Chapter One: The gilded cage

This is complete and utter bull shit. I mean seriously, what the fuck was with this. Trudging in the rain, his shoulders bent against the oncoming tide, Naruto Uzumaki walked with his hands in his pockets. His blonde hair stuck out in all directions, defying the rain in an effort to remain spiky. He didn't care. All he could think about was that idiot Sasuke, that total bitch. That-

"Arghhh!" A moment later he was writhing on the concrete, the metal studded collar around his neck vibrating with the force of the electric discharge. He writhed a little longer before it stopped and he lay there, gasping and trying to remember how to blink with out screaming. It was then that a dark shape darkened the already gloomy sky. Naruto looked up into two twin pools of writhing midnight and groaned.

"You shouldn't have run away. Baka."

Naruto, upon hearing that voice, could only scowl up into the rain. The dark shape crouched down beside him and some one held an umbrella over the two. Now he was closer, Naruto could see his black eyes were red rimmed and there was certain paleness to his complexion that seemed strange. "Sasuke?" He reached out to touch the other boy and Sasuke pulled back, his eyes wide with disbelief. Of course, Naruto thought angrily. Now I'm his pet he can't be contaminated by my filthy touch. The raven haired boy stood and composed himself in one fluid motion. He gestured for Naruto to do the same. Naruto stood, barely, and glared.

"I told you" Sasuke said, his voice tired and matter of fact. "You're mine now, Naru. Your entire existence belongs to me."

The words, fuck that buzz, were on the tip of his tongue but he swallowed them back with a grimace. Sasuke really did look tired. How long had he been looking for him? And just because he's decided to be a total nob jockey, doesn't mean I have too. He did his best to bow with out toppling over. "Yes, Master."

The raven haired boy paused for a moment as he studied the golden haired boy, before nodding. "Very well, Naruto. Come. Time to go home."

"Wha-what?" Naruto said, too surprised to move.

The raven haired boy turned back with a smile that could cut ice. "I told you. I own every aspect of you existence. That means from now on, you live with me."

The uchiha estate was huge. It towered over Konoha like a giant stone goliath. The décor was largely raven and gargoyles but there was also the odd spire of hell in there too. Naruto shrunk in the back seat of the carriage, realised he was doing it and puffed his chest back out. I'm not afraid of a building. No way in hell. Sasuke, who lounged on the other end of the seat, smiled. He really was a rather interesting pet. Naruto sat with his knees pulled up into his chest and his arms around them. He glared out the window.

"Mmm hmm." Sasuke coughed loudly.

"Yes?"

"I've already had my men send your things over. You will be staying in"-

"The servant quarters? Naruto asked his eyes already in mid roll.

"No."

"No?"

"In the adjoining room to mine." Naruto balked, then puzzled and finally exploded over the evidence. "What he hell?"

"Quiet down you dumb ass. You'll spook the horses."

"But what the hell?"

'Well, you are my servant after all." Naruto resisted the urge to pummel the other boy by sheer force of will. He only managed to by chanting a string of insults inside his head.

They arrived at the manor cloaked in silence. Naruto's silence was tense and hostile, Sasuke's was more pleasant. He looked at Naruto as if you would a dog and made a. come-here motion with one hand. Naruto glared and stood with anger radiating off him in waves. Sasuke nodded at one of his guards and Naruto fell to the ground with a yelp. Sasuke walked over to where he was spasming on the ground.

"When you are done writhing in agony, please pick up your dignity and follow me to your room." Naruto, cursing under his breath, followed. The uchiha estate was even, if this is possible, more formidable on the inside than it was on the outside. It was an assortment of blacks and velvets and fine silks from far off places. Every where huge tapestries and long portraits lined the walls. Most of them bore some sort of resemblance with Sasuke. The last one however, Naruto had to do a double take with.

"Hey, hey Sasuke! Look at this!" Sasuke dutifully walked back wards to look at the portrait Naruto was pointing at. "I didn't know you cross dressed!" The woman in the picture was a perfect picture of Sasuke. Except her raven hair was long and swept across her shoulders. She wore a silk white dress and she was, in ten words or les, really really really really really bersutiful. Naruto found himself staring.

"Who is she?" He said in a voice more reverently than he had intended.

Sasuke didn't answer.

"Sasuke?" He turned to him and saw that Sasuke had turned away and was smiling at him. In a very annoying way.

"What?" Naruto said glaring.

"Nothing. She's my aunt Vesper and my only surviving relative. At least I think she's still alive. She was away when the- incident, happened."

Naruto nodded. And then with the good sense of boys every where- "She's hot. Like, I'd totally bang her."

Sasuke's smile didn't twitch. "Really?" He said.

"Yeah."

"Amazing." Sasuke said, his smile not budging a fraction. "Come on then."

Naruto's room was just as Sasuke had described. Adjoining to his. There was no way to get into it, with out passing through Sasuke's.

"Is this a joke?" Naruto said standing in his new room. It was wonderful, opulently furnished and spared no extravagance. What it did spare was windows and a door into the corridor.

"Don't you like it, Naru?" Sasuke said tilting his head to one side.

"It's like a-"really awesome, "closet! And why do I have to go through your room to get to mine."

"So you don't run away idiot."

"Why would I…"

Sasuke just gave him a look. Oh I see, Naruto thought glaring, I'm being punished. Is that it?

"Fine! Whatever!"

"I'm so glad you aquisse so quickly. Dinner is at seven, and I expect you to be there. Dressed well, and clean."

Naruto snorted.

"Or else, Naru." Sasuke said warningly before closing the door between their rooms.

Bastard.