This is another NaruSasu story/drabble/thingy. I think it's a drabble.

Anyway, it's a little less NaruSasu-y than Lonely, but Naruto still compares Sasuke to a girl. (And if you haven't read Lonely yet can I ask you to be nice and read it? Unnecessary, sure, but greatly appriciated.)

WARNINGS:

1. NaruSasu

2. Girly!Sasuke

3. Naruto comparing Sasuke to a girl

4. Slight OOC (I hope it's slight)

5. Fairytale mentioning (because Naruto has to have learned to read somewhere)

DISCLAIMER: I do not own Naruto. I do not own Naruto. But I do own this plot.

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Beauty and the Beast

Naruto made sure never to tell anyone, but sometimes he liked to read fairytales. So far, Beauty and the Beast was his favorite. This was only because he could put himself and Sasuke in the place of the Beast and the Beauty. Of course, he never told Sasuke about reading this book or how it made him laugh when the thoughts about it, but that's just because Sasuke's pride would be severely damaged.

Sasuke would be the Beauty. He was gorgeous after all. But he wouldn't be sweet and nice and helpful. He'd probably make the people-turned-object make themselves better and degrade the clock and the candle and all suck things because Sasuke didn't help anyone if he could avoid it.

Naruto would be the beast; that was unanimous. He had Kyuubi. But maybe he wouldn't be as mean to his little animate-object subjects and maybe he wouldn't be so paranoid over the stupid flower and maybe he would have instantly accepted the Beauty's help but that was the only difference...

Okay so maybe the only thing Naruto had in common with the Beast was that he was a beast himself.

And maybe the only thing that Sasuke had in common with the Beauty was that he was so illegally and wonderfully pretty.

"Oi, Dobe! Come on! Do you want to go out and eat or not?" Because Sasuke surely wasn't nice or sweet. And he surely didn't help people because they asked, or because he felt he had to. And he surely didn't wear nice dresses (although Naruto was absolutely certain that Sasuke would look drop-dead wonderful in a dress).

"Coming, Coming Teme!" And Naruto wasn't mean unnecessarily. And he didn't obsess over flowers. And he didn't deny help when he knew he needed it and was certain that he would never have turned the Beauty away (especially if she looked like Sasuke).

Naruto slammed the book shut and slid down the banister of the stairs and skidded to a halt in front of Sasuke. Sasuke raised a well-sculpted eyebrow at him.

"What were you doing up there anyway?" Sasuke subtly held out his hand for Naruto to take. Not that he was being girly or anything...

"Sasuke-teme, did I ever tell you how pretty you were?" Naruto took Sasuke's hand and pulled him out the door and Sasuke had no time to react so he tipped over a little bit with a small blush on his face because, no, Naruto didn't tell him he was pretty that often.

And Sasuke surely didn't like to be called pretty (well maybe he did, but that was his dirty little secret).

As Naruto was pulling Sasuke along down the road and asking him where he would like to eat, he realized something else about what Sasuke and the Beauty had in common.

They both found a little bit of room in their hearts to love a beast.