have to come between friendship at this moment. But did the Naruto want to be his friend? Even when he wasn’t so nice to him…?

A soft sigh escaped from the blond’s lips, “That’s okay…” serene blue eyes turned to see the other, “You didn’t need to lie-”

“You’re my friend if I’m yours too.” Sasuke told carefully, looking at the blue balloon floating over his head. Its true, the friendship he always assumed to have with the blond never went through verbal conditions.

The pair of blue eyes widened in pure surprise at this before a huge smile plastered on his face. The blond couldn’t help himself and glomped the other boy with joy.

“You really mean it?”

“Yes! Now get off me!”

“Saske’s my friend!”

“That doesn’t mean you can kill me like this! I can’t breathe dobe!”

“Don’t call me that!”

But that didn’t last long as the group of females took notice of them.

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That night…


“Hey… big brother… do you have a minute?” Sasuke asked standing in front of his brother’s study room.

“What do you want foolish little brother?” Itachi asked without taking his eyes off from the papers on his desk.

“Why do you keep calling me that!” Sasuke fumed crossing his arms across his chest before walking into the room, his brother only laughed at this.

He had a really important question he needed to ask the elder Uchiha. When he chased after the dumb blond in the circus and got lost. They met a few performers on their own. One could breathe fire by taking a drink of something he couldn’t identify, one could walk on ropes at a very high height while juggling, a puppet master, an annoying clown and a fortune teller…

The weird old hag looked like she’d seen a ghost as soon as she placed her hands on the two boys’ shoulders. Right after that she had practically kicked them out of her place. It was very rude. All they wanted to know was what this fortune teller could do. Sasuke had once heard from his big brother that fortune tellers tells fortunes or future of people’s lives. Was there really such a person who could predict things like that? He had asked but his brother only told him he was a ‘foolish little brother’.

But there was another thing that bothered him.

When the Naruto planned to give up on seeing the fortune teller, Sasuke explained what fortune tellers are capable of telling or seeing…

That’s when both started pounding on the old lady’s door frantically. Naruto simply wanted to know if Iruka-sensei was going to treat him miso ramen tomorrow while Sasuke wanted to know if he could ever become like his brother or father…

The old hag only shouted ‘Go fetch some flying pigs first then I’ll tell you imbeciles!’

That was rude too. Sasuke knew the meaning of ‘imbecile’ because his father used that word often when one of his subordinates did something wrong, so he asked his big brother what that meant.

Still… there was the other thing he didn’t know…

“Big brother… where do you find flying pigs?”

The pen on the older Uchiha stopped scribbling on the papers and the time seemed to stop for a few seconds before Itachi whirled around and looked at his naïve little brother.

“What?”

“Flying pigs?”

“Um… yeah…” Sasuke started drawing circles with his index fingers on the wall beside him, not daring to look at his brother. He knew his brother was going to call him foolish again but he would always have the answers to his questions at the end.

“First blue bananas, then magical goldfishes, talking cucumber, snowing in summer… and now flying pigs?!” Itachi laughed slapping a hand on his forehead.

“Big brother! Those were long back!” Sasuke scowled and flushed, remembering how his brother teased him all those times. It was those idiots’ fault and friend is the number one moron of them all! The topics were so random and unusual that he couldn’t help but take curiosity.

“So… who wrecked… your brain… with… flying… pigs… this time?” Itachi asked between laughter.

To be continued…


AN: The next two chapters are Naruto and Sasuke’s POVs. Even though they are two chapters don’t be confused with the timing. They start and end with the same time. This chapter is done for now so see ya!

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