Once Upon a Time in Konoha
Summary: Naruto and the rest of the gang are sealed inside a cursed fairy tale book! The only way they can get out is that they have to act the parts assigned to them until the story ends! Guess who the "damsel in distress" and the "knight in shining armor" are... slightly yaoi... sasu/naru
Author's notes: Yup, I'm writing my first Naruto fanfic! Hope you all like it! This is yaoi (heck, you all know what it means) I mean the end is one... So don't like, don't read... This would be 12 chapters at the most... Don't forget to review...
Disclaimers: I never owned Naruto, got that?
Chapter One: One Upon a Time...
It was a warm Saturday afternoon. The former rookies of Konoha were assembled in the Fifth Hokage's office, waiting for instructions on their next mission.
Lee, who was determined to show-off at Sakura, was demonstrating his latest move at Neji, who dodged the attack easily, as Tenten looks on. Sakura, who didn't seem to care whatever Lee was doing, was having another pointless argument with Ino, as usual, it was all about Sasuke. Sasuke sat in one corner, determined to get away from the two annoying girls as far as possible. Shikamaru fell asleep on the couch. Kiba was making all sorts of noises with Akamaru. Chouji was eating his –th barbecue. Shino was quiet. Hinata was blushing crimson, as she openly stared at her not-so-secret object of affections. Kakashi was still reading the latest edition of Icha Icha Paradise, as Gai was at his side, making one of those "famous" speeches again.
To sum it all up, what's new? They were all doing their usual business anyway, that is, with the exception of one blonde shinobi...
Naruto was actually walking around the Tsunade-sama's office, and believe it or not, he was actually browsing through the Hokage's bookshelf, which was a first, as he hated books. He curiously pulled out a book or two. What caught the blonde's attention was the rather tattered, leather bound book lying on the far end of the shelf. With one of those famous smiles, he reached out for it, and blew the thick dust that covered it...
On the front cover of the book appeared letters engraved in gold which read...
The Cursed Book of Fairy Tales
"Cool!" The blonde thought, excitement evident in his voice.
Sasuke looked rather tired. He and Naruto had just come from a mission involving a crazy woman and her frantic missing cat. It took them nearly a day chasing the cat, enduring cuts, scratches, and bites. He didn't even know that cats bite, well that one does. To think of it, Naruto was practically enjoying himself during the whole ordeal... Heck, what do you expect from an idiot? And those two women (He glared at the direction of Sakura and Ino) annoyingly fighting over him didn't improve his fowl mood He brought out his kunai and started toying with it. He looked around... That's when he noticed Naruto...
Sasuke nearly laughed, wait, he was trying not to laugh. He would not dare ruin his impassive reputation just because of a dobe... He thought he was actually seeing things... Naruto was actually browsing through books, not bragging about his accomplishments, or his dream to become Hokage, or just being an annoying brat... He was doing something close to reading... His expression turned to pure horror as he realized what that means...
Naruto doing something out of the ordinary (what he considers ordinary) meant and spelled only one thing...
T-R-O-U-B-L-E
So unless Sasuke was mistaken, they could be in a serious trouble right now... in a very serious trouble.... He watched as Naruto approached him.
Curiosity killed the cat, they say, but the blonde kitsune did not even bother. He was not a cat, for one. A fox demon, maybe, but a cat? No, definitely not. So he shrugged off any idea that he could be in serious trouble once he opened the book, which was what he was planning to do...
That's how his simple mind works, anyway...
Naruto grinned, as he looked for a place to read the book. He was too absorbed, that he didn't notice Sasuke, who was sitting right behind to where he was standing.
"Watch where you're going, dobe!"
"Sasuke, you bastard!" Naruto stuck out his tongue at his rival, and then walked away.
Sasuke, meanwhile, was determined to know what Naruto was up to. "Dobe, what's that?"
"A book!" Naruto snapped, 'It's none of your business, and stop calling me dobe!"
"Baka, I know it's a book..." Sasuke muttered. He was about to say more about Naruto knowing that it was in fact a book, when he noticed the gold engravings on the book Naruto was holding.
The Cursed Book of Fairy Tales
What the...
Think, think, think....
The Cursed Book of Fairy Tales...
Think, think...
Sasuke paled (if that was still possible) as he remembered what that book was. His sharingan started glowing as he rushed towards the blonde. "Naruto, don't!"
Too late...
By the time Naruto heard those words, he had already turned the book...
A mere second passed...
Poof!
All the occupants of the Fifth Hokage's office disappeared, literally, in a cloud of smoke...
Barely a minute later, the Hokage's doors flew opened as Tsunade, closely followed by Kurenai and Jiraiya, rushed in, half expecting an ambush...
To their surprise, they found the whole room deserted, and the idea of an ambush was quickly forgotten as the room was in order, and no sign of struggle can be seen...
The question is, where are they?
Tsunade quickly picked up the book, lying abandoned on the floor. She smiled as she held it up.
Kurenai and Jiraiya exchanged looks once they saw the title.
"Naruto." They all chorused.
"Ouch!" Naruto rubbed his forehead that had almost hit the floor. He must have fallen, what, 50 feet? He looked around. It was very dark, and cold, and all he could see was Sasuke's sharingan, staring at him in anger.
"Err... Sasuke?!"
Sasuke scowled. Right. As expected, they were in trouble. "Dobe, I told you not to open that book! You should have listened to me!"
Naruto felt someone pull him up. "Where are we?" He was confused. The last thing he remembered was being in Tsunade's office, and this certainly did not look like her office.
"Shut up!" Sasuke hissed. "I don't really know."
Just then, a bright light illuminated the room. Sasuke's eyes faded to their normal color. It was Kakashi, who had done a jutsu. "Are you two all right?"
Sasuke and Naruto nodded. The first thing they noticed was that they were all there: Sakura, Ino, Kiba and Akamaru, Shino, Shikamaru, Chouji, Neji, Lee, Hinata, Tenten, Kakashi, and even Gai, and they were all wearing the same look of confusion on their faces.
At least no one was hurt, Sasuke thought.
"Where are we?" Chouji asked, looking around.
Sasuke hesitated, before replying. "I think we're inside a book."
Everyone turned to look at Naruto.
"What did you do this time, Naruto?" Shikamaru irritably asked.
"Inside a book?" Kakashi repeated, grinning to himself. "Come Come Paradise?"
"Kakashi-sensei!" Sakura screeched.
"Pervert." They all muttered, shaking their heads.
"No, The Cursed Book of Fairy Tales." Sasuke calmly replied.
"What!" They all exclaimed. Everyone turned to glare at Naruto.
"Look at what you did this time, Naruto!"
"We are in BIG trouble, because of you, baka!"
"Idiot, why do you always have to look!"
Naruto swallowed hard. It was very uncomfortable, especially when almost a dozen people are glaring at you. If looks could kill, well, he was probably worse than dead right now. "Ahm... gomen?"
Everyone scowled (Except Hinata). What's done is done, so what could they do, right?
"Come-on." Hinata stuttered, turning crimson. "Naruto-kun... didn't... mean... to...do ...it...besides...he... already said... sorry...."
They just shook their heads. They don't have to ask why Hinata was always defending Naruto. Heck, everyone knows, except for one noisy idiot.
"Gee!" Naruto cried, "Thanks Hinata!"
"It's... nothing... Naruto-kun..." Hinata blushed even harder.
Sasuke growled. "Dobe just got himself a girlfriend..."
"What did you say!" Naruto demanded, turning to his rival.
"I didn't know dobe's deaf..."
"I'm not deaf, you bastard, and don't call me "dobe"..."
"Whatever... dobe," Sasuke added with a smirk. He just loved it when he's annoying the idiot...
"I TOLD YOU NOT TO CALL ME "DOBE"!" Naruto grinned, "I wonder, can't a genius understand a sentence as simple as that?"
"Thanks for the compliment..."
"What!!!"
"Would you two stop it!" Sakura shouted, her patience wearing thin between the two.
"Hmph." Naruto just glared. "So what exactly is a 'Cursed Book of Fairy Tales'?"
Sasuke visibly sighed. "Figures."
"It is a book that transports all people within the closed space into the book itself." A voice replied.
"Hey, old hag!" Naruto yelled, recognizing that voice. "Get the hell us out of here!"
"I can't get you out of there!" Tsunade's voice angrily replied. "And don't dare call me an old hag! It was your stupid fault that you are all stuck there in a book in the first place!"
"You're the Hokage and you can't do that!" Naruto made a thumbs-down sign. "You are stepping down, old hag, and I'm taking over!"
Kakashi turned white, upon hearing the word "book", "Where's my book? Where's my dear book?" He continued to ask frantically. "Where's my dear book?"
Everyone sweat-dropped.
"Err, Kakashi..." Tsunade cut in.
"Where's my book? Where's my book?"
"Kakashi, you left your book here." It was Kurenai this time.
"Kurenai!" Kakashi made his 'puppy eyes', "Are you sure?"
"I'm sure, in fact, I'm holding it right now." Kurenai couldn't still comprehend the silver-haired jounin's obsession with such a book.
"Is it safe?"
"Yes, it's safe."
"Do you promise to keep it safe until the time I came back there?"
"Fine, I promise."
"Promise?"
"Stop it, Kakashi! I promise to keep your book safe! Okay!"
Kakashi sighed in relief. "Now, let's get down to business. The sooner we get out of here, the sooner I could continue reading."
"Everything would be okay, kids!" Gai declared, "Gai-sensei is here! I would not let anything harm the future generation, the youth being the hope of our village, and Kakashi would join me!"
Kakashi yawned. "You said something?"
Neji turned his look away from the silver-haired jounin who was worried more about his book than the situation they were in, and from his own sensei making one of those speeches again. Are all jounins this weird? "So how do we get out of here?"
"You have to play the parts assigned until the story ends." It was Jiraiya's voice this time. "In the end, it will be revealed how you can all get out of there, how the spell would be broken..."
"Jiraiya-sensei!" Naruto cried.
"Naruto, you are dead for this one!"
"What's the story about?" Ino asked.
"Fairy Tales, Ino." Kurenai replied, "From the title of the book, itself!"
Ino brightened up. "Wow, I would be the princess, and Sasuke would be the prince! Sakura would be the witch! Then, Sasuke and I would live happily ever after!" She laughed after that.
"In your dreams, Ino!" Sakura snapped, "I would be the princess, and you would be the witch! Sasuke and I would live happily ever after!"
Sasuke groaned, as he stepped away as far as possible from the two annoying girls, having that usual argument again... Why are girls so annoying? "Could we just get this over with?"
"Okay!" Tsunade cheerfully replied, "Excited to be the knight in shining armor, are we, Sasuke?"
"Hmmp." Was the only reply.
"Well, then, go find the door. It would lead you inside the plot." The voice of Jiraiya said. A giant wooden door appeared.
"Just be careful." Kurenai added, "You can't use any form of jutsu inside." They all nodded, and marched towards the door.
The sign read: "The Cursed Book of Fairy Tales"
"This would be a piece of cake!" Naruto grinned, scratching his head.
Sasuke smirked, "Just open the door, dobe..."
With one last sigh, Naruto pushed the door open (as initial punishment for what he'd done,) and one by one, they entered.
The story has begun....
Should I continue? Please review... You could start guessing who are the "prince" and "princess"....
Summary: Naruto and the rest of the gang are sealed inside a cursed fairy tale book! The only way they can get out is that they have to act the parts assigned to them until the story ends! Guess who the "damsel in distress" and the "knight in shining armor" are... slightly yaoi... sasu/naru
Author's notes: Yup, I'm writing my first Naruto fanfic! Hope you all like it! This is yaoi (heck, you all know what it means) I mean the end is one... So don't like, don't read... This would be 12 chapters at the most... Don't forget to review...
Disclaimers: I never owned Naruto, got that?
Chapter One: One Upon a Time...
It was a warm Saturday afternoon. The former rookies of Konoha were assembled in the Fifth Hokage's office, waiting for instructions on their next mission.
Lee, who was determined to show-off at Sakura, was demonstrating his latest move at Neji, who dodged the attack easily, as Tenten looks on. Sakura, who didn't seem to care whatever Lee was doing, was having another pointless argument with Ino, as usual, it was all about Sasuke. Sasuke sat in one corner, determined to get away from the two annoying girls as far as possible. Shikamaru fell asleep on the couch. Kiba was making all sorts of noises with Akamaru. Chouji was eating his –th barbecue. Shino was quiet. Hinata was blushing crimson, as she openly stared at her not-so-secret object of affections. Kakashi was still reading the latest edition of Icha Icha Paradise, as Gai was at his side, making one of those "famous" speeches again.
To sum it all up, what's new? They were all doing their usual business anyway, that is, with the exception of one blonde shinobi...
Naruto was actually walking around the Tsunade-sama's office, and believe it or not, he was actually browsing through the Hokage's bookshelf, which was a first, as he hated books. He curiously pulled out a book or two. What caught the blonde's attention was the rather tattered, leather bound book lying on the far end of the shelf. With one of those famous smiles, he reached out for it, and blew the thick dust that covered it...
On the front cover of the book appeared letters engraved in gold which read...
The Cursed Book of Fairy Tales
"Cool!" The blonde thought, excitement evident in his voice.
Sasuke looked rather tired. He and Naruto had just come from a mission involving a crazy woman and her frantic missing cat. It took them nearly a day chasing the cat, enduring cuts, scratches, and bites. He didn't even know that cats bite, well that one does. To think of it, Naruto was practically enjoying himself during the whole ordeal... Heck, what do you expect from an idiot? And those two women (He glared at the direction of Sakura and Ino) annoyingly fighting over him didn't improve his fowl mood He brought out his kunai and started toying with it. He looked around... That's when he noticed Naruto...
Sasuke nearly laughed, wait, he was trying not to laugh. He would not dare ruin his impassive reputation just because of a dobe... He thought he was actually seeing things... Naruto was actually browsing through books, not bragging about his accomplishments, or his dream to become Hokage, or just being an annoying brat... He was doing something close to reading... His expression turned to pure horror as he realized what that means...
Naruto doing something out of the ordinary (what he considers ordinary) meant and spelled only one thing...
T-R-O-U-B-L-E
So unless Sasuke was mistaken, they could be in a serious trouble right now... in a very serious trouble.... He watched as Naruto approached him.
Curiosity killed the cat, they say, but the blonde kitsune did not even bother. He was not a cat, for one. A fox demon, maybe, but a cat? No, definitely not. So he shrugged off any idea that he could be in serious trouble once he opened the book, which was what he was planning to do...
That's how his simple mind works, anyway...
Naruto grinned, as he looked for a place to read the book. He was too absorbed, that he didn't notice Sasuke, who was sitting right behind to where he was standing.
"Watch where you're going, dobe!"
"Sasuke, you bastard!" Naruto stuck out his tongue at his rival, and then walked away.
Sasuke, meanwhile, was determined to know what Naruto was up to. "Dobe, what's that?"
"A book!" Naruto snapped, 'It's none of your business, and stop calling me dobe!"
"Baka, I know it's a book..." Sasuke muttered. He was about to say more about Naruto knowing that it was in fact a book, when he noticed the gold engravings on the book Naruto was holding.
The Cursed Book of Fairy Tales
What the...
Think, think, think....
The Cursed Book of Fairy Tales...
Think, think...
Sasuke paled (if that was still possible) as he remembered what that book was. His sharingan started glowing as he rushed towards the blonde. "Naruto, don't!"
Too late...
By the time Naruto heard those words, he had already turned the book...
A mere second passed...
Poof!
All the occupants of the Fifth Hokage's office disappeared, literally, in a cloud of smoke...
Barely a minute later, the Hokage's doors flew opened as Tsunade, closely followed by Kurenai and Jiraiya, rushed in, half expecting an ambush...
To their surprise, they found the whole room deserted, and the idea of an ambush was quickly forgotten as the room was in order, and no sign of struggle can be seen...
The question is, where are they?
Tsunade quickly picked up the book, lying abandoned on the floor. She smiled as she held it up.
Kurenai and Jiraiya exchanged looks once they saw the title.
"Naruto." They all chorused.
"Ouch!" Naruto rubbed his forehead that had almost hit the floor. He must have fallen, what, 50 feet? He looked around. It was very dark, and cold, and all he could see was Sasuke's sharingan, staring at him in anger.
"Err... Sasuke?!"
Sasuke scowled. Right. As expected, they were in trouble. "Dobe, I told you not to open that book! You should have listened to me!"
Naruto felt someone pull him up. "Where are we?" He was confused. The last thing he remembered was being in Tsunade's office, and this certainly did not look like her office.
"Shut up!" Sasuke hissed. "I don't really know."
Just then, a bright light illuminated the room. Sasuke's eyes faded to their normal color. It was Kakashi, who had done a jutsu. "Are you two all right?"
Sasuke and Naruto nodded. The first thing they noticed was that they were all there: Sakura, Ino, Kiba and Akamaru, Shino, Shikamaru, Chouji, Neji, Lee, Hinata, Tenten, Kakashi, and even Gai, and they were all wearing the same look of confusion on their faces.
At least no one was hurt, Sasuke thought.
"Where are we?" Chouji asked, looking around.
Sasuke hesitated, before replying. "I think we're inside a book."
Everyone turned to look at Naruto.
"What did you do this time, Naruto?" Shikamaru irritably asked.
"Inside a book?" Kakashi repeated, grinning to himself. "Come Come Paradise?"
"Kakashi-sensei!" Sakura screeched.
"Pervert." They all muttered, shaking their heads.
"No, The Cursed Book of Fairy Tales." Sasuke calmly replied.
"What!" They all exclaimed. Everyone turned to glare at Naruto.
"Look at what you did this time, Naruto!"
"We are in BIG trouble, because of you, baka!"
"Idiot, why do you always have to look!"
Naruto swallowed hard. It was very uncomfortable, especially when almost a dozen people are glaring at you. If looks could kill, well, he was probably worse than dead right now. "Ahm... gomen?"
Everyone scowled (Except Hinata). What's done is done, so what could they do, right?
"Come-on." Hinata stuttered, turning crimson. "Naruto-kun... didn't... mean... to...do ...it...besides...he... already said... sorry...."
They just shook their heads. They don't have to ask why Hinata was always defending Naruto. Heck, everyone knows, except for one noisy idiot.
"Gee!" Naruto cried, "Thanks Hinata!"
"It's... nothing... Naruto-kun..." Hinata blushed even harder.
Sasuke growled. "Dobe just got himself a girlfriend..."
"What did you say!" Naruto demanded, turning to his rival.
"I didn't know dobe's deaf..."
"I'm not deaf, you bastard, and don't call me "dobe"..."
"Whatever... dobe," Sasuke added with a smirk. He just loved it when he's annoying the idiot...
"I TOLD YOU NOT TO CALL ME "DOBE"!" Naruto grinned, "I wonder, can't a genius understand a sentence as simple as that?"
"Thanks for the compliment..."
"What!!!"
"Would you two stop it!" Sakura shouted, her patience wearing thin between the two.
"Hmph." Naruto just glared. "So what exactly is a 'Cursed Book of Fairy Tales'?"
Sasuke visibly sighed. "Figures."
"It is a book that transports all people within the closed space into the book itself." A voice replied.
"Hey, old hag!" Naruto yelled, recognizing that voice. "Get the hell us out of here!"
"I can't get you out of there!" Tsunade's voice angrily replied. "And don't dare call me an old hag! It was your stupid fault that you are all stuck there in a book in the first place!"
"You're the Hokage and you can't do that!" Naruto made a thumbs-down sign. "You are stepping down, old hag, and I'm taking over!"
Kakashi turned white, upon hearing the word "book", "Where's my book? Where's my dear book?" He continued to ask frantically. "Where's my dear book?"
Everyone sweat-dropped.
"Err, Kakashi..." Tsunade cut in.
"Where's my book? Where's my book?"
"Kakashi, you left your book here." It was Kurenai this time.
"Kurenai!" Kakashi made his 'puppy eyes', "Are you sure?"
"I'm sure, in fact, I'm holding it right now." Kurenai couldn't still comprehend the silver-haired jounin's obsession with such a book.
"Is it safe?"
"Yes, it's safe."
"Do you promise to keep it safe until the time I came back there?"
"Fine, I promise."
"Promise?"
"Stop it, Kakashi! I promise to keep your book safe! Okay!"
Kakashi sighed in relief. "Now, let's get down to business. The sooner we get out of here, the sooner I could continue reading."
"Everything would be okay, kids!" Gai declared, "Gai-sensei is here! I would not let anything harm the future generation, the youth being the hope of our village, and Kakashi would join me!"
Kakashi yawned. "You said something?"
Neji turned his look away from the silver-haired jounin who was worried more about his book than the situation they were in, and from his own sensei making one of those speeches again. Are all jounins this weird? "So how do we get out of here?"
"You have to play the parts assigned until the story ends." It was Jiraiya's voice this time. "In the end, it will be revealed how you can all get out of there, how the spell would be broken..."
"Jiraiya-sensei!" Naruto cried.
"Naruto, you are dead for this one!"
"What's the story about?" Ino asked.
"Fairy Tales, Ino." Kurenai replied, "From the title of the book, itself!"
Ino brightened up. "Wow, I would be the princess, and Sasuke would be the prince! Sakura would be the witch! Then, Sasuke and I would live happily ever after!" She laughed after that.
"In your dreams, Ino!" Sakura snapped, "I would be the princess, and you would be the witch! Sasuke and I would live happily ever after!"
Sasuke groaned, as he stepped away as far as possible from the two annoying girls, having that usual argument again... Why are girls so annoying? "Could we just get this over with?"
"Okay!" Tsunade cheerfully replied, "Excited to be the knight in shining armor, are we, Sasuke?"
"Hmmp." Was the only reply.
"Well, then, go find the door. It would lead you inside the plot." The voice of Jiraiya said. A giant wooden door appeared.
"Just be careful." Kurenai added, "You can't use any form of jutsu inside." They all nodded, and marched towards the door.
The sign read: "The Cursed Book of Fairy Tales"
"This would be a piece of cake!" Naruto grinned, scratching his head.
Sasuke smirked, "Just open the door, dobe..."
With one last sigh, Naruto pushed the door open (as initial punishment for what he'd done,) and one by one, they entered.
The story has begun....
Should I continue? Please review... You could start guessing who are the "prince" and "princess"....