Disclaimer: The characters of Naruto and settings are all owned by Masashi Kishimoto not me.
I am here -Existing before your eyes- Sasu x kitsune story
俺はここにいる -目の前に存在しているｰ
Chapter 1: Little furry existence
Surrounded in nature, the Uchiha residents was peacefully greeted by a walk up call from elegant chirping of birds, sounding beautiful like crystal ornaments colliding together in the warm, gentle morning wind of late spring. But a small figure was missing from the Uchiha photo frame of this morning like usual.
It was the youngest Uchiha, who was an early waker and practiced his ninja techniques, wishing to keep up to the back of and admirable elder brother. Unfortunately, since this little Uchiha was the second son, he bare got any attention from his father and received nothing all the time.
His father passed by the training boy every morning, always without a word of encouragement or praise, but a mere morning greeting, "ohayo."
"…Ohayo gozaimasu," the little one always replied back, hiding disappointment, till a point that he chose to train alone in the forest. After his usual routine of training, he would go to a riverbed nearby and sulk from not being able to do anything as good as his elder brother.
"Sasuke," a voice called from behind the sitting figure of the youngest Uchiha.
"…Nii-san," Sasuke replied, after looking back towards his big brother, Itachi, who came to find Sasuke.
"You were here again, sulking," Itachi stated more than asked.
Sasuke turned away in a manner that Itachi always had to cope with and he sighed inwardly, although his curve of smile never faded from his lips.
Itachi patted Sasuke's spiked up, raven-coloured hair that hid Sasuke's pouting face from Itachi's view.
"Breakfast should be ready soon. Come along, Sasuke," Itachi gestured towards the house which was completely ignored by Sasuke.
"I'm not hungry," Sasuke grumbled in his low tone of voice that showed no hint of affection or respect.
"My, my. You should change your attitude before you come back home or tou-san will tell you off again," Itachi said before leaving the little brother sulking to his arms and knees.
Tou-san only sees nii-san in his vision!
He never looks at me no matter how hard I train!
Tou-san is always concerned about nii-san. Always!
…Only if I was born first.
If only I was better than nii-san for everything.
Itachi! Itachi! Itachi!
That's all he says!
All Sasuke wanted was acknowledgement from his father. That he was there, existing, right behind Itachi as a second son. Not trash that was a shame to his father or even worth noticing.
Sasuke was in a very bad mood while many negative thoughts ran through his mind.
Awhile later, a sound of a small, young mammal reached Sasuke's ears and he looked down at the furry creature beside him.
It was a young fox that was probably born this early spring.
After identifying the source of the cooing, or rather mewing, Sasuke's head fell back into place, into his folded arms, not caring the least for the mewing young animal.
The little fox snuggled up to one of Sasuke's legs to which Sasuke harshly kicked the creature away.
The fox got rolled away like a melon sized fur ball appearance. Nevertheless, the furry little one advanced towards Sasuke again, this time making an attempt to lick Sasuke's arm.
Sasuke, who was an immature 7 year old child, had no affection for animals and had slapped the fox away.
"iWhat do you want!?/i" Sasuke demanded, glaring down at the little one who started whining very quietly, its eyes asking for small affection or attention, to which Sasuke gave none.,
"Get lost, kuso-gitsune*!" Sasuke growled and once again, back to his original position, into his world of his arms and legs.
By Sasuke's words, the furry creature wounded his heart that will probably leave a scar, but something about Sasuke made the little fox dare to near him again until Sasuke's rage exploded and he kicked harder at the fox than he meant to, along with an angry swear, from pain.
The young fox had bit Sasuke's left arm, just above the elbow, clearly leaving an erasable mark which was now slipping blood from underneath the skin, down to his elbow and dripping to the grey and white ground of rock and sand.
The pain lost to Sasuke's shock and the stinging in his arm was no longer his concern, not in his mind the slightest, compared to what Sasuke was seeing.
Sasuke had kicked the little fox that was no longer furry but wet and presently drowning in the wide, slow flowing river. The young Uchiha felt guilt washing over his body, but his legs didn't move.
In his mind, was a quick-decision-panicking debate was held.
'You over did it!'
'Serves it right!'
'It's a wild animal, not at fault'!
'But it bit me!'
'It licked you first but you ignored it!'
'So what! It can probably swim to shore on its own! It's got instincts and the shore's not far away'
'But look! It's drowning! Help it!'
'Why should I!?'
'Help it! It's gonna drown! It's gonna die!'
At panicking times like this, people can think many thoughts so fast in a second, but that did not bother nor occur as a curious question asked upon himself since he had to jump into the icy cold river of the early morning, disturbing the surface of the water irregularly and making irregular wavefronts with heavily mixed amplitudes.
Even though Sasuke was not such a kind hearted child who cared about other than himself, he was still human, and about the fox, he let his instincts take in action.
A few inches underwater, Sasuke found the drowning fox which was no longer thrusting about, but falling quietly as if it was a dry, yellow momiji* leaf of a deciduous tree in autumn, falling into blue-green darkness.
Sasuke pulled in the water before him, grabbing motion not helping much with his velocity, his clothes not helping him the slightest but actually doing the direct opposite, pulling back along with weighing him down which slowed him down.
But despite those facts, Sasuke swam rapidly to reach the fox as soon as possible.
As soon as he caught hold of the young fox, Sasuke rushed up to the gleaming white surface to breathe out everything he had storing and building up in his lungs, and fill it up with fresh air with more than a deep welcome, forgiving the fact that it was a little stingy against his throat.
But without much rest for his weak and tense limbs from moving anaerobically underwater, Sasuke swam to shore, never leaving his sight off from the limp, unconscious little fox.
Sasuke did not have much knowledge of a fox, but he acted quick, assuming animals were all the same, holding the young fox's little feet and dangling it upside down while swaying to back and forth to let out unwanted water out of its lungs. An action which is to be done for preventing drowning cats from death.
This was when Sasuke realised, widening his eyes, that this little fox he was holding, had multiple tails.
*Vocab:
-Kuso-gitsune: (Whatever insult you may think of)-fox. All insults are basically the same. Fox is initially 'kitsune' but when it has something attached before the kitsune, it turns into 'gitsune'. For example, Antartctic fox, would be Hokkyoku-igitsune/i
-Momiji:Acer palmatum, called Japanese Maple. Usually the image is red, but actually has a range of colours with different variation