Thin Glass

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A/N: Omg, I hit the triple digit of reviews!! I'm so happy! And I wish I could have typed this up sooner but school is already being a bitch and plus I got night classes. x.x

Chapter 10 - Almost There.

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"What?" The prince looked at his personal guard, who was kneeling before him, with a blazing gaze.

"I saw her pass by me with great speed. She must have sent magic into her feet. Other guards had reported to me that they saw her as well, she's the real thing." Sai glanced up at the prince, watching for any change in his emotions but got none.

"And you didn't chase after her?"

"I'm sorry, my prince, it came to such a shock to me, I had a slow reaction." Sasuke grunted and did a small wave of his hand.

"You may leave now." Sai bowed his head once more, got up and left the prince to his thoughts.

It had been six months or so since the blond had disappeared from the lands. When he had one of his maids fetch the blond after the princesses had left back to their lands, she came back all scared, shoulders shaking. She stuttered many times but she finally said that the village girl wasn't in her room. He sent ten guards to check everywhere in the castle and another ten to check outside of it. He had Sai and Kurenai sent to town to check every house. When they came back with nothing, he guessed that he must have been a spy from a different land. He requested the princesses to check their lands and two weeks later they had sent a message to him, by bird, saying that the blond was not on their lands. Maybe he was simpling in hiding because he could not stand him anymore? When Sasuke thought of that, it hurt him deeply. What scared him more was that another person had such effect on him.

Before 'Naru' had entered his life, he lived a happy life with no problems. Women filled his bed with the snap of his fingers. Everything was peaceful, except for Akatsuki trying to invade the lands. But then that blond dobe had entered his life. When 'Naru' was as in front of him, he thought it would be a quick lay, maybe ten or twenty times in bed with her and he would kick 'her' out. But instead 'she' had protected 'her' virginity, which Sasuke thought was weird. These days girls opened their legs to anyone, not very smart, but this one had protected 'her' lower half as if 'she' was protecting and hiding something. As time passed by, the prince slowly found himself being allured to this mysterious person. 'She' had brought out many emotions from him then anyone else besides annoying people like a certain princess.

On the night of finding out the blonde's secret, Sasuke was shocked at first, wondering why a guy would dress up as a girl then come live with him in the castle when the boy much have known what he picked him for. But then he thought it will probably turn out to be fun to tease the other teen, get some more excitement in this place. The next day when the two went on the date, the prince had planned on teasing the smaller teen throughout the time they had together but instead he was thinking more and more of him everyday. His wide sapphire eyes, filled with a fiery blazed passion when he argued. Long golden locks that shimmered in the sunlight, which brought Sasuke to thinking how a guy can grow his hair so long. Other then that, his body was better then most girls he slept with.

After his disappearance, Sasuke went through a twister of emotions. First was worry, guilt, confusion, withdraw and depression. After two months there was still no sign of the blond so Sasuke just decided to give up on him. About two months after that he picked a girl from the village so he can rid of his painful memories. Everytime he embraced the new girl, all he could think about was 'Naru', imagining it was her under him and not that other snobby wench. Sometimes he even went a little rough out of anger, the poor girl wouldn't be able to walk for a day. Now, out of the blue, one of his personal body guards had said they spotted him running out of the castle.

"Dobe, don't think I'm going to let you go so easily." He stood up and walked out of the throne room. Kurenai was standing out the door, guarding but stumbled back, startled by the doors that opened with a loud bang so suddenly.

"P-Prince!" She bowed, her raven locks falling over her shoulders.

"Kurenai, I want you to gather about one hundred of my men. Send forty to block the borders of my lands, ten will go into the forest, the rest will go into town and search for Naru again, do you understand?" Kurenai's red eyes widen. 'He's back?' She thought, trying to hide the small smile that tried to appear onto her face.

"Yes, my prince." She bowed once again and ran off to where the guards were training. Sasuke sighed and went back to his throne room. When that idiot gets back, he's sooo gonna get it.

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Naruto ran, ran faster then ever before. He also noticed that it was getting much harder to breath, 'Stupid winter air!' He coughed, making his lungs hurt even more. After arriving to the village in three minutes, he immediately ran towards Granny's house. Upon walking in, he got socked with a iron pan.

"You idiot!!" Whack. Smack. Crack.

"Ouch! You old hag! Stop it!" Naruto tried his best to shield himself and move out of the old woman's war path.

"Stupid! Where the hell have you been?!" She dropped the pan and continued slapping him across the back of the head. Naruto tried to stop and think about that one, he really didn't have the answer for that. He could just what he did with Shikamaru but it was too soon for him to go back and he never got any pictures yet! Taking out he digital camera from his bag, he slid the opening aside.

"Hey old hag, smile!" He placed his free arm around the womans neck, pulling her closer. Once she was in range, he did a toothy grin, clicking the little button on the camera and the flash went off. The old woman was in a daze for a moment before snapping.

"What the hell did you do to me?!"

"Quit your bickering, I only took your picture." The blond showed her the picture on the digital camera. Her eyes went wide.

"How could you afford one?!"

"Are they expensive?" He asked. They were only about one hundred to three hundred in his world, depends on which kind you get.

"Of course they are! They are over seven hundred dollars! How did you manage to get your hands on one?"

"Er..My friends clothing business is going well. Hey bought this for me as a thanks for using me as a model." The old woman stared at him suspiciously for awhile before turning back to the kitchen she was cleaning up.

"I've been wondering, boy, what's your last name? Naruto is such an unusual name around the lands."

"Eh? I thought I told you before."

"Maybe you have, maybe you have not. When we met, I had too much on my mind to think at the moment."

"Oh, well it's Uzumaki. Uzumaki Naruto." The old woman dropped the ragged and glass she was holding.

"Hey, don't hurt yourself." But his concern was ignored.

"..What..Uzumaki?" She was staring at the blond now, as if he was some sort of alien.

"Yea, heard of it before?" Naruto wouldn't be surprised if she did. Since there was a Hyuuga family here and a Hyuuga family in his world. The old woman suddenly bowed, making Naruto a little surprised.

"Whoa, stop that, you're going to break your back."

"Uzumaki. So you must be Minato's(If I spelled his name wrong, please tell me!) only son. I knew your name sounded strange." Now, Naruto was surprised.

"You..know my father?" Everything was getting weird again. How can this old hag know about his father when he didn't?

"Not personally. Your father use to be the king of the Western Lands, before the Haruno's, and the best, even better then the Uchiha Kingdom. Years back there was a huge war that had lasted six years, the group followed a evil man named Orochimaru. It was one of the worst battles I had even witnessed. Like the Yamanaka's with their dragons, Minato had made a blood bond with the foxes. The leader foxes name was Shyru, she was a enormous fox that Minato could even ride on her head. He fought with her by his side but even with the help of the foxes, Orochimaru would not fall. No one really knows how the battle ended except for that Minato was dead and Orochimaru had disappeared and was never seen again so it's assumed that Minato gave up his life to kill the evil man." Naruto was staring at the old woman with frightened eyes. How come he never knew of this before? How is it his father knew of this world? Huge foxes?

"It was also rumoured that Minato had a baby son recently at the time, so when people went to the castle, all they saw there was Princess Hinata. I swear, that young lady never ages. She said she had came looking for you but you were not there, so we all assumed you never existed. Since there was no heir or relative to take over the Western lands, we had the second in line royalties, the Haruno's. So if you see any of them acting snobby, just remind them they are second-rate royalty."

"Another rumour that went around that since Minato died, it was you who was incharge of the foxes now. When the leader, Minato, of the foxes die, his partner fox dies along with him but if the fox died, your father would have lived. So now that Shyru is dead, your partner fox is her son, the Kyuubi. He is a feisty one. People have tried to make a blood blond with him before but he always ended up hurting them badly, telling he already serves another. This is so great! The Heir to the West Lands and the leader of the foxes is actually real! You really look like your father." At that, Naruto felt pride wash over him but was still bothered by all this information being slapped at his face. How could his father exist here when he himself lived in the other world?

"Listen, you must try and keep your idenity a secret, if people find out your alive, they'll do whatever they can to take control of you, to use you a weapon in battle."

"Alright..I understand." At that moment, the door slammed opened.

"Granny!"

"Kurenai, what brings you here?" The guard shut the door quickly and spoke.

"Naruto has been spotted at the castle somehow. How in the world did you get back in anyways?" She asked but shook her head right after. "Never mind. The prince has sent out word to hunt you out and bring you back to the castle. He has fifty guards swarming the village, checking every house again."

"What?! Which reminds me what I asked you earlier, boy, where have you been all this time?"

"I'll tell you some other time, right now I need to get into some girly clothes!" the blond rushed over to his bedroom, looking through the drawers. He pulled on dark blue long floor length dress with long sleeves. He didn't bother taking off his jeans. No way was he going out in the cold with nothing but a thin dress covering his legs. He heard the door slam open again, screaming and things falling. Rushing out of the room and towards the kitchen, he saw another guard in the kitchen, Granny was on the floor and so were the chairs and table.

"Grandma!" Naruto called out and went to go help her up but the guard latched a painful grip onto his slender wrist.

"Miss Naru, the prince requests you at the castle this instant" Kurenai walked up beside the man and slapped away his hand, making him let go of the blond.

"Soldier, I had this situation under control. Going in my territory is a very deadly thing to do." The man gulped but stood his ground.

"It seemed more like you were going to sit and have some tea with them." The red eyed woman growled, placing a hand onto her curved dagger, she did a swift turn while taking out her weapon and stopped just when it reached the mans neck.

"Do NOT test my patience. I was simply talking to them calmly so that I wouldn't cause this poor woman a heart attack." She pressed the dagger up a bit and slid it to the right, making the mans neck bleed a bit. "You serve the people of the village, not treat them like garbage. If she is hurt in anyway, I'll have your head shrunken on a stick." The man now gulped and stepped back. He bowed to his commander before leaving.

"Jeez, guards these days are getting really cocky. They should know better then to cross over my border line. Anyways, let's go Naruto, the prince really wants to see you now." The blond gulped and nodded. He helped the elderly woman off the ground, made sure she was alright before going with Kurenai to the castle. The walk back was chilly. The winter winds kept biting at Naruto's whiskered cheeks and small nose. By the time they got to the castle, he felt the burning sensation on his face. It was a extremely quiet walk to the throne room, the clacking of his shoes annoying him deeply. Once they had arrived in front of huge oak doors, Kurenai knocked.

"Prince Sasuke, I have Miss Naru here." After she finished her sentence, the door opened instantly, revealing a flushed, worried looking prince. When Sasuke looked at the blond, disbelief was written all over his face, as if the teen before him was an illusion. Coughing, Sasuke shook his head slightly and turned to Kurenai.

"Put her in the dungeon." Both Kurenai and Naruto's eyes widen.

"The dungeon, Prince Sasuke?" She asked, unsure if she heard correct. Sasuke glared.

"Do make me repeat myself, lock her up down there." Kurenai hesitated for a moment before bowing slightly and started to lead the blond down a couple hallways. They reached steps that leaded down the dungeon. It had taken about five minutes to get down there.

"Jeez, how many steps does this place need for the dungeon?" Naruto tried asking as casually as possible but in reality, he was scared shitless.

"Well if someone were to escape, an alarm goes off and the person escaping can only get out of here by going up the steps, this buys time for guards to come." They reached a disgusting looking cell. There was rat and spiders all over. Slime, mold and fungi were growing on the bars and corners. Kurenai took a key off the nail that was hammered into the wall and opened a cell door.

"How long will I be down here for?" Naruto asked, dragging his feet as he made his way into the disgusing cell. The black haired woman shook her head.

"I'm not sure. Sometimes the prince leaves people down here for months, sometimes years. We bring down the daily meals though..bread..milk..water.." She shut the door and locked it again, placing the keys back onto the nail. The blond sighed.

"I guess I'll see you whenever." Kurenai nodded.

"I would stay down here and chat with you but Prince Sasuke will suspect things. I'll try to come down as much as I can. Good luck." She left and Naruto was all alone. This place is worse then Gaara's room. Which made him want to literally break down and cry. This is the second time in his life he had been locked up! There was a repeated dripping sound somewhere in the dungeon, rats squeaking and scattering across the stone floor. Naruto stepped on all the spiders in his cell before sitting down, not really caring at this point if the dress gets dirty.

"Maybe I can use my powers to escape.." Once sending some magic to his hand, he felt a slight electric shock go throughout his system.

"Ahh! What the hell! Ugh, magic must be restricted in these cells damn cells!" He left out a frustrated cry before slumping against the wall. Notice how bad shit happens to him? And only him? He wondered how long he would be locked up now, days? Two weeks, months? He would rather smash his own head against the wall before living in this shithole for over a month.

Two months later..

Naruto was staring up at the ceiling, drool trailing down from his mouth to his chin. Why haven't he smashed his head yet? Oh yeah, because he was too scared to do it himself. The whole time he was down here, he talked to the maids whenever they came down, telling them to tell the prince to get his ass down there. He's been taking pictures with his digital too but not much since he didn't want the power running out. The sudden noise of a door slamming open scared the poor teen out of his wits. The sound of foot steps echoed loudly in the dungeon for about five minutes.

"Naru." Sasuke said,as he came around the corner. He walked right up to the cell the blond was in, placing his hands on the rusted bars. Naruto looked up, eyes filled with fury for being kept down here so long.

"Hey now, don't look at your prince like that." Sasuke scolded, his hand reaching past the bars, motioning for Naruto to come forward.

"You bastard," The blond said, walking forward to the large pale hand, letting it cup and stroke his cheek. "I thought my time here would be sempiternal." Sasuke kept stroking the smooth cheek, not bothered by the insult.

"It's a surprise your not broken, that was the plan." Plan to make this damn blond tremulous before him then he would comfort him so much that the blond would never leave his side again.

"I've been through this before, not this long but I think I can handle it pretty well now." He leaned into the warm hand, closing his eyes in content. It was cold down here and all the gave was a thin cotton blanket!

"You have? Who locked you up? Is that why you were missing all these months?" Naruto opened his bright blue eyes and looked up into dark black eyes.

"I was locked up for two weeks. My friends did it because they cared but because I was locked up for the first time I ended up brainwashing myself so I never returned." And that was the truth. Sasuke withdrew his hand, took out the cell key from his pocket and opened the cell door. He pulled the blond out roughly and caught him n a bone crushing hug.

"Tell me their names, I'll have them beheaded before noon tomorrow." Naruto shook his head.

"No, I won't allow that. They are my friends."

"But I am your prince, who is soon to be king. My word is law and I want you to tell me those names." Sasuke crushed the smaller teen more, smothering him. Naruto tried to push back but he was locked in a iron grip.

"Look, if your trying to kill me, could you do it in a less painful way?" Sasuke chuckled lightly, letting go. He then reached into his pants pocket and pulled out a metal collar, holding it out for the blond to take.

"What the hell is that for?" Naruto took it and looked at the metal heavy thing, feeling some sort of magic soaring through it.

"It's my gift to you. Wear it."

Naruto felt a little queasy about it. The metal collar looked heavy, ugly and..big. It was cold in his heads, making a slight shiver go down his spine. The prince let out an annoyed sigh, grabbing the collar and swiftly turning the smaller teen around, putting the heavy object around his neck. Naruto heard a loud click coming from the collar, feeling more strange about it all. Suddenly he felt a sharp electric shop go quickly through his body, dropping to the floor and curling into a ball in hoping to stop the pain. He let out an agonized cry, hoping the pain would come to an end. And as it was just beginning, it stopped. Naruto laid there, panting, holding back his tears and wondering what the hell just happened.

"What did you do to me?" His blue eyes looked fiercely up at black amused ones.

"It's a magic collar made especially for you. You see while you were gone, you put me so much through emotions, it made me angry. So I got that made, for when and if I ever saw you again I'd throw you into the dungeon until you break but since that plan failed, I moved onto plan b. I will be able to track where ever you are in the lands and your magic is restricted so no more of that. And if you try to take it off, you'll feel the same pain again. Your limits is the Mythical forest. Go beyond there and you'll get electric shocks again." The bastard was smirking proudly, as if he just got the best trophy in the whole world. Naruto on the other hand, was pissed. He knew he could go back to his world anytime but the fact that he probably will never get any privacy in this world is just plain maddening! Sasuke slightly kneeled down and scooped up Naruto bridal style.

"Now I'll bring you up to your new room and I'll have one of the maids fix you up. Your dress will be thrown away and you'll be taking a long salt water bath, stinker." He chuckled and ignored the loud protests as he carried the smaller teen up the mountain of steps. They were getting blank stares from the maids and guards because they knew if they gave a weird one, they would be dead. Naruto had stopped struggling after a couple minutes, growing tired. Sasuke grunted, slightly shifting the blond on his shoulder.

"Have you grown or something? You feel a bit heavier then the last time I saw you."

"I have been eating better these past months so I gained some weight." Gotta build some muscle!

"Ah, as long as your healthy." He opened large oak doors, walked over to the king size bed and dropped the blond onto it. Naruto scrambled to get up and looked around. He noticed it was much bigger then his old room. But wait..these colors..and the fancy stuff..

"I'm going to be staying in your room?!" The prince smirked again, stepping outside his door.

"Of course, can't have you sneaking off again, can I?" He said, enjoying the blush that spread over Naruto's cheeks. "TenTen, please help Naru with her bath, she reeks badly then get her into a proper dress." The brown haired girl bowed before entering the room, pushing Naruto towards the huge bathroom. She closed and locked it before whirling around and staring at the other teen with large wide eyes.

"Your alive!" She hissed quietly, starting to take off the old dirty dress. Naruto sighed.

"That I am. What a shithole I stayed in, it wasn't pretty." TenTen nodded, not really wanting to know how it was in the dungeons. It was a really creepy place to be especially for two months. When she removed all Naruto's clothing except for his boxers, she noticed the collar, eyes widening once again.

"W..What is that?" She asked, voice barely a whisper.

"Some magic tracking collar the prick gave me. Restricted my magic, can track me anywhere and I can't even take it off." She shook here head.

"That's no good, that's not good at all. Naruto, how far do you think you are into making the prince fall in love with you?" She turned around to give him privacy as he stripped of his boxers before stepping into the murky salt water. He let out a satisfied sigh, letting the water work at his sore knotted muscles. TenTen had grabbed a small pale, scooped some water up , taking off the blond wig before pouring it onto the mop of real blond hair.

"I'd have to say I'm there! I believe he's almost truly in love with me. Down in the dungeon he as telling me how he had all these emotions run through him when I was gone, that's why he had me wear this thing." He lightly tugged at th e large metal collar, rolling his shoulders a bit to get used to it.

"If you believe he's in love with you complete or close to it, you got to tell him you don't want to be here anymore, that you want to return to the village. But you must be quick because if what your saying is true then the prince can get very possessive and he'll even chain you to his bed so you never leave his sight, so do what you can now before it's too late." She rubbed some vanilla and almond smelling shampoo into his hair, massaging it into a lather before rinsing it with the pale again. Naruto had already washed his body with the unscented soap as he was talking and grabbed a towel from the floor to wrap around his lower half.

"Okay..I'll try to find the right time to tell him." The young maid had left the bathroom to set out a clean dress onto the bed for Naruto use. The blond wasn't entirely sure if he wanted to tell Sasuke if he wanted to leave, anymore. He like the way things were right now, the teasing, the embarrassing heated moments. He slowly found himself not minding all those things much anymore, he actually wanted to experience them more. Naruto dried himself off some more, walking out of the bedroom and over to the bed where TenTen waited, the dress neatly spread on the bed.

"Naruto, I'm so very thankful you helped us with this plan, even if we didn't give you a choice. And it's good thing you didn't fall in love with Prince Sasuke either! That would have complicated things further." She smiled and Naruto couldn't help but let his own small smile grace his face.

"Yea, good thing I didn't fall in love with him, huh?" He lied. Smoothly.

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A/N: ...Sadly..that's all for this chapter..it took so long..and it's so short...;.; School is kicking my ass already, I still haven't all my homework! BUT! I have thought up more fanfiction ideas and I would like you, my readers/reviewers like to tell me what you would like to see and what you think about it!

Fated Mate
Rated:M
Summary: Sasuke flattened his wolf ears against his head. "I have marked you as mine, mate, so you belong to me." Naruto smirked, his fox tail swaying side to side. "I belong to no one, bastard." SasuNaru, Yaoi, Lemons, AU.

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Lustful Wishes
Rating:M
Summary: Sasuke is betrothed to Naruto, a teen he never met before, but the thing is his face is always covered by a brown paper bag! SasuNaru, Yaoi, Lemons, AU.

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Crystal Moon
Rated:M
Summary: Naruto and his pack are part fox, ruling over the East lands. Sasuke with his pack is part wolf, ruling in the West lands. They fight over territory. What if they run into each other during mating season? SasuNaru, AU, Yaoi, Lemons, Mpreg. (Well grr, how to make the summary sound as interesting as the story? xD)

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That's about it! So tell me what you think, I would like that very much! Hope everyone continues enjoying reading Thin Glass and I hope you all bear with me and my hwk!! Also, I would like nobody to steal these ideas from me, they did take awhile to come up with and I already have started on them. :)

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