A Dog's Life

Welcome to chapter 9 of ‘A Dog’s Life’, again it isn’t edited so I apologize before hand if there is any problems. I hope you like this chapter… there are a couple of revelations you probably guessed at, but it was about time they were mentioned to further the story along. No making out between Sasuke and Naruto yet, I leaving that for after his transformation scene which will be coming eventually so I hope you look forward to it. I wanted to thank everyone for their great reviews it helps motivate me along with the story, so I hope you all continue to do so. Without further chatting here is the next chapter, Enjoy!

Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto that honor is held by Masashi Kishimoto I am just a fan writer doing this for fun.


Chapter Nine-A Dog’s Life by KitsuneFun

Sasuke smiled across the expanse of the small table at his new friend, the blond was younger than the Uchiha, but they had only started to talk recently together with their minds, starting first with their dreams. His mate was constantly in a state of nervousness that his keepers would catch him and tended to keep his whereabouts hidden from Sasuke, though the raven always tried at least once a day to talk to the smaller boy through their connected minds because he always wanted to have the blond at his side.

He suspected his father knew that Sasuke’s friend was no ordinary imaginary friend that the raven had with him sipping tea and eating cakes. The benefit of being the son of one of the most powerful and oldest clans in the magical world was that he could learn neat tricks and show them to the smaller boy whenever he wanted.

The blond would clap his chubby hands together in glee when yet another cake broke the barrier, separating them from one another, to land in front of his mate, to the smaller boy‘s enjoyment. It was fun, Sasuke was fun… it brought a smile to the otherwise stoic raven’s heart to see his mate so happy.

“Why won‘t you tell me where you are?” Sasuke whispered interrupting the blond‘s happiness… if briefly. The raven could feel his heart start to pound loudly in his chest as he asked the question while poking half-heartedly at the offensive cupcake in his hands, Sasuke did not like sweets, but he had made an exception when he found out the smaller boy had never had any before.

The smaller boy would comment that the reason he never had anything this good was because his grandparents could not cook to save their lives or at least that is what the blond’s grandfather liked to joke about to his grandmother annoyance at hearing the words.

His mate’s hand had frozen with cupcake in hand half-way to his mouth at Sasuke‘s words, the smaller boy was in the process of taking another bite of the sweet confection Sasuke’s cook had made earlier for the raven and him, when the raven asked the question he always asked of his mate. The smaller boy put down the cupcake and ducked his head in sadness, “I cant… they say that if people know I exist they’ll kill me…” tears started to appear in his large blue eyes at the thoughts of the boogie men, his grandparents often talked about when they thought he wasn’t listening, that may come to get him.

Sasuke leaned close he wished that he could put his arms around the blond haired boy and comfort him like he needed, but the raven’s lack of power and skill at his young age denied him that monetary comfort with the smaller boy‘s arms, “Don’t cry… I don’t like it when you cry,”

The bluest and largest eyes, Sasuke had ever seen, lifted to look deeply into his own, “I told them about you Sasuke and they think you are bad…”

The raven did not understand why the others that the blond often spoke about would hate him, “Why?”

“It’s because…” Naruto paused to look behind him; Sasuke wished he could see where the other boy was. Suddenly large hands came out of nowhere and grabbed at his mate dragging him back away from Sasuke‘s presence. The smaller boy struggled against the hold, “No Sasuke… let go,” he tried to grab at the raven pushing away at the form that was behind him that tried to part them, “I want to be with Sasuke… let go.” The blond’s words were quickly cut off by a hand covering his mouth and all the Uchiha could see above the large hands was wide blue eyes fill with tears and fear, the raven suddenly feared it would be the last time he say the smaller boy.

“NOOOO!!!” Sasuke yelled jumping up from his chair, not caring that the motion toppled the small table over along with the cupcakes, “Don’t take him away… he’s been good…” Sasuke pleaded with scared eyes, he had started to cry and Uchiha’s weren’t supposed to cry, but he knew instantly this presence in Naruto and his life was never good, “Please…” he whimpered wiping at the tears that steadily fell, “Please let him go…”

The smaller form reached out one last time with his chubby hands in the raven’s direction and Sasuke could only hear two words, “Love… Sasuke…” then the raven could no longer feel the smaller boy connected in his mind and the Uchiha had never felt so devastated before by the complete emptiness that swiftly filled his soul at the loss. The raven gripped at his head painfully and toppled in misery, he did not realize that his brother was watching the whole scene and was smirking in triumph; all Sasuke could feel at that moment was pain.

“Naruto…” the raven whimpered, “Don’t leave me…” Sasuke struggled from within his dream at the memory as he relived it the moment in his mind for the first time in 15 years, the raven had forgotten all about that time (thanks to Kakashi‘s spell that seemed to be lessening). Sasuke moaned while struggling to wake up from his nightmare memory, but he was being restrained so he could not move. He felt a hand brush through his hair softly trying to calm him. Sasuke could not recognize the sent and would have bit at the hand still touching him without his permission. The raven knew he had not only been completely immobilized just with the sleeping spell; he had been restrained by leather bindings surrounding his body and a blindfold covering his eyes.

“Shh…” the hand continued to caress him to his disgust and the raven tried to struggle more against it because it wasn’t the one he wanted, “Don’t move otherwise it will get worse…” the smaller voice said, Sasuke recognized it as sounding like a female he knew once, but he couldn’t place a face to the voice at the moment.

“Ino don’t touch him… he’s more powerful than you know despite him being stuck as a dog… it wouldn’t do to rile him,” The other voice the raven knew only too well, it was Arashi’s Guard, Shikamaru, ‘What the hell is he doing here,‘ Sasuke thought. At least now, Sasuke knew who was stroking his hair so boldly and growled louder this time in the direction of the female.

The hand stilled hearing the growl and the raven could hear the other sigh as she pulled the hand away, “I know genius… I just have never been this close to Sasuke before and…” she paused almost sounding sad, “I have always wanted to be with him, but he never showed any interest in anyone else… why now,” he could hear the girl’s voice break, “Why is he with Arashi’s son… he’s an ugly brunette, I don’t see how?”

Sasuke was interrupted in his thoughts over who this brunette was that the others were talking about by a loud slap, “Don’t you dare say anything bad about Arashi’s son,” this voice that the raven couldn’t place, was rather deep and malicious sounding for a male, “You should never judge a book by its cover,” their was a small whimper close to Sasuke, it sounded like Naruto.

The blond had woken up by that time, “Shika… where are we?” the blond gasped, Sasuke could feel the other boy’s hands on him then trying to remove his restraints, “What the hell happened to my dog… release him now?”

A voice grumbled and let out a sigh, “Naruto I don’t believe it’s a good idea…” this was from Shikamaru.

The blond yelled in frustration not caring where he was at the moment, Sasuke felt his heart swell in happiness at Naruto‘s concern for him, “You better damn well release him or I’ll…”

The blond was interrupted by a voice, Sasuke remembered, that defended him earlier; “Is that an order Naruto-sama?” the voice had softened as it addressed his mate.

“Shino… we shouldn’t…” Shikamaru started, he sounded closer this time, “Arashi wouldn’t…”

The other voice ignored him, it sounded right near Sasuke this time and the raven wondered briefly how the other man could move so fast, “Naruto-sama… is this your wish?” the other man said.

Sasuke held his breath in expectation wondering what was going on and why the other man was calling ‘Naruto… Sama,’ that was only a title giving to someone of higher authority, ‘It‘s not supposed to be given to a mere human,’ Sasuke thought. “You don’t need to call me that…” the blond answered for Sasuke.
The raven noticed that his mate’s voice sounded tired, he had just gotten up from the same spell that had been placed on Sasuke earlier, but had ignore his state in favor of rescuing his dog, “Please let Sasuke go.”

“As you wish…,” the man near him said, Sasuke could feel the pleasure in the other man’s voice, before releasing the other man released his bonds along with the blindfold covering his eyes.

Sasuke got up onto all four rather wobbly feet, but ended up falling down due to the stiffness of his muscles, “You bastards…” He mumbled without realizing what he was doing by speaking aloud in front of his mate. Sasuke was busy glaring at Shikamaru, the blond girl named Ino and the other man who had released him. The raven noticed the other man had spiky brown haired afro, large round glasses and high collared jacket with matching pants on. Sasuke turned to look at his mate, wondering at his state, when he noticed Naruto was starring at him in wide-eyed in shock.

The blond lifted a shaky hand to point at the raven, “You… you spoke…”

Shikamaru sighed, a natural reaction for the brunette to every situation, “So troublesome…” Shikamaru knelt next to Naruto and indicated Sasuke with his hand, “Naruto meet Sasuke Uchiha of the dark fae and heir to the Great Library in the Magical Realm who is currently trapped in the form of a dog,” then with Shikamaru’s other hand he gestured in the blond’s direction, “Uchiha-san meet Naruto Uzumaki, Arashi the King of Fae’s son and only heir to the throne.”

“What?” both Sasuke and Naruto yelled as one.

Sasuke could not believe what Shikamaru was saying, “He’s the prince… what is the prince doing living in the real world?”

Naruto just looked confused and almost speechless over the turn of events, “My dog is not a dog… I am a prince… Argh!” He yelled getting up, “I can’t take this…” the blond ran out the door before anyone could stop him.

Ino snorted, “Nice going Genius… Shino go get him,” so Sasuke thought eyeing the other man, this was Shino an Aburahime, he should have guessed by the outfit that was a trademark of the clan.

Shino nodded in Ino’s direction before taking off after Naruto, intent on bringing him back, “So bothersome…” Shikamaru groused watching the other man go before leaning back on his knees to eye Sasuke thoughtfully, “Ino can you contact Arashi, tell him we found his son and his mate” the last he said not taking his eyes off the raven.

“His what?” Ino gasped in shock looking at Sasuke, “But Naruto-sama‘s not supposed to have a mate…”

“Ino..” the brunette interrupted the blond girl’s tirade before she continued, “Now isn’t the time for questions… we need to get the prince back home to the palace as soon as possible since both of the seals are deteriorating at a fast pace…. It’s only a matter of time.”

The blond girl‘s eyes widened at the revelation over the seals, “Shit! That means everyone in the magical realm will know the heir is alive.”

Shikamaru nodded towards Ino before turning back to Sasuke, “Exactly now go notify his highness.”

“Right away Shika…” with that Ino ran off in the direction of another room that contained the two way mirror that they communicated through, it was far away from the room where both Sasuke and the brunette were in at the moment, “So you knew…” the raven said eyeing the guard as the brunette continued to look at him silently.

“I knew a lot of things Uchiha… but what is important now is that Arashi won’t be happy over the news that his son has an unacknowledged mate since he has been engaged before he was born to marry another,” Sasuke’s eyes narrowed at the other man’s words.

“And who exactly is he engaged to?” the raven would be damned if he let anyone… especially Arashi take away what is his.

Shikamaru’s eyes seemed to soften briefly in sympathy of the situation, “He is going to marry Orochimaru… and there is nothing you or I can do about it.”

Well that’s it for chapter 9, what did you think? Naruto was Sasuke soul mate from when they were both kids, but someone blocked them from one another… that will be explained later and why. Kakashi and Obito didn’t make it into this chapter I am leaving their entry again to chapter 10. Let’s hope Naruto, for Sasuke’s sake is willing to help him out… despite certain currcumstances. Stay tuned, and Thanks again for reading XD.