Hey everyone. I'm back with a new story.
Summary: AU Sasuke needs a break, he took a week off and heads down to the Sannin Lodge, where they promise to make your stay enjoyable and memorable. He meets Naruto, and realizes he has only seven days to talk with the blonde. Slight Sasunaru. Rated T for Safety
Warnings:Language (maybe), and slight Sasunaru. Yes you read that right, so go away if you don't like.
Disclaimer: My lawyers have informed me, much to my disappoint me, I don't own Naruto, and I apparently owe money to the government….
Setting: Canada, Modern
Inspired by the song: Real World-Matchbox Twenty
Sasuke-centric
Enjoy!
I wish the real world would just stop hassling me!
-Matchbox Twenty: Real World
Real World
By: PurpleCranberi
~ Chapter One: 10080 Minutes ~
He placed his head on the steering wheel. If getting into the downtown core was troubling, getting out was worse. He had spent already twenty minutes sitting idly in his car, as a police officer attempted to direct traffic from the traffic light that for some strange reason decided to stop working. It was just his luck too. He was attempting to leave the stress behind, just to encounter a stressful traffic jam. Yes, traffic jams are stressful.
He turned off the ignition; he was going to be there for a while, might as well not waste energy along with polluting the earth with car emissions.
Just as he was about to go into a comatose state for how hard he was hitting the steering wheel, wishing the traffic to vanish, his cell phone rang.
He eyed the mechanism very carefully, and sighed. It was that sadistic human being that he was so fortunate to call his elder brother. Only brother too.
"Yes Itachi?" he asked as he actually took out his cell phone instead of using his headset. What? Its dangerous driving with a cell phone out, Sasuke isn't stupid, so he has a headset.
"Where are you?!" Itachi shrieked into the phone. "The meeting is about to start, I can only delay for so long." He announced annoyed into the phone. Sasuke on the other hand found his brother very amusing at this moment in time. Who knew that Itachi drove all the annoyances of a traffic jam away. He didn't.
"I take it Iruka didn't tell you did he?" Sasuke asked, turning his car back on, as the traffic seemed to be moving.
"Good guess," he sarcastically bit back, "What was he supposed to inform me of?" he asked slightly irritated that he couldn't physically kill his younger brother.
"I took the week off." He smiled and drove forward passed the officer directing traffic, "As of right now, I'm at the border of the city, on my way to a memorable week of no work, no meetings, no brothers, and no traffic." He proudly proclaimed. "Iruka said that since I was very stressed I should go relax, and suggested a lodge he goes to, so I took him up on it. I mean you're a big boy," he cooed into the phone, resulting in Itachi growling into the phone, "you can handle everything without me for a measly week."
"Sasuke!" Itachi gritted out, "you are informing me, the morning of a very important meeting, that you are in fact out of town heading to a place where you can relax?" he asked ready to murder said person on the other side of the phone.
"Exactly." Sasuke smirked and hung up his phone. "Good luck." He chuckled darkly, he could picture Itachi's face, and it would look something like a steam engine exploding. Yup. Definitely looks like that.
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He pulled up the well, he would describe it as a building but it was more like a house. A colossal looking house.
In front was a water fountain with a U shape drive up, there was no parking spaces around, it was just a drive up-which made Sasuke wonder where he was supposed to park his car. However the driveway was cobblestone and it went right up to the doors of the lodge. Surrounding the driveway was grass and several tress, along with a few plants along the entrance of the lodge.
He was amazed, it was beautiful. The actual lodge was made out of wood, giving it a cabin look. It was spectacular. The windows were full length, giving a stunning view of the inside as well as the outside. . He was going to have to praise Iruka in the find of this lodge.
Looking around he stopped the car, to be greeted by a young female with her hair put into two buns at the side of her head. It was a chocolate brown colour, and her eyes matched perfectly. She strode up to his car, and politely opened his door.
"Welcome to the Sannin Lodge." She greeted and he nodded, undoing his seatbelt and stepping out of the car.
"My name is Tenten, if you would be so kind, can I park your car?" she asked her smile remaining on her face, and Sasuke was a little shocked. Where the heck would they park his car. So instead of asking his valid question like any normal person, he quirked an eyebrow, hoping to portray his question through the small gesture.
She chuckled, "our parking garage is behind the building, it's a good distance away, so we don't expect our guests to have to walk back to the lodge form the parking garage, therefore I have this job. I guess you could say I'm a valet." She chuckled lightly and Sasuke nodded, tossing his keys over to the young girl.
"Thank you." She smiled and got inside the car and drove down the cobblestone path with easy and caution. Sasuke smirked. At least he didn't get some punk who thought they could joyride in a stuck-up businessman's car.
He looked at the lodge once more, before nodding an approval.
Sasuke walked through the doors, and was floored for how gorgeous the interior of the magnificent building appeared. The walls were painted a natural tone, a sandy colour. It matched the cherry hardwood floors.
Once you open the doors, to the left there is a small split level room. A few feet into the lodge there is a step down, and it takes you into this room full of sitting space, couches hugged the inside of the walls. At the back of the open spaced room was a giant fireplace. It was beautiful, the appearance was stone, and it was not a gas fireplace. It made the space look very cozzie.
However if you ignored that small step down into that family room, type room, and continued straight, you would end up at the main reception. Where there was nobody. That's strange.
Sasuke peered around the room, and noticed something was odd. There was no one present anywhere at the lodge. If it hadn't been for Tenten he would have thought the place was deserted.
He sighed, and looked back to the door, to find Tenten smiling, bringing his suitcase with her. He had completely forgotten about that suitcase.
"Sorry." He apologized to the brunette, "I forgot about my suitcase." He said, a little upset that he had forgot about it. He, the Uchiha genius forgot something as simple as a navy blue suitcase.
"It's no problem." She smiled and walked further into the building, walking around the reception desk.
"What's your name?" she questioned, looking directly into those dark onyx eyes.
"Sasuke Uchiha." He replied monotone, as he scanned the rest of the lobby area.
"Okay." She smiled and typed in the name onto a computer that was sitting on the desk, monitor facing away from Sasuke so he couldn't see what was displayed on the screen.
"Yo." A voice echoed through the lobby. Sasuke was caught off guard and turned towards Tenten, where there was now a male with silver hair, and a mask covering the lower half of his face. Who wears a mask that covers their mouth?
"Sasuke?" The man asked, taking over from Tenten as she silently left the area, and returned to the front of the building, probably to greet more guests. If there were more. It was desolate in that area, he was surprised there was someone else besides Tenten working there.
"Yes." Sasuke replied, surveying the man. He looked to be in charge. Was in semi-formal clothing, a button up top, white with navy blue dress pants. Nothing too formal, but formal-ish.
"Well, we've been expecting you." He smiled, well Sasuke assumed. There was movement of the mouth, he just was assuming it was a smile, if it wasn't, he had to say frowning for expecting someone was a bad sign, also bad for business.
"Really?" Sasuke replied sarcastically as he noticed a few more people walking through the halls of the lodge, on the upper level. The way the lodge was built is that you can see the upper level hallway, basically that's it. It overlooked the lower half, where Sasuke was currently standing.
"Yes. Sorry I know it seemed dead when you came here." He answered Sasuke's inner question of where the hell was everyone if you were expecting me?. "There was a meeting, most of the staff had to attend. Actually all the staff attended expect Tenten, I told her to watch out for you. I have to fill her in on the details later though." He sighed. Obviously not wanting to do that task.
Sasuke nodded.
"Also let's go over some rules while your staying here for the next, 7 days, or 168 hours, or if you prefer 10080 minutes, there are a few rules that belong to this lodge, and if you have to abide by these rules." He stated looking towards Sasuke who just nodded his head in understanding.
"Good." A glint in his eyes appeared, that had Sasuke inwardly contemplating what kind of rules these where. I mean, to get that kind of look in your eye, it was never good. It reminded him of Itachi. He shivered at the thought of another Itachi.
"Give me your cell phone." The man deadpanned, very seriously. Sasuke stared at him. Give this man, with a mask, his most prized possession, besides his car. He had to be kidding. Sadly the man was dead serious.
"No." Sasuke simply answered, glaring at the offending man trying to steal his phone. Hey for all he knew, this man wanted his phone to keep for his own personal enjoyment.
"It's required." He proceeded to tell Sasuke who just continued to glare at him. Sighing the man got up and walked towards to Sasuke.
"My name is Kakashi, and I expect you to follow the rules Mr. Uchiha. Now, as part of the lodge employees we request you give us your cellular phone, along with pager, beepers, blackberries, iPod's, MP3 players, MP4 players, iPhones, and any other electronic luxury that is not here to keep you alive; and not theatrically as in 'I'll die if I don't have contact to the outside world' I mean literally," Kakashi stated as he walked towards Sasuke, a menacing look on his face. Sasuke gulped.
"We are here to relieve stress, and make it a memorable and enjoyable time with us. And in order to do that, we need anything that may cause you stress. Beginning with your cell phone. And let me make this clear," he proceeded to lean in, "I will take it by force. I've been paid by one Mr. Iruka Umino, and he has allowed me to use force." Kakashi smirked, and straightened himself up to look at the fuming raven in front of him.
Fire Iruka when I get back. He mentally told himself as he stared at the man's determined eyes that were boring into his soul. He was not going to win. Might as well lose with some dignity. He went into his back pocket of his pants and pulled out the small black phone and handed it over to Kakashi.
Kakashi smiled and thanked Sasuke, and repeated the fact that no electronics, also laptops were to be forbidden. Sasuke was now cut off from the rest of the world, as Kakashi delicately explained it.
"So what is around here to do?" Sasuke casually asked as they walked up the wood steps towards, "I mean I'll be here for seven days, I'm not just going to spend it in my room." He added in so Kakashi didn't take offence, though he didn't care. But let's say Iruka would be mad if he did not do what he was told to. Iruka's paying for his stay-much to argument sakes-so he has to at least do something.
"Oh." Kakashi answered smiling again, "That's been taken care of. Our lodge doesn't allow our guests to stay in all day. We want you to live life. So depending on how long your staying, you get a few days to yourselves, however the rest of the time, you're participating in activities. Helps relieve stress and forget about work." Kakashi added in, "Since your staying seven days, two days are free, however five are filled with activates." He turned right at the end of the hallway.
"So what am I doing these five days?" Sasuke asked curiously, he was not going to be playing tennis and listening to classical music all day, he'd prefer to be in bed reading. That's how he relaxed.
"It depends on what you signed up for. Before you ask, I didn't take Mr. Umino's call, another staff member did. You'd have to consult him." Kakashi chuckled.
"Who took the call?" Sasuke asked curiously, as the door to his room was opened. He stepped in as Kakashi placed his suitcase down on the ground.
"Naruto." Kakashi muttered before he closed the door, and Sasuke was left in his room for the next seven days.
He was going to track down, the one with the name of Naruto, and discover what's in store for him, and then force him to change it to his likings.
Yes. That's exactly what he wanted to do.
That's the first chapter.
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