44Royalty
By Arisadono (Dec. 31, 2008)
Fandom: Naruto
Summary: Uchiha Sasuke, the beloved prince of modern Japan, never thought he'd be able to fall in love with someone like him.
Main Pairing: Sasunaru, Kakairu
Genre: Romance/ Humour
Chapter 1
Like today's England, Japan is currently one of the only few countries that still managed to preserve one of their oldest living national treasures: the Royal family.
Known as the only imperial family throughout the world, and the oldest royal lineage dating back to the 6th century, the clan of the Uchiha was loved by all the people of Japan. Though holding no particular political power, the imperial family was regarded with high respect.
Emperor Fugaku was responsible for conducting support programs for the farmers of today's agriculture, whilst Empress Mikoto is currently known to be the head of a movement for the protection of women and children's rights. Their crown prince, Itachi, was currently studying his Masters in Political Science at Tokyo University, and their youngest prince, Uchiha Sasuke, was...
"Prince Sasuke!"
"Oh Kami-sama, Prince Sasuke!"
"Make me you're princess!"
"I want to give birth to your royal babies!"
The female students of Tokyo University continued to scream as a limo halted to a stop in front of the main building. Men in black suits immediately swarmed out of the other two vehicles that had followed the limo, and began ushering the wild crowd of admirers and onlookers to make way for the young Uchiha. One of the men in black opened the back door of the limo, and the crowd went even wilder, if possible, as the well-loved Prince Sasuke stepped out.
"Please go out with me, Prince Sasuke!"
Sasuke winced as flashes of cameras temporary blinded him, not noticing as the girl who last screamed fainted in front of his feet.
To the prince of Japan, this was a daily routine he always had to go through when going to school. They were always the same faces, added by a couple of freshmen, and Sasuke had to wonder why they weren't the least bit tired of the same ritual every day.
"You can go now, Kakashi." Sasuke stated as they finally managed to escape the large crowd gathered at the entrance.
The head of the guards, Hatake Kakashi, continued to smile, unmoving.
"You're welcome, young prince."
"Look," Sasuke started, annoyed. "I know what father told you, but I could totally handle myself on my own at this point."
"But young pri—"
"No one's going to assassinate me in the middle of class, Kakashi." Sasuke deadpanned, one eye giving a twitch.
"At least let me escort you to your first class young prince, or you're father will have my head." The older man gave him a nervous grin.
Sasuke gave a small frown, eyeing Kakashi with suspicion, before turning his back on the man and started to head for his first class.
"Tch, whatever."
Kakashi immediately followed, mentally leaping with joy.
"What is wrong with you?"
Uzumaki Naruto questioned by the window as he watched his childhood friend Sakura saunter inside their classroom looking as though she went to heaven.
His other friend, Sai, gave a small chuckle beside him.
"That was the closest thing I got to being near him, Naruto-kun!" Sakura gushed, rubbing her still reddened cheeks as though trying to rub off her blush.
Naruto frowned, having clearly seen by the window the display Sakura gave as she screamed and fainted by the young prince's feet.
"...you're pathetic."
"Shut up, Naruto!" Sakura fumed, but then beamed as she dug out her clam phone from her bag, flipped it open, and shoved it in Naruto's face.
"Oww! My eye!"
"Oops! Sorry, Naruto." The girl smiled sheepishly, moving her phone away a bit from the blond boy's eyes before she could blind the poor boy.
"Look, look! I managed to take a picture of him before I passed out!"
"Good for you..." Naruto mumbled, opening his eyes a bit to look at the captured photo. Sai silently peered behind his shoulder.
"Err, Sakura, is he always supposed to look like that?" Naruto frowned. Sai gave a low laugh.
"What?" Sakura frowned, retrieving her phone to look at the image. Prince Sasuke on the image looked as though he was in pain , probably when a flash from a camera seemed to have temporarily blinded him.
"Noooo," Sakura wailed, "I took a bad picture!"
"Sure did." Naruto grinned, snickering.
Sakura glared at him.
Naruto shut his mouth. The young boy knew what the female captain of the Judo team was capable of.
"Now I have to take another picture..." She huffed, stuffing her phone back into her bag and then sighed. She gave a swift look at her wrist watch. Advertising students were beginning to pile in for their first class of the day.
"Well boys," she said, stepping out of the classroom, " My accounting class awaits, I'll see you at lunch. Tata!" she waved, before disappearing from view.
Naruto shook his head, giving a little pout as he crossed his arms.
"Seriously," he muttered, sighing, "I really don't understand why they're so crazy about him..." Two strong arms suddenly snaked around his waist from behind, causing the short blond teen to flush red.
"Well you know, I don't know why I'm so crazy about you either." Sai replied, burying his nose against the smaller boy's hair.
" Sai..." Naruto muttered shyly, giving a small whine in protest, " Stop it already."
A few girl classmates giggled at the display, while the rest ignored the two young men.
It was a common thing to see them like this, like two best friends teasing each other. Some may think that it was simply platonic. But of course, there were those who thought otherwise...
"You know how I feel about you." The pale boy smiled, one hand crawling a bit further south.
Naruto frowned at this.
"Oy, watch your hand!" he yelled, slapping said hand. He managed to pull himself out of the other's grip.
He pouted, crossing his arms. "Idiot."
Sai smiled. "You're so cute, Naruto." His smile then widened. " Like your little chinchin. (AN: kiddie term for penis)"
The whole class immediately eroded into laughter, a few guys giving wolf whistles. Naruto's face went red.
"Sai, you pervert!"
"Glad of you to finally show up, Uchiha-san. I'm afraid we're already finished with today's quiz."
The young prince groaned with dismay, giving a slight bow at his marketing professor before proceeding to walk up the stairs to look for a vacant seat.
His professor, Umino Iruka, was one of the few professors here in Tokyo U that treated him like any ordinary student. Though not quite used to the treatment, he felt rather refreshed to be able to feel like everybody else.
He took a seat next to Nara, the class' lazy genius, and his cousin Hyuuga Neji, one of the royal family's branch families. Though considered part royalty, branch families of the Uchihas were not allowed to reside in the Imperial Palace, Kokyo, unless he was part of the main family. Still, they were supported by the government , and were given residence to a private village near the Kokyo.
"Why are you early?" Sasuke frowned at the other prince, taking out his notebook to begin copying the words on the white board.
Prince Neji smirked. "Sasuke, have you ever heard of a thing called time management?"
"The hell? I left at 6 o' clock in the morning!"
"Without considering the thought of fans, did you?" Neji tut'ed, shaking his head, "And to think you'd learn from past mistakes. I thought you were better than that, Prince Sasuke."
"Oy, Sasuke, what's your bodyguard doing?" Shikamaru suddenly asked lazily, pointing the front of the classroom.
Sasuke's head immediately swivelled to look.
His eyes narrowed.
"That idiot." The prince growled, standing up.
The head of the royal guards, Hatake Kakashi, was currently disrupting class by hitting on the class professor Umino.
"You know, I have vacant time on the weekends. How about you giving me your e-mail address and we could call it a date!" Kakashi gave a perverted grin behind the black cloth, holding out his phone to the young professor in expectancy.
Iruka gave the taller man a nervous grin. "Uhm, I don't think I'm available this weekend you see..."
"Kakashi!"
"Ahh,young prince! I was just telling the professor here how thankful I am of him for taking care of you."
Sasuke muttered something incoherent under his breath, roughly grabbing the guards arm and giving a low bow to his professor. " I'm sorry for bringing him here, Umino-sensei. I'll handle this idiot right now."
"That hurts, you know." Kakashi fake sniffled.
Iruka wiped his forehead with a handkerchief. "T-that's alright, Uchiha-san. Hatake-san wasn't much of a bother, really." Kakashi beamed at that statement.
"You can just call me Kakashi, you know." He purred. The professor's face flushed red.
"C'mon you idiot." Sasuke growled, pulling him roughly towards the door.
"Goodbye, Kakashi." Said he, pushing the older man outside.
"Wait! I still haven't gotten his e-mail addre—"
The door was slid shut on his face.
The class erupted into laughter.
"Settle down, settle down now everyone!" Iruka bellowed, tapping his knuckles against the board. The class eventually quieted down, and the professor proceeded to talk something about the stages of consumer behaviour.
The young prince sat back down on his seat, rubbing his temple in annoyance.
"Interesting body guard you have there." Neji commented.
"Shut up, Hyuuga."
TBC
AN: Thank you for reading chapter 1, everyone! I know my grammar's still not that good, but I'm learning. Hope you enjoyed! Comments would be highly appreciated, criticisms kept in mind. So long for now, toodles!