They had been flying for an eternity and a half.

They had passed through mountain peaks and deserts, skimmed the waters of the lakes and the seas, jumped through clouds and skipped off a few stars. And they still weren't reaching the supposed destination.

The Hidden Village of Neverland might never have been a land, after all; nor was it ever existent. But that would be sad as Sasuke would be homeless then. And come to think of it, flying boys and fairies – fairies! Sakura still gasped amazed, never really getting over her girlish fascinations over such, uh, girly things – were real, so Neverland might really be true.

It wasn't until the group exited the asteroid belts that Sasuke formed various seals with his hands that Sakura had recognized.

"Waaah! You use chakra, too, Sasuke-kun?" she exclaimed.

"Aa. Kirin!" And blue sparks formed from his hands and created a straight electric blue line. In a flash, a black hole burst and revealed an island, so much like the ones in the place she came from.

"Is, is that Neverland?" Naruto and Kiba asked in unison.

"Duh!" They heard Ino scoffed as she rolled her eyes.

"Come on, Sakura." She followed his lead, the others trailing behind them.

Everything was white. The water surrounding the island was frozen in crystal ice, the volcano on the island was giving off smoke, but everything else looked as cold as winter. And never did Sakura imagine it to look so, wintry – for the lack of adjective – because Sasuke only wore a blue shirt with collar and a black short and open sandals; while Ino had leaves draped around her.

I'll make them a coat once we're home. And it didn't even hit her that she had suddenly called his home hers.

However, as soon as they entered the atmospheres of Neverland, the volcano's mouth started to change colors from white to gray to brown. The brown spread down to the foot like magic, and greens popped in trees. The flowers glowed yellows and reds and purples. The ice broke to reveal a blue, blue sea.

Indeed, it was like magic. And it was spring again. And everything was the Neverland she had dreamt so many times before.

Sasuke landed on a cloud, and they all followed. He took out a retractable telescope from his pocket and looked into it.

He smirked.

"Would you like to have an adventure now, or do you like to have your tea first?" he asked them.

Sakura answered 'Tea first.' But the other two boys silenced her suggestion as they cried out 'What kind of adventure?' rather loudly and excitedly.

"There's an S-rank criminal sleeping on that ship below us," explained Sasuke.

"S-rank?" they exclaimed.

"Aa. Orochimaru."

"Orochimaru." They said in unison. Sakura shivered, Kiba glared and Naruto was suddenly flustered with anger. For, you see, they were familiar with the said criminal as they had nightmares of him and they had dreams of random fights between Sasuke and Orochimaru.

But what they didn't know was Orochimaru was no longer asleep since he was awoken by his trusted right-hand man, Kabuto. Kabuto's keen eyes and fast thinking had deduced that Sasuke was back in Neverland as the winter had gone and was replaced by spring as what usually happened whenever Sasuke left and returned to this magical land.

"Aaaah. Yes. Uchiha Sasuke. I'll have you this time," Orochimaru vowed as he peeped through his gold-plated telescope pegged on the floor of the ship. "Kabuto, back me up."

"Yes, Orochimaru-sama."

The jet black-haired criminal smiled as he clasped his hands together. After several quick hand movements, snakes of various sizes darted from a puff of smoke and propelled into the clouds, directly where Sasuke and company were resting among the clouds.

Everything happened so fast that it was too late for them to notice the attack. A fast bullet-like snake cut through their cloud and destroyed their balance. As normal humans, Kiba and Naruto had fallen in panic. Sakura dove in an attempt to catch her brothers. But gravity was more powerful than her that the two boys continued falling into the ground or crocodile-infested waters or into their deaths, probably.

Sasuke, on the other hand, quicker than lightning as he had bragged to her before, caught up and grabbed her.

"What are you doing?" exclaimed Sakura.

"I'm saving you, baka!" answered Sasuke.

"But my brothers! I have to save them!"

"Don't worry about them. They won't feel pain when they die."

"What!" He didn't listen to her reasoning; instead he just led her away. But they weren't even far off when another bout of snake bullets came firing their way.

Sasuke was blown away by the wind, while Sakura was left with Ino. And it was in that moment that one could consider Sakura most unfortunate as Ino was a very mischievous fairy, and a very mischievous fairy who didn't like Sakura very much.

Ino led Sakura to her doom.


Although Uchiha Sasuke was still a child, he was rather good in managing a home. Well, not really good as those housewives or caretakers or all those adults who managed a home. He was good as he was able to look over six rowdy children.

They lived in a tree house, but the house was underground; but would you still call that a tree house when the house was under the tree, then again you still could as the house was made in that tree. So after so much debate among these boys, Sasuke had just scoffed at them and declared the house their Tree Root House.

And their little house among the leaves and trees were never discovered by Orochimaru and his minions; for Sasuke was clever and he built a tree house under the ground.

The lost boys also ran away from home and were welcomed by Sasuke to Neverland. They hunt their own food, but since they're little kids who didn't take most things seriously, they usually ate fruits that already fell from the tree, or unfortunate wild bore that unfortunately wandered in their front yard, or they used their imagination and ate imaginary food.

They were kids, and they were in Neverland, and only magic could tell how they were able to survive.

And they were kids, so most things that they were told were no longer questioned. They do what they were asked to. However, some of them were perceptive enough to argue. But some were lazy enough not to even bother uttering a word.

So, the lost boys were consisted of six boys: Nara Shikamaru, master of indolence; Inuzuka Chouji, master muncher; Rock Lee, master irritant; Aburame Shino, master of bugs; and the twins Hyuuga Neji and Sai, master of silence and social naïveté.

The twins weren't really twins, but they were both silent and they were both ungregarious at times – just like Sasuke sometimes.

The lot was a pretty unlikely lot, one might say; and indeed it was. And they were in Neverland, and only magic could tell how they were able to get along well.

And this odd lot was currently resting under the shade of the Tree Root House, and Shikamaru was watching the clouds and Chouji was eating an imaginary potato chip that was the only memory left from his short stay in the Shinobi World and Lee was sparkling like a glass when sunlight peeked through it and Shino was counting bugs and Neji was combing his long, long, silky, silky hair and Sai was painting cute caricatures of the lost boys and Sasuke and Tsunade-hime and an unidentified lady whom he called a mother in his mind.

Tsunade-hime was the character in the story The Legendary Tales of the Gallant Jiraiya-sama. And this story was the only story that Sasuke had heard of when he was still in Konoha; but he didn't remember much about it because he was forgetful, and he never got to tell the whole story to the lost boys who wanted to know what happened to the hime and the Gallant Jiraiya. So the lost boys had wanted a mother for so long so someone could finish the story for them. But Sasuke didn't agree to it at first, but because he was kind of tired from going back and forth from Neverland to Konoha only to listen to Sakura tell tales of this Jiraiya while kept well-hidden in the shadows of the windowsill, he decided to just get a mother for the lost boys, and a mother would also spare him of looking after these boys and more time doing his adventures with Orochimaru.

But then again, Yamanaka Ino was never out of the picture. As mentioned earlier, Ino was very mischievous and disliked Sakura very much. So Ino devised a plan to lure the lost boys into doing something very bad to Sakura. But she also knew that even though these boys are little boys and tended to do something they're told, they wouldn't take orders as easily as they would when Sasuke was the one who ordered it – especially when it was Ino who gave the orders. They didn't trust her very much, because they know of her mischief, and she had used some of her mischief on them.

However, Ino was also clever as she was mischievous, and she used the most gullible of them all. She just whispered, "Yakiniku for you when you hit that flying bird overhead," and Chouji had instantly took out his kunai and formed seals that made him as large as a giant and threw the kunai at the flying bird that was Sakura, who would be their mother and tell them stories of Jiraiya-sama and Tsunade-hime and the snake villain who also happened to be named Orochimaru.


A/N: Sorry for the very, very late update, and for the very short chapter. I'm not sure if you would like this chapter, I know it sucks eggs, but I liked it very much because it was freestyle writing (I think?).

Anyway, same disclaimer applies (i.e. Naruto belongs to Kishimoto Masashi, plot was based off JM Barrie's Peter Pan, and The Legendary Tales of the Gallant Jiraiya-sama is a Japanese legend that Kishi has also based the Sannin from).

Enjoy because I enjoyed this chapter very much, despite having written it for, uh, three months!