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Anyway, new chapter! Most people agree with me in putting this story in the high school setting, so high school it is! (Most stories I make are in this setting xD. I guess it's because most people can relate to it. But now I feel like my stories have the same feel TT^TT)
It's not dark yet, but it may be in the future so prepare yourselves OwO. Though, once the chapter comes I'll put on a warning.
I hate how some of you just alert the story and don't take the one minute to review. TT^TT;
Anyway, onto the next chapter!
Hope you enjoy it!
Started on: 4-21-11
Prompt: Crazy-Sasuke in SasuSaku is one of the things I can't find these days. Neko-Sasuke is cute in SasuSaku, and also hard for me to find. Put them both together…? X3.
Summary Attempt: The acute ears atop his head twitched, eyes glimmering and tail swishing. He needed her; he needed her now. He let out a piercing yowl and disappeared into a flurry of leaves; gone.
Disclaimer: I have said this many times, and I will say it once again. I DO NOT OWN NARUTO.
Author: CiiCiinREX.
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Years past,
And soon I thought that he really didn't exist
And that my imagination
created someone to keep me company.
But, the scar on my hand kept reminding me
that he was still around,
watching for me with those red eyes of his
with a Cheshire grin on his face.
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His Never-Ending Radiance
"You're like a blinking beacon… Your light led me here."
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Chapter 2
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"So, what are you going to do next weekend?"
"Umm.. I don't know, probably go to the mall and shop. I've have so many old clothes that it's so boring now."
Black, acute ears perked up, staring at the water with wide eyes as the scene of the pinkette and blonde played right in front of his eyes.
"Really? I'll come too!"
"Uhhh, are you sure Naruto? This is girl stuff."
"Ewww, really? Whatever, I guess I'm not going?"
"Haha, probably not."
The boy snorted out of his nose, shaking his head slowly. His long hair dragged across his jawline and neck as his red eyes glared at the grinning blonde that was now wrapping his arm around the girl energetically. Leaning forward, his claws dug into the earth as a growl rose out of his throat, the threat hanging dangerously above the oblivious blonde's head.
Get away from her.
She's mine.
MINE.
I'LL FUCKING RIP YOUR HEAD OFF.
His anger dissipated slightly when the pinkette, obviously angry with his loud volume and unnecessary touches, sent a strong hook to his stomach, causing him to reel back and whine at the annoyed girl. She rolled her emerald eyes, ones that reminded him of soft meadows in the summer, the light green glimmering in the sunlight. He purred in delight, his tail wrapping around his body in comfort, the sound familiar yet strange coming from a human. Her pink hair was flaring like a wild-fire due to her anger and currently disheveled state, and the neko-boy tilted his head as the observed her.
Mine.
"Get off, Naruto!" She snarled, waving her fist at the sheepishly grinning blonde. "You know I don't like it when people touch me!"
"I'm sorry," The whiskered boy whimpered as 'neko-chan' bared his sharp fangs and hissed in distaste when the blonde pouted innocently; he knew he was anything but. "I forgot, okay?"
"You don't just 'forget' that your best friend hates physical contact, baka!"
Smirking with his canines showing, the spiky-haired boy laid his stomach on the tall grasses, the tips barely grazing his ears and tickling under his nose. Around him in the field were mixed blue and purple flowers, the orange sun setting in the horizon, the yellow caressing the boy's rough outline and the warmth causing him to stretch and lounge on the forest floor. With a proudly shown red and white symbol sown into the back of his high-collared shirt, he shifted around to find the right posture to laze around in, rolling over onto his back whilst arching it and his paws unsheathing his claws instinctively. His flickering eyes peered into the stone pond in front of him as the pinkette began to yell heavily at the cowering boy, and they softened when he caught the way she glanced around, as if she felt his watching over her.
Can you feel me?
I'm all around you,
watching you no matter where you go.
"Sasuke-sama," Said boy's neko ears flicked back to the owner of the voice but his gaze never left the pink-haired girl's form in the waters. Soon enough, he growled in annoyance when the presence didn't leave and begrudgingly glared at the cowering blonde in front of him, the girl on all of her limbs as she bowed lowly, respectively. He grunted, inclining with his head impatiently for her to continue on her message.
"Ano, Uchiha-sama wanted to see you." Sasuke's nose crinkled in distaste at the mention of his father before he turned his head back to the image in the pond. Panicking for whatever reason, the girl flinched forward at the Uchiha boy's lack of interest and obvious choice of ignoring the message, her long hair swishing as she added hastily, "He said it was important for the future of the Uchiha clan!"
Sasuke grunted again and leapt off the stone, dark tail flicking as he jumped again and landed in front of the girl in the meadow. He sent her a pointed look and a nod before sauntering off into the forest in the direction she had come from, aware of her lingering eyes on his back.
The blonde's ears that had been laid back in submission perked up as Sasuke strolled away, her infatuation showing through her sparkling blue eyes and wide, toothy grin. She had talked to Sasuke-sama, the hottest and strongest male - he was practically the Alpha - that she had been crushing on for years! Lady luck seemed to be kind to her as he had acknowledged her presence whereas he would have ignored other girls, and usually even herself. A feminine purr built up in her throat as her yellow and white tail flicked back and forth in anticipation, paws curling and uncurling on the earth softly. Curiously, she walked over to the stone pond.
Rumors started up since he was five that when he left the village and didn't come back until later he would be staring into the water, his eyes fixed on something so sharply that he wouldn't move from his rigid position for hours on end. Some other girls gossiped that he was looking through a list of girls in the village, picking out a one that he would later ask out. Older folks in the surrounding areas thought that he was attempting to overcome their greatest fear of water, which, in turn, would cause him to become even more powerful than he already was. Others say that he was stalking some humans before he left out on a thrilling hunt for the meat that their village loved to flourish on.
She held her breathe as she glanced in, then yowled and leapt back when a snarl resounded over the field.
Sasuke stood in the area where the trees began to cluster together in the forest before the open space, his sharp teeth gritted and his red eyes spinning wildly. The blonde flinched and whimpering, her ears flickering back as she laid her stomach down in submission. He glared at her for a few more moments before he spun sharply on his heel and strolled away. She peered into the water behind her and, seeing nothing but swaying liquid, frowned nervously as she caught onto the message he sent her through his crimson orbs.
Don't push your luck, fool.
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A teenage girl ran her hand through her pink hair, her thin fingers tapping on her cranium as she stared down at the worksheet in front of her. She bit her lip, lead pencil drumming across the wooden desk as her emerald eyes glistened in thought. The pinkette pouted when her memory failed her in figuring out the formula she had memorized just weeks ago and she sighed through her nose, leaning back into her seat to glance around the silent classroom - save for the clicking of pencils against paper and the occasional cough or sneeze. Deciding to doodle a bit until the expression popped back into her mind, she softly stroked on the white surface, careful not to smear the circle she perfectly sketched. She went on to create a rough, babyish jawline as she deciphered where the person in her drawing would be facing.
Nine years. It's been nine years since she last saw his face; her Neko-chan, Kitty Boy, whatever. Ever since her mother forbade her to go back into the forest, and even with his occasional visits to her room discretely, there came a time when her neko-chan didn't come back anymore, and she seriously worried about his well-being. Where was he now? Somewhere close to Konoha? Did he remember her? She wouldn't blame him if he did, though, since he didn't seem... in the right mind (though she couldn't tell since he never even spoke) and was easily distracted. He was probably taller now, taller than her as most boys in her Sophomore year, and she pictured the way his unkempt hair was now spiked and flaring like a raging black fire, his red eyes sharper and his face chiseled narrowly. Furthering her imagination, she saw the way his thin lips twitched upwards into a hesitant smirk, how he pounced on her playfully with those familiar ears flicking, and his crimson orbs lifting up in happiness, and his tail swaying...
She blushed furiously when she realized what she was thinking, inwardly slapping herself. 'Get your mind out of the gutter, Sakura!'
As soon as she hit an age where she could comprehend that it was impossible for a human to acquire animal body parts, she was very confused at the boy's usual appearace. Why did he have all those physical cat-like qualities, anyway? At the age of ten, she decided that he was probably cosplaying when his energetic mom forced him to wear them as she thought he was so cute in them (though, she hasn't met his mom or anyone else in his family yet). She immediately adopted that idea. It was impossible for those ears, paws and tail to real anyway. The thought defied logic, and since Sakura was a bookworm, she was beside logic.
"You have five more minutes," Kurenai, her Geometry teacher announced, glancing at the clock on the wall with her ruby orbs. "Try to guess as best as you can if you cannot find out the exact answer."
Oh crap. She was so busy daydreaming she forgot about her quiz. Hurriedly, the pinkette tapped the pencil on her forehead and bit her lip, smiling a little as she jotted down the formula she just remembered, though a nervous sweat-drop dribbled down her cheek. 'How am I going to finish fifteen problems in five minutes?' Deciding that thinking about it would only waste time, the Haruno girl hopped to it and scribbled down her guesses messily, her emerald eyes flickering from her answers to the next question rhythmically.
"Please pass your sheets to the front of the room," Kurenai said, and several students groaned under their breaths silently, saying to their seat-mate how they were going to fail that quiz, just in time when Sakura placed her pencil on the desk. Sighing in relief, Sakura smiled politely as she handed her paper to the student in front of her - whom only gave her a blank look before looking to the front again.
Being an outcast from the start, it was hard for Sakura to make new friends, especially in a material place like high school. Her pink hair stood out, as did her emerald eyes, and most whispered under their breaths how she was 'a freak of nature' as she sank slightly into her seat. The tormentors giggled as they realized she heard their harsh words and commented more, and Sakura decided to finish the drawing she had already started. She never spoke up about the cruel treatment since they only talked about her occasionally and never pranked her, unlike others who stood out in the school that they deemed to be 'punished'. As usual, she wore her much too large grey sweater and her purple framed glasses, and the peg of 'nerd' also hug around her head. In a way, she was grateful since although she was physically strange, the unusual beauty - which many could not see with their own eyes - she radiated was enough to keep bullies at bay. Sure, there were rare times when she was framed for something else and she was... punished, but it had only happened once or twice in her whole high school years. This did not stop others from avoiding her, though, and they began this habit in freshmen year - thirteen months ago. Soon enough, she became so invisible that whenever she smiled or waved at someone else, they merely mirrored her and turned away or blankly stared at her.
The solitude was a blessing, yet it was also a curse. She only had one friend in the whole Konoha High; Uzumaki Naruto, her best friend, even. However, they only had two class together, so most of her time in school was spent in a room where everyone knew each other, but Sakura knew no one. Those around her only knew her as 'freak', 'forehead' or 'nerd'; never her real name.
Lovely.
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"Sakura-channn!" Naruto hollered after the bell rang in their Geometry, people staring strangely at the energetic boy practically skipping over to a pink-haired girl.
Smiling, said girl lifted her head as she gathered her things, gripping her writing utensils in her right hand whilst her books and other materials were in her bundled in her arms. "Hey, Naruto."
"How'd you do on that quiz, neh?" He inquired as they were the last ones to slip out the door and into the hallways where rowdy students banged on their lockers and chatted obnoxiously with one another. The Haruno girl watched the way boys jostled each other and glanced at the girls, and the way the girls powdered themselves while looking in a mirror in their lockers or gossiped among one another, sending boys sultry peeks as well. People grouped around their lockers, laughing as they talked with their friends casually.
She shrugged. "I don't know, I had to guess on most of them."
"Psh," Naruto scoffed, patting her on the shoulders as they made their way to her locker, getting ready for their lunch period. "'Guessing' for you would be like 'knowing the real answers' for me," He said rather lamely.
Sakura rolled her eyes playfully as she twisted her locks and threw open her locker door, shoving in all her books and yanking out her lunch in a paper bag before slamming it shut. "You ready for lunch?" She asked, gesturing with the paper bag in her hand.
"YAY!" Naruto cried out comically, causing Sakura to flush when people looked their way. "RAMEN HERE I COME!"
"Baka!" She hissed, pinching his arm as he yelled out "itai!" and backed away. "You're so loud! Everyone's looking this way!" Not giving the blonde a chance to talk back to her, she stomped off, leaving Naruto pouting. The whiskered-boy took a few large strides to start running in her direction, "Wait up, Sakura-cha-"
Unfortunately for the boy, he slipped on a paper on the floor and cried out as he slammed his body into the floor, the thin sheet flying high into the air due to his weight and off-kick. Sakura gaped and rushed over to him, "Naruto! Are you alright?"
"Yeah," He grumbled, rubbing his head in agitation as the paper he slipped on floated down near his face, and he snatched the paper out of the air. He paused as he stared at it closely.
It was Sakura's now finished drawing, and she had ended up creating a pencil doodle of a dark, spiky-haired boy with cats ears flicked back, his tail high in the air as he lightly bit into a fish. He was blushing as if embarrassed, his chin dipping slightly into his high-collared shirt and paws up as if he were walking in the direction of the observer. Unlike his usual crimson eyes, he portrayed sharp black orbs that gave an indignant aura around him. Above the boy were the large, arching words, "MY KITTY BOY". Naruto stared at the drawing, a flicker in his azure eyes running so fast that Sakura hadn't been able to catch it.
She placed a hand on his shoulder, "Naruto? You okay?"
He seemed to snap out of his daze and looked up at her, grinning loosely, "Yeah, I'm fine."
"Oh!" She exclaimed, craning her neck as she gazed at the paper. "That's my drawing."
"Of course you would be drawing," Naruto sighed, cracking his neck as he stood up, leaving Sakura fuming a bit. "What's that supposed to mean?" She demanded lightly.
Naruto said nothing but smiled at her, but the gesture didn't seem to meet his eyes. "Nothing. Lunch time?" He asked, inclining his head in the direction of the cafeteria where most of the students in the hallways were flooding towards.
The pinkette took note of her friend's sudden change in behavior but didn't say anything of it, "Yeah, lead the way, foxy."
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"Sasuke," An older, professional man greeted as soon as the boy sat down at the table, his eyes focusing straight on his form with his ears up high in order to catch the news he was about to be told about. "Welcome."
The boy grunted, softly and politely, and bowed a little in his father's direction.
Uchiha Fugaku had the same personality and eyes as Sasuke, as well as his intimidating stare. Although he was the king over the land, Fugaku didn't like showing his tail or ears often as his wife would make a big fuss on how he was so 'kawaii' and he thought that he looked like a weird, perverted cosplayer if he had them hanging off of his body all the time. Mastering the art of controlling his cat-like qualities, he was able to call them out and hide them inside his body whenever he wanted to. Today, he wore a royal black and blue haori jacket, the long sleeves easily passing by his hands as he folded his arms together.
"Rise," Sasuke did as he was told with an impassive face, his expression never changing.
The man inhaled deeply, staring at the spiky-haired neko-boy, and Sasuke flicked his eyes from his father's form to the air next to him, back and forth in anticipation. His father almost never gave him a look like this whenever he called his into his quarters (and that in itself was rare), so for him to be gazing at him unwavering just had alarm bells ringing in the younger Uchiha's head.
"Your sixteenth birthday is coming up, right?" Fugaku inquired, his dark orbs locked on his son's form, watching the way he never lifted a finger unless he asked a question, his tail flipping up and down as an affirmative to his question. The man continued and Sasuke imagined his father's tail twitching up and down in thought, "That marks your legibility of finding a mate."
Sasuke stiffened, his red eyes wide and tail frozen in midair, not liking where the talk was going.
"Your mother has also been excited for this day," Fugaku carried on, his eyes trailing to the family portrait hanging above the entrance of the quarters, a large painting or a grumpy-looking Fugaku, a beaming mother holding a curious neko-like Sasuke with an exasperated-looking older brother stood beside them, his eyes apparently twitching. "And it's almost time for me to step down from the throne. Since Itachi has abandoned his responsibility as the first-born, you will take his place and lead our kingdom to prosperity." He sent Sasuke a leveled eye.
Sasuke grit his teeth at the mention of his brother, his paw tightening as if it were a fist. He had looked up to his brother when he was so little, barely able to saunter in the gardens on all fours, when he suddenly disappeared. The brother that couldn't stop grinning at the sight of his bumbling little brother, always calling him 'foolish', had apparently ran out of the village once he turned the age of sixteen. Since then, there were no signs of him, despite Sasuke's anger, relief and disappointment.
"You should find a strong mate soon," Fugaku said, peering at his stiff son with hard orbs. "Perhaps that Ino girl that sent my message to you? She seems to be strong in the area of genjutsu and swift in taijutsu. Or maybe Karin, the daimyo's daughter. I've heard that she's one of the best chakra sensors in the whole land." Pausing, he peered out the window on his right, catching Sasuke's attention. "How about that Tenten girl you spend time with and call your friend? She is a very experienced weapon handler, has great taijutsu skills and never misses with her precise aim." Right where Fugaku was looking stood said girl, sweat dribbling down her face as she threw more kunai at the wooden targets in their royal training grounds, ears perked up as the imaginary enemy would move around and shift, and her tail laid down on the ground, unmoving. Her brown hair was sliding out of her two buns, some long hairs sticking to her moist neck as she picked out more throwing weapons from the pouch attached to her thigh, her long sleeved shirt flaring as she moved in a lethal dance.
Sasuke said nothing and looked away.
"Well, be sure to choose wisely as your children will have their power mixed with yours, and your offspring will also take responsibility of the throne." Fugaku strolled over to his red-velvet bed, indicating to Sasuke that their talk was ending. "For now, the three candidates will be with you wherever you go so that you will be able to pick out your choice more easily. They will be joining you in a hunt tonight in celebration for your birthday."
The boy hissed under his breath in distaste - obviously upset with the idea of being followed around by three girls - and stood up, leaping out the window in a huff, leaving Fugaku to sigh and squeeze the bridge of his nose. "Kids," He grumbled under his breath.
Sasuke landed on the grass in an area near the forest, no buildings near him as mother nature spoke in several ways around him - the slight breeze caressing his face, the whisper the vegetation under his feet, the raining sound of several healthy leaves swaying in the wind. He let the strained face relax as he imagined the pink blossoms flourishing around him, the falling petals dancing around his form as a warm, familiar hand stroked his face, the radiant light around her causing her emerald eyes to glitter kindly as she embraced him. "Sasuke-kun," She would whisper, and he would purr, burying his face into the crook of her neck to inhale the sweet scent of honey-vanilla and strawberries.
Dazed, he opened his eyes and was met in an empty forest, and he resisted the urge to whine and sulk in a high branch on a tree. Who was he kidding? She didn't even know his name. The neko-boy licked his lips in anticipation, his tail softly coiling around his large body and his red eyes softening.
Sakura.
Strolling deeper into the trees, he slowly padded on all fours into a familiar direction, the pathway to the location memorized by heart.
Sakura.
Once again, he was met with the sight of an open meadow, the stone pond twinkling in the dimming sunlight. Quickly making his way over to the waters, he ignored the two koi fish - one white with pink and red spots and the other black with white symbols - as he placed his paws near the water, a dark blue aura covering his limbs as he closed his eyes in concentration.
My Sakura.
The sight of a hurrying pinkette shoving her things into her bookbag from her locker greeted his hungry eyes, and he smirked as he paused to glance back to the looming village over the forest, the largest stone building looking like a castle from a distance. Turning back to the water, he noted that she was walking out of the school, waving at the blonde who reluctantly said his farewells as well.
("You should find a strong mate soon-" )
So you want me to find a mate?
Well...
Sucking in a sharp breath, Sasuke laid his acute ears into his spiky hair as all four of his limbs coiled, eyes wide while he readied himself for what he was about to do. He sprang high in the air and, despite the looming, overwhelming fear of water that suddenly struck him in the heart, he tucked in his tail and dived into the pond. The immediate intrusion had the couple of fish scattering in a panic, silver water droplets suspended in the air until they hit the dewy grass. Seconds later, the koi fish swam out of their built in burrows when they saw that all was safe, and the area the meadow where a certain boy once lay was quiet and laid no evidence of where he had gone.
I know the perfect candidate.
And she will be mine.
No matter what.
I'm coming... Sakura.
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Whewww... sorry about the last part. I got really tired and now I have this soreness in my neck and it hurts so muchhhhh, so I got lazy. TT^TT I'll fix/add more details to it later, okay? :)
I wasn't sure when I would update the this chapter, so I decided since I had free time, why not?
NOTE: There may be rivaling pairings. LOL. I have one planned out, and it's making me freak out a bit. But don't worry, even if there are, it will definitely end in SasuSaku. I'ma SasuSaku radical, of course:)
This was more of a setting starter, an exposition, a filler than a usual chapter. But it gave you more info, right? I hope you enjoyed reading it as much as I did writing it :)
Please review! Can I have the same amount of reviews like last time; at least 10 please? ...please? xD
I kinda know where this is going, but some ongoing details are missing or are hazy, so this story's just writing itself. If you guys have any suggestions, I may just use them :P Or change it a bit and use it. xD But until then, I'll wing it.
Next chapter! Sakura's and Sasuke's reunion! Has Sasuke lost his mind? Showing up in public with his get-up! And Sasuke's hunt with Ino, Karin and Tenten! What happens when they come across someone familiar?
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~CiiCiinREX.