Alliy shadicus! A new story!
Disclaimer: If I owned ANYTHING used in this story, I would be VERRRY rich and not be writing this right now.
Plus, I would also be a professional in making readers and the like CRY and FLOOD WITH EMOTION! But I cant do either of those, plus;
I dont own any of the characters used in this story. I own the plot and nothing more.
(I dont own the middle ages either, nor the roman ages, or the dynastys, but then again, I dont think that that was needed :D)
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The crunch of boot against sand disturbed the calm, uninhabited beach. The beach was empty, the sky was clear with no clouds, and the only predominate sounds were the winds and the wash of the waves.
Three people were walking to the edge of the surf. A noble and two bodyguards. To be even more specific, a prince and two bodyguards.
His name was Sasuke Uchiha.
If there was ever a stereotype that all royal people were snobs and brats, then Sasuke was the prime and polished example.
He wasn't old enough to be king, yet too old to be called prince. His parents were away on some trip overseas. But it didn't matter, they would let him do whatever anyway. He wasn't even king yet, but he still had conquered a single kingdom.
If he didn't need anything, forget that, WANT anything, he would be standing here. But sadly, he DID want something and he WAS standing there. In the warm sun, the salty winds being the only cooling factor. Normally, Sasuke was one to be very irritated. But this time, there was too much on the line to be angered by a little sweat.
Sasuke was waiting on a very important... object to get here from a ship.
Speak of ships... there was a single dot on the horizon of where the two blues of sky and sea met. It could only be the ship that he was hoping for.
When the flush of the mast came into veiw, Sasuke let a small grin stay on his face.
As the ships full size became clearly visible, said ship made a round turn to where Sasuke could see the side of it. It stopped.
Even from here he could see the men drop down a landing ship, and a struggling captive, too. He quirked an eyebrow and nodded his head in approval.
Even their landing ships had masts, and that was something to appreciate, even in his far-less-than-rugged lifestyle.
When the sailors deamed it as good enough to row, they held the struggling captive down one last time and did so. The ship made one last swerve to the side and dropped down a corvus (1) onto the beach. Sasuke could now clearly see a shirtless, black-hair teen kicking and defending himself as best he could. Sasuke aknowledged the boy's fierce behaivior. Even as he fought, his arms were tied behind back, all the way up to his elbows.
Despite that, he was giving every man on the deck a boatload of trouble.
He was yelling something uninteligible, but Sasuke was pretty sure it was an insult or a guilt-plead, or something along those lines.
A larger man grabbed the teen's black hair, yanked, and turned him around to that he was facing the dropped corvus, then kicked him in the back. Sending him tripping an falling towards Sasuke. This teen landed four meter away from Sasuke and his two bodyguards.
There was a second of silence before- "I didn't do anything!" The captive, that Sasuke wasn't looking at yelled.
Sasuke reached behind his back and pulled out a bag of silver. "..." He didn't even look at the captive, instead focusing on the pirate in front of him.
"Look at me, you coward!" The captive yelled but to no avail. Sasuke didn't even have to look to know that his bodyguards had already secured eachother
"Do ye' have the money?" He asked, offering a balled fist. Sasuke briefly took not that his voice was deep.
"Naturally." Sasuke stated with a satisfied smile before dropping the soccerball sized bag into the pirate's hand. It pooled slightly, but the pirate's glum and disgusted look did not drop or falter.
"A noble, doin' dirrty trades with a pirate. A slave on top o' that." The pirate stated as he tied the bag loosely onto his waist.
"I had little choice, he was traveling into your area." Sasuke states nonchalantly, though the smile is still cracking along his face. Even through this, he is unable to make eye-contact with the no-nonsense, go-get-the-job-done, pirate. And before he can say good-day, the pirates are pulling up the mast.
A shill, aged voice calls "No hard feelin's! The capin's only trying to help his crewsmen!" Sasuke presumes that he's talking about the captive. Speaking of which...
Sasuke saunters calmly around the held-down captive. The captive has black armwarmers that stop at his elbows, red straps reinforcing them, even if they break. He has airy, black pants, sandle-boots that are also covered in red straps. Black hair, darker than his own, and... a black mask, also layered in red straps.
But what really captures Sasuke's attention...
Are those electric blue eyes.
It's the real clue that lets him know who he has caught.
"Menma."Sasuke says before crouching down on one knee. "The pirates are very trust-worthy in the tropics... especially when it comes to a hefty bounty." Menma isn't looking at him, so Sasuke grabs him by the underside of his chin. Lightly, just so he can see into the other's eyes.
"You underestimate me, I will escape." Menma says, gritting through his teeth, mask stretching. Sasuke chuffs lightly.
"You know, you remind me so much of another captive of mine. You two should get along just fine." Sasuke squeezes lightly.
"Ignorant, pompus ass. I will get out of your pathetic excuse of a castle, Uchiha." Menma raises his voice.
Sasuke's lips twitches and curls lightly as he squeezes harshly, and he's not sure if it's Menma's rage, or his own hand clamping on the sides of his jaw.
He brings Menma's face in close, their faces only six inches apart. A shadow covers Sasuke's face as he very quietly threatens;
"No you wont."
Menma is knocked out by the bodyguards in a spilt second and the last thing he see's is Sasuke's face.
TBC
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(1.)Corvus: A device created in the Punic War. A bridge that swung out to other ships and occasionally land. Allowing either the escape of the men on the other ship, or the transporting of the men onto an enemy ship.
(2.) Menma: Naruto's alter-self in Road to Ninja. If you dont know here; these will help: wiki/Menma_(movie)... ?qh=§ion=&q=Menma+naruto#/d59kbzg...
(3) I put the mask on Menma because the story needs it.
OOOOWAAAAAHHHHH! THIS IS SO MUCH FUN TO WRITE! it shouldn't be BUT IT IS :D
And seeee, I said "Sporadic Updates" And since I was in a library...it was much faster. But I did start :D
United in Disagreement will be updated later this week.