Long ago there was a kingdom, who's prince, though he had everything he could ever want, he was spoiled, selfish, and unkind. But one cold winter's night, an old beggar woman came to the castle and offered the prince a single rose in return for shelter from the bitter cold.

Repulsed by the woman's haggard appearance, the prince sneered at the gift, and turned the old woman away. But she warned him not to be deceived by appearances, for beauty is found within. And when he dismissed her again, the old woman's ugliness melted away, to reveal a beautiful enchantress.

The prince tried to apologize after seeing her beauty, but it was too late, for she has seen that he has no love in his heart, and as punishment, she transformed him into a hideous beast by flicking him in the forehead as well as cursing the whole castle and all who lived there.

Ashamed of his monstrous form, the Beast concealed himself inside his castle, with a magic mirror she had given him as his only window into the outside world.
The rose she had offered him, was truly an enchanted rose, that would bloom till his 21st year.
If he could learn to love another, and earn their love in return before the last petal fell...then the spell would be broken, but if he could not, he would be doomed to remain a beast for all time.

As the years past, he fell into dispare, and lost all hope, for who could ever learn to love a beast...?

One bright lovely morning, a charming little cottage that stood on the outside of the village, a young man came out of the door, jumping down from the steps that lead up to the front door. He had short black hair that was spiked up in the back, and also had black eyes that seemed to have a tint of red in them if the light hit them just right. He had a basket in hand, though he felt kind of stupid, but it was easier to carry things with it. He put the book he had been holding into the basket after starting to walk down the little path that led to the village. He looked up and smiled a little as two birds twittered and flew around him before flying off into the sky. He brushed some of the hair that fell into his face back into the rest of his hair as he walked over the bridge that covered the small creek that ran by his house.
He sighed a little as he looked over at the village, before mumbling to himself. "I hope they don't burst into song again..." But he said something too late cause there was a voice in the village already singing.

~Little town, it's a quiet village. Every day, like the one before.
Little town, full of little people...waking up...to...say...~

Suddenly someone opened their window right when Sasuke got to the bridge that covered the wider part of the creek and led into town, and yelled: Bonjour! Down to him. As soon as he had, the butcher stuck his head out of his stall's window and said bonjour to the young boy as well.
A woman shaking out a rug out her window and a chimney sweep jumping out of a chimney and even a poor man in the stocks all said bonjour!
Sasuke had to stifle a groan as he walked past them all, having no choice but to listen to the woman, who he could never see, start to sing once again.

~There goes the baker with his tray like always. The same old breads and loafs to sell.
Every morning just the same, since the morning that we came, to this poor provincial town...~

"Good morning, Sasuke!" The baker suddenly said as he stood in front of the baker shop, staying out of the way of a man pushing a cart of pumpkins.
"Morning." He said, deciding to be polite and talk to the man and followed him as he walked to the window and set his tray down.
"Where are you off to this morning?" The chubby man asked.
"The book shop. I just finished one of the best stories I've read, about a bean stalk and a giant-" Sasuke was cut off by the man. "That's nice. Choji! The baguettes! Hurry up!"

Sasuke rolled his eyes and shrugged as he put the book back into his basket and continued to walk off to his destination.
As he passed some old women, they started singing, talking about him as if he couldn't hear him...which he could. He was passing riiiiight by them for peat sakes.

~Look, there he goes. The boy is strange, no question. Dazed and distracted can't you tell?~

They sang as he passed a young boy chasing after a squealing piglet only to get chased off by an angry mother pig. He had to keep himself from laughing at the boy. It wasn't he didn't notice, it was just that he didn't care.

~Never part of any crowd~ A old woman in a fancy dress sang, continuing where the other old women left off.

~Cause his head's up on some cloud.~ The barber said, watching Sasuke instead of watching what he was doing and cut half of a man's mustache off.

~No denying he's a funny boy, that Sasuke.~ Almost the whole town sang. How in the world did this whole town know when to sing and what? It's like they recite this stuff the night before! He wouldn't put it past these weirdos.

He suddenly jumped up on a wagon that was passing him figuring it would be faster and easier than walking on his own two feet.

Suddenly the wagon driver sang to a pretty girl as he passed by: ~Bonjour~
And the girl, strangely, sang back to him. This is the weirdest town in the world! ~Good day.~
~How is your family?~ He asked, with a grin.

Across the road at a meat stall was a pretty woman with her breasts about to pop out of her dress. ~Bonjour~
The meat stall owner, Shikaku couldn't help but look at the breasts as he handed the lady her meat. ~Good day~ He sang, grinning as if he was getting dirty ideas from just looking at her.
~How is your wife?~ The woman asked, motioning to the woman standing behind Shikaku with a rolling pin, which collided with his head, making him grunt in pain.

A man standing next to a bunch of chicken coops, counting eggs was confronted by a poor woman that was holding three babies all the same age, which were crying, and being pulled on by a little boy and girl. ~I need, six eggs!~ She almost begged as she thrusted her basket into the man's surprised face.

Across the street, next to the book shop was a man selling pottery and jars, but a costumer wasn't very happy. ~That's too expensive!~ He pointed out to the man.

Suddenly, the woman from earlier, the mysterious woman who started this real life musical, started singing once again.
~There must be more than this provincial life...~

Sasuke then jumped off the wagon and walked into the bookshop, opening the door that made a bell ring.
"Ahh, Sasuke!" The old man that had really spiky and long white hair and red lines almost like tears coming down from under his eyes said excitedly as his favorite costumer came in.
'Thank god! Someone who's not singing!' Sasuke thought in relief. "Good morning. I've come to return the book I borrowed." He said, pulling the book out of his basket and handed it to the man, known as Jiraiya.
"Finished already?" He asked, his eyes wide in surprise, but a smile one his face, amused.
"I couldn't put it down. Got anything new?" He asked, looking at the bookshelf, looking through the books to see if any popped out at him he wanted to read.
Jiraiya laughed and shook his head as he set the book down on a shelf next to the window. "Not since yesterday...but I am starting on my new book! Want to read it?!" He asked, grinning ear to ear.
Sasuke glanced over his shoulder at the man with a look on his face. "Uh...that's alright..." He said before turning back to the books before grabbing a book. "I think I'll borrow this one." He said handing the now pouting man the book.
He glanced at the title and blinked. "That one? But you've read it twice!" He said in disbelief.
"Well, it's my favorite-far-off places, daring sword fights, magic spells, a prince in disguise." He said jumping off the rolling ladder that made it so you can go higher up the bookshelf as Jiraiya chuckled.
"If you like it that much, then it's yours." He said, handing the book back to the boy.
"What? I can't do that!" Sasuke said frowning.
"I insist!" He said, as he led the boy outside of the shop, not gonna take no for an answer.
"Well...thank you...thank you very much." Sasuke said as a grin slowly appeared on his face before walking out of the shop, passing three men who had been watching them through the window, they were now trying to act like they weren't watching Sasuke, while he was obviously aware they were watching him, but he ignored him, and chose to read the book he just got instead.

~Look, there he goes
that boy is so peculiar
I wonder if he's feeling well~

'Oh god, they started again!' Sasuke thought as he walked right into three kids playing jump-rope, and managed to jump over the rope while still reading, and chuckled at the shocked look that the little girl was giving him. He just patted her head real quick before continuing on.

~With a dreamy far-off look~ Some women sang as Sasuke walked under a sign and water spout and hit the sign with his hand to keep the water that a lady dumped into her gutter from hitting him.

~And his nose stuck in a book~ some men added, as he passed, just trying his hardest to ignore these stupid people who insist on singing.

The whole town then sang this verse, again, making Sasuke wonder if they had rehearsals for these kinds of things. ~What a puzzle to the rest of us is Sasuke~

Then again that lady who somehow knows what he is thinking sometimes, started singing again as soon as he sat down on the town square fountain to read his book some before going home. ~Oh, isn't this amazing?
It's my favorite part because you'll see.~ Suddenly some sheep came up to him and started to stare into his book, staring at the picture that was on one of the pages. This annoyed Sasuke very much...he was trying to read here!
~Here's where she meets Prince Charming~ Then the stupid sheep ate a corner of the page of his book! Oh did Sasuke wish he could strangle the little beast.
~But she won't discover that it's him, till chapter three.~ Before Sasuke had a chance to bring mutton home for dinner, the shepherd came up, yelling at his herd, making the sheep surrounding Sasuke run away to the rest of them.

~Now, it's no wonder that his name means beauty
His looks have got no parallel~ A woman in a hat shop sang as he passed by, having gotten up from the fountain. He snickered a little when she suddenly pulled her hat off, pulling off the wig she was wearing under it, showing off her bald head.

The poor shocked shop keeper quickly got his composure back, and added to what the woman said, as if having a conversation. ~But behind that fair facade
I'm afraid he's rather odd
Very different from the rest of us~

Sasuke walked under an arch, ignoring the words the man was saying as he walked over a wagon that some men were taking sacks off of. As one bent down, it was right when Sasuke got to the other end of the waggon, making it come up, and hit the man in the chin, knocking him out. At the same time, the village people started singing again. ~He's nothing like the rest of us
Yes, different from the rest of us is Sasuke~

Just then, a flock of ducks were flying over, one suddenly dropping down from the sky after being shot.
A young man with a bowl cut hair and very bushy eyebrows and very round eyes, ran to try and catch the bird in a sack, but missed...barely. He looked around and quickly stuffed it into the sack before running over to the shooter. "Wow, you didn't miss a shot, Guy-sensei! You're the greatest hunter in the whole world!" He said standing next to the man, who looked almost like the boy but had even bushier eyebrows and not as round eyes. As well as his hair wasn't quite as a bowl cut, but almost the same.

"I know." Guy simply said, looking all smug as he blew the smoke from the end of his gun before walking off, leaving his look alike to grab the sack of pelts he had on the ground.

"No beast alive stands a chance against you, and no girl or boy, for that matter." He said with a chuckle as he finally caught up with him.
"It's true, Lee. And I've got my sights set on that one." Guy said using his gun to point at Sasuke, who was buying some bread from a woman on the street.
"The inventor's son?" Lee asked in surprise.
"He's the one-the lucky boy I'm going to marry."
"But, he..."
"The most beautiful boy in town." Guy carried on, paying no mind to what Lee was trying to say.
"I know, but..." Lee again tried to say something, but got cut off when Guy dropped his gun into his arms, which hit Lee in the head.
"That makes him the best. And don't I deserve the best?" He asked, grabbing Lee by his shirt and lifted him up to his face when he started to glare up at Guy for hitting his head.
"Well, of course. I mean, you do, but...oop!" He was suddenly dropped, Guy having heard what he wanted to hear.

Then he started singing! ~Right from the moment I met him, saw him
I said, "He's gorgeous," and I fell~ He sang before grabbing the gun back from Lee and began to admire his reflection in some silver from a shop that was selling silver appliances.
~Here in town there's only he, who's as beautiful as me~ Lee started poking Guy, trying to get his attention that Sasuke was walking off, passing them.
~So I'm making plans to woo and marry Sasuke~ He said turning away from his make-shift mirror and started to look around for Sasuke, noticing he wasn't there anymore. One he saw him walking down the street, he started stalking towards him, with an annoyed look on his face.

As he walked after Sasuke, he passed a water pump that had three young women pumping water into a bucket. One had pink hair with a wide forehead and green eyes, another had long blonde hair in a pony tail as well as long bangs going in front of her blue eyes. The last one had brown hair pulled up into twin buns on her head as well as brown eyes. They all stopped what they were doing to gawk after Guy like he was the most handsome thing in the world. ~Look, there he goes, isn't he dreamy?
Monsieur Guy, oh, he's so cute.~ Lee tried to get the pretty girl's attentions, but that was right at the time that they all leaned against the pump's arm which made water come out and douse Lee, making him grunt and pick up the pelts that somehow didn't get wet and run off after Guy.
~Be still, my heart, I'm hardly breathing!
He's such a tall, dark, strong and handsome brute!~ They said before fainting, Guy not noticing at all as he was still following Sasuke, but he was blocked by some wagons, slowing him down from getting to his goal.

As Sasuke walked through the busy crowd, everyone was singing as they were saying every day things, such as: Hello, good day, bartering for food and everything in between.

~There must be more than this provincial life!~ The mysterious woman once again sang.

~Just watch, I'm going to make Sasuke my wife!~ Sang Guy, very loudly, but the villagers didn't seem to care at the moment, suddenly jumping in front of Guy, blocking his path once again.
~Look there he goes, a boy who's strange but special
A most peculiar young man~ as the village was talking, Guy was trying to get through the crowd, but there were too many of them, seeming like the whole village was here. So Guy instead walked over to a house and climbed up onto the roof, traveling from roof to roof to get to where he wanted to get to.

~It's a pity and a sin, he doesn't quite fit in
Cause he's really a funny boy
A beauty but a funny boy
He really is a funny boy
That Sasuke!~ They ended the song by saying 'Bonjour' and when Sasuke turned around to give them a very annoyed glare, they all d, walking away to do their daily lives.

Sasuke sighed and started walking again, going back to his book when Guy suddenly landed right in front of him. "Hello, Sasuke." He said with a grin.
"...Bonjour, Guy." The younger said, before trying to pass the man when the book was pulled out of his hands. He glared at the older man, not happy at all. "Guy, give my book back." He said crossing his arms as he watched him flip through the pages.
"How can you read this? There's no pictures!" Guy wondered, looking all through the book, somehow missing the picture that Sasuke saw earlier.
"Well, some people use their imagination." Sasuke pointed out to the man, who shook his head.
"Sasuke, you need to get your head out of those books an start paying attention to more important things." He said, throwing the book over his shoulder, which made it land into a mud puddle. "Like me." He said, giving the sexiest grin he could to Sasuke, which only wanted to make the boy gag while the three girls from before sighed longingly. How could they LIKE this ugly man?! It was a mystery...

Sasuke rushed to save his book, from getting ruined in the puddle, but the man had stepped in his way, making him reach around the man's legs to grab the now dripping book. Once he grabbed it, Guy stepped away. "The whole town's talking about it. It's not right for one to read. Soon you start getting ideas, and thinking..." He said, almost grimacing.
Sasuke looked at Guy with a: 'wtf?' look on his face. "Guy...you're a complete idiot." He said shaking his head as he wiped his book off with a handkerchief.
Guy chuckled as he stepped up to him. "Why thank you, Sasuke." He said, taking it as a compliment, making Sasuke give him another: 'wtf?' look as he wrapped his arm around his shoulder. "What do you say we take a walk over to the tavern and a look at my trophies?" He said, taking the book away from Sasuke once again, pulling him along with him as he walked down the street.
"Maybe another time." The younger male said through gritted teeth as he tried to grab his book back from the taller man.

As they passed the three girls, they looked at him with a shocked look. "What's wrong with him?" The pink haired girl asked. "He's crazy!" The twin-bunned girl said in absolute shock. "He's gorgeous." The blonde said, giving gaga eyes after Guy, the other two soon following suit.

"Guy, I can't. I have to get back to help my father." Sasuke said, managing to grab his book and get out of the hold at the same time without any violence.
Lee, showing up out of nowhere, started laughing. "That crazy old loon-he needs all the help he can get!" He said, laughing, which Guy soon started to laugh to as well, thinking the same thing.
Sasuke glared at the two men. "Don't talk about him that way!" He growled angrily, making the two of them stop laughing in slight shock at his outburst.
"Yeah, don't talk about his father that way!" Guy instantly said, hitting Lee on the head, only wanting Sasuke to like him for standing up for his father.
"My father is not crazy. He's a genius." Sasuke said, still glaring at the other males, though mentally he knew his father had a few screws loose, he still loved him.

Suddenly outside of town, and explosion was heard and smoke burst through the windows of Sasuke's house. "Ah frick." He said before running to his house, ignoring the two laughing men behind him.

As Sasuke got to the house, smoke was coming from the cellar door. He ran to it and flung it open, getting a face full of the smoke, making him cough. . He heard coughing from his father farther in the cellar. "...Kakashi?" He called for the man he thought of as his father. No one knew that he was only his adoptive father, but it didn't really matter.
"How on earth did that happen?" Sasuke heard his father say as he stood up from the floor, pushing some boards off his body. "Doggone it!" He said as he threw an especially heavy piece off him.
"Are you alright, Kakashi?" Sasuke asked after looking at the giant contraption that was near by. His father was always working on something strange, but this one took the cake...it was an automatic wood chopping machine.
"I'm about to give up on this hunk of junk." The white haired man with dark colored eyes and a scar over one of them said frustratedly as he kicked the contraption, making Sasuke chuckle.
"You always say that." The dark haired boy said with an amused look on his face.
"Well, I mean it this time! I'll never get this boneheaded contraption to work!" Kakashi exclaimed, pointing at the said machine before crossing his arms over his chest.
Sasuke continued to smile, one of the only times he smiled was when he was around Kakashi. "Yes, you will. And you'll win first prize at the fair tomorrow." He said with a grin. This fair was all that his father had been talking about all these months! Even if he wanted to give up, Sasuke himself wasn't going to let him! Not after all the time that he annoyed him half to death about the stupid fair.
Kakachi grunted, turning away, almost pouting! Sasuke rolled his eyes before getting closer to Kakashi so he could hear him better. "And become a world-famous inventor..." He said with a grin.
"...You really believe that?" Kakashi asked, looking at his adoptive son, a small smile appearing on his own lips.
Sasuke chuckled. "Is there any doubt?" He asked, raising an eyebrow.
"Well then, what are we waiting for? I'll have this thing fixed in no time! Hand me that, uh...dog-legged clincher, there." He said as he rolled back down under the machine.

As Sasuke looked in the tool box that had many known and unknown work tools inside it, and listening to Kakashi hammer away at something, Kakashi spoke to make some conversation. "So, did you have a good time in town today?"
Sasuke almost scoffed. How could being forced to live through a real life musical be a good time, but he didn't mention it. "I got a new book." He said with a shrug.
"Oh? Did you get Jiraiya's new book for me?!" The older man asked, popping his head out from under the machine, his eyes sparkling as he looked up at Sasuke.
Sasuke stared down at his father before shaking his head. "Uh...no, I didn't..." He replied, honestly not understanding what was so great about those perverted books.
"Aww...you're no fun, Sasuke." He said before rolling back under the axe-machine.
Sasuke chuckled and shook his head before walking around to give the man his wanted tool. "...Hey, Kakashi, do you think I'm..odd?" He asked with a small frown forming on his lips.

"You? Odd? Where would you get an idea like that?" Kakashi asked as he rolled back out from under the invention. He was wearing some kind of glasses that made his eyes seem much bigger than they really were.
If Sasuke hadn't been feeling down, he might have chuckled at the strange look on his father's face. "I dunno...it's just that I'm not sure I fit in here. There's really no one I can really talk to." He said after handing Kakashi the tool he had asked for.
"What about that Guy person? He's an...interesting fellow." Kakashi said, knowing how strange the man was. He knew his father, who was a little kinder than Guy was, but was just as strange.
"He's interesting, all right, and rude, and conceited, and..." The boy shook his head. He knew he was into guys and desperate, but not that desperate. "He's not for me." He said with a small sigh as he sat down and watched his father's feet kicking a little as he hammered and did whatever he was doing under the machine.
Kakashi chuckled. "Well, don't you worry, cause this invention's going to be the start of a new life for us." He said crawling out from under said invention. "I think that's done it. Now, let's give it a try." He said before pulling a lever after wiping his hands clean of grease and whatever else was on them.

Once the lever was pulled, a loud whistle blew as steam or smoke, Sasuke didn't know what, came out of the smoke stack. Kakashi ducked, as if he was ready for it to explode again, Sasuke ducking a little behind Kakashi, not wanting to get hit or blown up either. The gears started clanking and whirring noises were made before suddenly the axe came swinging down, chopping the wood before the spring made it go flying into the wood-stack...just like it was supposed to do!

"It works!" Sasuke said in surprise.
"I-it does?" Kakashi asked, almost not believe this to be real as another piece of wood flew past his head. "It does!" He said with a wide grin.
"You did it...you really did it!" Sasuke said in awe as he smiled at his father.
"Hitch up Naruto, boy. I'm off to the fair!" Kakashi declared before getting hit in the side of the head with a flying block of wood, knocking him out cold.

A/N: First chapter done.

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