Disclaimer: I'm not Masashi Kishimoto, but I do wish I'd thought of this whole "world". This disclaimer counts for the entire story.
A/N: This is a yaoi story, meaning boy/boy. If you don't like homosexuality, don't read the story. It's not rocket science people, I won't accept flames concerning this issue. You've been warned.
"Talking."
'Thoughts.'
Dreams
Flashbacks
"Mama! Daddy! Mama! Daddy!" A black-haired little boy squealed. Leaping onto the bed, he proceeded to jump on his parents. "Wake up! Wake Up! It's Zoo-day!"
His parents sat up and looked sleepily at each other, silently saying, 'Isn't he cute?'
The small boy crossed his arms, huffing. "It's my birthday today. Have you forgotten? Have you?" His mother smiled paitently at him, holding in a laugh.
"Go wake up Itachi, Sasuke, and we'll go to the zoo."
The boy's face instantly brightened with a 1,000,000-watt grin and started for his brother's room. "Itachi!" He shouted. "We have to see the foxes!"
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Sasuke impaitently tugged on his father's collar, urging him to go faster. "Daddy, the foxes are waiting for me! We can't keep them waiting!"
"Don't worry Sasuke, we'll get there in time." His father assured him with a laugh, not picking up the place in the slightest. Sasuke pouted, which his older brother noted. Itachi lifted his brother off of his father's shoulders, playing with the boy to keep him happy. Sasuke gladly gave into Itachi's antics and laughed the whole way to the fox cage.
Once there, however, Sasuke wrestled to get put down and Itachi obliged reluctantly. The younger brother ran up to the edge of the cage, holding onto the bars to keep his balance.
"Hi!"
Sasuke didn't acknowledge the voice's owner, he didn't want to. He was perfectly content with analyzing every move his foxes made. He didn't like this kid interrupting his time with the foxes.
See, Sasuke like foxes ever since he was three. He loved the way their orange coats gleamed in the sunlight along with theis whiskers, their shy personality, and the way they would die protecting their young. So for the past four years, Sasuke spent his birthdays at the zoo, visiting the animals he'd come to adoptas his second family. Sasuke growled. And this kid was ruining his time with his siblings.
The other kid gasped, ignoring the sound from Sasuke's throat. "Maybe you cannot talk yet. Huh? Huh?!" (1)
Sasuke fought down the wave of anger quickly rising in his chest. He turned to tell the kid to get lost...and hesitated. The other boy's orange clothes gleamed from the sun and he had stratches on his cheeks that resembled whiskers. The raven vaguely wondered where he got them before he shook his head and continued to study the boy before him. In addition to the 'glowing' outfit and whiskers, Sasuke noticed that while his shyness was certainly lacking, he looked like the kind of boy who'd protect his family at any cost. Yes, this boy was definately 'foxy'. (2)
The boy stared at Sasuke for a while before the Uchiha actually gained enough control to talk. "What's your name?" He whispered.
The boy smirked and Sasuke's heart flopped. What the noodle? "My name is Uzumaki Naruto and I'm going to be the next Hokage! Believe it!"
"Naruto?"
"That's right. What's yours?"
" 'Ske-chan." The seven-year-old didn't know why he introduced himself by that name. He hated people calling him that. But this boy seemed different somehow. "This place is a little crowded. Wanna go for a walk?" Sasuke offered.
The fox-boy smiled. "Sure." After talking about everything from family-Naruto didn't talk much here-to their favorite video games ('Ske-chan wasn't sure how they'd gotten to that subject), Naruto grabbed Sasuke's hand and stopped him.
"What?"
"Do you..." The boy faltered and Sasuke's stomach was the victim this time. "Do you want to be best friends forever?"
The raven smiled and nodded, repeating Naruto's answer from before. "Sure."
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"What do you mean? He's the last one?"
"Yes, that's why we had to change his gender and appearance. So that people wouldn't reconize him as the last Uchiha. Who knows what they would try to do?"
"So you think it's better not to him?"
"Right now, the best thing for him is to lay low. No one will trust his after today. They'd think he's out to get them for what happened."
"And for good reason." The woman muttered bitterly. The man shushed her and they both looked at the child sleeping soundly in the hospital bed.
"Hopefully he'll never have to know what truly happened that night." Suddenly, as if acting on an afterthought, he turned to the other. "Will you care for him? He'll need someone like him who's been through the same thing." The gray-haired man grinned. "And it doesn't hurt that you'll both be the smae gender."
The woman laughed and hit him on the arm. "Very funny Kakashi." She sobered as she looked back at the small lump in the huge bed. "Poor guy, he'll probably never remember his old life. His old family and friends, some of his personality. He'll never remember that he's the last Uchiha.
A/N: So that's the first chapter, hopefully more to come if my review goal (7). Thanks guys for taking the time to read this (maybe?) interesting story and please review other authors as well. I'm not the only one who lives off reviews. Okay, explaining time.
(1) For all you eighties and ninties kids I may not to explain this, but for those who DON'T know, this is from The Land Before Time. Ducky asks this to Littlefoot. I don't own that by the way, Universal Studios does.
(2) Lol, I had to put that pun in there! I just couldn't let sleeping dogs lie.
Also, for those of you who don't think like me, Sasuke and Naruto actually had a chance to be friends for a couple of weeks, but then the Uchiha clan was attacked and Sasuke was (physically, duh) changed. I'll explain it better through the following chapters.
Again, all review welcome except chain letters and homophobia.
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