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My Eyes Don't Tell Lies
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By: Shigure-Senseii
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The residents of Konoha grow day after day. Pains and hardships are everyday occurrences in the world of shinobi, and it is essential for fellow comrades to help one another in order to surpass the sadness. However, with bitter memories comes the will to become stronger and strive. Judging on the path the hero chooses to take, the tale of the story can be very different. Depending on each ninja's way, the path of the shinobi can either lead him to great success or utter failure. Skillfully trained teachers and understanding friends will always be there to light the path that would be best to take. Even when venturing through the wrong side, there will always be someone who is willing to bring one back. Now, Konoha has lost their beloved third hokage, and a new hokage has been seated. She has been passed down the responsibility to guard and protect each and every citizen of Konoha with her very life. No matter what their rank or their status, under her they are allowed to live the way that they choose is best.
"Uzumaki Naruto," Tsunade muttered under her breath as a small smirk appeared on her face. "To think I have to live hell every single day because of you."
"Tsunade-Sama?" her assistant Shizune began hesitantly as she saw the horrific aura begin to surround the village's hokage. She exchanged a look of worry with her precious pig Ton-Ton.
The desk right before Tsunade was filled from top to bottom with endless stacks of papers that ranged from mission reports to villager's requests. "That brat," she clicked her tongue as she pounded her fists on the table looking annoyed, "I'm going to make him suffer ten tons more of this when he sits here." Tsunade glared her milky brown hues at Shizune demanding her attention. "Go and get me the file regarding the festival tonight."
"Yes, right away," she answered as she rushed to the door. "Oh, wait, Tsunade-Sama," Shizune began as she turned to face her hokage. "What did you mean by Naruto sitting at your desk?"
Tsunade did not even lift her eyes as she replied, "Well, that boy is going to be hokage one day. That is definitely how his story will end up. I don't doubt that one at all." When she noticed the other smiling at her, she quickly snapped at how those documents weren't going to get themselves. Shizune scurried away in fear that the hokage's short temperedness would result in another desk being flung out of the window. Tsunade let out a deep breath and glared at the paperwork before her. "Naruto, do us all a favor and become hokage soon." She groaned in annoyance when she just realized who she was putting her faith towards.
Somewhere, she knew that the blond boy was drooling all over not yet even awake in the early morning. Her assumption was not that wrong either, as that was exactly what Naruto was doing at that very moment. He was also dreaming of the day he would beat his rival Sasuke, surpass his teacher Kakashi, and win the heart of his crush Sakura. Then at the very end, he would be standing there as hokage with the whole village looking up to him.
Tsunade smirked. "Yeah, you'll be standing at the top alright; standing at the top of shitty piles of goddamn paper!" she began to scream as she lost her cool and began to viciously scribble down her signature on many papers.
Outside her door, her assistant as well as two other jounins gulped and debated whether or not it was safe to enter yet. From her foul language, they could tell that their hokage was very furious. Shizune gave them the 'I have to be with her every second of the day' look, and the two patted her shoulder in pity. Still, Tsunade was a very responsible and great shinobi. That was all of their hopes anyway, and with the sudden crash of the window and a few screams from down below the Hokage Tower, they knew even that excuse was not enough.
"There goes the desk," Shizune sighed.
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Elsewhere, the news of the festival spread like wildfire among the citizens. "Bill-board brow, hurry up and come down here!" an impatient blond with a bun shouted.
"Ugh, I said I'd be there in a second," Sakura growled from her bedroom. Before she grabbed her things, she took a look at her mirror. Ino's comment was just an old way to humiliate her, but she couldn't help but feel a little insecure. Sakura timidly touched a strand of her pink hair and tried to cover it. "Oh, whatever," she grumbled as she grinned. "I'll be the one to win Sasuke-kun's heart, so who cares about this anyways!"
"Sakura!" Ino repeated again. "We still have other people to gather before we can go to the Konoha Summer Festival!" She blinked when the door suddenly opened, "Finally."
"Ino-pig! Do you have to be so loud?" Sakura asked angrily. "Wait, who else are we inviting?"
"Well, I was thinking about my team and your team of course!" she replied with a grin. "It's going to be three nights long and that means three whole days of spending time with Sasuke!"
They both let out their fangirl squeal and began to jump up and down from thinking how much each night would be. They may know how to wield a kunai in battle, but they were still growing girls at heart.
"Wait a minute, he's mine, Ino-Pig!" Sakura said defensively. Their fights began and rang through the morning village on that peaceful summer day. Their argument ended when they both began to think of how exactly their most popular and mysterious prince was doing. He would definitely be awake and most likely finding a way to train and make the most of the day. And that was exactly what Sasuke was doing.
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The raven-haired genin looked up at the apartment complex he was walking towards. It was barely noon, and the sun was already scorching down on Konoha. He stopped under the towering tree that was even larger than the building beside it. His deep onyx eyes stared up at a particular window that was wide open. He certainly did not need the Byakugan to know who was in there.
I swear, you better as Hell not have been lying, Kakashi.
"Trust me. It's quite the useful technique depending on how you use it. But it's difficult even for those who have already mastered the Sharingan. You aren't planning on activating that technique anytime soon...right?"
He began to look around to make sure no one unwanted was looking. If someone would see what he would do next, they would undoubtedly think the wrong thing.
'Right, Sasuke?' the annoyingly sarcastic voice of his teacher repeated in the boy's mind.
The boy's brows furrowed. "Hell," he scowled as he leaped up to the nearest branch, "If I wasn't going to use it, why would I have asked you in the first place?" Continuing his way upwards he scoffed, "Sadist Teacher." Quickening his pace, it wasn't long before he was right beside the open window of his soon-to-be guinea pig's room. He was a ninja of Konoha, the village hidden in the leaves. The village was practically an island surrounded by trees and even more trees. Most of the villagers could climb these trees with their eyes closed.
However, this impatient Uchiha had his eyes wide open as he jumped into the seemingly empty and messy room. He was more than ready for this little experiment he was in the process of testing. It was solely for training. What would happen next was solely for the purpose of surpassing his older brother Itachi. For that purpose, he was more than willing to use his eyes' superb ability on…
"What the hell!" shrieked a surprised blonde who dropped his wrapped cup of noodles in shock. He had heard a little noise coming from the living room, but he didn't expect to see his worst enemy, his malicious rival, his dastardly companion, Sasuke Uchiha to be standing there before him. He wiped the shock off of his face and got into his self defense stance as he squinted his eyes and 'menacingly' sneered.
'Sneering pretty damn cutely for a guy with an otter hat.' Sasuke couldn't help but think.
"Bastard…What the hell are you doing in my house?" he fumed, cerulean eyes glaring ninja stars at the boy before him.
"Hmph," the raven grinned, the arrows in his eyes spiraling. "What, do you want me to leave?" was the question of the rather intimidating genin.
"No, you don't have to," the boy still clothed in pajamas suddenly said holding out his hands quickly to show his enthusiasm. The room was silent for a moment, or was it a second? To be compared with a manga strip, it had three blocks of a silent Sasuke and paralyzed Naruto. "What the hell did I just say!" Naruto quickly covered his mouth as his faced turned bright red. He flailed still blushing trying to figure out a way to cover up his sudden outburst, "Hold it! T-That was so not what I meant!" He couldn't believe he just told Sasuke of all people not to leave his house.
'Judging by your reaction, I think otherwise.' Sasuke tilted his head, smirking, "Hn… I guess it does work."
"Listen, you!" the blonde angrily shouted as he pointed straight at his rival. "I meant you don't have to," he began, "-Yet, because….er…..I want you to…." at this his eyes began to drift away from those crimson eyes slowly. 'Why is it so hard to talk to him straight in the face?' To lie to him, that is.
I've got to give Kakashi some credit. This technique might be really useful after all.
A couple of hours before, Sasuke had his doubts. But after seeing Naruto's reaction, maybe the visit to Kakashi's house wasn't completely worthless.
[A Couple of Hours Ago…]
Sasuke slid opened the screen door of the bedroom, letting himself in, not caring that he entered without anyone's consent. "Hey, Kakashi, you in here?"
The masked-teacher did not even bother to look up from his book. He was rather enjoying laying on his bed re-reading Icha Icha Paradise without a single care in the world. You see, he was right in the middle of reading the Oooh's and Ahhh's section of the fictional characters. "Ew- ehem, I mean, 'Oh, hello there, Sasuke. What brings you to my humble domain this fine morning?'" he asked with forced enthusiasm and a plastered smile.
Sasuke frowned at the 'Ew' remark, but overall, the greeting was what he had expected. The sudden bit of fake compassion did manage to creep him out somewhat, though. "Teach me more ways to wield my Sharingan," he demanded.
On such a peaceful day of relaxation, what made the gods hate the poor teacher so as to allow such an arrogant boy to invade his house? 'If it was Naruto, that would have been a different story..' the teacher began to think. 'Why couldn't Sasuke have been struck by miracle lightning on his way to my house?'
Kakashi let out a long reluctant breath. "I guess you're asking me teach you some new tricks, huh? Well, forget it." His right eye went back to the highly intriguing adventure/romance novel (A.K.A Ninja Porn) in his hands.
The impatient and annoyed genin crawled onto the bed and snatched the book away. "Now, Kakashi."
The silver-headed jounin inwardly groaned displeased greatly that his favorite book was not in his hands anymore. He could take it back, but Sasuke was being as stubborn and persistent as usual.
Sasuke raised an eyebrow as he sat on top of his teacher frowning. He was waiting for an answer, and Hokage be damned if he was getting one. 'Kakashi might as well give in already,' he thought to himself.
'Well, Sasuke is rather adorable, but…this is not going to make me give in. Pout all you want.'
"Kakashi." Sasuke stared at him with a serious face as he began, "Your porn book, my flame style technique-"
"Alright! Sharingan tips, right?" the jounin suddenly jolted smiling awkwardly under his mask. "Let's not be too hasty now, Sasuke…Let me think… Ah. There's always that trick."
Sasuke tilted his head, holding the book-ohsoclose-to his lips by his mere fingertips. He was ready to turn it into ashes if he didn't like what he heard next.
"It's a genjutsu technique merged with the Sharingan that forces the victim into a sudden outburst of truth. In other words," he lifted a finger to make a statement, "They can't lie."
"Uh-huh…keep going," Sasuke said as he slid off the bed slowly.
"You need to focus your Sharingan into both of their eyes and in a sudden burst of chakra, you can intimidate them to spill the truth. It's great during tracking or spying missions," he said emphasizing the last word strongly. Something told the jounin that Sasuke had other plans for using this. But for the sake of Icha Icha Paradise he would have to risk the lives of others… "Trust me. It's quite the useful technique...depending on how you use it."
Sasuke rolled his eyes and handed the (porn) book back reluctantly. It seemed as if he did like the answer, so he begrudgingly gave back his only key to blackmail his teacher.
"But, it's difficult even for those who mastered the Sharingan," Kakashi added with a more serious tone as he quickly took his book back. "…Well, you aren't planning on using it anytime soon, right, Sasuke?"
"Whatever," was the smart-assed reply of the raven. "Hm..let's try this out," he smirked slightly awakening his Sharingan. "Kakashi-"
The teacher who was indulging himself in the book held out his hand to stop the boy from further wasting his breath. "Look, Sasuke. That technique requires more things than just Sharingan control. One, the victim has to see your eyes with both of their own," he pointed at his covered eye, "Also, it has to be a 'yes' or 'no' question." He looked up at the boy, not amused, "You were going to ask me the whereabouts of my tomato stash, no?"
Again, Sadist Teacher.
"Che," Sasuke angrily stomped out of the room.
"You're not going to use it, right, Sasuke?" the jounin raised his voice as the door below slammed shut. He heard a distant, "Go get struck by lightning!" but it must have been his imagination. Who would ever dare say that to him, the Hatake Kakashi? 'Oh well, back to the story…' his eye read each precious word of his ever-so-precious book.
[No, Seriously, Back to the Sasunaru!]
Sasuke was excited that it was working. He had no doubts in his skills, after all. He reached for Naruto's face and pulled it close to his own so that those bright blue hues were forced to stare deep into his tainted maroon eyes. "Well, Naruto? What do you want me to do?"
The blonde's cheeks flushed into multiple shades of pink as his eyes widened. His heart was racing, beating, screaming at that sudden instant he was pulled in so close. "I want you," he began-oh so softly-"to...FRIGGIN GO TO ALL SIX HELLS AND DIE!" Naruto pushed the other away, his body ten thousand degrees hotter. He crossed his arms and frowned to seal off the blush, "HMPH." The blonde glared down at the genin's shoes, 'Bastard…just what's this guy trying to pull? Assassinate me before I surpass him or something?' was his innocent thought.
The Uchiha blinked, his eyebrows twitching. "The freak..?" he glared at Naruto with his onyx eyes. It took him awhile to realize his Sharingan was shut off. That explained it, because that was not the response he expected at all to come from his Dobe's mouth. What went wrong? Did he make a mistake? "Kakashi did mention something about that 'yes' or 'no' questions…" Sasuke now knew for certain he needed more training, more practice.
Naruto waved his hand in front of Sasuke's rather serious face. "Hey! Bastard! Are you listening to me?" Receiving no reply from his rival who was in his 'I'm thinking so deeply and sexily' state, he crossed his arms and pouted. "Just what's wrong with you? Suddenly showing up and flashing your Sharingan at me." It took a few seconds for him to realize that Sasuke's eyes were normal again. That made him grin victoriously (though he won no victory), "I bet you turned 'em off cause you know I'm way stronger than those stupid eyes!" He laughed proudly, "I won't be assassinated-especially not by YOU!" Yes, Naruto still thought Sasuke wanted to kill him. Why else would he break into his house?
Sasuke twitched once more; obviously way past the line of anger. Naruto spoke way too much for his own good. It annoyed the hell out of him going on and on about beating him-THE SASUKE UCHIHA-while simultaneously bad-mouthing his most precious gift left by his parents. His Sharingan was what made him an Uchiha, and there was no way he was going to allow Naruto-
"H-Hey…" the blonde boy stammered as he audibly gulped a bit worried with the silence. "Sasuke?"
No way I'm going to allow Naruto to get away with it.
The young, impatient Uchiha tackled the naïve Uzumaki to the ground and pinned him on the floor, his face burning with rash anger.
As he fell back, the blonde flinched at the impact of his body on the ground and Sasuke's body on…. "W-What are you doing! Get off me, Bastard!" he flailed again while shaking his whiskered face. Sasuke's weight was crushing him, and Naruto's wrists were both securely being held captive by the angry raven.
"Naruto…" Sasuke whispered softly bending near the boy's ears.
'Oh. My. Fluffin. Glob.' Naruto flinched suddenly trying his hardest not let out a gasp or whimper. He refused to show any reaction towards the Uchiha other than hatred and blood thirstiness. "WHAT IS IT NOW, BASTARD!" he growled still squirming.
A smirk appeared on Sasuke's seemingly softened face. His mouth slightly parted as he looked into Naruto's eyes, "Do you mind doing me a little favor? I'll make it worth your while."
Naruto stared back at the terrifyingly gleaming red eyes. "S-Stop messing around with me, you-"
"Naruto. These eyes don't lie," the black arrows in the Sharingan spiraled. "You in, Naruto?"
Yes? Or No?
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"I don't know!" Naruto finally answered, shutting his eyes tightly. "I guess it depends on what it is, and if we can have something to eat before doing it because I'm starving!"
Sasuke shook his head and stood up straight. "What a dobe," he muttered under his breath.
"What was that, Teme?" Naruto shouted as he quickly sat up on the floor where he was pinned to just a moment before, glaring at Sasuke.
"Training. I need help with," Sasuke began softly, "training." He made sure he wasn't facing the Uzumaki before him. He wasn't use to asking people for assistance in anything, and help from Naruto wasn't normally requested.
His friend began to stare at him with confused eyes. Naruto wasn't sure he heard that right. The Sasuke he knew and hated had an ego that was so big it made the Chief Toad look small. And now, here the great hot-shot was, asking him for help with training. Either he was getting the recognition he always wanted, or he was about to become the Uchiha's punching bag. 'Or maybe...he's an imposter.' The thought flashed in the back of his mind, and it seemed like the most reasonable explanation. 'There's only one way to find out.' Naruto's sky blue eyes narrowed suspiciously.
Sasuke stared at the other uncomfortably; he was still a bit embarrassed for asking Naruto - of all people - for 'h...h-h-help'. That word never ran well on his tongue, and he was just surprised he could ask Naruto so easily.
"I'll help you on two conditions."
"Name them."
The blonde smirked as he crossed his arms letting out an audible huff. "Well, first what I said before. We have to get something to eat. Next, you have to prove to me that you're the real Sasuke!" Naruto basically was openly admitting he thought the Uchiha before him was a fraud.
"I am Sasuke, Loser," the raven barked back with a raised fist. God, Naruto chose the worst times to try and act smart.
"Yeah?" Naruto scoffed still not buying it because the Sasuke he knew would never ask him for help. "Then what was the secret password Sakura, Sasuke, and I made during the Chunin exams to help identify each other?"
"Huh?" Sasuke began as he focused his memories back to that event. He recalled that he, himself, had come up with a plan to recite a poem if they ever got separated. It worked fairly well enough to identify the true teammates and sniff out the imposter, but he didn't remember anything about a password. 'Unless he's talking about that idiotic fish thing...' Sasuke thought as he slightly bit his lower lip.
"Well, do you now or not? If you aren't the real Sasuke, I'm going to personally pummel you to the ground and drag you to Sasuke's house so he can beat you up too!" Naruto bluffed angrily.
The raven's frowning face slowly changed to a calmer and more collected expression. "The password is," he lips were parted slightly into his signature smirk, "'Swordfish.' Though, I don't ever remember agreeing to that being our password. I doubt Sakura did either," he playfully added. Noticing Naruto's surprised reaction, Sasuke knew he had guessed correctly. "Well, do you believe me now, Dobe?"
Grinning, Naruto quickly ran past the Uchiha to his room while taking off his shirt. "Yeah! I'll get ready as soon as I can, Sasuke! Just hold on a sec' alright?" It made him thrilled to be asked by the real Sasuke for help. Even though he hated him, Naruto didn't mind training with someone he admired so much.
Sasuke only shook his head with a small smile somewhere at the corner of his lips. He walked towards the door and called for his friend who appeared in his usual orange attire. "Let's go, I'll explain the details on our way," Sasuke said as he closed Naruto's apartment door.
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