Naruto was walking in the ninja town square…

He looked down and found a scroll with blood on it…

"Fuck," said Naruto, "someone's fucking hurt."

Taking the High Road

Chapter I - NYC Blues

(AN: I really hope you guys enjoy this; this is my fifth fanfic, and I believe I'm starting to get good at this. I'm a huge closet fanfic-writer, so this will probably be the last one I write. I'm sorry if I had any OOCness, I tried to keep it to a minimum. I want to thank the very few people who inspired me through this: Tomahawk Panda, Tazmo, Ultimate Keyblade Master, one piss, Football Black Belt, KimikoUzumakiNamikaze, Tryhardtoscopeme, and NarutoFan79)

Naruto slowly opened his eyes and looked to his right and found Sakura still sleeping soundly. He could hear the violent sound of cars and screaming outside. Naruto sighed and complained, "just another day in New York City." Naruto got up and began to look out the window, half nude.

Sakura slowly awoke to the biggest ass-scratching she had ever seen her life and ducked under the covers. "Naruto, you god damn jackass!" she exclaimed.

Naruto looked back to see Sakura lying on the bed, her top almost falling off. He couldn't bare to look at her chest, her man-like chest just made Naruto sick. How could she even be a woman? Naruto then looked over at the bra that he had gotten her last year for her birthday. It was four-sizes-too-large. He couldn't wait for her upcoming birthday-May 17th- which is three days away. Naruto put on some nice Levi jeans and a t-shirt with a fucking gigantic stain of coffee on it and walked out. Naruto found Sasuke smoking a joint with his toes and playing Pacman on the couch. Naruto walked over to the mini-fridge where they store the beer and eggs. "Sasuke, did you eat the last egg?"

Sasuke was too occupied with his weed and Pacman to talk so he gestured his head towards the broken eggshell on the floor in front of him.

Naruto was furious with what Sasuke had done; he had promised Naruto that he wasn't going to suck the last egg. Naruto stomped over to Sasuke and took the Pacman controller away from him and stomped on it with his bare foot. This wasn't the first time Naruto had done this-and Sasuke was prepared-the dagger that Sasuke had concealed in the game controller stabbed Naruto in the foot. Naruto screamed and then walked over to the jukebox and put on "Sail" by Awolnation.

Sakura finally came out of her room and turned up the bass on the speakers so she could get in the mood for going to work. Sakura's parents were abducted by the government when she was two years old and she was forced to live alone for ten years. She decided to dye her hair pink and become a metal rockstar, but when that failed, she moved to New York with Naruto, Sasuke, and Kakashi. She later married Kakashi but lost interest in him so she left him to die in the sewers when the police were chasing them after stealing a car earlier that day. Kakashi was never seen again.

Sakura started to break-dance to the amazing song but accidently cut her arm on the table that supported the jukebox and speakers. After that, she picked up her iPod Nano and the Beats that Sasuke got her last year. Scrolling through her one-thousand and five-hundred fifty songs, she noticed something odd. The song, "DMX - Where the Hood At", was on her iPod when she never downloaded it. She then looked over at Sasuke, who was lying head back and staring into space as the marijuana was working its way through his system.

"What's wrong, Sakura?" asked Naruto and Kakashi at the same time.

Sakura jumped at Kakashi's voice and she looked towards the entrance to the apartment. There stood a man with tattoos on both of his arms and his head shaved completely (his normal look).

"What? Do you not even recognise your old… friend?" Kakashi's voice was filled with spite, and Sasuke was getting a major, negative vibe from it.

Sasuke dropped his bong and joint to the ground and it lit the couch on fire. He then rushed over to the kitchen (to his best ability) and grabbed a handful of knives. "Get the fucking-mother-hell out, you criminal!" he shouted at Kakashi.

Kakashi left the apartment room.

Sakura leaned over and looked at the clock in the kitchen: "oh damn, I'm going to be late!" she exclaimed. Sakura works at Hard Rock Cafe; working there is a way to stick with her broken dreams of becoming a famous rock-popstar. Sakura then began to cry in mourn of her destroyed dreams. "Don't look at me! I'm ugly!" she yelled at everyone in the room.

Everyone then walked away from the crying Sakura, knowing that she'll get over her being ugly in a bit.

Naruto then walked over to the Xbox One with Sasuke. He squatted down in a position where his hot ass was shining towards Sakura. This, normally, cheered her up. He leaned down and inserted Call of Duty: Ghosts into the slot and took a hit of Sakura's weed. "Holy fuck, man; this is some heavy shi-" Naruto dropped the controller and leaned back onto the couch with Sasuke. The world began to spin as the marijuana poisoning set in. Naruto slipped into another world.

Sakura saw this as the perfect chance to slit her wrists. She rushed towards the bin of knives in the kitchen and pulled out three knives and slit both of her legs. After that, she opened the cabinet above her and pulled out the rubbing alcohol. She began to pour the entire bottle into the open wound to pleasure herself. She moaned loudly as the burning liquid showered the laceration. Sakura then looked down at the pool of blood below her and moaned again. The empty bottle fell to the floor as Sakura blacked out from a lack of blood.