Sai here!

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Welcome to this installment of Speechless! Sorry for submitting this kinda late (?)

Anyway, I last submitted my story in July so I'm due for another chapter in soon. So, what better time to submit it than early? Or at least I hope it's early! October is in a few days, so that means that my next chapter should be in sometime in January. Or sooner! Who knows!

Warning: Swear words, average stuff you'd expect in a T rated story. VIOLENCE IN THIS CHAPTER!!!!

Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto. ::cry::

So…picking up where we left off…

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Oh dear lord…Please, please, please!" The man looked up to the sky and prayed "HELP.ME. OUT!"

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Naruto heard heavy footsteps behind him, and turned his head around slowly to see who it was. A muscular man wielding a knife was standing behind him, with a malicious gleam in his eye. Naruto stopped breathing for a second.

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The man advanced. Naruto began to sweat. I knew I shouldn't have stayed out so late. Naruto mentally cursed himself.

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The man took another step forward, and Naruto ran.

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"Punk!" The man yelled and began running after the blonde.

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Naruto continued to run, faster than he'd ever run before. He could hear the man running after him. The mans footsteps seemed to be getting closer as Naruto led the chase over cracked sidewalks covered in broken glass bottles.

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" Slow down!" The man heaved; he was getting tired. Naruto took in a cold lungful of smoky air. He only had to run a little bit more. Just a little bit and he'd be out of harms way. That psycho would get tired and find some other helpless victim to get his pleasures from.

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Naruto didn't care who that man ended up getting in the end, he just positive he wasn't going to be a dying bloody heap this night.

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And sure enough, the footsteps behind him slowed down and he could hear the man panting from behind him. So, Naruto stopped and tuned around. When his eyesight focused and he was sure the man was wheezing and tired, he smiled..

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"Haha! No one can catch Uzumaki Naruto!" he yelled from the other side of the sidewalk.

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"Little… :wheeze: … Bitch… :cough:" the man choked out. Then he looked up and let out a slow chuckle. Naruto just stared, confused. At this, the chuckle of the man grew steadily into an awful cackle. T his made Naruto angry.

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"What's so funny!?" Naruto's brows furrowed and a scowl placed itself on his tan features. The man just kept on laughing, and laughing. Like something the blonde man did was the funniest thing on the face of the earth.

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"Hey! Hey! I asked ya somethin'!" Naruto's once cocky voice turned into an angered shout "What's so fuckin' fu--!?"

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Naruto gasped for air as an arm behind him hooked around his neck and squeezed. In a sad attempt to free himself, Naruto whipped his head back and grabbed onto the chocking arm of his attacker and tried to pry it away from his slim neck. When resistance was noted the arm squeezed tighter. Strangled noises escaped form Naruto's throat as he flailed his legs wildly.

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"Where's your wallet!" his attacker muttered to his victim. Naruto closed his mouth and shook his head violently.

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Fabulous, I'm going to die young AND poor! Just my cup of coffee, isn't it?

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"You wanna live, bitch?" the man began to lift Naruto off of the ground and squeeze the arm around his neck. "Huh? You wanna live? Tell me where you're wallet is!"

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Naruto's sweat poured from his temples and down the side of his face. He opened his mouth and swallowed sharply through his mouth to grasp what air he could push down his trachea into his lungs.

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"Put me down first, dumb ass…" Naruto managed to croak out. His attacker gave one last squeeze before dropping Naruto down to the ground onto several glass shards. Naruto took one heavy breath in and wheezed while grabbing his previously abused throat. The air rushing down his throat was almost painful. The familiar air burned his insides. Naruto coughed some, causing his throat muscles to become even more agitated.

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"I put you down, now tell me where the money is!" Naruto glared at his attacker. Red eyes and dilated pupils stared down at him. He was obviously a drug attic and needed the money so he could get high. Naruto coughed a again.

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"Back pocket…" Naruto struggled to get the words out of his mouth. He could feel the man towering above him mood change from nervous to calm. The man bent down and reached into Naruto's back pocket while he launched into another fit of coughing. Naruto grimaced. The gangster was in for a pleasant surprise.

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As the man fingered through Naruto's I.D and spare receipts he went from smug to outraged.

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"You ain't got no money?" The man yelled. Naruto shook.

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He looked up and smiled. "Not a penny to my name."

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The man's fist clenched with fury. Then within an instant Naruto was forcefully kicked to the ground and pounded upon. A few punches landed on the blonde man's already scarred cheek. Naruto just curled up and took the punches. What else could he do?

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After what seemed like a good ten minutes, his attacker stood up and proceeded to kick Naruto in the rib cage. Naruto grunted as each kick came harder than before. The man didn't seem to want to give up. When blood spurted up put of Naruto's mouth, he knew his attacker had broken a rib.

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Consciousness was drifting away from Naruto. Every kick seemed to send Naruto farther and farther away from the waking world.

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Kick.

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Kick.

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Blood.

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Kick.

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Blood.

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I'm dying aren't I?

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Kick.

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Really hard kick.

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More blood.

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Then, the kicking stopped. Naruto could faintly hear an exchange of voices and hurried footsteps away. He could feel himself being gently shaken. Someone was speaking to him? Softly speaking…Then…he was being carried away…and after that his eyes slowly closed and the dim cruel world surrounding him faded into black. The last thing Naruto heard was that awful laughing vanishing along with the scenery around him.

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"Honestly," a deep mature voice spoke "Who walks around Brooklyn at night?"

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"I don't know…that idiot?" the indifferent speaker motioned towards the door with the emergency sign a light over the frame"

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"Sasuke, if we don't go soon we're going to be late for the dinner" the older man spoke.

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Sasuke snorted, "I could care less about that prissy dinner."

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"Seriously, who goes to a party where all people do is brag about how rich they are to other rich people. I swear…" Sasuke rolled his eyes at the mere thought. "Itachi, why do you make me go to those things?"

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"To convince people that you haven't completely isolated yourself from the public eye." Itachi chuckled "Even though I know that's what you want to do."

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"Che. I'd happily isolate myself from the face of the planet if I had a choice" Sasuke glared at a nurse who was ogling him from behind the service desk.

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"I'm sure you would, Sasuke" said the wise older brother "But, after all this time you've been in this…profession… you have no other career choices. Everyone already knows who you are, so no matter what you did or where you'd go you would have to sign autographs and be in the public eye."

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Sasuke sighed. What Itachi said was true. Now that he's a familiar face in the entertainment industry no one would ever forget him. They'd probably still remember him long after he died…Or?...

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"If I died would people cut the fan crap?" Sasuke asked himself out loud.

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"Probably not," Itachi replied "They'd all either kill themselves to be with you after death or hang out around your grave till you rose from the dead."

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A small smirk tugged on Sasuke's full lips. He could actually image thousands of people crowding around his grave.

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"When I die, cremate me." Sasuke said dryly "Cremate me and dump my ashes in the middle of an ocean."

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"Why?"

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"That way if people want to find my remains they can have a wonderful time drowning during the process."

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Itachi let out a sound of amusement. Then lifted his head as a nurse parked herself in front of the Uchiha brothers.

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"Can we help you?" The older Uchiha politely questioned.

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"Oh…em…ahh…you're friend….?" The nurse had obvious trouble saying words she had been so used to saying to the average person.

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"Yes…" Sasuke prompted her, slightly annoyed.

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"Oh! Ah…he's broken 3 ribs and has a small fracture to his skull…" She gently said.

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"When will he be waking up?" Itachi asked.

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"He should be waking up in a day or two…" she answered.

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"Ah yes…Thank you" Sasuke tried to dimiss her as quickly as possible "We'll be paying for his medical bills."

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The nurse stared at him. Her eyes grew large and her cheeks became flushed.

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Like, oh em gee! Can I have your autograph Sasuke-sama?!? Sasuke knew she was going to ask.

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"Can I have your—" the nurse started, but was cut off when Itachi waved his hand in front of her to silence her.

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"We'll be taking to the bill, now." Itachi said with polite impatience.

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"Oh yes…" The nurse sulked away.

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As this conversing was going on, a heavy lidded Naruto lay in a hospital bed. Dozing off the medications he had taken.

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TO BE CONTINUED

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