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Disclaimer: don't own Naruto, Sasuke or anyone else from the manga or anime Naruto
I hope I didn't make you all wait too long, I don't post this till I have reviewed it way to many times. ^^; and I have a friend who also reads and edits it for me, "sin239697" and she doesn't have a computer at the moment ^^;
Also I tried really hard not to call them boys =P
"leviathan of the sea" asked why 7 years. I though some of you would be curious too so I thought I'd share, number 7 is something used in fantastic (myth, magic & so on) a lot. I chose years to make the trapped on land feel like there is no escape. I didn't want Sasuke to have an easy way back to the ocean.
Days - Ok so a week stuck on land, he'll live
Weeks - Alright so some months, this sucks
Years - God, it's never going to end
And thank you for commenting X3 - leviathan of the sea (awesome name btw), MiKniTeBlueMoon,
One more thing ahhhhhh! I cannot get links to work at all. . . .so I'm going to post them on my profile =3, its 3 links e-book download (if you have a kindle), MerSasuke art, and Naruto's house arrangement
Chapter 2
Sasuke awoke to the sound of the ocean and seagulls. The soft blankets coxed him to return to his sweet dreams of a happy early child hood. He would have eagerly drifted back, when he realized the soft blanket incasing him was not sand. His eyes shot open, mind racing for a moment before it replayed the day before.
How could he forget? 7 years, 7 whole years would be wasted on land before he could return home; before he could fulfill his life goal.
Sasuke sat up and studied the room once again. As he was examining the image of plant life on land, a smell made its way in to the room and Sasuke peaked curious. What could smell that way? Not that much of anything made a smell under water.
Sasuke stared at the door for a while; until the need to know got the better of him. Finally he stood up and took a moment to remember how to use the limbs he stood on. He then silently made his way out the door and fallowed the scent down the hall and out to the living area.
"Sasuke!" Naruto's voice called out to him the moment the door had opened. Sasuke looked at the blond, doing his best to hide his curiosity. Naruto was at the bar space placing a stack of light golden brown, fluffy pancakes in between two plates.
"Glad you're up" Naruto said as he opened a drawer on the kitchen side of the bar and put out the eating utensils. "I was just going to get you, come. Sit." Naruto ordered as he made his way around the bar to the living area.
Sasuke followed suit and sat himself down to examine the meal. Naruto grabbed a couple of pancakes and poured syrup on them and began to cut his breakfast as Sasuke studied his hands.
"Aren't you going to get any?" Naruto asked with a mouthful of pancake and syrup.
"Hun" Sasuke grunted as he grabbed some of the hotcakes and syrup. Pouring on as much as he had seen Naruto do; Sasuke winced at the sweet scent, and wrinkled his nose. He reached for the butter knife and fork and carefully mimicked Naruto's movements.
The taste was too sweet and Sasuke found himself glared at his plate. Naruto noticed that Sasuke had stopped moving altogether and looked at him curiously.
"What's wrong? Never eat pancakes before?" he asked teasingly.
"No," Sasuke said flatly.
"Oh . . ." Naruto had asked jokingly, he hadn't expected Sasuke to say actually say no.
"So you don't like 'em? I could make something else if you'd like."
"It's too strong. . . . Sweet," Sasuke said still eyeing the pancakes as if they would try and kill him the moment he looked away.
"Oh! You didn't like the syrup!" Naruto exclaimed, as he shot out of his stool and dashed in to the kitchen. He then pulled a new plate out of another drawer and replaces Sasuke's plate.
Sasuke ate his plain pancakes in silence as Naruto chattered away trying to get some response from the man.
"So I was thinking we should get you some clothes," Naruto said after a while.
"Hum."
"And we should ask at the police station if anyone looking for you."
"No one is looking for me." Sasuke replied flatly.
"What about your family? Your friends?" Naruto said worry filled his eyes as he turned to look at the brunette.
"Don't have any," Sasuke replied, his eyes glared at his fork as if it was to blame.
"Oh," Naruto sighed sadly. "Well that's ok, you could say here as long as you need. I know some places looking to hire. You could get a job and room here."
Sasuke looked at Naruto with a hint of curiosity. "What kind of jobs do you have here?" he asked
Back home jobs ranged from palace jobs, that being, a guard, making food for the royalty or cleaning, to just keeping yourself alive by hunting, picking edible greenery, or even trading goods. Payment was always in goods.
'What kind of good do they trade on land,' Sasuke wondered to himself.
"Oh! Well there's a café close by you could walk to! They need a new waiter; the last one was some collage kid that just moved on to bigger and better stuff I guess." Naruto said cheerily, "I would take you now, but I have to go to work myself. Um, the microwave is over there, just heat up whatever you'd like and eat it when you get hungry. When I get home around 3 I'll take you to the café, alright?" Naruto said and he grabbed his key. "Oh ya, go ahead and make yourself at home." Naruto added as he left the living area through the hall.
Sasuke listened as Naruto walked down the hall and another door opened. After sitting for a long time, Sasuke's eyes began to wander around. First the kitchen, then slowly it made its way to examine the living space, and stopped on the large windows overlooking the calm ocean that he knew so well.
Before he could think, Sasuke was by the shore letting his toes and jeans soak in the salty water rushing to and fro. Sasuke had made a strait path to the water and was now in plain sight of the large windows behind him. He sighed as again nothing happened. He knew nothing would happen but still the disappointment choked to him.
Standing eventually grew tiresome, so Sasuke sat down and let the ocean sooth he's restless heart.
"Mooooooom" a younger self screamed in Sasuke's mind.
The blood was clouding the water around the fined boy and soon everything looked red and hazy.
"haha, hahaha!" Laughter cut through the deathly silence. Sasuke's body suddenly twisted sharply to the sound and saw his big brother. His idle, laughing before him.
"T-tachi?" the young merboy's voice trembled as he looked at his big brother in disbelief. "what's going on? What happened? Why!" he screamed in a matter of seconds as fear griped the young boy by the neck.
"Because you disgust me," Itachi said before dropping the blade clouded in light pink dispersed blood. With that the older Uchiha smiled one last time at his younger brother and swam away. Sasuke had not seen the murderer since.
He killed them, all of them, and now Sasuke could not avenge them. The last two Uchiha's would not meet for at least 7 years and Sasuke could do nothing about it.
"Sasuke!" Naruto's voice called from behind the brunette.
Sasuke twisted his body to look at the blond who looked concerned.
"How long have you been out here? And you're all wet now, too," Naruto said as he stood away from the waves.
"Since you left," Sasuke said in a dry monotone.
Naruto's eyes widened, "that was over seven hour ago! Come on, you need to eat!"
Sasuke stood and ignored the hand the blond had stretched out for him.
With a sigh Naruto led the man back home. Inside Naruto hunted another pair of jeans that might fit Sasuke. Finding a pair that was close enough Naruto walked in to the master bath with a new change of clothes. Sasuke stepped out of the shower and grabbed a towel and began to dry himself off as Naruto asked if he would need help dressing again.
"No, I think I understand how to do this now," Sasuke said in a determined tone.
"Alright I'll go make food then, ah! Right see these tags here?" Naruto asked as he pointed at the tag on the new, annoyingly bright orange, shirt. "That goes to the back ok?"
Sasuke nodded and began to dress as Naruto walked out of the restroom with a goofy smile on his face. 'He is just like a little kid,' Naruto thought to himself as he made his way to the kitchen to prepare ramen.
When Sasuke walked out two bowls of ramen, with chopsticks placed on the lip of one of the bowls, were neatly placed on the bar. Naruto was already devouring the other bowls contents as if it would vanish if he did not eat it fast enough.
"Eat Sasuke!" Naruto said through a mouth full of noodles. Sasuke examined the way Naruto heeled his chopsticks and attempted to mimic Naruto to no avail. At some point Naruto had even began to giggle at the ways Sasuke would maneuver the sticks in his had to try and lift the food from its resting place.
"Here like this," Naruto said as he adjusted Sasuke's hand to hold the chopsticks properly. "Then you pick the food up like this," he finished as he moved his own hand to show Sasuke how to work the strange eating utensil. 'I think I liked this morning's utensils better,' Sasuke though as he lifted the noodles to his lips. He realized, after the first bite, how hungry he had been and ate swiftly.
"You're done?" Naruto asked astonished. The brunette just nodded so Naruto stood up and took both their plates around the bar to the kitchen sink. Then pulled Sasuke through the hall and out the front door and to the left as he explained they were going to check out the café.
The café was only a few spread out blocks away and over, a quick walk that could get you there in 10 minutes. It was a simple yet elegant place, with round tables surrounded by four seats each to the left. To the front, was the cash register, with a bar to the right. On the right some couches organized around a coffee table and an old fashioned radio playing some soothing instrumental music.
The two female employs wore a white button up blouse with a black and laces bow in their hair and cute pleated black skirt, with a petticoat fluffing it up a little. The only male wore a white button up dress shirt, with black slacks and a nice sliming vest over his plain shirt.
Naruto greeted the casher, Sakura, and asked if he could talk to Kakashi.
"Ya sure, he's in his office," Sakura said as she shooed him away so the next consumer could order.
Once more the brunette was tugged as Naruto went past the cash register to the swinging double doors. Through the kitchen, said hi to the red head kneading some dough and through another door. The room was small, with a desk and a door to the right, and a man with silver-gray hair sat behind the desk reading an orange book. Only one eye was visible through the cloth on his face. The one eye which was shifting back and forth over the page paused and looked at Naruto, then the brunette.
"Ah, Naruto, and who's your friend?"
"Hi Kakashi, this is Sasuke. He's going to be living with me for a little and –,"
"You were hoping he could replace my last waiter?" Kakashi said with crescent moon eye, cutting off the blond.
"Um, Yes," Naruto said.
"Let's see," Said the gray haired man as he stood and began to circle Sasuke like a voucher. "Well he's rather handsome," he mumbled as he stopped in front of Sasuke. "And he might have a good body shape out of these awful lose clothes. And orange is no his color." He glanced at Naruto when the color orange left his mouth.
"Ya, whatever orange is an awesome color," Naruto argued at the older man.
Kakashi looked at Sasuke once more and then smiled; Sasuke frowned, as Kakashi moved to his desk. He began to open drawer after drawer. Once he found what he was looking for he was before Sasuke in a flash.
"Here try these on; the rest room is through that door." Kakashi said pointing at the door next to the desk.
Sasuke looked at Naruto, who nodded, and with a sigh he went through the door and in too the small restroom. He quickly disrobed himself and then re-dressed with the clothes giving to him, after finding the tags. Thank god he had observed the male outside or would have been confused as to what to do with the vest.
Naruto sucked in air as Sasuke stepped out of the restroom in the white shirt, vest and slakes. Naruto knew Sasuke had a great figure, for god's sake he had found the man naked, but Sasuke looked amazing.
Black made him look like a porcelain doll. The kind someone would show off in a rich home. Kakashi seemed pleased as he resumed his voucher like circling once more. Naruto didn't fail to see Kakashi eye the man's butt as he examined him. 'Maybe Sasuke would be better off not working here,' Naruto thought.
"Yes, he is perfect," Kakashi said with a smile. "Can you bring your information tomorrow?"
"Information?" Sasuke questioned with sharp eyes.
"Um, well you see. . ."Naruto said as Kakashi's eye shifted to him, then back to Sasuke.
"I see . . ." Kakashi said after Naruto explained how he had found Sasuke. "Naked you say, hum," Kakashi hummed.
"That's not the point-,"Naruto shouted.
"But you got too see him naked! That's not fair," Kakashi said his eye flickering to Sasuke. Sasuke seemed unaware of the fact that Kakashi's words should bother him.
"The point is Sasuke doesn't have any papers." Naruto said.
"Fine he will work under the table, but you better take him to fill out some applications for citizenship." Kakashi said.
Naruto smiled, and then thought he would have to tell Sasuke about sexual harassment.