Sasuke had never smoked weed before and like the time he first smoked a cigarette, he didn't expect to cough. Only, there was a different reason for his expectations.

Quite simply, Sasuke expected not to cough because he thought his lungs were used to cigarettes enough to the point that weed wouldn't affect him. He was dead wrong. Inevitably, utterly, unequivocally wrong.

Due to his confidence, Sasuke even took the extra step and breathed in deeply. The cough hit him with very little warning. Sasuke was shocked. And he couldn't breathe. He gasped for breath with loud, deep gasps.

Sasuke was so out of it that he couldn't even see for a few seconds. Barely noticed when someone took the pipe and lighter from his hands. He genuinely thought he was going die. His first thoughts were that when the police got here, he wouldn't snitch on everyone.

Sasuke had no idea he was so loyal.

When his thoughts were a bit more straight, he even tried getting up to leave the house so the owner wouldn't get caught when the police came. But someone was holding his arm and pulled him back onto the couch.

"Are you okay? Damn, dude." Asked Suigetsu. Sasuke tried to talk but absolutely nothing came out of his throat so he just nodded. He cleared his throat as subtly as possible and tried to talk again. "...'m..."

Barely anything came out and Sasuke decided to wait a minute or two for his voice to come back before speaking again. "I-" He cleared his throat one more time. "I'm fine." It came out a bit nasally but it was way better than nothing.

The second Sasuke was in his rational mind, he felt really hyped. As in, more hyped than he had in his entire life. He wasn't sure if it was the adrenaline or the weed but he was feeling great. And then he laughed a little. And then some more.

They passed the pipe around and the others seemed hyped like Sasuke. So Sasuke figured it was the weed that made him hyped. The pipe came back to Sasuke and he took the pipe. This time, he was much more careful with the weed.

He coughed again but not as much as last time. He passed it to Suigetsu and laughed a bit. Sasuke's mind was in its own little world of good moods and so when the masked man walked up to the group and requested Sasuke to come with him, Sasuke was in too much of a good mood to say no.

Rather than giving attitude with an annoyed "hn," Sasuke just got up and walked to the man with much more energy than usual. Sasuke couldn't tell if the man was annoyed or pleased about the fact that he was high but he honestly couldn't care less.

Sasuke wouldn't even care if the man was a murderer. He just didn't care. He was feeling too good to care. Sasuke never liked to say he was happy but if "happy" existed for him, this would be it.

The man led them to the table with the men who were wearing the same red cloud pattern on their shirts. "This is Sasuke Uchiha." Familiarity flashed across their faces and Sasuke felt confused for the hundredth time that week.

Their faces quickly went back to normal and Sasuke convinced himself that he didn't actually see their confusion. He was probably just confused from the weed, he thought.

The whole group looked strange. One man had very long, blonde hair. Another had red hair and was so stiff, he almost looked like a doll. The uniqueness to each one of them was mixed with each of their own type of danger. As strange as they were, they were definitely not people you could fuck with and get away with it.

Sasuke skimmed his eyes over the strange group. The masked man sat down next to a man with sharp teeth. "Sit down." Sasuke was simply too happy to not comply and sat right next to him.

The blonde man got up from his seat and asked the doll-like one to move. "Sasori. I need to sit next to him." The way the blonde said need sounded like he needed to catch up with Sasuke or something.

Sasuke was apparently wrong because after the two switched spots, the blonde had a determined look on his face and held his hand up on the table. "I challenge you to an arm wrestle."

Sasuke was surprised but hyped. He hadn't had an arm wrestle since middle school. "Okay," he said. He knew the weed was making him want to do it but didn't care. He was in the moment and in the moment, he felt like arm wrestling. Who cared if the weed was influencing him to do it?

Sasuke put his elbow on the table and held the blonde's hand. The group was shouting "Deidara" so that was apparently the blonde's name. This attracted the attention of the party and soon, they had a huge crowd around them of nearly everyone who was at the party.

Deidara was apparently popular as everyone was cheering him on. Sasuke only felt slight pressure. The man with the slicked back gray/silver hair was the referee. "3! 2! 1!" Sasuke gripped Deidara's hand hard. "Go!"

Sasuke put all of his strength into his arm and was surprised by how well he was doing, considering he hadn't had an arm wrestle in years. But as the struggle continued for several more seconds, his arm started to hurt and Deidara was forcing his arm down.

A few more seconds passed and Sasuke's arm was almost all the way on the table. Sasuke and Deidara made a few grunting noises and soon, Sasuke's arm was flat on the table. The crowd bursted with cheers for Deidara and if it weren't for the weed, Sasuke would've felt his pride in shambles.

Sasuke looked to the masked man to see what he would do but as Sasuke met his eyes through his mask for the first time, he saw the man's serious, calculating eyes. Sasuke quickly looked away ad he got the feel that he somehow wasn't allowed to look the man in the eyes.

The masked man was definitely more intimidating than even Orochimaru.

Finally, the man spoke and the group turned to him. "How long has it been since your last arm wrestle?" "Since 7th grade." "It's been a while, then, hasn't it? And yet, you're already at the point to almost beating Deidara." Deidara glared deeply at the masked man. He ignored him.

"You will be powerful in the future." Sasuke didn't know what to say about that so he didn't say anything. The man with slicked back hair passed Sasuke a drink. Sasuke wasn't sure what was in the drink but he was having too much fun to care... And drank it.

The group passed looks at him to see what would happen until sasuke started feeling heavy and hot on the inside. The feeling overcame him until he slouched into his chair completely, feeling relaxed.

It was like the world was moving around him while he just stopped. Time passed and he was feeling too good to care. Some time passed - he wasn't sure how much - and he felt his phone vibrating.

A passing thought told him it was Kakashi. But he ignored it. The feeling of ecstasy grew and grew with a feeling of sleepiness. The hot feeling inside him got stronger and he felt himself starting to shake. He was so out of it that he didn't care.

Sasuke felt people pushing him to get him to open his eyes. He caught words here and there. "What did you give to him?!" He subconsciously caught that it was Jugo (yes, Jugo) being angry.

Eventually, he passed out.