Title: Mechanical Heart

Genre: Romance, Sci-fi maybe

Rating: T (shounen-ai, yaoi, kissing, boyxboy, no sex scenes)

Pairings: Sasuita

Summary: Itachi was a man running from his past. Fate decides to be a bitch and put him in a position where he has to overcome said past. Sasuke was a robot on a mission. He loses his memories during an escape and finds himself living with Itachi. But when he regains his memories, Sasuke finds that his target is more closer than he realizes. With these new found feelings, Sasuke will have to choose, love or duty? Will he ignore his new-found heart or will he betray his most trusted friends?

WARNING!!: THIS STORY CONTAINS SHOUNEN-AI, YAOI, BL, OR WHATEVER YOU WANT TO CALL IT. It involves a boy loving another boy. If you strongly hate yaoi than you can always click the small arrow button on the top of the screen to go back to your previous page. For those of you who like yaoi, then please enjoy.

Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto or any of the characters in this story.

Please note that this is the first story I have ever written. I hope it's okay.

Konoha, the great nano-technological city. That was what it was. With it's high skyscrapers, tube slide transporters and hovercrafts. It was a place where technology bloomed. Robots were abundant in numbers. Many of the people didn't have to work and the ones who did only used their brains. The hands-on work were left to the robots. The robots basically did everything. They directed air traffic, controlled factories, and created more robots that could be used for other things like servants work.

There were two types of robots in Konoha: the AIRs and the NAIRs. The NAIRs (Non Artificial Intelligent Robots) were basically robots with no brains. They did petty servants work. They only existed to obey orders. A human's wish was their command, no questions asked. Most worked in factories. The AIRs however, were different. They were the robots with brains. AIRs (Artificial Intelligent Robots) did many thinking jobs. Some worked in businesses to improve the human life and some worked in supervising the NAIRs, the no-brainers.

Anyway, Konoha was the greatest technological city ever. They had everything. There lived the greatest scientific brains ever (and a bunch of nobodies who just sat there being pampered by the robots).

If one was to ask someone about Konoha, they would say that it was the best place to ever live. But if one was to ask Itachi, he would have replied differently. Itachi was just a man, 21-years-old, and yet he had a different view of Konoha: he hated that city. Well, he didn't really hate it, he just didn't like living or being in there for some reason and so that was why he chose to live in the countryside in the middle of nowhere. It was a peaceful life there but something was coming, something that would slowly destroy the perfect world that Itachi had constructed for himself.

Sunlight filtered through barely drawn drapes and landed on the bed and body of a sleeping person. Slowly, red crimson eyes blinked open and gazed sleepily onto the clock next to his bedstand. It was 7 in the morning. The said person trudged out of bed, went to the window, and pulled the red curtains all the way over the window, fully keeping the sunlight from entering the room. Then, the person went and flopped back onto the bed.

'It's too early in the morning' Itachi thought as he drifted back to sleep. Besides, there was nothing to do today.

It was about two hours later when Itachi finally awoke. He went to the bathroom and took his morning shower. He combed his long ebony hair that fell like a waterfall down his back and tied it into a low ponytail. Then, after changing into a blue long-sleeve and regular black pants, he went down the stairs and then to the kitchen where he started preparing breakfast.

'Let's see what I have to do today: make breakfast, deliver breakfast to Kakashi, come back and spend the rest of the day inside the house or outside doing nothing. Hmm, this sounds like what I do every single day since I got here' Itachi finished his train of thought when the eggs and bacon that he was frying were done. He was making two servings. One was for himself and the other was for his neighbor Kakashi, who lived about half a mile from where he lived.

For someone who lived so far away, they weren't really neighbors but he was the only one that was even remotely close to where he lived so he considered them neighbors. Itachi took the two eggs he had just fried and four pieces of bacon along with two loaves of bread and put them inside a container. That was for Kakashi. Then, he friend another egg and two pieces of bacon. That was for him. After putting his serving into another container, Itachi got the two containers, put them into a bag and began his walk to Kakashi's house.

Itachi opened his door and stepped outside the house. He felt the sun beam her beautiful rays at him. It was nice and warm. In fact, everything in the countryside was peaceful and warm. There were no noises and the only sounds that could be heard was the chirping of the birds. Itachi looked to his left. About a few miles away sat the great city of Konoha. It was surrounded by a giant transparent dome that covered the whole city. Things were constantly flying into and out the dome. Those were the deliveries that were being made to other cities. Konoha was like a powerhouse. It produced goods and shipped them off like crazy. The city didn't really have to rely on other foreign products since it was self-sufficient but because of all the goods that it produced, it was gaining money. Itachi looked away. He had left the city for a very good reason. Just looking at it would bring back bad memories and Itachi didn't want that.

Slowly, Itachi walked down the path that lead to Kakashi's house. It took about 10 minutes but physical exercise was good. He could imagine all of those individuals who lived in the city and got fat just by being pampered by the robots. It made Itachi sick. He believed that if there was something that needed to be done, you should do it yourself.

'It's so peaceful here.' Itachi thought as he listened to the birds chirping. The wind was blowing a cool breeze over the area and the trees swayed with the wind. The sunlight shone over the place making it bright. There was grass for as long as the naked eye could see. After walking for about 10 minutes, Itachi came to a house that sat beside the pathway. It was Kakashi's house. Itachi walked up the porch stairs and knocked on the door. It took a few minutes for Kakashi to come down. He greeted Itachi at the doorway with a familiar 'Yo' and beckoned for Itachi to come inside. Kakashi was wearing a black long sleeve and black pants with his green vest. He had an eye patch over his left eye and what looked like a black-dark blue surgery mask over his mouth and nose. Itachi never questioned at why he was wearing a mask.

"You're a bit late today? Wake up late again?" asked Kakashi. He was staring at the bag in Itachi's hands more. He knew it was his breakfast. Kakashi couldn't cook to save his life. That was why he had Itachi prepare his meals.

"There's nothing much to do today so I decided to sleep in. It wasn't like I was expecting something from Konoha." answered Itachi. This was a small truce that Itachi and Kakashi had made. Itachi would cook Kakashi his meals and in return, whenever Kakashi made his daily rounds to Konoha, he would pick up some things for Itachi.

Kakashi only 'hmmed' in response. Itachi set the bag down on the dining table and proceeded to take out the containers. Kakashi went to grab two cups and filled them with milk. Then, the two of them sat down on the table and started eating. A long time ago, Itachi would just deliver the food and leave but after he got to know Kakashi a little, they had become good friends so he would eat over sometimes at his house.

Kakashi looked at how little Itachi was eating and he said, "You should eat more. You're really skinny." It was true. Itachi was skinny. Not just skinny but slender. He didn't have muscles that revealed themselves so naturally, he had a rather feminine body. It was probably from his mother's side. In fact, back then, people were always mistakening Itachi for a woman. He was beautiful like a woman. He had crimson orbs as red as blood, a small dainty nose, pink lips, and long black hair that flowed down his back like a waterfall. Many people, both men and women, fell in love with him at first sight. Itachi was just happy that Kakashi was not one of those people. It was getting really annoying.

"This is how much I usually eat," Itachi said dully. Kakashi didn't push the matter further. Itachi then asked, "Did you go to Konoha today?"

"No, I'm planning on going this afternoon," Kakashi replied equally as dully. Then he asked, "Why don't you ever go to Konoha yourself?"

Itachi didn't answer immediately. Instead, he just stared at his food in complete silence, ignoring Kakashi. Finally he said, "I just choose not to."

Finally, after they had finished eating, Kakashi cleared away the plates and Itachi turned to leave. They were really quiet neighbors, not really speaking that much. Maybe it was because both of them had a past that they wanted to forget. Itachi knew Kakashi had one. He had learned some time ago that Kakashi once had a really close friend named Obito. They were like brothers but it was due to a small accident that Obito had died. Kakashi said that it was his fault that Obito had died; he was unable to make it in time to save him. Kakashi became distant after that but he still talked to people. Itachi, however, stopped talking to others a long time ago. Kakashi was an exception.

Just before Itachi walked two steps toward his home, Kakashi called his name and said out the window, "You should go to Konoha one day. It's a great city. You might like it."

Itachi just replied, "Maybe," softly.

As Itachi was getting smaller and smaller into the distance, Kakshi watched him for a long time and said out loud to himself, "I wonder what happened to him to make him act like this?"

There, that's the end of it. I hope it was okay. I'm really worried that I didn't do a good job. Anyway Sasuke's going to appear in the next chapter, hopefully. Please comment and tell me about the story. I want to know what you think of it so far.