Royal Rumble 10

Kickers-ej

Disclaimer : Me no own Naruto. Naruto own Sasuke.

After the House of Demonea Konoha took over Fire Nation, Princes and Princesses of the court must find mates and secure their place. What better mate to own none other than he of Uchihan blood? Four brothers and sisters fight for the only one left. NaruSasu, KyuuIta, multiple pairings, with possessive MinatoFugaku at the side—don't ask me how this works.

Ninth decree: The rise of emperor Naruto

The day started out with thunder storms and pelting rain, so dark that anyone would have guessed that it was night. Itachi somberly watched as they took his brother's casket to the royal burial grounds, unable to follow the procession. He caught sight of Kyuubi in front, with Naruto in tow. His parents were last to move from the ceremony, each caught in their own thoughts. Though he couldn't see Gaara anywhere, he knew that the man was consoling Neji, his brother's friend since small.

Sakura admitted that she was going to trap Naruto into delaying his mating ceremony, just enough time for her to find a suitable mate. Sasuke was just caught up in the middle. She insisted that they punish her, but Naruto refused to do so. Itachi thinks it's because he knew, that inside, every time Sakura would look at him, she would be punishing herself. Guilt eats you away faster than fire. He was snapped out of his reverie when Naruto threw a fit as they lowered the casket into the ground.

"Why did you say those words to save me?! Why did you say you refuse to be my mate?! I would have followed you anywhere, death, life, hell! Why did you save me?!" Naruto shouted, banging the casket. Fugaku pushed through to put a stop to it, but Minato held him back.

"Why did you let me live, my love?" Naruto wept, rain as his companion. His siblings rushed forward to hug him, Sakura whispering sorry over and over. Kyuubi glanced at Itachi, knowing full well that his mate would not be able to sleep for a long time. Naruto broke free from his siblings to wrap his arms around the casket.

"Sasuke! Sasuke!" Itachi has had enough. Doesn't Naruto know that his actions will only burden his brother's spirit? Rushing to the distraught prince, Itachi wasted no time than to rip Naruto away from his brother.

"I want you to stop torturing Sasuke's soul! Don't you know your crying will make him hesitate to go on?! Would you prefer Sasuke be stuck here all eternity?!" Itachi shouted, the first time after a long time. Kyuubi was shaken at his mate's lost of composure.

"No…I'd never," Naruto began.

"Just let him leave Naruto. Sasuke saved you because he loves you," Itachi signaled the men to lower the casket. Naruto watched stunned as they filled the hole with earth, every shovel resonating like a loud thump in his heart.

"He loves you. Isn't that enough?" Itachi asked as everyone left the burial grounds. Naruto continued to stare at the spot where his heart now lay buried.

"My heart…it's not mine to give,"

"My heart is not mine to give either," Naruto mumbled, happy to remember that sentence. Once again tears fell from his tired eyes. Crying on top of the buried casket, Naruto fell asleep there that day, in hopes he could be close to Sasuke's casket.

But the casket was already empty.

"Let me out! I want to see Naruto!" Sasuke shouted. He was trapped in a cage, with no recollection as to how he got there. Two people were pulling his cage on a cart, both with weird eyebrows.

"Gai-sensei, are you sure this is the right thing to do? He said that he wants to go back to lord Naruto," the younger of the two asked. The elder weirdo showed thumbs up.

"I am positive, Lee! He was in that casket we delivered! Good thing I decided to check it again before leaving the castle, if not I would not have known there was a live person in there. As for returning to the castle, who is to say the perpetrator who did this is not there? He could still be in danger!" Gai-sensei insisted.

Lee nodded his head, there was some logic to that, but the look in the young man was so forlorn, lord Naruto must be someone special. But he agreed with Gai-sensei, this man might still be in danger! Turning back to watch Sasuke bang the cage, lee assured Sasuke that he was safe.

"Sorry my youthful friend, but can you please hold on until we treat you? And get to the bottom of it! As gai sensei said, you might still be in danger," Lee said. Sasuke reluctantly agreed, knowing that these people would not listen to him. He tried moving his legs but couldn't, knowing that it was the side effects of the poison. Turning to look at the moon, Sasuke wished Naruto could hear him and save him.

"Naruto,"

"Sasuke," Naruto whispered as he watched the moon from the burial grounds. Kushina insisted that he went back to bed, but being the stubborn brat that he was, he denied her. Kyuubi looked cross to see Naruto behaving such a way, but understood his brother's pain. For losing a mate was second painful only to death.

"I miss you,"

Sasuke was brought back to a small village, 3 days journey away. He was ready for demons to attack them when he reached there, but none came. Upon questioning Lee, the man said that they were an all human village, demons dare not enter here for fear of their leader.

A man called Pein. He and a few of the guards (labeled Akatsuki) kept the town demon free. Sasuke raised a delicate eyebrow at them. He was surprised that they weren't attacked by demons before, but he guessed these parts of the kingdom have only low level demons. Since he ingested both Kyuubi and Gaara's blood as well as carry Naruto's seed, only high powered demons were able to detect him. But that did not stop the fact that every living being in the world would swarm to him upon seeing his face. They were lucky they hadn't met people on their way here, and they reached the village as darkness crawls. Either Lee or Gai were bisexual, or in love with each other, but having them treat him as a normal person was refreshing. He raised five fingers and began a countdown, both Lee and Gai perplexed at seeing this. Beginning a countdown, once he reached three; there were shouts outside in the streets, and once all fingers were closed, the door to the small hut was slammed upon, only to give view to a hideous tiger demon.

Sasuke sighed as the tiger demon (now delirious at the smell of his blood) launched an attack to bite his neck, but was intercepted by Gai-sensei. Lee stood in front of Sasuke, chivalrous.

"I tried to warn you. I have blood demons want. And the worse part is, only strong demons can detect me," Sasuke drawled, watching as Gai parried with the demon. The man was strong, obscenely strong for a human.

"Demons?" Lee pondered. "Uchiha Sasuke?" Lee asked. Sasuke turned to look at Lee.

"Only now you realized this?"

"Holy moly. No wonder your beauty was something to behold! I threw away the invitation to that ball you see…emperor Minato was adamant I was good for their daughter Sakura. Even though I am human, they like me a lot..,"

"Lee…thanks for the story, but shouldn't you be helping Gai?" Sasuke asked.

"Oh, right," Lee turned to see Gai sensei delivering a strong blow to the demon, knocking him off cold. Gai then took the demon out to the woods, dumping his body for wild animals to find.

Sasuke has never seen a human so strong.

"Wow,"

"Wow is the word,"

"Naruto, what is the meaning of this?" Minato asked as Naruto challenged him for the rights to being emperor. The royal children bristled as Naruto increased his power.

"You heard me. I wish to be emperor," Naruto's voice was clipped, his gaze hardened. "And I don't need a mate to be one,"