AN: Hello minna! I am back aaaaand, as promised many times, I have a new story for you all! This is penance for my not updating Royalties in so long! truly, I am sorry for that! But, I really REALLY hope you all enjoy this story, FYI, it is rated M for Language and content *but of course*. So without further delay, I give to you all Sasuke and Naruto in: TITANIC. Enjoy!

Pairing(s): Sasuke/Naruto- Naruto/Sasuke

Warning(s): Yaoi, lemon in later chapter, sexual content (Duh!), slight nuggets of OOC-ness (bear with me), adult language and drama.

Disclaimer: Naruto © Masashi Kishimoto

Chapter 1

S.P.O.V.

Present Day: April 15, 1986- 8:45am

As usual, every year on this day it's always so beautiful outside and even though it's the fall season, the wind still manages to blow warm air through this garden and as usual every year on this day, I come to this garden to visit the special shrine I made just for him. Though, I still don't feel as if I should've, because in my heart I feel that he is still somewhere out there searching for me, as I had searched for him for so many years after that horrible day. Even now, I still have nightmares. When I first met my late wife, she nearly went into hysterics when I began screaming in the middle of the night, of course that was because it was still only a few years after it had happened, though I never once told her the reason as to why I woke up screaming almost every night for many years. I'm pretty sure she just figured it was because I was traumatized by the whole incident, she was partly right about that though, but that was just a small matter compared to the true reason and today marks the 73rd year for that reason and that horrible incident. I had built this shrine in private, so neither she nor my son would ever accidentally come across it, but as to be expected, when my grandson was still in the single digits he came across it and had come running back to me asking if it was for his mother, father and grandmother. It killed me inside to tell him that it wasn't, but it killed me even more not being able to tell him who it truly belonged to, though with him being the clever boy that he is, he could tell that whoever the person was meant so much to me, and ever since then he made it a habit of coming with me to visit him.

"You're not too tired are you pops?" My grandson asked me and snapping me out of my thoughts.

"Shikamaru, if you're too tired to come along this time I won't hold it against you." I smirked at him as he yawned widely, the boy was just too lazy for his own good, but still successful none the less.

"Don't be so troublesome old man, I was just asking." Shika, as I call him for short, rolled his eyes towards the clouds and knelt beside me in front of the small shrine.

"Hn, quiet now and pay your respects." I said as I lit incense and clasped my hands in a silent prayer. 'Oi, dobe, I still haven't given up… wherever you are, I hope you haven't either or I'll never forgive you.' I smirked at the promise we had made so many years ago, I didn't bother to say anything else, only because deep down I truly believed that he was somewhere on this earth alive and well. Once I opened my eyes I glance towards my grandson, who still had his eyes closed in prayer, I truly wished that someday the two men who now meant the world to me could someday meet.

"Uh, you done now pops?" Shikamaru asked me as I now looked at the unmarked plaque on the shrine… I hope the day never comes to where I find that I indeed have to carve his name on it.

"Hn, yes. Let's go home now." I nodded and stood, but Shika made a gesture as to help me up like I was some feeble old man! Even if he had convinced me to live my remaining days in his house, of which I was all too adamant on doing. But since his parents and grandmothers passing, I knew he just wanted me close due to the fact that he wasn't allowed in the hospital room when his my son and his wife passed, he was just a kid, he didn't need to be there, and he had been out of town when my wife passed, but no matter how many times I told him that he still held on to those feelings.

Once we were finally back in the house, I went straight to the kitchen and grabbed me a few tomatoes out of the fridge before returning to the living room and sat on the couch, 'I wonder what's on this television.' I still remember when they first announced that they had come up with this invention, needless to say I was thoroughly surprised to see such a thing. However, Shika was still skeptical about my being able to use it, hell, he's only twenty-four years old and I was alive when they first made it! So I think I know what I'm doing, thank you very much. Well, enough with dwelling in the past, I think today's events should be a good distraction.

"Hey dad, you want some coffee?" Shikamaru asked me from the kitchen.

"Sure, boy." I nodded towards him, my eyes still on the screen, apparently they were going to have some special report on something during the nine o'clock news, and thanks to Shika speaking at the perfect time I completely missed what the subject would be. Maybe the newspaper mentioned something about it and with that I got back up and walked to the dining table to retrieve it, but just as I was about to grab it the anchor woman on the TV announced that they were now going to relay some live streaming video, so I just let the paper be and walked back towards the couch. However, once I was halfway back my grandson handed me my coffee and we both just stood there staring at the screen.

"-Today we finally were able to explore more of the cabins in the Titanic and retrieved a very antique safe… however, the safe was only filled with money statements and a few other papers that you can now see are being cleaned off. We also uncovered this very unique drawing of two young men-" The young man with a bowl cut hair style and very bushy brows said, but whatever else he was saying was lost to my ears as I watched the other side of the screen, where someone had cleaned off a picture that shocked me to the core, I was so surprised that I didn't have a heart attack, but even so, having seen that picture I lost my grip on whatever I was holding.

"I'll be damned…." I breathed out as the object shattered upon impact with the flooring and Shika let out a swear as he grabbed my shoulder.

"Shi- Pops? POPS?! Are you alright?!" Shikamaru shouted and shook me slightly. However, I didn't miss the curse that almost passed through his lips.

"Shikamaru, get on the phone and get in contact with that man." I practically breathed out to him and turned to him with a look of seriousness once he didn't move at first.

As he dashed across the room to the phone, I stared at the drawing that was still being displayed and then they displayed four words under the drawing that shot straight through to my heart. I could hear Shika on the phone talking to whomever, I was fairly positive that he couldn't see the TV from where he was behind me and I in no way was about to move so that he may see the names that the people had put under the two figures in the retrieved picture, how they had guess those names correctly was beyond me. But my planned actions were soon void as Shika came to stand beside me with the phone in his hand and I knew then, from his lack of words, that he was looking at the names that I hadn't wanted him to see.

"Pops… what- is… that's you... isn't it?" Shika asked, his eyes still on the screen and his hand holding the phone towards me.

"It is…" I sighed and took the phone out of his grip, "Hello? Is this the young man who just found that drawing of the two young men on the Titanic?" I asked into the receiver.

"Yes it is, and who might this be?" The young man asked almost hesitantly.

"Hn, well, I'm the dark haired man holding the necklace in the picture you just discovered. I'm Sasuke Uchiha." I told him, it's truly been a long time since I've used my family name, and with that the man on the other end went into a torrent of questions, until finally he became overjoyed with the fact that he had found a survivor of the long since sunken ship. Once I agreed to fly out right away to where he was, he gave me everything I needed to know to get me there, and with that I hung-up the phone and turned towards my grandson.

"Pops, you care to explain something to me?" Shika asked and gestured towards the TV.

"You'll find out soon enough, now hurry and pack a bag. We need to leave immediately." I told him and held my hand up just as he was about to protest or ask more questions, I didn't care which. I honestly hadn't planned on telling him about this until I was ready, but now seemed like the perfect time. Besides, who knows how much longer I have left on this world.

"Man, what a drag." Shika groaned and turned to do as he was told.

As I walked down the hall and into my room to pack a small suitcase that would hold my clothes, along with many others that would hold my many pictures, I placed a hand over my chest and felt the hard object beneath my shirt, I then pulled the chain to the necklace and stared at the turquoise crystal on the small silver chain. I don't know how many times a day I held on to this crystal and out of those many times I don't know how many tears I shed for it, but as I held the necklace I felt something warm enter my heart and as I stood there, I did something that I rarely ever did now-a-days, I turned around to my dresser and opened the small chest on top of it then pulled a secret compartment of sorts open to reveal two very old pictures and another very valuable item that I'm sure young man on the phone was after. I could never thank my brother enough for finding and delivering these pictures to me just a few years into my hiding after the sinking, the first picture was taken aboard the Titanic before it sank, in the picture was a seventeen old me, along with the very famous painter Picasso, beside him was a tattooed face boy named Kiba, who had his arm around the neck of the fellow next to him named Shino, they both were the same age as me, and… and finally, though you couldn't tell in this picture, the blue eyed, blonde male who had his arm around my waist, he showed me everything and was…is my one true love. The second one, however, was a hand drawn picture of him and even after all these years and harsh conditions, it looked as though it were drawn yesterday, but I never had the chance to look at it or the other item before Shika's voice brought me back to reality.

"Alright gramps, I'm almost packed, do yo-" Shikamaru spoke from my door, but paused as he saw me staring at the pictures with tears streaming down my slightly withered cheeks. I may by ninety-one years old, but people often say I look more like sixty and I even felt like fifty, "Granddad, you're starting to scare me. What's wrong?" He came to stand beside me and placed his hand on my shoulder.

"I- they- he… you'll find out soon Shika." I struggled and finally just sighed and put the pictures in my bag.

Much to my dismay, we ended up leaving for the salvage ship the next day, and today was the day. Four hours, one private plane ride and one helicopter ride later we finally arrived at the rather large excavation ship, which in itself was fairly impressive. Once the helicopter had completely landed, the crew men took my many suitcases off the helicopter as my grandson and I were ushered off of the extremely loud flyer and led over to a young man, who smiled from ear to ear once he saw me. I could tell that this man obviously had many questions for me, mainly because of the way his eyes lit up as he shook my hand.

"Hello! You must be Sasuke Uchiha, my name is Rock Lee, but everyone just calls me Lee. It's a pleasure to be able to meet you!" The man who announced himself as Lee said and then turned towards my grandson, "Hello, you must be his grandson, correct?" He raised a very bushy brow at him, he really should get those trimmed.

"Yes, my name is Shikamaru Uzumaki." Shika told him and shook his hand after a yawn, I really don't see how he could be tired after sleeping the whole way here, I'm old-er than him and I'm not even a little exhausted! That boy of mine….

"Aw man! This is so sweet, to think that we actually got contacted by a living survivor of the titanic! And he even managed to spawn a kid!" A chubby man with red swirls on his cheeks exclaimed as he jogged over to us.

"I beg your pardon? And who might you be?" I narrowed my eyes at his crude comment.

"Oh yeah, yeah, my name is Choji Akimichi, I'm the one who guides the subs and the one who technically uncovered that old ass safe with the picture in it." Choji grinned widely and shook my hand, then Shikamaru's.

"Wait, you said you were his grandson? Are you his grandson through blood?" Lee furrowed those very bushy eyebrows of his at my Shika and then at me after Mr. Akimichi's boisterous introduction, I could tell where this was going and I would rather explain this after I've had my luggage taken care of and somewhere where I could sit down.

"Yes, I am." Shika frowned slightly, I'd know that aggravated look anywhere, as he had been asked that questions many times before and I had never given him a straightforward answer to it.

"Then why is your last name-" Lee began to ask before I cut him off.

"Mr. Lee, if you would please take us somewhere more conversation worthy, I would love to explain that and many other things to you... If you don't mind." I glared at him slightly. My patience was starting to wear thin.

"Oh! Yes, of course, of course! This way please, there are actually some things I'd like you to see as well. But first I'll show you to your room." Lee said just a little too loudly and lead us further onto the deck of the ship, though once we were towards the middle of the deck he opened a door that immediately lead down a flight of steps and to a small corridor of doors. It was at one of these doors that Lee paused in front of slightly to open and then motion for us to go in. Once we were in I immediately unpacked all of my belongings, most of which were pictures of me when I was younger, almost like a photo timeline of my life, and the rest were of my wife, our son, his wife and Shika. They all would've loved to finally been able to hear my story… or maybe not, it's not for the faint of heart and my wife was always one to over exaggerate on most things.

"Sheesh pops, did you only bring your pictures?" Shikamaru looked over at me from the only bed in the room, his room was situated right next to mine though.

"Besides you Shika, these pictures are all I have left. So yes, the majority of what I've bought is my pictures." I smirked at him and held up a picture of him when he was younger and wearing nothing but his birthday suit as he chased his shadow.

"Pops! Sheesh, you're so troublesome!" Shika groaned and made a grab at the picture, but I was faster and hid it in my sleeve. As he tried to bribe me in giving him the picture, for fear that I may show it to someone, Lee knocked on our bedroom door, which effectively ended my son's fruitless bargaining.

"If you're ready now Mr. Uchiha, I'd like to show you the observation room." Lee smiled and gave me a thumbs up, the people on this ship seemed like very happy people and just a bit too loud… he would've liked this crew.

As we walked out of the room and down towards another small stairwell, I stopped dead in my tracks as I saw a very beautiful young woman, around Shika's age, come up the stairwell and down the hall towards us. The fact that she was very good looking young lady isn't what stilled me, but it was in fact her sparkling blue eyes and blonde hair that had thwarted me, with the exception of her hair being just a bit lighter, she looked just like him. As I watched her come past us I could now see that her eyes were also lighter than his, in fact they held a somewhat grayish tint to them, but I suppose my observation of her was all too obvious, and she simply smiled sweetly at me as she continued down the hall to another door a little ways from ours. As I watched her disappear into the room I didn't fail to notice my grandson staring at her as well and to my surprise for the first time, since we've been on this ship, he looked completely awake and alert.

"Hn, it's not polite to stare boy." I smirked at him as he turned back to me.

"Ha, you're one to talk old man, you we staring to!" Shika exasperated and rubbed his neck.

"I was simply looking… she looked like someone I knew." I shrugged and turned back towards Lee, who was looking a bit entertained at our staring, but simply nodded and continued to lead us down the stairs. I could practically feel Shika's eyes boring into the back of my head as we walked, obviously irritated that I wasn't telling him who that girl might've looked like.

Once we finally reached our destination, a much bigger room than the rest, I was shocked to see that there were dozens of miniature monitors, all of which depicted different angles of the once mighty ship… the Titanic. Never in my life would I have thought that I would've ever seen that ship again.

"Ah, the drawing, Mr. Sasuke, is right over here." Lee spoke and swept his hand over a clear dish filled with water, as I stepped in front of the dish and peered into it I saw the drawing that had brought me to this very ship… but why they would put something back in water that was already in the water for years was far beyond my understanding. As I stared at the picture, I didn't say or make a sound, I just closed my eyes and remembered the exact moments where he sat there holding my hand and grinning that bright smile at me, while Picasso sketched every inch of us. I would've continued to relieve that moment personally, if only Shika's voice hadn't brought me back to reality.

"Uh, do you really think that's you pops?" Shika questioned me. I could hear the skepticism in his voice without needing to look at his face for confirmation.

"Yes boy, wasn't I a stud?" I smirked over at him just as he rolled his eyes.

"Records show that the necklace was purchased and insured under a certain name, do you know whose name that might be?" Lee asked, wasting no time on getting the information he wanted.

"Hn, Last I knew it was purchased by Fugaku Uchiha… my father." I told him and tasted something sour in my mouth after having said his name for the first time in decades.

"Yes, that's right! So you did have access to it!" Lee exclaimed and clenched his fist enthusiastically in front of himself.

"I suppose I did have that heavy thing in my possession, hence the reason it is in this drawing." I shrugged and around Mr. Lee as something caught my eyes on one of the many monitors.

As I walked directly over to the monitors for a closer view I was vaguely aware that Shika was right in step behind me, but I paid him absolutely no mind as I looked at a monitor that showed a slow rotation of the ships front end and with that image in my head I remembered a distant memory of him and me flying into the sunset and, without fully realizing, I let out a choking sound.

"My god…" I began to sob, but stopped it before it could fully come out. As I covered my mouth, Shika wrapped his arm around me in worry.

"Okay gramps, that's it, you've been an emotional wreck since yesterday. I think it's time you just lay down for a while." Shikamaru groaned and tugged on my shoulders slightly in an effort to turn me around.

"No, NO dammit!" I shrugged his hands off and glared daggers at him, however, I immediately regretted doing so from the shocked and slightly hurt expression that crossed over his face. He didn't deserve that, "I'm sorry Shika, but I just- its time I finally get these things off my chest." I smirked at him and placed my hand on his head, where he kept his long raven hair up in a ponytail that made him look like a pineapple. When did he outgrow me?

"If you're okay to go on sir, we have some things we recovered from the ship as well, do you notice any of them?" Lee asked and then motioned to a table that was covered in many different grooming objects. Once I calmed myself, I went over to the table and realized that I did indeed recognize not some, but all of the items.

"Yes, this mirror was my mothers. It doesn't seem to have changed much…." I said with a pleasant memory of watching my mother primp herself in this mirror, "Well the reflection has changed quite a bit I suppose." I shook my head as I looked at myself in a cracked mirror, though I must say, I aged fairly well. Even though I am now almost exactly ninety years old, I still felt and looked as though I might be sixty. As I put the mirror down, I noticed another not so pleasant item and picked it up only to stare at it with distaste, but those watching me must've thought I was in discomfort as Lee was the one to speak up.

"Are you sure you wouldn't rather rest before telling us your story, Mr. Uchiha?" Lee asked me with a look of concern, but I could see his reluctance in asking me that in his eyes.

"Do you want to hear my story or not, Mr. Lee?" I sighed as I stared at the cherry blossom decorated hair comb and looked at every face in the room, there had to be at least ten extra people now present, neither of whom seemed to have no objection to what I just said, "I still can't believe it's been seventy-four years since that day, yet I still remember it as if it were just yesterday. The china had never been eaten on and the sheets never slept in… and, I still remember him the most above all." I spoke aloud, but mainly to myself, and turned the small embroider comb in my hands.

"Who?" I recognized Shikamaru's voice from behind me. Now was the time to tell all, and without looking at him or anyone else I inhaled deeply to steady my nerves before speaking. Hopefully my pride would stand strong during this whole thing.

"Besides you and your father, he was the only man, person really, that I ever loved with every fiber of my being. Not even Karin meant as much to me as he did." I turned and told him, and I couldn't help but to smirk at the shell shocked expression that exploded onto his face as I mentioned his grandmother or maybe it was the fact that I just admitted to loving another man. Either way, as I turned to take in everyone else's faces, I smirked even more to see that they were quite the same as Shika's and just as he was about to question me I once again cut him off, "It all started seventy-four years ago, four days before today to be exact, the day I met him and the day my life changed forever." I said as I sat down and looked at the picture they had found of us in my room on the ship, we were sitting on the couch, side by side, hand in hand, and stark naked.

"Is the guy you're talking about the one in the picture? We got his name right, right?" Lee asked and glanced nervously at the picture.

"Yes, he's the one, he is my Naruto Uzumaki…." I nodded and felt a warm smile form on my lips as I said his name, and after a quick glance towards Shika, who face displayed the emotional tactics of realization, I began the recap of that day seven decades ago.

AN: And voila! There is the first chapter. I honestly do hope you enjoyed the beginning to this, to be, crazy ride, please let me know what you all think of it! I and dreadfully in need of your input! So, until next month, mata ne!.

- Anna Uzumaki