I am still writing on my other stories don't worry. I will be posting on Curiosity Killed the Kit and Breathe Into me in the next few days. As always, I don't own Naruto and I never will.
'Damn, why the hell did I let my father talk me into this career.' Sasuke thought to himself as he stalked down the hallways of the first floor of the Fire Nation Mental Institution. His father had set up this job since the medical field was a place where the Uchiha hand had not infiltrated. His job here was a RA, until he received his full degree as a Psychiatrist. It was his first day working there and he was already complaining, this was not a good sign. He stopped in front of a door that read Dr. Tsunade, with a sigh he tapped on the door.
"Enter!" came a curt response.
He opened the door. "Ah, mister Uchiha. Welcome." She only looked up briefly before returning to her paperwork. Sasuke bristled, unused to the lack of respect that was normally shown to an Uchiha "Your patient assignments are on the desk. You will be working with the high level patients due to your high credentials and our lack of staff willing to work up there. I will warn you now the patience on S level can be highly dangerous, so proceed with caution when dealing with them personally. Ino will introduce you today, listen to her carefully. She has been working here for about 3 years now and knows the patients you will be working with well. Today you are only here for introductions, you are free to leave after they are made. If you need any help with anything ask either her or myself. You are dismissed." she waved her hand as he grabbed the folders. Sasuke opened the door to the office and stepped out. That had been fairly painless at least. He looked down at the files in his hands, not even glancing at the names before shoving the folders into his black messenger bag.
"You must be Sasuke Uchiha ." A girl with a bright blond ponytail and white lab coat greeted. She met my eyes for a moment before returning her eyes to her folders. "My name is Ino Yamanaka, Tsunade has asked me to show you around. come on, I'm late and haven't had a chance to check in down there yet. Since its lunch lets give you a look at your group." She turned and began walking, again, without looking up to make sure he was following. She stopped at an elevator that was separate from the main one. A small key card reader was placed next to the door. Ino slid her card through it and the large metal doors slid open. She walked into the brightly lit elevator and Sasuke hurried to follow before the heavy doors swooshed shut. He gazed around at the blank walls, bored. When he turned his gaze he was met by blue eyes evaluating him.
"What?" he asked in an irritated tone. The girl simply raised an eyebrow and shoved her clipboard into a small bag at her side.
"Better get ready." the doors slid open revealing a white hallway. Her brisk pace had Sasuke jogging to catch up to her. She suddenly stopped in front of a doorway.
"Good afternoon Gai. How is everyone behaving today?" Ino asked the man in a bright green guard suit. Sasuke gazed at this man with wide eyes. The man had a bowl cut hair cut and very large, bushy eyebrows.
"The spirit of youth is among them today. There has yet to be a problem!" he announced in an over exuberant voice.
"Good," she grinned as he opened the door for her. "This is our newest recruit. Sasuke Uchiha. Mister Uchiha, this is Gai Maito" she stepped through the door as Sasuke gave the guard a nod.
Sasuke didn't know what he was expecting from the best mental facility in the country's highest security patients, but what he found was a room that was eerily quiet. Only a few looked up at the noise of the door opening and the ones that did simply glared.
Ino's eyes swept the room, seemingly confused by the silence and malice. She turned back to look at Gai, "Where's Naruto?" she asked.
Gai's face suddenly turned serious. "His doctor" he practically growled the word, "came to visit."
Ino shuddered then glared. "He still here?" she asked. Gai shook his head. "Alright then, Uchiha, change of plans. Right now isn't the best time to have you meeting this lot. They'll blow if something big happens without the sunshine in the room. We're going to go check on a specific patient. Follow me." she stormed out of the room, expecting him to follow. Sasuke took one last glance at the silent room before quickly following her out. He would never admit it out loud, but the feel of that room terrified him. Ino was halfway down the hall by the time he left the room and he almost had to run to catch up. He noticed she was almost shaking with fury.
She stopped only momentarily at another checkpoint. The guard at this one was almost the mini me of the other one. He could easily see the girl's mood and had the door open before she could even ask. "He left just under an hour ago." the green clad boy informed, closing the door behind them. This door led down into another hall where the patients rooms were.
"What's going on?" he asked.
She glared darkly at him, not offering an answer, as she suddenly stopped. She slid her card into the lock on the door and the electronic locks disengaged. She jerked the door open harshly.
He peered into the room around her as she stepped it. He caught the door as it almost slammed in his face. There was a small, teenage boy with yellow blonde hair laying on the bed. His arms, legs, torso, shoulders, and head were strapped down by restraints. Ino glared at the offending pieces of leather before setting to work on them.
"Is that really safe? I mean there must be a reason he was strapped down like that." Ino's dark glare stopped him from saying anything more.
"This is probably the safest patient to be around in this entire section. If you say one more word about him I promise you you wont have this job tomorrow. " she gave him a final glare before going about checking the blond boy's vitals. "Say it in front of the other patients and you wont be alive tomorrow" the comment was so low that he almost missed it. "Naruto? Naruto, can you hear me?" The boy didn't respond. "Damn it" She pulled out a small cell phone jabbing the numbers on it forcefully, after a second someone on the other end seemed to answer, "Big forehead, you and Hinata need to get your asses down here now. Kabuto decided to pay Naruto a visit again. He's not responding." she clicked the phone shut and huffed angrily as she busied herself around the room.
"Your acting like something happened. Who is this Kabuto guy? And why was that patient tied down if he doesn't need to be?" Sasuke asked. None of this matched the protocol he had been learning at school and he was out of his depth. He fought to keep his cool countenance and stoic expression as the entire conversation exasperated him.
"Because the asshole that runs this place has a disturbing little interest in this sector's little ball of sunshine so he sends the quack that of a pet he calls a doctor down here to play sometimes. And we can't do shit about it because then we'd be fired and then we wouldn't be able to do shit for our patients." she almost yelled.
Sasuke's eyes went wide. momentarily betraying his emotions, how could anything like this be going on?
Suddenly the door burst open a pink haired girl who possibly looked even angrier than Ino burst into the room, followed by a timid looking black haired girl. The pink haired girl pushed him roughly out of the way and he had to bite his tongue to keep from commenting. As she rushed to help the unconscious blonde on the bed.
"S-scuse me." the other girl stutterd as she too pushed past Sasuke.
The pink haired girl began to examine the blonde, making sure to carefully check his vitals. Suddenly she gave a sigh of relief, "He's fine. Looks like what ever they gave him this time was short lived." even as she spoke the tan boy's eyelids flickered open revealing sky blue orbs.
"Ino, Sakura...Hinata?" came a shaky voice. A shaky smile formed on his lips, "What are you lot doing here?" His voice was confused, then recognition dawned in his eyes "What time is it?" he asked, resigned.
Ino visibly relaxed, despite his tone, as Sakura answered him "Its lunch time blondie. Get your ass up before the entire cafeteria throws a fit."
A wavering laugh broke out of the blonde's throat as he slowly began to stand up.
The entire scene was baffling to Sasuke. Had that doctor just cursed at a patient? And the patient was calling all of them by their first names! Not to mention they said something about the cafeteria being in an uproar when it was obviously beyond calm?
Ino and Hinata placed steadying hands on his arms as he stood and began to walk toward the door. The way the boy wobbled had Sasuke's medical training pulling up a red flag.
"Should he be moving?" Sasuke asked the remaining pink haired girl, indicating the staggering blond.
"Who are you?" she asked suspiciously, noticing him for the first time.
"Sasuke Uchiha. I just joined the staff in this sector."
she gave him a suspicious once over before giving him a slight nod finally answering, "If you want to know why we're taking him to lunch in that condition, follow me."
Sasuke hurried to follow her out of the room and after the bright haired boy that was being supported down the hall. When the group of us arrived at the door to the lunch room the blond shook off the two girls, giving them a face splitting grin and a wink.
"Hey Gai, how many laps did you do today?" he greeted the guard.
"5,000" he said proudly.
"So, 7,500 tomorrow?" asked in an enthusiastic voice. He displayed none of the vulnerability that he had been showing on the walk from the room.
"Of course! In the name of glorious youth!" The man threw the lunch room door open to reveal the silent room.
"Shit guys, who died in here?" the blonde walked confidently into the room with a blazing grin. Sasuke could only watch in shock as the tense atmosphere of the room disappeared immediately at the blonde's entrance.
"That's why." The pink haired girl nodded toward the room where the babble of quiet conversation had started to emanate. "That's how its been forever. He's the savior of this ward. And he isn't even a doctor." Sasuke watched in shock as the pink haired girl and the black haired girl disappeared down the hall, toward the elevator.
"Alright mister Uchiha, let's see who's files you have been given." the voice brought Sasuke out of his thoughts. Ino held out her hand for his files. Sasuke dug them from his bag and handed them over. "Let's see...Neji...Kiba...Gaara...Haku...Shino...Tenten...Shikamaru...Chouji...Sai...It seems you have Naruto's group." she laughed. "Well, let's go introduce you." she grinned, closing the files, handing them back to him, and making her way confidently across the room before he could ask what she meant about it being Naruto's Group.
"Hello Guys!" she greeted, walking up to the table where the blonde from before now occupied. He had a large bowl of ramen in front of him that he was eating greedily.
"Hey Ino!" Naruto immediately greeted, mouth full. "Who's the new guy with a stick shoved up his ass?" Sasuke blinked in shock, he knew the air he gave off was completely bastardly but no one he had just met had ever had the balls to say so. After all he WAS an Uchiha.
"Naruto!" Ino reprimanded. He received a light clout on the head from a brunette that had been sitting with his head in his arms.
"Hey! What'd you do that for Shika!" the blonde protested.
"Troublesome." the brunette muttered before placing his head back into his folded arms and seemingly fell asleep.
"This is the new RA for you lot. Sasuke Uchiha. Uchiha, this is, Gaara," she pointed to the redhead with dark circles under his eyes and a glare to match Sasuke's. He sat protectively close to the blonde as he examined Sasuke. "Kiba" she nodded to the boy that sat across from the blonde. His hair was unruly as it fell around his face but what was most unusual about it was the fact that he had a dog on his lap, "and yes he's allowed to have the dog. Shikamaru is the one that's passed out." despite the claim that he was asleep the boy waved a hand in greeting. "And beside him is Chouji."
"Hey." Chouji greeted through a mouth full of food.
"Shino" Ino pointed to the black haired boy with dark sunglasses and a coat that hid most of his pale face.
The boy raised an eyebrow at Sasuke but didn't make any other movement of greeting.
"That's Sai." she pointed to the other boy that sat next to the blonde. Sai's black eyes glared mistrusting at him. But he gave a nod of greeting before putting on a horrifyingly fake smile. "Neji." Ino pointed at a long haired boy that looked surprisingly similar to the shy nurse from before. "Tenten and Haku." Sasuke gazed at what he guessed to be the female members of the group who were just sitting down.
"He the new assignment?" Tenten asked.
"Seems like" Sai answered.
"And that's your group!" Ino concluded.
Sai rolled his eyes before turning his back on the pair of RA's.
"Come on, let's let them eat." Ino led Sasuke back to the door. "Alright, rules of S Section, don't hurt Naruto, that is the biggest. I promise you that you wont leave here alive if you do not follow that rule. Now, patients that you should steer clear of for now..." Ino's eyes wandered over the room, "The group that are in the black and red over there, they are the ones with the most easily triggered tempers. So just avoid them for now. As far as your group goes...." She turned and began walking out the door. Sasuke followed her automatically, now used to her suddenly speeding off, "None of them have too much control over their tempers and almost all of them have had training in martial arts. That can be a bad combination as you can guess and thus that is why they are all the way up here. Some are easier to trigger than others though, Sai and Gaara are the most violent of the bunch. Beware of their tempers. Tenten, she has a rather large temper too, but not quite as violent. Sai also has a rather sick sense of humor he likes to use to mess with people's heads and provoke them. Don't take it to heart. I wouldn't expect Gaara to talk much... If ever, the only one he talks to is Naruto. Haku, he's a boy by the way not a girl, is more into self mutilation so again, be wary of that. Kiba is as much a dog as the pooch that's always with him, but that's his only major quirk for the most part. Chouji...don't call him fat...just don't, unless you have a distinct death wish. Shino is a bit...odd. He is like Gaara in the fact that he won't talk, but he really isn't violent...unless you hurt his bugs or Naruto. Shikamaru is just plain lazy. He could get out of this sector in a heartbeat if he would take the damn tests to do so. The only thing that will get him off his ass or pissed is threatening his friends. Neji shouldn't be too much of a problem either. All he has major depression and a severe control complex However he does have a thing for proving his strength. That can get dangerous so beware of that. Working with this lot in particular means that Naruto will almost always be nearby. He is this sectors sunshine. You will see soon enough."
"I have a question about that...He seems more like a doctor than a patient, what is he even here for? And if I have ther rest of their little groups files, why don't I have his" Sasuke asked hesitantly.
She nodded, "He really doesn't have a personal RA besides me. The damn owner makes sure he never has more than one so that fucker Kabuto can slip in here without a problem. No one knows exactly where he came from. He's been here as long as this place has been open, which is about 13 years, meaning, he was brought in hear at the age of 3. He has no real memory of anything before that." her gaze was sad as she paced up the blank hallway. "Its amazing he hasn't developed a disorder with how long he's been in this sector. We can't release him because, one, his files don't exist. Any time they're typed and put into the system they are immediately deleted. Anyone who tries to get him moved up or released is immediately fired."
"Why haven't you reported this to the cops then?" Sasuke asked in exasperation.
"Anyone who tries that just disappears." she barely whispered.
"So, what do you think of the new guy?" Naruto asked the now silent group.
Gaara simply raised an eyebrow at him before returning to his glaring at anyone who dared get within ten feet of his blonde.
"I think you were right, dickless, about the stick up his ass...but normally people with that problem are in better moods." Sai observed with a waggle of his eyebrows.
Naruto rolled his eyes and waited for the others to give their evaluations.
"Troublesome." Shikamaru reported.
"Akamaru says he smells extremely clean...like a rich kid." Kiba grumbled.
"I don't think he's going to last long." Tenten laughed, "he's too sane to survive down here."
"Fate has definitely dealt him a strange hand for him to end up all the way up here." Neji nodded in agreement.
Shino simply shrugged, not deeming the question worthy of an answer.
"He's too skinny." Complained Chouji.
"Haku," Naruto prompted, gently touching the beautiful boy's elbow. "You ok?"
"I don't trust him." Haku answered.
"Naruto," Gaara spoke up for the first time since Naruto had sat down, "Kabuto came again today didn't he?" there was a dark threat in his voice.
Naruto sighed deeply, not liking where he knew the conversation would go. It would upset his friends into their unstable states and then they would most likely kick the shit out of anyone who crossed him.
"Yes, I'm curious about that too Naruto, un." Naruto looked up to see the members of the most dangerous group in the ward surrounding him. Despite most of the other patients fear of the group known as the Akastuski, most had been at the mental institution in this ward for only a small amount of time less than Naruto himself. The group had practically raised him and were VERY protective.
Naruto grinned sheepishly, knowing he wouldn't be able to get out of this one. "Yeah." The entire group around him tensed in anger. "But I'm ok guys, really. I've been dealing with this forever." he attempted to wave of their concern.
The Akatsuki shared a look before returning way to calmly to their seat. A flair of anxiety clenched at his chest as he watched the menacing look pass through their hard masks. 'Just great...their pissed.' naruto thought.
Exhaustion from the drugging along with stress began to overwhelm him as he lay his head on his arms.
"Naruto, let's get you to your room, ok?" Ino's gentle hand was lain on his back, but he was already asleep. She took one look at the group of his friends around him and sighed in defeat. She knew better than to separate Naruto from his over protective friends when they were like this. It would cause more damage then good and would put the patients in foul moods for their doctors the entire rest of the day. "We'll go to the group room." she told the group. She stepped back as Gaara stood, lifting Naruto into his arms and following after her. This was how it was every time. Kabuto would come up here and then his friends wouldn't let him out of their sight for days. One of them or an Akatsuki member was with him at all times.
She led the way to a large room that was only used by this group.
The large room used to be a lounge but it was now like a dorm room. It had 10 beds in it and a bookshelf of approved items for this specific group. Once inside the group set upon their normal routine. Gaara set Naruto gently onto one of the beds before taking up a meditative pose on the one next to it. Sai took out a sketch pad with a charcoal crayon from the shelves before sitting on the other bed next to the sleeping blonde. The others settled onto their individual beds and Ino nodded in approval before heading out to retrieve their various items that were kept in their individual rooms that they would want.
Alright, that's it for chapter one. I hope you enjoyed it. Press the pretty green button for more.