Hey everyone,

Sorry for the long author note for starters. I would like to thank you all for your reviews. They are really the best thing to put a smile on an authors face (if i can call myself an author). I would also like to thank Ralyena Starrling for sending me Ideas, and Salaiii for taking the time to point out what i should improve. I am really sorry for my grammar mistakes... But i am trying my best and i will keep trying to improve . I am still taking English courses, i still even have an accent!

Anyway, please take a look at my new fiction "Heaven protects children, sailors, and drunken men". I have a poll on my profile, so please answer it if you have time. I am kind of gloomy because i am losing inspiration for "misused", and people are losing interest, so if you are reading it, please PM and tell me what i am doing wrong!

Now, Here is Chapter 10. A bit short, but i hope you enjoy it.

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Chapter 10 "The imminent"

Sasuke gulped watching Naruto stare at him blankly. He waited for a response, but Naruto uttered no words. The Pharaoh almost knocked on the blonde's head, and asked if anyone was in there.

He would have complained about the slave's dumbness, but he wasn't going to push his luck. Plus, his heart rate was going ballistic in anticipation. In fact, his pulse was pumping with so much force; he predicted that his veins would explode.

"What?" Naruto said quietly, and then continued to scream, "What, what, what?"

"Hn"

"What do you mean?"

Idiot!

"You heard me," Sasuke shifted his head to look at the feast infront of him, instead of Naruto. When he realized that he didn't appreciate being rejected while looking at cooked lamb, he raised his sight and looked beyond the table infront of him. He saw tall green palm trees, beautiful maidens sitting in the garden, and a servant's child playing around them. He felt a small breeze enter his lungs.

"Don't ignore me!" Naruto shouted, waking Sasuke out of his dwelling. The raven looked into the sapphire eyes, and wondered if he should had just let him go then. He lost him forever, didn't he? There was no way Naruto would love him back. Enslaving him and coercing him into a relationship was the only option he had. Yet, that option didn't sound very appealing. He had already hurt Naruto enough.

"I am not ignoring you…" Sasuke replied in a low hoarse voice.

"How stupid do you think I am? Why are you mocking me, saying that you… you… you… You hate me, so why are you lying to me?" Naruto blurted out in one breath.

"Naruto, you have never lived through a drought or a flood, right?"

"What does this have to do with any-"

"Before the great dam was built, there were times when the Nile would flood Egypt. Whole cities and villages would be ravished in a matter of hours. There were times when the Nile would dry out, until Egypt's soil would be parched. No fruit, no cattle, nothing. It stole the lives of many." (1)

"I still don't get the point of your speech!"

"Still, we call the Nile 'Egypt's vein of life'."

"I still-"

"I love the Nile, and I think it loves Egypt too. Naruto, do you think someone can love something that is one day serene, and the other day devastating?"

The slave's grumble faded, and was replaced with a supple smile, "How can I not love the Nile? I am a farmer after all. Yeah, it floods our land. Hell, it even dries on us… But where would we be without it? It makes Egypt Egypt, rather than just a desert?"

Sasuke wondered if Naruto understood his symbolism, and was sending signals back. The Pharaoh thought of himself as the river of life, and Naruto was Egypt. Yeah, Sasuke had a God complex, but could you blame him? He was worshiped after all.

"Naruto, you idiot. You don't even understand what you are saying, do you?"

"Sasuke Bastard-" Sasuke snapped his head, and glared at Naruto, making the boy choke on his words, "You are the one who is not being clear…"

"I am sorry…" Sasuke murmured so muted, it almost seemed that he was talking to himself. Looking back on his life as a Pharaoh, it was the first time he ever uttered an apology. Thinking it over again, he apologized once before to his dad… but that was a long wounding account.

Naruto didn't know what to say. It was a lot simpler to deal with a heartless bastard, then with someone who almost seemed brokenhearted. The Uzumaki felt his heart sting, but he quickly shrugged it off. He kept recapping all the dreadful moments he had with that man, and convinced himself that it was just an act.

"You ought to be!" Naruto said firmly, in a matter-of-fact sort of way, "You treated me as if I was an animal. You know what; you treated me even worse than one would treat a filthy cockroach!"

Sasuke felt the urge to admit that Naruto deserved it sometimes, but he wasn't really up for another fight. He felt drained by then.

"Sasuke, are you alright? You are not acting like yourself?"

"No, you are right. I am a horrible man…"

"Should I call a medic?" Naruto motioned, as he looked around confused. The conversation was making him extremely uncomfortable. Not to mention, it made him extremely confused. A Pharaoh just admitted his love, or not, then talked about he Nile, then apologized, then started blabbing about how horrible he was. What the hell was going on was all Naruto could think about.

"He would have made a better Pharaoh then me… I should have been the one to be banished…" Sasuke continued to mumble to himself slowly.

"Who?"

"My father must have just been kidding himself when he considered that I can live up to his expectations. I am not Itachi… I was never met to be Pharaoh…"

"Sasuke, snap out of it! What are you talking about?" Naruto grabbed Sasuke's upper arm, and shook him until he looked him in the eye.

"I hate this palace. I hate the throne. I hate being me. I hate losing the ones I lov-"

SLAP

"Snap out of it!" Naruto frowned, "Why are you acting so weak? It's not like you to be defeated!"

Sasuke held his throbbing cheek. The slap did snap him out of his thoughts, but now he was fighting the urge to beat the hell out of Naruto again. He sighed. composed himself, and continued, "I have been a horrible person, Naruto!"

"Well get over it!"

"…but I have been so horrible to you."

"Well, stop sulking and change! Do you think you mopping around would make the people's life any better?"

"Change? I sentenced innocent people to death, just to scare others into knowing their limits! I tortured my childhood friend for the mistake of others! And you honestly think I can change?!"

"You'd better! Or!"

"Or?" Sasuke raised an eyebrow.

"Or Naruto Uzumaki will knock you off the throne! Its time Egypt had a hot amazing super smart Pharaoh like me?"

Sasuke couldn't help but chuckle at the comment, and how serious Naruto looked blurting it out, "Oh really?"

"You'd better believe it!" Naruto smirked. Sasuke could have sworn, he had seen the others sky colored eyes flash red.

"I'd like to see you try!" Sasuke smirked in response.

"You have got your self a rival, Sasuke bastard!"

"Naruto!" The Pharaoh gave out a 'behave yourself' glower mixed with a look of curiosity. May be, he wasn't going to lose Naruto after all.

Before he realized it, Naruto was munching on the food lying infront of them, "Just- chomp- for you – munch munch- to know; When I am Pharaoh, I am so gonna make you pay!"

The Pharaoh had a strange feeling that he wouldn't mind it much, "Eat slowly, or you're going to suffocate yours- ahhh, never mind!"

"Eat!" Naruto waved a piece meat in Sasuke's face, forcing its juices to splash all over the other's face.

"Naruto!" Sasuke bottled up the urge to smac-

"What? Its just meat! Don't me a tight ass! Try this." He shoved the piece into Sasuke mouth.

Idiot!

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Sasuke (the Pharaoh!) waited by the kitchen door. He could hear Naruto inside bickering with Sai. It was strange how Sai repeatedly teased Naruto asking 'do you even have a penis?' From what Sasuke had noticed, during the rape and punishments, Naruto's manhood was… obvious to say the least. No to mention, that he was on the verge of sentencing Sai to death if he kept fixating on Nar-Sasuke's property.

He sighed in relieve. Now that he was sure Naruto wasn't going to leave any time soon, he had to start plotting for making the idiot fall in love with him. As impossible of a task as it was, it needed to be done. In fact, he didn't know why he was waiting for Naruto outside the kitchen. It is not like he had anywhere to take him afterwards. He wasn't even sure if Naruto appreciated him roaming around. Yet, for some reason, he couldn't pull himself away from the hot blond.

"Naruto, I am going to leave without you if you-" Naruto startled Sasuke as he popped out next to him.

"Yes, Sasuke bastard?"

"I told you to stop calling me that. If someone over hears I will be forced to punished you!"

"Yeah yeah, but it's worth it!"

"Idiot!"

Instantly, Sasuke heard footsteps heading towards them.

"Speaking of the devil," he muttered under his breath, as the figure approaching was close enough to see that it was Orochimaru.

"Your highness, horrible news!" The snake raised his hands to emphases his concern.

"What is it Orochimaru?" Sasuke asked with a scowl on his face.

"Why is this boy still here?" The wicked man interrupted himself when he noticed Naruto standing next to Sasuke. He looked at Naruto as if he was lower than scum.

"What did you want?" The master said grabbing back his attention.

"Some eyewitness allege that they saw a man identical to your brother roam the streets of Memphis (2). It's a disaster!" He screamed out, faking concern.

Sasuke looked at the other man in shock. Naruto's heart clenched; Sasuke was looking paler than usual.

"Call Orochimaru, Kakashi, and all the army heads to my meeting chambers right now!" Sasuke ordered the guards following the snake, "and I want to see those eyewitnesses myself."

---- To be continued ----

(1) Interesting fact: Long ago, the Egyptians used to think of the Nile as if it had a mind or something. In fact, they used to search for the most beautiful girl in Egypt every year, and this girl would be thrown into the Nile to drown. This girl was supposedly the Nile's bride, to satisfy him so he would be generous for the rest of the year. Nowadays, they just throw a statue… just to keep the tradition alive.

(2) Memphis was the capital of ancient Egypt during a certain period. It was surrounded with a gigantic wall/ dam.