Sasuke couldn't remember the last time he had a comfortable night sleep. His life now consisted of hard mattresses inside sleazy motels complete with dirty walls, moldy bathrooms and hookers out in the parking lot yelling at potential johns.

"Hey Handsome," A prostitute called outside, "Wanna give me a lift?"

The constant stream of car horns and police sirens was enough to drive a man insane.

"She's still alive Sasuke..."

It was this thought, and nothing else that always made Sasuke leave his shitty apartment and go off in search of her.

Except it had now been five years and there was still no sign of her.

"Doesn't matter." He reminded himself, "You gave your word."

Hinata watched as the dark haired boy made his way to her closet and collected his belongings, she watched as her friend shook in anger as he angrily threw his stuff into his backpack

"A-Are you really leaving?"

"Yes," Sasuke replied without looking at her. "Why? Are you here to talk me out of it?"

"I-I just w-want to know why…"

She watched him zip up his back-pack and haul it over his shoulder. She froze when he walked over to her and looked intensely into her pale eyes, he sighed at the dejected look on her face and grabbed her small hand.

"I'm not leaving because I want to…" He trailed off. "I'm leaving because I have to. My brother needs me."

A tear fell down her cheek and she hastily wiped it away, muttering a small apology. "W-What will I do about my dad while you're gone?"

He gently grabbed her by the shoulders. "Do what I did, get out." He brushed her newly formed tears away with his thumb and kissed her on the cheek.

She immediately blushed and held the cheek he had just kissed with her hand. He gave her a warm smile and made his way to her window.

She rushed to his side and looked at him worriedly. "W-Will I ever see you again?"

"He smirked. "We'll see each other again, I promise."

Sasuke sighed as he took out a light from his pants pocket and brought it to his lips.

"Did you hear about Kyuubi? I heard he's pissed at his old ward, he says he owes him a shit load of money and he's gonna have to come back to work it off."

Sasuke quirked an eyebrow and decided to listen in on their conversation.

"Yeah, he tried to hide the fact that he used to be a drug dealer, so he could date that Hyuga girl."

His eye's widened at the mention of her last name.

The guy who was missing a few teeth blew a low whistle. "Wow, can't believe that loser was dating an heiress." He chuckled and took a sip of his beer. "She fucked up when she decided to go out with the brother of the Kyuubi."

"Yea, she' gonna be the first one to die if Naruto doesn't come through."

Sasuke's heart began pounding increasingly faster, he immediately ran up to the two deadbeats and demanded answers.

" Listen up punk, we're not taking orders from no kid!" They both laughed in unison until they heard the shot of a gun sound off.

"I'm not gonna repeat myself again. "Tell me how you know Hinata!"

They began to sweat, now realizing the severity of the situation. "W-We don't know anything, our friends told us about it!"

Sasuke smirked. " Tell me where these friends of yours are."

A/N: I have the crappiest luck ever! My computer frick'n crashed leaving all of my chapters gone! I'm sorry this took so long to get out!