Summary: Cold hearted Sasuke Uchiha owner of a multi billion corporation in 3024, forgot the meaning of feeling, can a android melt the ice built around Sasuke's heart? Even when the zeta itself has a dark past that he forgot about? Or will Sasuke let his own past continue to haunt him? Taken slighty from chobits.
A woman burst into a small but elegant room, her pink hair loosely falling in front of her face as she came to a stop, her head slightly bowed. She was wearing a very conservative outfit that takes the shape of her petite body fully into account, showing off all her curves quite nicely, in one hand she held a small clipboard, that she glanced at quickly, before looking up, her green eyes landing on the only other figure in the room sitting behind a medium sized desk.
"Excuse me Sasu... I mean Mr. Uchiha-san" the woman said, a small blush on her face from the verbal slip, waiting patiently for the raven haired man to acknowledge her presence.
A man in a very expensive black and white suit was sitting at the desk filling out papers, a look of concentration on his face as he picked up a particular sheet of paper and begin to reading its content intently, completely ignoring the woman.
"Umm... Mr. Uchiha..." the woman said again softly, her tone growing slightly nervous.
The Uchiha groaned inwardly, still reading the document in his hand, hoping that the woman would simply take the hint and leave the office. NO change that, HIS office soon.
5 minutes...
10 minutes...
"Uchiha-san-"
"What on earth do you want Sakura" The Uchiha said quietly, his eyes finally looking up at her with a blank emotionless stare.
The woman let out a small squeak, her blush returning completely. "Gomen, Uchiha-San... I-I just wanted to remind you that your important meeting is today" Sakura said, finishing with a small bow.
A confused look settled over the Uchiha's handsome face "meeting...?" his perfect brows coming together "What meeting?" he said directly to Sakura, the document that had been so important to him earlier, now totally forgotten.
The pink haired, green eye girl look at him incredulously, all shyness gone "Sasuke-kun don't tell me you forgot the meeting that you set up, the one that decides if we are to expand this company or not" not noticing that she forgot to call him Uchiha-san in her surprise.
Sakura inwardly shouted for joy as she saw Sasuke's eyes widen, knowing that he was usually cold and withdrawn from the world, showing nothing in the way of emotion at all.
In a flash Sasuke Uchiha stood gracefully, heading from his desk to his office door, pausing as his foot was half way out the door, he turned around to stare at Sakura, who shrank back from his gaze, bringing her clipboard up close to her body, hugging it against her chest nervously.
"I suggest that the next time I have something important planned, you come to me first thing in the morning, not wait until the middle of the afternoon to tell me" Sasuke said coolly, his face still blank.
Sakura bowed politely muttering an apology. Sasuke turned around again, so that he was once again half way out the door, his back now to the woman and continued "I also suggest that you never call me Sasuke-kun again, Miss. Haruno, or I will be forced to fire you. Understood?"
"Yes, Mr. Uchiha-san. My apologies sir." With that, in an instant, he was gone.
Sakura stared at the inside of her boss's closing door, glaring at the spot he had been standing in moments ago. If only she did not need this job, she would have quit a long time ago. It wasn't as if she didn't like Sasuke, on the contrary she adored him for being head of the famous business where she worked, especially such a young age. But really, being his secretary wasn't the greatest thing on earth, after all most of the time he was cold and indifferent to every little thing – no, wait, scratch that, he was always like that everyday to everyone and everything.
She sighed returning to her own desk outside his office. If only he wasn't handsome, rich and stunning, then maybe she wouldn't be so attracted to him.
Sasuke sighed to himself as he made his way to the jet black limousine that was waiting for him outside his very tall building. After leaving his office he was in a foul mood, for many reasons, if it was not for his own self control, a scowl would already be upon his expressionless face. One, it was raining! Out of all days today just had to be the day that he forgot his umbrella! Two, he was going to be running late to a meeting and, if there was one thing that Uchiha's did not do, it was to be late anywhere! Finally number three, Sakura had the nerve to call him Sasuke-kun. Just thinking about it made his mental scowl deepen.
Sasuke looked up and saw the limousine driver casually leaning against the vehicle. The black suited driver, the top breast pocket of which bore the Uchiha signature sign - a small white fan that was red and white at the base - had pure silver hair, and a face mask covering half of his face. In one hand he held a large umbrella over his head to protect him from the rain, and in the other was a very perverted looking orange-covered book that he was reading quiet enjoyably, judging by the full blush that adorned his cheeks and by the way he kept ... giggling?
Sasuke let out another inward sigh. Was it just him or did it seem like he was doing that a lot today? 'Well anything is better than having to spend the day with my secretary,' he thought to himself, 'the only reason I continue letting her work for me is because I have known her so long ... and maybe I feel some sort of pity for her' of course that thought made him snort under his breath. Pity - that thought would have made him laugh out loud if he wasn't an Uchiha. Uchiha's don't feel such foolish emotions and, if they did, pity would be one of the last ones.
He cleared his throat loudly, finally gaining the attention of his driver who slowly looked up from his book, a smile partially visible behind the mask on his face. He looked at Sasuke's appearance and chuckled lightly secreting his book away into a pocket of his suit.
"Hello there Sasuke, are you having fun playing in the rain?" The driver said as he opened the limousine door for Sasuke to get in, before seating himself in the front seat of the vehicle. Sasuke decided that glaring at the back of his drivers head made him feel a lot better, the day wearing on him enough to allow this small crack of emotion to show comfortably.
"Okay Sasuke, where would you like to go today?"
"Don't fool around Kakashi, you know exactly where I need to be in ..." Sasuke looked at his watch "… less than thirty minutes." Once more Sasuke heard Kakashi chuckle to himself, though Sasuke could not care less what Kakashi did right now as long as he got to the meeting no more than five or maybe ten minutes late.
Kakashi merely nodded, knowing that saying more would be unnecessary. Starting the limousine's engine he began making their way to their destination. He looked up at the rear view mirror to see Sasuke - his head back, his eyes closed and his features relaxed - a sight that made him smile softly beneath his mask. Sasuke rarely let his guard down with anyone, let alone around him. So when he did have these 'moments' Kakashi could not help but smile to himself.
Kakashi was not a fool - he knew Sasuke - which meant that he knew that Sasuke was far from perfect - unlike the image he projected to his peers - Sasuke was a human being and, like all humans Sasuke made mistakes. Kakashi also knew that the Uchiha Corp. - the multi-billion dollar business company that Sasuke was running - took more out of him than he ever let on. He knew the only reason that Sasuke took the company from his older brother Itachi, was so that he could fulfill his dead fathers wish on running the company smoothly.
Kakashi could not help but sigh to himself. Sasuke tries so hard to become what his father wanted him to be, even if that means giving up on his own dreams, his childhood, and his life. Not even Itachi could manage to talk him out of being what their father idolized. Sasuke was to damn stubborn, he felt that he had no choice in what he wanted to do, that if he didn't live up to his fathers expectations then he would be seen like a monster, a horrible person and a failure.
Kakashi once more looked up at the rear view mirror catching a glimpse of Sasuke again before focusing his eyes ahead on the road and kept driving to their destination.
Sasuke yawned once the limo stopped turning his head just in time to see Kakashi open the door. As he stepped out Kakashi put the umbrella over Sasuke's, and his own, head protecting them both from the rain, which was much harder than before when Sasuke left his office.
Sasuke stretched out his body, his tired bones clicking wearily back into place, before he looked up at a quite impressive restaurant. He turned back, looking at Kakashi.
"So by how many minutes am I late?"
"Only by one" Kakashi said, his eye smiling as he knew that Sasuke was obsessed with getting places early, which is why Kakashi made sure to drive as quickly as possible to get Sasuke here - even if it meant breaking a few laws.
"Hnn."
Kakashi escorted Sasuke to the front of the restaurant before turning to leave "If you need me you'll know where to find me" and with that, he left.
Sasuke straightened out his suit, fixing his tie before entering the restaurant. The inside of the restaurant was in itself magnificent, the walls painted a soft gold allowing warm light to reflect off of it. Beautiful Chandlers hung from the ceiling, as well as other ornaments, candles on every table and on the far right hand side a pianist sat playing a soft happy melody. Sasuke realized that if the pianist were to miss a single note the tune would go from happy to sad in an instant.
Inside Sasuke was quickly met by a flustered looking hostess, her short brown hair poking out of her bun, the blush on her cheeks extremely evident as she basically eyed Sasuke up and down. Sasuke inwardly groaned, once again, he really did not want to be here. 'As if the female population of my own company swooning over me constantly is not enough, now I have to deal with this too'. "Excuse me, I believe that a private business meeting was reserved here, if you could just tell me where ..." Sasuke said, as politely as he could, without trying to raise to much attention.
The restaurant hostess snapped out of her apparent daydream, to look up at Sasuke's eyes before looking away, doing her best to compose herself quickly "Ah! You must be Uchiha Sasuke!!! Please, right this way"
She led Sasuke towards the rear of the restaurant where a set of stairs were and unhooking a red velvet rope strung over the first step, looked up at Sasuke with a small blush " Your meeting is right upstairs sir" she said with a blush, replacing the rope behind the ascending Uchiha before returning to the front of the restaurant.
Once Sasuke made it up the stairs his eyes landed on a table, occupied by two people speaking in hushed tones, and he quickly made his way over to it gaining the attention of the pair.
"Otouto, how nice of you to finally grace us with your presence" a tall, but lean, more handsome version of Sasuke said slyly.
Sasuke fought the urge to rolling his eyes, a usual pastime around his brother, before sitting down at the table. "Hnn. I'm sure you were quite able to manage without me Itachi."
"True little Otouto, too true. I was able to manage, but what type of example are you setting for your company if you are unable to get here on time" Sasuke could basically feel the amusement rolling off of Itachi in waves.
Instead of replying, Sasuke merely ignored his brother and turned to his left to see a man with white eyes and long brown hair looking thoroughly amused at the small squabble between the two brothers.Sasuke mentally growled, if it was not for this business expansion he would not have to be here in the first place. Not to say that his business even needed to expand in the first place, the only reason he was doing this was because everyone seemed to think that if the Hyuuga company merged slightly with his own then both companies sales would go up, although by 'everyone' in this case he meant his brother and Kakashi.
"Okay Hyuuga, you do realize what you're doing by merging with my company don't you?"
Sasuke said casually. The white eyed man nodded "yes Uchiha I do, although both of our companies could profit from this merger."
Sasuke once again resisted the urge to roll his eyes and thought 'in other words your company wants to eat off of my company to increase your sales Hyuuga' regardless if this was true or not he got a pen out of his jacket, skimmed through the sheaf of paper that Itachi had just put down on the table and signed his consent, before turning the document to allow Neji to do the same thing.
"Well" Itachi said amused, taking the signed contract and locking it away in his briefcase "that wasn't so bad now was it. Now that this is all over, how about we all get something to eat; I'm sure your hungry Otouto."
Sasuke tapped his foot impatiently; he had been waiting outside the restaurant, propping up the front wall just out of the rain, for at least twenty minutes now wondering where on earth his god forsaken limo driver was. What pissed him off was Hyuuga, that good for nothing son of a bitch, actually mocked him by asking if he UCHIHA SASUKE needed a ride back to his house. 'Damn cocky bastard' Sasuke thought and, to top everything off it was around seven and the rain still hadn't stopped.
He was startled out of his own thoughts as a rough hand was dropped onto his shoulder, making him flinch, and looked up quickly to find out who had dared to touch his shoulder. Only to find ...
"Kakashi it's about time you got here." There in front of him was his own limo driver obviously pleased about something, something which Sasuke really did not care to know about.
"Yes, well I am sorry Sasuke some old women were crossing the street so I just had to help them, and then a cat was stuck in a tree-"
"Hnn. If all you are going to do is make excuses, then I don't want to hear you" Sasuke said tersely, pushing past Kakashi to get into the limo. Kakashi following behind Sasuke - and still smiling - gets into the vehicle himself and drives off.
"So Sasuke, how did the merger go?"
"Hnn" "Really, it was that bad was it?"
"Hnn"
"Well, at least you won't have to go through that again"
"Hnn" Kakashi smiled, knowing that Sasuke couldn't see him. Since this was usually how conversations with Sasuke went, Kakashi was quite used to it by now. Kakashi fixed his eyes back on the road, squinting due to the lack of visibility because of the heavy downpour, only to spot a pale blur in the middle of the street. Doing the only thing that came into his head, he slammed on breaks, sliding on the slick asphalt.
A young boy ran, almost totally ignored, down the busy city streets, desperately trying to find somewhere to get out of the rain. Spotting an alley on the other side of the street he ran for it, checking first to see if the street was clear he failed to notice a blurred set of lights coming closer and closer to him. Half way across he noticed the lights, only as he heard the screeching of breaks, and turned, right before his small world turned black.
Sasuke's eyes closed, half way asleep not that he would tell anyone, was rudely thrown out of his seat as he felt the limo swerve, grabbing onto the small handle on the side of the limo, he held on as the limo came to a complete stop, before going to throw a glare at Kakashi 'what the hell is he trying to do, kill me?'
"Kakashi you better have a damn good reason for stopping like that" the only thing answering him was a door slamming open and hurried footsteps moving around the vehicle before he finished his own sentence. He growled inwardly, not really feeling like getting back out in the rain since he had already spent most of the day in it, but knowing that the only way he was going to get an answer was to, once again, go back out into it.
He groaned to himself, opening up his car door and sticking his head out, easily spotting Kakashi hunched over a figure in the middle of the street 'if that fool actually went and hit someone then he is going to be on his own, it's not like I don't have enough to do already without him adding another problem to my life.'
"Kakashi what did you do now?" An irritated Sasuke called out. Kakashi waved his hand in the air, motioning for Sasuke to get back into the limo, apparently forgetting that Sasuke never take orders from anybody.
Getting closer to Kakashi Sasuke leaned over his shoulder his eyes widening. "You almost got me killed, for this Thing." Sasuke spat out incredulously. In front of the two men was an unconscious boy, mostly covered by Kakashi's jacket, his soaked blond hair sticking and covering most of his face, the only things showing thorough clearly were three whisker marks on each cheek and, on the top of his head a pair of large red fox-like ears.
"I wouldn't call him a thing Sasuke; obviously he is a Zeta, one of the newest models too by the looks of it. What baffles me is why on earth someone would what to throw it away, why not just take it back to the store where they bought it?"
It was a well known fact that in the year 3024 bio-droids, or Zeta's as they were commonly called, were a popular much desired object, to many people for various reasons. They could be programmed to do a multitude of things such as become maids, employees, the list being endless. You never had to give them a pay check, or even feed them and, because they looked more or less just like a humans a few people bought them to be lovers, some even dating or marrying them. As such the majority of industries were trying to make robots look, talk, feel, and act as much like humans as possible, the only thing that really set them apart anymore from real humans was the animal-like traits. For example they had animal ears, tails, claws, and features – anything to set them apart just a little from their human counterparts.
Sasuke looked down at the small bio-droid with anger laced onto his graceful features, he hated this Zeta. No he loathed all Zetas, mostly because they destroyed his family's life; his parents' marriage right before they died …
"I can't believe you Kakashi, you actually stopped, nearly getting me killed, all in order not to hit it"
Kakashi simply ignored Sasuke's comment instead just picking up the small android and making his way back to the limo. Sasuke, letting out an agitated growl - the last thing he needed was Kakashi ignoring him - grumpily followed behind the driver, silently slipping around him to get back into the rear of the vehicle, dripping on the seat as he does so 'stupid Kakashi, he could have gotten both of us killed if there had been other cars out today, stopping for a stupid hunk of metal' he crossed his arms and glared out of the window, that is until he heard the door on the other side of the limo open up.
Looking across from him he saw Kakashi put the Thing in the back seat of the car with HIM. He openly glared at Kakashi who simply smiled back at him. "Just look after him Sasuke that's all I'm asking."
"Hnn. You make it seem like that Thing has some kind of feelings" Sasuke saw Kakashi roll his eye, before hardening his gaze back at Sasuke.
"Listen, if you think that I am going to just leave him out there in the rain, so he can get run over, or who knows what then your sorely mistaken." With that Kakashi closed the door, getting into his own seat and driving the limo off, while Sasuke began once again to glare out the window, trying to think of a hundred ways to kill Kakashi, but mostly ignoring the object on the seat next to him.
NOTES:
Sorry everyone who read this for being this long!!!! I promise that my next chapters will be shorter
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