King and the Clown
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By Yue-eternal
The wedding was divided into three phases. In which two of them were done separately by their respective guardians. This normally meant an act of cleansing where two individual priests of both sides of the bride and groom would individually give their blessings before pouring some holy water onto their naked bodies. After that, the servants would guide them to the next chamber before coming back half an hour later to let them cleaned their bodies thoroughly in order to wash away those evil spirits who threatened to make their life long engagement a total failure.
Uzumaki Naruto used a piece of cloth wipe the water of his tan body, sighing at his unfortunate circumstance. If it wasn't for his country, for his people, then he would have flat out refused this marriage which he didn't even want. And since his guardian was acting to his fullest pleading moment, the blonde had reluctantly given in to this madness. It was unbelievable but he managed to learn the country's custom during the ride in his carriage.
And if one had known the blonde for almost the entire of his life, one would definitely find it shocking that the blonde was actually quiet, elegant and not prone to disasters for once. It was making him itched with a desire to scream, yell and trashed around like some wild animal. But he didn't. His guardian was surprised too at how tame Naruto was. It was not like the usual blonde he knew at all. He courtesy during the meetings with the groom's side of the family.
He didn't make funny faces at the bastardly uncle who looked like he was going to eat him up when nobody's there. Seriously, that guy was downright creepy and Naruto couldn't fight off the urge to give him a straight punch in the face. But since first impressions were meaningful and he didn't want to make iruka sadder than he normally was. He restrained himself from doing any possible activities that might bring trouble to others.
He tried. But that didn't mean that he didn't give that creepy whatever his name was again..? Sigh? Sai? Whatever…a piece of his mind when he had groped the blonde in the ass when no one was looking. He had punched the pale boy in the face so when the prince's uncle, Orochimaru turned back to look at them, Naruto smiled sweetly while the pale boy was busy checking his teeth to see whether they had fallen out or not. It was satisfying. Because at least, he was able to throw out his frustrations at someone.
Although Naruto had to admit, with that long swaying dark blue cloak, heavily embroidered with swirling designs and laces, Sai was breathtaking to look at. The creepy smile sent shivers up Naruto's spine whenever their eyes accidentally met. It gave him the impression of a gentleman. But that was before the ass groping and before the punch in the face thing. Sai's images in little Naru-chan's heart shattered into million of pieces in which Naruto vowed angrily not to judge a book by its cover.
At the end, still smiling, he was being lead out by that creepy Orochimaru guy. If Naruto had known better, he could have sworn that guy winked at him before smacking his lips. He had creep out before scurrying back to Iruka's side at a frightened manner, earning a confused look from his guardian. They had hurried on with the tour of the castle so they wouldn't get lost easily. Going from room to room, the Guide let them knew any extra information there might be and tried his best to include everything. But the guide had a habit of going off-topic. Naruto just watched in awe as the man known as Genma moved from describing the statue of the first founder of the country to his sex-life with his boyfriend.
It was disturbing and annoying. And even Iruka had to clear his throat while wiping the sweat from his forehead to interrupt the extremely uncomfortable scenes which the man was describing. The off-topic things continued as well as the frequent interruptions by Iruka. The man never seemed to get it that no one wanted to know about his sex life. And so Iruka's twitching continued. At the end, it took them one whole day just to complete the west wing when it was scheduled that they only needed one frigging day to complete the tour of the castle.
While they were just leaving, (Genma was still chattering about his cute boyfriend) Naruto noticed a door which being left ajar. Dim lights poured out to the dark hall and he couldn't help that his curiosity peaked a little. The blonde was about to move in before the Guide halted him in his steps.
"That's the prince's room! And no one enters without permission!" He hissed dangerously, absolutely in contrast of his personality before. The blonde shuddered at the increased in tone, glancing nervously at Iruka who backed away from the scene. "Ma ne" The man grinned. "Your Highness is going to be married to Prince Charming soon so I'm sure you'll be allowed to explore that forbidden room of his! Especially his bed! Have you seen how huge it is! I only taken a small peek but man, wish I can make out in that with my cutesy-pie…"
And so the unnecessary life talk continued and Iruka had to finally not crack by pulling the blonde away from the crazy man so he would not taint his child forever. Thus, Naruto concluded, Iruka in his mother hen mode was much scarier than any old guy with creepy eyes, any guy who gropes and is a pervert for living and a guide who tried to pour information on the bed to him so he could please the prince with his newly learnt bed moves.
Yep. It was downright creepy. Iruka had smiled and patted the blonde's head that night, telling what a good by he had been during the tour. Not one misbehaving attitude was there and Naruto had to cross his fingers when he nodded although his mind was set back to his incident with Sai. It was not pretty but it was worth it. He snickered softly. He wasn't able to sleep well last night because his mind was set on the door to the prince's room.
He sensed some solitude in it and it was hurting, sad and yet so powerful that he couldn't turn his thoughts away. Just who is this prince anyway? He had asked Iruka about it but the man just shook his head and said he didn't know also. He entertained Naruto with thoughts of his future spouse on his looks, personalities…basically anything they could think of. It was a tradition and a taboo to meet each other before their wedding. Why, he didn't know. He in turned asked the maids and servants but they mainly just replied with a "No, your Highness" or a brief shake in the head before hurrying off to their duties.
He accepted it and no longer questioned it. But the blonde still couldn't help himself and thought of how his spouse would look like. Probably a handsome young man with a superb personality? He could be an old man though… He shivered at that. But even if it was an old guy, did it look like he had any other choice? None. He grimaced. He never did have any say in this. It was working on its own, controlled by the strings of people behind the power.
Reassuring himself that this would be the best thing in the whole entire world, the blonde grinned his famous trademark grin and fell into a deep sleep. So that's probably that new purpose he had given himself to make everything start anew lead him to where he was now, swatting these water onto himself, sliding the cloth up and down his smooth tan body. Nobody was there at the moment so when Naruto heard some splashing sounds next door, he wondered slightly at the thought of his future mate doing the exact same procedures like him.
He smiled, dipping himself once more into the round tub, coming out again only to be greeted with the sight of four unknown maids, each holding the dress, jewels, gold wristbands and armbands that he was supposed to wear.
All Uchiha Sasuke knew about his future spouse was that he is a guy. Period. Flast-chested. Rough skinned and have a stick between his legs. A FRIGGING GUY. That was all needed for his conscience to die down before him. Kakashi had refused to shower him more with details about his soon-to-be wife except the fact that he was a guy in his hormonal…thing. Why on earth would his mother engaged his life to a guy was one thing he couldn't understand. But since it was his dead mother's wish, Sasuke found no reason to quit this marriage.
He just couldn't bring his heart too. So Uchihas were mostly calm, cool, collected and do whatever the hell they wanted to do without consulting the words of others. They were unbelievable super hard to serve and one needed to have a high class training certificate in training lions, tigers and wolves. The servants had tilted their head in confusion because the prince was neither a tiger or a lion or a wolf so why the hell did they need to undergo these trainings?
Their answers were soon answered when two of the servants came out of the prince's room looking like they had lead a hectic and hellish life. They begged to be transferred to other sections and Kakashi had obliged to them. Nobody was good enough for the job. But it wasn't up to his choice that the remaining few would have to serve the prince even if they resulted in death. The servants signed a war declaration to the Royal Advisor ever since.
Not that he cared. After all, he IS an Uchiha and he had an undeniably huge amount of power over everyone. One glare could shut them off. One more dark look sent them flying in all sort of directions. And a slight exposure of his pale skin sent the females swooning at his feet not that the maids dared whenever they showed up in time for the Uchiha's dressing. He sneered triumphantly as he made them cowered in fear.
Damn. It was just too good being an Uchiha.
Sometimes, the raven-haired man had wondered how his future bride would look like but since it was a custom that they could not meet or see each other before their wedding was being conducted. It was an absurd rule and Sasuke once had the nerve to banish it from existence. He had asked his mother why his brother and the bride couldn't see each other. And Mikoto just answered playfully.
"It won't be fun then. Wouldn't it?"
And Sasuke could feel his heart emitting a warm glow. Everything in this country lived through with an arranged marriage and such marriages could only be accepted by the king himself. Even if one already had a wife with kids but once the king gave that one person another bride, it was more of an order. And one had to obey no matter what. Another one of his mother's absurd rule. She did that plainly out of pure fun but what she didn't know is the internal family conflicts.
Some people were just not happy with their husbands or wives bringing back more husband and wives concept.
Before the marriage proposal, Sasuke had been asked immediately chose a spouse to secure the heir of the kingdom. No faces were seen. Only names were mention. Again, another one of his mother's absurd rule. It was driving him nuts. That was the reason why Sasuke had flat out refused the Council members before stalking off coolly to his isolated bedroom chamber. It wasn't much but it was peace from all the old hags' bickering and the fussing about for an heir to the throne.
That was when Kakashi came up with the marriage proposal. A guy. A guy. Guyguyguygaygay! Not quite what he was trying to say through glaring eyes but the advisor got the point which Kakashi had randomly mentioned that "To gay is to be happy! Sasuke is happy with it!" again before disappearing again with his orange perverted book in hand.
Because mainly it was his deceased mother's wish that he decided to put up with this madness. Because it was her mother's greatest wish for him to actually lived and died happy. And so the Uchiha agreed to this. Just because they were going to get married didn't mean that Sasuke had to be there with him 24/7. And just because that he was the luckiest of them all to be Sasuke's bride didn't say that he couldn't hate him and make his life a living hell.
Right?
Uchiha Sasuke broke into a cruel smirk, climbing out of the round tub while the maids hurried on to dress him in his long sleeved black robes that reached to the floor with golden lining embroidered to it and a gold waistband. The maids helped him to fix on his sharp pointy earrings and put on a long red velvet cloak bounded by golden chairs in the front. A shy maid walked forwards fixing a golden headband with swirling patterns around the symbol of leaf – the symbol of their country, their ancestors.
And with that he was off to exchange declarations of what our modern society would know as 'I do." Except that this time, it was an exchanged of both hands with vows of life long passion and unity and the starting of a brand new relationship. Sasuke's face remained emotionless as the priest gave his blessings to the soon-to-be crowned King. Oh yeah. Life as an uchiha was good. Very good.
Everyone was quiet. The huge temple chamber was quiet as Naruto was being led into it. He could see nothing since a white veil was placed over him. Guess they weren't kidding when the mentioned that they mustn't see each other. He could hardly see his own feet but thanks to the presence of maids who guided him slowly towards the entrance. No whisperings were heard and well, let's just say that it was dead silence.
They soon came to a stop and Naruto felt that the maids were letting go of his hands. He had a reason to be frightened. It was his first wedding after all and he hoped that it would be his last. He gripped his hands tightly, not daring to look around since he couldn't see anything anyway. So he opted to standing still until footsteps came. His breath hitched in his throat. He could feel the eyes of many staring at him. Probably making fun of me… He cried internally. After all, he was the only male in a dress.
Uchiha Sasuke stared at the sight in front of him. A young short male stood trembling. Probably from fear. He mused. The veil covered the male's face so Sasuke couldn't make out his features. But physically, the male was skinny. Short but skinny and his skin was tanned. Tanned but looking good. The waistband clasped around the younger male's waist showed off the feminine side of the boy. And overall, Sasuke would have given him a B plus and that's all left to see was his face.
Not that he cared.
Naruto was busy fidgeting. And he longed to just ran out on this once and for all. But he had came this far and had kept on assuring himself about this. He can do this! HE CAN DO THIS! Taking in a deep breath, he laughed timidly. HE CAN DO THIS! And so despite his constant reassuring to himself that everything would be fine, he began to tune out whatever the priest was saying.
Under circumstances unknown to him, they exchanged vows and the crowning ceremony came up next in which a crown was placed onto his head. Thus, giving him a title of King. The next thing Naruto knew was he being carefully led to the balcony (he thought) where the civilians, nobles cheered happily for them, wishing them the best of luck in their marriage. The blonde was so happy that forgetting his position as the future ahem..Queen of Konohagakure, he burst out loud, "Thank you!" to the Uchiha's surprised.
With his hand waving high up in the air, Naruto laughed happily as the people, his people, cheered back up to him in an equal sound of gratitude and gratefulness. He was going to start everything anew. He could feel it.
After the ceremony, Naruto was brought to the chamber where he and his husband will share for the night. He sat there unmoved and his veil still covered. Nervous and frightened, he didn't dare to move an inch. So all he could do now was wait…wait for his husband to unveil him.
Kakashi turned left around the corner, his eyes fixing happily in his newest edition of Icha Icha Paradise. He gave a small giggle which seemed to scare off the rest of the maids who came across him but he merely paid no heed to them. He was about to enter his work room when he heard a light shuffle of objects in his next room.
Being the curious guy he was, he poked his head in and stared.
"Your Majesty, shouldn't you be somewhere comforting someone right now?"
He was awarded with a dark look as Sasuke said dryly. "You're right. I'll send someone to go in my place."
Sasuke's such a meanie!! But that's what makes it interesting. I was wondering whether this should be MPREG or not? Please vote now! And click on that button for a quick review! Yue signing out.