Disclaimer: Don't own Naruto
Warning! warning! This chapter has no smut! But it does contain mentions of drugs and gang related content. Personally I don't like this chapter but hopefully you do. Enjoy.
next chapter should be more entertaining, if you know what I mean. Hehe.
Night lover
Damn it. Where the hell was that old hag! She should've been her by now!
Naruto angrily paced around the small cluttered living room and paused by the window. He glared outside at the heavily dark lit street, hoping to see a stupid drunk woman staggering her way home but instead saw some hobo sleeping by a dumpster.
He let out a frustrated sigh.
That stupid old bat. He hoped she falls asleep in some ditch somewhere to make her learn a lesson! Well, not really. He didn't actually want her getting hurt. He was just worried out of his mind! She never came back this late before and she should've been here by now!
He returned to his useless pacing and loudly cussed. What if something happened to her? What if someone manhandled her? What if she lost another game, digging herself- no them- into deeper debt?
His hands turned into tight fists.
Shit. He told her time and time again to stop gambling. Those people she surrounded herself with were dangerous and that woman had no more money to bet! Heck, the two of them had been living off of 10 cent burritos for weeks now! If she lost again...
He placed a fist over his closed eyes to try to suppress the forming headache.
Sometimes he wished he didn't care. This senile old woman didn't even care about herself. She was just a stupid, gambling, Botox-addicted, bad-tempered, alcoholic. She literally played with death everyday from either playing with money she didn't have or going under the knife. She was a piece of crap for a adoptive mother with horrible prioritizing skills. A little part of him kind of wanted to wish horrible karma onto her but he didn't because...
She was family, his only family.
She adopted him and saved him from that shit place called an orphanage. She put up with his crap and treated him the closest to a human being compared to everyone else he's met. That's why he always waited up for her drunk ass to get home, that's why he was always there trying to help her through the bad times, and that''s why he hasn't left her to start his own life without her. Because he cared.
And he was nothing but loyal.
The house phone went off and he ignored it thinking it was probably the stupid credit card companies trying to hassle them for their unpaid bills again. Grimacing, he glanced out the window. Instead of seeing what he desperately wanted to see, he saw some stray cat run across the street with a dog running right at its tail.
After a couple rings, the phone finally hit voicemail. 'Sorry, we can't reach the phone right now. Please leave your name and number after the beep. Beep: (male voice) Hello, this is Kohona hospital trying to reach some one who knows a Ms. Tsunade Senju. She was admitted to the hospital a couple hours ago sustaining some serious injuries. We would like to communicate with any possible family members or-'
His heart froze. Naruto jumped over the sofa, ran to the counter, and quickly grabbed the phone. "Hello!? Hello? Yes, this is her adopted son. Is she okay? What happened to her?"
"Hello sir and I'm sorry but I can't disclose too much information surrounding the cause of her injuries since the police set up a immediate investigation surrounding her case. What I can tell you is Ms. Senju is fortunately in a well and stable condition. The police were wondering if you can possibly come down to the hospital for some questioning?"
"Yes! I'll drive there now."
"Thank you, sir. We'll wait for your visit."
Naruto clicked the phone and rushed to grab his keys. Slamming the apartment door locked behind him, he frantically ran down the stairs to the garage as his heart thundered a mile a minute.
Tsunade was one, if not the best, doctor there was in the country. She completely despised it when any of the other doctors tried to 'examine' or 'diagnose' her health. Even though it went against hospital protocol, She would find any loop hole there was to be able to prescribe and treat her own medicine at home. If she was in the hospital, as a actual patient and not as a doctor, then that must mean she was really hurt. Someone must've put her there.
Angry trembles ran through him at the possibilities.
He couldn't help but think of who she hanged out with tonight. It made everything much worse because he knew this would happen eventually. It was always on the back of his mind and he told her! He always fucking told her those friends of hers were just deceitful gamblers and look at what happened! He was right! And now she's hurt because of it.
When he got in the car, he angrily shut his eyes and placed his forehead onto the cool steering wheel. Being this emotionally unstable was going to make him hit something and that was the last thing he needed right now. He could not pay for anymore bills. The medical bills from Tsunade's alone was going to be through the roof and He wasn't even sure he could pay that back.
Dreadfully, Naruto leaned back and put on his seat belt. Putting the car in reverse, he carefully pulled out before driving cautiously forward to the hospital. Luckily, it was just passed midnight and the streets were empty.
No matter what happened she was going to be okay, he'd make sure of it. Everything would be straightened out. He'd find a way to pay back the hospital and just drop out of school again to work full-time in the electronic store. This time though, he vowed to force the old hag into some kind of rehab. Even if she refused, he'd drag her there himself if he had to. Nothing like this could happen again.
His hands tightened on the steering wheel when his vision caught sight of the upcoming hospital building. Pulling up to the parking structure beside it, Naruto paid the parking fine to the security guard before driving to the third floor and parking. From there, he rushed into the hospital entrance to the front secretary and demanded about his guardian's whereabouts. The stupid woman wasn't helping him at all! She just kept repeating the same shitty question over and over again.
"What's her name again?"
"First name: Tsunade and last name: Senju," Naruto practically hissed at the female secretary. This woman, taking her time in the world, cheerfully typed away in her keyboard. As seconds passed by, Naruto impatiently felt his blood start to boil. If this woman didn't work any faster, he was going to take the computer and do it his-damn-self!
"How do you spell her las-"
"Last name is S-e-n-j-u, her first name is spelled T-s-u-n-a-d-e," Naruto quickly interrupted with fingers anxiously tapping on the desk, "You guys called me less than a half hour ago telling me she's here. I don't understand why you can't find her in your system but were able to find me as her emergency contact."
The happy woman, probably intentionally ignoring his foul mood, typed away again. "Sorry sir. She most likely is here but our data bases sometimes take time to update new patient information, like being transferred rooms. Maybe you can take a seat and we can try again in another thirty minutes and-Ah, found her! We do have a Tsunade Senju. She is on the 4th floor in room 408."
Naruto left without giving the woman a thanks. Following the given directions, he took the stairs and practically ran to the correct floor. From there, he found the room but stood unsure outside the entrance.
On the other side of this door he knew he would see his injured adoptive mom and he wasn't quite sure if he was mentally prepared to see that. In all the time he spent with her, he learned she was a strong woman who knew how to defend herself. He admired her strength and kind of believed, in a unreasonable way, that she was like a super woman. He'd never seen her taken down and seeing her now in a hospital bed would shatter the indestructible image he had of her.
Naruto shook his head.
"Damn coward," he mumbled under his breath, "Just get your ass in there and stop acting like such a kid."
With a shaky hand, he turned the doorknob and stepped in. Blue curtains blocked his view but he could clearly hear the heart monitor steadily beeping away which brought him some comforting. As he stepped closer, he pushed the curtains aside and in took a sharp breath.
She was hardly recognizable. Her face was so bruised and swollen, bandages covered majority her body from what he could see that wasn't covered by the blanket, and several tubes were connected to her mouth and arms. The only thing that identified her as his mom was the diamond tattoo on her forehead.
Gulping, Naruto's eyes watered as he slowly went to sit to the chair next to the bed. He tried to be as quiet as possible as if any slight sound would disturb her. Burying his face to his hands, his composed expression finally broke as he let silent whimpers out. He tried his best to muffle his sniffles but -damn it- he was just so upset.
His fingernails painfully dug into his palms.
Those bastards. They could've just kicked her out and banned her from their gambling game but instead they decided to beat her half to death! They knew to begin with she had no money, heck the damn jerks even nicknamed her 'the Legendary's Sucker'. Fuck them! Screw every single one of those fuckers! He wanted them dead. He vowed to-no. He can't vow for that.
He let out a angry shaky sigh.
Murdering was wrong. It went against every fiber of his being but he couldn't help but feel it. Especially when every single cell in his body demanded it. He swore he could even hear a dark voice urging him to do the most sadistic and volatile things imaginable. And the craziest thing is was that it was starting to sound tempting. But he couldn't. He wouldn't.
"Excuse me. Are you Tsunade's son?"
Naruto snapped his face to the unexpected voice. Wiping away the stubborn tears, he saw a man with long black hair with snake-like yellow eyes. From the looks of it, this man was no doctor or cop and Naruto was slightly relieved. He really didn't want to deal with either of those two things right now.
"Yes?" Naruto croaked and tried to compose himself.
The man crept further into the room as he looked him up and down with interest. "I never knew Tsunade had a son."
Call it a sixth sense but something felt suspiciously off about this weirdo. "I'm adopted. who the hell are you?" Naruto sharply responded.
"Oh, just a old friend of your mother's here. We go way back. Fu, fu, fu."
Naruto glared at the stranger. Old friend? If there was one thing he learned about his adoptive mom, it was that she had no friends. "Who the hell are you?" he repeated again with much more force.
The cheerful man seemed un-bothered by his rude attitude. "Manners in this younger generation seem non existent. It's tragic."
"Are you going to answer me or what?" He snapped.
The stranger dramatically sighed. "Does the name Orochimaru sound familiar to you?"
Naruto felt all the blood leave his face as he stood up and frighteningly staggered back. This wasn't good. Oh god, Tsunade owed a lot of money to this guy and had been on the run for months! If this man found her than he was the one responsible for putting her in this horrible condition.
"From your ghostly expression I can tell she has mentioned me to you before," bemusedly said the older man. He intriguingly cocked his head as his yellow eyes curiously narrowed, "Now tell me, child, how old are you?"
Run. That was what Tsunade always warned him to do if he ever ran into this guy. But he forced himself still. He refused to leave Tsunade defenseless like some coward dog with his tail between his legs! This guy put Tsunade in the hospital and he'd be damned if he let him hurt her again. "Twenty."
"Hm, still very young and full of life." Naruto mentally gagged at the strange compliment. The creep then turned his violating stare away from him and to his adoptive mom. He took a step toward her direction and Naruto quickly placed himself between the man and the bed in a protective stance. Orochimaru rose a intrigued brow."What do you think you're doing?"
Squaring his shoulders and tightening his fists, Naruto heavily glared, "You're going to have to go through me first, if you want to get to her."
Orochimaru paused before tauntingly smiling, "Such big words for such a small boy. It's very endearing but this matter doesn't deal with you. This is between your guardian and I," he informed oh so casually.
"Look," Naruto unwillingly spat, "I know she owes you money. She just needs more time."
"I think the months she disappeared is more than a sufficient amount of time, wouldn't you agree?"
Naruto silently cursed, trying to think of a way out of this screwed-up situation. "I have a job then," he tried to negotiate, "I make nine bucks an hour and I promise to give you everything I make. I'll even work overtime."
Orochimaru seemed a bit surprised with his response. "How very loyal of you," Naruto tensed, "It's very difficult to find such dedication in these parts these days. And towards a adoptive guardian, no less."
"She's my mom. I'd do anything for her. Just please give us more time."
"You'd do Anything, hm?" The man lightly tapped his pursed lips in thought before beaming. "Mothers do bring out the best in one, Fu, fu, fu. I can't give you more time but I suppose, for your sake, I think I can think of a compromise. Tell me your name?"
"Naruto," He hopefully answered at the glimmer chance of hope.
Orochimaru's eyes brightened with mirth. "Well, Naruto, I've decided to let your mother live."
Naruto felt so shockingly relieved. "R-really?"
"Yes. I won't hurt her. I'll even erase her debt she has for me."
Naruto's eyes widened even more. Tsunade's debt completely disappeared?! She owed a lot of money to different people but Orochimaru was the most she owed to and the most dangerous out of all of them. If there was a chance of saving his adoptive mother's life and cleaning her debt with this man, he'd do it in a heartbeat. Naruto tried to rearrange his shocked features. This guy wouldn't just do this from the kindness of his heart. He wanted something in return.
"What do I have to do?"
The older man bemusedly grinned and said, "You must work for me every night of everyday till you pay off your mother's debt. Her fine is now yours. Do you accept?"
Naruto flickered his gaze to the unconscious woman on the bed. He knew she would be outraged if she found out of this agreement but he had no other choice. If he didn't do this, they'd both end up dying here anyways and he'd be damned if he let her die while he lived. His choice was literally a no brainier. "I accept."
Pleased, Orochimaru clapped his hands together. "Wonderful."
Two men that were apparently guarding the door entered the room and stood beside the tense blond. They tightly grabbed each side of his arms."What's this?" Naruto demanded in surprise.
Orochimaru simply walked ahead as the two men forced him to follow behind. "We still have much to discuss. But don't worry, I'll set up a personal guard to keep your gaurdain safe."
Naruto tried to stay as calm as possible as the guards escorted them out of the hospital to a black jeep parked in front of the entrance. Orochimaru sat in the back while Naruto was forced to sit beside him on the other side. The other two men got to the front and put the car into gear to drive them to who knows where.
Naruto anxiously glanced at the dangerous man next to him.
He honestly didn't know much about this guy to begin with other than the fact that he was psychotically crazy. He was incapable of feeling guilt, lacking empathy and apathy; which helped him become much him more suited for his job. Orochimaru after all was the leader of a underground drug trade, meaning being one hell of a heartless fucker. At least that's what Tsunade had always told him but she refused to say more.
Naruto tore his gaze away from the criminal next to him to the scenery outside the window. They were obviously going to the nastier part of town, where the streets had more potholes and the houses where run down. Prostitutes stood at corners while druggies slept in makeshift beds on the streets.
He mildly wondered if the police, who opened a investigation surrounding his mother, had somehow found a clue that connected her to the drug lord next to him. He doubted it. Orochimaru would leave no witnesses behind unless he trusted Tsunade enough not to talk. Naruto hoped she wouldn't or else everything he agreed to would go to waste.
Parking in front of a abandoned clinic, everyone got out of the car and entered the security tight building. There were armed criminals posted at each corner that gave him sneers and glares. Going further down the hall, Naruto heard blood curling screams coming out from the locked patients' rooms echoing around him. Some patients were crazily kicking the doors while others were just silently begging to be let out. Naruto palms became sweaty as his insides felt cold.
What the hell were they doing to these people? Were they being tortured?
"Like what you see?"
Naruto turned to see a very proud-looking Orochimaru, he almost looked like a pleased dad showing off his son's good grades. Naruto horrifyingly whispered, "What are you doing to them?"
"These are my volunteering patients. They all agreed to be test trials to some of my new drugs created right here in this building. It's simply perfect to observe and record such... Intriguing results."
Naruto paled. "You test them like some kind of lab rats?"
"I prefer the word experiment. Fu, fu, fu."
He suddenly felt sick, very horrifyingly sick. "You're crazy," Naruto chocked out before shaking his head, "What the hell is wrong with you?!"
"No need to worry about my well being. I assure you that I'm a perfectly healthy specimen."
"Healthy?! You're anything but healthy! You're torturing and experimenting on people's lives! Is-is this what you plan to do to me?" Naruto tried to break his restrained arms free but the two men tightened their grips on him. "Let me go, you sick bastards!"
"Relax, child. This won't be your job," Orochimaru kept walking ahead, calmly leading the way.
Naruto felt a slight relief but his heart didn't relax its furious pounding. "That doesn't make any of this any less wrong. Why are you doing this?"
The crazy man paused for a second before responding, "Because it's simply fascinating."
"Let me go! Let me go!" Naruto wiggled his arms as they all started walking again.
One guard socked him in his stomach making him gasp. "Stop moving," the henchman ordered.
"Fuck you," Naruto harshly hissed back, desperately wishing he could fight back.
Orochimaru glanced back. "Now, now, enough playing back there. We still need to talk about your new job."
"Screw you and your damn job!" Naruto yelled, not really wanting to know after walking through that hall of hell. The screams of pain and agony finally disappeared as they went further into the building but that didn't cease Naruto's struggles. He cussed and yelled every inch of the way.
Finally making it down to a particularly dark hall, Orochimaru opened a door and lead him to a room full of men gambling. Once they saw them enter, they all stood up and saluted their leader. On the other side of the room were scantily half dressed men and women who stayed sitting scared on the floor.
"This is your job," Orochimaru answered him as he gestured the room to him. "You see experimenting and running a organization like this one takes quiet a bit of time and money. Since you owe me a large sum, I decided with a job that was the fastest and most effective way for you to repay me. These men will work with you to teach you how to socialize and entertain some customers."
He stopped his struggles. "You want me to sell drugs?" Naruto hopefully guessed but had a dread-like feeling telling him this wasn't the case as he starred at the trembling group in the far corner.
"Oh no. I have enough men for that and I need faster results from you, child. I want you to sell your body."
Naruto gagged. Be a prostitute? Sleep with trash-like strangers? Naruto slowly shook his head in disgust. "Forget that! What the hell is wrong with you?" he can't help but snap.
Orochimaru simply ignored him and continued uninterrupted. "You should make about $700 a day once you learn to get with the program. Third of your earnings will be mine while what's left over of that sum will go to your escort, living fees, food and other necessities. If your lucky and motivated enough, your debt might even clear faster before you know it."
"I-I can't do this," Naruto's voice trembled as fear finally set in on what he got himself into. Looking at the other prostitutes in this room, he could tell they were treated like shit. They looked scared and trembled like a frightened animals. Did he really want to become that?
The older man sighed. "If you'd prefer I can change your job to be a drug tester instead? But it would be such a waste with that face..."
Naruto threw up a little in his mouth at the compliment but thought over his offer. He visioned himself being strapped down onto a bed with this crazy psycho injecting painful unknown chemicals to his veins. He shuddered and shook his head. "N-no. I just need some time to think. Please."
Orochimaru let out a un-pleased hum. "Then I must apologize Naruto but you don't have the luxury of time. Either you do this or not," he pulled a his cellphone, "I'm simply a phone call away to tell my guard at the hospital the change of plans. Either you do this or we kill you guardian. What is it going to be?"
Naruto snapped his face to him. "No, wait don't."
"There is no waiting."
The two guards restraining him let his arms go and Naruto roughly ran a shaky hand through his hair with a swore. He had to do this. His old hag needed him to. "I'll fucking do it okay! Just don't even think of laying a hand on her."
The man pleasingly smiled and put his phone away. "So its settled."
"You're a damn psycho, you know that! People like you deserve to rot in hell!" Naruto lashed out.
"We're all going to die one day, Naruto. That's the law of life. Now that we're done here, I'll be leaving you to your training."
Naruto suddenly noticed the way the other men were looking at him in the room when he said the word 'training.' The other prostitutes gave him looks of sympathy and worry while the guards smirked and leered at him. Naruto was suddenly struck with cold realization what the older man meant. "Wait," he made Orochimaru pause at the door. "I didn't agree to this."
Orochimaru rose a amused eyebrow. "You just did."
Naruto leveled his glare to him. "No, I agreed to become your damn prostitute but," his eyes wandered accusingly around the room, "without the training. I swear if any of your men so much as touch me the wrong way, I will kill them. This wasn't part of the deal."
Orochimaru, slightly entertained, turned to fully face him. He seemed unbothered by his threat and more focused on his request. "Oh, so I trust you're experienced then?"
"I've had a girlfriend before... And I've seen enough movies..."
"Fu, fu, fu," Orochimaru happily placed his index finger over his grinning lips as he thought about it. "Hm, since you are volunteering... that seems like a reasonable request."
"But Orochimaru-" one of the men was about to object but the Leader gave him one cold look that immediately frightened the man to shut up.
Naruto anxiously waited for his continued response. "Fine, I agree with your terms. But if you fail to please your clients, the request will be voided. Ko?" Orochimaru called out as Naruto let out a silent but relieved gasp. This makes things a little bearable.
This overweight smoking man stepped forward. "Yes Orochimaru?"
"You heard the rules so treat him well."
"Yes, sir."
With that the leader left Naruto, Ko, and the other People in the room. Ko seized him up before letting out a hump. "Well, aren't you a pretty kid? You're going to be Mr. Popular with that face."
"Fuck off," naruto scowled. Just because he had to do this didn't mean he was going to make it any easier for them. Stupid perverted scumbags.
Ko grasped the front of his shirt and forced him face to face. "That's no way to treat your new boss."
Naruto's nose wrinkle at the nauseating nicotine scent and pushed the smoker away from him. "Orochimaru's my boss, not you. Just tell me where we go so I can do my job."
His 'self-proclaimed boss' narrowed his eyes as he took the cigarette out of his mouth. After blowing out some smoke into his whiskered face, he suddenly grinned. "Well, it looks like I need to teach you some respect before anything else. Shia? Help me restrain him."
Naruto tensed as the two men advanced to him. The other gamblers cheered and made bets while the prostitutes frighteningly starred at the scene. "Orochimaru said you can't touch me," Naruto snapped as he prepared to defend.
"No, he said not to screw you, we can beat the shit outta you as much as we like. Now like a good kid, put your fists down," said Ko.
"Fuck you," With that, Naruto swung a fist to Shia, who was the closest, and landed a punch to his face. Ko gripped his blond hair, forced him onto the ground, and repeatedly hit his sides. Naruto tried to block each hit but Shia grasped his hands and forced them above him, leaving him completely defenseless, laid face-down onto the ground, as Ko hit him.
"Oi!" One gambler shouted. "Don't hit his face! You'll be hitting his money maker."
Ko must've took that advice to heart because his hits never made it Above his shoulders. "Coward! Ugh," Naruto coughed out. "Fight me one on one!"
"This isn't about having a fair fight, kid. It's about teaching you your place. Rule number 1 is: You should never ever talk back to your superiors." He grasped Naruto's hair and yanked his whiskered face up to see his volatile smirk. "Got it?"
He spat into Ko's face. He knew he shouldn't have done that but he couldn't help himself. Ko grimaced and viciously elbowed his ribs. The pain was torturous as naruto coughed out blood.
"You got character, kid," He Slammed Naruto's face onto the concrete, but not with enough strength to leave a mark, "I don't like character. After I'm done with you, I'll make sure you know your place so damn well it'll be written on you forehead."
Naruto tiredly coughed. "I-I'd like to see you -ugh- try."
"oh, I'll do more than try, I promise you." He looked up to the man named Shia. "Clear my schedule this week. I have some personal business to attend to."