Authors note:

Hey guys! Okay so let me touch base with you guys since you know nothing about me! I love Sasuxsaku. It's the only pairing i will write, all others are mentioned for story building, and I hardly read anything else. That being said, i am SOOOO disgusted with this weeks Gaiden chapter :/

Anyways, I wont spoil anything.

Kishimoto owns, oh well.

Enjoy.

Substance Therapy

III

Birthday

March 28th.

Her least favorite day.

Her fucking birthday.

Looking at the thumbtack hanging the shitty reminder that was really fucking her day up.

It was only 9:00 AM.

On her day off.

...

Sakura is very unhappy.

"Forehead, its your twenty fifth birthday, you aren't like 40. Chill the fuck out and celebrate! I made sure to take the whole weekend off so that we can hangout. You can call me your DD!" Sakura couldn't handle this bull shit any more. Her tea came flying out of her mouth.

"Ino please, your tirade of lies can only go on for so far before it hurts" Sakura said as she wiped her mouth and chin with her napkin. Thank god they were at her home instead of the cafe.

Sakura's home was their normal hang spot. She had a cozy little apartment that had an bar that connected with her kitchen counter, thus forth where the dwell at this moment.

Sakura goes and grabs another napkin and washes her hands.

Ino always loved coming here. She said it got her away from her nagging parents. They are always getting mad at Ino for still living at home when she is only 24. Sakura wanted to feel bad for her friend, but she knew she did it to herself.

"You're hanging out with me this weekend whether you like it or not."

Moody emeralds clicked with cerulean orbs.

"Ino, if you are planning to throw me a party just forget it. I don't want to see anyone but my bed and a bottle of Crown."

Ino sighed, her best friend was as stubborn as a donkey. "Sakura, you know I don't ever ask this of you. Please just one year... for me?" Ino serioursly looked like she was going to cry. Sakura then really though about it. Sakura had known this girl for 18 years, and she had never once as of the last 15 years celebrated her birthday with Ino.

Now it was Sakura's turn to sigh.

"Man fuck you for making me feel like a terrible friend." Ino smiled real big and wiped the tears from her face. She squeled and then ran up to Sakura hugging her till she became uncomfortable.

"You've always been a big baby, pig."

"Shut up billboard brow!"

"The party is tonight." Ino scurried off to the bathroom looking the door.

"You fucking bitch. You fucking tricked me!" Ino's laughter could be heard as she jumped into Sakura's shower.

Sakura hated Ino with a fiery passion.

How dare she not tell her that the party was going to be filled with nothing but people she knew nothing about.

Ino had always been the social butterfly out of her groups of friends. Ino knew everyone, and everyone knew her. Cheer leading captain in both college and high school will do that for you she guessed.

The biggest surprise of the night? Oh god this one took the cake.

Ino's new love of her life was best friends with Naruto Uzumaki.

Naruto Uzumaki is sadly not the final drop on this hellish roller coaster ride of a night. Naruto was childhood best friends and, as Sakura downed there more shots minutes later after hearing this, "brothers" with Sasuke Uchiha.

Sakura vowed never to celebrate another March 28th for the rest of her life.

That's when it finally hit Sakura. Sasuke Uchiha was standing right before her next to the goofy blonde human megaphone that mirrored her bimbo blonde betrayer. She honestly thought that this man could have possibly have been a great friend of hers. That was definitely not going to happen now with him being ball and chained to Sasuke's evil clutches.

Sakura had been pulled out of her thoughts as Ino introduced the man that was about a hole head taller than she.

"Sakura, this is Officer Uchiha Sasuke, say hello."

Sakura's teeth were gritting together. She looked up to Sasuke and looked him in the eyes. Blood shot again. She was no better.

"Hello Uchiha-san." She hoped he played along with her, a pleading look in her eyes. Sasuke smirked. Then it donned on her.

Sasuke had wanted to talk.

'What have I gotten myself into" she thought to herself.

"Hn, call me Sasuke." The smirk on his face stretched millimeters, but she definitely caught the movement, when her shoulders lifted a little from the weight being lifted. Then he got her, made her look like a damned fool. He stretched out his hand, offering a hand shake is a momentary truce.

Sakura grasped his hand in a firm shake. That shake held so much power it felt like there hands would have blown off.

"Sakura." She had a look of distaste in her eyes. This seemed to tickle his fancy a tad bit more. Sasuke had a microscopic grin on his face at this point.

"It is a pleasure, Sakura-san." Sasuke had a look that sent a shiver to her spine. She felt the goosebumps crawling awake on her arms.

Thankfully, Naruto had got Sasuke's attention and that removed him from her attention. Sakura whispered to Ino that she was going to go to the bathroom and slipped away.

Sakura made her way to Ino's guest room. This room had always been designated to her, Ino's family absolutely loved her. She was digging around in the closet to find a box of her secret bottle.

"Ah hah." She muttered to herself. She stood up and sat on the bed, opening the bottle and tossing it onto the night stand. Sakura did not need a shot glass, she measured by the mouthful.

Sakura heard a click and as she pulled the bottle away from her mouth, her eyes landing on Sasuke's presence.

"I still want to talk." He is so dry. His words rivaling the clean cut of a blade.

"I know." She had assumed three months was a good time to throw in the towel. Now she had a network to him, she could not escape him anymore.

"Is that okay?" He sounded concerned. Why was he being so nice?

"What choice do I have? You are already here and you have the handle looked." She didn't show any sign of distress.

Sakura's insides were equivalent to the internal make up of a jelly cube at this point. Slowly behind that feeling, she started to feel the effect of five mouthfuls of Jager. The stuff got her many places, but nowhere that she could remember.

Sasuke chuckled at her. He was so cute as he did so.

Sasuke walked over to her, she didn't seem him anymore. She had her eyes closed breathing in and out to stabilize her balance. It wasn't working.
Sasuke was close, she felt the bed springs weigh down as he joins her next to him.

"You know something you should not." He doesn't hesitate, still just as sharp.

"I know, but its not hard to tell."
"Our friends do not care.""They are not our friends, they are your friends whom one is dating my best friend."

Sasuke's gaze turns to her. She can feel it burning in to her.

"I do not care if you know my secret." Fuck. He was good. He knew how to manipulate the conversation to his advantage. "In fact, I wanted to celebrate your birthday, but my way. I don't think you could keep up with my capability to hold my liquor.

"What is your way?" She was digging deeper, she has a curiosity to kill.

Sasuke pulled out a pipe and a small baggie out of this suit. His lack over secrecy making her contemplate how carefree he was, he always seemed like a hardass. Sasuke loaded the plant into the pipe. She glanced down at him, he seemed to do the process so effortlessly. Her eyes on his fingers, no where else. "Pot?"

"Have you ever smoked before?"

She simply shook her head. As a doctor she was by no means opposed to it. She also knew it created a different kind of high, though she loved the drunken stupor she entrances into after shes crossed the border. What harm can it do? She knew getting getting high and being drunk at the same time was a bad idea, but lets be honest could the night get much worse?

"Try it with me?" He stopped moving until he could get her to look up at his face. She loosened up a bit, a small grin forming on her face. "Okay," she agreed.

Sasuke took the first hit, instructing her how to properly inhale and exhale the drug. Slowly, she brought the piece to her lips and did as she was instructed. As she exhaled, she coughed. She knew this was normal, but she couldn't believe that the more you coughed, the higher it got her. Eventually, she wound up hacking until Sasuke gets a cup of water from the bathroom.

"Thank you," he nods. They take turns passing the bowl back and forth. She is feeling like she is on cloud nine. This might even be the happiest shes ever been in the past 15 years.

"Sasuke, what is the real motive behind this? Please be honest with me. There is no reason someone like you would do this for and with me."

Sasuke remained silent. They quietly passed the bowl to and fro until it was all cleared. Sasuke got up and dumped the left overs into the toilet and flushed them away. He then washed his hands and returned to the bed next to her. He then sighed and looked her in her eyes.

She looked calm, the drug must be keeping her settled.

"The only motive I have, is nothing that correlates to this." He motions between the two of them. She deflates then. She should have seen it coming.

"I understand. Well, thank you for celebrating with me Sasuke, this was nice."

She was looking down, not bothering to look back, her emotions would be scribed all over her face.

"You've misunderstood my words." Sasuke's blank stare is intimidating. He's so unreadable, so guarded.

"I'm a woman, what can I say." Sasuke's light chuckle catches her off guard, but she cannot help but smile.

Sasuke stands up, hands in his pockets.

"We've started out all wrong," Sakura nods her head in agreement. Sasuke's hand protrudes toward her.

Sakura's scent flutters to his nose as she stands, her floral perfume and fruity lotion fumes wafting through his nostrils.

Sakura's slender hand grasps Sasuke's confident.

"Hello, my names is Sakura Haruno, renowned doctor of Konohagakure. It is nice to meet you sir." Sasuke's dazzled as the light from the bathroom meet his eyes as they looked to her. She was humoring him. This was progress.

"Hello Mrs. Haruno. My name is Sasuke Uchiha, Captain of the Country of Konoha Elite Police Force." Sakura's eye widened. How could the top ranking elitist of the police force condemning the same activities he enforced laws against. Was Sasuke a corrupt officer? Sakura was unsure of how to address it without making a fuss.

"It's a college habit that was picked back up after I was clear of ever needing to be drug tested."

"Hmm. College was something else. I studied under my shishou Tsunade-sama."

Sasuke was impressed. They were alike and different in ways that made him feel uncomfortable. Sasuke knew he was an emotional ice block. He didn't care. Sasuke knew how to play the system of world. He knew that in live you had to step on some to gain a place in the world. Sakura looked as though she couldn't even hurt a fly. Then he comes to find out that the strongest female of the city, who was also the most sought after plastic surgeon of the country, was her medical sensei.

Sakura had caught Sasuke's attention. She knew things that no one knew about him, and he didn't mind it. At first he was nervous. As weeks went on he saw that nothing came of her knowing his secret. It made him feel a bit lighter, she was the only one who had discovered his secret aside from Shikamaru. That smart bastard knew and figured out everything. How the man hadn't take up a National Intellect position was still beyond him.

Sasuke was an entirely different person around her. It was weird to have his friends to know her. He would have to keep a higher guard up towards her around them. They must not know they had met before, this was his and her silent pact.

It still baffled him that they had only seen each other a total of three times.

She was toxic to him, but her company was so pleasant.

"Hn." Sasuke then felt the second wave of the after effects of the drugs. If he was feeling it, that meant Sakura had already been feeling it.

Peering down at the girl he sees her looking at him.

She is peering up at him, biting her lip.

She is feeling as light as a dust particle, and the only thing she wanted in this moment was to feel his lips on hers.

What has happened to her? When did she start anticipating his attention on her. He had rescued her from danger and swept her off her feet like she were a six year old. She needed to get this under control.

Sasuke's eyes locked onto hers, and that's all it took to draw his name out of her mouth.

His eyes portray a egotistical smirk on his face.

Never had she seen a man so attractive.

Sasuke lightly pushes her to sit on the bed. His hand grazes from her shoulders to her chin, holding her chin in place. Within a blink of an eye, he is all she can smell. He is all over her, not close enough. His lips on hers, tongue darting to her lips licking her, begging for entrance. Sasuke's knee is in between her legs, parting her legs to allow him under the short dress she wore tonight under Ino's instruction. He'd remember to thank her later. Sasuke's hand to the left of Sakura's head pinning her there giving her no room to move. Sakura could feel the heat rising to her face. This was a rushing she had not experienced. Sakura was not a virgin, by no means. But she has never felt the electricity run down her spine, let alone from a single kiss.

Sakura was right, and she knew she was digging herself a huge hole.

Sasuke Uchiha is dangerous.

Sasuke Uchiha was going to break her heart.

...

A gasp was heard by their ears.

A quick turn of their heads to the door.

Standing in the door were none other than Ino and Naruto.

End III.