PLEASE NOTE: That this is not yet complete. I will be on hiatus for quite awhile (maybe a week or so?) and won't update as often. As it is, this is still just a WORK-IN-PROGRESS. I have yet to finish any fanfics. If there are any grammatical errors, please excuse them (English isn't easy for me) And I will edit and revise as I go.
Try to view it this way: it's like a demo of a video game, y'know? It's not exactly polished or anything, and it's not picture perfect, but I'll try a second shot at this :D
Thank you for your understanding!
SUMMARY: Naruto is unemployed. Dropped off from college, he has to start from scratch, even though he's as good as broke. There's a new corporation in town. One called Uchiha & Co.. Interested, our hero takes it into his own hands to get himself a job, even with an ideal Ceo of the company. But, what if, once upon a time, they were friends? And what if his friend was the one in charge of this corporation?
Also, Akatsuki eventually. (this is my summary for now, will change to my liking later)
Main Pairings: F/M, M/M
SasuNaru/NaruSasu, Hyuuga Hinata/Hyuuga Neji
Side Pairings: Hatake Kakashi/Uchiha Obito, Haruno Sakura/Sai/Yamanaka Ino, Uchiha Itachi/Uchiha Madara/Nohara Rin, Tsunade/Jiraiya, Orochimaru/Yakushi Kabuto
Characters:
Uchiha & Co.
Team Taka/Hawk
The Akatsuki Corporation
Elementals Companies (these represent the lands or countries of the Naruto universe)
Abandoned Uchiha Police Force And the Sound LLC
Tags:
Sasuke is the CEO of this company / Naruto just wants a job ok / After this I'm on hiatus for a week or so / I'll update from there / This is the business world AU / Don't like / Don't read , simple / Cracking jokes like a boss / For the fun ( I think this is humor )
Uchiha & Co.
1
"You're on your own now, brat." Tsunade says, kicking him out the door before he can even say bloody "believe it!" Naruto, tossed aside like trash, stands up again and glares at the blonde woman.
"WHA-? Please, pretty please, just one more day? I promise I'll pay you back in full!" He says, hoping to the kami above that he'll at least have some good luck.
"No, you're already eighteen; a full grown man, gaki! Need I remind you that it was you who left college early after we saved so much to get you there in the first place? Now we're broke and it's all on you."
Apparently, the gods weren't listening today.
Naruto groans, rubbing the bridge of his nose, hoping for an alternative. Anything!
"'S not my fault! Honest! Were'nt you like me once?" He pleads, hoping for some sort of empathy. "A teenager with the whole world on their shoulders?"
That's when his godfather kicks in, literally. Jiraiya has a hand on his shoulder and pats it like a father to a son.
"Sorry, blondie. She's right. You're no longer a baby boy. Go on and get a life."
"Pervy Sage!" Naruto whined, pouting, and crossing his arms. "No fair! I promise, just one day!"
"You know, your father used to be just like you. He's been in the same boat as long as he was a teenager. But, one day, he packed up all his stuff and put it into there," he points to a trashcan right beside their apartment.
"He let go of his feelings, his life. He married to a beautiful wife and had a child, of course, like every other straight man. He lived to tell the tale until his wife died of childbirth and he committed suicide from losing his precious people," Jiraiya puts a hand to his chin, contemplatively. "He became a business man," he ruffles Naruto's hair -who growls- and chuckles halfheartedly while holding Icha Icha Paradise in one hand. "Point is, maybe one day you will, too."
Maybe one day you will, too, Naruto repeats in his head.
"Heard ya the firs' time, Kit." Kurama, the Kyuubi, says inside his head. Naruto snorts. Ever since he was little, he's heard voices in his head. At first, as he grew older, he thought it was just an imaginary childhood friend that resonates in someone his age. He thought it was just some fairytale and never paid much mind to it. However, when his physiatrist traced through his family tree, he figured out that his mother had similar condition. What's more, the genes and the DNA found there connected a lot to his, and the mental doctor told him that he was still sane, but also a jinchuuriki. He had his suspicions. Like, "what the heck is a jinchew-whatsit?"
She laughed and told him it was a rare condition lately with children all over the Elemental Countries. However, he was the only one to have been reported spotted in the Village Hidden In the Leaves a.k.a. Konoha.
In the present time, Naruto was thinking over his options. 'CRAP! What do I do, now? I'm so screwed!'
"Easy, easy. Worrying over the simpleton things like your mother won't do jack $h!t. What you gotta do is chill. Take deep breaths. In. Out." Naruto shook his head, and talked to them again. He wouldn't tune out at a time like this. He had god parents to talk to.
"Look, one more chance? Please? That's all I ask for?" He saw Jiraiya and Tsunade exchange glances and then sigh. They shoved a pamplet to his chest. Looking it over, he realized it was a flyer.
"It's a job. For that ramen place you like so much. It was handed over a month ago for a waiter. Maybe you could apply there with your resume an' all," Tsunade says, eyeing him intently with her amber eyes. Naruto blinked. And again. And again. 'Dattebayo!' he thinks, before going ecstatic.
"Are you crazy? Of course I'll go! I love, love, LOVE Icharaku's!" Forgetting his present predicament, he hugged them. And then let them go.
"I'll go right away! I've been waiting for this moment my whole life!" He strikes an overconfident pose, and puffs out his chest proudly for all the world to see. "Ja'ne! Time to become the best hokage -erm, I mean -WAITER ever! YATTA!" And, in Team Rocket fashion, he sped off at the speed of light. He wouldn't let it down. He wouldn't!
Of course, he should've thought things through. Currently, he was strolling around Konoha with a vanilla folder in hand.
'Why am I so stupid? What was I thinking?' He thinks, hands in his hair, and stressing out.
"Not my fault you're such an idiot." Kurama says through his mindscape.
'All I ever wanted to do in life was to surpass my father and become a hokage-er, I mean -the best man ever!' Naruto thinks, trying not to break the fourth wall, but failing desperately. Kurama laughed in his sewer cell, shaking the whole mindscape.
"That sounds lame. Try again."
'Er...the richest business man...ever?' Even Naruto seemed unsure. Kurama shook his head with a facepalm that even Naruto could see through the mindscape.
"Still lame. Just like you, Kit!" Kurama snickered near his ear, and he shivered from the demonic physical contact.
'UGH! FINE! I give up! I just wanna be accepted, OK? Everywhere I go, they just down at me. I ask myself every day why I even exist. Why am I even here? I feel so worthless...'
(this isn't me, this is Naruto thinking)
"Aw, c'mon. You'll live. The world is messed up! I had lost faith in humanity years ago! I mean, there's no equality! People are killing themselves! People are dying all the time! And people are politically correct about everything! I mean, c'mon. Politics are way too controversial! That's why when you were born I almost ended it all. And I would've gotten away with it, too, if your mother hadn't transferred me into your body last minute as I was about to blow. So, I couldn't even possess that sexy body of hers." The Kyuubi sighs in disappointment.
Naruto snickers. 'You're such a pervert! Just like Jiraiya-sensei!' He thinks, still walking around aimlessly.
The Uzumaki (Namikaze) sighs.
Naruto kicks the soles of his shoes; his converse. His body slouches over, and he's just letting his feet to wander. He has no place to afford for.
He's on the streets, and it's raining. It fits the mood right about now.
His orange hoodie shadows his face; bangs covering his eyes. 'Heh, I kinda feel emo right now, like that Sasuke teme.'
He stops, suddenly, at a memory.
'Speaking of, what happened to that asshole? Y'know, that one prince perfect?' He asks the Nine-Tailed Tox, sorta curious himself.
" Oh, him. I dunno. Why, do you want him? Even after all this time he's been a bastard to you?"
'Are you kidding? No way. He's such a prick. He gets all the ladies and he doesn't care; not one bit! He even stole Sakura-chan's attention away from me!' He remembers sadly, if possible, feeling even more down in the dumps. The girl of his dreams...gone in just a snap of a finger. Depressing, really.
FLASHBACK
"Sakura-chan, I..." He held out a bouquet of cherry blossoms out for her. Today was the day to confess. The moment he'd been waiting for all of his life, ever since they were childhood friends. Naruto was always attracted to her, even now he still was. Which is why he was standing in front of the love of his life, and also trying not to stutter. "I...love you." He blushed at the last words, looking everywhere but at her.
He watched in anticipation as her face scrunched up in anger, no doubt about to hit him or even say "I love you!" back. Maybe a bit of both. What happened next took Naruto completely off guard.
"Naruto, you...SASUKE-KUN!" Shoving the blonde off of her, she ran across the hallways and rammed into Sasuke facefirst at superhuman speed. They both tripped over each other and she landed into his chest. "Sorry," she says, standing, and helping him up. He snorts and brushes off the invisible dust from his sleeves and then cockily walked over to the blonde; who was still awestruck at her flat out forwardness of rejection. The Uchiha brushed past him with enough force that the flowers simultaneously fell to the floor, unnoticed.
"You're a dobe, deadlast." Sasuke said as he shoved his hands in his pockets. And left the two in a frenzy of feelings.
FLASHBACK
" Cheer up, Kit! Maybe it's destiny, but I have a funny feeling you'll see them again ."
'Oh I sure hope not.'
He stops walking around with his hood on once he hears talking nearby the streets. With his resume in hand for Icharaku's, he follows suit; sticking to the shadows. Walking closer, he can look and listen more clearly now. Blocking the entrance of the infamous ramen store, a gang of teens surround themselves in idle chit chat.
'Damn! They're in the way!' He thinks, 'maybe it won't hurt...to eavesdrop a little. Just a little!' He swore to himself, leaning in a little closer.
"...uke. He thinks he's so high and mighty! Puh-lease! He's so stuck-up about every damn thing!" An albino wearing a black clouds with red clouds all over it says. "Why do I even work for him? Honestly, if it weren't for the money, I would've quit YEARS ago!" A redhead in glasses also in the same clothing slaps him across the face. "Don't you DARE talk about Sasuke-kun like that! I, for one, love him with all of my heart~! And you're the ones who's being a b!tch." She snaps, full of fury.
'Sasuke? No...probably someone else. It's not that uncommon of a name in Konoha, Japan.' Naruto shakes his head in disbelief. 'I...can't believe it.'
"Hope you're right, Kit."
"That's enough, Karin, Suigetsu. We're Team Taka. We have no right to talk about our boss behind his back. And, SHH! We're in public, remember?" A large, burly and bulky man with flaming orange hair stood six feet over them. He had his arms crossed, and he, too, also wore a cloak with red clouds. 'Must be a thing I'm unaware of...' Naruto thinks, licking his lips at the sight. 'Oh, who am I kidding? I have an interview with the Old Man! I should start talking now!'
The two youngsters shared looks of annoyance, but finally relented. "Let's go." Says the white-haired kid with shark teeth - Suigetsu, Naruto notes - and sighs. Karin hums to herself, adjusting her glasses as they walk inside.
"We ordered three servings of miso and menma..." They trail off, and Naruto steps out to the street and walks over to said entrance door. He enters and smiles to Ayame, Teuchi's daughter, and sits at a table. Slurping his ramen, he looks outside and watches as each droplet of water falls from the sky. Drumming his fingers on table out of boredom, he notices at the corner of his eye a flyer. Grabbing it was still cold-numb fingers, he gasps once he sees the cover.
No.
No way.
Was it really...?
Yes.
Sasuke Uchiha was on the cover of the first page of NOW HIRING: At Uchiha & Co.
Read the full version here at my Archive of Our Own (AO3) account under the same pseudos
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