Disclaimer: Fan fiction.
Warnings: Rated M for the mild smut and language.
A/N: Second fic, yay! Golly, I am sincerely grateful for the reviews for my previous fic. Honestly, I wasn't expecting as much. This is a futuristic fic and is also AU. This is going to be a two part fic. I think.
Summary: 'I need you to go to it and destroy it, little brother. Save our world.' NaruSasuNaru. AU. Sci-fi. Mostly Sasuke!centric.
Reviews or any type of feedback, whether it is good or bad, is seriously appreciated.
black hole
by: celestine!
part_1
The sky is a wonderful shade of iridescent violet. It is nearly night and the sun is dying and bleeding over the cusp of the surrounding wood. The moon shows her scarred face and steadily brightens as the sky darkens. There are no sounds other than a slight rustling. A wooden picnic table squats on a slight hill; a near empty trashcan is overturned and rocking back and forth on its heavier metal base. A rumpled up newspaper drifts by. There are two boys on the table. They both are dressed casually. His dark hair drifts around his face, once in a while settling before a slight gust moves it again. His eyes are closed. The other's hair is nearly white, with a darker blond streaking through it. His blue eyes are open and they track the newspaper's progress as it rides the small wind currents.
Naruto jumps off the table and chases after the newspaper. After a few missed lunges he catches it and then goes over to the trashcan. He rights it back up and shoves the newspaper inside it. Wiping his hands off on his faded jeans he sits back onto the bench, right below Sasuke. Naruto smiles up at him and pulls at his hand.
Sasuke is feeling indulgent. He lets Naruto grab him. Suddenly a siren screams through the silence. Immediately Sasuke snaps to attention and gives Naruto a brief kiss on his wrist. He gets off the table and sprints away toward a nearby portal. Naruto says nothing but brings his hand up near his chest; he clenches it and then releases a small white flower that was meant for Sasuke, completely crushed.
/ break /
A shimmer shakes the air before Sasuke materializes in a portal. A secretary ushers him into the main double doors, The Commander is waiting for you in his office, she tells him.
Sasuke walks in and salutes the Commander.
His office is grand and plush. His desk is made out of real oak wood, not the recycled plastic that nearly everything is made out of now. The desk is immaculately organized and polished so well it shows a near perfect reflection of the golden chandelier above Sasuke's head. There is a large bay window directly behind the Commander, showing just how high up in the air they are. The walls are white and the carpet is a rich red color. The walls are adorned with prestigious awards and credentials accumulated throughout the life of the great Commander. His chair is made out of leather and embellished with weathered metal studs. There are no other chairs in the room, forcing Sasuke to stand awkwardly in the middle of the office.
The Commander doesn't acknowledge him at first, but keeps working on the hover-screen to the right of him. Directly below the screen is a picture frame depicting a family picture, in which a little Sasuke is scowling at the camera. Sasuke glares at this photo. After what the Commander deems enough time, he looks up to Sasuke and motions him to come closer. Sasuke knows not to speak but grits his teeth. He hates reporting to Itachi. Itachi looks at him and tells him in his customary detached voice that a previously undiscovered black hole was nearing their home galaxy. Sasuke's back stiffens. He knows what's coming.
I need you to go to it and destroy it, little brother. Save our world.
Sasuke says nothing and gives Itachi the smallest of nods. He bows down respectfully, promptly turns away, and exits the room. Sasuke steps into the same portal and puts in the coordinates for a portal nearby his house.
/ break /
Sasuke comes back to their house. He unlocks the door by swiping his hand on the scanner screen. The machine beeps and let him inside.
Their house is very much like their neighbor's house: a white, square block of smart plastic with a front entrance as well as a back entrance. There are exactly two windows per side of the house and a small concrete back yard. The inside was also white. The wall, floors, and ceilings were made out of the same material. Each house had one kitchen, one living room, one dining room and one bathroom per bedroom; if your house had two bedrooms then you'd have two bathrooms. The general design was very compact and ideal for the upper crust of the working class of the City. The Council of Design had deemed this type of layout to be sublime and so made a decree that nearly every house in the city had to look like this. The exception was whether the owners were particularly wealthy, or whether they lived in the Ghettos.
Sasuke steps in and disposes of his coat on the rack near the front door. He is quiet, for it is late. He goes to the small kitchen and gets a glass of water. He swallows the water and then disposes of the cup in the recycler. He goes into the bathroom and washes his face. He undresses and steps into the shower.
Naruto knew better than to wait for Sasuke to return home, so he went about his daily routine like normal. He is reading, a small hover light lit up the book and moved the light across the page according to Naruto's eye movements; so when Naruto hears Sasuke enter the room, freshly cleaned and still somewhat wet, the light shines on Sasuke's face and momentarily blinds him. After a bit Sasuke's pupils contract and he looks at Naruto. He laughs and turns off the little light. The room is cast into brief darkness until the smart-light recognizes that there's still a body not in the bed and turns on.
Sasuke sighs and goes over to sit on the other side of their bed. He rests his elbows on his knees and cradles his head in his hands. Naruto automatically gets up and kneels in front of him.
What's wrong?
Another mission, Sasuke replies.
Poor kitten, Naruto sighs, using his endearment towards Sasuke. He grabs his hands and then touches his face lightly. Sasuke's eyes are closed.
Fucking Itachi, he knows that I am not supposed to be working now. He damn well knows that I am taking a paid vacation.
Naruto doesn't understand, Then don't do it; if this is your vacation, he has no right!
I— he'll report my unwillingness to Father; I don't want to disappoint Father. And besides, this is a very important mission.
Naruto hums, comprehending. Naruto knows that he can't do anything to erase these worries, but he also knows that he can distract Sasuke momentarily. So he kisses him.
At first Sasuke doesn't respond, so it's only a soft press of lips, rather than an actual kiss. Naruto's eyebrows furrow and he threads his fingers into Sasuke's inky hair, pulling Sasuke's head back and exposing his neck. Sasuke groans and half-heartedly tries to disengage from Naruto. Naruto merely follows Sasuke's retreat into the middle of their bed.
The smart-light turns off as the floor sensors detect that there's no-one on the floor.
Sasuke sighs and decides to just give up and let go. He pulls Naruto back up and really kisses him this time. Naruto's eyes flicker closed and allows himself to be flipped, so now he's beneath Sasuke. Sasuke pulls Naruto's shirt up and trails kisses up and down his abdomen. Naruto hums and clutches the pillows near his head. Sasuke's licks a particularly sensitive part of him and he arches up, moaning loudly. After more kisses and bites, Naruto tires of playing the passive role and flips them again. He kisses Sasuke strongly and grinds down against him. Sasuke gasps and grabs Naruto's ass, forcing him to rock harder against him. Naruto uses one elbow as support and snakes the other hand down to their groins. Somehow along the way, their clothes seemed to have disappeared. Neither of them dwell on this and Naruto just goes ahead with what he planned to do. He grabs both their arousals in one fist and pumps them, alternating between a slow rhythmic pump, and a fast, erratic jerk.
More kisses are shared before the grinding and thrusting and touching becomes too much. Sasuke comes first with a quiet gasp and Naruto follows, feeling his and Sasuke's cum dripping down his hand.
Naruto's arm falters and he falls on Sasuke. Sasuke grunts softly and pets Naruto's hair. Naruto smiles, kisses Sasuke on his chest near where his heart lies, and then falls into a deep sleep. Sasuke almost can't sleep. He is still far too angry with his brother's command to fall into slumber.
After a while of thinking, he realizes he really can't do anything about it. He knows that if he does back down, both Itachi and his father will be disappointed. He can't bear to let Itachi down, much less his father.
/ break /
Sasuke opens awakens and opens his eyes. The curtains are drawn but in their translucency he can still see the dawning sun.
/ break /
T-minus five seconds to launch…four…three…two…one…zero.
/ break /
Naruto is a wreck. He doesn't know what to do by himself when Sasuke's gone. But since Sasuke is gone often, he knows to call Sakura. She always knows what to do.
A few seconds after his call, Sakura arrives in a flurry of layers of thermal fabrics in flashy colors.
Naruto and Sakura have known each other since they were toddlers. Their families lived right next to each other, and throughout their school years they had somehow ended up in the same classes, every year without fail. So between sleepovers and late-night cram sessions, they had become best friends.
Sakura places her coat on the hook and looks around the small house for Naruto. She finds him in the living room on a couch, sitting with his legs drawn up and encircled by his arms, resting his head on his knees.
Oh, Naruto, she coos.
Sakura, I'm afraid. I don't think he'll come back.. I have this horrible feeling, here, he uncurls and grabs Sakura's hand, leading her hand until it touches a place between his ribs, here. He didn't tell me when the mission was, or what the mission was about in the first place. He always tells me. Always.
Sakura doesn't know what to say, so she simply embraces him and he starts to cry, softly.
After a while, something bings in the kitchen. Naruto takes Sakura's arms off him and he gets up. With the back of his hand, he wipes off his tears. Sakura follows, making sure that Naruto is in the right mind for cooking, they enter the kitchen and she stands next to Naruto.
Naruto turns the stove off and removes the lid from the boiling water, making the water stop bubbling immediately. He unwraps some dried pasta meal portions and stirs them in. After some minutes the noodles soften and he adds a seasoning powder. He throws some vegetables in and stirs the pot absentmindedly with a wooden spoon. His hand falls from the spoon and touches the side of the pot. His facial expression doesn't change as searing pain scorches his hand, he only acknowledges the pain with a small exhale and then a gasp. Sakura gasps and yanks Naruto away from the stove.
What the hell are you doing? She shrieks.
Naruto calmly looks down at his hand. A blister already ballooned up on one finger.
Sakura lets out an exasperated snarl and walks to the back of the kitchen, towards the First Aid kid.
All houses, upon decreed from the Council of General Safety must have a form of First Aid kit.
She grabs the section for minor burns and turns it on and a little automaton skitters out and jumps from Sakura to Naruto's hand. It produces a cooling paste and smears it on Naruto's burn, then with skillful mechanical fingers it wraps a strip of gauze around his hand. The little robot deems the job done and returns to Sakura's hands. She sighs and packs the kit back into the wall.
Naruto doesn't say anything. He opens up a cabinet and takes out two bowls. He pours some of the noodles into both bowls and covers the pot. Then he grabs some utensils and motions Sakura to eat with him.
She growls again, but follows, sitting across from him on his tiny dining table.
They eat in silence.
After a while it begins to get dark and Sakura knows it's time for her to return to her own life, she can no longer help Naruto for now.
He shows her to his front door and watches from the doorway as she made her way down to one of the portals that were at the end of each walkway from each house in the street. He waved and then she was gone.
/ break /
A spaceship hovers near the mouth of a black hole.
Sasuke grits his teeth, the spacesuit had indeed improved from the primitive models that humans had to use when they first discovered how to space travel, but not to the point of it being very articulate.
The material was sleeker, more silver and reflective than the staple white, but still thick to protect the human body from implosion. There were less apparatuses on this suit, only the bare minimum was used: a respirator pack, a back-up respirator, radio, and an emergency distress signaler. Though the spacesuit that he had to use for this specific mission was different, more modified. It even came with its own gun, mostly used to blow minor fragments of meteors out of the way while he was working outside of the spaceship. Though sometimes it was used to chase curious space creatures that were drawn to the foreign spaceship from the glittering darkness that was their habitat. Such creatures weren't usually dangerous, but it paid to be wary of them.
Another member of his assigned group is with him, his name is Hyuuga. His eyes have been surgically altered to be able to see the different gasses and liquids that might leak from a breached spaceship.
He motions Sasuke over to a spot on the hull of the ship. There's a small rupture there, possibly caused by the debris that is constantly pulled into their target black hole.
He pulls himself over and takes out a special tube. It's half-filled with a clear gel that hardens and assumes the color and texture of whatever inorganic surface it's placed onto. It's a brief, make-shift fix to any frissure.
Sasuke squirts some of the gel and smears it on and around the area of the rupture. After a couple of seconds it seems to shimmer and it takes on the silvery, cold surface of the spaceship. Sasuke turns to Neji, Are there any more breaks? Neji shakes his head and starts to head back to the entrance of the ship.
Sasuke follows him through the entrance, closing the door as soon as he enters and locking it in place.
The inside of the spaceship is a mixture of smooth white and silver panels that make a patchwork pattern across most of the walls and tunnels of the corridors. The only place that is not like that is the bridge, where any available space is overrun with buttons and switches, dials, wires, and other such things that are necessary for any vessel of this size to be controlled with. Sasuke enters the bridge and sits down wearily on his chair, he hated going out into space with nothing but another person to anchor him down. He takes off his helmet and shakes his head, unsettling his hair until it stopped being plastered on his head. He slumps down and watches the displayed information on the various little screens that littered his station detachedly, thinking of how much he'd rather be on Earth, curled up and relaxing with a certain person.
Suddenly an alarms blares out from the many speakers that are positioned in various places inside the ship: there is some thing wrong.
The gravity within the ship fluctuates between zero-G and just a bit more than it's on the surface of Earth, causing the crew members to be slammed sporadically to the floor. Sasuke gasps in pain and flings out a hand, snagging on to a wire from the ceiling, allowing him to be suspended from there every time the faux-gravity pulls him down. He begins to make his way to the nearest emergency back-up control, hanging on to strong-looking wires. He opens the glass container and slams his fist on the large red button. Immediately the gravity stabilizes and the sound of bodies hitting the floor stops, but not the alarm, which still screeched, seemingly without end.
What the fuck's going on? Sasuke yells at a nearby pilot who is already looking at the little displays that were scattered over the panels of the bridge. They were all flashing red.
Jesus! I… I think we're getting pulled in!
What? Sasuke snaps sharply, that's not possible, this ship was specifically designed to prevent this!
Fuck! The ship won't recognize any commands! The hysterical astronaut begins to pound on the controls, hoping that somehow the ship would stop.
Shit, Sasuke mutters and stumbles out of the bridge and into the hall. He looks down and sees another astronaut: the crew's medic, Karin, passed out form hitting her head, a small pool of blood dripping out of a gash on her forehead.
Karin? He asks and then nudges her shoulder in an attempt to rouse her. Her eyes flutter and she groans.
Sas-? She groans again, Sasuke, what happened? She looks dazed and brings up a hand to her face, smearing the blood. She stares at the had, her eyes aren't focused.
We lost control of the ship and we're getting sucked into the black hole, he told her, Karin, I'm sorry but you need to move now, here, let me help you. He grabs her by the hand and hauls her up. She shakes her head, splattering Sasuke with blood. They make their way slowly to the small escape ships. Three of the five have already been deployed. Sasuke sees another colleague getting into one and follows him.
Sasuke nods to him and helps Karin strap in.
The main ship shudders again and Sasuke hears a loud crack.
What was that? The other spaceman yells.
Sasuke doesn't answer, but looks out of their only tiny window and blanches. The black hole is looking bigger and bigger by the second. It is massive. It is absolute darkness in it's middle, the outside is ringed with a red and orange fringe. Sasuke sees small debris getting sucked into it's middle and sinking into the blackness within it.
Shit, shit! He gasps and kicks the main panel to start the escape pod. The engine gives a quiet thrum and slowly backs away from the main ship. Sasuke motions for the other crew member to man the pod. Sasuke turns to Karin but she has lost too much blood and has passed out. He scowls but does nothing.
The other pulls the manual controls closer to him and tries to maneuver the ship away from the black hole, but the black hole's vacuum is too strong and slowly begins to pull the small ship into it.
Sasuke! It's not working!
Put it into overdrive! Sasuke orders.
The small ship suddenly jerks and begins to pull away from the black hole's suction. The ship moves in a slow, but steady pace. When it finally reaches the last vestiges of the black hole's reach, the ship's overdrive function is finally up one hundred percent. It kicks one last time and it speeds away from the black hole. Sasuke lets out a small cheer and quickly reaches over for the coordinate controls. He taps on the screen and puts in the coordinates for the nearest space station.
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part_1/end.