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Here is the rewritten first chapter of "The Job"…
Chapter 1:
He had been sleeping late once again, and decided to wake up late this time… again. After all, there wasn't really anything much to do in the office today. The important deal of his life was not happening up until next week… besides, he needs the rest. After his first book was published, which he did out of boredom, and been bestselling in just a few weeks he had lots of interviews and appearances… deals for him and his company were flowing in and out that his BOD could barely keep up any longer…
Just when he started to feel drowsy once again… he heard his doorbell rang, followed by a loud banging on his door and a yelling he recognized all too well…
He groaned against his pillow…
"Oi Sasuke… wake up!" Naruto kept yelling outside of his door. He continued to ignore him… he'll grow tired of it anyway and return later on when he got the message that Sasuke still wanted to sleep in late…
"Don't make me break down your door!" he threatened, still Sasuke didn't budge… his sleep was too important to him, "Hey! If you don't wake up you'll be late for the meeting with Taka Corp.!" he yelled from the other side of the door. At the mention the famous corporation, his eyes snapped open and he bolted out of his room and opened his door to see Naruto in his business clothes…
"Wow, you really look like-" but before Naruto got to finish Sasuke intervened…
"What do you mean late for a meeting with Taka?!" he growled at him. Naruto just looked at him in shock…
"Oh? Didn't your secretary tell you?"
"Of course she told me! It is scheduled next week idiot!" he said. Naruto shook his head at him…
"No… even Jiriaya got a call from them and reminded him that it was today… not next week." Naruto explained to him. He mentally cursed his secretary for getting the date wrong once again… this was the third time she got the dates wrong. He then quickly went back inside his apartment and slammed the door shut in Naruto's face. And with a speed of lightning he got ready…
He then went out of his apartment and Naruto followed in suit…
"I swear I am going to fire her!" he hissed at Naruto who was helping him fix his business attire up for him as they got inside them elevator…
"I better not get late for this Naruto." He continued to hiss, Naruto just shrugged his comment off…
"Pfft hardly… not even when you walk like a turtle… you never got late." Naruto said in reassurance… and for once Naruto was right… he never got late… ever…
But it was better to be safe than sorry…
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She was getting ready to leave the house already. It had been weeks since she decided to leave her last job… it just didn't fit her. She didn't like the stares she was getting from her costumers at all. They were all filled with malice. Of course from the beginning her family and friends were against her from taking it but she insisted she wanted to know how bars would work and how they looked like. She had never been inside one before anyway, and after a few months she just couldn't handle it anymore…
From the start she shouldn't have been working in random places but this bar was very wealthy and only rich people could afford to get in, that was why she decided to enter it in the first place. Besides, her father didn't want her to depend too much on their company… which was falling behind. And she couldn't agree more. Apparently she didn't want to get involved with businesses anyway. They were too troublesome and they had lots of problems in her opinion…
Just as she was about to go out of the house, she heard her sister call for her from upstairs…
"Hina-neechan matte!" she said, and she stopped and looked upstairs…
"Hayaku Hana-chan, you are going to be late for school." She called, and in a few seconds her sister was already downstairs with her. She motioned for them to go already and they quickly called for a cab and got in it. They stopped by Hanabi's school and they both got out of the cab with Hinata paying the fare…
"Okay, so I'll meet you here at five… then you can help me look for my job." She said to a pouting Hanabi…
"Aw… can't I just bail school and help you like right now?" she whined at her sister who just giggled and shook her head at her. She grumbled and then got in the gates of her school… she really should have done her assignment last night… and Professor Iruka would surely scold her for her incompetence… besides, she never wanted to go to an advance summer school, but their father just had to enrol her in one…
Her precious summer…
Once she was sure that Hanabi had gotten inside the main building, she turned around and started to walk to the newspaper stand. She bought one and then went to a nearby café and started to read the newspaper ad… somehow, she was still not quite sure what she should apply for…
She already has her application letter, resume and her bio-data. Now all she needed was someone to hire her without considering her family background. They always said they'll call her later, but she knows that that meant that they weren't taking any chances of hiring her for the fear of her father making their business bankrupt if they did anything unpleasant to her. she sighed, somehow every single one of them were very much afraid…
She finally finished her drink, and then left the café. She stopped at a bookstore and went in, scanning the books in the business section. One book caught her eye. She scanned its back cover, and then looked back at the author…
Uchiha Sasuke
Figures, she thought, he was a business man and probably knew everything about businesses no matter what kind it is. She figured he was probably just writing this down in his spare time and eventually decided to make this book published, just so it could have some use… apparently, it became a best-seller. She wasn't quite surprised… women probably bought this once the figured out it was the very handsome business man that made it… next probability was that business men and women around the world were interested in what tips he had to give to them…
She decided it wouldn't be so bad to buy it, maybe she might learn something from it. She went to the cashier and bought it. Once she was finally out of the bookstore, she felt her phone vibrate…
From: Neji-niisan
Hey Hinata, my family and I would like to come by the Hyuga mansion later on…
P.S.
We'll be leaving Ringo with you if you don't mind
Just for out anniversary. Thanks.
She just smiled at the text. She was always so fond with Ringo. He was the splitting image of Neji, but his antics were purely form TenTen. Plus, it had been awfully quiet at home now that it was summer and she has nothing to do. Her father was always on business trips, while Hanabi was enrolled at summer school. She was finally going to see her cousin and best friend…
And her nephew…
'Hanabi will be so happy later on.' She thought to herself and continued on to her daily routine…
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"Okay so you basically want us to merge?" Sasuke asked at Naruto's distant cousin who was eyeing him flirtatiously. She nodded in reply and scooted closer to him. He loosened his tie and then motioned for Naruto to come near…
"Make her move away." He whispered to Naruto
"Eh? Why?"
"She's making me uncomfortable."
"How do you think this makes me feel!?"
"You're her cousin!" he hissed
"We're distant!" he retorted, when suddenly someone in the room cleared their throat. Both men straightened up and continued to be professional, while Sasuke just decided to ignore the annoying red head, which was now beside him… instead of across him. He couldn't deny the fact that they were definitely a great asset… but that would mean that he and Karin would have more time to see each other for businesses…
Taka Corp. was very influential. They were purely in the field of science, a connection he still wasn't able to get a hold on until now. They have developed lots of advanced laboratories and factories for medicines. They have got some of the well known and best scientists… of course it had started out to be Oro Corp. but when the scientist, Orochimaru, who was also the founder, got caught up with one of his experiments, he died. Therefore the closing of the Oro Corp. and the rise of Taka Corp…
So should he agree? Or not agree?
"I think we should let Uchiha-sama decided over this proposal. Will that be alright for you?" Kakashi, who had been his mentor and worked here longer than he has, told them, the three of Taka Corp's representatives exchanged glances, and then nodded in reply. Karin gave him her business card…
"Call me." She said, winking at him. Once they were out of the building Sasuke went out of the conference room and then Naruto followed right after him…
"Oi, teme, what was that all about?" he asked
"I don't know, you tell me."
"How am I supposed to know? You and Karin over there were making googly eyes with each other!" Naruto said, with matching actions. Sasuke growled at him…
"You didn't tell me you had a cousin!" he hissed, "And that cousin of yours almost harassed me! She was extremely close!" he snapped at him
"I told you we were distant! Never heard from her ever… until now of course… but that's not my point!" he sighed, "My point is, why would you let such an opportunity slip right through your fingers!" he finished. Sasuke stopped and sighed at him… for once Naruto was right… he and his paranoia… thankfully Naruto was cousins with one of the representatives…
"Congrats dobe." He said, "You finally learned how to think." He finished, smirking at him…
"Oi, what's that suppose to mean!?" but he was ignored by Sasuke once again who was keen on getting to his secretary. Naruto mouthed an 'o' and followed Sasuke… he wonder how he'll break it gently to the love struck secretary…
The secretary was busy chatting on her phone, laughing and all, failing to notice a brooding Uchiha approaching her. Sasuke never knew exactly how long she had been on that phone, but as far as he could remember she was on the phone ever since he walked in the office, not even noticing him at once. He then stopped by her, but she was still so busy laughing and talking, her chair was swaying back and forth…
When Naruto finally arrived right beside him, he couldn't wait anymore and immediately ended the call…
"Hey, I was-" the secretary said, but once she saw a pair of onyx eyes, she immediately shut up. Sasuke was already glaring at her…
"I'll be quick." He said, "When did you say that meeting with Taka Corp. was again?" he asked her, she then paused a while and then answered him…
"If I remember correctly I think it was… next week..?" she said, trailing off. Sasuke groaned, Naruto immediately knew what he was going to do…
'Great… another wave of applicants.' He thought, and continued to listen…
"Actually it was today." He replied coldly, she then squirmed at her seat, "Wasn't a secretary supposed to take down notes?" she nodded, "Then why are you not taking down any?" he stared her down…
"A-ano…" but she wasn't able to finish…
"It won't happen again, so don't bother coming back tomorrow Nakamura-san," he said, "You are fired." And all of her hopes to be close to him crashed down once he said that five letter word…
Naruto face palmed… there would definitely be a hoard of girls lining up in a few days…
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It had been a long day to both sisters. They have just gone from three job interviews Hinata had, and it all ended in vain. Apparently Hinata had been right, every one of them denied her application due to her being the daughter of a very famous business man… seemed so they have missed that information that she had denied her position as the Hyuga Corp. heiress and decided to work with other kinds of jobs, before she could finally find out what she really wanted…
She had a college degree in business management, but she wasn't into the whole business thing. It all seemed too complicated for her, so she just denied her position as the heiress…
They both arrived back at the Hyuga manor and were very much exhausted already. Hanabi immediately went to her room to change, so did Hinata. They both went to their living room afterwards and were waiting for their father, and Neji and his family to arrive, so they started a conversation…
"You know oneechan… finding you a job is pretty difficult." Hanabi commented at her. Hinata just stared at her in confusion…
"Oh, why so Hana-chan?" she asked
"Well, they all seemed to just focus on your family background instead of your skills you know, but if I were to choose you a job to take on…" Hanabi said, trailing off. Hinata just sat there and stared at her sister, waiting patiently for her to finish…
"It would probably be…" Hanabi said, thinking more, "a secretary." She finished, and Hinata just stared at her, taken aback by what she had just said…
Well, there you go minna! :D
Finally finished with editing this second chapter :3
Watch out for "Clash of Fate" on Shino's birthday which is on January 23, 2013…
So, until next time!
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But, if you haven't read the original chapter one, then I think this will be much understandable
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