Black Dove White Crow
A/N: Alo Alo! It's my first Naruto Story annnnnd my first fanfiction on ever! I have to admit that I am totally nervous about this and I hope all goes well. The best it can go even.
Disclaimer: I WANT Sasuke. I WANT Naruto. But sadly, I'd be robbing the world of two hot bishies.
Warnings: Suicidal tendencies.
Death, because everyone is human.
Yaoi. Boy x Boy Love. Don't like it, don't read it.
Language, it's can get a bit over the top.
OoC Palooza! XD I'm not that good at keeping in character and well, I guess that's just what the story makes them to be. ;
And anything else I might've missed.
Chapter One: See You Again?
The lukewarm wind echoed through the earth. Fresh grass blades rippled like water as the sound of laughter could be faintly heard. Two teenagers, a golden fox and an ebony raven, ran across the meadow. They were enjoying the time they had with each other, not knowing that this would be their last.
"C'mon dobe! I know you can run faster than that!"
"Shut up teme! I'm running as fast as I can, you're just sight impaired!"
The ebony raven stopped, a smirk upon his face instead of a grimace like most people might've had on their face. "If I'm sight impaired, then you'd look to be a whole lot smaller Naruto."
The golden fox finally caught up to him, falling over onto his knees as he panted and gasped for breath. Azure blue eyes glared up as he scrambled for a response to say. Plush lips moved, forming incoherent words but yet no sound gave them an identity. "How can I be smaller than you? I'm standing right here!"
His smirk only grew when he realized that the fox did not understand. "I wasn't talking about your height. I was talking about mini Naruto." The raven pointed out. At first, the golden one couldn't comprehend but then a rosy blush spread across his cheeks.
"Baka Sasuke-teme! You're dirty as always, just like Genma!"
"'Just like Genma'? Awh, Naruto I'm hurt. I always looked at myself to be better than him."
The other teen snorted, folding his arms as he huffed indignantly. Coy charcoal hues softened, and that smirk upon his face enlightened into a genuine smile. At first, the golden fox remained unchanged before a goofy grin played his lips. "You're only better than him because you're my boyfriend."
Strong pale arms wrapped around the blonde from behind, and instantly the golden fox gave into the embrace of the black raven. As the taller dark haired teenager nuzzled a burrow of flaxen tresses, the blonde tilted his head up and purred low in his throat.
"I love you Naruto."
"I love you too Sasu—
The golden fox never got to finish his sentence. Suddenly the air grew frigid, and their breaths could be seen in white puffs. Both faces drew forward, not knowing that they were up against.
All of a sudden, fear filled their eyes and a strong wind forced them apart. The gust blew them at a far distance and as their arms reached out to each other, ice descended upon the earth around them, unrelenting force turning it all into ice.
"Sa-Sasuke! I'll always lo—
Once again, Naruto's words were cut in half. The ice had started to snake up his leg, freezing it like the precious meanings that hung in his throat. Freezing water continued to trap the golden fox further and further into it's icy grudges.
The black raven panicked and ran for his beloved, fear churning his stomach over and over. It was too late, for now his golden beauty lay encased in nothing more than natural glass. As he moved to draw his lover close, the fragile statue broke into tiny fragments in his arms.
Charcoal eyes could only widen, full realization that the only one that had ever loved him was now gone. The black raven was all alone again. This had always happened, and nothing good ever came out of it.
He found tears escaped the corners of his dark eyes and the teen attempted to drop down to his knees. Sasuke couldn't, for the ice was now beginning to swallow him up. As the clear solid water climbed it's way upwards, the black raven thrashed about, not wanting to get stuck again.
"No! No! I want to be free! Let me go!" He cried, arms flailing wildly.
Then the ice had a voice of it's own. It spoke in whispers, words enough to be their own knives. "Give it up child. You can't win. You've always lost. Just give up and give in."
Sasuke refused to listen to something so harsh talk like that. He clamped his hands over his ears, shaking his head about. "Shut up! Shut up! Just leave me alone!" The black raven protested.
Though his eyes shut, something rolled in front of him that made him just open up his eyes again. Though it was entirely crystallized, it was Naruto's face. In nearly the same voice that the cruel ice had spoken to him, a whispered tone reminiscent of his beloved could be heard.
"Sasuke? Wh-Where are you? I can't see you..B-But it's so cold..So cold here.."
As the voice began to die back down, Sasuke panicked once again. "No! Don't stop talking! I don't want to be alone!" He tried to move, but it deemed impossible. All that was left for the darkness to capture was his head.
But the black raven fought. He continued to thrash and shift about, defying the odds and everything that worked against him. Even as it still seemed like he was just going to have to give in, his frozen arms began to move and stretch out towards the face of his beloved golden fox.
"Nngh, Naru-Naruto…" Sasuke grunted, struggling to keep his control over his arms. He was so close…so damned close to getting a hold of what was left of Naruto.
'I can't remember you.'
Sasuke stopped, eyes widened as Naruto's voice spoke out of nowhere.
'Hey there. Uhm, Sasuke right?'
As it continued to dawn on the black raven, he just stood there, the dominating ice even stopping as he just numbly listened to the words that were cutting his heart into pieces.
'What are you doing Sasuke! Let me go! I'm not gay!'
That did it. Sasuke was crushed.
'I'm not gay! Just stop it!'
The ice chose this time to get back into action. It pulled back Sasuke's arms close to his body and he moved them curl around himself. Suddenly the ice didn't seem like such a bad place after all. It seemed…rather warm and inviting now…
"That's right. You have nothing left to live for. Submit and give in. It's not so bad."
The black raven made a small affirmation sound, and it engulfed his head, the ice turning black as the night. There was a pulse emitting from the frozen teen, but it grew dark. His lover's face on the ground reduced itself to nothing more than dust.
They were frozen in time.
This moment was frozen in time, and they would always be this way.
Because time is a cruel mistress for—
Time forgot them.
It has been two years since they were forgotten. Though people were hurt, everything was perfectly fine now. All tears had been shed, and all nightmares had been cast aside for now. All goals were back into focus again, and whoever or whatever had once caused so many to be distressed, was erased from history.
One such person that had undergone the change was now running through the busy streets. He had a goofy grin plastered onto his face, cerulean eyes glowing with excitement and joy for the dawn of a fresh new day. Things had finally gone off to a good start for him and he would be rather be damned than to have something screw it all up now.
"I'm finally going to be able to pick my own room, my own classes, and rule my own life for the first time ever! This is going to be great!" Jumping a few inches into the air, the light certainly shone upon this young blonde's path for now. It was the start of college and things were looking up.
As he ran through the bustling streetwalk, people passing him by usually with a scowl as he mumbled out a sorry, the blonde could barely contain his excitement. So much to the point of where he ran into an open street just as the light turned red. A loud honk caught his ears, as well as an earsplitting screech.
"Wha--?" It looked to be over, but a grip and tug on his arm saved the blonde from becoming roadkill. Naruto shut his eyes, afraid that the car was still coming to hit him. The hold on his arm stayed there for a few minutes, then softened and let go.
"You should be more careful Naruto, you might die someday."
The deep timbre of his savior's voice caught his ear, and the said teen opened his eyes to gaze at the owner of such a smooth voice. Pale porcelain skin, charcoal eyes and unevenly grown raven locks…Kind of strange looking, with an even stranger warm glow in his eyes. This guy had to be some kind of foreigner.
"Uh..Thanks for saving me and uh, how do you—" Naruto blinked dumbfoundedly as two fingers were pressed to his lips. Even though the person looked a bit cold, his skin was surprisingly warm. He felt something of irritance be irked inside of him as his sentence was cut off.
"Ssh...dobe."
Alright that was enough to make his temper rise to the point of where he wanted to hurt this stranger. First the guy somehow knows his name, and now he replaces it with that! Naruto had just about had it with this guy's stupid antics!
As soon as his fingers were pulled away, the blonde chose this time to go off at him. "Listen here you! I don't even know you and why in the name of the seven hells did you call me dobe!" Naruto had shut his eyes while yelling, assuming that the guy was still going to be there staring strangely at him. But after a few moments of gaining no response, Naruto grit his teeth together. "Well!"
Finally the blonde opened his eyes wearily. The black foreigner guy…was gone. This only made Naruto fly off the handle more. "Augh dammit! You mean that jerk just left me here like this!" He growled, azure blue eyes scanning about for the stranger. Apparently he was gone from sight now and Naruto found his cheeks flush when he noticed that there were some people staring at him.
So not only had he just left while he was demanding an answer from him, but that bastard had also embarassed him in public! Ugh, things couldn't get worse.
Naruto tugged his phone out of the brown khakis he wore, just to check the time. As soon as he saw it, his eyes widened in shock. Slamming it back down into his pocket, the blonde began rushing off for Konoha Wind University with a terrible scowl on his face.
"I'M GONNA GET THAT JERK!"
The blonde known as Naruto slouched over in his seat. He had made it a few precious minutes too late, so now he had lost the chance to pick which room he was staying in, and also lost the chance to know who he was going to be rooming with.
Clucking of the tongue could be heard, but Naruto made no response to the sound. He had already had a bad start to the one day he had wished would go right, so the blonde had lost himself in his state of upsetness. That damned raven was going to pay for making him late on such an important occasion, and now even all the things he planned to do to him began filling his head.
"Tsk tsk Naruto. If you had only gotten here a few half hours earlier, everything would be just the way you want it."
Naruto growled, his hands clenching tightly on the knees of his jeans. "It's not my fault Iruka! There was this guy that pulled me out of traffic, somehow knew my name and just ditched me!" He waved his arms around for emphasis, an angry glare settled into his eyes.
All of a sudden the door burst open and a dark haired figure spun into the room. "Ohohoho What's this that I'm hearing? Naruto Uzumaki falling in love with a mysterious stranger that saves him from the dreaded streetcars on the street? Oh the animosity!"
Iruka came over to the dark haired man whom was still spinning in slow circles with little hearts flying around him. "Hi Genma." He poked the said man in the side. "Night Genma." Before the strange man could question what he meant by such a statement, Genma fainted and fell to the ground.
Naruto blinked at the sleeping heap on the floor before giving Iruka a big hug. "Thank you!" The other just grinned and patted him on the back. "There there, now let me go so I can give you your room number and key." Immediately the blonde sat right back down in his seat, the tension forgotten now.
Hey, it paid to have your guardian as the assisstant dean of your college.
Soon the teen was excitedly running up the stairs to his dorm room. It was on the second floor, Room Double 309. The only thing that he hoped for, was that his roomate wasn't that jerk and also that he just wasn't there right now. Dear sweet mother in heaven, let it not be the first of the two.
Slipping the key into the slot, he felt himself growing a bit nervous as he unlocked the door. Naruto's hand even began shaking as grabbed the golden knob and turned it slowly. Pushing outwards, the door gave way and Naruto shut his eyes. Hearing no retort, or even any sound at all, Naruto cautiously cracked his eyes open.
Nobody was there yet.
"Thank god." The blonde sighed in relief, running a hand through his spiky flaxen lockes. At least it seemed like things were going good again for now, but heaven knows what could happen later. Oh well, rest now, worry later. Azure blue eyes glanced to the bed across from his, keeping a small hope in his mind that there were girl belongings there.
But once he saw it, he just also hoped that this girl was just bland and simplistic.
The dark indigo bedcovers were hardly touched, two rather flat and uncomfortable looking pillows lay directly ontop of each other in a neat freak fashion at the head of the bed, and at the end was only a skimpy black comforter. Under the bed was a small black suitcase and a brown duffel bag. The nightstand…well, there was a black sleek cellphone that Naruto knew also doubled as a nifty camera, text messager, and music player. One of the most expensive and sought after electronics around.
Curious as to what kind of rich girl would get something like this, Naruto picked up the phone and flipped it open. The screen was just as bland as the person seemed to be, nothing on it but the standard cellphone icons and time. "Well that's no good." The blonde scowled, deciding to scroll down the address book.
"Crap, she locked it."
"Damn straight I did." The familiar dark tone caused Naruto to glance up from the screen to an equally familiar pair of coy charcoal eyes. It took him a few minutes to register that his worst enemy had just entered the room. "Yo genius, you going to do something or just stare?"
The blonde growled at the cocky tone in the other's voice. "Shut up teme. Not only did you ditch me back there, but I wanted to ask you something while you chickened out on me." The raven only stared quizzically at him as Naruto took a deep breath and finally got it out.
Fiercely determined cobalt eyes rose to meet the stranger's black hues. "How the hell do you know my name?"
Now this raised an amusing reaction out of him. An eyebrow raised and something of confusion flickered in his eyes. "What do mean 'how do you know my name'? Are you okay Naruto?" As the teen drew closer, Naruto scooted back.
"Get away from me…I-I don't even know you!"
The other's eyes widened, but the blonde was too freaked out to notice. Was he supposed to know this other's guy's name? For that matter, was he supposed to know anything else! The cellphone made a loud clatter as it hit the grey carpeted floor.
"Naruto, what—
"Just leave me alone! Go away! GO AWAY YOU..YOU FREAK!"
Naruto didn't need to hear anymore of this…scary guy's chatter. He didn't want to hear it. It was just going to corrupt his mind and besides, the blonde had other things to do rather than sort out what the bloody hell was going on here. He just needed to get away from him.
Clamping his hands over his ears, Naruto came running out of his dorm room, not caring about the cries of his name behind him or whomever would get in his way. He just needed to make some kind of big, distant gap between him and that freak that seemed to know him somehow.
"Watch where you're—Oof!"
It didn't seem that long before the blonde collided with someone. The good thing was that both of them had managed not to fall over, but now Naruto was resting on some guy's soft but firm chest. He heard a sigh from above him. Naruto looked up at him, though they were just about the same height.
The owner of the sigh had shaggy scarlet locks, and beautiful emerald eyes that were surrounded by a strangely pointed layer of black eyeshadow. It was like the smokey eyes taken up two notches for boys, but it worked for him and made his eyes stand out from his red hair and pale skin.
"Sorry 'bout that, I was being chased by this pervert and I kinda wasn't looking where I was going."
The other made a small 'hmm' sound before giving a curt nod of the head. Naruto decided that there was something strange about this guy, but it wasn't as bad as what his roomate had, so he liked the guy already. Naruto plastered his everpopular grin on his face.
"So, uh...if you happen to know where the cafeteria is around here, you wanna go grab a bite to eat?"
The redhead blinked, on the inside a bit startled that there had been no introductions yet they already seemed to be friends. A small smile made it's way onto his face as the other stared at him awaiting an answer. 'He really hasn't changed at all...'
"Sure. I'll lead the way, I suppose." The other yipped happily and they left to depart off for the grand eating room that was the cafeteria. That was...before Naruto had frozen to a halt, stopping the reddie there with him. It was Sasuke, he now stood a few feet apart from them, and he stared at the ground with a hurt glaze in his eyes.
Naruto, having just ran from the teen earlier, hid behind the one accompanying him while such a person raised a curious eyebrow. Sasuke found his heart breaking at the sight, but he willed himself to at least say something coherent.
"Uh..Uhm, I heard that you guys w-were going to the cafeteria..Can I come with you—"
No dice. Naruto had already gotten intterupted today by this guy, he wasn't exactly going to get interrupted again. First time shame on you, second time shame on me.
"No. We've got our own business to attend to and you're not part of this." The blonde stuck his nose high in the air and haugtily looked away. His hands came around the redhead's arm as he tried to pull him away, but the teen remained firmly planted in his spot.
Some other guy had came up beside Sasuke, sporting a long dark brown ponytail and earthy cream clothing. There was a strange glow in pupil-less silver white eyes, but a small smile was on his face. "Is something going on here gentlemen?"
They just stared at him, Naruto shaking his head wildly while an amused glow was lit in a pair of emerald eyes. The teen merely accepted Sasuke's silence as an answer as well. "Well, I guess I'll be seeing you guys later. Lunchroom right?"
Just like that, Naruto had lost his chaperone. But as a loss for both men, they lost their only way to get some food. Azure eyes and charcoal hues watched as the red and ponytail traveled down the stairs. Soon after, they caught each other's gaze and different emotions spilt in.
Anger met fear. Irritance met sadness. Neither was the same.
"I..guess that we'd better catch up to them before it's too late huh?" Sasuke shrugged lightly, a distant aura emanating off of him. Naruto snorted, trying his best to seem more pissed off than hungry.
"Yeah whatever. Let's just get moving teme."
Little did he know, that name he had just called him had made a darker, more crestfallen look glow inside the other's midnight gaze. Scars were being re-opened, the pain stinging.
"C'mon." Abruptly, the dark haired teen grabbed Naruto rather roughly by his wrist and the two began tailing after their unknown companions up front.
'Don't forget me—
But don't remember me either.'
A/N: Nya, I know this must've been kinda bad for my first attempt at this, but I found it to be quite long for me. xD Ooh, anyways I just remembered that I never gave you a name to call me by other than 'RoundTehMullberryBush'. ;
You can call me Mrellwill! xD Don't ask, it happens.
Ooh! And everyone will be introduced later on. Obviously the reddie is Gaara, and teh ponytail is...Iruka? xD Just kidding. It's Neji!
So uhm, go kinda easy on me kay? Read and Reviewwww! –huggles, kisses, scuttles out of the room-