Hey everyone,

This is my new fiction. Actually, at first I planned to write it as a one shot short story, but I then I thought it could be made into a nice multi-chaptered fiction. Plus, since "Madness" has ended and "The Mighty Pharaoh" is one or two chapters away from being done, I think I'll have the time to start a new story. Still this is a Pilot chapter so your feedback decides if I will continue with it or drop it.

Anyway, it's a SasuNaru (or maybe a SasuNaruSasu). I don't think I need to warn anyone that this is Yaoi as in boy love.

Oh also, do you think I should change the title?

Enjoy

Prologue, "A new lease on life"

He took a deep breath, climbing onto the beam. He steadied himself staring at the water beneath his feet. Thumb, Thumb, Thumb. His heart was racing now, sweat drops sliding down his neck. He released his bottled up tears for the first time in his life.

"One."

He looked away from the water.

"Two."

He shut his eyes and gritted his teeth. That was it. That was the end. The end!

"Th-"

"Hey you! What the hell are you doing?"

The raven looked at the approaching figure, racing towards him. Quickly, he looked back at the streaming water meters beneath him. He had to do it before that damn stranger could stop him. It was his life, his decision, his choice. It had gone for too long, and it was unbearable. He was going to take his life away. He had made his mind. He had made it! So why the hell weren't his legs obeying him?

"Three..." He couldn't jump. "Three."

Suddenly, someone was grasping his jeans, heaving him off the beam. He fell against the stranger's chest.

"Get your hands off of me!" Sasuke stood up watching the blond stranger cuss from the shooting pain. "Why did you stop me?"

"You wanted me to just let you throw yourself off the bridge?" Naruto yelled, holding his aching wrist. He had buffered his fall with his left hand. "Damn. You hurt my wrist!"

"You're the idiot who meddled into my business. Now f**k off so I-"

"So you could off yourself? In your dreams, bastard! You're not doing it even if I had to drag you away kicking and screaming."

"I'd like to see you do it!" He kicked the stranger before dashing towards the edge again.

"Hell no!" The blond wrapped his arms around the leg, and held on there.

"Let me go!"

"I am not letting you die!"

"It's none of your business!"

"It is! I would have it on my conscious for the rest of my life."

Sasuke stomped his leg repeatedly trying to get rid of the other's hold on him. A few minutes later, he gave up. The stranger was too stubborn, and it was drawing on for too long.

"Fine," he mumbled.

"Come again?"

"I am not doing it. Now let me go."

"How do I know you're not going to jump as soon as I let you go?"

"So are you going to stay glued to my leg forever?"

"I am patient."

"You have nothing better to do," the raven spat.

"Believe me, I would love to be in my bed right now. It's not like I stroll abandoned areas looking for suicidal bastards."

"Let me go and I will write you a check for a million dollars."

"Yeah, write me the incriminating check so they'd think I threw you off the bridge."

"Just let me go, okay. You don't know how horrible my life is," he attempted to pull the golden curls so Naruto would let him go, but instead Naruto bit at the approaching fingers.

"Your life can't be worse than mine, and I am not killing myself."

"I doubt that..."

"Spoiled," Naruto tripped the other onto the ground. "Stay down."

"What the hell?"

"Talk. If it really sucks worse than mine, I'll let you out of your misery myself."

"You think I need your approval?"

"Fine, don't tell me. But so you know; I once held a dog for two weeks straight. Even showered with it."

"Is that your way of telling me you're into beastility?"

"Y- you- you're disgusting, and that's not my point!" Naruto huffed. "They wanted to euthanize it, so I wouldn't let it go."

"Oh, so you saved a dog-"

"Actually, it died..." Naruto puffed his cheeks. "But that's not the point. I can hold your leg-"

"Until I die too," the other mocked.

"Until I die. Believe it!" Naruto stated looking Sasuke right in the eye. "You're eyes are all swollen. Crying is bad for you. Try smiling or something. I heard somewhere if you force yourself to smile enough, you'd actually start feeling happy-"

"God, I want to die now more than ever." He heaved a sigh of frustration. "Fine, you tell me your story first so you don't cheat and come up with some sort of Macbeth after you hear mine just to top it."

"It's not a competition, you know."

"Hn," Sasuke glared.

Naruto pursed his lips, "I was found as a new born in a public bathroom. The old lady who found me decided to raise me up. She died the day I turned eight-"

Sasuke smirked.

"Why are you smiling, jerk?"

"Doesn't it sound a little like a melodrama. Come on, what soap-opera did-"

"Just shut up and listen."

Sasuke opened his mouth to insult the other, but then sighed and nodded.

"She was my family, and I was hers. Her son had been living abroad for years. So, she left me all her inheritance. It was nothing much; just the house. She figured that I would sell the house if I ever needed the money."

"That's a good life so far-"

"Then her son came back. He pretended to be an angel. He even charmed the social worker, and ended up being my guardian. He... He accused me of brainwashing his mother and poisoning her. He abused me, and slashed my face," he pointed at the marks on his face. "Towards the end, he was starving me. He didn't let me die though, not until he sold the house. Gladly, my teacher made a surprise visit to my house after noticing that I have been missing for a few days."

"That's it?"

"Iruka sensei took charge of me from then on... That's it. Yeah, and my car just croaked on me. You're turn."

"My brother killed my family because my father was molesting him, and my mom wasn't stopping it. They didn't catch him then. He still managed to stalk me most of my life until he was arrested five years later. I was fifteen then. He didn't do any jail time. Apparently, he wasn't legally sane. He got out last year, and have managed to scare off the only person I've ever cared about."

"How?"

"What?"

"How did he scare her off? I wouldn't be scared off if I loved a person enough."

"He killed his cat and hung it over our bed."

Naruto chuckled nervously, "Just remembered, I need to add something to my story."

Sasuke smirked, "You have to let me go now. My life is worse than yours. That was the deal."

The blond froze, "No."

The raven glared, furrowing his lids.

"The deal was 'I'll let you out of your misery myself'. It said nothing about you dying or killing yourself."

"Hn," Sasuke punched the other's shoulder harshly. "I hate you!"

"I'm trying to help you!"

"I don't want your help."

"Just answer me this; what would make your life better? Getting rid of your brother? Getting the coward you love back?"

"Don't call him names!"

"Lets make a new deal; if I don't get rid of your brother and help you get back with your butt buddy in a month or two; I'll let you kill yourself."

"How do you expect me to make a new deal with you when you obviously didn't come through the first time around?"

"Well we'll have to figure something 'cause I don't want you killing yourself before the month is over as well."

Sasuke hissed.

"We'll write a contract."

"It wouldn't stand in court."

"How do you know?"

"I would know. I'm a lawyer."

"Oh, can't we make it work? No, you can't aid in suicide and if I do it without you knowing, there is nothing you can do about it. I shouldn't have told you that though."

"Fine, I'll tell you a secret of mine. If I don't keep the deal, you can publish it in the newspaper or something."

"Are we ten or something," he mocked.

"It's a very sensitive secret," he leaned towards Sasuke's ear and whispered a few words before Sasuke's eyes widened.

"You're lying!"

"I'll write it on paper and sign it. Now, your turn."

"Fine, if I kill myself before the end of the month, you can inherit me."

"I don't care about your money, and obviously neither do you." Naruto paused, "Give me your sperm."

"What?" Sasuke almost squeaked. "What kind of pervert are you?"

"If you take your life before the month is over, I get to use it to get a girl pregnant."

"Who would agree to that?"

"Well many women would do it for the inheritance."

"What's the child's fault-"

"That's the point. What do you think?"

"Whatever."

"So-" Naruto reached his hand out.

Sasuke ogled at the hand, "What do you expect me to put in this hand?"

"I'm helping you up! Get your head out of the gutter!"

- To be continued-

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