#I love when Orochi is all weird and slithering
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unknown-de-mordor-blog · 6 years ago
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Plot Bunny: Alpine AU SNS
Summary: Naruto is a fresh-faced botanist who just recently moved to a (sizeable) mountain town to join a research team on ecology in alpine climate. He’s there because they want to build a tree nursery for the rare alpine plant species and study the effect of climate change on smaller shrubs and flowers, and Naruto is renown in the field for being able to grow and culture anything no matter how picky the plant is. Sasuke just finished his vet training and is setting up his practice. His family doesn’t really understand why he was hell-bent on specializing in wild and exotic animals and moved to a mountain town where, frankly, there’s just nothing much going on and not much money to make. But honestly, his massive childhood tantrum to get a pet snake should have told them everything they need to know. Then one fateful day Sasuke gets a call. They just catch a strange looking wolf not seen before in the area and they need a vet to check it out. The ground they found the creature on is the University's open-aired tree nursery. Detail:
- Naruto and Sasuke are in their thirties because, you know, it takes time to have the careers they have.
- This is Naruto first long-term job after jumping between postdoc positions, so he had been a bit of a nomad previously. That's part of why he lives in a small apartment and drives a third-handed pick-up truck. His most precious possession is an orchid he helped cultivated and was given by the professor as a gift.
- His ability to grow anything is nicknamed 'The Uzumaki effect.' However, he's terrible with animals. Even a chihuahua would bite him.
- Sasuke, on the other hand, was called a Disney Princess by his brother Itachi because he has the uncanny ability to deal with animals. Some of his vet friends called him 'the Messiah' since he tends to be the only one who is able to deal with their tricky and aggressive patients.
- That was also why he got called to the University to deal with the wolf. They tried to sedated it after they captured it, but the thing just won't go to sleep and tries to bite everyone. Kiba, who's an animal rescuer told them to call Sasuke since they couldn't safely give the wolf anymore sedative without the risk of overdosing and killing it.
- Kiba is married to Hinata, who runs an animal sanctuary. They take in mostly wild and exotic animals and sometimes animals that people should have known better to not keep as pet, like, Kiba's wolf-dog Akamaru who's just a tad too much on the wolf side to be in a family home. Both of them know Sasuke because he's their favourite vet for the animals.
- And so, Naruto and Sasuke meet for the first time on their mission to get the wolf out of the University ground and to Hinata's place so it can recuperate. They instantly click as a team, and Naruto gets pretty excited since this is the first time he deals with animal and doesn't get bitten.
- And Naruto might have developed a crush on Sasuke because he's calm and patient and just super cool in Naruto's eyes.
- Sasuke, on the other hand, has a bit of a headache with Naruto since he gets a little too excited and makes the animal anxious.
- Naruto calls the wolf Kurama and likes to visit him at Hinata's place. They find out later that he's weird looking with strange-colored furs because he's a wolf-dog from an unintentional cross breeding. So they are reluctant to set him free, although he's very aggressive due to never having contact with human before and is at risk of being put down.
- Naruto is so upset by that. He phones up Sasuke to ask if there is anything he can do to help Kurama. Sasuke honestly don't think there's an option because Kurama is too aggressive to be adopted. Even Akamaru is not that bad and pretty much only Kiba or Hinata can handle him.
- But Naruto isn't going to take no for an answer, so he asks Sasuke to teach him how to bond with animals so he can, hopefully, be friends with Kurama and adopt him. Sasuke thinks this is a terrible plan, but he lets Naruto come in to help in his clinic anyway.
- Naruto gets super down when he meets Karin, Sasuke's head nurse and business partner, because he thinks she's Sasuke's girlfriend. Karin laughs like a hyena when she finds out because, no, Sasuke is so gay there isn't a chance in hell that would have happened.
-With Naruto, though...
- Naruto is probably the worst volunteer in the clinic, even with domestic pets and animals. Sasuke and Karin have to spend quite a lot of time to train him to handle animals and to be calm with them so the animals don't freak out.
- After a while, Sasuke thinks Naruto should try fostering, and that is when he discovers that Naruto's apartment is so small it can't handle a chihuahua, let alone a wolfdog. And he tells the blond to buy a house with a yard if he's really serious about keeping Kurama. Worst case scenario, he would need to build a cage out there because Kurama might never be tamed enough to live in a house.
- But student loan? Naruto's really uncomfortable with the idea of getting into a new batch of debt when he's still paying off the old one.
- Karin suggests that Sasuke should rent his basement to Naruto since he just got himself straddled with a mortgage and could use another stream of income to help with that anyway. Also, Sasuke's house has a nice yard.
- Sasuke hopes Naruto would figure out after dealing with a variety of animals that an aggressive wolf-dog is not a good pet to keep and let Kurama go. But nope, Naruto isn't having it. He agrees to moving in to Sasuke's basement so he can start fostering animals, which he thinks is the path to caring for Kurama permanently. He also doesn't quite think of Kurama as pet. He still visits him a lot and helps Hinata with feeding the wolf-dog so they can bond, but he feels like Kurama really is his own person. So a friend?
- Kurama also gets more comfortable with Naruto as the time goes by, but he still doesn't like human.
- As it turns out, Sasuke doesn't really have a basement suite. It's really another floor of the house. So they ended up more like housemates. Naruto needs the kitchen upstairs and Sasuke needs the laundry room downstairs.
- Thank goodness they have separate bathrooms because if Sasuke walks in on Naruto wet and wearing only a towel one more time, he might literally have a heart attack.
- Naruto also helps Sasuke with taking care of animals that sometimes Sasuke brings back from the clinic because they need overnight care.
- Most of the times, the animal is okay and just needs to sleep and be fed. But one time a young kitten dies on Sasuke from an intestinal infection although Sasuke stays with the kitten all night to try and save it. Naruto got to see Sasuke cry then. Naruto would do anything to not have him cry again.
- But, you know, vet's life. Some animals just can't be saved, including a horse Sasuke has to put down because it breaks its legs in a crevasse and there's no way of saving it and letting it have a good life.
- Neither of them is any good when it comes to talking about emotions, so Naruto opts to cooking for Sasuke on those days.
- Naruto's plant collection sprawls out of the basement because the plants need light and the main floor got better sunlight. So now the orchid has a prided place on the sill of Sasuke's large dining room window. Sasuke never tells Naruto this, but he loves that orchid.
- Naruto also grows catnip and likes to sneak it into the clinic for the cat patients. Of course, Sasuke catches him anyway because the cats got high as a kite. ("It's like medical marijuana, Sasuke!")
- Naruto gets along better with animals over time, but he still can't get along with Sasuke's pet snake Orochi. Naruto swears the snake hates him. Mostly he's just jealous that Orochi gets to slither all over Sasuke when the raven is relaxing.
- Karin tells him to just make a move on Sasuke already.
I run out of ideas here because something has to happen to Kurama that helps move the plot forward and bring Naruto and Sasuke closer together, but I can't think of what. Please feel free to add your ideas to the list!
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