The Tin Ninja

Hello duckies. All my stories seem to be modified versions of fairy tales but what can I say. I love 'em.

Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto or the Steadfast Tin Soldier.

Enjoy. ^.^


The Steadfast Tin Ninja


In a luxurious apartment, on the highest floor, lived a very wealthy family. This family had a boy who collected very many toys. His favorite being a box set of tin ninjas. But it seemed that with this box the tinsmith ran out of tin, for the last ninja only had one leg.
This ninja's name was Sasuke. Because Sasuke only had one leg he tended to be cold and anti-social. He did not get along with the other toys, yet all the dolls seemed to love him. Unfortunately for the dolls, Sasuke's heart belonged to someone already. If only that someone knew.

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All the ninjas were out of their box because the little boy was playing with them but got bored and went to play with the ballet set. Sasuke stared at his love, wishing he were in the place of his love's dancing partner. He had to stop staring because the boy took his love away and looked like he was dressing his love up. The little boy heard his mother calling him for lunch so he set down his toy and took off running.


"Ma Ma Sasuke. You're too obvious."

Sasuke was controlled enough to not even flinch in surprise.

"Hn."


Sasuke focused on his love and had to control himself from drooling. The boy dressed his love up in Ino doll clothes. (Think of a Barbie doll but the brand is Ino instead) A tight mini skirt and a small, form fitting tank top that showed some stomach. Sasuke felt an arm settle over his shoulders and would have glared at his annoying unwanted guest but that would have meant taking his eyes off the magnificent sight.


"You got to love that Sai kid. I wonder why a kid so young is so perverted but I'm not complaining. If only he would put me on the same shelf as my dolphin-chan."


Kakashi waved at the shelf his Iruka, a.k.a. dolphin-chan, was on but Iruka was to busy looking for more appropriate clothes for the ballet dancer to wear. Iruka was a teacher action figure (like the geek action figure or the Jane Austen action figure a.k.a. gag gifts) and Kakashi was convinced that Iruka loved and wanted him. Of course if it were possible for the toys, Iruka would have filed a restraining order against Kakashi but being on the highest shelf, across the room, would have to suffice.

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"Oooo they're looking at me again."

Squealed the pink haired wooden ballet dancer. While her partner was trying to get his equilibrium back.

"Sakura-chan I don't think-"

"Shut up Naruto. And would you cover yourself up. It's disgusting seeing you in women's clothing."

Sneered Sakura who suddenly turned angelic for her 'adoring fans.' Or so she thinks.

"Naruto! Cover yourself up with this."

Iruka threw a piece of cloth down, which landed behind Naruto.

"Thanks Iruka-sensei!"

Naruto bent down to pick it up and heard some thuds behind him, like something falling over. He looked behind him and saw some toys lying on their backs.

"Was there an earthquake?"

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If Sasuke was a real boy then he would either a) bleed to death due to a massive nose bleed, b) lose blood flow to his brain for it would be heading south or c) pounce the blond haired idiot and have his wicked way with him if said blond haired idiot was also a real boy. But since he isn't a real boy he just passed out do to too much visual stimuli and was in his own little fantasyland with the blond haired idiot wearing the outfit Sai put him in slowly being pealed off of him by yours truly.

"You know you aren't the only one in Naruto fantasyland Sasuke."

Sasuke snapped out of his fantasy and looked at Kakashi, who was sporting a small blush, then looked behind him and saw some of the other ninja also on their backs with dazed expressions on their faces. His eye twitched. He then looked to the side and saw the stupid Tanuki-In-The-Gourd a.k.a. his rival for his love's affection a.k.a. Gaara, leaning against his gourd with glazed eyes.

"Must kill all. He must go first."

Before Sasuke could take a hop towards Gaara, he felt an arm settle over his shoulders again and couldn't help but snarl.

"What?!"

"I can tell what you're thinking Sasuke. And I don't think Naru-chan would like you killing his friend."

Sasuke's eye twitched twice, once for jealousy because Gaara and Naruto were close friends and again because he knew Kakashi was right.

"Then I'll just have to make it look like an accident."

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Naruto wrapped the cloth around himself. He would change but Sai would notice and toy owners are not allowed to know that their toys can move, talk, think, etc. He looked over at Sakura, who was fluffing her hair and making sure she looked perfect for her 'fans,' and then looked out of the corner of his eye at the tin ninjas.

'Sasuke looks really mad about something today. I wonder what it is? He looks really hot though...'

Yes Naruto has a crush on the ninja. It didn't start out that way of course. Naruto even went as far as to declare Sasuke his rival because his partner, Sakura, had fallen in love at first sight with the raven-haired toy. And Naruto thought that he had fallen in love with his partner but her abusive nature finally got to him and he noticed that he didn't care much for her anyway.

He actually started obsessing over Sasuke before because he figured that he should know his enemy. So whenever Sasuke was out, Naruto would observe him and take mental notes. Of course after he had his epiphany about Sakura, he still watched Sasuke. That was when he realized that he had a very strong crush on the ninja. He was actually in love but wouldn't say it because that would get his hopes up. He didn't even know if Sasuke knew he existed or if he did know, it would probably be because he was Sakura's partner.

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"Are you alright Naruto?"

Gaara asked. More like purred. Gaara once heard a doll gossiping to another doll that his voice sounded as smooth as sand flowing through an hourglass. Apparently he had his own fan club but they were just too scared of him to actually approach him. He liked it better that way. Besides he had his eye on the delectable ballet dancer.

"Yeah. But there is something wrong with that kid... Well I guess if you had a grandfather that wrote porn and always babysat you then you'd be perverted too."

Gaara nodded. He could tell that Naruto was looking at that stupid one-legged ninja. He knew how Naruto felt about the ninja so he did all he could to keep the ninja away from his Naruto. He was about to say something to distract the dancer when they heard the sound of footsteps coming closer. All the toys rushed back to their original spots while Naruto hid the cloth under the ballet set and then fell over where Sai put him down.

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Sai came in pouting slightly but when he saw his toys he brightened up.

"Grandpa is here and he was telling me about his new story. Seemed typical to me but lets reenact it. Hmm... who should the characters be? One of you can be the damsel in distress."

He went towards the ballet set and looked back and forth between Naruto and Sakura.

"Not you. I don't like you."

Sai flicked Sakura in the head making her fall off the table and picked up Naruto.

"Now we just need your hero and a bad guy."

Sai grabbed a toy snake, wrapping it around Naruto, and then a creepy doll that came with the snake named Orochimaru. Putting them on a table in front of the open window.

"Okay there is the bad guy. Now who should your hero be?"

Sai looked around the room, picking up toys then tossing them back down while two toys were desperately thinking 'Pick me damn it!' Sai went to pick up Kakashi when his hand bumped into Sasuke. He picked Sasuke up instead, shrugged, and started to go back to where the "damsel" and bad guy were when he saw Gaara. He looked at the ninja in his hand and the Tanuki-In-The-Gourd in front of him. Before Sasuke made a triumph smirk at Gaara, Sai picked Gaara up also.

"We'll make this more interesting."

Sai put Sasuke on one side of the table and put Gaara on the opposite side, with Naruto and Orochimaru in the middle. He then went and got a katana for Sasuke (from the ninja box) and a sword from another toy for Gaara. Orochimaru came with a whip. Why? He just did. Before Sai could start playing he heard his Grandpa yell that dinner arrived so he ran out of the room and closed the door.

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Once the door closed, Sasuke and Gaara glared at each other while Orochimaru leered at Sasuke and licked his lips. The snake that was wrapped around Naruto started to squeeze making Naruto grunt.

"Sasssuke why don't you forget about that toy and come play with me?"

"Why don't you go throw yourself out the window? I have a damsel to save."

"I'm no damSEL. Would you stop squeezing me you stupid snAKE?!? Argh!!"

"You go play with Sasuke, Orochimaru. I'll save the damsel."


Orochimaru grinned and whipped his whip towards Sasuke to reel him in but Sasuke rolled out of the way. Gaara started heading towards the snake, which was hissing at him while squeezing Naruto tighter. Sasuke rolled towards Orochimaru and kicked him in the stomach making him fall off the table and then started making his way towards his damsel. Since the snake was keeping its attention on Gaara, Sasuke snuck up and stabbed the snake making it recoil and drop Naruto. Sasuke grabbed Naruto while the snake hissed at him and slithered away its tail flicking Gaara's container. Gaara glared at the snake and then turned his glare on Sasuke who had his arm around (a would if he could blush) Naruto's waist.

"Well I rescued the damsel and you know what a damsel gives her, in this case his, hero."

"What?"

"Why Naru-chan a kiss."

"K-k-k-kiss?!"

Naruto (again would if he could blush even more) stared wide-eyed at Sasuke who threw a smirk at Gaara and started leaning in towards Naruto. Before Sasuke could get close enough (to even breathe, if it were possible) to Naruto, he heard the sound of a sword so he pushed Naruto away and jumped back landing on the windowsill. Naruto landed near the side of the table on his butt. Gaara bounced up onto the windowsill and stood across from Sasuke. Gaara lunged at Sasuke and since he was part spring he could move farther and faster then Sasuke. Sasuke could only defend himself. He was able to punch Gaara sending him back a few inches but he didn't expect Gaara to let the momentum of the rebound carry him forward. The next thing he knew he felt weightless, saw the smirking face of Gaara and heard Naruto yell out his name.

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Sasuke landed on the cement sidewalk with a small metallic thunk. He wanted to move to see if there was any damage from the fall but there were usually people around even if he could see any at the moment. He was lying on his back so he tried to see if he could see anyone from the window he fell from but he couldn't see anything. He heard some footsteps so he just stayed still waiting for them to go by but instead the owner of the feet making the footsteps stopped in front of him and picked him up. He came face to face with a kid wearing a helmet that had a hole cut in the back and his hair sticking up out of it and what looked to be a cape. The boy then called out for two of his friends and he was then grabbed by a boy wearing glasses and seemed to have a runny nose with a girl with her hair in pig tails that stood straight up peeking over his shoulder.

"He's cute."

"It's a tin ninja Moegi."

"So? He's still cute."

"What should we do with him Konohamaru?"

"I have an idea."

Konohamaru found some scrap newspaper and made a small boat out of it he then placed Sasuke in it and put it in the gutter where a steady flow of water was. They watched the ninja in the boat go until Moegi pointed out the storm drain up ahead. The boys went to grab the boat so as not to lose it but it was too late. The boat fell into the storm drain.

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Sasuke looked around his surroundings. What he saw was a dingy, dirty, moldy place. He was going with the flow of the current and he could make out what looked like walk ways on the both sides. The boat was going at a leisurely pace so he started to get a little bored until he saw some movement up a head.

"Halt! Who goes there?"

Sasuke looked to the side and saw well what he assumed was a rat. It was a tall guy with a blue face, tiny yellow eyes, some slash-marks on his face that looked like gills, tall spiky hair. The thing was he had rat ears coming out of his head, a nose with whiskers, and had a rounded body of a rat but it looked more like a costume. Sasuke raised an eyebrow at this.

"Maybe he can't speak Kisame. But just because you're mute doesn't mean you shouldn't pay the toll."

He looked to the other side and saw a guy that looked like him except with long hair, red eyes, two lines under his eyes, and also dressed up like a rat. Both of Sasuke's eyebrows were raised and he didn't know if he should laugh or wonder if he was in a really weird dream.

"But I didn't get a nutcracker for Christmas and it certainly isn't midnight."

"He does speak Itachi! And what the hell is he talking about?"

"Does it matter? Now pay the toll you incompetent tin ninja."

"I'm not the one wearing a rat suit in a sewer."

"Don't blame me, blame the authoress."

Sasuke just looked at Itachi like 'What the hell?' until he felt that weightlessness again and noticed that he was falling off a waterfall. He heard Kisame yell at him to get back there and pay the toll and then he was submerged in water. The current pushed him out to sea but he was sinking fast. He then saw a shadow through the murky water and the shadow got bigger as it got closer. The last thing he saw before it went black was a very big fish.

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Naruto was depressed. Sakura was mad. Gaara was at a loss. Naruto was depressed because his Sasuke fell out the window and he'd probably never see him again. Sakura was mad because she found out that no one liked her and they were after Naruto and she lost her love. Gaara was at a loss because Naruto wouldn't speak to him and would ignore the gifts he brought him. He told Naruto it was an accident. He really didn't want to knock Sasuke off the window. (Not!) But still Naruto ignored him.

All three of them, along with a few other toys, were down in the kitchen because Sai's parents wanted him out of his room but Sai didn't want to leave his toys. So his grandpa got the family to compromise. So Sai played with his toys while sitting with his family until they told him they had to talk to him. They told the maids to put the toys in the kitchen for now instead of taking them to the other side of the apartment. So that was why they were there. None of them could move because maids and cooks walked in and out all the time.

A cook came in and he had a very large fish that was going to be tonight's supper. He started scrapping off the scales and then cleaned the fish up. He then gutted it but he noticed something solid among the guts. So he grabbed it, washed it, and lo and behold it was the tin ninja that the young master was missing. He made sure to get the entire gunk off of it, dried it and then placed it on the table next to one of the ballerinas. The cook then finished all the preparations and went to tell the family the estimated time.

As soon as the cook left Naruto rushed over towards Sasuke and glomped him. Sasuke wasn't expecting this but he wasn't complaining. Sasuke noticed that he wasn't wearing the Ino clothes anymore but his original outfit that had a giant sparkly orange swirl on the shirt. He hugged Naruto back and smirked at Gaara over Naruto's shoulder. He could vaguely hear someone screeching about stupid blonds stealing her love away or some sort of rot like that. Sasuke pulled back and looked at his Naruto. He heard the sound of the kitchen door open but didn't pull back. Instead he started to lean forward. He was so close to kissing Naruto until he felt something try to tear him away but then he felt something pulling him forward. Apparently Gaara tried pulling Sasuke away from Naruto when Sakura tried pulling Naruto away and then him off the table. So at the moment Sasuke and Naruto were teetering on the edge of the table and when Sasuke almost got his balance the backdraft from the oven pushed them over and there they fell into the oven. Gaara looked on in despair as Sakura kind of had a melt down. In the hot as hell (what if it's really cold instead? Who made it hot anyway?) oven the two finally got to kiss.

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The food was delicious and when it was over Sai ran into the kitchen to gather his toys. The cook was busy cleaning everything up so told the boy to not get in his way. Sai noticed that he was missing his favorite dancer so he started looking around for it. He went and asked one of the maids that brought in the toys and she said the toy was with them so someone else must have moved it. Sai went back in the kitchen and tapped the cook on his back while he was looking at something in the oven.

"Have you seen my ballet dancer? He has blond hair, blue eyes, and a giant sparkly orange swirl on his shirt."

"A giant sparkly orange swirl?"

"Uh huh."

"Well kid sorry to say but..."

The cook held out his hand and in it was what looked like a lollypop. It could of looked like a fan but in the middle of it was a giant sparkly orange swirl that made it look more like a lollypop.

"But the dancer was made out of wood."

"Well when I gutted the fish I found your one legged tin ninja. I guess they were to close to the edge of the table a draft pushed them in the oven. Sorry."

"Oh well. I could practically feel the sexual tension between those two toys."

"Uhm... I think you've been with your grandpa a little too much. And I don't think that's possible with toys."

"Says you!"

Sai grabbed the lollypop shape and some of his toys and headed back towards his room. He then propped the lollypop up on the shelf so it could watch the room and then went to play with his other toys. Maybe he'd be able to resolve the sexual tension between that one ninja and his teacher action figure.

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So what did you think? I started this before my Arabian Nights. So this is technically my first Naruto fanfic. I hope you liked it. ^.^