Disclaimer: I sadly cannot take credit for these wonderful characters, but i can take credit for the crappy plot that is about to unfold, and a few personality changes you are gauranteed to notice.
In short, i claim this story is going to suck yet i post it anyway in hopes that someone will like it. :) My muse has sadly been gone for several long months and seems to refuse to want to return, so please, for those of you who are waiting on sasuke and itachi's next adventure to be posted, be patient and satisfy yourselves with this new peice of crap :) I promise, once i gain my bearings and continue the chapter i am currently stuck in the middle of, it will be well worth the wait ;)

Enjoy and Review, Please :D

I hated being the new guy at any job, but now that I was out of school and into the corporate world, being the new guy totally sucked. Fresh out of school I was surprised to get into such a good position, but I was the star student after all, and an accountant for a part of the largest shipping company in the northern part of the country was nothing too hard to get. My boss, Hyuuga Neji, seemed like one hell of a guy to be employed by, considering most major business men didn't wear their hair to their waist or let their eyes stay colored lavender. Most would professionally crop their hair and wear contacts to cover the distraction of their eye color. Not to mention the man seemed to be a sheer genius, becoming the third highest in the company at the fresh age of 25. Granted, I didn't know much about who ran the business, and it may have been family run, so I could only make assumptions.

But back to being the new guy. In any other job I have ever had, it was a friend that had helped me get it, so going in I would be working with someone I knew. But now… now I was on my own, and several people here scared the living shit out of me.

The very first week was… strange, to say the least. I was put into the office right between two of my superiors- Hyuuga-san and his second in command, Uchiha Sasuke. Sasuke was an arrogant asshole to everyone. This was the first thing I noticed about the pale, dark haired man. The second was that he was on the constant verge of losing his job, because whenever Hyuuga-san and him were in the same room, it was a testosterone infused pissing contest. I quickly learned to avoid any area in which the two of them were forced to associate, which seemed to be almost everywhere I went.

Of course, I made several friends quickly- it was what I did best. I quickly became good friends with Huuga-san's secretary and younger sister Hinata, who's only fault was a rather shy temperament. I also got along well with my own secretary (who knew I would have my own secretary, but then again it seemed like anyone on this floor that didn't work in a cubicle had a secretary) Haruno Sakura.

Now, the painful thing about working there, though, was that I had been instructed to take any questions I had concerning my work to Sasuke. So most of the time I either did my best to figure out something, guessed at what I was supposed to do, or waited until someone else who could help popped into my office. Because I absolutely did not want to have to deal with the Uchiha. But my third day there, I had no choice but confront him.

"E-excuse me Uchiha-san…" I said while knocking on the door frame of his office. Yamanaka Ino, his secretary, had told me to just go in.

"What do you want, Uzumaki?" Cold, obsidian eyes staring straight through me.

"I-I… needed to know where to address these files to…" All I knew about the receiver of these files was that the name was Uchiha Itachi, no doubt a relative of Sasuke's, considering the Uchiha name was well known, but not widely spread. The only answer I got for several moments was a cold glare.

"Ask Hyuuga." With this, I was obviously dismissed. Walking past my office and towards Hyuuga-san's, I stopped to ask Hinata if he was busy.

"Hey Hinata, is Hyuuga-san busy right now?" She looked up from her computer and smiled shyly at me.

"N-no, he isn't. You can go right in, he won't mind."

"Thank you." With a smile, I walked past her desk and into the boss's office, where he was sitting at his desk, typing something up on his computer. I noticed he had long, thin fingers that would look at home on a piano, or trailing slowly across a sensitive expanse of skin… Wait a minute, what was I thinking?! I felt a hot blush creep across my face and pushed my mind out of the strange set it had jumped into.

"Excuse me, Hyuuga-san?" He looked up curiously from his computer and I must have been imagining things now as well too, because his eyes seemed to flicker up and down, and light up slightly.

"Oh, Naruto! How has everything worked out for you so far? Good, I hope?" His mouth tilted up at the corner in a friendly, questioning smile, and his eyes watched my face carefully.

"Not bad at all, but Uchiha-san -" His smile turned down at the mention of Sasuke's name. Obvious dislike.

"What did that bastard do now?" I heard a hint of protectiveness in his anger. Was he concerned about me?

"Apparently he doesn't know the address I'm supposed to be sending these files to because he told me to ask you…" I walked to stand in front of his desk and handed him the file. He looked at it and sighed angrily.

"I'm so sorry Naruto; I will take care of this personally. Sasuke Uchiha is an ass of a man who despises his older brother. Everyone is the victim concerning Itachi, including Itachi himself." The frown on his face was definitely angry.

"Um, sir, if you don't mind me asking… if you and Uchiha-san hate each other so much… why don't you fire him?" A strange look crossed Hyuuga-san's face. It was almost like… pain, or even confusion. He looked like he was stuck between two things and was being pulled both ways. At least, that's what I saw in his eyes.

"I… I think I'll explain that rather complicated matter with you at another time." I felt my face heat up when I realized I had unknowingly pried into something personal.

"I'm sorry Hyuuga-san! I will get back to work now, right away sir." I left the room bowing profusely in apology. Walking back to my own office, I was stopped by Sakura.

"Uchiha-san is waiting for you in there, Naruto, I'd be careful if I were you." She added the last part in a whisper. I nodded in thanks. Not sure what to expect, I walked cautiously through the open door of my office, slipping a hand into my pocket.