Disclaimer: Don't owe Naruto

Time for some my favorite straight couple ;D

The things about love….There are no rules. Baby, it's the cold harsh war between two people who will not submit to each other. Give it all up, afraid to lose it all.

"Refreshing my boss"

A golden spoon handed to him; he was raised and taught to be a leader. It was said everything he touched would be turned to gold, but that was going beyond-it was purely fictional. It's true; everything he had organized in a manner of a business project has prospered tremendously.

His indifference to everything made him seem detached to every aspect of his emotion.

He stood straight like a real man, made eye contact with everyone as he tilted his chin slightly up. It was then established, with a wind of haughtiness, they were nothing to him.

"Sir," His assistant led him to his suite, he continued on. His employees have called out for his name, asking for help and more questions that he couldn't bother with. He was hit with a great surprised that he can't help but feel refreshed, almost literally.

A water bottle was thrown at him, it burst opened, and the liquid immediately soaked him from head to toe. He blinked, he looked at his assistant. "S..Sir," fear was evident in her eyes. Her expression was easily read by him. She had looked around, her face coloring, she cleared her throat. "WHO IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THIS!" Her voice was commanding and something that strike fears into everyone. A dirty blonde hair girl was pulled towards them, one of his employees.

"Let me go, assholes." The girl said to the security holding her tightly. "It fucking hurts!" His assistant wasted no time in getting things in order, she backhanded the blonde-haired woman, and the hit caused a lot of commotion. The girl tried to spit at his assistant but he would not have any nonsense in his property in front of his other employees. The fluent move he had done, snaking an arm around his assistant moving her out of the target area.

"Consider yourself immediately terminated." The girl's eyes had widened and stared at him in shocked. "I cannot fathom as to why one would act in such poor conduct especially to their employers. Discipline yourself."

It was the usual day for him or so he thought. A chain reaction had been set since the beginning of that day.

"What the fuck!" Temari was red from anger; she was kicking everything in her way. She was just fired from the fricken main boss who owns a lot of shit in this town! How the hell would she be able to find a new job!

"Why'd you even throw that bottle at him?" Her blonde friend asked. "I mean, ya know, it's kinda clear you're gonna get fired."

Temari has anger issue and it was evident as she launched herself towards the blonde guy and pulled on his collar in act of intimidation…well damn she was intimidating. "Because I thought it was the fricken ass hole that fired a lot of people before, what's his face…Sasuke?"

Naruto's smiled but it was twitching, he was thinking of what Temari just said, and it was true. Their demeanor was almost exactly alike and the way the boss held himself was so similar…He'll be damned.

"Can't be Sasuke, after he saved his assistant from something embarrassing. I think Sasuke wouldn't even care if you spit in his assistant's face and I'm pretty sure he'll be the one backhanding you too."

"Well what can I do now? I really need this job, I have two younger brothers to feed and pay for their schooling…" Temari sat down on the hard pavement, her hands covering her face, her hair was messy.

"Don't you think he's hot though?"

"Who?"

"The Boss, he's yummy."

Temari looked at him in disbelief. She knew Naruto was some where along the lines of gay, maybe bi. She was never sure.

"Naruto, today is not the day to be outright gay with me, seriously." Nevertheless, they ended up laughing, and for a while, she forgot about her problems.

"I wanna be a billionare, so fricken bad."

Shikamaru stretched his arms around to relax; he had just changed into casual clothes. He hates to be so pretentious with his employees, but giving casual with them would cause him. They might not respect him as much. He was told business is just business, there's no need to get to know anyone and he had stuck with it. It was imbedded in his mind forever.

He barely came to this town; it was a town his family has dominated with business. He didn't owe everything, in fact, this part of town, he had shared business with the Uchiha's. He had received complaints about how business was being conducted and he wanted to see it for himself. His family valued having the Uchiha's as business partner and Shikamaru could careless. There were big names around this town- his mother insisted in meeting up with a woman as to sway him into being interested.

"Sakura," He called his assistant in his room. "Who was the girl I fired?" His valued assistant came in, still in her work cothes, her pink hair tied up neatly. She looked tired.

"Her name is Temari Subaku,"

He opened his hand, in a way that could be easily understood and Sakura handed him what he wanted.

Naruto decided to help Temari look for a job, it was the only thing he could help in.

"Do your brothers know you're jobless?"

Temari sighed and shook her head. It was difficult to talk with her siblings they were already in the bad sign of town, they were criminals. She had fought with Kankuro last night because of his tendency to pimp girls out. She's not giving up in teaching her brother to respect women. Gaara was difficult. It was hard to communicate with him. He barely speaks, and he always comes home with blood stained clothes that Temari tried her best to get rid off. Naruto was her only friend that had stuck with her after finding out how her family is, everyone left her.

"I can't tell them, I promised I can provide what they need and in return they have to stop ruining their lives."

"Maybe you can beg for your job back, honestly that job pays a lot."

"Yeah, it was the best paying job I ever had. I just thought it was Sasuke. I feel bad that I hit the wrong guy, you know, the other boss. I don't even know his name."

Naruto can't help but notice that Temari never commented about begging for her job back, in the end this girl had backbone and a big pride.

"No one does, he barely comes to his home town."

"Well whatever- I can find a job or two, maybe three."

And she set her goal, hope to Kami she was going to make it through, because Bills would be coming in soon and she don't want to touch into her savings that she had set for her brothers' tuitions and things they will need.

"Why can't you hire me?" Temari asked, determined to have an answer why she hasn't been getting a chance for the last how many hours. She felt so bad for Naruto that she sent him away; he left with a lot of reluctance and stubbornness.

"You just got fired from Nara, himself. We know all about you, missy. People talk around here, and sorry, but you're just bad for business." The blonde woman said.

"Argh! It was a fucking mistake. I thought it was that Sasuke Uchiha guy!"

The woman stared at her, "You had mistaken Sasuke Uchiha for Shikamaru Nara?" She busted out laughing. "Unbelievable, if anything, those two are very different. You know what, you can start tomorrow. Next time know your target."

Temari smiled, "Oh thank you, thank you so much!"

"Call me Tsunade," She shook his head, "It's highly amusing, but I should warn you, it's a good thing you hit Nara rather than the Uchiha. Worse things could have been done to you rather than being fired."

"…Right…," She really don't understand what she meant. "But ah, I'm really happy you're taking me in." She bowed in respect.

"Yeah, well, Nara owns this Bar too. But I don't think he pays that close attention to this part of their business."

She blinked, "You can lose your job for-"

She waved her hand as if it's no big deal. "We're all desperate here, just come here tomorrow."

"Sakura," Shikamaru called. "I have an idea."

"Huh,"

"I'm going to be in their shoes."

"What?"

"You heard me. I'm going to work…Not here, though. I think the Bar would be a good place to start."

Sakura shooked her head. It was incredibly stupid. "Shikamaru, you shouldn't! You don't know how people are out there." It was only when Shikamaru put himself in danger or do something stupid that Sakura tends to forget the lines between business and personal.

"Beside, they would recognize you."

"Peh, I hadn't been here in ages. Beside, I only know one person who would recognize me in this part of town. So I'm safe, she'll keep me safe."

"How long?"

"I'll stay for a week, it should suffice. I can't be here for a long period of time though. We have a prior engagement to attend to."

Temari came to work in time and ready to impress the woman who hired her. She tried to be cool about it, especially with jerks hanging around, drunk and hitting on her. She felt disgusted. There were a lot of guys that had groped her and the only thing she could do and say was a warning which hasn't been taken seriously. She didn't want to complain to Tsunade but she hates this job. She was surrounded by pigs.

No wonder Tsunade wasn't worried about Nara checking in, a guy who looked like him wouldn't be caught in this scenery. But it was so low class type of business, it would even give him a bad name if the way customers treated employees like this.

She was wearing a polo, that clung to her every curves, it was slightly tight so she had left the first three buttons open. She sighed. Even though it wasn't a dream job, it pays…

A new customer came in, and Tsunade greeted him. She frowned. Even though she'd been working for only a few hours she made friends with a few of the girls here like Tenten and Tayuya. "Isn't he a bit too young to be in here?"

Tenten stared to see who Temari was talking about, "A bit, yeah. Not the typical guy you see here, know what I mean."

Shikamaru was greeted by Tsunade.

"Hey there,"

"Ah…Hey, what are you doing here?" Tsunade looked at him top to bottom. He was clad in dark jeans and wearing a hoodie, and his hair was down and slightly messy. Not an everyday image of Shikamaru Nara.

"I'm applying for a job here," He shrugged. His tone was casual, and it was the old Shikamaru she knew before. She raised an eyebrow, and thought to herself, of all the places to conduct an experiment in…

"I just hired someone, so we're full."

They continued inside and Shikamaru went to the bar and sat himself down. Tsunade smirked and said, "If you're gonna blend in, stop sitting up so straight and don't put your chin so up."

Shikamaru lost his composure when he heard her comment, he wasn't even aware but she was right. "As far as I can see you only hired women here, isn't that like discrimination? I won't allow it."

"No, no guy ever applied here. The only reason a guy would go here is to be a pervert and get drunk. I would hire guys here, you know for some lack of security matters. The girls had been complaining to me about men groping them."

"I can be your guard here," Shikamaru said immediately.

"No,"

"I don't want to go anywhere, It's troublesome to act on other places than this. Beside, Sakura only feel safe if I go to this place because of you. So will you please give me the job and I will execute it to the best of my ability. I'll make sure no perverts would hit on the girls."

"You're not exactly intimidating."

"I didn't sculpt myself to be intimidating, I sculpted myself to carry out business and make sure everything is in order."

"I need bronzes, not brainiac."

"I can hold myself up, I'll only stay for a week or so, I have an engagement to attend to."

Tsunade just can't believe it, but she hired him. Shikamaru respected the fact that she was given this bar to handle and be taken care of. He hadn't force her to hire him by saying he was the over all boss. It was good enough for her, she still doesn't seen the point of him being here to observe them in a naturalistic behavior of their working place.

"I don't know. I'll think about it. Right now, you have to go unless you're a paying customer."

A small smile escaped from him, "Can I have a straight up grey goose vodka."

Tsunade served him, making sure he was occupied. She wondered if he would recognize Temari, or not. She hoped for the other.

The sound of glass breaking was something he couldn't mix, he turned his attention to where it came from. He can never understand why a bar was ever opened in the first place. It was only passed on by his father.

"You bitch!" shouted a guy, he was soaked. It seems one of the girl working here had poured a drink on him. He grabbed her by the wrist and started shouting obscenity. Shikamaru frowned, "Is this how your girls conduct themselves?"

Tsunade's eyes widened. It was Temari who poured the drink and even shouting back at the guy. "You're the fucking idiot who groped me! I'm sick of it! Now let me go before I beat your ass down."

The guy backhanded him, Shikamaru stood up and went to the guy so fast and before the guy could strike agan, Shikamaru caught it.

"What the hell are you doing?"

"Sir, you can't hit a lady."

"Well this bitch is not doing her job properly. She was seducing me and when I turned her down she poured her drinks on me."

He was amused, he was a balding guy with a big stomach.

"I doubt that, sir." It was troublesome dealing with people like this.

He took care of it, by calming the guy down with a persuasive tone about him that can't be ignored. Temari watched in awe, he continued on and put the guy out of the bar. The guy was too out of it to even notice exactly what was being done to him.

"Are you hurt?" Shikamaru turned to her and he was stuck staring into her eyes.

Temari frowned because she didn't like the way he was looking at her.

"I'm okay…"

Shikamaru wasn't amused at all. It was the same girl that threw a water bottle at him. He had never thought he would see her ever again especially in a place he owns after he fired her personally. Whatever the reason was, he would ask Tsunade later. Right now he was concern tremendously by how dangerous this working place was. He doesn't want a bad reputation.

"Might I suggest to stop with this behavior of pouring drinks at people,"

Temari blinked, his voice was so familiar. In fact he was very familiar, but she can't put her finger on it who exactly he was.

"He was a fucking pervert, so I can do what I like to fucking protect myself."

"Stop misbehaving and I'll protect you."

"FUCK THAT! A scrawny guy like you? Who you think you're kidding!"

"Tsunade just hired me so that things like these could be avoided."

Troublesome woman.

"Wha…Argh…Thanks for kicking the guys ass," She said with sarcasm in it.

Shikamaru was shocked. "..."

Next Chapter would be later on when I get my laptop back;

Sending it off today to Geek Squad to be fix, just needed to write a story for the hell of it.