Title: Mysteries of the Heart
Full Summary: Due to the recent breach in security, everyone is in a mad scramble trying to get answers. Throw in some unsuspecting victims into the batch, along with a of couple paranoid folks, people who have contrasting personality issues, a sinister plot, a sprinkle of some chaos and misunderstanding, and viola! The ingredients for a disaster are all set and accounted for.
Rating: T - M
Warning(s): Might include typos, a slandering of the English language, profanity, maybe some OOC-ness with some characters (It's my first time writing for this fandom, they might be a bit off ^^'', so sorry in advance!) yaoi (in future chapters), putting up with my humor, and a mighty helping of suffering for some characters. But hey, you torture those you love best right? –cricket cricket- …right…-coughs awkwardly- Okay, on with the story!
Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto. We all know who owns him -grins- ;D
Prologue: The Problem
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The rabid news media, he could handle them. Needing to lay on the charm to finalize a deal, he could handle that. Attending grueling business meetings that had no end, getting stuck with paper work that had him coming home at ungodly hours of the night – no wait technically it would be morning by the time he got home – while juggling into the mix his so called social life, well he could manage.
Just barely though.
But all issues and doubts be damned! He wasn't chosen for this job for nothing.
After finally working his ass off to attain the respect and leadership of the company, along with achieving some sort of stability within the business world, he was thrown a curve ball.
Uchiha Itachi allowed a small frown to appear on his face as he pinched the bridge of his nose trying to stop an oncoming headache. He could still vaguely recall the horror-stricken look his analyst wore on the day he spoke of the dreadful news.
Someone had hacked into the mainframe of the company.
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Obsidian eyes stared dully through the tall glass window and onto the busy city that lay below. Watching the people move about their day; it was like an undeclared pattern really. They would wake up, do their morning ritual, and be off to work only to come back home and repeat the process all over again the next day.
These people were all too wrapped in their own little happy fantasies to even notice those around them. Itachi let out an almost inaudible scoff. They were all so painfully oblivious of their surroundings.
He tore his gaze away from the buzzing city life beneath him and focused his attention onto the parchment that lay atop his mahogany desk.
Itachi glared at the documents, the ones that confirmed his silent fears. They were proof to the breach in security. Someone had indeed hacked their way into the mainframe and by the looks of it, gained access to some of the company's top secret files.
Though questions pertaining to the hacker's motive and how he got pass security still eluded the dark-haired man.
Itachi gracefully traversed toward his desk and sat down on his leather chair, all the while trying to think of a possible solution to this burdensome predicament he was now currently placed in.
A disturbing thought suddenly came to him while he contemplated over the subject.
Did the hacker find what he was looking for?
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An elderly man with snowy-white hair unleashed an ear-splitting grin as he spotted a lovely, and for his personal enjoyment, rather curvy woman sitting at the lobby desk typing away.
"Excuse me, miss." Said lady lifted her gaze from the computer to acknowledge the speaker.
"Hello, sir. How may I help you?" She replied with a polite smile of her own.
"Ah! I am glad you asked! For you see I have this problem." The lady gave a small nod urging the man to continue.
"Well, something's wrong with my eyes." The man said motioning for the woman to come closer as if beckoning her to examine them.
Hook.
The lady leaned forward and had worried look on her face. "What's wrong with them?"
The man eyed the woman's figure that was now up-close appreciatively. Damn! She has a rather nice body on her! I sure have an eye for this sort of thing.
He gave a lecherous smile as he whispered in her ear. "I just can't keep them off you."
Line.
She suddenly recoiled back and slugged the elderly man for all he was worth.
Sinker. With a punch…wow lame pun indeed.
"Pervert!" She hollered red in the face and was ready to pummel him if not for a sudden intrusion that made himself present and was now blocking her way to the perverted man that deserved a beating or two. How dare he try to stop her wrath! She shot him a warning glare and her body tensed waiting for the blond man to explain his actions.
"Wait! Look I know I wasn't here when it happened," the intruder began while rubbing the back of his head nervously, "but I'm pretty sure Jiraiya here said something stupid that most likely offended you in some way."
"You know this man?" She asked with a pointed glare directed toward the older man of the two who was now standing back up rubbing his bruised cheek while muttering something about women and their brute strength.
"Yeah, I do. Rather unfortunate for me though." He mumbled the last part silently and rolled his eyes in a playful fashion.
"Hey! I heard that brat!" Jiraiya retorted smacking his companion's head.
"Ouch! Dammit, that hurt!"
"You're a grown man now Naruto, you'll get over it."
Naruto huffed and crossed his arms over his chest. "So, this is the thanks I get for saving your ungrateful ass from a can of butt-whooping that lady over there was more than eager to dish out?"
"Hey I didn't hit you that hard." Jiraiya said trying to defend his actions.
But Naruto wasn't done ranting. "I can't believe you'd forget the reason why we're here in the first place and opted to flirt with someone else rather than thinking of the objective at hand!" He then continued to rave on and on about perverted guardians who get easily distracted and don't pay attention, leaving him to play hero and save said person before his face was pummeled to a point of no recognition. Naruto snickered at the memory.
"That is so not true! I remember exactly why we were called down here for!"
The lady watched with an amused stare as the two continued to bicker, but the last part of their argument had peaked her interest.
"You guys have an appointment here?"
"Ah yes, with Uchiha Itachi." Naruto grinned sheepishly as he momentarily forgot that another person was in the room with Jiraiya and him.
"Oh! So you two are his two o'clock appointment?" They both nodded as she went back to her desk and picked up the phone.
After a few moments of waiting, the secretary, they finally put two and two together as to how she knew of their visit and why she was acting all…secretary-like. Though looking back on this situation realistically it only made sense that the one who looked, acted, and sounded like a secretary, was conveniently a secretary, but hey people have their dumb moments…
"Okay you two. Mr. Uchiha is ready to see you now."
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Jiraiya scanned the papers once more with a grim expression. In his peripheral vision he caught some movement.
Naruto was nervously twitching with anxiety as he fidgeted in his seat; he offered the boy a comforting smile and then locked his gaze with the powerful man in front of him ready to voice out his thoughts.
"Itachi, can you really trust these documents?"
Itachi calmly intertwined his fingers, placed them atop his desk, and stared back at Jiraiya with a passive face. "Affirmative. I have personally checked this situation at hand to verify the validity of the claim."
"I see," Jiraiya lowered his gaze to the documents once more, "and do you believe it was a one person job or a group of people?"
"At the current moment we cannot safely assume who was involved with the hacking," Itachi paused, "though we do believe this may have been an inside job."
This response did nothing to alleviate the growing tension in the room.
Finally Naruto spoke up. "What do you mean?" His brows knitted in confusion.
Itachi's eyes suddenly took on a darker shade. "This hacker, whoever or whomever they may be, managed to gain access to top secret files. I do not know how much time it took them, but they were here long enough to figure out how to bypass the security system."
Naruto grimaced and proceeded to ask his next question. "Those files that they stole, what do you think they plan to do with them?" Ah bingo, it was only a matter of time before someone asked that question.
Jiraiya frowned as he witnessed a flicker of emotion pass through those obsidian eyes before Itachi closed them. For what seemed like an eternity he finally opened his eyes, which were now blood-red. Neither of the two seemed to be surprised at the sudden change, if anything it only clarified how dire the situation had become.
Itachi opened his mouth to speak, but one had to strain their hearing just to catch the soft words that came out of his mouth.
"I have a suspicion that the person did not find what they were looking for. I believe that they might target the main branch. The one located back in Japan."
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Author's Note:
Well there you go the beginning of a new story. I hope the prologue was understandable, I know I might have been a bit vague. But hey! There's a reason why this is not a one shot, I am willing to write multiple chapters to elaborate on the ideas that are affiliated with this story :]
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Next Chapter: We shall meet the rest of the gang and more people who are unknowingly involved now ^^
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