Of Samurai and Shinobi

Yay! Another one!

Ok, for this chapter, there’s some language, hints of shounen-ai and a kiss!
I’ve also added in another pairing, or should I say two.

Sasuke/???, ???/???
Yes, it’s a secret ;3
Let’s just say it’s a present for Sasuke’s birthday, late as well XD

Happy belated birthday Sasuke-kun!!!!!!!!
And an early happy birthday to my fellow writer Mali-chan!
I added the kiss as an early birthday present ;)

Enjoy!

Chapter 7 Of Sannin and First Kisses

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Naruto POV

The perverted old man turned around and walked towards the two young men, he seemed to be deep in thought……all the while checking out young Naruto, his eyes mainly focussed on the legs of everyone’s favourite blond…
‘I don’t like the way he’s looking at me…at all. Damn pervert.’

He had to admit that the kimono looked a bit strange on him.
It technically was made for Sasuke though.
They were like polar opposites, Sasuke was tall, pale and slender.
Naruto was shorter, broader and had a tan.
The kimono was still practically falling from his shoulders though.
It was also too long, he had to tie down a lot of cloth with the obi.
Rather then fitting like a second skin, he looked more like a Geisha…
His legs were kind of showing as well.

After a long silence the guy finally had the decency to stop staring and speak up.
“So this is the ‘Uchiha-pet’ I’ve been hearing about.”
‘Uchiha….pet?’
“Kinda puny looking if you ask me.”
‘Puny?!’
“Is he any good in bed?”
‘That does it!!!!!!!’

The blond patience had finally run out of patience, true, it might not be the best of idea’s to
insult the chief of a village, he himself had had some rather unpleasant encounters with Tsunade’s fists of steel because of his ‘outbursts’, but the guy was outta line here.

“You pervert! Is it so hard for you to actually consider that I might be JUST a guest?!”
The old man just gave him ‘a look’.
One of those that combined boredom and irritation into one.
“Very simple. The Uchiha’s never have guests from outside of the village…Come to think of it, they rarely have guests at all…”
“There’s a first time for everything you lecherous old geezer!”
“How DARE you call me a geezer you little brat! I look older then I really am because of the harsh life of a great warrior! DO YOU EVEN KNOW WHO YOU’RE TALKING TO?!”
“To a perverted old man with a horrible fashion sense!”
“I’ll have you know I’m a legendary and noble warrior! Now sit down and listen!”

The white haired man got up slowly.
Naruto had to admit; he was rather tall and bulky….for a man his age.
Most people probably would have backed off by now, but this was Naruto however…
‘What is he doing?’

The man assumed some weird position and started some kind of weird dance, involving a lot of hopping around and swinging of his hair…
“Bow your head and hold your breath, for I am the one that’s magnificence could split mountains and silent crying women and children.
I am known all across the fire country and beyond. Tremble in fear and amazement, for I am the legendary Sannin, Jiraiya-sama!
That’s me!”

A long silence filled the room, Sasuke, who had been quiet throughout the entire ordeal, wisely remained silent. It would be the blond to break the rather uncomfortable silence…

“……….Who?”

“Jiraiya dammit! Would you pay attention!”
“You don’t honestly expect me to take you seriously after that dance performance do you?”
Before any further comments could be exchanged, Sasuke cut in, successfully stopping the two from starting another argument.
“Jiraiya…sama. I wish to have a word with you concerning the shinobi.”
The elder tried to reign in his anger and sat back down, he made a gesture for the two of them to sit down on the pillows on the other end of the small table.

“Very well, but I expect you to teach your plaything some manners…”
Naruto made a move to smack the old man, but Sasuke put a hand on his shoulder and pushed him down to sit beside him on the pillow.

“Now what was it you wanted to tell me?”

“This young man here is Uzumaki Naruto, a young rurouni.”
Jiraiya looked at the blond who was currently struggling with Sasuke’s arm like a kitten would with a ball of yarn.
“I’ll kill him! Let go!”
Naruto’s request however was completely ignored, quite the opposite. Sasuke’s arm was removed from the blond shoulder, only to wrap itself around Naruto’s slim waist and held on quite tightly.

“There seems to be a. interesting development at hand. As you know the shinobi have been terrorizing the samurai villages for quite some time now.”

The old man raised an eyebrow.
“And your point would be?”
“My point is that this young man has been so kind as to inform me that the shinobi themselves have been suffering from similar attacks.”
The bored/annoyed look on Jiraiya’s face was replaced by one of mild interest.
“The shinobi are attacking their own kind now?”
The blond started to relax, he needed whatever information he could get. His people were counting on it!

“He claims the attacks were from samurai.”
“That’s preposterous! All of our forces are out there fighting against the shinobi intruders!
We don’t nearly have enough forces to protect our homes, let alone a full out attack on the Shinobi base!
Even if we did, we have no idea where the base is! What in the world gave you the idea we would attempt an attack?”

‘Not enough forces? Now that’s the kind of information I can use…I’d better answer the old geezer…’

“Because I was there when one of the attacks happened. I was a guest in their village when it happened. I SAW them!”
The Sannin seemed shocked.
“Since when do the shinobi allow visitors?”
“They always have. They’re proud and noble warriors, they wouldn’t just randomly attack people like that!”
He had the old guys full attention now…

“And how would you know that…”
There was a suspicious tone in the old man’s voice that alerted Naruto to watch his step…
It would be bad if he got caught now, the information he just picked up was vital.
The samurai would NEVER let him go if they found out, he needed to get this info to Tsunade!

“I stayed with them for quite a while. I actually considered staying there, ya know, have a family, open a shop or something like that.
But with all those battles going on I decided not to, I wouldn’t want to settle in a place where you constantly have to fear for your life. I’d rather pick a more…stable place.”
The old man nodded and visibly relaxed, visible to the trained eye that is.

Shinobi were taught to read expressions like a scroll.
True, Hyuuga Neji was a lot better at it then him, but it still came in handy while in enemy territory.
Naruto silently thanked his former sensei Iruka…
“That’s understandable. Do you have any proof?”
“Well I’m alive aren’t I?”

Jiraiya let out a full-heated laugh.
“You can’t blame us for being a little shocked about hearing such a thing about ones sworn enemies.
After all, it IS your word against hundreds of years of experience with the shinobi.
You can’t expect me to believe a little brat like you who doesn’t have a shred of evidence about a matter such as this, no matter how cute you are.
You would have probably given my predecessor a heart attack with a statement like that.”

Naruto’s eyebrow twitched in annoyance from the newly acquired nickname.
“Well I didn’t come to this village to give you information in the first place, ero-sannin.”
He said while adding a rather nasty insulting tone to the ero part.
“You can choose to believe me or not, I really don’t care.”

The white haired man had a sly smile on his face.

“Why exactly did you come to this village?”
“I didn’t COME here. He-“
The whisker marked teen pointed at the brunette to make his point even more clearly.
“-invited me here. I would have probably gone straight passed this village if it weren’t for him”
“Then why do you remain here?”
‘Am I on trial or something?!’
The blond was getting annoyed with the questions…
“Because I left my home out of curiosity to see new places. The shinobi did complain a lot about ‘treacherous samurai’, I guess it’s a good opportunity to see what you guys are like first hand. But if you don’t like me being here, I’ll leave just as gladly!”

“Hmmmmmmm.”
‘Hmm what? Is he on to me or something?’
The old man got up and walked over to the young undercover shinobi.
Said shinobi looked up at him, wondering what he was about to do.
“Well, I’ll be damned if the shinobi get one up on us. You’re welcome to stay in our village as long as you want to. If you don’t mind the idea of being attacked by shinobi in your sleep. Or perhaps you should be more concerned with getting molested while you’re asleep.”
The old pervert pointed at Sasuke’s arm.
Naruto had forgotten all about it…
Before he could tell Sasuke to back off however, a huge hand slapped against his back.
“The two of you look good together. If I remember correctly, Sasuke still needs a date for tomorrow’s festival.”

The mentioned black haired boy instantly removed his arm.

“A festival?”
“Yes, a festival to celebrate this years great harvest. It’s just a few drinks amongst comrades, entertainment, a dance and some fireworks. We’ll show you TRUE hospitality! As for the information you just gave me, I’ll have it looked into by my men. Now if you’ll excuse me, I have more research to do.”
The man walked back to the table and picked up another one of his dirty magazines.
‘Research my ass…Damn old pervert.’

The two young men got up and walked towards the exit, before they could leave, Jiraiya’s voice stopped them.

“Oh, and Sasuke?”
Sasuke raised an eyebrow, still not saying anything.
“Try to keep it down at night. Don’t want the villagers to start complaining to me about the noise. He looks like a screamer…”

Within the wink of an eye,
Sasuke blushed.
Naruto lunged.
Sasuke grabbed.
Naruto was flung over a broad shoulder and resumed his kitten like struggle…
People stared.
Gossip spread once again.
And parents covered their children’s ears as a rather colourful rain of curses was directed at their village elder and most eligible bachelor.

Including several lines as “I’ll kill the old son of a bitch!” and “Where the HELL are you touching me you perverted bastard!?”

Sasuke sighed.
This was going to be one hell of a time…
The brunette felt the corners of his mouth twitch, he suppressed the urge to smile.
An abusive father, a deranged mother and a deserting brother.
Naruto would fit right in…

(AN; I planned to leave it here…but I’ve been making you guys wait so ;p)


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Sasuke POV

The walk home was a rather interesting one.
People were staring at them again, but this time, rather then out of amazement, they were in shock.

Sasuke knew exactly what they were shocked about.
He normally never behaved like this…

He was a cold and quiet person, some people even referred to him as being emotionless, cruel and harsh towards everyone.
He was just fine with that.

At least it meant that they would leave him alone, he didn’t like it when people sought out his affection solely for his good looks.
He had silently cursed his good looks several times before…
When people grew tired of a pretty face, they tended to see someone’s short-comings more and more. They would soon grow tired of you altogether…

It had happened to a close friend of him…
He had been as pure as snow, until that man arrived…
He had promised the boy to take him to his secret lover.
He was so deeply in love with his proud and mysterious warrior that he accepted the man’s offer…and was betrayed harshly…

Sasuke was the one who discovered the body, that of his childhood friend and the secret lover.
They lay in each others arms, blood covered the virgin white snow.
There was a small smile on his friends pale face.
It had snowed that day….and it didn’t stop until after the funeral.
The secret love had been a shinobi assassin, come to the village to try and find their weakness.
It had become just another story parents would teach their children, shinobi were the same as the monsters in the forests at night. Or at least that was what they made it seem to be..

The villagers suspected his friend had found out about the man being a spy and had gone to stop him, he succeeded, but it had cost him his life…
None of them knew the truth, the part about how much his friend had loved the shinobi spy…
Sasuke didn’t quite believe it, that other man had something to do with it.
He had been friends with that assassin.

He could only hope his friend was happy now…
Friend.
Who was he kidding…
He had had a crush on him, a childish crush, but a crush nonetheless.
It wasn’t even the fact that his friend had treated him like a normal person.
It had been his eyes, he recognized something in them.
He couldn’t quite place it though…
Come to think of it, Naruto had similar eyes, a different colour, but still similar.
Perhaps…just perhaps…
Sasuke’s hold on Naruto grew tighter again.
Would he be able to hold onto this one?
Or would another man or woman come and take him away from him just like…
Sasuke immediately stopped thinking about the subject.
He didn’t need something as pitiful as love, he would be engaged to some woman of his parents choice anyways.
He shouldn’t waste his time with futile attempts at romance, he didn’t need anyone.
Not his parents, not his brother, not Naruto, not him.

A rather nasty impact with a certain blonds knee caused him to snap from his thoughts.
‘Where did he get so powerful?’

“Would you stop kicking so much?!”
“I’ll stop kicking if you let me go!”
“If I let you go you’ll ed up making an even bigger scene then you already are.”
“No I wont!”
“Yes you will, you’re still pissed at Jiraiya.”
“So what if I am! He was a pervert! And come to think of it, so are you!”
“For the last time! I’m NOT a pervert!”
“If you’re not…THEN GET YOUR HAND OFF OF MY ASS!”

Sasuke flinched, he hadn’t been watching where he put his hands.
With the blond struggling the way he did, it was hard enough to get a grip on him.

‘Could he get us into an even more embarrassing situation?!’

Children were giggling, girls were glaring, guys were trying to look under Naruto’s kimono…
Wait a sec.
Sasuke instinctively pulled said kimono down a bit…
The thing had been riding up, revealing even more of the long limbs.
The struggling made it even worse…
Sasuke wasn’t one to complain though, not at all…

“If you’re going to keep on moving around like that, you’re going to give the whole village quite a view.”
‘And I get a front row seat..’

He softly patted Naruto’s behind to make sure he got the message.
The blonds fist stopped pounding against his back and the rather hypnotizing set of legs stopped kicking.

Sasuke smirked.
‘That ought to shut him up for a while…’


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Sasuke returned to the luxurious house he called home with a pouting blond on his shoulder.
Said blond had yet to make another comment on their current state.
Until not that is…

“Itai! Watch the head bastard!”

Apparently he hadn’t been counting on how far Naruto’s head was sticking out and accidentally caused the young man to have a rather painful run-in with one of the sliding doors.

“You could at least say you’re sorry!”

Sasuke completely ignored him, even though it really was his fault.
He just didn’t want Naruto to think he cared one bit about him.
He didn’t…
Really…

“What is WITH you?! One minute you’re semi-friendly the next you’re being a cold asshole! Was it something I did?”

Sasuke sighed and made a move to put Naruto down.
A voice stopped him in his trail however…

“Do you care to explain this Sasuke?”

The brunette looked up into the furious eyes of his father.
“Explain what…”
He exclaimed agitatedly.
Sasuke knew exactly what his father was talking about, his hand was on Naruto’s ass, the other had joined it’s partner to help the blond down.

It probably looked pretty bad.
He seemed to have a knack for getting into awkward situations with the blue eyed young man.
“I’ve been hearing some rather interesting rumours about you.”
‘When, you’re never home…’
Sasuke wisely kept his thoughts to himself, he didn’t want to anger him any farther.
Not while he was this angry…
“I thought we were under the agreement that you would be married pretty soon.”
‘I never agreed on anything…’
“You have no time to fool around with some random no good drifter, you should be looking for a wife.”
‘Wait a second…no good drifter?!’
He felt Naruto’s grip on his kimono tighten, he knew the blond was probably trying to keep his rather fiery temper in check, Sasuke saved him the trouble of having to say anything…

“Do we understand each other?”
“Actually, no we don’t. I know very well what is expected of me, you constantly reminded me of it since Itachi left. I don’t need you to remind me, I don’t appreciate you calling my friend a no good drifter either.”
Sasuke glared back at his father venomously.
“If I decide to take on a lover, I will. I’m officially old enough to decide such matters for myself!”

Naruto’s grip tightened again, this time not to restrain himself…
Sasuke’s father was so angry, the room seemed to grow several degrees colder.
The man was one to be feared…

Sasuke shifted Naruto in his arms, he walked passed his father now carrying Naruto bridal style.
When he passed by his father, the man grabbed his shoulder, grip strong enough to bruise.
The brunette could see the anger behind the dark eyes he and his father shared.

‘Not in front of Naruto…’
He shrugged the hand of and walked on, luckily his father decided to let go and to not press the subject any further…not yet at least.

The young Uchiha carried the blond all the way to his room.
He carefully set Naruto down and walked towards a pile of clothes.
Sasuke started to take of his kimono, flinching at the place his father had grabbed him.

A sharp intake of breath caught his attention.

He turned around to see Naruto walk towards him, blue eyes focussed on the newly forming bruise.

“I’m sorry…”

The voice was soft and hesitant.
Not at all like the Naruto he had come to know in such a short amount of time.
A soft hand gently touched the bruise, as if to check if it was real.

“I’m really sorry…”

“Idiot.”

Naruto’s blue gems rose up to lock onto his gaze.
“What are you apologizing for, you’ve done nothing wrong. He’s always like that…if anything, he should be the one to apologize. He shouldn’t have said those things…”

The blue orbs widened.
It was that look.
The same one his childhood crush had, only so much stronger…

“Sasuke…you…nobody’s ever…”

The soft hand was still on his exposed shoulder, the whiskered face however, didn’t remain in place. It was getting closer…or was it his own?

Sasuke didn’t know…or cared.
They were both caught up in the moment.
That was all it was right?
They were only getting carried away…
It could happen to anyone, with anyone.
Right?

Sasuke didn’t care about him.
Not about the blue eyes that were slowly closing,
not about the warm breath on his lips.
He…didn’t…care…

But if he didn’t…?
Then why did this seem so right?

He hadn’t even noticed his own eyes slowly closing.
Or rather he didn’t want to notice…
If he noticed he would have to stop himself from doing this, he couldn’t allow himself to care.

Soft lips pressed against his own for the second time this day.
Things were going so fast…
He had only met him this morning, he knew practically nothing about him.

The pair of lips met again, this time a little more boldly.
It was soft, gentle, loving…

Sasuke’s tongue hesitantly touched Naruto’s lips, as if shyly asking for entrance.
Naruto wrapped his arms around his neck slowly, his own came to rest on Naruto’s hips.
Just a little more…just a bit more and he would pull back.

The soft lips granted access, he let his tongue slip into Naruto’s mouth and gently explored the new territory offered to him.
A tongue shyly touched his own as one of his hands travelled up Naruto’s back and tangled itself in the messy golden locks.

“Oh my!”

The two pulled back as if burned.
A shocked expression on both their faces, his mother was standing in the door opening.
She was blushing like crazy…and sporting several more bruises.

“I’m sorry, I didn’t mean to walk in on the two of you…”
Naruto looked as red as a tomato, Sasuke knew he probably looked just as red.
“I guess I should move another futon here rather then fix up a room for yourself.”
His mother was gone before he could protest.
This would be one awkward night…

TBC!

One more to go for today ^-^