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[thepondonthemoon]

Chasing Tails - 2

A/B/O alternate universe Everyone-has-tails AU Alpha! Sasuke, Omega! Naruto Cat! Sasuke, Fox! Naruto

NO MPREG

In a society where male omegas are unable to give birth, Uzumaki Naruto is ostracised for being a ‘defective’ omega. With his parents dead, he suffers from nightmares and despite a loving adoptive father and best friend, he is left to believe that he will never be able to find an alpha who will accept him for the individual that he is.

Uchiha Sasuke never planned on taking a mate, instead finding the very scent of omegas to be revolting. But as he finally surrenders to the pressures of his father to hold a ceremony for the pure purpose of obtaining a mate, he may find this decision to be life altering. 

Click for Chapter 1 

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Hmm.. wow I did not plan for this to be a modern setting but hey it is what it is so here you go.. (also both Naruto and Sasuke chose their occupations; I had no part in deciding, they just looked at me and said ‘this is what I’m going to do in this fanfic’ so.. uh.. yea) 

As always, please validate this time that-I-probably-should’ve-used-for-studying by giving me a note!! Thanks c: hope you enjoy

“Alright, here are your suppressants and scent blockers”, Tsunade said as she handed Naruto a box of pills and a spray bottle. “Start taking them in two days; the pheromones in your blood have started increasing again, though it’s a bit earlier than usual”. She frowned. Although the heat cycles of male omegas were typically irregular, Naruto’s cycles had been almost too accurately regular for the past nine years.

Naruto grinned at her, his faint whisker-like scars stretching across his cheeks, “Thanks again Granny!” He paused, hesitating on his next statement before deciding to ask her anyways. “Uchiha Sasuke’s mate ceremony is in five days, should I be okay to go?”

“Hmm.. you should be fine to go, but make sure you have those suppressants on you just in case. Your heat this time looks a bit strange so just be careful brat,” the doctor finally responded. “Plus,” she smirked, “I thought you hated that kid”.

Naruto scowled. “Huh? Of course I do! It’s just that Sakura’s going to court him and she wants me to be there for support and blah blah blah all that stuff. That’s the only reason I’m going”.

Tsunade rolled her eyes at his outburst. “Yeah, yeah sure fine whatever. Just be careful, there’s going to be quite a few alphas there who might catch the scent of your heat and I really don’t want another rape victim ending up here, alright?” Naruto ignored the slight nervous twitch of his tail as he realised that of course there’d be alphas there! How could he have forgotten that?

Chewing on his bottom lip, he contemplated on whether he should call Sakura and cancel, though as soon as the thought hit, a frustration built up inside of him. “Damn alphas”, he muttered. He wasn’t going to let the fact that he was an omega stop him; Sakura was his best friend after all. In fact, the thought of potential rape didn’t scare him at all. Nuh-uh. Nope. Not one bit. Not. One. Bit.

Tsunade watched as the blonde’s emotions played out across his face, slightly amused by the fact that he had no idea how easy he was to read, especially with his tail jerking around nervously. Well, she knew he was scared nonetheless, any omega would be. The last thing anyone needed was an unwanted pregnancy or an unwanted mating mark, considering it’d be a very permanent and painful process for the omega to have to go through, though not so much the alpha. Yeah, Mother Nature was a bitch that way.

The blonde doctor sighed as she looked through her desk drawers. Thankfully, rape had finally been declared a crime and as a result, the rates had dropped over the last decade. As to why it hadn’t already been a crime was a mystery no one could solve. However, unfortunately there were still ways of getting around the system, and whilst rape is never ideal, it’s best to prepare for such an event anyway. Tsunade melancholily chuckled to herself at the idiocracy of that statement. Hopefully, a day would arrive when the Omega Rights Association ensured that omegas no longer had to live in fear of rape.

But as of right now, Naruto needed to protect his nape from mating marks. “Ah, there it is”, she muttered as she finally found the collar. “Here”, Tsunade said as she threw the black leather collar to the fox kid, startling him out of his reverie. “I doubt you have a collar since you never have the opportunity to encounter alphas, so I’ll give you this one”.

“Oh”, Naruto caught the collar, albeit fumbling to catch it in the process. “Thanks Tsunade”, he said forcing a smile at the protective, yet somehow degrading object. Turning it over in his hands, he admired the strength of the leather, knowing that it would protect him from permanent damage. Naruto brought the collar closer to his face to examine it before suddenly biting it, almost like a dog gnawing on a chew toy. Tsunade facepalmed, forever wondering why Kushina and Minato had left her in charge of this helpless child.

“Naruto… why are you biting it?”, she finally asked.

“I’m just testing to make sure you can’t bite through it”, he grinned at her. A glint of silver on the collar caught his eye. “Oh yeah, is there a key for this?”, he asked despite being unable to find a keyhole on the silver clasp.

“Nah, it actually uses your fingerprint to lock and unlock. Here, we’ll configure it now”. After fumbling with an app on her phone, which Naruto assumed was connected to the collar, she placed his index finger on the metal square of the clasp which prompted a message on her phone, indicating that configuration had been completed.

Tsunade smiled. “There you go. Try putting it on your neck now, we should probably check that it’s comfortable enough.” Naruto placed it around his neck, and with ease he locked the clasp before opening it up to ensure that he could, in fact, open it back up with his fingerprint. He locked it again, finding that the collar was comfortable enough against his neck, snug without restricting his breathing. Yet he frowned, more displeased with the concept of the collar than the physical feel of it. Naruto sighed, his tail drooping slightly. Well, there was nothing to be done about it anyway.

“Yeah, it’s comfortable”, he told the blonde doctor who was still waiting on a reply.

Tsunade smiled slightly, albeit a bit sad. “That’s good. Make sure you’re wearing it when you go to the ceremony, I know it’s a bit demeaning but it’ll protect you in the worst case. Are you going to be taking off work today?”

“Nah”, Naruto responded. “I need to make money somehow, and I won’t be able to be as efficient once my heat hits.”

“Well alright then brat, I’ll see you later”, Tsunade stated as the blonde began to leave her clinic. “Make sure you call if something happens!”

Naruto waved back, his fox tail swishing from side to side almost as if it were waving back too. “Okay Granny!!” He grinned.

With his medication safely in his bag, the fox hummed as he headed off to his part time job.

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Uchiha Sasuke glared at the blank canvas before him, before scowling and deciding that the pure nothingness of it had personally offended him in some way.

“Little brother, are you still sulking?” A deep voice echoed behind Sasuke, his black cat tail jerking up in surprise before curling around his waist. Sighing, he turned around only to be faced with the perfect posture he had long associated with his older brother.

“Sulking about what?” The younger Uchiha replied in a monotonous tone, refusing to give away any information. But as usual, Itachi was able to see right through him. The man had lived with him for over 20 years after all, so it wasn’t unexpected and yet that small detail only served to irritate Sasuke even more.

“Oh, are we pretending that your mating ceremony, which you so adamantly refused for two years, isn’t coming up in five days?” Itachi replied drily. “Sorry, guess I didn’t get the memo we were playing pretend”.

Closing his eyes, Sasuke pinched the bridge of his nose as he exhaled a groan of frustration. “God damn it is it your mission in life to make mine so miserable?”

“Well of course it is”.

“...It was a rhetorical question”, Sasuke stated through gritted teeth before smirking. “Or maybe you just failed Literature that badly”.

“Sure, but you’re going to fail your Visual Arts course soon if you keep this up”, Itachi glanced over to the blank canvas before raising an eyebrow at the lack of progress.

Sasuke abstractedly stroked the end of his black cat tail as he sighed. “Yeah..”

Itachi stared at his usually stoic brother in contemplation, both amused and concerned at the fact that he was displaying such a wide range of emotions before reaching the conclusion that the ceremony had affected him more than he thought. Reaching his hand forward, he poked Sasuke on the forehead eliciting a yelp of alarm.

“What’d you do that for?” the young alpha whined. “Can’t you see I’m suffering enough?”

“You know, even though Father is pressuring you to find a mate, it doesn’t mean you need to actually pick one out”, Itachi paused. “Just focus on your project. It’s the path you chose for yourself after all”.

Sasuke scowled as he watched his older brother walk away without a care in the world before resuming his initial glare at the still-blank canvas. The project was due in a month, and whilst he had started on the day it had been issued, he just could not tap into any inspiration during the last two months.

The brunette glanced over at the other canvasses in his blue-walled study. Over the last two months, Sasuke had completed no less than five artworks. Graphite, pastel, acrylic, oil, charcoal. Nothing had worked. Mountains and oceans and trees and rivers; it all just didn’t feel right to him. As if something was missing - some minor yet crucial detail that he had forgotten somewhere and couldn’t find again.

Standing up from his chair, Sasuke walked over to his bed before falling face first into his black bed sheet covers. Adding on to the stress of the art project was the mate ceremony that he had finally agreed to, for what reason he couldn’t understand why.

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“Sasuke”

Sasuke paused the movement of his chopsticks, bringing them back down to his bowl as he turned to look at his Father, inwardly groaning at the inevitable conversation.

“Yes, Father?”

“Sasuke, your Mother and I think that it’s about time you found a mate. We need an heir to carry on our family name.”

Sasuke’s eyes twitched infinitesimally. “I’m only 20. Itachi’s almost 26 but you haven’t forced him to find a mate.”

“Yes”, Fugaku glanced over at Itachi who seemed to be paying no mind to the conversation, yet all at the dinner table instinctively knew he was. “Itachi has resisted all advances from his lovely omega suitors, for reasons he has not yet revealed. Which is why-”

“Which is why you need me to fuck an omega and produce children”, Sasuke finished monotonously, having heard the same speech a thousand times.

“Sasuke”, Mikoto said, placing her bowl down. “Please, no cursing in this house, much less at dinner. Could you just hold the ceremony and at least meet with all the omegas? Maybe you’ll find one you like, maybe you won’t. We’re not asking for much here; we just want you to be happy.”

Sasuke’s poker face melted at the soft voice of his Mother. He exhaled deeply at the thought of holding the ceremony which he had resisted for the past two years. Well, it was true he didn’t have to find a mate immediately, and maybe his Father would stop pestering him about it.

He turned back to look at Fugaku, his tail curling in on itself behind his back as he prepared to speak the words which he so dreaded.

“Fine. I’ll hold the ceremony like you want, Father. But I don’t plan on fuc-finding a mate immediately.” Sasuke stood up from the dinner table, his appetite lost as he carried his bowl to the sink.

“That’s all I want, Sasuke”, Fugaku’s voice echoed behind Sasuke as he walked towards his bedroom, flinching at the sound of his Father’s voice.

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A buzzing sound broke him out of his reverie. Sasuke groaned as he half-heartedly felt across his bed for his phone before sitting upright on his bed.

“What’s up, Sai?” he answered groggily.

“Bro do you have ten dicks in your mouth or something? What’s wrong with your voice?” The ever so annoying voice of his Visual Arts partner echoed in his ear.

“Fuck off, what do you want?”

“Dude I understand you don’t want to answer whether or not you have dicks in your mouth, but next time make sure you call me since I’m more than happy to go.”

“What. Do. You. Want.”

The annoying jabber of Sai paused for a moment, making Sasuke check whether or not the call was still going before it returned.

“I heard you’re finally holding that mate ceremony.”

“Yeah, what about it?”

“Bro I didn’t know you weren’t asexual! Otherwise I would’ve made my advances a long time ag-”

Sasuke hung up, failing to find the energy to deal with Sai at the current moment. Plopping back on his bed, he stared up at his ceiling; a ceiling as white as his canvas. Yet he kept staring up at it, as if his ceiling was the key to unlocking the inspiration and motivation he needed for his art piece. He sighed, his eyelids slowly drifting shut as his body decided that it needed a break from all the stress he shouldered.

As Sasuke sank into unconsciousness, a small image popped up behind his retinas. A yellow daffodil amongst a sea of exquisite white and red roses, and yet somehow the daffodil was the most beautiful.