Warning: YAOI! COMPLETE AU! SasuNaru, will mention other pairings in the future, will be M in the future if I gather enough guts to write a lemon! No flames please. Constructive comments and reviews are welcome. :D)
Summary: Inspired by the book, The Little Prince. Sasuke realizes Naruto and him live are like the Little Prince and the pilot. This time, however, they fall for each other. Can their love survive in a kingdom where power and lust are abound? SasuNaru, Yaoi
Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto. Kishimoto does. If I did, Sasuke would be less of a bastard. Just kidding, sasuke-fans. Antoine de Saint-Exupery owns The Little Prince.
Author's note (Important, Please do read! It will give you an idea about what you read in this fic :D):
It's a complete alternate universe. Not like our real world right now, and certainly not like the world of Ninjas in Naruto. So there is technology involved, but there are still kingdoms and royal bloodlines existing, like a fairytale world only made cooler. Think of a world ALONG THE LINES of Vision of Escaflowne, or Disney's Atlantis during it's hayday. So, for instance, there are still computers, planes, etc. I will tell you more in the future chapters. Feel free to ask.
This is very much inspired by the Little Prince. Initially, the whole plot was going to be the way the book went, but I respected Antoine de Saint-Exupery's work too much to just take the easy way out. So it's going to be a completely different plot (hey, a relationship actually develops here! :D), but like Sasuke, you're going to see similarities between the book and the fanfiction.
So, on with the fic!
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Sasuke Uchiha, royal general of the Hidden Kingdom of Leaf and prodigy air-force pilot, sat alone on a bench surrounded by beautiful flowers.
The man looked like a dark, albeit handsome, stranger in this environment. He wore an sleek, black uniform, and his sword and gun were neatly in place beside him. His hair, slightly long with its back tufted out, was as dark as night. His eyes were just as dark. His skin looked as if it hardly saw any light.
The dark-haired man contrasted greatly compared to the soft, fragile flowers he sat amongst, with a tall, well-built, lean body that spoke of strength and power.
He sat there, reading with his dark eyes focused on a book he has read many, many times—The Little Prince.
Sasuke was fascinated by the little prince for the blonde little boy in the story reminded him of something he had yet to pinpoint. He was sure, however, that the lonely world-weary pilot in the book reminded Sasuke of himself.
And so, the raven-haired pilot, as he read the old pages of the book once more, sat there enraptured and, in his mind, isolated with only a beautiful little sun-kissed boy to accompany him(1).
The handsome pilot turned the page.
The first night, then, I went to sleep on the sand, a thousand miles from any human habitation. I was more isolated than a shipwrecked sailor on a raft in the middle of the ocean. Thus you can imagine my amazement, at sunrise, when I was awakened by an odd little voice. It said:
"if you please—"
"—draw me a sheep!" a loud (and to Sasuke, very special) voice cut in, jolting Sasuke awake from his peaceful reading session.
"What?"
The owner of the voice laughed. It sounded disturbingly like a thousand little bells. What was more disturbing to the pilot, however, was the proximity of the said voice's owner. "Sasuke-bastard!! Draw me a sheep!"
And the voice and its owner sat on the pilot's lap. He had hair as bright and yellow as the sunflowers, or the sun these flowers loved. His lovely face contained sky-blue eyes that spoke of heaven(2). He was known to many as Prince Naruto, the crown prince of the Hidden Kingdom of Leaf. To Prince Naruto's friends, he was just Naruto. To Sasuke, however, Naruto was simply a small dobe, and the most beautiful thing he had ever seen in his life.
However, the bright bundle of sunshine currently residing in his lap need not know that. Getting over his initial surprise, Sasuke smirked at his dobe. "And why, pray tell, do I need to draw you a sheep?"
The fair-haired boy wrapped his arms around the pilot. "Iruka and Kakashi told me I needed to lay off foxes. Iruka mentioned I had too many fox plushies in my room."
Sasuke smirked some more. He had given around half of those plushies to Naruto when the blonde was younger.
The smaller boy continued. "Kakashi-pervert said I probably didn't know what other animals looked like. I said, 'Of course I do! As the future Hokage and defender of humans and creatures alike, I know every animal in the… err.. animal kingdom!'"
"So he dared you to draw every animal you know without a reference?" The dark-haired pilot guessed.
"Yes! He gave me until tonight after dinner to draw 20 animals that he listed! And he made sure I wouldn't have access to the library or interworldnet(3) by banning me from going there!" the blonde pouted. "Sasuke, I neeeeeeed you!"
The pilot choked on his own saliva. Damn him and his perverted imagination. Someone was rubbing off on him. On the other side of the castle, Kakashi sneezed.
Naruto showed Sasuke the many papers he scribbled on. "I can't draw a sheep to save my life! I tried! I really did… but it ended up looking like a dirt bunny,—" he held the first doodle, err, drawing, "a cotton candy," the second drawing was colored pink.
The pilot interrupted. "Dobe, no sheep is pink. Actually, no mammal that I'm aware of is pink."
Upon seeing the third doodle, Sasuke said, "and sheep don't have fangs too," On the fourth, he added "nor do they have…are those wings?"
The smaller boy scowled, and then continued showing Sasuke the other failed attempts at sheep drawing. "It just won't look like a sheep! This is the last animal I have to draw! See? I finished the others."
Setting aside the sheep drawings, Naruto pulled out other sheets of paper containing his other drawings and showed them to the other man.
"…" Sasuke looked, and would have guffawed if he wasn't Sasuke. "Dobe, you have as much talent in drawing as a blind kindergartner."
The blonde stuck his tongue at him. "You just can't appreciate art." The blonde groaned, and hugged the taller man closer to him. "Sasukkkkkeeeeeeee, " And Sasuke felt his heart flutter, like every other time Naruto was with him, or even just when Sasuke dreamed of him. His hands itched to touch, grope, hold and worship the boy in his lap. But it was forbidden, and Sasuke knew how badly the Elders would react when they find out.
"What, dobe?" the pilot said sounding composed, but inside, he was a man conflicted—torn between his desire to corrupt the underage blonde boy in his arms or be true to his oath of protecting the kingdom and its prince from dangers like Sasuke himself.
The dobe pleaded the way Iruka taught him, speaking like it was a matter of great consequence. "If you please—"
Sasuke looked at the blonde's face and realized he was indeed like the pilot in the book.
"—draw me a sheep!"
And Naruto, beautiful, precious, childish Naruto with his blonde hair and blue eyes and cheerful, loud facade, was Sasuke's Little Prince.
The pilot was scared of the fact that he desired this blonde who wasn't even eighteen summers old, who was far more beautiful than any of the flowers here in the garden or in the world—the crown prince who was intended be someone else's and not the lover of one sinful, dark, stoic general who swore to protect, and only protect.
Always the perfect persuader, Naruto topped his request with a chaste kiss on the pilot's cheeks. As the blonde's soft, reddish lips came upon Sasuke's face, the dark-haired man knew he would indeed be drawing a sheep, not because his oath obliges him too (after all, drawing a sheep was not his duty), but simply because it was Naruto who requested it.
For Naruto, Sasuke realized he would do anything. And that's what scared the dark-haired pilot the most.
TBC
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Please Review! You know you want to. :)
1-Why does this sound so perverted to me? :D
2-Again, why does this sound oddly perverted? Looking into Naruto's eyes takes Sasuke to heaven. Hmm… but what I really mean is that our blonde uke's eyes is so blue it's like a gateway to an otherworldly place—like heaven :P
3-Interworldnet for them is internet to us.
