Osu~! Yay! I'm updating again! And I'm super busy right now, considering I have tons of homework - not to worry about that, I never done it anyway! xD But I have my monthly exam this upcoming Tuesday...and I haven't even touched any of my books! Kyah! So, I'm not sure if this story will be updated sooner or later, but I'll try my best! Anyhow, as I've promised, we'll be meeting the Uchihas in this chappy! Yay! Hooray for the Uchihas! Now go and read the freaking chappy! xD Woot!
Chapitre 11
Silence filled the whole room. It was not the usual calming silence that you would feel every night after a thunderstorm, it was a silence that would make you feel extremely anxious and uncomfortable. And those two feelings were just the feelings that were inside each and every single person inside the room. It was as if there was a huge secret that was wanting to be thrown out, but at the same time, it hadn't had the courage to go out and reveal itself to the world. The silence continued, until the black-haired young man coughed, having decided to stop the agonising stillness.
"If you would allow me, Your Highness, I would like to take Naruto to the garden for a short while," he spoke calmly and civilly, getting to his feet and taking the hand of his fiance, who seemed to be in a stupor until the young man's digits came in contact with his own hand.
"...of course," the blond's father gave him an approving nod, smiling a little. "And make sure to bring him to your parents later on, Sasuke-kun..."
"Yes, Your Highness..."
With that, Sasuke brought Naruto out to the garden, entwining the still-dazed boy's fingers with his. The both of them stepped out of the dining hall and walked side by side towards the enchanting garden outside. Once they reached there, Naruto unconsciously tightened his grip against Sasuke's hand and turned to him, obviously having just woken up from his state of trance. The young man tilted his head to the side slightly, before he smiled and kissed the boy's temple knowing it would calm his restless feelings down. As he had expected, once his warm lips came in contact with the boy's forehead, a small contented sigh escaped from his lips.
"...you're okay now, my love?"
"...yeah...I guess so..." Naruto smiled. "...what did you do just now anyway, Sasuke?"
"Giving you the kiss of life...only on a different spot," Sasuke's luscious voice sounded so silky that the boy shuddered upon hearing it.
Blushing a little, Naruto licked his lips and averted his eyes somewhere else. "...h-hey...Sasuke? Um...w-when...when are we gonna...meet your parents?"
"...whenever you like it, Naruto..." the young man replied with his same deep succulent tone. "Though...I might say I like it...if we meet them sooner.... Like they say...the sooner, the better...don't you think so?"
"Um...maybe..." the boy shrugged as he wasn't really paying attention to what Sasuke was saying - just hearing the husky voice already made him melt into a puddle of goo, it was almost impossible to listen to what he had to say.
"Okay then...let's go now..."
"Okay....wha-?!"
Before he managed to even blink once and process what was going on, the world had already become so small underneath him. When he finally noticed the bizarre change in his surroundings, he blinked - and widened his eyes upon seeing that he was in the midst of the sky, with clouds and birds all around him. He looked around in bedazzlement and all of a sudden, he noticed a pair of strong arms wrapped around his waist. He looked to his back - up - and realised that the one who had been the cause for him to be flying in midair was none other than his fiance, Sasuke. And more surprising, the young man had a pair of rather large black wings attached to his back.
"....S-S-S-Sa-Sa-?!" he blinked several times more in pure shock.
"...what's wrong, Naruto?"
But before he managed to utter any other word, the boy had already lost his unconsciousness, screaming in a deafening pitch before he passed out - much to Sasuke's surprise. Nevertheless, just when Naruto was about to fall straight onto the ground - which was about ten storeys below - the young man quickly caught hold of him, embracing the smaller male firmly yet gently. After a few minutes of flying, the two of them finally reached their destination; the Uchiha manor. Seeing the tall tower at the centre of the huge house, Sasuke prepared himself to land on the ground - and he landed in just a few seconds.
"Naruto..." he called his fiance, shaking the boy lightly. "Naruto, wake up.... We're here..."
"Unh...w-where?" Naruto, getting back his consciousness, flickered his eyelids open slowly.
"The Uchiha manor..."
He blinked a few more times and looked around. "...the what?"
"The Uchiha manor..." Sasuke said again, slightly amused with the boy's current behaviour. "...my family's house..."
"What? Y-you mean...we're here?" Naruto asked, not believing the young man's words.
"Yes, my love..."
The blond opened his mouth to say something, but shut it as soon as he saw a huge fountain in the middle of the garden at the front of the mansion. Well, it wasn't the fountain that caught his attention - it was the two females and the three equines that did. Indeed, one would say; 'What's so special about some girls and horses?', but what Naruto saw were not just any girls and any horses - they were two fairies, complete with their wings and long elf ears and three winged-horses, or what we may call Pegasuses. That was what Naruto saw - and he was beyond astounded upon seeing those creatures.
"S-Sasuke..." he called for the brunette. "W-what...what are those?"
"...those, my love...are mythical creatures that exist only in this world after they were wiped out from the other world completely," Sasuke replied, smiling in amusement.
Upon hearing this, a frown appeared on Naruto's face. "Wiped out? What do you mean?"
"Well...years ago, humans, animals, trees and mythical creatures used to live together in peace in this world and the other one.... That's why there are these creatures in fables that you read as a child.... Nonetheless, something happened...something that I myself know nothing about, and all of the creatures were banished from the other world...but they somehow stayed in this world..." the young man explained.
"Oh..."
"...but anyhow..." Sasuke decided to change the subject and took Naruto's hand in his. "...you don't want to come in and meet my family?"
"Ah...o-okay..."
The two of them then walked into the manor through the huge main door, hands entwined together just like when they were about to meet Naruto's parents. As they entered the mansion, they were greeted by the maidservants who were obviously surprised to see their young master returning home with a fine young man holding hands with him. Nevertheless, they knew best not to ask, thus they just bowed and moved aside as the pair strode towards the staircase which led to the main hall of the huge house. Once they reached there, the first thing they saw was the blinding brightness of the enormous room.
"...wow..." Naruto blinked a few times, trying to adjust his eyes to the vividness. "Are we having a party or something?"
"Sort of...though I wasn't expecting it to be this...intense..." Sasuke chuckled as he brought his fiance to the middle of the hall where a beautifully petite dark-haired lady was standing.
"And this should go...Sasuke, is that you?"
The young man smiled and bowed a little at the female. "Yes, mother...and this is my fiance, Naruto..."
"Oh...so you're Naruto, Minato's and Kushina's one and only son, aren't you?" the woman smiled sweetly at him. "Your parents told me a lot about you...and you know what, you look just like your father.... Doesn't he, Sasuke?"
"Well...yes, he does..."
"Anyway, tell me, Naruto...what does it feel like to finally returning here after living in the other world for years?" Sasuke's mother asked randomly.
"W-what...does it feel like?" the boy raised his brow, trying to find the right words to describe his current feelings. "W-well...I'm not sure.... I mean, I'm really happy to be back to where I belong...but I also appreciate all that I have learnt in the other world..."
Hearing this, the long-haired brunette nodded a few times and smiled. "Good, good.... You even follow your father's well-mannered traits, you know. I'm so happy that you and Sasuke are going to settle down with each other..."
Naruto blushed a little when he heard this, but remained his smile nevertheless. After a while more, Sasuke's mother left the hall, saying she had some other errands to be done. With that, the couple was left inside the hall with the working maidservants. As they watched the petite female left the room, Sasuke decided to take his fiance to see the head of the Uchiha family who was also his father, Uchiha Fugaku. Thus, the both of them walked out of the huge enclosed area and headed towards the library where the Uchiha family's leader would constantly be at. Once they reached there, the young man knocked on the dark mahogany door several times.
"...come in," a low reply came from inside the room after a short while, and Sasuke entered the room followed by Naruto.
"Forgive me for disturbing you, father..." the brunette bowed as soon as he was inside the dark library, motioning his fiance to do the same. "...but my fiance, Uzumaki Naruto, is here with me...and His and Her Highness had requested for me to bring him to you..."
"...bring him here..."
Sasuke turned to the blond and nodded, signalling him to go and meet up with his father. The boy timidly approached the man who was still sitting on the huge single-seated sofa with his back facing them. He stopped just before the couch and bowed again, not daring to raise his head and meet eyes with the man who he thought to be so terrifyingly mysterious and peculiar - and somehow, that reminded him of Sasuke when they first met. Nonetheless, he stayed in his position and sealed his lips shut as Uchiha Fugaku got up from his seat and turned towards him - and patted his shoulder, much to his surprise.
"You're a fine one...just like how I had predicted you to be...stand up straight, young man..." the man's voice was hoarse and deep and sounded cold, yet the hand upon Naruto's shoulder was warm and calming, very much the opposite of the man's outer appearance. "...the son of Namikaze Minato and Uzumaki Kushina.... You really remind me about the two of them...your face, your figure...and your tension right now, that's just like Minato and Kushina..."
Naruto tensed up more upon heeding this. "Y-yes...U-Uchiha-san..."
"Hm...take him away, Sasuke..."
"Yes, father..."
With that, Sasuke stepped towards Naruto and brought him out of the library, leaving his father inside the room all alone just like how he would always like it. Once they were outside, and the door was shut, the boy instantly fell into his fiance's arms, heaving out his breath as he trembled and tried to hold onto the young man to avoid himself from sliding down onto the floor. The spot where Fugaku had touched him was still warm, and he could feel the temperature of his body increasing steadily in a fast pace. It was almost like the middle-aged man had cast a spell on him without him noticing - at all.
"...you're okay, Naruto?"
"...I don't know..." he breathed out. "Y-your father...did he...?"
A small smile appeared on Sasuke's face. "Yes...he put a spell on you, just to see if you can withstand its power or not. With his power, the slightest use of magic would have make normal people burn into ashes in milliseconds...but the special ones...like you would just get a little side effect, like what you are feeling now...."
"...special ones?" Naruto furrowed his brows questioningly.
"Yes...but please, Naruto...you need to rest now..."
"But..."
Before he managed to finish his words, Sasuke had already put a spell upon him, and he fell into a deep sleep in his fiance's warm embrace almost instantly, unaware of what was prepared for him in the coming future...
((to be continued))
Osu~! Phew! finally done! Yay! I'm so damn proud of myself! The first part of the chapter holds a secret, and so does the last part! Dun dun dun! what will the secrets be? When will they be revealed? Dun dun dun! Wait for the next chappy - or the next FEW chappies - to find out! Woot! Tired now! I'm going to go to bed! Woot! Ja ne, minna-san!
