AN: Hello everyone, it has been several years but I have decided to fix and continue with this story! I hope you all enjoy, I am excited to update my writing for you all. Please review and follow!
Also this is an AU lightly based off of greek mythology, so throughout the start there will be the setup of the AU's world structure.
Sasuke Pov
I moved the pieces on my board skillfully, double-checking each move with precision. If I make a mistake millions of lives could be lost. My alterations will change history, lives, and linages. I must be careful... but I can't be too careful. Sparing too many lives may be a mistake. Battles and wars do not occur without sacrifice. My job is to create wars, not to clean up the bodies afterwards.
The board is every god's tool given to them once created by Minato. Each god's board is different. The boards are customized to aid each god in regards to their designated power. The powers bestowed upon me are for controlling human wars. Since I control war and violence, each move on the board moves an army or a country. The only time I fully use the board is when I decide to have a war or when Minato double-checks the statistics.
I continue with my work until I hear a loud march coming my way. I know exactly who is coming...speaking of collecting bodies. With my latest decision of war for the humans one god will be very pissed. Every god will make serious decisions for his or her own department, and of course everyone's decisions affect everyone else. We are all ruling and controlling the same world. My choices reflect what I feel should be done, and if another god suffers well too bad. It is my god given right to choose what I want.
The loud marching gets louder and louder until finally I see the turning of the door knob. The man reeks of it; anger.
"Sasuke, you spoiled bastard. You promised me no war would break out. Do you know how many lives I have been collecting? Once a war erupts my workload is endless. Really now, I thought you had a little more respect for me. Humans drop like flies during war." Orochimaru complained as he entered my room, almost breaking my door in the process.
"Hn. Your job is collecting human souls. If my choices end a few lives you will just have to bear it. " I said, still looking at my board too unbothered to offer up a glance.
"Sasuke, you know how busy my job is without hundreds of men dropping on the battlefield." He said standing with his arms crossed.
"Orochimaru this has to be done, you know I can't spare a war for the likes of you." I said with bitterness.
Orochimaru and I, despite are similar duties, do not get along. We are both known for our short tempers and dislike for others. Our tension filled relationship is a nuisance that doesn't need exasperating.
"Sasuke you are lucky I don't have the time to stand here and fight to you. But I am going to tell you this, don't make my job endless or there will be consequences for your actions." He said giving me a death glare.
"You are actually dealing with the consequences of your own actions and choices. You choose if a man dies not me." I said giving him a smirk. I know I'm right.
"Sasuke don't make my job endless. Humans die quick enough without a war." He said as he headed for the door.
Orochimaru, the god of death, has the most shitty and unfair hours. A human can die by the simplest things. Not to mention a human in his/her right mind wouldn't worship him. Who would? No human wishes to die.
Minato created humans to be weak and have such a short lifetime. Us gods just need to make sure our creations continue to go through the generations.
I feel almost guilty for doing this to Orochimaru, I will be clogging up his schedule because of my war. But I feel the fire nation needs to fight for the little land it has left. If the nation is invaded, then what Orochimau doesn't understand is that his job will be even worse with all the humans dying from their government being over thrown.
I just smirk to myself; I mean I am saving his slimy bony ass. I just need to figure out if Minato will end the war in favor of the fire nation. The only crappy thing about making choices around here is that Minato needs to finish and double check them. If Minato feels one country should survive but not the other that is just what must be. He is the God of Gods and he has the ultimate power, so I just need to bear through.
I am the god of war, strength, and passion. If I feel a human should fight, I will make the mortal fight. Yes, my department is not the most favorable between the other gods or humans, but Minato created me for this responsibility. If Minato feels that the humans need it, he makes it happen. It just so happens that he created me for something a little intense, but I love that about myself.
Each god/goddess is created by Minato from an image he has in his mind or for a trait he thinks humans need. For instance there is the goddess of fertility so the humans can have children. The goddess of innocence to keep people peaceful, I do not like what she stands for but the humans need her. The god of food and harvest so the humans can eat. We are all technically connected in some way.
I continue to work with the board until it was time for me to leave, I have more important things to attend to. The Gods hold a weekly meeting, and if I miss it my immortal ass will be punished. I do not feel like dealing with the wrath of Minato for being late. I will most likely be speaking in today's meeting anyways because of the war I created.
The meeting takes place in Minato's globe room. The room is where Minato works, and it holds anything any god will ever need.
Within that room holds a giant globe that shows exactly what is going on in the human world, it is Minato's board if you will, except his globe makes our boards look like a piece of shit.
In the room everyone is already here for the meeting except for a few other Gods, whom are no doubt are dealing with the war I just created. I don't give a shit if I caused a few late shifts.
"Oh look who decided to show up!" I looked to see Suigestu screaming over at me with a huge shark smile stretched on his face.
Suigestu is the god of water, rain, etc. He always states to be so over his head busy, but what could he be so busy doing? Making a few waves? Besides he is full of bullshit excuses, but he is fairly close to me so I have to listen to all his whining.
Suigestu has white sleek wet looking hair with blue tips, I think Minato designed him to resemble a wave. His armor is silver with etchings of fish and the sea overtaking a boat.
"Suigestu what is this meeting's topic?" I glanced over to him, trying to keep a subtle normal conversation.
Suigestu makes the 'do you really think I would know face' and chuckled. Why did I even bother to ask? He never knows shit.
"Hn." He has to know something, I've been trapped in department I haven't had time to listen for the news.
"Well... I heard we are discussing your stupid war you threw upon everyone." He said rolling his eyes.
"It needed to be done. It was my choice." I said with no shame.
"Pff whatever man, your war doesn't affect me. I also heard Minato is giving a god some time off. You know the annual vacation Minato gives for a god or goddess to go down to the human world to relieve stress... if you know what I mean." Suigestu said nudging me in the shoulder.
Every month of god time (around one human lifetime) a god or goddess receives around a month of human time to vacation in the human world. It is actually very stress relieving, yes the humans are rather frantic but you can do so much down there. Besides, even I enjoy going down there. I can test my abilities without any other god interfering.
The god realm is too hectic and overpopulated. I do not enjoy company...yet everyone here seems to think I desire their company. Annoying.
There are also limitations up here. The social construction is delicate; one heartbroken goddess could cause a headache for another. Having sexual or romantic relationships with another immortal leads to no good.
No goddess is even worth the risk. There is the goddess of love and beauty who is gorgeous, but so much drama is involved. I mean some take the risk, but I am not one for intimacy. I don't want to deal with a goddess following me around nagging me. I just find it annoying. I'd rather fuck a gorgeous human girl.
Human women are so much better in almost every aspect. It is an honor for a god to fuck a human, people pray for it. Constantly I receive prayers from women that beg me to fuck her or her daughter.
Besides a human could be just as beautiful as a goddess, I've seen human girls that can put a few of these goddesses to shame. Ino (goddess of beauty and love) really does spend more time on some compared others.
Besides you could spend that one-month with them and you're done, you never have to deal with them ever again.
Yes, you could have children with a human woman, but it really is not your responsibility. You will never see that child ever since it probably will be mortal and your vacation ends before it is born. We can watch from a distance, but there are limitations. There have only been a few instances of children growing to be a demi-god or a child who can come live in the immortal world.
Besides, what better time to see the development then at the start of wartime? I would kill to see what I have designed in action. To see the effect it has on how people live. I want to take part in the chaos I created.
"I deserve that vacation." I told Suigestu.
"Heh. All I know is I could really use some hot human girl. None of the goddesses are worth the while, eh?" Suigestu elbowed me pushing his eyebrows up and down.
I roll my eyes until I see Minato enter the room. "Everyone please, I would like you to all be seated." Minato said with the snap of fingers creating chairs to rise from the floor below.
Suigestu and I sit, as I eye the globe that was currently showing pictures of humans farming. The globe always shows some image of humans doing something. I always find this the object to look at when I'm too bored to pay attention to the actual meeting.
"Hey teme." I looked to my right to see Naruto grinning widely as he took a seat next to me. Right on time, the second idiot to join the festivities.
Naruto is Minato's actual son. We are all created to resemble an image Minato desired to put into function, but Naruto was the actual creation of the god Minato and Goddess Kushina. Naruto is the only non-demigod ever created by a sexual act of two gods. That may be because Kushina is head Goddess, and it is Minato the God of Gods.
Naruto is the God of bonds, family, and friendships. He controls the families of humans; who is related to who, and who is connected to whom. His job is very much connected to his father and mother's. Not to stress the amount of power this boy contains, but he has a lot. Not to mention he is a complete idiot at the same time so that does not help.
"Dobe did your father mention if this meeting talks about the god who gets the vacation in the human world?"
"Oh yea! I think that is what some of this thing is about. I mean I think everyone could use the time off, my dad has been running everyone practically to the underworld! I could even use the time off." Naruto chuckled. Naruto acts like a child and it irritates me to no end.
"That's for sure. Naruto why has your father kept forgetting to send us out on free time?" Suigestu yelled over me so Naruto could hear him. Since Suigestu is seated to my left and Naruto is seated to my right I am directly in the center of the stupidity.
Fucking perfect.
These two are the biggest idiots in the whole realm, human like almost. I swear I don't know what attracts them to me, but I can't stand them a good ninety percent of the time.
"Now that everyone is seated time to get down to business." Minato spoke to catch our attention as the giant globe starts to light with a different image of humans making armor for their new war I created.
"The new war for the fire nation. Sasuke this is what you intended, yes?" Minato pointed his fingers to me, signaling it is my time to go behind the globe and discuss my newly created war.
As I walked to the globe I heard the giggle of several goddesses, Karin, the goddess of Jealousy and Marriage, being the loudest. She is perhaps one of the most worshiped goddesses, simply because every human wants marriage (especially the women). Humans do not realize that if you pray to a God with two meanings you sometimes get both. So when you pray to Karin and she answers you, you receive not only marriage but jealousy as well.
"Sasuke give awareness." Minato encouraged me smiling as he sat into his throne next to Kushina to let me speak.
"Before I even start to talk, the only person this should really affect is Orochimaru, but we discussed the war prior. The rest of you, plainly, I have no sympathy for. The rest of you may come across the war, but I do not expect it to taint your schedules." I said observing the disbelief and anger in all their eyes.
The men looked beyond angry, but the women looked starry-eyed... women typically don't disagree with me. Women flaunt over me always, the humans did not pick up their behaviors from just anywhere.
A feathered and fur covered god stood up, Kiba, the God of Animals. He resembles an angry wolf ready to pounce with his fury hood covering his actual hair. He has sharp teeth, and he is wearing a large coat full of animal made fabrics. The man usually has a large dog following him, but it must be outside the room.
"What about my animals? Wars always affect the population of my horses and dogs!"
"They will be fine. I will ask Orochimaru to spare some of you beloved creatures." I answered with sarcasm giving him my signature smirk. Kiba, not seeing the sarcasm, seemed to be very content now and began to sit back down. That just goes to show you he has the brain size of some of his animals too.
"My marriages... I presume many widows?" Karin said as she stood up, with too much faux seduction. She is not the god of beauty or love, so it does not suit her. She looked like a failed actress trying to perform a scene beyond her talents.
"Yes, but that can not be helped. If you do not mind Kushina, but could you give some wives children before their husbands go to war?" I asked, trying to satisfy Karin without giving up my own wishes.
Kushina, the Goddess of Goddesses, controls fertility, nature, everything that really controls the human's homes and population. If Karin feels the marriages she makes are short lived because of my war, Kushina can give wives children traces of their marriages.
"I will try." Kushina agreed from her throne next to Minato, it's clear she doesn't really give a damn. I don't blame her.
I looked back to Karin who nodded as she sat back down; she seemed disappointed I would not willingly change my plans for her.
Minato waited a few seconds to wait for any last complaints, but when none seemed to show he began to talk once again.
"Thank you Sasuke, I will plan the outcome of the war tonight." Minato said as he stood from his throne, telling me to sit back down.
The meeting continued, a god complains and another resolves. This is the annual cycle of these meetings. No one truly cares, even when presenting you don't give two shits until the end of the meeting. At the end of a few occasional meetings one lucky bastard is crowned with the vacation to the human world.
The last god to be granted this privilege was Sai, the God of Art and Culture. He said the human world was peaceful and how the women were turning more beautiful as time went on. He even said he almost feel in love or something with a mortal woman.
Foolish.
Only a fool has emotions for a mortal woman. If you were to see a human girl for the month, surely by the time you are given your next vacation she would be dead. The woman would live her short meaningless life, have children, marry, and die all the while you still exist in another world.
You can get in trouble for gaining emotions for a human as well. If Minato catches you loving a human he strikes him or her down right away. He does this to prevent any god/goddess from doing anything foolish like expanding a life. There are ways to make a human immortal it just has never been done before...without serious punishments.
I haven't been to the human world in ages. Do you know how long that is, how long of a time that is with too much work and no stress reliever.
"Pst. Sasuke." Naruto whispered rather loudly, only for him that was his version of a whisper. That idiot really has no sense of manners. His own father is speaking of next week's schedule and he is practically yelling.
"What idiot? I'm trying to listen." I spat un-amused.
"What if you were given the next vacation?" Naruto chuckled giving a wide immature smile. He has been alive for thousands of years and he still acts as if he was a child.
"I would go, and come back when told." I whispered.
There is really nothing to say, no god ever really discusses what he or she does down on Earth. Each god uses their power to get what they want, and that's it. Really who would speak of whom they fucked and killed down there? On earth if you state you are a god, and you always do, humans start fighting to see and be with you. You end up killing and fucking a good dozen of them.
The usual.
Naruto gave me a disappointed look, but what did he expect? I am not a social man to begin with.
"Naruto, my boy, is there something you wish to share?" Minato said eying his son, giving him a fierce, but loving look.
"Well, I was just talking with Sasuke about going down to Earth! Can you say which god gets to go Dad?" Naruto burst from his seat, giving outrageous hand movements.
God could you imagine raising that thing? Thank god I was created from an image, and created the age I look now.
"Of course Naruto, just let me finish the schedule for this week." Minato answered, smiling at Naruto.
It took too long for Minato to finish the week's schedule.
"So, I know some of you are rather... impatient to hear which god receives the permission to visit the mortals? Eh?" Minato said looking at Naruto.
"It's about time." Suigestu yelled into the room rolling his eyes, now Naruto is loud, but he has manners...sometimes. Suigestu on the other hand, just doesn't give a damn.
Minato sighed, and continued his speaking.
"Well, for the next vacation trip I will be giving it to two gods. Since one god seems to be working overly hard, and the other I would like to scout to analyze the people he just brought a war upon."
It's about bloody time.
"So Sasuke... Naruto I want you both to go down and enjoy your vacation starting tomorrow. Sasuke please observe the humans of the fire nation, make sure you made the right decision. Naruto don't mess anything up." Minato smiled taking his seat back down to Kushina who was laughing rather loudly at his final words.
Everyone left to go continue with his or her work; slightly annoyed they were not chosen for the time off. Suigestu, of course, was pissed he was not given the chance to relax with us down by the humans.
I am going to have an amusing month with Naruto by my side. As annoying as he is, he is my bestfriend.
I will just have to set my plans with Naruto, so we can leave by the time another human day starts. Lord, will we have some fun for the next human month.
Sakura Pov
My mother has been praying in the temple for hours now. She left early this morning when dusk was just beginning, and it is now dark and she still hasn't returned. She knows how worried I get, how could she keep me waiting like this? These are not peaceful times; she has no business being out in the dark.
Only bad things occur in the dark, especially to women...especially to pretty women. Mama is beautiful. They're all the soldiers from the war hanging around every corner hungry and merciless. Mama is a perfect choice; she is alone, beautiful, and vulnerable. Who would ever know she was in danger or be able to defend her?
I just have to hope the Gods are protecting her...
I sat near the shrine of the Goddess Tsunade, the goddess of health and purity, which is a permanent statement of our home. My mother and I always pray to Tsuande. We do not value wealth or status; we are more concerned for our overall health and safety. Goddess Tsunade has always taken care of us, and for some reason I feel like she watches me alone. I have always felt that she is my guardian.
I have always felt safe whenever near our shrine, like the goddess herself is sitting next to me, protecting me from all the dangers outside caused by the new war.
My home, the Fire Nation, is being invaded by a much larger nation to conquer the little land we have left. The nation is tiny and rather poor, and we do not have the funds or population to have a large army. The odds are not in our favor. In the end if we loose this war we will all loose everything.
Wartime has brought soldiers lurking around every corner. The soldiers sleep in the innocent's homes, take money, eat the homeowner's food, and take advantage of women in houses. I feel sick to even think of it, how could the gods let everything get so dangerous and unfair for the innocent.
Because of these occurrences I have been worrying more than usual. It is only my mother and I in our home...my father passed away right before I was born. We do not have someone in the family to defend us if that situation were to arise. We would be defeated even before we could protest. I will just have to hope that if it were to happen I would be strong.
"Sakura open the door." I heard my Mother say while she was banging on the front door. I raced to the entrance of our home to see my mother wet from rain. Surely now she will most likely catch a cold. She is going to get sick, and there aren't many spare doctors.
"Mama let me get you some warm water and a rag." I insisted as I left my mother right after I dragged her into our little home. I left her lying on a small soft cushion as I ran for some objects that will help her regain her natural body heat. What we have will have to do.
"Here Mama, take this and go to bed." I said helping her up from the cushion to her bedroom.
My mother smiled as I laid her into her bed, making sure she is under a blanket.
"Sakura I'm going to bed, be careful, do not open the door to anyone. Please don't forget to pray before you go to bed." With that my mother almost instantly fell asleep.
I felt an instant weight lifted from my shoulders seeing Mama home safe. For a woman her age she is beautiful, and beautiful women never make it home alone anymore. Not since God Sasuke declared the war.
I often wonder what influenced Sasuke to do it, why did he persuade my country's leaders to fight for hardly anything with nothing? Whatever the answer, I just wish he decided against it.
The war has not even fully begun, and lives are being lost at a drastic rate. Sasuke must have seen something worth while to fight for...he had to.
Sasuke is always depicted to look handsome and strong in every shrine. A common theme occurs in every portrait, he is wickedly attractive. I just hope to believe he would never create a war that has no meaning. Sasuke, to me, seems so beautiful and graceful, the fact he stands for something so deadly is bewildering. Then again he is also the god of passion, he may just want my country to have passion, and fight what for what it believes in.
I mean he would never do something fatal for amusement? Would he?
The Gods are just like us...right? They look like us; they act like us. What would make them want to end us? After all they are the ones who created us.
In return we revolve our lives around them.
We know they exist and run our world and gods visit Earth all the time in fact. Every couple of years a god or goddess is seen on Earth to observe and enjoy what he or she protects and created. If we are ever honored enough to see any god we will do what we are told out of respect for what they do. In every human's lifetime you encounter at least one god or goddess... We all see Orochimaru. He comes to us when it is time to die, but none of us are excited for that meeting.
My mother said long ago she even met the God of Art Sai. She said he was beautiful, just how you think a god would look. He was noble and everything he touched seemed to get prettier.
We have portraits and paintings of what each god looks like hanging on our walls, all drawn by Sai (according to my mom). We have almost every god I could think of hanging on our very poorly built walls.
We have Minato, Kushina, Tsunade, Karin, Naruto, Shikamaru, Sasuke, Ino, Orochimaru, Suigestu, Choji, Hinata, Jiraya, and many others. They all watch us as we do our daily duties. Sometimes I talk to them for fun, but my mother says it's disrespectful.
People have claimed to meet them, like my mother, and women have even claimed gods to be the father of their children. Many have said that they were virgins until a god has taken them to bed. Some humans even go mad waiting to see them.
There is all this fuss about wanting to be special and to be so lucky as to see a god or goddess before death. It brings honor. There has been pure evidence that gods sleep with humans too, and that is the biggest honor. To have relations with a god or goddess is most definitely the biggest honor, even if married, young, or old. If you are given that opportunity you should take it.
We pray to them, worship them, revolve our lives around them, so what makes them start wars? What makes them end our lives prematurely? What makes the immortals love us then leave us?
Every night I look at the detailed drawings of these gods and pray. Every night I look at the detailed drawing of Sasuke and wonder. Perhaps it is his attractiveness or his aura, but whatever it is his drawing leaves me curious.
Tonight I decide to pray to Sasuke. Maybe I will get some answers, or at least a sign of why he did what he did. I just want to at least let him know of how I feel, and how all I want is my mother's safety and health to be assured. He can take everything I have to offer, but I just want her safe.
AN: Hi I hoped you enjoyed the first chapter! I know it is moving slow, but I did need to explain how life works for both humans and gods, so the rest of the story will make sense.
There will be actual Sasusaku don't worry
And Please Review and I hoped you enjoyed the fic! I know it seems like a common story right now, but I have plans for the plot!