Better Than Drugs

He was cold, tired and hungry. These things didn't matter. Where to get his next fix was the only thing racing through his fevered mind. The dark haired man leaned against the lamp post scanning the sea of people for his next customer. He almost never resorted to selling his body, but he was in a bad way. He needed something, now.

He was dropped off an hour ago by a middle aged man who he charged 50 bucks for a blow job. He couldn’t wait to get that precious little black stone that made all his bad memories fade. That's all he wanted these days, all he lived for. Looking up his dark eyes scanned the cloudy skies wondering if it was going to rain. that would be bad he thought as he lowered obsidian eyes to scan the streets.

He hated watching people living their lives; smirking, I had a life once, Sasuke thought as he shut his eyes willing those memories away. As his eyes slid open they landed on a sleek black car in front of him. Grimacing he moved away from the pole hoping the occupants hadn’t seen him. He was about to turn when a voice in his ear stopped him.

"Sasuke-kun, I hope you weren't trying to run," the voice whispered. Jumping to the side he slammed into another body with arms that gripped him tightly. He looked into light eyes.

Smiling down into Sasuke’s murky eyes Sakon said, “Lord Orochimaru is waiting."

"No, I don't...."

"You have no choice!" Udon hissed and shoved the raven toward the waiting car. The door swung open and he was pushed inside. The door shut behind him and they were off down the street.


Sasuke could see the all too familiar building come into view. The next thing he knows is that he is being pushed into a room that was very familiar. It was like a second home at some point in his bleak life.

"Well, Sasu-koi, it has been a while."

Coldness shot through his entire body at the sound of that voice. He turned to see yellow eyes looking at him, a smile on those thin lips. Sasuke moved to the far wall, trying to put as much distance between them as possible. Lord Orochimaru was once Sasuke’s pimp. A year ago Sasuke was able to buy his freedom back. But now, he didn’t feel free at all.

"Wh-What do you want?"

Smiling widely, "you know what I want."

Dark eyes widened, he knew what he wanted. Shaking his head, "no, no...."

"I'll give you something that will make you feel so good..." Orochomaru tempted the dark haired man. He pulled a small baggie with a black stone inside. On the outside of the bag was stamped ‘Dark Desire’.

Sasuke's eyes flew to the small bag that the snake bastard held. He needed it so bad he was willing to do ANY thing. But NO! He wanted to stopped, "no." His refusal was not as convincing as he wanted it to sound. Unable to stop his body Sasuke moved toward him, eyes trained on the baggie.

Orochimaru smile split his pale face, his topaz colored eyes held an all knowing glint. "That's right, come to me boy." He hissed. Once Sasuke was in front of him he placed the bag in his pocket. He smiled at the whimpered response he heard, "you know what you have to do first."

Nodding Sasuke dropped to his knees and proceeded to unbuckle Orochimaru's belt then unzipped his black slacks. Once finished he pulled down pants and boxers revealing a very hard, very big erection.

Ocrochimaru ran his fingers through Sasuke's dark locks, "see what you do to me...” he grabbed a hand full of hair and pulled Sasuke toward his weeping member.

Sasuke opened his mouth accepting the large cock. As his mouth was being fucked, a single tear rolled down his pale cheeks. Running through his mind was a wish that seemed like it would never come true, 'I wish someone would just kill me.’


~~6 months later~~

He had moved back to be closer to his grandparents, who practically raised him. He really did love this city, but at that time he was suffocating so he had to leave. Naruto pushed his hands into his jacket pockets and walked down the familiar streets. As he walked on his one and only thought was RAMEN. He had been craving the stuff ever since he decided to move back. Now he was headed to the best place in town.

Naruto stood at the counter waiting for his order. He had to reframe from rolling his eyes as he was basically being ogled by the females in the restaurant. Hurry up,'he thought.

'Kit what's your problem, you in a rush or somethin'

Scowling inwardly, 'shut up, I'm still not talking to you!' He hissed at the fox that shared his body. (Yea, I know weird huh....but so many things are strange about him.)

Two girls came up to him and asked him if he'd go out on a date with them. They stared up into cerulean eyes that sparkled, waiting for his answer. He smiled which blinded anyone in the vicinity and kindly declined, stating that he was already taken. Both girls pouted and demanded to know who this person was.

Okayyy, Naruto thought. Aren't they a little too aggressive?

'Hey Kit, I think you'd better get outta there, the natives look restless.'

For once he agreed with the fuzz ball. Naruto grabbed his bag and walked slowly toward the door. Once through he heard a thunderous sound as if there was a stampede of elephants but it was a herd of angry Fan girls!

"Oh Shit!" he said as he started to run.

He ducked into an alley and hid behind a dumpster. As he hid he could hear them running by intent on getting to him. Once the noise died down he still waited for another 10 minutes just to make sure. Standing, Naruto looked around the dumpster; the coast was clear so he stepped from behind the large metal bin. He was heading toward the entrance when a sound stopped him. Closing his eyes he listened. Someone was singing, he thought. The voice was male and smooth. The song he sang was beautifully done. The tones were perfect and the accapella was so….so….he couldn’t think of a word as he turned around to try and find the person attached to this voice. He followed this melody until he was out the other side of the alley. The song ended then another song started up again but this time the song was a rock song that he'd heard on the radio. This guy sang it perfectly! who was he? Naruto wondered as he walked a little ways down the street. The song changed again and once again it was perfect.

He came upon a crowd; the voice was coming from the center. He pushed his way through. As the sound ended his blood boiled when he saw what was happening. 4 men were pushing around a dark haired man.

"You think we are gonna pay you!" one of the men said shoving the dark haired man toward his friend.
"You sounded like crap!!! He was shoved again.
"You're nothing but a druggie!"
The last person he was shoved to gripped his shirt and glared into dark eyes, "you people make me sick!" He lifted his fist as if was going to hit him.

Hold up, he was going hit’em! Running forward, Naruto stopped the meaty fist from connecting to the pale man’s face.

Sasuke felt himself being let go as he fell on his butt.

Sasuke had closed his eyes and waited for the crushing blow but it never came. Opening his eyes, he was staring at a head of blonde hair. What? he thought as he saw this blonde stranger standing between him and those 4 thugs that were harassing him. He could see that the blonde held onto the other man's fist and started to squeeze, hard.

The man screamed in pain as the stranger let go of the crushed hand. The other three ran toward him but stopped cold when the stranger turned cold blue eyes toward them, daring them to land a hand on him. They walked around this, apparently crazy, person and helped their friend up and ran off in the opposite direction.

Then stranger turned toward Sasuke and smiled. His blue eyes made his heart skip a beat and that smile made his legs go weak, luckily he was on the ground. He started when a tan hand was held in front of him.

"Hey you ok?"

Was that concern he heard in this blonde’s voice? he wondered. Sasuke looked at the hand than back up at the man.

"I'm not gonna hurt you." Nartuo told the raven haired man. Grabbing Naruto's hand, he was pulled to his feet. Naruto looked around as the crowd dispersed.

Sasuke's heart skipped a beat as he swung around looking for his bag. It was gone! "NO!" he said as he looked frantically around. That bag held the money he had earned today for singing. Up until those bastards came along he might have had over $100!

Sasuke walked over to a bench and dropped down. He leaned forward dropping his head into his hands. “That was all the money I had in this world,” he groaned. He had been clean for about 3 months but now, with what just happened, he wanted a rock so bad.

Naruto looked around but still couldn't find the bag. Those bastards must have taken it, he mused as he walked over to the raven haired man. He sat down beside him. He felt sorry for the guy. "How much did you lose?" he asked.

"It looked like a $100 to me, it could have been more." He lifted his head. He turned toward the stranger, "I've been out here since this morning. I know I don't work but...but...I'm good at singing so I just thought..." When he felt the tear roll down his pale cheek he turned away. "Stupid, I should have known I couldn't catch a break." He whispered as he stood. He turned back to the stranger and bowed, "thanks for helping me." then he turned and walked away.

Naruto stared at the retreating back. He was still mesmerized by those eyes. They were tear filled and sparkled like black diamonds. He snapped out of it and ran after the young man, "Oy! Wait up!" He shouted.

Sasuke stopped and turned to see the stranger running after him.

Naruto stopped in front of him. He doubled over trying to catch his breath. "Hey, what if I know of a way for you to earn your money back and maybe more."

Sasuke's eyes narrowed with suspicion. He's heard this before from that snake bastard. He wasn't going to get sucked in...He turned around and started walking. "Not interested."

"Wait!" He walked after him. Naruto didn't know what the hell his problem was.

"I don't need your kind of help..." Sasuke shot over his shoulder as he continued down the street.

"My kind of help? Hey I just wanna help you earn your money back, teme," Naruto was heated.

Sasuke stopped, "listen, I don't need a pimp. I don't sell my body..." his voice got lower as he mumbled before he turned away ...”anymore."

Naruto heard that last part. The anger drained as he walked after him. He saw that the raven had stopped and was waiting for the light to change. He walked up beside him. "Hey, I'm no pimp," he told him, his voice low. "I just want to help."

Sasuke turned to look at the blonde. He looked into the blue eyes and saw only truth. The blonde smiled at him causing him to show a very rare smile, "fine, dobe. By the way, my name is Sasuke Uchiha." smirking he headed across the street.

Naruto's smiled dropped, "The name is Naruto Uzamaki and hey don't call me that, teme!" He ran after the raven haired man and started to tell him about a friend of his.

~~
Gara wanted to kill somebody right about now. Mainly the singer that he had signed to perform at his club who, and who does this nowadays, left a note saying that he was going on to bigger and better things. "Fucking asshole!" Gaara would never hold any of the singers that came through his club back, hell he encouraged music producers to come out and hear the talent.

Why today of all days. This was one of his busiest nights! He could see the members of his house band drifting in heading toward the stage. Once all the members arrived he walked over to them.
Shika looked up from his book to see Gaara walking over to them, "how troublesome, he looks pissed," he told the others. There were a total of 3 house band members, Shika on the guitar, Kiba on the drums and Neji on the electric guitar.

Gaara stopped in front of the stage, "listen up guy’s looks like we are down a singer."

"Are you serious?" Kiba asked coming from around his drums.

"Yeah, that prick decided he was too good to play here and decided to strike out on his own."

"That bastard," Neji hissed. Eyes widened as if he just remembered something, "please be there," he kept saying as he jumped from the stage and went in back to where their "dressing rooms' were.
Neji went to his locker and pulled open the door. He opened his folder where he kept all his music and lyrics. He scanned the contents. Cursing he closed the folder. Looking up he could see his band mates, "that bastard took our songs."

Shika rarely gets mad but he saw red, “I knew something was up with that guy."

Kiba sat down on the couch, "ok we're screwed."

Gaara left them in the room and headed out front. When he walked through the door he caught a glimpse of blonde standing at the bar. 'No it couldn't be...' he thought as walked toward the bar.

"Hey Ino! Long time no see!" Naruto told the blonde woman.

Ino jumped over the bar and pulled him into a tight hug, "Geez Naru, you have grown into a handsome dude!" she told him pulling away.

"Yes he has."

Naruto smile grew bigger as that deep voice made him shiver. It always does and always will.

Ino smiled between the two men. Gaara walked over to her and kissed her cheek causing her to blush and Naruto too.

"Congrats guys, you two look good together." he smiled. He was truly happy. After he left....

"You guys looked good together too," Ino told him smiling. Ino knew about their relationship. She knew that Gaara was bi and didn't care. She finally found someone to love.

"Ahem."

Naruto blushed more and turned around. He pulled a dark haired man from behind him. "Gaara, Ino this is Sasuke."

Sasuke stared at the couple and nodded his head. Gaara did the same back but Ino walked over to him smiling, "you're cute."

A slight red tinge appeared on his cheeks.

"Anyways, he has an awesome voice so I was wondering if you can hire him."

Shaking his head smiling, "as always, straight and to the point; as a matter of fact, the singer that I had is no longer here. We do need someone for tonight."

Sasuke's eyes widened, was he serious? He wondered.

"Let's call tonight a trial run, okay. The band is in the bank, come on I'll introduce you." Gaara turned around, not even seeing if the kid was following him or not.

Sasuke looked at Naruto who smiled and nodded.

He ran to keep up with the red haired owner.


All eyes swung toward the door as the owner and a dark haired man walked through.

"Guys this is Sasuke, he's a singer and I hope he's some good. Tonight will be his trial run. If he's any good then he can stay. Neji show him the songs. You guys only have about 3 hrs until show time." With that he left.

Kiba walked over and dropped a heavy arm around his shoulder, "glad ta meet ya, I'm Kiba, that's Neji and that is Shikamaru. I hope your ass can sing dude."

Neji walked over and handed Sasuke some music and lyrics. "Can you read music?" Seeing a small nod, he smiled, "ok these are the songs that we are doing tonight."

Sasuske looked and saw that there were at leave 5 songs, "I need to learn all of these?" He was so excited.

Nodding, "you think you can handle it?"

Smirking, "yeah."