M-4-M: Ohayou minna-san! Good to see you all! I had a bad case of writer's block... and I still have it with all my other fan fics. T.T But while cleaning my room, I found this! And the inspiration/story bunny hit me with a door!
Warnings: Shounen-ai, unhealthy relationships,self-mutilation, angst, depression. This is not going to be a happy, fluffy fan fic. Beware.
Rating: M for safety, the above warnings, and possible things that will come later.
Disclaimer: What? Are they selling the rights to Naruto for 10 cents? I'm a cheapo and K- what's-his-name created this.
A Tenuous Hold:
Fort
We all knew it would happen someday, but didn't expect it so soon.
The poor fellow was just under too much stress I guess and he obviously never had much mental stability to begin with.
It was just a matter of where, when, and how.
I still can't believe that Sasuke literally bit a fangirl...
on the neck...
several times over.
.o.o.o.
When I went to see if he was alright in that empty mansion of his, I noticed the changes.
While Sasuke had always been on the pale side, he was even whiter now, with disturbing black circles around his eyes. What once were eyes of abyss, had curious, mysterious, blood-red swirls throughout his irises. (1)
His regular brown shorts and a black shirt with an old familiar fan crest on it were rumpled. Before, Sasuke was immaculate whenever possible.
The thing that stood out most, however, was his aura --the feelings he exuded. He used to have a calculated indifference. Now what I sensed was an overpowering sense of passion, danger almost.
The Uchiha stood in front of me, his eyes guarded by hair now, faint candle light playing an interesting crack-pot painter.
"What happened?"
I meant to say 'Are you alright?'
He looked back up at me again, irises swirling colors, "Leave."
Tears leaked from my eyes and I left, shutting the door quietly, annoyed, rejected, lost.
.o.o.o.
Naruto looked down at his hands in desperation.
He remembered when it used to be all a game.
Right after his Mom had... died and he had been under the supervision of the first guardian. The guardian, Mr. Maike --a relative of his mother's-- despised Naruto. Naruto wasn't sure why, but Mr. Maike blamed his mother's... death... on him. (2) To escape reality, when the blood fell, he would pretend that he was a hungry vampire and that Naruto wouldn't drink the blood of anybody, so had resorted to cutting himself... the sight of his own blood enough to satiate his need. (3)
And when he went on to the next guardian --after the third hokage saw the bruises and scabs--... she wasn't much better than Maike. It was like slave labor... and then one day when he was preparing supper for her... he found a sharp knife in his hand... and then reality wasn't condemning him to insanity anymore. (4)
It was all just a game originally to block out the painful present.
Naruto looked back down at his red-stained fingers. Yes, just a game to keep oneself sane... but Naruto wasn't sure if he could be considered sane now.
He continued cutting away lightly. Making slashes and slight stabs to look like he had just crawled through prickly brush.
When he was done, Naruto dazedly cleaned off the knife, and sanitized his cuts, enjoying the sharp pains that were so familiar.
This is what was real. He would become Hokage.
End Chapter One of Tenuous Hold: Fort
M-4-M: Okay, so originally, this was supposed to be a crack fic... but it just never did that... however, you can see the remains of it at the top. n.nU It IS an AU, so I will mess around with the Naruto universe a bit. Tweaking things here or there, adding plot-sticks, and generally not knowing when this takes place. -.-U
So no asky. They're both about 16 or something here.
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(1)- Shame on you if you call yourself a Naruto otaku and don't know what those red swirls are! It's the sharingan!
(2)- More on his mother's death later... but know that the pauses between saying 'death' imply something. You're welcome to guess!
(3)- Yeah, I'm aware that Naruto seems OOC. But if -you- had a twisted childhood, I'm sure you would have some odd concepts too, to get away from confronting the fact that your guardian --the one who is supposed to be loving and protecting you-- is abusive and cuts you and hits you!
(4)- Emo Naruto (this seems rather obvious, but I'm saying it anyways)
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