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 10
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A knock on the prop door echoed throughout the auditorium, and Sasuke was already pissed off before the scene even started. He knew which one they were practicing now, and he hated the freaking "creative changes" that came with it.
I can't wait to kill Gaston at the end of the play. Pushing Neji off a roof sounds so satisfying.
Belle opened the door, and immediately looked uncomfortable.
Sasuke wondered how much of that was real.
"Gaston, what a pleasant.. surprise."
"Isn't it though." Neji forced the door open, and Naruto took a step back. He stumbled over his own feet, though, and bumped into the table behind him, sending a lamp crashing to the ground.
The blonde flinched, then looked sheepishly up at the director. "Uh.. sorry about that."
The man pinched the bridge of his nose. "Should we just bubble wrap everything before we continue?"
Naruto scratched the back of his head and gave a nervous laugh. "Heh- yeah. I guess I'm pretty clumsy."
Sasuke noticed him wince in pain, but then wondered if he imagined it. In less time than it took to blink, the look was gone.
"Hmm.."
A stagehand rushed up, swept up the pieces of broken lamp, and disappeared again. "Alright, let's continue- shall we?"
Neji and Naruto both nodded, then went back to stand by the door.
"You know Belle, there's not a single girl in town who wouldn't love to be in your shoes."
I highly doubt that, Naruto thought, trying to ignore the pain pulsing from inside his actual shoe.
"This is the day your dreams come true." Neji grinned at his reflection, then stepped closer to Naruto, much to a certain Uchiha's growing rage.
"What do you know about my dreams, Gaston?"
The brunette pulled Belle down onto his lap on the couch, and went about describing their dream life together.
I am going to strangle that freaking director.
Naruto finally pulled free of Neji's grasp and moved away from him, backing up across the stage. "I.. umm.. I'm speechless, Gaston. I really uhh.."
"I don't know what to say," Naruto admitted, as the line escaped him. Coincidently enough that was his line.
Gaston advanced on the blonde until he had him cornered against the door. Naruto tried to open it, but Neji put a hand on the door and slammed it shut.
That's new..
Gaston reached out and gently ran his finger tips across Naruto's exposed chest. The blonde stared at him with huge, horrified eyes.
Neji's fingertips slid over to the shoulder of his robe and slowly moved the silky material down his arm. "Say you'll marry me" he said, his voice low and husky.
Sasuke started to move onto the stage, unable to watch this shit any longer. As he stormed up to the scene, Neji's other hand dropped down to Naruto's hip and the blonde freaked out.
"NO!" he screamed and shoved the brunette hard, sending him flying across the room.
Sasuke stopped, and stared with huge dark eyes. In fact, everyone did. The whole room was frozen, staring at Naruto in absolute shock. "What just-"
"I- I'm sorry!" Naruto stammered, before scooping up the hem of his robe and running off the stage, Belle suddenly becoming a midnight-Cinderella.
"Ok.. Well.." the director cleared his throat. "Dramatic is what we were going for.."
His brilliant green eyes danced over to Sasuke. "What are you waiting for, my dear Beast?"
Sasuke blushed, and ran after his Belle.
"Ahh- young love" the director sighed. "How I miss it." He smiled down at the brunette still splayed out on floor. "Neji, darling-"
He grinned impishly.
"- that was beautifully done."
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Sasuke finally caught up with Naruto. He was sitting on some steps outside of another building nearby. Naruto was shoving his shoe back on with a huff. He had pulled the glass out that had lodged deep into his foot after he had stepped on the remnants of the lamp he had knocked over, but chose to ignore the blood instead of alerting Sasuke to it.
He didn't know exactly why he felt like hiding it. Maybe because he kind of just assumed that Sasuke would find a way to make fun of him for it, and he wasn't really in the mood for that.
The Uchiha sat down next to him, unsure of what to say.
"So.. that was-"
"It's not my fault! He was so.." Naruto dropped his head, long blonde locks covering his distraught face.
Sasuke felt an impulse to brush them back so he could look into his beautiful blue eyes, but forced himself to stay in control.
Why the hell are you like this?! When did you get so obsessed with- with freaking Naruto?!!
"The director shouldn't have put you in that position", Sasuke said quietly. "You're not in the wrong, Naruto."
The blonde glanced over at him. "So you don't think I was being dramatic..?"
"It's a play. You're supposed to be dramatic."
Naruto rolled his eyes.
"Seriously though.. what Neji did-" Sasuke's eyes flashed with fury, "-that was out of line."
"He was-"
"Yeah. I know. He was acting." Sasuke grated out. "If that's true then he's a pretty damn good actor."
Naruto got quiet again.
"Wanna spar for a bit?"
Naruto thought about the blood pooling in his shoe, and the foot screaming at him, but chose to ignore both. "Yeah- sure."
Naruto tied his robe to the side of his leg, hiking it up so it'd be easier to fight, and followed Sasuke to the edge of the woods. There were already a ton of kunai there, half of them lodge into a tree.
Naruto raised his eyebrow. "So, you're just always pissed off, huh?"
Sasuke rolled his eyes, but chose not to answer. He found a way to deal with some of his pent up.. frustrations. He wasn't about to explain that to Naruto though.
"And I wonder what the cause of that could be?"
Ok, maybe I am going to explain it to him.
"Pfhh- be prepared to swallow my-"
"Naruto!" Sasuke choked out. "Can you just freaking think before you- you know what. Just stop talking, ok? Not another word."
Naruto chucked a kunai at his face, which he easily deflected.
"Fine, Teme! Then I'll talk to you with my body instead."
"Dammit, Naruto! What did I just say!!"
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The two fought for a while, with Naruto shouting absolute, shockingly suggestive, nonsense the entire time, despite Sasuke's constant instructions not to.
Seriously- how can he be so freaking oblivious!?
The theatre troupe eventually came and got them, clearly feeling impatient after a while. By the time they did, the two were feeling physically exhausted and mentally composed. Sparring with each other always seemed to have that affect on them.
Naruto's foot was feeling lighter too, in fact it was feeling pretty numb. Which wasn't necessarily an unpleasant feeling. It was a lot better than the sharp pains he had at first.
"Alright you two- time for another scene."
The two looked at the director suspiciously.
"Now, now- you can relax. This time we are going to see the softer side of our dear Beast."
"Pfhh- good luck with that. Sasuke's always hard."
An abrasive laugh ripped out of Kakashi's mouth before he could stop it.
Sasuke turned bright red and just stared incredulously at the idiot blonde. God- WHY is he like this?? Has he always been like this?
How is THIS the guy that I'm into. I must be losing my freaking mind..
The director smiled, emerald eyes shining with delight. "I'm assuming you would know best, Naruto."
The blonde nodded, proud and still completely unaware of what the man was implying.
"If anyone knows how-"
"Naruto."
"Hmm? You say something Sasuke."
"Please shut up."
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