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"I know there's plenty of fish in the sea, but you're the one I want, love" Naruto winked, Sasuke scoffed. Why couldn't he take a hint?
"Very nice, now go away" Sasuke growled, Naruto stared at him with a calculating gaze, Sasuke shifted uncomfortably under the analysis, "W-What?" Sasuke stuttered.
"You know what your problem is, love?" Naruto started, though Sasuke wouldn't accept anything of that nature to come from him.
"I have an idiotic moron that won't leave me alone?" Sasuke replied sarcastically.
"Nooo" Naruto chuckled, finally removing himself, "You don't know how to have fun" Naruto stated, Sasuke scowled.
"I know how to have fun" Sasuke responded hotly, Naruto gave him a doubtful expression.
"Like what?" Naruto challenged, Sasuke shifted around as he wracked his brain for activities that he was allowed to do as a child.
"Reading" Sasuke answered proudly, but Naruto burst out laughing.
"Reading?! What is more boring?" Naruto laughed, Sasuke scoffed.
"Just because you don't have the patience or capacity to indulge yourself in a respectable form of fun doesn't make it boring!" Sasuke snapped, but Naruto wiped a tear from his eye.
"Haha! Even that sentence was boring!" He guffawed, Sasuke had enough and glared at him.
"Well, what exactly do you consider fun?!" Sasuke hissed, Naruto calmed down and thought.
"Easy, pranks, doing crazy things with your friends, you know, just acting like you were a kid" Naruto listed, though Sasuke looked unimpressed.
"You are serious? I never heard such ridiculousness" Sasuke insulted, though Naruto frowned lightly.
"Didn't you do that kind of thing when you was a kid?" Naruto enquired.
"No…" Sasuke answered quietly, a part of him telling himself that it was abnormal, "I-I didn't need to because I did better things with my time" Sasuke claimed, somewhat ashamed under Naruto's surprised expression.
"Wha…well no wonder you are the way you are, you never got a proper childhood!" Naruto pointed out, he shook his head, "Well, we are going to sort that out straight away, starting from now it is my side quest to give you a real childhood!" Naruto promised, though Sasuke gave him a glare.
"No thanks" He responded, though sort strange part of him was…intrigued? But Sasuke would never admit it, so he refused Naruto's offer, "I'm quite satisfied with my childhood, I don't need to relive it" Sasuke stated, but Naruto's trademark smirk disagreed.
"Oh no you don't, we're doing this" Naruto nodded. Sasuke sighed, Naruto's look of determination was unquestionable and Sasuke knew when it was a futile battle.
"Fine, let us just get this done with" Sasuke groaned, Naruto once again only heard the positives and nodded.
"Alright, glad to see you're aboard the fun ship!" Naruto stated, rubbing his hands together, "Okay, one of my favourite things to do as a kid was the rope swing" Naruto said excitedly, Sasuke raised an eyebrow.
"What in god's name is that?" Sasuke questioned, Naruto smirked. He began to run around and set something up that Sasuke couldn't recognise. Naruto walked back over to him and showed him the rope. "And I'm supposed to do what exactly with this?" Sasuke asked, Naruto chuckled.
"Watch" Naruto instructed, Naruto suddenly jumped around the rope, the rope swung him across the ship and back. Naruto laughing and calling out in amusement. Sasuke stared widened eyed when he landed back and handed the rope to Sasuke, "Okay, love, your turn" Naruto smiled, Sasuke took a step back.
"No" Sasuke stated, "No, no, no, no, no, no, I am not doing that" Sasuke said, Naruto took the step forward with the rope.
"Why not? It's fun" Naruto reasoned.
"Okay, even if I did wanted to do that senseless activity, I wouldn't for the sake of my life" Sasuke scoffed, but Naruto shook his head.
"You'll be fine" Naruto reassured, but Sasuke folded his arms defiantly and shook his head.
"No, I won't take any chances on my health" Sasuke spoke. Naruto rolled his eyes and quickly wrapped his arm around Sasuke's waist and pulled him close. Sasuke's eyes widened, "What on earth do you think you are doing, dobe?!" Sasuke exclaimed, Naruto smirked and placed his lips next to Sasuke's ear.
"Hold on tight, love" He whispered out huskily, Sasuke's breath hitched and unintentionally gripped Naruto tighter. Especially when Naruto took off with him, Sasuke gasped as they swung around. After his initial shock wore off, he glared up at Naruto.
His expression was drained off all anger when he was distracted by something else. The sun beaming down and shining through Naruto's golden locks, brimming over his hat. Sasuke didn't know what was bluer, the sky or Naruto's cerulean eyes. With the wind blowing freely Sasuke couldn't help but stare at the unexpected art. Naruto noticed Sasuke gaze and smiled, adding the Sasuke's vision.
"Enjoying the view, love?" Naruto asked obliviously, Sasuke blushed and looked away.
"Idiot" Sasuke mumbled, Naruto chuckled as Sasuke tried to ignore him. It was easier than expected as overlooking everyone in a passing glance was surreal to Sasuke, he's never been this high up and honestly he felt like he was flying. It was as if he was somewhat…liberated. Naruto swung them back and landed them where they were before.
"Now was that so bad?" Naruto cooed, Sasuke huffed and turned away childishly, not wanting to admit he found it quite enjoyable, especially the view…Sasuke shook his head of that last thought.
Calm yourself…Sasuke scolded himself, watching as Naruto put the rope where it belonged.
"Alright, that's one thing off the list, now for another childhood fun you missed out on" Naruto stated, running down the stair before diving under the deck. Sasuke shook his head at how stupid Naruto acted, he glanced over to see Sakura scolding Kiba.
"What did I tell you? Was it be careful? Because I'm sure that it freaking was!" She ranted as she took care of his bleeding arm.
"How was I supposed to know that throwing knifes was a bad idea?" Kiba pouted, Sakura gave an extra hard jab with the alcohol soaked cloth, making Kiba hiss in pain.
"It should be clear that throwing knifes around is a bad idea!" Sakura exclaimed, Sasuke chuckled. He was on the receiving end of the temper when he often took the blame for Sakura. Though he didn't regret it. He began to think of the times that he had to do what was needed…
FLASHBACK
The giggling seven years old were running wild in the halls, devoid of shoes but with soft socks that slid them across the room. They laughed as they slipped around with no boundaries, Sakura started at the beginning of the hall.
"Hey, Sasuke! Watch this!" Sakura laughed, taking a running start before sliding speedily across the hall. Squealing in delight and looking back at Sasuke who retained his big smile, but it turned shocked when he saw the direction she was going in.
"Sakura! Careful!" Sasuke warned, Sakura's small eyes widened in fear as she spun out of control, she cried out as she hit a nearby glass table. A blue vase falling and smashing against the ground, Sasuke ran to her side, "Sakura!" He exclaimed, bending down to her side, "Are you okay?" He persisted, though her greens eyes now paralysed with terror.
"I-I-I-I"
"What's wrong?" Sasuke asked, he noticed the small cut on her arm, but she shakily pointed to the broken vase. Sasuke stilled at the sight of the shattered vase, he heard the approaching footsteps as if they were the stampede of war itself. The footsteps became visual when their parent arrived.
"Oh my goodness!" Sakura's mother gasped, the sight of her vase broken. Sakura shivered under her impending anger.
"What have you done?!" Her father snapped, uncaring of her own injury. Sasuke's parents stood in what seemed like disapproval of such fault. As Sakura's father strode over to the terrified girl Sasuke stood up.
"It was me!" He exclaimed, all eyes on him.
"What?" Fugaku snapped, Sasuke shifted.
"I-It was me, I slipped on something and…and I fell" Sasuke lied, though it fooled them enough for Sasuke's parents to glare down at him.
"How could you be so irresponsible?" His mother hissed in a hushed tone.
"I'm sorry" Sasuke replied innocently, but it wasn't anything.
"Do you understand the shame you've brought?" Fugaku snapped, Sasuke opened his mouth to apologise again, but it was silenced.
"Quiet!" Fugaku snapped, turning to face Sakura's father, "I apologise, rest-assured he will be severely punished" Fugaku promised.
And he was…
END OF FLASHBACK
Sasuke shook his head, knowing that nothing good would come of remembering more, but if he was honest some of it was blocked from his memory anyway...Sasuke barely noticed when Naruto jumped next to him, his big grin distracting him.
"Look what I got here!" Naruto showed, Sasuke saw a make-shift pot with some dirt. Sasuke stared at it for a moment before dryly examining Naruto.
"Dirt" Sasuke stated, "This is a pot of dirt" Sasuke spoke, Naruto nodded excitedly. "Is the…pot of dirt supposed to mean something?" Sasuke asked. Naruto nodded once again. (Gotta love that reference though)
"Yeah, I was really proud when I was young because I planted a seed and it grew, it felt pretty good as a kid to do that" Naruto said, digging something out of his pocket before presenting it to Sasuke. "Here, now you can plant your own seed" Naruto proclaimed, Sasuke wasn't impressed.
"That is the job of a gardener or peasant, I do not get my hands dirty" Sasuke informed, Naruto stared unimpressed with him before getting some of the dirt from the pot and placing it in Sasuke's hand. Sasuke's mouth hung open in shock when Naruto finished with the dirt, the blonde having no remorse.
"There, now your hands are dirtied so it doesn't matter" Naruto smiled, Sasuke grumbled under his breath and shook the dirt off his hands. He reluctantly picked up the seed from Naruto's hand and was about to stuff it passive-aggressively into the pot, but Naruto stopped him, "Whoa there, gotta treat it with love, love" Naruto winked, "Or it won't grow"
"Oh no, what a catastrophe" Sasuke remarked sardonically, placing the seed more delicately into the pot. Naruto nodded.
"See? Not so hard" Naruto smiled, Sasuke scoffed.
"Whoa! Whoa! Whoa!" A voice shouted, Naruto and Sasuke turned their heads to see Lee swinging uncontrollably on a rope like Naruto and Sasuke were.
"What are you doing?!" Tenten screamed up at him, Lee kicking about.
"Cap and Sasuke were doing it!" Lee answered as the rope took a twist and headed for Sasuke. Sasuke had no time to react, but Naruto did. Naruto dived and got Sasuke out the way as Lee crashed behind them, Karin yelling at the energetic pirate that was sore from the landing. Though that's not what Sasuke was concentrating on at the moment.
Sasuke's head hurt from the impact, he opened his eyes with full annoyance that he was laying on the floor. He was ready to glare, but his eyes widened at what he was greeted with. He saw Naruto hovering over him, his hands at either side of his head. Sasuke also noticed how Naruto's hat had flown off during the commotion, revealing his golden locks. His heart was thumping wildly, Sasuke didn't know how to react since he…since he never had a man on top of him before in such a way. Naruto didn't seem to notice and instead groaned.
"Damnit, Lee, have some control, man!" Naruto complained, Sasuke's eyes locked with Naruto's, "You alright, love?" Naruto asked causally, Sasuke squeaked and blushed.
"G-Get off of me!" Sasuke screamed, raising his knee to collide with Naruto's stomach. Winding Naruto completely, Naruto held his stomach with one hand and leant on the other. Sasuke quickly scrambled to stand up while Naruto was distracted. Embarrassed, he quickly ran with his face in his hands back to his room. Naruto shakily stood up as Sakura gently helped him.
"Geez, what's with him?" Naruto managed to say, Sakura sighed.
"Sorry, I don't know why he would suddenly attack you like that" Sakura apologised, but Naruto waved it off.
"It's fine, but why was his face so red? All I did was land on top of him" Naruto shrugged, since that kind of thing was common and relatively innocent to him. Sakura stood with a concerned face.
"You were on top of him? Oh no…" Sakura sighed, Naruto raised an eyebrow.
"What?"
"Well, as a virgin that has been sheltered from those kinds of things, Sasuke hasn't been exposed to anything sexual so when you were over him, he didn't know what to do…since that's what they teach us…" Sakura mumbling the last part, Naruto was confused.
"What do you mean?" Naruto enquired, Sakura sighed.
"When we are engaged, at some point our mothers that were the Ojos sat us down and talked to us about sex" Sakura explained. Naruto was the picture of revelation.
"I'm surprised, I thought they were stuffy about that sort of thing" Naruto voiced, Sakura nodded.
"Usually they are, but it's not what it seems, believe me…" Sakura muttered, folding her arms, "My mother told me that I should never refuse my husband, that I need to obey his every demand in the bedroom" Sakura admitted, her expression disgusted, "That's why Sasuke freaked out, because we're told to lay back and let our husbands do what they want" Sakura explained, Naruto's eyes widened in horror that something like that would happen.
"Jesus! And I thought the higher class were meant to be more civilised!" Naruto exclaimed, Sakura nodded.
"So when you were on top of Sasuke…" Sakura trailed off, Naruto cursed under his breath when he understood, "And since he's engaged he would have recently been given the speech about 'Ojo duties'" Sakura added, Naruto shook his head.
"I didn't really want him to go back, just out of kindness, but I'm sure as hell not sending him back to get raped" Naruto stated, Sakura nodded.
"Do you understand why I couldn't let him go now?" Sakura asked, Naruto nodded.
"You're right, I'm keeping him here as long as it takes to convince him to stay" Naruto promised.
"I don't think so" A voice said, Naruto saw Karin approaching them, "We had a deal Naruto, the second he becomes a liability we cut him loose" Karin reminded.
"New deal, we keep him even if we have to fight an armada" Naruto responded, Karin narrowed her eyes.
"He isn't worth this" Karin spat out.
"He'll be put through abuse for the rest of his life! Do you want to send someone back to that?!" Naruto yelled, the crew settling down to listen. Karin sighed.
"Look, it's none of our business, besides, he's brainwashed so he won't know its abuse" Karin reasoned.
"So that makes it okay then?!" Naruto exclaimed, Karin growled.
"You know I think rape is rotten, I've fought rapist before, but-"
"Then how the hell can you stand there and act like it's perfectly fine to send him back to a rapist?! Send a child back, because that's what he is!" Naruto shouted, Karin pointed at the crew.
"This is what you are responsible for, for your crew, the lives of your crew!" Karin yelled back, Naruto placed his hand on his sword.
"Why don't we settle this like pirates?" Naruto proposed, Karin withdrawing her own sword.
"Fine by me" She hissed.
"Stop!" Sakura screamed, all attention on her. "You guys are family, we all are, you shouldn't be fighting like this!" She accused, Karin put her weapon back, but she was still disgruntled.
"That's what I'm trying to tell him, that we're his family, but he wants to save that brat" Karin responded.
"That brat is my best friend!" Sakura replied, breathing heavily before slowly shaking her head, "And if you won't protect him, then I will" Sakura claimed. Karin gave her a puzzled expression.
"What are you talking about?" Karin enquired, Sakura let out a hefty breath.
"You want Naruto to stay loyal to the crew because that's what's important, right?" Sakura stated, "Well, I'm staying loyal to my friend" She voiced, looking Karin dead in the eye, "I'm going back with him" She proclaimed, people gasping and murmuring.
"What?!" Karin exclaimed.
"Sakura…" Naruto voiced.
"And if you got a problem with that, just remember you have a responsibility" Sakura remarked with venom in her voice, she turned on her heel and strode towards Sasuke's room. Opening and slamming the door behind her. It was silent on the boat, with no one really knowing what to do. Naruto let out a sigh.
"Why do you hate him so much? Sakura was the same when she first came on the ship" Naruto questioned, though Karin kept that to herself. Naruto shook his head and walked from her, not wanting to even look at her. The crew knew when it was time to get back to work and maintained the boat, Naruto approached Sasuke's door and was about to open it when he heard the conversation from inside.
"I didn't mean to hit him, I just felt afraid and…"
"I know, I know, you did nothing wrong"
"I hope so...not like I care or anything, but…is he okay?"
"Don't worry, Naruto's been through a lot worse"
"I don't know what came over me, with my mother's description and his position, it just made me think about…"
"Forget all that, it doesn't matter, let's talk about something else"
Naruto stood back from the door and knew when he wasn't needed, Sasuke needed to surround himself with friends at the moment, not the one that freaked him out. Naruto was glad that Sasuke had someone to talk to, since he was probably terrified at the moment. Naruto walked away from the door, he travelled aimlessly around his vessel until he was met with a familiar object. He bent down and picked up the pot of dirt, he placed it in a safe spot where it could get the sunlight. He gave it some water from his canteen.
"Every flower must grow through dirt" Naruto commented to himself.
Aw, now wasn't that a lovely chapter? Okay, okay, I didn't expect the arguing, but the Narusasu moments were pretty nice? Right, well, please tell me if you liked, loved, or hated it! Please tell me! Also, thank you again mystery guest that always roots for Sasuke! Hope to hear from you again! Moshi Mosh!