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Oh dear god! I LOVE YOU ALL! MY FANS!

YOU ARE THE REASON I GO ON IN LIFE AND WRITING:D

51 alerts. 51! I don't even think I can count that high!

Alright this is a shorty, but the chapter that will be posted in mere MOMENTS after this is LONG! I promis that I will make my chapters longer.

cause that's like my only complaint from my lovlies that I dub my fans.

And sorry for my lack of updates, school, bleh. work, bleh.

ANYWAYS! ONWARDS!

III

If anyone asked Naruto about his face, he would only laugh, saying with a bit of pride, that a girl kicked his ass.

You couldn't see it from the audience, but if you got close enough you could see a strange indent on the left side of his cheek.

He would always say that when he got that was the day that he learned to respect women. "It was a horrible day, I admit and I was out of control but I never made the mistake again." And that was all he said.

Whenever Sasuke would see Naruto, looking in the mirror, studying his indent, Sasuke would come up behind him, leaning up, kissing it softly.

"I'm sorry…Naruto…" he would always well up with tears.

"No Sasuke…I shouldn't have said anything. I'm ashamed."

"If I hadn't gotten you backstage passes, you never woulda taken…"

To this day, Sasuke can never get Itachi to say what he put in that drink.

Naruto would turn and feel Sasuke's side, "That…that is my fault." He would thusly bend down and kiss the scar.

III

Sasuke banged on the door to the dingy hotel room. When the door opened he punched the man in front of him in the face.

"What the fuck Itachi! What the hell did you give him!?"

Itachi smirked. "I'm sorry little brother, but I'm a little busy here…"

"What the hell did you give him? Why did you get him…whatever you gave him!?"

Itachi smirked. "I was just having a little fun; he didn't seem to mind…Though…my little brother…he wouldn't shut up about you. If I were you I would claim him as my own before he found someone else to adore."

Sasuke's eyes widened. "What did you do to him!" he shoved the older brother against the door, forcing them both into the room.

"Oi, Oi, Itachi-sama? Is this your little brother?" Sasuke saw out of the corner of his eye a tall man grin.

"Can it Kisame, this is none of your business."

"Don't talk to my bassist like that…He didn't do anything to you or your little 'student.'"

"What did you do?"

Itachi laughed, smirking down at his brother, "Nothing he'll remember in the morning."

Sasuke screamed, throwing a punch, barely missing the older man.

Then he felt something cold on his side, pain erupted in his side. He doubled over.

"Kisame! What the fuck! Don't go around doing that shit!"

"Sorry Itachi-sama…He could have killed you. I was simply trying to protect you."

"Tell that to the police. Come on; let's dump him at the hospital."

"That's what I had planned. You're so kind; I would have dumped him on the side of the road and wished him the best of luck…" Kisame picked up the younger man, caring his unconscious body through the door.

Itachi sighed, "You always seem to get me into trouble little brother…all I do is try to be nice…but no…"

III

When Naruto woke, he felt dead. He lazily opened his eyes, cursing that only one would actually do what the brain commanded. He tried to move his arms, giving small yelps of pain when his lead-like arms wouldn't budge. The only limb that would respond were his big toe on his left foot and three toes on his right. What the fuck happened last night? He tried to recall the events previous but couldn't.

He surveyed the room with his one cooperating eye. He noticed all white walls and where his toes would be were white. Crap, I'm in the hospital…

For the next three hours he tried to make his body move, cursing at his unresponsive arms.

He'd been awake for almost four hours before he was able to move all his toes, three fingers on his right side, and all the fingers on his left. and it wasn't before that that he had seen anyone. Of course if someone did come in, I might just not have seen them because my damn eyewon't work! He struggled to open his eye, but sighed heavely through his nose before closing his right eye, counting down from ten before trying again.

"Naruto?" a soft voice came from some where the blond couldn't see. He struggled to open his eye, but when he failed, attempted to open his mouth, but screamed at the pain. "Naruto!" he saw a flash of pink come into view. His eyes were wide with confusion. She scoweled.

"Do you remember what the hell you did last night?!" Oh Fuck! He tried to shake his head no but didn't get too far before he closed his eyes in pain.

But she seemed to get the picture. "It was your birthday. You went to see that damned Akatsuki Band. And Uchiha Itachi gave you something. And when you got home you were completely out of control and I have to restrain you and I ended up punching the lights out of you." She smirked at the look of horror in his eyes. "I shattered your jaw. You have to have it wired shut, plus, because of you doing something as utterly stupid as taking something from Uchiha Itachi, Sasuke got hurt.

Naruto's brain shut down at that. Sakura noted his now dulled eyes, staring off into space. Sasuke…oh Sasuke I'm so sorry…he felt tears brimming up in his eyes. He looked back to Sakura, eyes full of questions.

"He went to talk to Itachi, from his shattered hand, I would say it got rough…" she paused as she saw Naruto's gaze, which was unreadable but full of emotion. "That's not counting the stab…"

Naruto shut his eyes tightly. Not being able to breathe anymore. He felt Sakura's hand on his forehead, stroking his bangs. He felt the lump on his throat grow bigger as he began to sob. "Shhh…Don't worry Naruto…he's going to be alright…Shh…" he felt the bed weight shift as she sat, stroking his hair as he sobbed silently.