Chapter 1: Freedom
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Sasuke entered his father's study at the summons.
"You asked for me?" Sasuke kept his eyes respectfully lowered to the floor when speaking to his Alpha father.
"Yes." Fugaku answered without looking up, seemingly more interested in what he was doing on his laptop than the conversation he was having. "You are to be wed and mated to Orochimaru at the end of the month." Sasuke's mouth popped open and he immediately looked up toward his father.
"Why?!" Fugaku blinked up toward his son in surprise at his tone and indigence for a moment before looking back down at the screen.
"Orochimaru is joining the Uchiha Corporation and as part of the recent business deal, he asked to be mated to my Omega. I agreed." Sasuke felt his face heat up in anger. 'His Omega?' Sasuke was his SON, not just some item that could be traded as part of a business deal. He said as much. "Actually Sasuke, you are both. And my decision is final."
"I won't do it." This caught Fugaku's attention.
"Oh? And what makes you think you have a choice?" He pressed, slowly closing his laptop. "You live under my roof. You eat my food. You will obey me, and you will be mated to Orochimaru by the end of the month." Sasuke glared as harshly as he could.
"I will kick, and scream, and fight, and bite, and be the absolute worst thing to deal with. He won't even want me after I've shown him how truly unruly I can be." Fugaku's mouth thinned. He knew his son could throw large temper tantrums, but it had been quite a while since he had thrown one. Still, he didn't doubt his sons words. Fugaku clenched his jaws and stared Sasuke down, trying to force submission.
"Sasuke, either you will marry and mate with Orochimaru without issue, or you can get out of my house."
Now this was a bold threat. Sasuke had NEVER been allowed out alone. He'd never honestly pushed too hard on getting his way before, but now that it was flaunted in front of him, he was intrigued by the idea of his freedom.
"Fine." Sasuke turned on his heal and left the study before he could see his fathers reaction. Now here he was, in the chilly, spring night, shivering slightly in the light rain. His first thought had been that he should go to one of his friends' houses. But he quickly realized that since he'd always been driven there he actually didn't know where they were. He looked in each direction willing himself to feel familiarity before coming to the conclusion that he actually didn't know where anything was for the most part. Occasionally, Itachi would let him navigate when he was the one to chauffeur Sasuke to wherever, but, evidently, that wasn't enough for him to really know his way around. Sasuke cursed to himself that he didn't even have his cellphone to try to direct himself.
"This is madness, you have to at least let him take his cellphone. What if he gets in trouble and needs help?" Itachi pressed. Fugaku and Sasuke argued often, but never had there ever been anything even close to a threat about Sasuke no longer living under the same roof.
"If he's leaving and feels that he can take care of himself, then he can do it without the cellphone and laptop I pay for. Let him be an adult if he wants to be so badly." Sasuke had slammed the electronics down and turned up his nose as he left without them. He figured he's resourceful enough without them.
Now he didn't feel so sure of himself. He looked to the left, which he was sure was the direction toward downtown, and started walking, backpack full of clothes strapped to him. After about an hour of walking, Sasuke started to near the hustle and bustle of downtown. It was a Friday night and the streets were crowded with people that were shopping and drinking and doing whatever else they wanted in celebration of the weekend. Watching the people sway around him, Sasuke got lost in the crowd while forming an idea. After another hour, Sasuke had reached the outskirts of lower downtown and began to carefully scout out a spot to proceed with his plan.
Meanwhile, Itachi was beginning to become more and more upset. After Sasuke had not come back in the first hour, both he and Fugaku sent out feelers and searches for Sasuke. Truly, this was only meant to scare the boy into realizing that he truly did need to stay with his alpha father and brother and allow himself to be mated off to Orochimaru. Fugaku had figured Sasuke would leave for a bit, get lost, and then be picked up and 'saved' by one of Fugaku's men. However, Sasuke was no where to be found and it had now been over two hours.
"If you hadn't taken his cellphone, we could've just tracked it." Itachi quietly seethed.
"Relax, he can't have gotten too far. We'll find him before the end of the night and bring him back." Fugaku was confident. After all, he'd gone out of his way to make sure that Sasuke would be very dependent on he and Itachi. There was no doubt that Sasuke was feeling that dependency by this point.
Sasuke approached the dive bar and waited until he was certain he smelled an alpha. Not long after he began loitering a tall, muscular blond shuffled out of the bar. Sasuke gently scented the air to confirm the status before perusing the man.
"Hey, can you help me?" Sasuke immediately reached out and touched the strangers arm, which obviously took him off guard. Sasuke looked up at the taller man and tried to look pleasing. He knew that with his suppressants, he most likely smelled like a beta, so he'd have to make sure he really turned on the charm.
"Uh," the blonde began, obviously confused about what was happening. He looked like he was about to shake Sasuke off so Sasuke began to try to explain himself as quickly as possible.
"I just got kicked out of my house by my father and I don't know what to do because I don't have anywhere to go and I don't have any money and I just need help for tonight and then I'll be gone," Sasuke vomited the words of his story onto the stranger, who blinked slowly a couple times, as if trying to clear his vision. He was definitely at least tipsy, Sasuke grinned to himself.
"Uh," he began again, still looking unsure. Perfect, Sasuke thought. Sasuke was pretty sure the guy had at least a few drinks. He shouldn't be too hard to convince then.
"Please? I don't know what else to do." Sasuke tried to analyze the strangers expression and determine if he would succumb to his plea, but to his astonishment, the Alpha seemed like he was still about to tell Sasuke no. "I'll…I'll have sex with you if you say yes." Sasuke said desperately. The blondes blue eyes widened and he looked around, clearly wondering if this was a prank…or a trap. He not so subtly scented the air. Sasuke willed himself to release his scent, wishing that even a little would peak through and possibly sway things in his favor. The stranger looked Sasuke up and down warily before finally speaking.
"Uh…I'm not gonna have sex with you. And I really can't do much to help you," he grimaced.
"I just need somewhere to sleep tonight! That's all I need." The blond stared back at Sasuke through hooded eyes before finally sighing. It hadn't taken much in his already pliant state, but the man had been pushed to his breaking point.
"Fine, whatever, come on." He conceded tiredly. "What's your name, by the way?"
"Thank you, it's Sasuke."
"Okay, Sasuke, my name is Naruto. I don't live super far from here, only like 12 blocks." Sasuke's eyebrows rose a little. 12 blocks felt like a lot to him. Especially after how long he'd already been walking around. How much did Naruto walk around for 12 blocks to NOT seem like a lot?
When they got to Naruto's apartment Sasuke was a little taken aback by how different it was from his own home. Unlike Sasuke's home in the suburbs that held multiple spacious rooms, Naruto's downtown apartment comprised of one relatively small room that was largely taken up by a bed. There was a small separation for a kitchen, and a couple doors, one which appeared to be a tiny closet so he could only assume the other door was the bathroom. There was a decent sized tv on the wall opposite of the bed and a few shelves that held an assortment of vinyl, books and a small collection of movies.
"Tada," Naruto gestured vaguely at the apartment before moving further in and removing his shirt. The lack of shirt showed that Naruto was wearing a necklace that had some sort of crystal dangling off the end. Sasuke felt his breath hitch. Naruto had said he wasn't going to sleep with him, but maybe that was just while they were in public and he was afraid someone else would hear. Sasuke continued to watch as Naruto undid his jeans and pulled them down leaving him in just his boxer briefs. Sasuke couldn't help but appreciate how nice Naruto's body was. Naruto was taller than Sasuke by quite a bit, and had broad, strong shoulders. Sasuke wondered briefly if Naruto's thighs and ass looked like that just because he was an alpha or if he worked out to tone himself like this. His golden blond hair was stylishly messy and he had deep blue eyes.
"Are you going to have sex with me now?" Sasuke asked, mouth dry. Naruto shot him an incredulous look over his shoulder as he removed his jeans from around his ankles.
"I'm not gonna sleep with you Sasuke. Well, I am gonna SLEEP with you, but that's cause I only have one bed. I'm not gonna have sex with you." Part of Sasuke felt disappointed. He wondered what it would be like to have those strong hands wondering his body and what it would feel like to explore the others in return. He let his eyes quickly race over Naruto's body before forcing himself to focus again.
"But you're…getting undressed."
"Yeah, I'm not gonna sleep in my clothes," Naruto rolled his eyes, "but just cause I'm in my underwear doesn't mean I'm gonna fuck you." Naruto plopped down into his bed and began wiggling under the sheets. "I don't care if you sleep in your clothes, but turn off the light before you get in bed."
Sasuke flipped the light switch down before slowly moving toward the bed and also stripping down to his underwear. He felt himself get embarrassed and scolded himself. Naruto wasn't even facing him. And he obviously didn't care what Sasuke's body looked like. Or that I work out a few times a week. He thought to himself sourly. He carefully pulled the covers over himself as he scooted into the bed, stopping when he could feel the other's body heat. He glanced over in the dark, trying to make out Naruto's face. It appeared as if the other had somehow already fallen asleep. Sasuke took in a few quiet, deep breaths, enjoying the warm scent the Alpha emitted. Then Sasuke fell asleep quickly.
The next morning Naruto's nose was caressed by the scent of cinnamon rolls and berries. He sighed into the smell and breathed in deeper as he slowly achieved consciousness. He blinked awake slowly, still focused on the smell that he realized was coming from right next to him. Sasuke. He DEFINITELY didn't smell like that last night, even drunk, Naruto would have caught that, he was sure. Naruto leaned in closer to a still sleeping Sasuke and took a deep breath. Yup, the scent was coming from Sasuke, no question. Sasuke began to stir as Naruto was focusing his attention on the Omega.
Sasuke opened his eyes slowly and felt his heart constrict in shock at the Alpha starting down at him seriously.
"You're an omega?" Naruto stated more than asked. It was only then Sasuke realized he had forgot to take his suppressants the night before with all the commotion of leaving his home. That meant it had officially been more than 24 hours since he had a dose, it was no wonder he strongly smelled like an omega now.
"Uh…yeah…I am." Sasuke broke eye contact. He wasn't sure what else to say, and Naruto looked upset with him, though he didn't understand why. Don't alphas love omegas?
"Last night you said you were a beta," Naruto narrowed his eyes. Sasuke's eyes flashed back to Naruto's and met them with the same narrowed look.
"No, I just never said I wasn't. You assumed because you couldn't smell me that I must've been a beta. You never asked." Naruto rolled his eyes. That was true, he didn't explicitly ask, but he had very obviously scented the air around Sasuke when he met him, why else would he do that if not to determine his secondary gender. Sasuke not being a beta made things a little more complicated, but it was too early for Naruto to make a real decision about what he was going to do.
"Alright, whatever." Naruto conceded. Sasuke softened his gaze on the alpha. He had looked handsome last night, but in the morning light he looked angelic. The sun streaming in from the windows shown through his messy blond locks and made them sparkle. His big blue eyes, even when filled with frustration still, had a softness to them. Three whisker like scars were visible on both cheeks on otherwise flawless skin that Sasuke hadn't noticed the night before. Sasuke wondered briefly what they were from. Suddenly, he was very aware of Naruto's scent too. He smelled like oranges, and fresh rain, and just a hint of, what was that, jasmine?
"So now that you know I'm an omega, are you going to have sex with me?" Sasuke shocked himself as the words left his mouth before his brain had a chance to catch up. Naruto scrubbed his face with his hands roughly before sighing.
"I'm not gonna sleep with you, Sasuke." Naruto moved to get off of the bed and begin his morning routine. He was suddenly hyper aware of his morning wood that stood proudly, stretching the fabric of his boxer briefs. "And stop staring at my cock." Sasuke averted his gaze quickly, face flushing with embarrassment. What was wrong with him?! He'd never openly ogled an alpha before. Granted, he usually wasn't around very many of them that weren't directly related to him, but still, he'd seen beautiful alphas before and he could control himself.
Naruto returned a few minutes later, clean face and a pair of sweatpants that hung lowly on his hips. Sasuke wished he'd thought to bring some sort of pajamas. Instead he put on the clothes he'd been wearing the night before and was digging around furiously in his backpack.
"Do you want some breakfast? I'm gonna make eggs," Naruto asked while eyeing Sasuke who seemed to be becoming more and more distressed.
"Sure, that's fine." Sasuke answered curtly. "Thank you." He added as an afterthought. He didn't want to seem rude but he was dealing with a large issue at the moment.
"You okay over there?" Naruto inquired when Sasuke finally stopped his digging and sat next to his bag looking defeated.
"I…I forgot my suppressants at my fathers house. I must've left them on my desk."
"Oof. That's rough." Naruto answered, not really knowing the implications of what Sasuke was talking about. "Does that mean you're gonna be stuck smelling like an omega then?"
"Yes, but it also means…I have to figure things out faster" Sasuke answered vaguely. He took a deep breath and turned toward Naruto in the kitchen. The kitchen was separated from the living room/bedroom duo by a tall counter that had stools creating the appearance of a make shift bar. Sasuke sat on one of the stools as Naruto continued cooking.
"So, Sasuke. Why'd you get kicked out anyway?"
"My father is trying to mate me off for a business deal to some random, creepy alpha and I refused."
"Oh." Naruto continued cooking as if Sasuke hadn't just said that his father was trying to sell him like a slave.
"Oh? That's all? He's treating me like I'm his property that he can just do with whatever he pleases!"
"You're an unmated, omega with living alpha relatives whom you are not emancipated from, yeah?" Sasuke nodded lightly. "Then you kind of ARE his property Sasuke. I don't know what you want me to tell you, that's just the way the world works." Naruto said continuing his cooking.
"What do you mean? Aren't alphas supposed to always do what's in the best interest of the omega and want to please omegas?" Sasuke thought back to his lessons on alpha and omega dynamics from when he was in school. Everything has always said that alphas were hard wired to always want to make omegas happy. That they had a strong desire to protect and provide. That they were happiest when they were making their omegas happy. Being traded off for a business deal did not make Sasuke happy.
"What the fuck are you talking about," Naruto snorted. Naruto finally looked up and met Sasuke's upset expression. "Look, I don't know where you've been the last…how old are you?"
"19."
"Look, I don't know where you've been the last 19 years, but that's not how things work. It's a nice little pre-school thought that alphas always want to please omegas, but the reality is alphas pretty much control everything, and we do what we want with that control as it fits OUR best interests most of the time. How have you not noticed that? Have you been locked inside a castle all this time or what?"
Sasuke swallowed thickly at the last comment. Actually, he sort of HAD been locked in a castle of some sort all this time. He took suppressants so that few people, other than his friends, that were also mostly omegas themselves, and his family knew he was an omega. When he went to visit his friends, he was always closely accompanied by either Itachi or one of their alpha bodyguards. He was never allowed out on his own, didn't have any alpha friends, truly the only alphas he really spoke to were his dad and brother as even the bodyguards didn't speak much with him. He didn't even go to school with other people, Sasuke had been homeschooled and similarly was taking college courses online. Even the media he consumed had been closely monitored. His father and brother never watched certain programs around him and we're always stand-offish about the things they were reading. He hadn't thought much about it because Itachi would always show him things about their families business and tell him to keep it a secret. He had actually thought that he was pretty involved with things, but looking back, he'd been pretty much hand fed everything he knew about the world, or found out secondhand. Nothing truly experienced for himself.
"So…you're saying that…alphas only work to make themselves happy?" Sasuke chastised himself for sounding potentially dumb.
"Yeah, that's what I'm saying. Honestly, sorry Sasuke, but a lot of the time it comes at the expense of omegas." Naruto shrugged matter of factly.
"What do you mean by that? You're…you seem like you're a nice alpha." Naruto chuckled at that and set a plate with scrambled eggs and some toast in front of Sasuke.
"I'm not a nice guy, Sasuke. You just don't know me very well." Sasuke eyed Naruto and then the eggs that had been set down. Was that a warning? When Sasuke's stomach growled loudly and he saw Naruto eating his own plate, he decided he didn't care and dug into the food placed in front of him. He looked up at Naruto in time to see him wipe excess butter from the corner of his mouth with his thumb before sucking the digit into his mouth.
"How do you use omegas?" Sasuke pressed. The question took Naruto by surprised and he raised his eyebrows for a moment while he thought.
"That doesn't really matter." Naruto tried to write Sasuke off.
"Okay, well then how do other people use omegas?" Sasuke pressed harder.
Naruto looked at Sasuke like he was stupid and Sasuke felt his cheeks start to burn
"C'mon Sasuke, like they use them for business deals and sex and stuff." The burning in Sasuke's cheeks began moving up to his ears. It was a suspicion he was developing, but now it had been confirmed by Naruto. "So, what are you gonna do now?" Naruto asked finishing up his breakfast.
"I don't know. I thought maybe I could get someone to give me enough money to get far away from my father…" Sasuke looked up at Naruto, hopefully.
"You're not tryna prostitute yourself out to me now, are you Sasuke?" Naruto quirked a brow. "Cause I already said I'm not gonna sleep with you. I wouldn't do it for free, I'm definitely not gonna pay for it." Sasuke looked away, embarrassed.
"Well you could just give me money," he grumbled.
"Look around, Sasuke. Do I look like I have spare money for omegas in need? If you'd like I can drop you off in the red light district and maybe some alpha there will pay to fuck you." Sasuke glared at Naruto who seemed to look pleased with himself in return. "Okay, how about this, you can stay here for a bit while you get things figured out, but figure it out quickly. I work from home sometimes, so, during that time, figure it out quietly."
Sasuke felt irritated by Naruto's abrasiveness, but couldn't help but also feel grateful. He really didn't have anywhere else to go and Naruto had already shared his bed and his food with no ask in return. It made him wonder why Naruto didn't consider himself a nice alpha when he had the upper hand on Sasuke but wasn't even doing anything with it. With that thought, Sasuke allowed himself to relax a bit.
But it was short lived.
By the next morning, Sasuke began to feel the familiar twinges and waves that had previously been kept at bay from his regular use of suppressants. Sasuke woke up feeling clammy, and with a hard on he couldn't will away. He turned his head to see Naruto was still asleep. Based on the tent in the sheets, part of him was definitely wide awake, but the rest of him seemed to be unconscious. Sasuke felt a trickle of slick slip out of him as he stared at the alphas impressive appendage. Sasuke shook his head to try to clear it and got up. He couldn't let Naruto see him like this, he'd already been shooting Sasuke down when he'd just hinted at sex. If he saw Sasuke like this, he'd probably be irritated.
Sasuke slowly climbed out of the bed, and made his way to the bathroom, silently closing and locking the door for privacy before pulling himself out of his briefs. The instant relief of no longer being confined felt good and Sasuke had to bite back a moan. The last thing he wanted was to wake Naruto up while he was, 'taking care of' himself.
Sasuke began slowly stroking his cock, using his thumb to smear the already building precum over the head. He let out another quiet sigh and moved one hand up to play with his nipples. He couldn't help but let his mind wander to the sleeping Alpha just on the other side of the door. Sasuke imagined it was Naruto who was gently tugging at his nipples and, using a large hand, building up speed and quickly brining Sasuke to his release. Sasuke bit back another whine as he pushed himself over the edge and came into his hand.
Sasuke sighed deeply and assessed the mess. There was slick running down the back of his thigh, but he'd contained his cum in his first. Sasuke quickly cleaned himself up and crept the door open so he could slip silently back into bed. He nearly jumped out of his skin at the sight in front of him.
"Is that why you were worried about forgetting your suppressants?" Naruto asked, voice deep with arousal. Naruto was standing outside of the bathroom door, pupils dilated. His hands were clenched into first at his side and at first Sasuke thought Naruto was angry with him, but when Naruto's dick twitched noticeably in its confines, he realized Naruto was just trying to control how turned on he was.
"Yes."
"Please tell me you're not seriously about to go into heat." Naruto sounded stern, but he looked wrecked. He looked like it was taking everything inside him to not reach out for Sasuke. Sasuke felt a zing of power.
"What? Afraid you're going to want to sleep with me, alpha?" Sasuke smirked. Naruto's nostrils flared in response. Whether from smelling Sasuke or from irritation, Sasuke wasn't sure. Naruto clenched his jaw, closed his eyes and took a deep breath. He needed to calm down before he said or did something he'd regret.
"Sasuke, I know you're pretty new to knowing how the world works, but most omegas would feel rightfully scared about going into heat around an alpha they don't know. Especially if said omega had no one to rely on right now, other than that alpha."
Naruto's words made Sasuke shiver slightly. He was pretty sure he was safe with Naruto, he had been up until this point, but part of him was beginning to worry Naruto wasn't over exaggerating when he claimed he wasn't a nice alpha. Just because he hadn't hurt him didn't mean that he wouldn't.
"You should be scared." Naruto said as he brushed by Sasuke and moved into the bathroom. It wasn't until he closed the door that Sasuke even realized that he wasn't in the bathroom with Naruto and that the conversation was over.