Hiya everybody! ^_^ Hope you are all having a great day. If not then i hope it gets better :D I hope you enjoy the story and have fun reading it. Its based of a historical period on Edo.

My heart beat stumbles and my back bone crumbles
I feel is it real as the lynch mob doubles
they want blood and they'll kill for it,
drain me and they'll kneel for it
burn me at the stake met the devil made the deal for it,
guiteens dreams ya they're guiteen gleams,
the blood of they're enemies watch in while they sense me,
sentencing decease sentence decease
and watch them bask in the glory of their holy disease

Song: Sell Your Soul
Artist: Hollywood Undead

Name: Naruto Uzumaki
Age: 23
Occupation: Thief
Relatives: Adopted father, Iruka
Height: 5'7
Orientation: Bisexual
Statues: Single

Name: Sasuke Uchiha
Age: 24
Occupation: Samurai
Relatives: Brother, an assassin
Height: 5'9
Orientation: Gay
Statues: Single

Name: Kakashi Hatake
Age: 31
Occupation: Daimyo
Relatives: None
Height: 5'10
Orientation: Gay
Statues: Single

Name: Sarutobi Asuma
Age: 33
Occupation: Aristocrat, Shogun
Relatives: Wife and one child.
Height: 5'11
Orientation: Straight
Statues: Married

Name: Iruka Umino
Age: 30
Occupation: Gardener, owns a flower shop
Relatives: Naruto, his adopted son.
Height: 5'8
Orientation: He thinks his straight, but we all know his actually gay.
Statues: Single

x--Dobe

A sudden clash of thunder completely deafened the sounds of an already silent for once Edo, Japan. As the ear rattling crack slowly faded, the low rumble that came afterward actually shook the very foundations of this familiar city. The sound of pouring rain quickly faded back into ear shot. Every single drop a rain gave a light splashing sound when it hit the hard surface of the muddy streets and rooftops...but when heard in sync with every other raindrop, it gave the perfect harmony of the heavy rainstorm happening at the moment.

The way it harshly pouring down really wouldn't have made any sense to anyone that was awake that morning. Just hours before it was a refreshing sunny day, the skies were clear...the sun was intensely bright, forcing down its light unto the city and its people. Just by the gentle caress of the sun's light against one's skin would have filled their body with warmth and put a smile on their face. Now...the sun was hidden behind pitch black storm clouds that seemed to never move from above the city. The factor of such rain really didn't cross anyone's mind.

It all took place the second a samurai made his way into the city. The dark clouds above seemed to have drifted in after his as he ran silently down the city blocks searching for no place in particular. Just as he did, the skies above got darker, the temperature dropped incredible low and it just seemed as though the warm light of the sun had been killed. The sky was now completely dark...the storm clouds drifted in and caused the sun to vanished from the sky. The once busy streets and roads of this concrete jungle started to empty and through his onyx eyes as he could see how the people watched the sky, seeming to wait for the rain to fall.

Most people scattered, rushing home. He guessed they did not want to be caught in the rain and after awhile, the streets were completely soulless.

It left these once busy streets, empty. The sounds of fun and laughter had slowly faded away, giving the now dark and lifeless streets a sense of deep emptiness. The only sounds that echoed pass the tall shop and brothels now...besides the sound of pouring rain, were the sounds of footsteps. The rhyme of a shoe against the hard cement now filled each and every alleyway and street as he made his was deeper into the labyrinth of shops. The increasing sounds of heavy rain continued on. Usually rain of this magnitude would have been ice cold, which it was, but he had learned to ignore it.

A light sigh escaped his now rosy red lips and he slowly came to a stop in front of a dead end... again. Damn today was just not his day. He had gotten a report that one captive that they had tried to take information from, a thieve most likely, had escaped, was armed, and was around his area. Shaking his head softly dismissing the thought from his head, he turned around hurriedly and walked to the same way trying to retrace his steps as best the raven could. A soft sneeze came out of his now slightly red nose from the rubbing he had giving it.

It had said that it was a male around his height. Not to mention sunny yellow hair and sky blue eyes. Also he has an exceptional skill with a katana. He was already badly wounded and could not have been too far off from his spot. Although something about that made Sasuke think. Why was the blond trying to go and steal from the Daimyo? Did he really need the money or was it for somebody else. Glaring at the ground he noticed how selfish could be now a days. As he looked at the ground he let his eyes travel to his clothes and sighed heavily.

The raven's clothes were drenched and sticking to his skin. Thankfully the samurai attire had some color and was not see through. Everything about that outfit seemed to complement him making the ladies keep on flirting him. Didn't they have anything better to do than bother the crap out him? Then letting his guard down by a mere second he accidentally overheard a conversation of two younger geisha talking.

"Hey did you see that cute blond guy back there?"

"Yeah, he was pretty handsome. I was just to scared to look at him straight in the eyes."

"Although.. wasn't there something strangely funny about him?"

"Oh you mean the way he walked? It did seem like was badly injured."

Now that perked up his interest as it could be about the thieve that he had heard about. Asking the ladies where they had seen him and rather slowly getting a response out of them, he left quickly to avoid any furthermore conversations with them. They were starting to get in his nerve.

They had already starting introducing themselves and asking for his name. Heck, they even asked if he wanted to have some fun times with them. Good thing he was a pro at ignoring people because its not like he wanted anymore fan girls that what he already had.

After a good five minute job or so he heard a soft moan of pain coming from the alley next to him and stopped making his eyes turn into slits. When he entered to the narrow passage way he made sure to not take any chances so he tighten his grip around the hilt of his katana. Taking slow steps he made sure that his peripheralvision was at its peak and that he was taking notice of anything that moved. Which he did as he spoke in a very loud and authoritative voice for only the two of them to hear.

"I know you're in here, you cowering thieve. Come on out and we can get this over with in a snap."

Making sure that the blond was in his trap he made sure that he couldn't be able to get out. Spotting the edge of a warn out orange obi on the floor, the raven couldn't help, but let a smirk compliment his face. It's not like he had to kill him, just get him arrested and bring him to the Daimyo to hear this man's sentence for stealing.

His name is Naruto Uzumaki and he never thought that in his seventeen years of being a thieve he would get caught, especially at his age, twenty three. Of course he had his face plastered in a piece of paper posted somewhere in the town for a small amount of money, but thanks to his stamina and speed nobody had been able to catch him and he was damn prideful of it, until now.

Whatever that does not kill him had better run pretty damn fast.

Twisting and squirming in man's arm in front of him the blond wanted to throw up. He got caught and got eradicated by this thing? Looking at the man up and down he shut his eyes as his assistance tied his arm behind his back and then tied his legs. He didn't feel like he had to have nightmares because of him. Feeling his body weight ship from forward to back when he was let go off, he landed on his butt with a soft thud on the ground and his face twisted to a sour look. Sitting up straight he remembered what had happened.

It was a little bit before sunrise and Naruto had decided to steal from the Daimyo's palace sense it would of had a better deal for him. Meaning that he wouldn't have to go and pickpocket everyone that he saw on the street. The last thing that he remembered was when he was right about to get the money he heard the guards coming and knowing he couldn't take the money with him he took a gem or two, then left in a rush.

Although he never thought that they'd be chasing after him like their life depended on it. As he had climbed out of the castle he jumped up to the rooftop and went from rooftop to rooftop with his ass still being hunting down. Except his misfortune was when he accidental twisted his ankle, fell off the rooftop, and gave a blood curling scream that gave away his location.

Cursing under his breath he ran into the woods for a good fifteen minutes until he tripped, landed on his face, and that caterpillar in front of him grabbed him not letting him go until now.

What happened next, that really scared him was this man's ear shattering voice. He made it seem as if life was filed with happiness, and candy, and goody stuff, and blah blah blah. Pure bullshit if you ever asked the blond.

"Well, now stealing isn't very youthful now is it? Right, Lee?"

And at that question the blond didn't even bother to reply to it. Its not like they knew his reason for stealing. Not like it was for his selfish needs anyways.

"Yes, Gai-sensei!" The little miniature thing said.

What were these things? Probably a green caterpillar he would see in Iruka's flower shop. "Oh great and it has a mini clone too" Naruto thought as he rolled his eyes. They were both dressed in black hakamas and nature green haoris. Not complementing at all to their features and that bowl cut made them look like weirdo's, especially at this time in the year.

"I don't really care. Look I'll return everything as long as you just let me go. Not like I have it on-." Now the blond was cut off.

For a second Naruto saw his life flash before his eyes as his back was on the floor, with the Caterpillar leader's foot squishing on his left cheek and his katana a mere inch away from his face. At that movement the blond couldn't even suppress that anger boiling up inside of him.

"That's not for you to say. Lee go and report this thief to the Daimyo. Tell him we're going to be there within a few hours."

"Yes, Gai-sensei!"

The miniature caterpillar said as he just jumped up in excitement, saluted the man, and ran off at top notch speed. Although the only thing that they didn't seem to notice was if you caught Naruto then you had better search him. And thoroughly too. Smirking at their chit chatter inside his head he couldn't help to know how gullible they were. The blond always had a small pocket knife secured discreetly inside his sleeves. Thanks to that, he had already cut through the ropes and had untied the ropes on his feet successfully without them noticing and so much squirming too.

Hearing that mini me was already a good way gone he looked up at the man who still had his foot oh his face and glared. Seeing how he wasn't paying attention, the blond in one swift movement grabbed Gai's ankle and thrust the knife through it. Smirking he rolled out of the bottom of him, but it was too late. Gai had noticed the movement of his hand and took a good slash at Naruto's abdomen, from the left to the right side, giving him a very good shallow wound.

Maybe he did have to be more careful after all. Staring down at the man, while grabbing his abdomen tightly trying to stop the bleeding, he gave him a smirk and flipped him off.

"Don't think that you can step on me like that and get away with it! Believe it!"

Gai just chuckled and removed the knife from his ankle and gave him a thumbs up.

"Well... your flower of youth just awaken, but it seems I can't let it fully blossom." said Gai as he stood up and pointed his Katana at Naruto's head.

"You.... are such a weirdo, I swear."

He said with an uncaring face until Gai marched straight at him and he barely dodged it by moving to the side. The man was persistent, the blond could give him that much. Moving back until his back bumped into a tree Naruto ducked and saw the next swing that came to him. It was too close, it even chopped some ends of his golden locks making him gulp.

Smirking at the sound that the blade made when it go engraved into the wood, he let go of his abdomen and hit Gai's stomach six or seven times consecutively with some punches he had seen some kids in the karate club next do door.

He even made a friend. A kid named Konohamaru or something.

That will leave a good bruise or two. Seeing him flinch after every punch, he took the opportunity and punched the man straight in the nose making him fall back. By the time he had fallen to the ground he had been knocked.

Grinning like an idiot Naruto grabbed the man's katana and put it back in the saya and went of into a sprint out of the forest with it. Now it was when he finally decided to pay attention to his surrounding. He could tell that he was pretty far off from the castle so the guards won't be after his ass, but that doesn't mean that the town guards and any other samurai official that see him won't bother to strike him down.

After a cruel six minutes of none stop running and feeling his legs almost give out of him he grinned at finally noticing that he was behind the ramen shop that he always went to with Iruka. It was a long distance from his house, but it was worth. The good part was that nobody could recognize him sense he wasn't from around there, although it did have a major draw back.

In the town that he raised in and currently lived everyone helped and took care of each other. He know that the towns people here were slightly more prideful and would not bother to help him unless they got something in return.

Whipping some sweat of his brow with the back of his hand, he started to limp to a nearby alley a few blocks away. On his way there he noticed a beautiful pair of geisha's coming his way, and decided to not pay any attention to them. Looking away, he heard them giggle scenting shivers down his back. What was there to giggle about nowadays anyways?

Feeling a raindrop hit him on the bridge of his nose he looked up and regretted it while seemingly making a stupid looking face. In two second he wondered how so much water could pour out from the sky. Being drenched from head to toe he shivered at the cold water that splashed and hit his skin as if a million needles were prickling him. Finally, reaching the back of the alley he leaned against the wall and slide down holding his abdomen.

He was Naruto. He could survive. And he would curse this day for the rest of his life. Especially when he heard the voice of a young samurai official wanting to arrest him. Although, it sounded more like he was bored and wanted to pick a fight and he didn't like the sound of those words either.

Standing up he fixed his sash, flicked off the raven in front of him and unsheathe his katana.

"I am no coward and I will not give up. Believe it!"

"I'm glad. Its been a while sense I have a had a good match."

"Geez, talk about prideful asshole" the blond said grinning.

The raven smirked as he took a step closer highly amused that the blond did not back down after all. Taking a look at the white haori... it didn't even seem white at all. By now it looked worn out, dirty, making it seem like a slight shade of gray like the Daimyo's hair color. Not only that, but it was obvious that the blood from a wound was soaking through making it look in a worse condition.

Accidentally letting his guard down he almost regretted it terribly. Thanking the higher up for his training he had managed to dodge a fatal wound to his heart. Apparently the blond wasn't going down without a fight and it pissed him off. He was swinging the sword in any and every direction causing the Uchiha hard to find an opening for the blond. And he needed one, fast. Finally finding one he noticed how he slightly flinched every time he moved to much from side to side. Swinging the blade over to his side the blond dodged it by crouching down and aiming at the Uchiha's leg.

Glaring down at Naruto, Sasuke saw the blade coming and only moved a few inches back before coming forward in one second and putting his foot on top of the blade unable for the blond to the move the blade anywhere else.

Thinking fast seeing how he couldn't let go of the katana, the blond maneuvered his body to go up, like doing a cartwheel, and clash his feet against the Uchiha's stomach making him fall back. Smirking seeing him on the floor he got on top of the raven sitting on his stomach while pointing the katana to his throat.

"Back off and leave me alone. Go back to your duty and forget you even saw me pretty bow."

The Uchiha smirked and glanced at the blond on top of him completely ignoring his statement.

"I didn't know you went this way. Now this is even more fun."

Feeling anger rise, the blond threw the katana to the side and grabbed the man by the collar.

"Look here you damn pervert! Listen to what I have to say, damn it!" Sasuke just stared with no emotion tracing his face and decided to stir things up a bit. With his left hand he stroked Naruto's back and the look on the blond's face was utterly hysterical. He almost laughed inside his head. Almost.

Uchiha's don't laugh.

It was also a mixture off surprise with confusion. Of course not forgetting to mention that his face went through one thousand shades of red.

"WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DO-" And then the blond's screams were cut off when the Uchiha's hand were able to snake to the back of his neck and press a pressure point making him faint in his arms. He was just too loud sometimes.

Now this was awkward.

Letting himself rest for a moment Sasuke thought about what the hell just happened. Letting a ghost of a smile go to his lips he looked on the blond on top of him. At least he was attractive.

Whoa... say what?

Uchiha's did not think anything was attractive except themselves. He would have to take a mental not to not get attached at all to the blond. He knew the Daimyo had asked him to keep him alive although it still irked him. The raven knew the scarecrow had a plan and he wasn't going to fall for it. Well, not at least like the other five hundred times.

"What the hell am I doing..."

He mumbled as he still felt the rain pour down on them.

Meanwhile, in the tea room with the Daimyo...

"A..a...achoo!" The silvered haired man sneeze as he lazily looked over to the window watching the raindrops. The one thing that everyone wanted to see about the Daimyo was his face. It was always well hidden behind a paper fan. Some people just wished that fan would burn so that they could at least get a glimpse of his face.

"Maybe someone's talking about me?" he questioned himself mostly than his partner in front of him. The other man scratched his cheek as he looked at the Daimyo.

"Who knows. Maybe its Sasuke. You've been working him like crazy and I don't think he is appreciating that."

The man said as he took the tip of the pipe out from his mouth and made his move. "Nah Asuma-san. That's just you who is over thinking everything."

Staring down at the Shogi board he got his piece and advanced forward.
"You should stop smoking. That's like cancer on a stick. Oh and what were you saying about Sasuke again?"

Asuma, ignoring the first statement, sighed and pondered on his next move and went forward one piece strengthening his defense.
"What I was saying is, what are are you planning on doing with Sasuke and that blond thief?"

Kakashi stared at the board and moved forward again capturing one of his knights. "Well, that's quite easy." And then he paused as Asuma looked at him and raised an eyebrow waiting for him to continue.

"I've read and heard some interesting things about the blond."
"Oh really? Like what?"
"He maybe a thief, but what he is doing is for the good of others. At first I ignored what the guards were saying, and that it was a pure lie, but it seems that its the truth. I've dug up some information on him and it seems like this is someone that our little Sasuke could be interested in."

"I don't know Kakashi. Its Sasuke who we're talking about here. The kid changes mood like you change condoms."

Kakashi just stared at him and smiled behind his fan.

"Who said I even used condoms anymore?"
"Oh for the love of Buddha. I did not need to know that!" said Asuma with a disgusted look on his face as he rolled his eyes and looked away. "So, anything else on the poor kid?"

"Yes, actually. It seems his foster father, Iruka Umino, is constantly sick because of his extremely weak immune system. Iruka doesn't work and only manages a flower shop, he had to go and find work some place else. He can't find a reasonable job that gives him money to pay for the house bills, Iruka's medication, and his necessities. I guess that's why he has resorted to stealing."

"Poor kid, must have it tough." Asuma mumbled under his breath and stared out the window.

"Well not exactly, rumo-" His sentence was stopped as a guard came into the room and bowed at both of their presence. "Pardon for the interruption Daimyo-sama. Sasuke has seemed to arrive with the prisoner, sir."

Kakashi waved his hand dismissing him from the office before nodding in response and glanced over at Asuma. "Seems like our little birds are here. Time to give them a surprise. Fallow me. You might just be able to get a good laugh out of this."

Asuma shook his head from side to side in disagreement and fallowed the man right behind him. After passing a few corridors and opening some doors they were slightly surprised at the sight that they had found.

Naruto was shirtless with his entire abdomen wrapped up in bandages. With one leg sticking out of the futon and his hand on his stomach. Not to mention the two bruises on his upper left side of his chest and a nasty sprained ankle. They knew the kid was wounded, but this was just a bit too much. What did the kid think of life? Then next to him on the other far, far side of the room Sasuke sat, Indian style with his eyes closed and hand grabbed onto the hilt of the katana. Was the kid paranoid of being attacked or something?

Glancing over at both of them Kakashi nudged Asuma as he knew he was about to laugh.

"If your going to laugh, do it outside."
"Sorry, but this is just hilarious. So we'll give them the news tomorrow?"
"Oh of course. Waking them up now might only lead for them to attack us for ruining their beauty sleep."
"And damn do they both need it."

As a shuffle of clothes could be heard both males exited the the room, but not before locking it from the outside. They didn't want their new prisoner to escape after all the trouble it had caused them to catch him in the first place.

Terms that you might want to know about:

That which does not kill me had better run pretty damn fast- was a quote I found and I though I would be able to use it. When I find the creator I'll give credit to that person.

Haori - is a hip- or thigh-length kimono jacket which adds formality. Haori were originally reserved for men, until fashions changed at the end of the Meiji Period.

Obi - a sash worn with kimono by both men and women.

Hakama- is a divided (Umanori) or undivided skirt (Andon) which resembles a wide pair of pants, traditionally worn by men but now also by women in less formal outfits, and is also worn in certain martial arts such as aikido.

Daimyo - is a generic term referring to the powerful territorial lords in premodern Japan who ruled most of the country from their vast, hereditary land holdings.

Shogun - ("Commander of the Forces") is a military rank and historical title for Hereditary Commanders in Chief of the Armed Forces of Japan. The modern rank is equivalent to a Generalissimo.

and and and... lmao xD I bet none of you are going to guess what Kakashi's sentense is going to be for Naruto Bwahahahaha. Well that was a small cliffhanger to say the least. Hope evryone enjoys it! La la la la.