A/N: Oo I've been thinking about this idea for a while, so I'm going to experiment with an opening chapter. Tell me if you think I should continue or not.

WARNINGS: shounen-ai most definitely. Mild langue and touchy-subjects

SasuNaru

Locked up with You

Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto.

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It's kind of painful to see another person enter the unit. Another after another, people going, people coming, and people who have been discharged being brought back.

You have Sasuke Uchiha for example, who was discharged, but refused to think anything was wrong with him and stopped taking medication. He was brought back.

You have people like Kiba Inuzuka, who refuses to leave because he doesn't have anywhere to go but the nursing home.

Gaara Sabaku, who has spent years making his way from the more intense units to this one.

Neji Hyuuga, a complicated case who isn't actually aloud back home, doesn't really want to go back, and might well make things worse if he does.

And then of course, you have the newbie, like Naruto Uzumaki, who doesn't have a clue what's going on. I can't imagine his first impression was very good.

I'm Shikamaru Nara, a nurse who helps out here and there. I'm also a smoker, so I supervise the smoke breaks that we have every hour on the hour. Other smokers like to complain to me that they don't get enough time and, while I feel their pain, I can do jack about it.

The reason I'm here is mainly because my best friend, Chouji, told me I'd be a good addition. I'm not so sure about this theory, and sometimes people here just scare the shit out of me, but I manage…somehow.

It's the fighting that get to me, and having to tell people that they're going back up to the nasty ward. Though, last time I did that someone spat in my face and told me he already was in the nasty ward. I didn't miss the quick, hateful look he shot Sasuke.

Let me go a bit more in depth about the illnesses. Sasuke, unfortunately, really didn't cause too much harm. He killed his brother, who had killed the rest of the family, and now Sasuke's the only one left. I think it's a bit of a family trait seeing as the whole clan wasn't really right in the head, but what can you do? The boy constantly asks to visit his brother's gave, and has a tendency to try punch the person who says no. I've learnt to block them though, so he generally comes to me to give me a black eye, because then he doesn't get in trouble.

I never really got told what was wrong with Kiba. Someone told me he talks to animals, but I know people who talk to plants to try make them grow. His mother and sister left the country and he stayed here with his pet which I stupidly offered to look after. It took me a month to house train it, with pointers from Kiba. Whenever he has leave, he comes round and walks his dog, with me supervising of course.

The complicatedness of Neji Hyuuga is that he's meant to be perfect. And, in all honesty, he is. Minus the part where he talks to himself. Constantly, which is kind of annoying. He hates his family, like many people, and tried to kill his cousins. Luckily he failed, I've talked to one of them and she seems very nice and forgiving, though when she visits Neji they don't talk. He just ignores her, and whoever's supervising talks to her instead. I found that, sometimes, this isn't a good thing. When Neji's in a really bad mood, the best thing is to keep things as silent as possible…just trust me on that one.

Then we have, of course, the schizophrenic that is known as Gaara. He's worked his way from being a homicidal killer who managed to get ride of his aunt, uncle and dad, to the mute who sits in the corner and reads. He's not really mute, he just doesn't talk. Though, I've learnt how to understand what he's trying to say without words. When he gives me the book I got out for him back, it means he wants another by the end of the day. When he actually looks at you when you ask him to come to lunch or go to bed, it means he's not going to eat or sleep.

When Naruto walked through those doors with Sakura, another nurse, his bright blue eyes were the first thing I noticed. The golden blond locks, the tanned face, the whisker-like scars on his cheeks, the pure look off innocence he radiated…he wasn't going to last a minute in this dump. I can tell you that.

Sakura motioned for me to come over and I growled, but did none the less muttering a small 'troublesome' under my breath. I raised my hand to the kid and he shook it with a winning grin.

"I'm Nara Shikamaru, welcome aboard."

"Uzumaki Naruto, it's nice to be here…"

Whether he was going to last or not, I liked him already.

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Kitty: Oo; meh. This has some-sort of plot I guess … the intro. I decided to write it in Shikamaru's pov. Because it would be easier to explain the situation, but it's going to be Naruto-centric from here on out.

R+R please?!

Pairings are vote-able…hinthint XD

Ja ne

Kitty

Preview –

"I'm Naruto!"

"Hmm…"

"What you reading?"

"Oi, you two, lunch is ready."

"You coming?"

"…sure."