Sasuke's P.O.V.
"Clear." The guards said as they left the room. There I was, sweating on the floor of the prison, overdosing. I have no idea what those pills were. I know I've never had them before, so to take three… I'm going to die of an overdose, right here on the ground. As soon as the guards left, I tried to get up, but I couldn't, my body was shutting down. It was getting harder and harder to breathe.
"I need to throw up." Everything was becoming hazy. I felt Jirobo pick me up and lift my chin.
"You can't go puke, they'll know you swallowed something, drug test you on the spot then you'll spend the rest of your days in the SHU, do you really want that?
"Better than…dying…" My speech was becoming slurred and I was getting really confused. Nothing is making any sense.
"You can't go to the medic, not yet. Wait til dinner, say you ate a bad piece of bologna then they'll pump your stomach."
"Dinner isn't for three hours Jirobo." Ukon said.
"He's gonna die long before then, we have to tell someone." Dosu said.
"We just got the shots off our records for the last time they found drugs in here, you really want us all to go down for something the jinjuriki did?"
"Your terrible leadership is going to get this kid killed. If Sakon was here we would have thought of something better than having him swallow them." Dosu said wrapping his arm around me and taking me down the blocks.
"Well Sakon isn't here, he got transferred remember?" He called.
"Wwwhere are… wwe…. ggoing?" I mumbled, losing consciousness.
"Just shut up and let me help you." He said stuffing me into the bathroom down the hall. He dragged me to the toilet and sat me on the dirty ground. "Open your mouth." He said shoving his fingers down my throat. "God, where is your gag reflex, come on work with me Sasuke." He said getting on his knees with me, pushing me over the toilet.
"I don't think… I have one anymore." I said weakly, losing consciousness.
"Come on, just puke." He shoved his fingers down my throat again this time they went in really far, I felt myself choke then vomit run out of my mouth. "Come on, you have to puke up more than that." He shoved them down again. This time I emptied my stomach as he patted me on the back. I looked in the toilet and saw two half digested pills.
"That's gonna have to be enough." He slung me back over his shoulder and washed my mouth out. I'm not really sure how the next few hours went. There were flashes, guards yelling at me… the bell saying dinner was closed, then me waking up in my bunk when the morning alarm went off. I feel like shit. What the hell did I swallow? I opened my eyes to see the musicians looking at me. I was laying in a pool of sweat, my body just melted into the paper-thin mattress, I had no control over my body.
"Well… he's alive."
"That's not gonna help him when the guards decide to drug test him today."
"He wasn't going to pass regardless."
"Hell he hasn't passed one since he's been here."
"What's happening?" I asked still groggy.
"Well as far as the guards know, you had the stomach flu and missed dinner because of it. What little time it bought you, you better hope those drugs made their way out of your system by now." I tried to get out of the bed but still couldn't move, like my body had been paralyzed. That was the worst high I've ever had in my life. It literally knocked me on my ass. I should have died right then and there. How the hell did I survive an overdose like that? I might be an addict but I've never pushed it that far. Who was trying to kill me with those pills? Hidan? No, no way he was smart enough to think of that. Not in his lifetime. Leave pills knowing there was an inspection about to happen so I'd have no choice but to take them… No, this was not Hidan's master plan.
With all the strength I could muster I got out of bed and made my way to the restroom. I threw up. Several times until it was just painful dry heaving. I brushed the hair out of my face and stood in line to shower. Hidan was eyeing me suspiciously but didn't say anything. I moved up in line and the next open shower was right next to Hidan. I didn't say anything and stepped in the barely above room temperature water. I started washing myself and Hidan stepped behind me, grabbing my ass dangerously.
"Enjoy your night rat?"
"I'm still standing aren't I?" I said maneuvering around him and sizing him up. Maybe I was still high, or maybe I was finally just growing a spine, but I was so sick of him treating me like shit.
"Next time you won't be, your days are numbered slut." He said leaving. I glared at him and finished washing myself off. I got out of the shower and went to work at the library. I can't believe that happened. I can't believe that I swallowed pills I didn't know about and was forced to almost die rather than going to the medical ward. How the hell did I survive that? Oh my god. I walked past Officer Guy and went into the library, putting up the books that were turned in yesterday. When I got to the back corner of the library Yagura stepped down the row. Why the hell is he in here so much?
"Enjoy your hot shot?" He asked, not looking at me and looking through a book.
"I knew Hidan was too dumb to think of that."
"He's great for muscle but not much else." He mused.
"How'd you get the guards to do a bunk check the second I found them?"
"I don't know if you've noticed, but I run this place. Wasn't nearly as hard as you think."
"What did you give me?"
"You'll find out soon enough." He said putting the book back and walking out of the library. I wiped my hand behind my neck; I was sweating like a pig. I'm not even fully down from that high and my body is already craving more. I can't get hooked on this whole new drug while I'm in prison. I'm already struggling with sobriety from the coke. This is just too much. As I wiped the sweat from my forehead Officer Yamato walked up to me.
"Uchiha, come with me." Oh no. All I could do was follow him and he lead me up to the medical ward. So first Yagura hot shots me now he's getting me drug tested too. Motherfucker. I'm done. I'm dead. I am never getting out of prison. It's over.
"Positive for fentanyl." Ino said, I could feel her anger at me, but there was noting I could do. Fentanyl? That's… serious… they were trying to kill me. Really trying to kill me.
"Well Mr. Uchiha, that's gonna earn you a trip to the SHU. Wanna tell me how you got the drugs? Make your stay a little shorter?" Yamato said, cuffing me. If I say anything, I will be killed when I get out. No matter how much this wasn't my fault. Fentanyl really? That's some hardcore shit. How the hell did they get that in here? I didn't say anything and Yamato took me to the SHU. The secure housing unit. It's a box. No windows, one door, a toilet and a beyond beat up bed. That was it. No human communication whatsoever. They locked me up in there, made me put my hands through a slit in the door to take the cuffs off, then left me. A bed and a toilet. Nothing else. Nothing. I'm going to go crazy in here, absolutely insane. I can't believe this is happening.
Naruto's P.O.V.
"Hello?"
"Mayor Uzumaki, you have a delivery."
"Oh thanks yeah just send them up." A few minutes later two moving guys came into my office followed by a crossed armed Shikamaru.
"What's all this?" He asked, "Planning on living here now?"
"It's just temporary. I can't leave Mikoshina with Jiraiya anymore, he is not a reliable babysitter. I said as I helped the guys set up the crib. I tipped them and they left, but Shikamaru wasn't impressed.
"I think your avoiding that house. Ever since you left my bachelors party freaking early, you haven't been going home as much. Your mom called me, said you and Miko spend the past week at her house."
"Please stop keeping tabs on me, I'm fine."
"Are you?"
"Yes."
"Maybe you should just sell your house, get a nice apartment you can actually afford."
"Jiraiya's covering most of the rent, it's fine. I'll be fine."
"Yeah sure." He sat down in front of my desk and we got some work done. At about five my mom brought Mikoshina to the office. She was good most of the evening, hanging out in her crib and playing. She got a little fussy around seven, but everyone was out of the office by then so it really didn't bother anyone. I fed her sweet potatoes for dinner then about half an hour later changed her diaper. As I was walking back to my office, I noticed Neji's door was still open and his light was still on. I walked past it to get to my office and he was still here.
"Oh Naruto, you're still here? A little late isn't it?" I couldn't bring myself to go home.
"I'm just catching up on some things before the wedding this weekend." Mikoshina shifted uncomfortably in my arms. "What are you still doing here?"
"I just got a request for a speech from one of our leaf senators, I figured you didn't want me to work on it while I'm still on the clock, but I write better in this office so I couldn't leave just yet." He said.
"Oh, well I'm sorry if she's being too fussy, for some reason she gets like this at night." I said trying to calm her down.
"It's okay, I like kids. Doesn't bother me at all."
"Okay…" I said, taking her back into my office. I got a little more work done then ended up heading home at about 10pm, Neji was still working. I said goodbye to him and put a now sleeping Mikoshina in her car seat, driving to my house in silence. I walked into what I thought was an empty house, but soon realized Jiraiya was entertaining a woman in his room. Great, cause I really want to hear that all night.
I tucked Mikoshina in, took a shower and relaxed on the couch for a few minutes. To be honest, I'm avoiding sleeping in the master bedroom. Everything in there just reminds me of Sasuke. His clothes, his smell, the way he would keep everything so spotless. I go in there I'm worried I'm just going to mess it all up. So I've avoiding it. Only going in there to shower and change. If I'm not sleeping in Mikoshina's room on the floor, I'm in here on the couch. I can't sleep in that bed anymore. I can't smell his scent all night then wake up next to his empty side of the bed. And his scent is starting to fade. That's what bothers me the most, the more time that goes on the less it's like he was ever here.
What if Mikoshina can't remember him? What if she gets attachment issues because he's not here? He won't even let me take her with me on visits. How is she ever gonna know him? It just hurts me so bad to think about all of this stuff. And it's even worse when I'm here. Maybe Shikamaru's right, maybe I should sell the house. But I don't think I'm strong enough to do that. This is where Sasuke and I were gonna start our lives. I can't just abandon it. Abandon our dreams… I drifted off into a dreamless sleep until Jiraiya woke me up to the smell of breakfast in the morning.
"Good morning!" He called from the kitchen, a fake smile on his face. He's up to something I know it.
"Morning."
"I made you breakfast."
"You don't cook."
"And neither do you, at least mine is edible. Come on kid, have a plate." Okay, something's definitely up.
"Let me go get Mikoshina."
"I already changed her diaper and fed her, she's alright, have a seat." That was it; I knew something was wrong with Sasuke.
"Is Sasuke okay?" I asked sitting down. He looked as his feet and huffed.
"He's been sent to the SHU, it's unclear for how long."
"The SHU?"
"Secure Housing Unit."
"Jiraiya what is that? Is he in protection? What happened to get him sent there?"
"He failed a drug test Naruto." No, no way.
"What? But he told me last week he was gonna start going to NA meetings."
"Well he is a compulsive liar."
"How'd he even get cocaine in prison?"
"It wasn't cocaine. They found a drug called fentanyl in his system. It's supposed to be 100 times stronger than morphine and that much more addictive."
"What?"
"It's a tough pill to swallow, I know. During the trials he only told me about the cocaine and this thing called euphoria, but to test dirty with this. I'm not sure if we can trust anything he says." I ran my fingers through my hair, holy cow. How can Sasuke still be lying to me? After everything that's happened? Why couldn't he just come clean to me? Why is there a need to lie so much to me? Oh Sasuke.
"I have to go to work."
"I already told Shikamaru, he thinks you should take the day."
"His wedding is tomorrow, and I already have enough work to do, I can't put my life on hold every time Sasuke gets in trouble."
"Even still, this is kind of a big deal Naruto."
"When can I see him again? Or call him?"
"Whenever he gets out of the SHU, could be tomorrow, could be a year from now, we just don't know."
"You're kidding."
"I'm not."
"Oh my god." I ran my hand through my hair. "Alright, I'm gonna go to work, I'll figure all of this out… later I guess." I went into the bedroom and got dressed then got Mikoshina ready and took her to my mom's. Sasuke's locked up somewhere while he's locked up and there is nothing I can do about it. I have no idea how I'm supposed to feel right now. I have no idea what I'm supposed to do.
