Title: It could have been better
Disclaimer: Naruto doesn't belong to me, not do any characters affiliated with said name, They belong to Masashi Kishimoto and...I've just realised something...I own nothing.
Genre: General/Romance/Angst
Rating: M for later chapters
Word Count: 2054
warnings: AU, OOCness (just coz I can), character death (in much later chapters), gay bashing (later chapters) and semi-plotless
Summary: Sasuke is bored one day and his mother sends him over to play with the 'strange kids'. One afternoon, everything changes and soon, maybe Sasuke's whole world will cease to exist. If only he had helped his mother, maybe nothing ever would have happened, but fate always likes to screw with you.
authors/note: Okay, this is ASM back with some more BL goodness, a little less oneshotey than the rest. This will be chaptered, there will be lemon and you have to review. There will also be yaoi lemon, gay bashing, kissing between minors and character death. If any of this offends you, please leave. I'm a sensitive person (:-P) and I really don't want to waste your time reading something you don't like. So leave if yaoi in general offends you. Also, just a note, this is AU, which means it isn't really set in the places where it actually is. Pretend Suna is a small town surrounded by farms and Konoha is the largest city in the area. We square? Good
Okay, enough rambling, begin the adventure.
It could have been better
It was a sunny afternoon in Suna. Children were playing in the yard. Mothers were inside, washing, cooking or doing what needed to be done, keeping one eye on the children to make sure no harm befell them. Fathers were just returning home from their work, eager to stay at home on Sunday and maybe take their family out to dinner that night, just so mother wouldn't have so much to do.
Single people stayed at home, making plans for that evening to go to a bar or club to see if they could find 'the one' or just a one night stand to tide them over for the week.
However, this was in the city. Outside the city, on the farms, was more lonely. Farm hands (mostly young men) working in the fields and with the livestock. They were looking forward to the evening, when the farm masters wife would cook them a lovely dinner and they could get some sleep. Tomorrow they'd have a day to rest, maybe visit some friends in town or just spend the time not working. But, it was still light so they had to work.
For the children, unless one had siblings to play with or were allowed to go into town with a friend, it was very boring and isolating.
This was the fate that befell Sasuke Uchiha. His father, Fugaku, was in town...something about stock...or cattle. Sasuke couldn't remember. Itachi, the ever reliable best friend was at boarding school in Konoha, one hundred or so kilo meters from Suna, the closest town to the farms.
Sasuke's farm was roughly twenty kilo meters from Suna, meaning he caught the bus to school every morning. There were a few farms in the area, the closest being a few miles away from The Uchiha's. So, with all of that space and no one to fill it, Sasuke had no one to play with, as all of his friends lived in Suna and he wasn't allowed to sleep over.
His cousin Shisui would play with him tomorrow, as Itachi told him he would when he left. Now however, Shisui was working now and his mum was the only person in the house.
"Mum!!" he called, not moving from his place on the window seat in the lounge room of their two story farm house. It was of a fairly simple design. There were the bedrooms. One was for Itachi and Sasuke, one for mother and father, and two for the workers who stayed with them on the top floor. The bathroom, toilet, laundry, kitchen, lounge room, study (business room) and main entrance on the bottom floor.
"Yes Sasuke" Mother called back. She was in the kitchen making lunch for the workers, most of whom were their family. They had Obito, Shisui, a few uncles and Kakashi, Obito's friend, working on the farm. Their aunts lived in town, where most of his uncles went on weekends and breaks. Only Shisui, Obito and Kakashi stayed at the farm.
Sasuke was looking forward to lunch. Mother always made the best food.
"I'm bored" he complained.
His mother came through the door, her long black hair flowing freely down her back, covered in flour as was her pink florally designed apron, cheeks flushed from being in the stifling heat of the kitchen too long and her dark blue, almost black eyes sparkling with love like only a mother could possess.
Sasuke always wondered if she was an angel.
"Well, if you went to clean your room you wouldn't be bored" she condescended him. Sasuke pouted.
"How about going to see if your cousins want a hand?" she supplied. Sasuke shrugged and closed his eyes. Mother sighed and tucked a lock of hair behind her ear.
"Why don't you go next door a play with the neighbours? Some of his children are your age and I'm sure they get bored too. And before you say no, your only other option is to help me in the kitchen and-"
"Okay, I'll go" Sasuke yielded. There was nothing worse than helping in the kitchen when it was 35 degrees even without the stove on. "But it's ages away" he complained, standing from his place on the window seat.
"You walk that far to fetch your father for tea every night. It won't take you too long and you can have lunch early if you get ready now"
Sasuke's eyes lit up at his mothers suggestion.
"Really?" he asked, a smile spreading across his face.
"Yes, really" Mother smiled, going back into the kitchen. Sasuke smiled wider and ran up the stairs to get his shoes.
"There you go" Mother smiled, handing him a box with his lunch in it. "I packed a bit extra for your friend as well" She kissed the top of his head and gave him a hug.
"Thanks mum" he tried to wriggle away but she held him tighter and chuckled at his attempts to escape. Finally, after much struggling, she let him go.
"Now, you have fun and be good. He is a doctor and we don't want him thinking we raise hell raisers" she laughed and Sasuke was about to ask what a hell raiser was, when she shooed him out the door.
It took him less time than he expected walking along the dirt road that lead from his house to the main road, across the main road, past the bus shelter and to the road that lead to the farm house that belonged to the Doctor. Sasuke had only had to see the doctor once. he was a nice man who gave everyone lollypops if they were good and he smiled a lot. He had a strange, paleness and yellowish eyes, but Sasuke assumed that he was a foreigner so there wasn't any reason not to like him.
His children, on the other hand, were weird.
There was one large boy (his age) who was balding; another really skinny boy (again, his age) who looked like he was never fed but ate heaps; a girl (a year older than him) who hit her brothers and got into fights with everyone; a set of twins who were really pale and had blue lips and blue hair and were scarily identical (almost as if they were the same person); a grey haired boy who wore glasses and spent a lot of his time in the corner reading (he was 13, which made him five years older than Sasuke); a white haired boy who wore strange clothes and who liked to play with bones (he was two years older than Sasuke).
Then there was Suigetsu. He was two years older than Sasuke and he was loud and impolite in the play ground, but from what Sasuke had seen of him (when he was put in his class for a day when their teacher called in sick) he was a bit emotionless, almost like Itachi.
They were the weird kids. They didn't talk to anyone unless they wanted to insult them and they all wore the same type of clothing. Sasuke didn't like them very much. He liked his normal friends where they would play football and talk about why rock was better than scissors.
Never the less, he was bored and anything was better than nothing. He flinched when he got to the small path leading up to the house. It was dark and scary and made of stone. The two story high building was imposing and the large door with its snake knocker made Sasuke cringe.
Come on, your eight years old, not two he screamed at himself. He took a deep breath and walked up the steps onto the porch. There was a swinging chair to his right, a window behind it with the white curtains drawn. He knocked on the door timidly.
When the door opened, he stepped back and bowed.
"Good Afternoon" he spoke clearly. Straightening up he saw it was the 13 year old. The one with grey hair and glasses who spent all the time in the corner reading. Upon closer inspection, Sasuke noticed that his skin was pale and sickly looking (strange for one who lived on a farm) and his purple and grey clothes hung off of him.
"Can I help you?" the boy asked. He's rude Sasuke thought but forced a smile anyway.
"Um, hi, I'm Sasu-" Sasuke started meekly.
"I know who you are, what do you want?" the man/boy snapped indignantly.
"STOP SCARING THE GUESTS" a female voice yelled from somewhere to the right. The man/boy closed his eyes and sighed angrily. Sasuke thought it might be wise to leave, but thought better of it. He had no one else to play with. So he just stood there, feeling more and more apprehensive as the silent seconds ticked by.
"Okay, Uchiha Sasuke, what do you want?" the man/boy asked again.
"Um, is Suigetsu-senpai here?" Sasuke asked, his voice small and timid. That was the only name he could remember and he felt bad for it. He didn't even know how friendly this Suigetsu was. If he was anything like his friend Gaara then he wouldn't be in the mood for anything other than discussing serial killers. He was scary, but he was the only boy in Sasuke's class that didn't hate him.
"Yes, why?" the grey haired boy asked. Sasuke looked at the ground.
"I wondered if he would like to play with me" he replied softly. He heard the spectacled boy snicker.
"Sure" he heard the pivot of feet "SUIGETSU, GET YOUR ARSE DOWN HERE" he yelled.
"Come in" he spoke more softly to Sasuke "ah, leave your shoes in the hall, okay" he instructed. Sasuke sat down on one of the chairs beside the coat hanger in the dim hallway. He removed his shoes, noting that there was a snake/music theme to the hall and parts of the rooms he could see.
"SUIGETSU" the dark eyed boy yelled after minutes of nothing. Sasuke could see the stairs leading up to the second floor. The grey haired boy sighed exasperatedly.
"Just go up, it's the second door on the right" he sighed and went into the room on the right. Sasuke grasped his lunch tighter and took a deep breath, feeling the sweat pool on his brow.
He walked to the stairs, slowly on his tip toes as not to disturb anything. He mad his way carefully up the stairs, the horror movie music coming from the lounge room doing nothing to comfort him. At the top of the stairs he looked to his right. If it was possible, the house just got darker and the music got louder. He gulped as he stood in front of the door. He raised his hand and balled his fist. He gave the door three, even, moderately sounding knocks.
"Come in" the voice from the other side of the door frightened Sasuke. it was low, but sounded nice, however it was bone chillingly indifferent. However, Sasuke did as he was told. He opened the door slowly and was almost blinded by the light that met his eyes. The room was fairly normal size. A wardrobe, desk, chair, lamp and bed occupied the space in the room. On the bed, which was on the far wall to the right hand side was Suigetsu, playing cards. His short, spiky white hair was messy, the bangs covering the aqua eyes Sasuke knew to be there, scanning every object with bored indifference. He was attired in a baggy white t shirt and thin grey pants. All of his clothing looked too big on him.
"Um..." Sasuke's voice faded away and he couldn't think of anything more to say.
"Sit down, shut up and we'll get along fine" Suigetsu spoke brusquely, never once looking at Sasuke.
The young ebony haired boy wanted to run away. everyone sounded so mean and nothing at all like his friends at school. However, since it was only one and he still had until five to get home, he decided that his sanity would benefit from staying. So, without a word and as quietly as possible he made his way to the chair at the desk and sat down, cuddling the lunch box in his arms, eyes watching every movement Suigetsu made.
To be continued
I hope you enjoyed this chapter and if you review, you'll get more of the stuff I promised in the authors note lol