Byakuya

Chapter 9

"Two sex on the beaches!" Naruto yelled over the loud music to the bartender. The bartender nodded, not giving a glance at Naruto or Koichi who was standing by him.

"You don't really expect me to drink that do you?" Koichi yelled over the music, watching the bartender mix the alcoholic drinks. "I'm only thirteen!"

Naruto pulled some bills from his hidden 'tips-slot' from his pants and paid for the reddish drinks, before turning to Koichi and giving him the other one.

"Hey, if you're old enough to take it from behind, you're old enough to drink!" Naruto said cheerily, his messed up blonde locks looking gravity defying and his blue eyes sparkling with mirth, brought out by the black kohl around the eyes and by the now make-up covered whiskermarks people often first brought attention to.

Koichi took the drink hesitantly before taking a sip…and another. Swirling around the ice cubes in the drink with the straw Koichi looked up to the kyuubi host, and blushed at Naruto's amusement. Naruto didn't comment, but instead threw the straw away on the dance floor where it was soon stepped over by dancers. Naruto gulped down half of the liquid before wiping his mouth.

"Ah. I've missed this. Nothing like this in Konoha, you know." Naruto winked, before starting to lead the younger boy across the dance floor, trying to spot them a table. Naruto's blue eyes spotted some familiar people sitting around a table, and he stopped dead on his tracks, ten feet from the table.

"Well fuck me sideways!" Naruto exclaimed, bringing the groups attention on the blonde. Of the three guys and two girls, four jaws dropped. A pink haired guy with dark eyes and a mischievous smile jumped forth to clomp Naruto.

"My god! Isn't it Rokudaime!" The male exclaimed with a false accent. Naruto let out a loose laugh, hugging the other back.

He doesn't even know how close he is to the truth, Naruto thought to himself.

"Good to see you too Yuki-chan!" Naruto smirked, tousling the short pink hair. Yuki's brow twitched in irritation and he tightened his fists. Naruto ignored the warning looks one of the girl's behind Yuki's back sent for him. The blonde who Naruto didn't know was shaking her hands around wildly, while the brunette sitting next to her giggled. Naruto smiled at Mika, and they shared a knowing look.

"Don't call me that!" Yuki snapped, his eyes, purple so dark it almost looked black, set in a glare. Yuki brought his fist hard on Naruto's upper arm. Naruto barely held his footing against the force. Yuki glared at Naruto. Naruto glared back, holding his arm.

"What's wrong, she-weasel? Your feminine looks still a tough spot for you?" Naruto teased in a singsong voice, while Koichi looked at the exchange in fascinated confusion. Yuki steamed, his jaw set, and his eyes closed. Naruto used the opportunity to slip around Yuki, while trying to hold his laugh.

"Why you!" Yuki yelled opening his eyes, ready to punish Naruto for his indolence, except Naruto wasn't there anymore. Yuki looked around in confusion for a moment before turning around and spotting Naruto who had hid behind Mika. Yuki clenched and unclenched his fists couple of time while taking deep breaths, trying to calm himself.

"You little piece of Kitsune-shit! You're a bloody pest, that's what you are!" Yuki seethed while slouching on one of the comfortable arm-chairs around the table. Naruto played that he hadn't heard because of the loud music and brought his hand to his ear.

"Oh, what did you say! Sorry, can't hear you!" Naruto yelled with one eye open. Yuki let his head fall over the arm-rest and groaned loudly. Mika giggled and the other two guys laughed. Mika crossed her knees and took a sip of her drink before turning to Naruto.

"Now, Rokudaime-chan—," Mika started, and Naruto groaned.

"Don't call me that. I'm not the Rokudaime yet." Naruto complained. The blonde guy sitting next to Yuki snorted. Naruto turned to glare at him.

"Oh shut up, seed of disappointment!" Naruto snapped. Yuki snorted.

"—Now, now, you did came up with 61 new verses to the local drinking song, and each and every one of them had to do with you being the next Hokage and fucking everyone to better 'diplomatic relationships'…remember?" Mika interrupted. Naruto blushed, before remembering Koichi.

"Oh right, everybody, this is Koichi. Koichi, the pink head is Yuki, the blonde guy Minoru, the brunette Mika, the other brunette Ringo, and I don't know who the fuck the other blonde is. Here, sit down, otouto." Naruto indicated to the seat next to him. Mika wolf whistled.

"Otouto, Naruto? Never thought I'd see the day…" Mika asked, shaking her head, her earrings clinging at the movement. Naruto smiled encouragingly at Koichi who was sipping his drink again, though now looking in total control of the situation. Koichi raised his gaze from his gaze from his glass to look at Mika, his eyes half closed, making the eyes look more hazed and erotic than before. Mika giggled.

"Why aren't you a cute one?" Mika said, while offering her hand to Koichi who shook it, though unused to the motion.

"Where did you pick him up?" Drake asked unbuckling his belt and slouching more comfortable on the sofa. He threw his arms over the back-rest, and the blonde girl leaned on him, giggling in an annoying manner.

"Streets." Naruto answered, as if it were no big deal. Drake raised an eyebrow, and Naruto narrowed his eyes.

"And where did you pick her up? Hallow heaven district?" Naruto asked sarcastically, eyeing the blonde's not-so-classy clothes. The blonde's eyes widened in outrage before she sniffed and stood up.

"How dare you imply I would come from such a neighborhood? That's it! I didn't come here to get insulted. Goodbye!" She snapped before stalking away. Drake turned an accusing gaze on Naruto who just laughed awkwardly.

"You just cost me my lay." Drake accused, though his voice wasn't overly emotional exactly. Naruto snorted.

"She was a bitch anyway. You would've done the same under an hour." Naruto stated calmly.

"Ha! As if! Drake takes a free lay anywhere now…if he can get one, that is." Yuki snorted, while non-so-discreetly checking Koichi out. Naruto paid no mind to Yuki, but Drake did.

"Hey! Excuse me! I so can get a lay anywhere!" Drake said outraged.

"Yeah…right…" Yuki muttered distracted as he stared at Koichi who was removing his sweatshirt to unveil a bare stomach and thin shoulders with slightly muscular arms.

"It's true, you know…you just don't attract people anymore…" Mika remarked. Koichi yawned and leaned his head on Naruto's shoulder before pulling his legs up on the sofa they were sitting on. Naruto turned to look at Koichi who tried to look like he wasn't tired.

"I so do too! Not my fault everybody's suddenly turned gay and all I get is guys hitting on me!" The blonde complained.

"Or maybe you're just getting old…" Yuki teased.

"Or, maybe it's because suddenly everybody is so put on being 'fashionably' gay. Whatever happened to 'fashionably late', anyway?" Mika asked taking a drag of the cigarette she had just lit.

"Maybe they got tired of the alcohol being all drunk up when they actually arrived at the party?" Naruto suggested.

"Not everybody is gay. I only know one gay person, everyone else is bi." Yuki said while stealing the cigarette from Mika.

"Hey! That's mine!" The girl exclaimed. "Besides, what do you mean not everybody is gay? I sure as hell haven't seen any straight guys in a long time, and you're gay yourself." Yuki choked on the cigarette, before turning red.

"I'm not gay!" He protested. Drake snorted, and Naruto started laughing. "What! I'm not!"

"Honey, even I saw you check Koichi there out just a minute ago…" Mika started. Naruto froze.

"What! You checked out my otouto, why you—," Naruto started but was cut off by Yuki.

"You know, that's not important! Your brother is falling asleep Rokudaime, how about you sing us a song?" Yuki tried to take the conversation on a new track, not liking where it was going. Mika, interested when Yuki said song, perked up.

"Yeah, Naruto, you should really sing! We haven't heard you in a long time!" Mika said enthusiastically, while lighting on another cigarette. Suddenly a pale hand merged from the darkness.

"You're not supposed to smoke here, Mika. You should know, working here." The young man with bright red, long hair said, his golden eyes shining with amusement, while putting the cigarette out. The golden eyes widened as he saw Naruto.

"Naru-chan?" He asked, as if afraid he wasn't seeing right. Naruto smiled hazily.

"Tala-kun." Naruto said, and Mika raised an eyebrow at the honorific. Tala walked around Mika's seat to kneel by Naruto's chair. Mika's eyes widened and Koichi's eyes shone with confusion as Tala leaned over to give Naruto a gentle kiss, which Naruto returned.

Tala was smiling gently after that, looking at Naruto with adoration.

"Marry me." Tala asked his eyes soft with love. Drake and Yuki both froze. Mika dropped her drink, before screeching at the damage the liquid did on the shoes.

"No."

"You're so cruel!" Tala exclaimed, none of his previous adult look remaining as the golden eyes turned into huge black, pleading orbs. Naruto sighted.

"Oh, fine." Tala sniffed with mock hurt, as if the answer he had gotten hundred times before had not been a surprise. Mika used the silence to raise an accusing finger at Naruto.

"Ha! It's your fault, kid; that my shoes got messed up! You owe me a song!" She claimed. Naruto groaned, before freezing.

"Kid? You're younger than me!" Naruto indicated with his hands while yelling. Mika smirked.

"You still owe me a song." She reminded. Naruto groaned.

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"Staring me with those dark blue eyes,

Who are you to say I'm not worth it?

Staring me with those blood red eyes,

Who are you to judge me?"

Naruto sang with the band. The guitarist slammed his fingers on the guitar strings, creating keys that rang from the high speakers, while the thrums played loudly on the background. Naruto grasped his hands around the mic before leaning slightly forwards, the audience awaiting eagerly the next husky words.

"And when the darkness falls,

All you'll see will be an orange blur…

And I hear your helpless calls,

All you'll see will be an orange blur…"

Naruto sang while forcing as much emotion to it as he could, the angry beats of the rock song drinking up some of his frustration, leaving him with calm he hadn't noticed he wasn't feeling. The crowd of two hundred was all dancing on the dance floor, moving with the beat; their eyes all on him while hanging on his every word.

"I'll be watching you with these blue eyes,

Am I ever going to be able to forgive?

I'll be watching you with the judgment eyes,

If I'm the judge, who'll be my jury?"

Naruto smiled into the mic, drawing in the feeling of sudden power he had over the crowd even as the flashing lights of green and yellow flashed over him once in a while, and as the red and blue lights dances in the crowd. The music kept beating hard as he moved his hips with the music, every now and then jumping around with the mic, screaming his heart out.

Mika smirked at Tala who was looking at the stage shocked.

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"Wow! –I mean, wow, that was… that was really something, Naru-chan." Tala said impressed after Naruto had climbed down the stage and joined them at the table again. Naruto blushed slightly; being now more modest he had been four years ago. Before where he would have yelled in glee for some kind words, he now blushed.

Naruto didn't know why, but on some level, he always felt… dirty and used. Not that anybody ever had the power to use Naruto, but the fact that he was so incredibly good and talented at dancing, stripping, singing and simply entertaining made his cheeks tingle with shame.

Now Naruto knew that what he did wasn't shameful, but instead incredibly proud, as people reminded him. He was ready to give up everything if it meant something for his village or his akin. But when he met people he had before belonged with, like his ninja friends I Konoha, his thoughts would turn on ways they never would have before.

For every moment he spent with them, every moment he didn't simply tell them what it was he had been doing when he had been gone, every time when he was reminded that they didn't understand, and never would understand him and his sacrifices, he felt ashamed for deceiving them.

And he knew he had changed, and that he simply didn't belong. Not anymore.

Naruto smiled at Koichi who was looking slightly drunk, hovering on the sofa, and barely avoiding sliding off. Naruto frowned and turned to Yuki accusingly.

"Hey, what did you give him?" He asked, pulling Koichi closer to him, for some reason feeling very protective of the whore. Naruto didn't think about the new feelings harder though. He was simply feeling protective of Koichi, and that was it. He often felt feelings that just came up on him suddenly, and he trusted his feelings. They had shown to save his life many times before, and he often knew whether not or whether to trust a person.

And he had a stomach turning feeling that Koichi must be protected, and he almost flinched when he realized that he could probably cut Mika's throat if she threatened Koichi.

"Hey! That's not fair! Why do you assume I gave him something?" Yuki protested. Drake pushed him off the sofa they had been sitting on, and raised an eyebrow at the pink-haired youth sitting on his ass on the floor, looking slightly shocked that Drake had pushed him off the sofa.

"That's low." Yuki said; his mouth twisted in a grim expression, his voice filled with mock hurt. "That's just way too low." Yuki continued muttering while climbing on his feet again, dusting his clothes off.

Drake snorted, and Mika turned to Naruto.

"He gave him one screwdriver and a cherry cocktail or two." Mika answered. Naruto sighted, seeing that Koichi was starting to fall asleep.

"He's had a long day today. Any of you got an apartment or something we can leave him in, or something?" Naruto asked from Drake, Tala, Yuki and Mika. Ringo was still asleep, his long brown hair hanging over the armrest of the armchair he was lounging on.

Mika's eyes softened as she saw Naruto cast a look of pure protection at Koichi. She smiled slightly.

"Well, how about we go to my place? Our estate is just around the corner, and we can get Koichi and Ringo sleep some. Besides I'm starting to feel kinda tired too. I got long shift earlier." Naruto nodded, appreciating the offer.

"Do we have to?" Yuki whined, his purple eyes now huge as he tried to plead with Mika. She glared. Yuki whimpered before turning back to Ringo; who he knew he had to carry for Mika. Mika smirked.

"Oh come on, don't say you dare to imply that my brother is actually heavy?" Mika asked. Yuki glared before turning his pleading eyes on Drake. Drake sighted before complying on the silent demand and picked up Ringo's other arm, pulling it over his shoulders so that he could carry half of the weight. Yuki smiled appreciatively. Not that the pink haired boy couldn't have carried Ringo's lithe weight easy on his own, but he was a lazy bastard and Drake knew it.

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A/N: he, thought to honor you with a longer chapter….

No really, I just wanted to put most of the club happenings into one chapter, so that the 'feel' of the whole thing doesn't get cut off in the middle.

To anyone who didn't quite catch the whole "Danna" thing before? The idea for the whole Danna thing was actually something I noticed in 'a geishas memoirs', as one of you actually noticed ) (Well, actually I watched the film, and didn't bother reading the book… Good movie by the way people! I totally recommend it)

So, a Danna is like a geisha's "protector" of a kind. Usually a little older male who protects the geisha and buys her services often. Okay, explaining that is a bit hard. But! I'll be explaining it better in few chapters.

Sorry about this if people aren't really interested in these new friends of Naruto, but Naruto has a grave for human contact, and always wanted someone to notice him right? So it doesn't make sense at all that he made no new friends in three years. I mean really.

And I know it's quite awful that they are so young, with the drinking and whoring and all, but if they train children to be ready to get killed, then surely it has affected the 'not so nin community' too…?

Right, REVIEW! No jutsu! (Heh, anyone actually know who came up with that jutsu? I've forgotten T-T)

--Dark