Again sorry for the rant on my first chapter.
I do not Own Naruto!
Thank you for the first reviewers of the story. Merci!
"But I will wear my heart upon my sleeve
For daws to peck at: I am not what I am.
William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
Othello Act1 Scene1
Chapter 2
Earlier that day Kankuro had arrived after cleaning the mess of the failed mission earlier that night. They have received information that Konoha's Uchiha Sasuke- Naruto couldn't hide his anxiousness- will be arriving at the airport and will be welcomed by a handful of guards there they would be with him until they are on their headquarters. The information has been complete with necessary information, the position of the guards, the road they will take. Kankuro had assumed that the said guards would be from the Konoha Clan. Based on the given facts, they have devised a plan.
Naruto could have known, wasn't it obvious?
They would ambush the car at the end of a sharp curve down the alley. The car could be armoured so they'll use a cannon to blow it off. There will be snipers at bay in case the plan backfired. All the roads leading to that alley had been closed, hoards of gang bikers working under the Clan is stationed there. The plan was flawless. Yet Naruto couldn't help himself to be anxious. He keeps telling himself that the plan is alright. The plan is flawless, but something small inside his mind keep telling him that something is wrong, that he has to check it out.
If you found a map that leads you to a treasure chest, there are two things that you should expect. A fifty-fifty chance that…
Finally he compelled to the tiny voice and went to the airport earlier than what his members expected. There he saw a man dressed in black garments exit the plane. From afar he could see the man's pale skin glimmer against the moonlight. Damn this man is breathtaking.
One was that you could find a treasure or….
There he saw how men circled around him. He slightly growled as he saw one of them place a hand at the man's shoulder. How dare they touch someone as delicate as this man? The hand he noticed was missing some digits. And something in his finger glittered. He narrowed his eye and saw the silver snake intertwined with a dead bird, the symbol of the Shinjuku Clan.
You could find an empty treasure box devoid of treasures but snakes…
His fears answered. He waited until the car left together with the man. He hurriedly left the airport, hurrying to deliver the message to Kankuro. They couldn't afford to wage war against another Clan. Not at their state. The gang had just been founded, they were newbie, battling with one veteran clan; the Konoha was bad enough, they couldn't afford to battle out with another. Damn, this is bad!
And right now, he could clearly say, that the box contained snakes; long, deadly snakes that belonged to the slimy hands of a familiar snake-bastard.
Or as he recalled calling him on his teens.
With his Harley-Davidson, he sped quickly until he arrived at the alley
He prayed on the Fates the he isn't too late.
But it seems like the Fates have other plans for him.
He shouted an ear-splitting no as one of his men pulled the trigger of the cannon. He fired the cannon at an angle where the man who was seated at the middle be thrown off the car.
Naruto watched as a figure was thrown off the car. It was the agent, the same man he taught as an angel a while ago. Time seems to stop as he saw the man try to focus his view, his face calm with concentration. Naruto looked at the man who fired the cannon. Then at Kankuro who was supervising the plan from afar.
Slowly he walked towards the fallen man. His face tainted by blood.
If he thought that this man from afar was an angel. Up close he was a god. The man's hair as sleek and black as a raven's wings framed his face, his arrogant nose, his small pink lips and his breathtakingly polished onyx eyes. The man was give or takes 3 years his senior.
For a moment they stared at each other's eyes.
"What happened?" The agent in shaky voice like that of a child.
Naruto offered a smile, surprised to see such a man speaking like that of a child. "It's okay."
The agent features was unmoved. But he made a small nod before his eyes went shut.
Naruto scooped the man and carried him bridal style.
"Sir, I…." the man who pulled the trigger told him, he involuntarily stuttered. "I didn't mean it sir. I was just following Kankuro-sama's order sir. I didn't mean it sir. I didn't."
Naruto paid no heed to the man and went straight to the car waiting for him. The same car that held Kankuro.
Inside, he told Kankuro what he had learned.
"The Shinjuku?"
He nodded as he laid the agent on the velvet seat. "Kankuro." His blond locks covering his eyes.
"Hmm?" He asked. Hoping that Naruto isn't angry at him for flunking the first mission Naruto would see. He's pretty damn sure this would create a bad impact on him.
"Let's go home."
"But what about the agent." Kankuro asked curious. If he had his way, he'll torture the goddamn agent and curse him 'till death.
But it looks like Naruto had other plans for the agent as he brushed a few stray hairs soaked in blood away from the pale boys face.
"We will take care of him." The tone on his voice indicates that this is final; this is an order not a topic for discussion.
"Besides you should be honoured." Naruto said after a while of silence.
"Honoured?" Kankuro asked confusion in his face. How come he be honoured.
"Don't you recognize him Kankuro?"
"Should I?"
Naruto chuckled. "Really Kankuro, do you even watch television these days?"
"Not recently. Why?"
"How long?'
"What?"
"How long since you watched T.V?"
" 'Bout a year and a half or so, about the day the gang started why. Again why?" Kankuro remembered rubbing his chin.
"And what did you do on your past time? Fuck each other?" Naruto asked irritated. "Really you should watch the T.V more often Kankuro."
"Because what you call the agent, is the Bankable Star, Santadio Sasuke."
Silence. Naruto waited patiently as the fact slowly sunk on Kankuro.
Kankuro whistled. "A Bankable Star, eh? This could be fun." he gave Naruto the 'look'. The same one he use back in their collage days when they would start a food fight or lock a first year in the bathroom.
"You're nasty." Naruto said with a smile.
"I know." Kankuro said. "Don't you love me?"
The two of them laughed and headed for the house where they would formulate their new plan, Kankuro could almost smell the sweet smell of victory.
Later the next day, the Kazekage siblings held a meeting to the Shinjuku leaders where they would mend any issues created that night. Hoping to prevent any war against the family.
"How is he?"
"Still the same."
"Do you really think we should continue this?"
"We should."
"Even if he's…."
The man shook his head. "We have no choice, we must continue this."
"But can't you see that he's suffering?"
"I can see it clearly in his eyes. Thank you for reminding." Sarcasm evident in his manner.
"He is your sensei! Let his suffering be put to an end! Don't you think that he had enough?"
"I know that!"
"Then let him go! Why keep him like this!"
"Because he's the only one left and because he's the only one who'll understand…. and because… because I can't afford for any one of them to die or leave me anymore, it is easier to think like that… than to live knowing that you betrayed the ones you love."
Naruto had come home from the alley after the night of the partly successful, partly failed mission without celebrating and had gone right straight to bed. He tossed and turned for hours, but he couldn't sleep. How the man had been thrown off the car. Blood covering his handsome features, the same goddamn face that millions of men and women have worshiped.
He made himself a cup of tea after the celebration and racketing is over and tried to drink it, but when he saw the small tremor in his hand, he became impatient, walked outside, and stood on the balcony looking into the starry night sky. He stood for hours, but his heart still raced in terror.
He dressed. In white short and shirt and tennis shoes. And as the red sun began to show itself over the horizon, he ran. He ran faster and faster along the bay of the lake just a few yards outside Gaara's house, trying to stay on the hard wet soil, trying to follow the coastline as the cold water washed over his feet. He had to clear his head. He couldn't let a single stoic actor ruin the mask he wore for years for perfection.
By the time he reached the end, he was completely out of breath. He sat, trying to slow his heart down. His eyes filled, but he pulled himself back with determination. And for the first time in his life he wished that he was back home, back at their mansion on the Caribbean Sea where his father was, to someone who could wrap their arms around him and make everything okay. He smiled at himself then, a crooked, wry smile, remembering when he really believed that was possible. He felt emptier than he thought any human was capable of feeling, more lonely.
Onyx eyes blinked and try to focus on its surroundings as soon as Sasuke woke up.
"Where am I?"
"You're at the hospital."
He recognizes that voice.
"Kakashi-sensei?" He asked.
Sasuke felt a hand touch his arm. "Sakura?"
He heard sobs. "Sasuke." It painfully moaned.
Sasuke looked at the pink girl, his eyes trying to focus, but failed to do so.
"I can't see clearly." He whispered.
"Those are the side effects of the drug that the Hokage had given you."
Sasuke involuntarily got up and felt a sharp pain on his ribs.
"Ahh, the patient is already awake."
A blonde woman with reddish brown eyes entered the room dressed in the Hokage robes. Together with her are her assistant and a strange man with wild white hair. A man that goes by the name of Jairaiya as his sensei told him.
"Hokage-sama gave you a drug to lessen the pain." Ino said. Behind her are the whole gang.
"How did I get here?"
The people in the room began to shut up and started looking at each other. The air around them stiffened.
"They say that a man had put you in here, and told them to call the police. He said that he saw you in an alley after a loud explosion." Tsunade said. "Sasuke tell us what happened?"
"If you're that damn resourceful, then you should have figured that out now!" Sasuke said irritated.
"I will not let you talk to me like that! You must remember that even if you're a star, I am still the Hokage!"
Her assistant calmed her down.
Tsunade took a deep breath. "Sasuke tell us what happened."
Silence.
"Sasuke it would be best if you tell the Hokage what happened."
"I…"
"I don't want to tell them."
"Help! Help me!" A stranger cried frantically while carrying the fallen man in his arms.
"I found him in an alley. He got nasty cuts so I tied it with a handkerchief." He said to the said to the young nurses that responded to his call.
"Here goes…"
The stranger gave them Sasuke and with much care.
"Are you in any relation with the man Mr.?" The head nurse inquired. Looking closely at the stranger.
The said stranger was dressed on white sweatshirt and white denim pants that hug his legs very lustfully, shaping it as it was. The said stranger had a handful of blonde hair and unbelievably deep azure eyes as deep as the ocean. His skin is as flawless as a babe's ass and as tanned as an ancient Egyptian skin burned by the savage sun. But his flawless face is scared by 6 whisker-like marks.
Naruto shook his head. "I was on my way back to my friend's house when I saw a fire and then I found him."
"Do you know his name sir?"
"Why don't you?"
The head nurse looked at him surprise. "Should I know him?"
"You should." Naruto said.That's the second one by far. Does this place have any television? "He's a Hollywood movie star, Santadio Sasuke, Japan's very own."
The head nurse looked at the patient very closely. She gasped and so are the others who are listening. It is indeed the great Hollywood star Santadio Sasuke.
When the head nurse looked back to talk to the stranger he was gone as fast as he came.
Later the head nurse contacted the police who later contacted the Hokage who are a close friend of the General.
"I can't remember it clearly." Sasuke mumbled. Once again the air stiffened around him.
"But…"
"But what Sasuke tell us." Tsunade said as she shook Sasuke's shoulders gently, so not to hurt him.
"I…." He opened his mouth and then closed it again a few seconds after. Should he tell them about this? "I saw…"
"What did you saw Sasuke, go one, you can tell us." Jaraiya encouraged.
Sasuke fell silent. "I'll tell you, but I'm not telling them." He indicated the gang.
"But Sasuke!" Sakura tried to protest.
Tsunade looked at Sasuke's face. He could be determined when he wants something to be done, and would stop at nothing to do it.
"I'm not telling anything until they're out!"
"Fine! Sakura, Lee, Shikamaru, Chouji, Ino, Shino, Kiba, Hyuugas. OUT!"
"But Hokage-sama!" Ino and Sakura protested.
"I said OUT! It is a direct order from the Hokage and any one who disobeys it would suffer the consequences, now OUT!"
After a long series of threats from the Hokage and death glares from their senseis, the Genin Team-the same team that Sasuke is included-left but without a bunch of curses coming from Kiba's foul mouth.
When the Hokage and the others are sure that they are out of earshot, they turned to Sasuke.
"Sasuke do you know what happened to you after you got out of the plane?" Kakashi asked his favourite student.
Jaraiya inwardly prayed.
"No." Sasuke mumbled. "Every time I tried my head hurts."
He prayed on every god he knew.
"So you don't remember anything?" Asuma asked as he puffed smoke.
To let his young charge free from the deadly games the fates stored for their family in years.
"A few."
To free him from the sins his ancestors has committed.
"Then at least tell us how you got here?" Tsunade asked.
To free him from the life that wasted his father's youth.
"Do…you believe in angels Hokage-sama?
To fee him from the ropes of destiny that bound him forever on this wasted life.
"Because I think that an angel saved me."
Jaraiya let out a string of curses. Someone up there must have hated him.
Ha! ha! Second Chapter! Sorry for not updating earlier, too busy at school!