Or is "searching for a third" a better description lol? Sakura's at a shoot, and meets Naruto for the first time. Conveyed it poorly here but Sasuke would like a blonde boyfriend very much, he's just sleepy.
The unofficially named naruto sugar baby au can go here too
Sakura and Sasuke are famous models, Naruto doesn't know them personally. He is a fan of theirs and becomes their photographer. They take an interest in him and their life/work relationship becomes inappropriate.
Sasusaku initially seek out Naruto due to boredom, and pay him off so he doesn't mention their relationship. They also sorta employ him, since they aren't actually in love at the start there's a power imbalance.
This is an au set in the early 2000s, lots of drama on the way. This is all about Narusasusaku's toxic, disastrous journey as lovers, I get to make Sasuke the bad guy.
First made back in October, the art feels outdated but I do not have the energy to redraw it all.
until the evening gets late / and i'm alone with you
summary: they're nuisances, that's what Naruto was sure of for years until he actually got to know them for a night, then he finds them stuck in his head
authors note: got inspired by that piece of narusasusaku art by @ksntoast where Sasuke and Sakura are what i assume to be incubi/succubi and then this was in my docs, so i hope it's not too much of a bother to tag ya. regardless! i hope the narusasusaku fans enjoy it, consider checkin' the Ao3 port if ya do
https://archiveofourown.org/works/60257614
Naruto is familiar with the sight of these two, they've come to pester him before.
Although, they usually look a little bit more well disguised as human.
Instead they've simply come to him laid bare of all human extras.
They're simple creatures. Skin a light hue of blue or pink that darkens at their hands and their feet. Hair voluminous to try and hide short horns that never go away. No clothing in sight, it reveals that their anatomy lacks compared to a humans. Whip like barbed tails as long as they are tall and probably prehensile, he's not quite sure.
He's just looking at them right now, taking in their appearance despite the dim light of his apartment. He's seated at the edge of his bed, they're just sort of lounged on his furniture. The blue one, Sasuke, is splayed across his couch, his lankiness taking up nearly the entire length of it. The pink one, Sakura, is politely seated on top of his glass tube tv instead, her presence puts it on a static fritz of so many more colours then just black and white.
Naruto stands up and walks directly to his kitchenette, completely bypassing the two.
He just has to live with this forever, doesn't he?
Someone decided to curse him, and now he has two demons forever flitting around him. They take so many forms he's lost count. But their favourite forms are just regular people, usually holding the similar aspects of what he assumes to be their true form. He's not so sure, if he knew what exactly they were he could do research, but they refuse to tell him.
Sasuke perks up, "You're ignoring us?" There's a heady whine to his tone as he switches the end of the couch his head rests at. He crosses his arms over the armrest and lets his chin sit on them.
"Yep, I'm ignoring you," Naruto answered with curtly.
"C'mon." It was Sakura speaking this time, he could see her come ever closer in the reflection of the dark window. They never actually let their feet touch the ground like this, they merely floated. "You really want to ignore us?"
Naruto nodded as dark pink hands came to rest on the counter, clawed fingertips drumming along the marble edge. He just buttered his toast and started walking back to his bed. He swallowed a bite of toast before speaking, "I don't even know why you're here."
"For fun."
"To pass the time."
"Because you're cute."
"We can keep going, if you'd like."
Naruto scooted aside Sasuke before taking a seat on the armrest of the couch. As fast as he had sat down the lithe demon was resting on his thigh as Sakura rested at his shoulders, floating with bent knees and an arm across his collar bones to rest at his shoulder. They weren't cold, they weren't scorching either, they were just comfortably room temperature.
Sasuke and Sakura don't continue, they just smile at him. Lovely smiles. They're almost sultry, but not quite.
"I didn't, I didn't tell you to stop," Naruto said roughly, a blunt embarrassment to his tone.
Sasuke gives a hum of laughter, "If we said anymore you might faint with all the blood rushing to your face."
"And elsewhere," Sakura teased.
"Knock it off, Sakura," Sasuke snapped.
"You're no fun, Sasuke," Sakura said with a bit of a pout. The disappointment quickly faded away as nothing more than a farce.
Naruto swallowed thickly, "So what even are you guys?"
"One incubus."
"And a succubus."
"If that's what you are then you sure have done an awful job of seducing me and like, killing me," Naruto answered with.
"You're too adorable to kill," Sakura said.
"It'd be awful for our conscience if we did," Sasuke tacked on.
"So, who sent you? People can do that, right?" Naruto asked.
Sasuke rolled to rest on his back, looking up at Naruto instead. He didn't answer. He just sort of, looked. Maybe he wanted to lie, maybe he wanted to be honest.
Sakura also goes uncharacteristically quiet. Her grip on Naruto loosens up and she unbends her knees, and her feet hit the ground. It's a jarring detail for Naruto.
"We were supposed to kill you a long time ago," Sasuke said bluntly, "Do the whole routine, I'm sure you're aware of how it goes."
Naruto suspected as much, they are demons, "But you didn't?"
"It's more fun to pester you all the time, even if we were supposed to keep it short," Sakura said, "Usually we can get someone in a singular night- but you, you were too dense for anything to get through your head."
Naruto isn't sure if he should feel complimented or insulted. It feels like a compliment and an insult at the same time. He doesn't answer.
"Besides, even if we did seduce you, you could probably survive the night," Sasuke said, "You're an abnormality."
"An abnormality?" Naruto asked, his voice was a little bit quieter.
Sakura nodded, "You have a lot of life force. Usually one night with an incubi or a succubi would drain all of it, you have enough to last a night with two."
"And we never fucked because...?"
Sasuke groaned before sitting up and gripping Naruto's face, "Because you're an oblivious fox who can't understand any of the flirts we threw at you!"
Sakura was quick to slide her hands over Sasuke's, he retracted his. She turned Naruto to face her, reveling in the bright red hue on his face. She hadn't taken note of the fact she was floating again, but it felt proper for Naruto to have one of her knees almost knock against him with proximity. She smiled, one that showed how sharp her teeth were, "Why? Do you want to?"
"Maybe," Naruto answered with. His voice wasn't much louder then a whisper, "I wasn't sure if it'd be worth it."
"Even this much contact would leave the average human feeling drunk, Naruto," Sasuke said, hand sliding up Naruto's torso to rest at the nape of his neck, "You're different, you're special."
-/-/-/-
Naruto expects them to be gone in the morning, they even hadn't done much more then make out. He just felt lightheaded after long enough, after the tension had built too high. And they retracted.
Which is odd.
They're demons.
They could've just killed him.
But they didn't.
His head still aches a bit as his eyes come to focus on the ceiling above him. Sasuke and Sakura are laid around him. One hand up his shirt, one at the small of his back. A head pressed to the back of his shoulders and one at the base of his ribs. The reality of the situation snaps him awake and jolts him upright, clutching the blanket high to his chest.
"Woke up?" Sasuke asked.
"You were awake?!"
"We both were," Sakura corrected.
"You didn't leave?" The shock has faded out near entirely from his voice, leaving only an air of honest inquiry.
"Do you want us too?" Sasuke asked as he sat up. One hand raised to rub his arm as he spoke. He still looked the same as last night, skin almost aglow in the slowly yielding darkness of sunrise.
"We can if we're a bother," Sakura offered. She was still laid out on the bed.
"Don't you usually... Leave?" Naruto asked.
"Usually there's a corpse in bed," Sasuke answered with, "Incubi and succubi alike tend to consider being caught with a dead body a bad look."
"You fell asleep instead of dying," Sakura said, "It's new, we were never told what to do if that happened."
"So we stuck around."
"And waited."
Naruto swallowed thickly, "What were you waiting for?"
"For you to die."
"But you didn't- not even once did your heartbeat falter."
"And then you woke up."
"It's unheard of."
Silence.
"So do you guys, like, eat food?" Naruto asked, his tone was somewhat stilted, "Human food."
Sasuke and Sakura shared a brief glance, it was Sakura who spoke, "Sometimes, yes."
"It's not poisonous right?" Naruto asked.
"No, just doesn't do enough for it to be worth eating all the time," Sasuke said.
"Do you guys want some eggs? Or like, cereal?" Naruto asked, throwing aside the blanket and awkwardly shuffling to the edge of the bed. A heady yawn worked its way through him as he stretched his arms over his head. It's still too early to be awake on a Saturday.
"You're not kicking us out?"
"Nope."
"Why not?"
"I don't know how demons work, but until you two kill me you're failures to the others I'd assume- but, eggs?"
"Scrambled please," Sakura chirped amidst the questioning.
"Me too- but really, what are your actual intentions for not kicking us out? Nobody just trusts a demon."
"I guess I do," Naruto answered with bluntly.
"Do you have any drive for survival?"
"Apparently I have enough 'life force' to survive you two, so that counts for something."
"You're so annoying."
"It'll only get worse the longer you stick around."
"Then maybe we'll leave!"
"But isn't killing me your job?" There's a smugness to Naruto's tone as he looks back at them.
Sasuke looks like he might tear out his own hair at the somewhat loophole-esque situation they're in. Sakura merely looks amused at Naruto's attempts to find cracks in the way they work.
"We don't need to kill you," Sakura said, "It'd just make us stronger."
"So that's how it works."
"Did you not know that?" Sasuke asked.
Naruto shrugged, "I don't do much demon research, you're supposed to just be myth and legend."
-/-/-/-
There was an addictive substance in the way they kissed, Naruto decides after the seventh day without them.
They were already living in his head constantly, but now it's just gotten so much worse.
He sees pink and blue every time he blinks, like they got seared into the back of his eyelids. He never should've agreed to it. He never should've even so much as humoured them- they're demons for gods sake.
But here he is.
Still waiting for them.
It's like a gaping wound. The sudden lack. They're usually around the corner, usually somewhere around, usually they're looking for him. He had something to look forward to, even if he did classify them as nuisances.
He doesn't know why he's so fond all of a sudden.
He should do research when he gets home, see if there's a cure. If there isn't a way to cure this itch that rests on the inside of his skin then he doesn't know what he'll do.
His ankles knock against each other as he tries to eat. His overall appetite hasn't been proper lately. Even a bowl of ramen in front of him doesn't spark hunger as much as it should. He wonders if they're to blame. He wonders if they can fix it.
Two people sit across from him.
He knows.
"Hi," Naruto got out, lacking his usual exuberance. He struggled to take a bite of ramen before Sakura or Sasuke spoke, the flavor was decadent but something wasn't right. It was lacking of some sort of spice. He'd like to lie and tell himself it's because they got a new cook who wasn't quite right, he fears it's something worse.
"Sorry for disappearing," Sakura said.
Naruto shrugged, "It's fine- where were you anyways?"
"Doing business," Sasuke said, "Are we still allowed to crash at your place?"
"Did you get kicked out of being demons?" There's a snort of laughter on Naruto's voice as he spoke.
"No, we just need somewhere to stay," Sakura said.
"Why don't you go find someone else to kill, it'd do you some good," Naruto said, "You both look kind of..."
He squints a bit as he stares at them.
"Starved."
"Apparently that's because of you," Sasuke said.
Naruto went ramrod straight, "Because of me?"
"You ooze life force all the time, so much that we just pick it up without even realizing it. It's enough to keep us from withering without killing every other night," Sakura explained, "It probably has something to do with those whiskers on your face." In truth, both Sasuke and Sakura were heavily aware of the fact they were also eating up Kurama's chakra alongside Naruto's. But again, that's also a name that's been lost to the track of time. Only the essence of the monster passed down from person to person for eons as nothing more than a curse- one with visual tells that can be covered with makeup these days.
"Is that a compliment...?"
"A very high compliment," Sasuke assured, "So we need you."
"What? Too much effort to go have fun?" Naruto asked.
"We like you."
"You already know this."
"You're delicious to be frank."
"Why waste our time out there when we could be with you instead?"
"It's free food and an adorable partner."
"A two for one deal like none other."
"We'd be fools to pass up the chance."
Red was slowly rising to Naruto's face the entire time they took turns speaking, "Partner?"
"Or friend," Sasuke offered, "We'd understand if you don't want to partner with demons."
"What? No- hell no, that was just. I'm flattered," Naruto said, trying to recover, horribly fumbling his words as he did so, "I didn't think demons could love."
Sakura laughs a little bit, "That's a common misconception."
"Nobody thinks animals can love either," Sasuke said, "But they can, and so can we."
"So do you?" Naruto asked. He didn't mean to. Not really. Words formed in his head and as fast as he thought them up they were falling out of his mouth and dead in the air.
Neither Sasuke nor Sakura speak.
"If you don't you can keep being parasites, I don't mind," Naruto said.
Sasuke laughs. It's a quiet and subtle sound really, but entirely earnest. One that's near completely foreign to Naruto. "You're so fucking dense, Naruto."
Sakura has the guts to lean over the table and grab his face. She presses a kiss to his check that's almost dizzying after the absence of them for so long. "You're oblivious as hell."
Collection of AU art that isn't really canon anymore. My first drawings, these work more like concept sketches now. Some events still happen, other just don't.
pixelskylines
germansingergirl
theartofmadeline
baratheonpilled
andulkaphoto
yousharknotpass
kaledo-art
