Brokeback Ninja by Chie Matsuo
Sai and Sasuke (now 20 years old, sasuke never left leaf etc.) have been assigned to protect a farmer's farm from rogue ninjas trying to sabotage their livelihood. They have to work for months but the two men fall in love with each other and start an intimate relationship. However when it dawns on them that they must return home how will the two maintain their relationship when so many people don't understand their love for each other?
Chapter 1: Prologue
Sasuke Uchiha, a very handsome teenager with pale alabaster skin, black onyx eyes and black hair wearing jounin ninja gear knocked on the door that separated him from the hokage who he was there to see.
"Come in!" cried tsunade, sasuke obediently opened the door and saw lady tsunade sitting behind her desk as usual with a stack of important papers littering it, the only other occupants in the room consisted of Shizune, Tsunade's personal assistant and another young jounin who sasuke had not met before.
"Hello sasuke thanks for joining us, this is sai by the way, from ROOT" Tsunade explained indicating the skinny but slightly handsome boy beside her. Sai had the same pale skin as sasuke, black eyes and wore a jounin standard tank top with the traditional black trousers. Sasuke tried not to frown; it was obvious Sai was a homosexual. Sasuke was not homophobic but he didn't approve of the lifestyle gay men chose to live. He was brought up in a rather strict family that had very high expectations expected of him, creating children was a must and having relations with people of the same gender was a taboo.
"Hello nice to meet you" sai said politely extending his hand, sasuke hesitated for a moment then quickly shook the strange boy's hand so the boy didn't think him rude.
"So Tsunade what is going on? What is this mission you want me to do?" asked sasuke.
"What I want you TWO to do" corrected Tsuanade "You never was much of a team person was you sasuke?"
"Yeah okay, what do you want us to do?" asked sasuke impatiently.
"A local farmer from the country of the corn has asked us for urgent help. He is called Shinji Taiki and recently he has been receiving a lot of trouble from a couple of rogue ninjas that are targeting his farm" Tsunade said getting to the point seriously and quickly.
"Targeting? But what for?" asked sasuke.
"Apparently he is a very popular farmer that produces a lot of essential resources to the local village where he lives, some residents have resented his sudden rise in reputation and have tried countless times to loot or steal his animals and food stuffs" explained Tsunade.
"Why does he not have guards? Surely if he wants to protect his business he should have some already installed" sai asked.
"He is poor, his son was on watch but he was killed on patrol" Tsunade said "So it's up to you guys to catch all these criminals and bring them back to konoha for punishment".
"Okay when do you want us to leave?" asked sai.
"As soon as possible, get prepared and be ready to leave this evening. I suggest you carry these" said Tsunade and she tossed a couple of travelling straw hats at the two men in front of her "It is very hot in the country of the corn, you may need them" Sasuke didn't put it on and he bowed and left the office leaving sai with tsunade.
"I never knew he was such a moody guts" Sai said putting the hat on his head.
"You'll get used to him, its amazing how boredom can drive two opposite people together" Tsunade said smirking knowingly at sai. Sai blushed.
(That evening)
"Hurry up, we need to catch the ship as soon as possible!" cried sasuke who was standing at the entrance to konoha village waiting for sai to kit himself up.
"Alright alright, I'm coming, how far is it to the ship port?" asked sai.
"About 4 days walking" sasuke replied abruptly "So I suggest you hurry the hell up!" sai strapped his bag to his back and nodded at sasuke that he was ready to go.
They travelled through the trees every 4 hours then stopped to rest for a while. Sasuke routinely was able to produce small fireballs to keep them warm during the chilly night, this was helpful because the fireballs were able to heat up rations that had gone cold and keep them nice and hot in the night. Sasuke felt awkward being outdoors and sleeping next to the skinny boy so he had carried his own tent and slept in it straight away. Sai who was having a wash later that night, turned around and saw that sasuke had left his tent door open, he teasingly crept over to open it up, to peek through but as soon as he was about to open the fabric the zip came down furiously. Laughing silently to himself sai got into his sleeping bag and felt asleep.
They travelled for 4 days, over lush green mountains, across small bridges and through countless forests and finally they heard the sound of the ocean on the fourth, they came to a sea port where a big ship lay abandoned on the sea. The port master Haru came out of his cabin immediately when he saw them. He became cautious when he saw their forehead protectors.
"Are you ninja from konoha?" he asked.
"Yes and we need a ship that will take us to the country of corn" sasuke replied.
"Have you got money?" asked Haru, sasuke quickly took out his bag of coins and gave it to Haru.
"Step aboard then!" Haru cried and he immediately went to unhook the ropes and start up the ship. Sasuke and sai climbed onto the ship. Sai laid down on the deck and placed his straw hat over his eyes to shadow his eyes from the sun while he napped, while sasuke looked out at the lovely blue ocean.
"We're heading off now!" cried Haru and suddenly the ship started to slowly set sail. The sails were released from their holdings and they began their journey towards the country of the corn.
THE END