AN: Hello people of Fanfiction! Well, here it is! My first version of a NaruSasu/SasuNaru fanfiction, YaY! I'll warn you now, this is NOT going to be some just 'Jump to the smut and lemon' story, I wanted to build up to all of that sweet and sourly goodness! I wanted this story to be just that 'A story' I wanted to delve into this made-up fantasy that came to me in a dream, so if you are not prepared to read through long chapters and limes, and possible strawberries, {due to the starting ages of the characters} Then turn back now! For those who love the thrill of a good build up, then to you all I say ENJOY! Let the feast begin!
Note: Suna Akurei, Hyūga Hisae © Anna Uzumaki
Pairing(s): Naruto/Sasuke With: Neji/Gaara, Shika/Kiba, Sakura/Lee, Kakashi/Iruka, Hinata/Shino, Ino/Choji, Kankuro/Hana, Temari/Tenten, Jiraiya/Tsunade, Itachi/Kimimaru, Suigetsu/Sasori.
Warning(s): Yaoi, lemon(s), sexual content (Duh!), slight nuggets of OOC-ness (bear with me), adult language, blood/gore, angst, drama & slight child abuse.
Disclaimer: Naruto © Masashi Kishimoto
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Chapter one
Princes' and Princesses
"TEME!" The young sun-kissed, blonde haired, blue eyed prince yelled.
"Hmph, you lose dobe." The other pale skinned, raven haired, onyx eyed prince replied, with a smug smirk.
"You cheated Sasuke!" The young blonde prince yelled at the duck butt haired prince, who was now removing his fencing mask.
"I've done no such thing, Naruto." The raven prince smirked devilishly at the blue eyed prince, who was currently throwing his mask to the ground, tantrum bound.
"You did to!" Naruto exclaimed, "Sensei! That's a fault, why didn't you call it!" He continued and questioned his instructor, who had short black hair that was pulled into a high spiky ponytail and a goatee.
"Now now, young master, all is fair in the art of fencing. Though I must ask that you watch your language as well, what would his majesty the King have to say should he ever hear such slander come from the young master? Not to mention how the Queen should act." The young blonde's physical trainer reprimanded him.
"Hahahah, dobe!" Sasuke laughed as Naruto was scolded.
"Do not think that you should not also behave yourself young sir, be it as you may not be on your kingdoms land, you should refrain from such language as well." Sasuke's personal, snake like, trainer scolded him as well.
"Yes, Orochimaru sensei." Sasuke sulked.
"Serves you right, teme!" Naruto piped.
"AHEM!" The blonde's trainer cleared his throat at his mocking.
"Sorry Asuma sensei…" Naruto sulked as well.
"Very well, now you two go get cleaned up. You have tutoring shortly." Asuma instructed the two sulking young princes'.
As they headed down the very elaborated castle halls' to the bathroom, they continued to insult each other and then started running down the halls, in an effort to see which one could make it to the bathroom first, they rounded a corner and slammed right into three of their friends who came to study. Two of which, fell to the floor with the two mischievous princes' the other had just barely dodged them.
"OW!" A grey eyed, brunette shouted as he rubbed his head, "Naruto and Sasuke, what are you running for?" He questioned them.
"UGH, that hurt!" The other brunette with red triangle family markings on his cheeks protested.
"Hahah, I'm sorry prince Neji and prince Kiba. I was just beating Sasuke to the bathrooms." Naruto explained to the two other young princes'.
"Hmph, you only thought you were winning dobe." Sasuke informed his blonde rival.
"Teme!" Naruto glared at the pale skinned prince.
"You two are as troublesome as ever." A black pineapple haired boy mumbled sleepily, as he reached down to grab his red tattooed faced friend off the floor and said prince blushed at the offer.
"I do apologize, Prince NARA." Naruto faked an apology to his young friend.
"Hey, we deserve an apology! We did just get ran over, not Shikamaru!" Kiba exclaimed to Naruto as he got to his feet, still holding the sleepy princes' hand.
"Oh my! Young masters, are you alright?" A brunette maid gasped and hurried over to the young princes on the ground.
"Yes, we're okay Ayame-san. We were just playing around." Naruto informed her while they got off the floor.
"Young sir, you should know not to be running around like that after what happened last time. Now where were you off to in such a hurry?" The maid asked.
"Sasuke and I were hurrying the bathroom to prepare for today's tutoring." Naruto answered her.
"Yes, as were we, when they ran into us." Neji added.
"Why yes, it is almost time for your daily session to begin. Now come, I will see to it that you two make it safely to the showers." The maid told the two playful princes'
"However…" She continued, "Ebisu-san!" She called out to someone.
"Yes, Ayame-san?" A butler with dark glasses came through the same door she had come out of.
"I need you to please escort the other three young masters to the study hall." She informed the butler.
"Of course, right away. Young sirs' please come with me." He directed his attention to the other young ones.
"You guys should hurry, Naruto you should know how scary your tutor gets if you are late." Shikamaru said, as he discreetly slipped his hand out of the tattooed prince's hand, so that the maid did not see.
"Yeah, I know." Naruto said as he scratched his head.
They all then went down separate ends of the hall and soon the young blue and onyx eyed princes' where in the very large bathroom, the maids remove their clothes and kept a close eye on them so they wouldn't goof around while in the tub.
"Hey Sasuke, is your brother going to be the one taking you back home this time?" Naruto asked.
"Hmm, he told me he would but that is only if he is free, father keeps him busy with lots of stuff lately." Sasuke pouted slightly.
"I hope he comes, I have not seen him in while! It sucks just having you around Teme." Naruto said with a sly smirk.
"Whatever, Dobe." Sasuke replied with a splash toward his best friend, who immediately returned the attack until it was soon a war of waves and the maids had to step in to stop them.
Once they were fully dressed in their princely attire they quickly headed towards they study hall, with a maid guiding them the whole way. Once they reached the main study hall they walked until they came to the library, they quickly entered and tried to avoid the instructor who was busily writing on a board. They thought they had safely made it past him once they were in their seats, only to look up and see him glaring down at them; they automatically shrunk down into their seats and waited for the instructor to snap.
"Now young masters, just what time is it?" The brunette instructor with a scar across his nose inquired.
"It is 1:13pm Iruka sensei." Naruto almost whispered.
"No." Iruka said in a clipped tone.
"It is time for you to yell at us for being late." Sasuke joked.
"YES! Prince smarty pants! You are almost Fifteen minutes late for today's lesson, the other young sirs' made it on time, now why didn't you two?" Iruka exclaimed at them.
"Sorry sensei, our fencing practice ran over and then we bumped into shika, kiba and neji on our way to the showers." Naruto admitted.
"Is that so? Well, I will just have to have a word with both of your trainers then." Iruka sighed.
"Now now Iruka, Is that any way to treat the young princes'?" A familiar voice said from the door.
"Kakashi-sensei!" Sasuke shouted and ran over to the silver haired man who instructed him at his castle.
"Hello young Master Uchiha, It is good to see you." Kakashi said as the young raven prince hugged him before returning to his seat.
"My, what an un-pleasant surprise this is Kakashi." Iruka grumbled, as Kakashi came to stand beside him.
"Do not sulk koi, I've come to help you with today's session." Kakashi grinned and winked at the brunette.
"Is that so? Well if that is the case, then lets us begin." Iruka said as he instructed the young princes' on what today's lessons was. There was more than just one, math, science and etiquette. The young princes' groaned and began taking notes.
After the session was over the young princes' made their way to the dining hall for lunch, on the way they made idle chatter.
"I swear, why am I always getting chalk thrown at me?" A sleepy Shikamaru complained.
"It's most likely due to the fact that you kept falling asleep during tutoring." Neji mocked.
"Hahah, you have to admit you deserved it!" Kiba laughed loudly.
"Man, what a drag." Shikamaru mumbled.
"What was that Prince Nara?" A very animated voice chimed in behind the young boys, Naruto contemplated on running away from the doomed sleepy prince once he heard the all too familiar voice.
"Ah! Lady Uzumaki, I apologize!" Shikamaru completely woke up once he saw naruto's mother and bowed at her.
"To think such language is coming from your young mouth youknowwhatimean!" Naruto's mother chided him, he just waited for his mother to start an outlandish assault on the sleepy prince, and whether it is a tickle war or other it was bound to be both funny and embarrassing.
"Hahah, really kushina, the language that comes from your mouth is barely comprehendible when you get too excited. Though young Nara yours is slightly understandable, tutoring can be somewhat dreadful at times." A warm voice interjected before Shikamaru could answer the red headed Queen, Naruto smiled and decided not to run after hearing said voice.
"Oh, is that right Minato? Is that how you feel?" Kushina questioned her husband.
"Father!" Naruto exclaimed before he could reply to his mother.
"Good afternoon King Namikaze." The other four princes' said at the same time, which had the Queen laughing at the blush that came across her husbands' face. Though he had been King for years now, he still blushed at the very formal greetings he received from everyone.
"Now now, I thought we agreed that you would all refer to me as just 'Minato'?" The blonde haired blue eyed King recalled to the young princes', Naruto was truly the spitting image of his father, only with his mothers' attitude.
"Hahah, Sure thing King Minato." Kiba joked.
"Kiba!" Naruto punched the tattooed prince, who quickly returned the action.
Sasuke and Shikamaru just sighed, as the two seemed to be on a mission to give each other bruises, Neji then shook his head and pulled his long brunette hair out of the ponytail it was currently in, letting it flow down to his waist.
"You two stop that right this moment or you will not get your surprise!" Naruto's mother threatened the feuding princes'.
"Huh? What surprise?" Naruto turned quickly to his mother, giving Kiba an easy blow to the shoulder. Naruto only turned too glared darkly at the brunette.
"Cut it out Kiba!" Shikamaru scolded him as he was about deliver a sneaky kick to Naruto's leg.
"Hmph." Kiba grunted as he went to lean against the same wall that said sleepy prince was currently leaning against.
"What surprise is it Aunt Kushina?" Sasuke asked his mother's best friend.
"Well…" Minato answered the onyx eyed prince's question, "Since Neji, Shikamaru, Kiba and you are already here for the day, we decided to invite over a few others as well." Minato informed the young princes', who now had confused but anxious looks on their faces'.
"Who is it father?" Naruto asked anxiously as he looked around.
"They are already waiting for you all to arrive in the dining hall son." Minato put his hand on his son's head mussing up his golden spikes.
"They?" Shikamaru questioned and pushed away from the wall as he heard this announcement.
"Yes, they, and it isn't nice to keep guests waiting. Though I guess we are the one's holding you up." The tomato red haired Queen laughed, she then turned to her husband and put her arm through his.
"Come along now you all, I'm sure your guest are becoming restless." Minato also laughed, as he gestured for the young princes' to follow him to the dining hall.
As they walked down the winding grand staircase that lead to the first floor, the young princes' tried to guess at who might be waiting for them.
"Oh man, I really hope it isn't more instructors on etiquettes." Shikamaru sighed, not bothering to use proper speech, which was mainly used for royals. Though when they got older, they all knew that they would let it slip even more when their parents weren't around.
"Well, a couple of us do still need to learn how to eat properly." Neji joked referring to Naruto and Kiba.
"Hey!" Naruto and Kiba shouted and lunged at the grey eyed prince, who swiftly spun away from the attack.
"Alright you three, if you would stop quarreling." Kushina said as she swatted the back of Naruto and Kiba's heads, as they stopped in front of the dining hall doors'.
"OW! Mother!" Naruto rubbed the back of his head and a slow blush covered his sun-kissed skin.
"That's what you get dobe." Sasuke smirked.
Smack! "OW!" Sasuke grunted and grabbed his head where Naruto's mother had swatted him for his language.
"Man, Naruto your mother is scary." Kiba whispered, as he sulked behind the sleepy prince, who was now yawning widely.
"Okay you all, go in and greet your guest. We will see you all later on at dinner." Minato smiled at the young princes' and turned to head further down the main hall.
As they opened the dining hall doors they all recognized the very familiar friendly faces, with the exception of one emotionless pale face. Neji's eyes were automatically fixed to the expressionless face of the blood red haired boy.
"Gaara." Neji breathed and a smirk played on his lips as they entered the large room, just as the guest were in mid-conversation a butler excused his interruption and announced their arrival.
"Presenting, the young Heirs', Prince Naruto Uzumaki, Prince Sasuke Uchiha, Prince Shikamaru Nara, Prince Kiba Inuzuka and Prince Neji Hyuga." The butler announced as the Young guests turned to the doors as said announced princes' walked through.
The young guest stood as the Princes' walked along the table to claim their seats, As usual, when his father wasn't accompanying him to eat, Naruto took his seat at the head of the table with Sasuke to his right.
"Hey you guys! What're you doing here?" Naruto asked excitedly as he sat down, letting his language slip in the comfort of his friends.
"Minato-sama invited us here for the weekend; I assume it was due to the fact that they're here." A pink haired, sea foam green eyed girl answered him as she darted her eyes toward the other young princes' that had just sat down.
"Whatever the case may have been, I for one am glad to be here. It has been too long Naruto." The teal eyed, blood red haired boy with a love tattoo on his forehead, just above a non-existent eyebrow, interjected turning to show a warm smile to the young blue eyed prince.
"It has been a while Prince Gaara." Naruto added the honorific to the beginning of the teal eyed prince's name causing him to blush slightly.
"Ah! Is that the color of youth I see on your face Gaara?" A bushy browed boy exclaimed, as he brought more attention to the teal eyed prince.
"Quite Lee!" Gaara hissed at the overly animated boy, though everyone just laughed at the action.
"Prince Lee I must ask that you calm down, everyone will end up with headaches if you don't." Neji chided the bushy browed prince, who smile and laughed loudly at Neji's request and laps in language, but sat back down in his seat.
"Heheh." A small laugh chimed in from next to Neji, who turned to his right to look at the grey eyed, black-blue haired girl.
"Hinata you seem pretty happy, am I to assume that you agree with my accusation?" Neji asked her.
"Only a little Nii-san, this is normal for him after all." Hinata said just above a whisper to her brother.
"It is to be expected, is it not? Lee is being as boisterous as always." A muffled voice said from across the table.
"What? Hey Prince Shino, try uncovering your mouth when you talk!" A pale blonde haired, sky blue eyed girl shouted a few seats down from the young prince with dark glasses on who had spoken.
"Hmph." Shino huffed.
"Will you stop shouting in my ear, Ino-pig!" The pink haired girl glared at the pale blonde princess who was seated next to her.
"Oh shut up you gargantuan forehead princess!" Ino snapped at the pink haired girl, who looked as if she wanted to slap her.
"Sakura my love, do not furrow your beautiful brow like that. I for one love your big forehead!" Lee interjected.
"Shut up Lee!" Sakura hissed at the comment he had just made and blushed.
Everyone laughed as she hit him hard, even for a girl, in his arm. Just then the maids came out and began to serve them the first course of their lunch.
Munch, Munch, Munch. The chubbiest of the children dove into his food without hesitation as soon as the maid put it in front of him.
"Geez Prince Choji, slow down or you might choke to death before you finish!" A brunette with two spiky ponytails commented.
"Aww, but I'm SO hungry princess Tenten!" The chubby prince with tattooed swirls on each of his cheeks exclaimed and dove back into his food.
"Sheesh Choji, Don't be such a fa-OW!" Naruto began to say before he was kicked from under the table, he looked up to see Sasuke with a smug look on his full pink lips.
"Huh? What was that Naruto?" Choji leered at Naruto, who was currently staring at the pale raven haired prince.
"Nothing!" He quickly said as he looked away from the onyx eyed boy with a slight blush on his cheek. He knew how Choji got when someone picked on his weight.
"Dobe." Sasuke muttered at Naruto.
"Teme." Naruto replied and turned his attention to his food.
They began to eat the first part of their meal with chatter and laughter, and several punches being made which would certainly leave marks and scolding from the adults.
"So are you guy's staying for the weekend correct?" Naruto asked his friends, after finishing his meal.
"That's what was arranged when Minato-sama contacted our parents." Gaara said in a slightly expressionless voice.
"You sound as thrilled as ever." Neji smirked at the red headed prince, who looked at him slightly amused.
"So are we sleeping in our normal rooms this time?" Kiba asked Naruto as he stole a glance at the pineapple haired prince next to him, who was somehow sleeping sitting straight up in his chair. 'Man he can sleep anywhere!' He thought and smiled.
"Hmm, I suppose." Naruto said looking slightly upset about something.
"Is something the matter Naruto?" Hinata asked quietly a few seats down.
"Huh? Oh, no, I'm fine." He informed her. 'She doesn't miss a thing does she?' He thought.
"So Naruto, do you have any other lessons planned for today?" Lee questioned.
"I have swimming lessons next actually, you all should come it'll make it more fun!" Naruto perked up at the idea, glancing at Sasuke while hoping he would agree so he would be able to see him in his swim trunks.
"That sounds great! The challenges of youth are calling!" Lee shouted happily, "I say we have a swimming race!" He continued with even more excitement than before.
"Ugh, Lee must you be so loud?" Shikamaru groaned as he woke up, while rubbing his neck, which became stiff from sleeping upright.
"Come now shika! You need to get out more, you sleep too much as it is. I believe a swim match is exactly what you need!" Lee confronted the pineapple haired prince, who was close to falling asleep again.
"Yeah shika, come on it sounds like fun!" Kiba agreed, as he elbowed Shikamaru in his side.
"Oh man, what a drag. Though, I suppose I could go for a little swim." Shikamaru agreed, not being able to say no to Kiba's puppy dog eyes.
"Boys'." Tenten whispered to Sakura, Hinata and Ino, who nodded their heads and giggled.
"Well how about it Sasuke, Shino, Gaara and Choji?" Naruto asked the other quiet princes'.
"Hmph, I guess I should go. Who else is going to keep you from drowning dobe?" Sasuke smirked at Naruto, who blushed and hit his best friend.
"Shut up Teme!" Naruto shouted.
"Ugh, I'm too full to swim." Choji groaned as he rubbed his protruding stomach.
"I'll go, but swimming I won't do." Shino mumbled from behind his high collar.
"That's defeating the point of going Shino, let me guess you'll be doing bug watching?" Kiba laughed.
"Hmph." Shino huffed.
"Well, what about you Neji?" Naruto probed for his reply.
"I'll go if Gaara goes." Neji said proudly as he stared across the table at the teal eyed prince, hoping he would say yes.
"I suppose, I could use the lesson." Gaara said staring back at the grey eyed prince who was still staring at him, with a slow smile forming on his lips causing the red head to blush very slightly.
"Well, in that case, I'll go to." Neji said slightly smiling.
"Awesome!" Naruto exclaimed, his blue eyes practically sparkling with excitement.
"Well, since the boys' are doing that, why don't we go find Lady Tsunade?" Sakura asked the girls at the table.
"That sounds good." Hinata whispered pushing her index fingers together as she usually did when attention was called to her.
"I agree." Tenten simply said.
"That's fine with me." Ino answered.
"Now that that's decided, let's go!" Lee shouted leaping from his seat, while blowing a kiss at Sakura.
"Lee!" She blushed and laughed at the show of affection.
"See you Choji." Ino said and patted Choji on his head.
"See you Ino." He smiled up at her, the swirled tattoos on his cheeks scrunching up, as she and the other girls left, they passed the maids and butlers as they exited into the main hall. The maids' cleared the table as the young princes' left the room and took an exit opposite to where the girls left.
"What are you going to do Choji?" Sasuke asked the chubby brunette as he noticed the new earring in his ear.
"Hmm, I might go lay down, I'm so full that I can barely move." Choji grunted.
"I wish I could lie down, but Kiba would just drag me back out the bed." Shikamaru sighed, and then looked at a smirking Kiba.
"You've got that right! You already sleep and cloud watch too much as it is!" Kiba laughed and put his arm around the now yawning prince.
"Well, alright Choji, we'll see you after our lesson." Naruto told Choji as he made his way to the guest bedroom.
The others continued their walk through the castle to the indoor swimming pool, once they reached it they quickly went to the changing room. As they got dressed Naruto and Sasuke stole sneaky glances at each other, as Kiba looked openly at Shikamaru causing the pineapple haired prince to throw his shirt in the ogling brunette who just laughed at the action and across from them Lee tried unsuccessfully to get Shino in the upcoming swim match, Shino only mumbled something about flying ants which made Lee laugh loudly. Meanwhile, Gaara fumbled with a latch on his vest and sighed when he couldn't get it loose.
"Here, let me." Neji helped his crush out of the vest.
"Thank you." Gaara blushed, creating a beautiful contrast to his eyes and the black make-up around them, which had Neji gaping at him.
"Sure… no problem." Neji blushed slightly, while turning away from him to hide said blush.
Gaara giggled, which had Neji spinning back around to catch the red head smiling, which was very rare when he wasn't around Naruto. Neji just smirked and lightly punched Gaara in the shoulder.
"Hey, you guys ready?" Naruto asked with a grin on his face, while looking the now tussling Gaara and Neji, who quickly straightened up at his arrival.
"Yes, let's go." Gaara said smiling slightly at Naruto, then turned to Neji and raised a non-existent brow in a silent question.
"I'm ready." Neji rolled his eyes and smiled at Gaara's expression.
"….But Shino you must join us, not watch bugs!" Lee exclaimed as he and Shino walked around to where the other princes' were, obviously discussing why Shino wasn't swimming.
"No." Shino simply replied, "Most insects don't like water anyways. Most." He continued which earned him some confused looks from the other boys'.
As they walked into the pool area they could hear people talking and laughing at unheard jokes, as they rounded one of the pillars they spotted Naruto's white haired, sharp-toothed swimming instructor and another older white haired man with red tattooed lines that went from his eyes' to his chin on both sides.
"Grandfather!" Naruto shouted and ran towards the older man, who stopped talking as soon as he heard Naruto's echoing voice.
"Naruto, my boy, How have you been?" The older white haired man asked as Naruto hugged him.
"I'm fine old man, when did you get back?" Naruto asked excitedly, while stepping back so he could look up at his grandfather.
"I arrived just a few moments and Minato told me you were entertaining guest at the time, then told me you had swimming lessons at four, so I came down here to talk to Suigetsu in the meantime." He informed his blue eyed grandson.
"Which I am grateful for since you are late, again, Naruto!" His instructor, Suigetsu, reprimanded the young sun-kissed prince.
"I apologize Suigetsu-san, But it was my fault that we are late I had a little trouble getting out of my garbs." Gaara implored to the sharp-toothed man.
"Oh, is that so, well young Master Suna that's what the maids are for, they're trained in removing those troublesome things." He told Gaara as he shook his head at the thought of how time consuming royal garbs are.
Gaara blushed very slightly and turned his head away from him, "I will remember that next time sir." Gaara mumbled.
"I think it's time we learned how to undress ourselves, the maids shouldn't have to do it for us all the time." Sasuke said, slightly annoyed at the sharp-tooth mans assumption.
"Hahahah, Well I suppose that may be true young Master Uchiha." Suigetsu laughed as both pale princes' glared slightly at him. This made the other princes' chuckle at their reactions.
"Well, Naruto I will talk to you later at dinner." He put his hand on the all the boys' heads mussing up their hair, which had Shikamaru untying his black pineapple ponytail. "Go easy on them Suigetsu, wouldn't want my wife to hurt you after all." Naruto's grandfather joked and called over his shoulder as he walked back around the pool.
"Yes Master Jiraiya!" He called after the retreating older man.
"Man, I'm beginning to regret coming here; this is going to be such a drag." Shikamaru said as he ran a hand through his untied hair that fell just above his shoulders.
"Oh wake up Shika; this is going to be fun!" Kiba elbowed him in his side and mussed his loose hair.
"Stop complaining Shika, a little extracurricular sport's will not kill you." Sasuke chuckled, "Unlike Naruto here." He continued and laughed even louder.
"Shut up Teme!" Naruto punched duck butt haired prince in his side, all the while enjoying the sound of his laughter.
"Now let's begin." Suigetsu said, then turned to look at Naruto, "Young master, I must ask that you remove your shirt before entering the pool." He continued with a slightly sad expression.
"Oh." Naruto sigh heavily "Alright." He agreed and removed his shirt showing more of his sun-kissed skin and thusly revealing the spiral marking on his stomach which seemed to start from his navel and seemed to be partnered with the whisker like marks on his cheeks. The other princes' slightly averted their eyes from the markings, those marks were sad and painful reminders of how dangerous life is for young princes', one slip in security or trust and all hell breaks loose.
"Go youth, burn brightly with the flames of friendship!" Lee shouted as he ran towards the pool, jumped in the air and did a perfect cannon ball which successfully soaked the others by the pool and pulled them back to reality and away from the sad memories.
"Ugh! Lee you overly excited twerp!" Kiba shouted as he ran towards the pool to jump in after Lee, only to slip at the edge of the pool which had him falling on his side, half in the pool half out of the pool, until he slid all the way in.
"Hahah! Perfect dive Kiba!" Naruto laughed, and walked carefully to the side of the pool where the tattooed prince was now gripping on to the side, grimacing at him.
"Oh man Kiba that was a classic." Shikamaru chuckled at his friend as he kneeled beside Naruto, who was now at the pools edge, "Are you okay?" He asked as he reached his hand out to the embarrassed brunette.
"Yeah…but you're not!" Kiba chuckled as he grabbed Shikamaru's hand and pulled him into the water with him, causing him to shout as he was pulled in head first.
"Gah! Kiba you-." Shikamaru began to shout but was thusly cut off as he broke through the water's surface and sent another wave of water towards the remaining boys on the side.
"Tsk." Shino clicked as he swiftly moved out of the way just as the other boys' were hit with the wave, as the water splashed towards the boys' Gaara moved behind Neji as the water hit him.
"Kiba! Are you intent on soaking us all before we enter the pool?" Neji exclaimed as he pushed his long brunette hair out of his eyes, he then noticed Gaara hiding behind him slightly wet from the first wave of water.
"You're a pretty good shield Neji." Gaara chuckled at the now gaping grey eyed prince, and then smiled.
"Nice one Gaara, too bad dobe here isn't the same way." Sasuke smirked and turned to glare slightly at the now dripping wet blonde, said sight causing his glare to falter.
"Shut up teme, I don't see you trying to shield anyone!" Naruto blushed at sasuke's glare that had him reeling.
"Now boys', what have I said about roughhousing around the pool?" Suigetsu spoke up, not even bothering to wipe the water from his face. "Now the rest of you line up by the edge." He ordered them.
"I'll pass." An almost dry Shino replied. "I'll be by the outdoor pool." He continued and walked out a nearby exit that led outside.
"…O-Kay, that young prince is still a mystery to me." Suigetsu mumbled and shook his shoulder length hair.
As the boys' lined up by the pool Sasuke stood behind Naruto and Gaara stood behind Neji, who were both standing about two feet apart looking at the three others in the pool, one of which was quickly making his umpteenth lap down the pool. While Shikamaru and Kiba were floating off to the side talking.
"Now, as usual, I will give you all a few minutes to get your bearings once in the pool. Then I shall begin today's swimming form." The sharp-toothed instructor said, "But as I said, no horse playing! I shudder to think what should happen if Lady Kushina or Lady Tsunade were to see any of you hurt." He continued and shivered slightly.
"Yes Suigetsu-sensei." Naruto replied, "I'll show you who can't swim, teme." Naruto turned to grin at the pale skinned raven.
"Hn, in your dreams dobe!" Sasuke smirked and playfully pushed the blonde into the pool, only to have said blonde grab onto his arm in mid-fall and pulled him in with him.
"Dobe!" Sasuke shouted as he landed in the water, which made Gaara laugh and Neji turned to see a mischievous gleam in the red haired prince's teal eyes, but before he could react Gaara pushed him into the pool with the others'.
"Ugh, Gaara!" Neji cough as he resurfaced and saw Gaara grinning widely, Neji was taken aback by the rare smile and swam towards the side of the pool where the red head was now sitting on the edge.
"I apologize; it was too good an opportunity to pass up." Gaara confessed as he looked down at Neji.
"Oh was it really?" Neji said and smirked as he grabbed the pale red heads ankle and pulled him into the pool as well.
"No!" Gaara gasped as he was pulled under.
"I swear they never listen." Suigetsu sighed and turned to sit at a nearby table, where he picked up a glass of water and sat to watch the rough housing princes'.
As the boys meandered around the pool, they all were somewhat paired up with someone, excluding Lee, and were partaking in various acts. Lee was still swimming like crazy around the pool in an attempt to prepare himself for the upcoming swimming match. Shikamaru was floating on his back, probably somehow asleep, while Kiba wadded quietly beside him with an ominous look in his eyes'. He was more than likely planning a sneak attack on the drifting lazy prince, whose black hair splayed around his face. Neji and Gaara were in a corner of the pool, Neji was seemingly holding Gaara up in the water as he attempted to float on his back as well. Only when his hair fanned out around his face it looked somewhat unsettling, it looked as though he was bleeding profusely from an unseen wound on his head. Said sight caused Neji frown slightly and tighten his hold on said red head.
Then there was Naruto and Sasuke, who were on the opposite side of the pool where they could escape the view of Suigetsu and the others. They were currently staring each other down in an unspoken attempt to prove something.
"Hn." Sasuke smirked and narrowed his eyes' even further at the whisker faced prince.
"Come on teme, let's get on with it!" Naruto huffed and shuddered under the intense glare from the raven.
"You're just going to lose dobe." Sasuke said and his smirk turned smug as he floated closer to the blond.
"We'll just see about that!" Naruto hissed and mimicked the ravens' movement.
"Dobe." Sasuke said as his smirk turned into a full blown smile as he placed his hands on Naruto's shoulders'.
"Teme." Naruto replied and shivered slightly before placing his hands' on Sasuke's shoulders as well. With that said, the two princes' ceased their movements and allowed themselves to slip under the water and begin their own personal contest, which was to see which one of them could hold their breath the longest. As the two boys floated under the water they both released one hand each in order to keep them under the water, all the while their eyes' never left the others.
"Naruto is going to be stubborn about this, I have to find a way to make him lose before Suigetsu finds us," Sasuke thought as he continued to stare at the submerged blond. "Though I have to admit, he does look pretty good like this… Hn, maybe I should drag this out a bit instead." He continued his previous thought and smirked at the idea.
"There he goes with that smirk, if he even thinks that I'm going to lose, he has another thing coming," Naruto thought as he narrowed his eyes' at the raven, "But man, that stupidly alluring smirk is making it somewhat hard to keep myself calm. Why does that smirk always have such an appealing affect on me, I'm sure this isn't right. Is it?" Naruto questioned himself and tightened his hold on the pale shoulder.
"I wonder what he's thinking, most likely it's some kind of plan on getting me to lose. That's so not going to happen. I wonder…" Sasuke arched an onyx brow at Naruto and reached his free hand over to run his fingers though his blond hair, which felt like silk under the water. The contact caused Naruto's eyes' to widen considerably, but he still held his breath.
"What on earth is he trying to do? And why is my heart beating so fast all of the sudden?" Naruto asked himself as he forced his eyes to narrow back to their original position.
"Hn seems like that didn't work. Let's try this…" Sasuke contemplated and moved his hand down from Naruto's hair to his neck and stopped on his slight chest. Naruto then almost lost his composure as an unfamiliar sensation tingled through his body and pooled in his stomach.
"Ngh, why is he touching me like this? And why does it feel so… good? If he keeps this up I'm going to lose, I've got to keep calm!" Naruto thought and, though he wanted and felt like panting, he wielded himself to stay calm under Sasuke's heated touch.
"Hmm, that time seemed to have an effect on him. Now for the final push…" Sasuke smirked devilishly and the blue eyed prince, whose face was now beginning to turn red. He then wafted even closer to Naruto until their chests were flush against each others, he then moved both of his hands to the blonds scarred cheeks and held his face in place and slowly moved his lips towards the blonds.
"What's he doing now? Oh, he's so close. Wait, he's not going to do what I think he's going to do, is he?" Naruto thought as he fought desperately to hold his breath, "Teme, he's going to do it-" He continued to think before his thinking was interrupted by the ravens' soft lips pressed against his, which caused his heart to thud frantically in his chest. To say that he didn't use all of his strength to keep his held air in was an understatement of the century. This wasn't the first time they had kissed they have known each other their whole lives and not to mention that they were both eight, in short, they had figured that since they were best friends it was a show of friendship whenever they did kiss. However said kisses were usually on the hand, cheeks, forehead or nose. So, for Sasuke to kiss him on his lips had made concentrating on holding his breath extremely difficult.
Naruto then decided that if Sasuke was going to fight dirty like that, then he would fight back just as hard. So, when Naruto wrapped his arms around Sasuke's head and pulled him in closer, the raven was more than shocked but due to his growing pride, he did not let Naruto get the better of him.
"So, he wants to put up a fight and play along does he? Well, let's just see how he responds to this…" Sasuke thought and chuckled darkly in his head. Said raven then licked across the blonds bottom lip and bit down slightly, which then caused said blond to part his mouth in an uncontrolled motion. That he didn't inhale automatically from that action made the raven arch a perfect dark eyebrow.
"Ngh, Wha- where, and when, did he learn to do this? This is becoming too much, I'm not going to last much longer. Not to mention that my groin is really starting to hurt for some reason, wait; it couldn't be that I'm getting…" Naruto thought as his thoughts were proven correct once their floating caused them to shift and it was then that he felt Sasuke's hardened member rub against his, which sent a ripple of pleasure that he had never experienced before, surging throughout his body.
"Hn, this is getting pretty heated. Dobe can sure put up a fight, but this is making my lower belly hot. I think I recall Itachi mentioning something about this feeling before, it means that…" Sasuke thought before the motion of their floating cause him to momentarily cease to think, his memory of what his older brother, Itachi, had told him what happens when a guy gets 'Turned-on' as he had so bluntly put it. The feeling that the raven felt in that moment was beyond anything that he could explain, what he did know, was that had never felt anything this good before.
As the two kissing boys both felt the sudden surge of pleasure, they lapsed in their control and came up gasping through the waters' surface. Naruto had a slight blush on his cheeks as he tried to calm his erratic breathing, Sasuke also had just a faint pink blush on his cheeks as he gripped the side of the pool with the blond. As naruto glanced over at Sasuke he was a little miffed to find him with that sexy smirk on his face, when it became known as a sexy smirk he had no idea, but his blushing only intensified once he saw it and he suddenly remembered his revelation just before they surfaced. He had gotten very aroused during their little session. Shocked wasn't the word he felt would describe what he was feeling at that moment, flabbergasted seemed more suitable a definition of how he felt.
"Teme, what was that all about?" Naruto hissed as his breathing returned to normal.
"Hn, calm down dobe, it's called kissing you already know that." Sasuke teased as his smirk turned smug.
"That's not what I meant, why did you kiss me on the lips?" Naruto clarified and narrowed his eyes and the pale prince next to him. He did dare get out of the pool in his current state.
"Why not on the lips, Kissing is kissing isn't it? Besides, I didn't see you complaining, you seemed to rather like it if I'm not mistaken." The raven mentioned and gave the tanned prince a full blown grin. Sasuke's grins were always the best, they were like a breath of fresh air after surfacing from being under the water to long. Which was ironically enough was the perfect comparison in their recent experience.
"Why you… You're one to talk, you seemed pretty 'Excited' yourself teme!" Naruto exclaimed and splashed the onyx eyed prince, before quickly swimming over to the other side of the pool where the other princes' where still idling in their pairs.
"Get back here dobe!" Sasuke growled as he swiftly swam after the retreating blond and quickly caught up with him, he then grabbed his ankle and pulled him under the water before he they got to close to the others. He then placed another soft kiss one the wide eyed blonds pink lips and then pulled him back to the surface.
"Sasuke!" Naruto huffed and a blush the color of a tomato.
"Yes Naruto?" Sasuke taunted while stifling a chuckle, but before the blushing prince had a chance to respond, Suigetsu spoke up from the side of the pool.
"Alright young sirs', now let's get this race started shall we?" Suigetsu announced and grinned widely showing almost all of his sharp teeth.
"Man, this is going to be such a drag." The sleepy black haired prince complained as he continued to float on his back.
"No point in complaining now Shika, you already agreed to this." The triangle tattooed prince said as he positioned himself for his sneak attack on the drifting black haired prince, he quickly drew his hand high up in the air before bringing it back down on the drowsy princes' bare stomach.
"Kiba!" Shikamaru grunted before he curled in on himself and sunk under the water, when he came back up the glare that was on his face was more than deadly. It was downright murderous, the phrase 'If looks could kill' popped into everyone's minds. However, Kiba just grinned showing one of his fangs and pulled himself out of the water just as Shikamaru made a lunge at him.
"Ha! Too slow Shika!" Kiba taunted a few feet from the edge of the pool.
"You're so troublesome Kiba, I swear." Shikamaru sighed and ran his hand through his inky black hair, then pulled himself out of the pool as well.
"Come Gaara, it's time to get this ridiculous race over and done with." Neji said looking down at this still floating redhead.
"I suppose, the sooner I can get out of the water the better." Gaara sighed and turned upright to wade over to the side of the pool, Neji let him get out of the pool first and letting his hands linger on the redheads back as he lifted himself out. Gaara didn't shivered very slightly at the contact and turned to smirk at the brunet, as he looked down at the brunet he marveled at how his long hair fanned out around him in the pool. 'Hmm, Neji really is quite beautiful.' Gaara thought as he reached his hand out to help said brunet out of the pool.
By the time Naruto and Sasuke reached the edge of the pool the rest of the boys were already out and walking down to the other side of the pool, Lee was the first one down there already in position, though none of the boys, even Suigetsu, recalled seeing the overly excited prince make his way down there. His speed was nothing to snuff at when the bushy browed prince was excited, about any physical contest, he was quick to start.
AN: Soo? What do you all think so far? I rather like it, if i do say so myself, but thats just me. Anyways, please review, if you do i MAY put the second part of this chapter up. Positive and Negative reviews are fine, also( even though i already have more than 200 pages of this already typed up) if you have any suggestions, I will consider craming them into the story (if it fits).
Please note: Suna Akurei, Hyūga Hisae are mine, well my versions of Neji, Hinata and Gaara's parents names. But mine none the less.
- Anna Uzumaki