Author's note: heh, sorry about starting a new one again... I was just soo excited about this and couldn't stop writing it! Contains yaoi.
I was supposed to be doing Psychology revision when I wrote this and I have an exam tomorrow, so appreciate this, ok? -death glare-
Awesome! Cookie?
Disclaimer: K. Masashi says no T_T
How do you tell someone that you love them? That you lust for them? Yearn for them? How do you even begin to fathom your desires, so deeply personal and unsettling, when they are towards someone so unlikely and obnoxious… someone of your very own gender? How… when it goes against everything you have ever stood for in the world… everything you knew to be 'right'….?
'There is no shortcut in life.'
Sasuke remembered those words with a wry smile. How ironic that the very person who had said those words was the source of his infuriation to this present day. Infuriation… because he didn't want to acknowledge the foreign territory his mind had been roaming through recently, the foreign road; so different in contrast to what was expected. Infuriation, because he didn't want it to be true.
Infuriation. Because the dobe had been right.
'There is no shortcut…'
And Sasuke didn't know what to do about it.
"Teme!" hollered a certain blonde as he approached Sasuke's desk, "What the fuck is this?"
Naruto slammed a wad of papers down onto the desk in front of Sasuke and stood with his hands on his hips, blue orbs burning with rage.
Slowly, Sasuke reached for the documents and scanned through the contents. He snorted, "Well, dobe, I do believe that is my application for a share over your column."
He chucked the papers to the side of his desk and smirked up at the blonde.
Naruto stood, fuming at the raven. "Why, teme?" he snarled, "What's wrong with you? You know this column is my baby!"
Sasuke rested his chin in his hand. "How did you get this application, Naruto?"
"Don't change the subject! This is outrageous!"
"This-" Sasuke motioned to the discarded documents, "Is confidential." He frowned, "Or at least, it should have been."
The blonde growled, "Jaraiya called me into his office. He showed it to me and then told me that if I didn't step things up, I would lose my column," he crossed his arms and glared, "To you, teme!"
Sasuke smirked. Well… this was unexpected. He'd applied for Naruto's position within his section in the Journalism office as a joke – merely a way to get under the dobe's skin.
But this had turned out far more successful than he had intended. One look on Naruto's face confirmed it. He was furious.
Sasuke sat back in his chair and surveyed the blonde with satisfaction. "Hn. A bit of healthy competition would be good for you, dobe. I'm just keeping you on your toes."
"WHAT!" Naruto's eye's burned with fury and he slammed his hands down onto Sasuke's desk, hard. The raven merely stared up at him unflinchingly, eyes shining with amusement.
"YOU ARROGANT SON OF A -"
"Uzumaki!" Naruto twitched slightly as his outburst was interrupted by someone walking past. He glanced up and flinched. It was Jaraiya.
"What do you think you're doing?" Jaraiya frowned.
"Umm, I was just-"
"Stop harassing Sasuke and get back to work," he barked, "I want to see results from you, and soon."
And with that the old man walked away, leaving a twitching Naruto in his wake.
"You'd better get going, dobe."
Naruto whirled around to see Sasuke smirking up at him triumphantly. "You don't want your boss to fire you before you can 'step things up'… that would make it too easy for me."
"Why, you, I could just-" Naruto sputtered.
"And I've had enough harassment for one day."
Naruto's face contorted. "Don't think this is over, teme!" He gave Sasuke a deathly glare. "You better watch your back."
Naruto, ignoring the raven's raised eyebrows, turned and flounced away in the direction of his office.
"Hn," Sasuke narrowed his eyes. "Too easy."
Naruto grumbled under his breath as he made his way over to the corridor where the elevators were situated. It was dark outside and there were only a few lights left on in the office as pretty much everyone had gone home already, except for the janitor and a couple others.
It had been precisely five hours since the argument with Sasuke, but the blonde still felt indignation boil hot in his chest when he thought about it. He stomped over to the small metal plate next to an elevator and pressed the button that indicated an arrow going downwards, then crossed his arms and waited.
The office building was Konoha's only journalism estate and it was owned by the Sabaku's – and therefore, naturally, it was a skyscraper worthy of rivalling the empire state building with 150 floors. The section that Naruto worked in was on floor 75, and even though the entire building was equipped with a good, sturdy, pristine set of stairs, it was a joke for anyone to even attempt to make use of them. Unless if you worked on floor 20 or below. But as for the rest – and Naruto included – it was just an accepted custom to use the 10 elevators provided on each floor.
'Ting!'
Naruto blinked as the elevator doors opened in front of him and he quickly stepped inside, pressing the ground-level button and then leaning back against the cool marble walls with closed eyes.
Fucking asshole…
The sound of footsteps neared the occupied elevator, increasing in volume until they entered the small cubicle and then stilled. The doors slid closed and there was a downwards-rushing sensation as it began its descent.
Naruto sighed. He frowned, with his eyes still closed, and began to lightly bash his head against the marble wall.
Can't fucking wait to get home…
Bash. Bash. Bash.
"Dobe."
His eyes shot open as recognition hit him like a cold bucket of water.
"Oh, hell no!" He screeched, staring at the raven-haired man leaning casually against the marble railing.
"Teme!" He pointed an accusing finger at Sasuke. "Get the fuck out of my elevator!"
Sasuke stared indifferently at naruto's offending finger and snorted.
The finger was jerked in the direction of the door. "Out!" Naruto seethed.
"Shut up, idiot. I couldn't get out if I wanted to – we're already moving." Sasuke rolled his eyes.
Naruto moved over to the control pad and hurriedly began pressing buttons. "Well then, we'll just have to stop moving!" Jab. Jab, jab.
"Naru- dobe! What're you doing?" Sasuke looked horrified as he stared at the amount of buttons that Naruto was busy pressing, over and over again.
"You-" jab, "are-" jab, "getting out-" jab, "of my elevator!" jab jab jab jab jab.
Sasuke reached over and shoved the blonde away from the panel and ran a hand over the buttons, his brow furrowing.
"You are such a moron… you could break the machinery like that!"
There was a sudden lurch, and the men were thrown forwards, stopping any retort that might have escaped the blonde's mouth. Naruto stumbled and tripped over his feet, landing face first onto the floor. There was an awful metallic screech as the elevator suddenly came to a stop and the lights overhead flickered.
"What did I say?" Sasuke said angrily, rubbing his head where he'd hit it on the wall.
Naruto jumped to his feet with a shriek. "No! No, no no no no!"
He rushed over to the doors and began pounding on them, muttering vehement curses.
"Someone help me!" He shouted as he threw his head back in desperation.
Casually, Sasuke reached over and pressed a small green button on the panel and the doors began to slide open, causing Naruto to jump back in surprise.
There was a thud as they opened all the way and stopped.
Naruto gaped.
Instead of another floor awaiting them, there was grey. Just a grey concrete wall.
They were completely, totally, and undoubtedly trapped, with no way of getting out.
Which meant… that they would be stuck here together for the entire night until someone found them… which was unlikely because it was 9 oh clock at night and management had all gone home already…
His eyes widened in horror.
"SOMEONE FUCKING GET ME OUT!" He screamed, pounding the marble wall to his left.
It was no use, of course, as the hard marble only served to mutely bruise his hand in the process.
"PLEASE! I'M STUCK IN AN ELEVATOR WITH SASUKE-TEME!" A colourful string of curses flew relentlessly out of his mouth as he continued to pound, ignoring his hand's protesting scream.
Suddenly, the lights overhead gave a last flicker before simply blinking out, washing them with complete and utter darkness.
Naruto whimpered and sunk to the floor.
However, unbeknown to him, Sasuke was stood against the opposite wall, smirking dangerously, eyes flashing like a predator's right before it jumps its prey.
Well, this can be fun, he thought, and his smirk widened.
Hey! So I know that this is kinda short, but I didn't want to give all the fun away too quickly, because you see... this way, you'll have to review if you want to find out what will happen! Kukukuku...
* I guess you could say that the Sabaku's are kinda like the Hiltons in this ^_^
