A/N: Wow... I actually got reviews and a good handful of them too. o.O I thought that due to it's shortness no one would bother reading it. (I've been known to do this myself.) Unfortunately, this chapter isn't that much longer. But that's because this chapter wasn't supposed to exist. In fact, this was supposed to be the actual chapter one that I have written on paper but I somehow turned it into a chapter introducing both the boys and Naruto's uncertainties about his occupation. It's probably not that exciting, but alot of you wanted to know who the other six were, so yeah. Here's my answer. XD Fear not, chapters will get longer once the actual story gets going. As for updating, I think I may post chapter two when it's done and then hold off until I have a few chapters uploaded. I haven't decided yet. Um, yeah, I've run out of things to say.. so I'll just be quiet now. :)

Enjoy! Don't forget to review. :)

Madame Chen's Boys

Chapter One: Seven Deadly Sins

Were we nothing but whores? This is the question that has plagued my mind for years now. If you'd have asked me this when I was younger, let's say... fifteen, I'd have laughed. Laughed and then given you a number of reasons why we were different from whores. Above them. If you weren't convinced I'd have poured you more sake and just tell you believe it. Back in those days I told a lot of people to believe things, and maybe it was the sake, or maybe it wasn't, but they actually believed whatever I told them to. This came in handy as you can imagine. But looking back, I'm not so sure.

We were known as the Seven Deadly Sins, the seven of us. We always joked that given our occupation we should have been called the Seven Erotic Sins, but then Sasuke would say that the name was erotic enough without the actual word in it. None of us could argue. The reason for this little nickname was that we noticed we were each like a sin personified. Sasuke was always flirtatious, whether he realized it or not, so he was Lust. I was almost always eating ramen, so I was Gluttony. Kiba was a Greedy little boy. None of us had any doubt that he did some things to get a little extra cash for himself. Shikamaru was about as lazy as they came, so it was no surprise that he was Sloth. Neji was weird; he gave us the impression that he was envious about something, so we dubbed him Envy. Shino was Pride because it just seemed to suit him. And lastly, Gaara was Wrath. In fact, Gaara was how we discovered this about ourselves.

It happened on a night just like this one. I happened to be entertaining a handful of wealthy men along with Sasuke and Gaara, both of whom looked as lovely as ever in their elegant, but not overly girly, yukatas. Sasuke was without a doubt the most sexual of us. Do I mean he was always horny? No. Well, maybe he was, but that's not what I mean. As I mentioned earlier, he was always flirtatious. I'm not entirely sure he realized this, as I've had many an argument with him where, at some point, I wasn't sure if he wanted to punch me or do something entirely different. But as weird and unnerving as that was, it was nothing like our Gaara. Gaara was something else entirely. He was prone to these little fits of rage and often seemed to explode without warning. He could easily go from smiling shyly and batting his eyes to suddenly throwing anything he could get his hands on across the room. Which is exactly what he did on this night.

I can't say I remember how old we were at the time; all I remember is that we were fairly young and new to the game. So as you can imagine we had no idea this was going to happen and weren't prepared for it. I don't think the older boys in the house expected this behavior from such a soft-spoken person either. On this night Sasuke was busy charming a... doctor, I believe he was, and, like usual, I was chatting up everyone - and I mean everyone. The other boys entertaining with me were included. Sasuke would give me such looks - while I poured another round of sake for everyone, so neither of us was paying attention to the quiet redhead. I think I may have poured one too many rounds for this particular group of gentlemen, because they were soon intoxicated. I guess I could be blamed for what happened next. I didn't hear the entire comment one of the men made to Gaara, but I did catch one word - whore. It was as if someone flipped a switch deep with in the boy because with out a warning of any kind, Gaara was suddenly grabbing things and throwing them while yelling about how he wasn't a whore or a hooker or anything else along those lines. The sudden commotion alarmed the people walking outside in the hallway and soon the room was filled with at least half a dozen older boys. It took about twelve of us - the six older boys and the six of us - to get everything settled down. Once we got Gaara out of the room, the six of us took him into a room which we called the "Quiet Room", leaving the other boys to fix things with our clients. The Quiet Room was basically just a room where we could go and re-gather ourselves if we needed to. Sasuke used it a lot, for reasons I'll go into later on.

The result of this night was the man who made the comment was forbidden to come back (for his own safety, I think.) and Gaara was taken off of the host list for the month. This meant that he would get no pay, which meant the okiya would be affected money-wise. Gaara's punishment for his behavior would be that rather than hosting, he would become a sort of servant. It wasn't like he got the month off. In addition, after witnessing Gaara's outburst we decided right then and there that we weren't whores. Maybe we were - and it's up for you to decide, I guess, but discussing this with or in front of Gaara was taboo. And honestly, we didn't really want to discuss it at all, anyway. We weren't whores. End of discussion.

A/N: Oh yeah, I forgot to mention a few things. One, I'm gonna try to have as many cameos as I can. I have a list of supporting characters that include but isn't limited to: Orochimaru, Kakashi, Iruka, Jiraiya, Itachi and Kabuto. Two, this chapter will make more sense later on in the story, but if you're confused I can try to explain it. Okay, NOW I'm done. Review and I'll give you a cookie. :)