Disclaimers: I did not create Naruto nor did I make Beauty & The Beast- a sad fact, but still a fact. This is purely a SasuNaru fanfic using someone else's characters.
Beauty & The Beast: A D-Rank Mission
Chapter 6
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"Ah- Beast, there you are." The director grinned and clapped his hands together, "Splendid." He glanced around at his crew. "Alright, people. Let's take it from the top of page six." Sasuke pulled out his script and saw that the director was going to make them try out the door scene. Again.
He sighed. This is not going to end well.
"Belle, darling. Are you ready?"
"Uhh.. yeah."
Well that sounded believable.
Sasuke walked over to the door hovering between them and pulled it open. On the other side he found a downcast blonde gnawing at his lip. "Naruto?" The blonde jumped like he was Chidori-shocked and stared at him. Sasuke scanned over his face, but couldn't resist taking a slight detour to trail down his exposed chest- smooth and sun-kissed, lean muscles carved out beneath the cling of that thin blue robe..
He shot his eyes back up, hoping Naruto didn't notice his wandering gaze.
"You ok, dobe?"
Naruto looked away. "I'm fine, Teme.. let's just do the scene.."
"Uh huh... Naruto?"
Cerulean eyes looked up.
"You're a terrible liar."
Naruto frowned, and looked away.
The fluttery finger tips of an overly ecstatic director suddenly descended on the blonde's shoulders, pissing Sasuke off to no end. "Is everything alright, Belle? Beast isn't being too.." emerald eyes gleamed towards Sasuke, "hard on you. Is he?"
Naruto sighed. "No.. he's being just hard enough."
Sasuke choked.
Naruto straightened and looked over his shoulder at the director. "Don't worry though- I can take it!"
Kakashi patted Sasuke's back, clearing his airway once more. "You poor bastard" he muttered.
"You hear that, Teme!" Naruto yelled. "Your little game isn't going to work! Naruto Uzumaki never turns his back on a mission!"
Sasuke, after regaining his ability to breathe, looked once more at the chaos that was Naruto. "Whatever you say, dobe." He started to turn away, pulling the door closed along with him, when he heard-
"You don't scare me, Sasuke."
The raven froze. He pushed open the door again to stare back at the blonde, wide onyx eyes struggling to read him. Which wasn't normal. Because normally he was impossible not to read... right?
"Maybe not yet" Sasuke replied, eyes still locked onto the blonde. "But we'll see how you feel after page seven."
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"Well? Where is he?" The Beast growled, eyes piercing into the trembling clock.
Cogsworth shuffled his feet and scratched his minute hand. "Ah, yes, well.. actually, Belle is in the process of, ah, umm, circumstances being what they are, ahh..", he looked down and sighed, ".. he's not coming."
"WHAT?!!" The Beast burst from his study and threw himself forward, smashing into the wall on his way to his "guest's" bedroom.
"Your grace! Sir! Your eminence!" The nervous pendulum clock ran after him, followed closely by his candelabra and porcelain teapot, all three desperate to calm down the situation. "Let's not be hasty!"
Beast banged his fist against the door, shaking it on its hinges. "I thought I told you to come down to dinner!" he yelled, while internally hoping that Naruto wouldn't lose focus at the notion of eating- something he assumed they were all overdue for at this point. Come on- just stay in character. Let's just get through this freaking scene.
"I'm not hungry", Belle replied curtly from behind the door.
"You'll come out or I'll.. I'll break down the door!!" Beast shouted back.
"That might not be the best way to win Belle's affections.." Lumiere chimed in.
"Please attempt to be a gentleman." Mrs. Potts reminded him.
"But he is being so-" the Beast's mouth curled into a feral snarl, eyes shining with rage, "- difficult" he finally ground out.
Lumiere signaled for him to try again. "Gently" Mrs. Pott's mouthed.
The Beast pulled at his face, shot a look at his judgmental dinnerware, and as gently as he could muttered, "Will you come down to dinner?"
"No."
"Please" Mrs. Potts mouthed to the Beast this time.
Sasuke roughly ran his fingers through his hair, and gritted his teeth- convincingly agitated. "Will you please join me for dinner?"
"I said, NO!" Belle shouted from the other side of the door. The director leaned forward, excited to see his creative changes come into fruition.
"Fine!!" He growled, hands clenching into tight fists, eyes feral as he leaned forward. "Then go ahead and STARVE!!"
He whipped his attention back to the collection of objects he was inexplicably taking relationship advice from. "If he doesn't eat with me, then he doesn't eat at all."
"Do you hear me?!" he shouted at the door, "You can't stay in there forever!"
"Oh, yeah? And who's going to stop me!!" Belle yelled back.
Beast's snarl curled into a razor sharp grin. "Why tell you, when I can SHOW YOU!" A sharp crack echoed across the stage as the Beast suddenly rammed his shoulder into the (pre-prepared) door.
Belle took several steps back, cerulean eyes wide with alarm as the door splintered in front of him- some of it acting, some of it actual shock. This isn't like any Beauty & the Beast that I've ever seen..
With one more lunge, the door shattered and the Beast stomped into the room. His eyes narrowed on the blonde and prowled towards him, a predator corning his prey. "Don't come any closer" Belle ordered, but his voice came out strained, like it was already fleeing the scene.
Naruto's back hit the wall, and two fur-covered hands did the same on either side of him. Blue eyes shot up to watch the snarling Beast lean close. Naruto opened his mouth and almost whispered Sasuke's name, but quickly changed it. "Sa-Beast..?" Sasuke caught the mistake and started to smile, which only added to the Beast's threatening demeanor.
"It's time for dinner."
Then he grabbed the blonde and roughly threw him over his shoulder. He ignored the protests and struggles above him and sauntered out of the bedroom and down to the dining hall, where his guest would be graciously joining him.
"And cut!" the director called out. "Oh, that was marvelous Beast, just marvelous! I could feel our dear Belle's fear when you cornered him. Oh, beautifully done- both of you!"
"Wait- what?! My fear?!" Naruto struggled to get back to his feet, but Sasuke- embarrassingly enough- still had him hefted over his shoulder. "Dammit, Sasuke! Put me down!!"
"Ask nicely."
"Put me down, bastard!!" He started hitting Sasuke, but the Uchiha simply bounced him up and dropped him lower over his shoulder, causing Naruto to squeak a very unfortunate, not so masculine squeak.
"That was.. a sound." Kakashi remarked.
Naruto blushed in embarrassment as he tried to turn in Sasuke's grasp, but it was not exactly panning out. He huffed loudly. "Ughhh!!! Dammit!! Kakashi-sensei- can you tell this asshole to let me go."
"Oh Naruto, I don't think it'll be that easy."
"Wha-?" he looked over at him in confusion, then at the back of Sasuke's head. "What the hell is that supposed to mean?"
Sasuke glared at the silver-haired jonin and walked away. "Come on, dobe. Let's go get some ramen."
The blonde's angry protests quickly turned into excited cheers! "Woooh!! Yess! Onward, stallion!" he called out theatrically, "To Ichiraku we gooooo!"
Sasuke shook his head, chuckling lightly, as he carried his once stubborn, now growingly complacent, Belle to dinner.
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Author Note:
Thank you so much for reading this silly little story of mine. I hope you are enjoying it so far. I would love to hear your thoughts on it! There are sometimes that I amuse myself with it- like actually laugh out loud at my own jokes. I know, I'm sorry, I'm one of those people. But there are also times that I reread it and I think it's fucking rancid garbage.
Anyways~ thank you again! Alright, stallion- onto the next scene!! *cue Sasuke horse sounds* "And awayyyy we go!"