It had started with flyers. Printed in lime green and yellow, proclaiming an amazing underground band would be playing at his favorite bar. Technically, Naruto Uzumaki shouldn't be able to get in bars let alone have a favorite but the owner was a close friend if his who used to take care of him when he was younger. So, she let him in free. She knew he wouldn't do anything stupid 'cause hey, the kid could drink! It wasn't like he had any parents to scold him. Naruto had been an orphan for as long as he could remember.

Naruto sat down at the bar, absently averting his attention to the stage where this mystery band was supposed to be performing. His blue eyes grazed over the small crowd of people who were waiting expectantly for the music to begin. He heard over the low murmur of the crowd a man about his age say in an unbearably bored tone, "Shit. I forgot my lighter, how troublesome."

It was then that Naruto noticed the woman sitting a few seats down from him. She rose languidly from her barstool a seemed to glide over to where the forgetful guy was seated. Her hair was so blonde that it looked silver and it was pulled up in a messy bun at the back of her head. Her bangs hung loosely, framing her angular face. She sat down silently next to the forgetful guy and lit his cigarette with a lighter that seemed to just appear in her hand out of nowhere. She flicked the cap closed with long white fingers, her black nails glinted in the dim light.

It was strange to Naruto. He had known all of his pubescent life that he was bi-sexual but never before had he been more mesmerized by anyone, man or woman. She had the…aura, this presence that simply commanded attention. He could see it in the forgetful man's face that he was just as hypnotized by this woman. He stammered a shaky thanks as she rose fluidly, as graceful as air. He stared after her, his newly lit cigarette hanging from his bottom lip.

Naruto, unable to look away, simply gawked at her as she returned to her seat at the bar. The bartender rolled his eyes at Naruto's behavior, as if he were used to people acting this way around this woman, as if this woman was a regular. But Naruto had never seen her at the bar before. And he stopped in almost every other day.

As she sat down she turned her head almost curiously to look at the ogling blonde across from her. She let a polite smile grace her features and she nodded a silently greeting, acknowledging his Naruto's presence. Still to mesmerized to word a return greeting, but not wanting to be rude he smiled awkwardly and shakily nodded back. He then noticed her eyes. Her right eye was midnight black and the other was sparkling amber. Now Naruto was sure that this woman couldn't be a regular. How could he not remember those eyes, that aura?

The strange and beautiful woman turned back to face the stage with fixated passive eyes. Naruto could see her cheek rise in what seemed to be a knowing smirk. A resonating chord echoed through the small venue and Naruto was jostled back to reality. The band had appeared on stage as suddenly and silently as the woman had appeared in Naruto's world. No one, he thought could be as compelling and gorgeous as the mysterious entity that sat two seats away from him. How wrong he was.

On to the stage walked a man, no more than 21 and…glowing. Like the woman, this man emitted light and beauty and grace and mystery, everything that turned Naruto on. What was even better was that as soon as this man walked onto the stage he went straight for the microphone. He was lead singer! Naruto suddenly felt like a squealing fan girl inside. He desperately tried to cover up the urge to jump up and down squealing about how H O T this guy was. Some how, he got the feeling that the strange woman could see everything he was feeling, for her smirk grew more and more pronounced, though she never broke her stare at the singer.

Naruto didn't really realize that there was a band playing behind the singer, he was completely adsorbed in him. In his every movement, the way he caressed the mike, the way his lips moved when the glorious music poured like sweet syrup from his mouth.

"Uchiha."

"What?" Naruto's hypnotized eyes involuntarily moved from the singer and landed on the owner of the voice that had broken his daydreams. It was the woman. Naruto hadn't even realized that she had lit a cigarette and it dangled precariously from her scarlet lips, though her voice was flawless, almost as beautiful as the singer's.

"That guy's name is Uchiha. You know, the singer? That's Sasuke Uchiha."

"Oh, right." Naruto cleared his throat and went back to gazing at Sasuke. His jet black hair glimmered in the dim lights of the bar, his ivory skin was smooth and flawless, his amber eyes peered passionate­– Wait! Amber eyes? Naruto stole a quick glance back at the fair-haired woman. He could just see her amber eye glinting with the same intensity as Sasuke's. Was that what made them so similar? Are they related? Well, she did know Sasuke's name.

"Excuse me," Naruto tentatively spoke towards the woman, "If you don't mind or anything, what's your name?" He didn't want to sound rude in front of the woman who radiated something close to royalty.

"Ah," she replied musically, "My name is Sera Motoko."

Damn! Thought Naruto. He had been wrong about her. But there was something similar between Sera and Sasuke, something more than just their eye color, and Naruto was determined to find out what.

Just at that moment, the song Sasuke's band had been playing stopped, and for the briefest of moments Sasuke's amber eyes met Sera mismatched ones. Sera nodded to something no one heard and only Naruto noticed. She took one long, final drag on her cigarette before dousing it in an ashtray. She then rose and left the bar silently without a word of goodbye to anyone. And then Sasuke smirked. It was so quick and so subtle Naruto wasn't sure he'd even seen it. No one else noticed he was sure, but he was also sure that sadly, no one was as blisteringly aware of the beautiful boy as he was.