Waiter
Uchiha Sasuke was someone who didn't like to depend on others. Whether the support was needed or not didn't mater to him. He just didn't like to depend on others, and that's how he found himself in his current predicament.
He left his one-whole floor apartment, the rent being paid by his brother until just recently, with a scowl etched onto his face. His brother, Uchiha Itachi, wasn't one he could say he favored. Even if he was the only brother he had. They had just got off the phone over a long extensive talk, or rather argument, about who should pay the rent.
His brother would often come to his apartment for some leisure time, using Sasuke as a servant and for his teasing pleasure. After their parents died of an 'unexpected' accident Sasuke had refused to live in the Uchiha mansion for too long with his brother and insistently went to look for apartments. Oh he found one all right, but he needed the money to pay for it.
What about the fortune of his family? What about the will? The fortune was well secured in a high security bank where only certified adult Uchihas could access. Unfortunately that was what was stated in the will as well and since Uchihas were not classified adults till the age of 21, Sasuke was a couple months short of reaching that.
Itachi agreed on him getting an apartment and paying for it for a couple of months. But being the tease he was he told Sasuke to go look for a job and so he did.
And here he was now, in a sophisticated cafe free of children and filled to the brim with adults and teenagers in the morning. How lucky Sasuke was to have finished college at the young age of 15, but Itachi had bested him at graduating at the age 13. Sasuke didn't know if he could have survived the pain and torture of high school girls.
Although being in a college for 2 years with bustling grown ups wouldn't be called relaxing. The prodigy wasn't all that happy when the women would come to squeeze his cheeks or plant kissed on them. His first impression of girls when he was young was that they themselves would never grow up.
"So Sasuke-san why is it that a person of such high status would be trying to get work here? You do have a career don't you? Oh my I just remembered I'm sorry for the loss of your parents, how inconsiderate of me!"
The pudgy old man bowed, he seemed nice enough. Sasuke recalled months before that he saw the jolly round man in a Santa Claus suit ringing a bell and handing sweets to passing by children. Surely he wouldn't bother him or harass him just as the other job managers had done to him in the past.
"Please don't worry too much about it. I do have a career in managing our companies that we have along with my brother, but unfortunately the funds are going into my family's bank account which I can't access yet." Sasuke said with a deep intent to hurt Itachi if he was at his apartment.
"Oh I see…Well we do need some help around here, do you have any experience with working machines? Oh and can you cook and bake?"
"I was taught mechanics by my father and my mother taught me the fundamentals of cooking and baking. I think I can manage." Sasuke said solemnly while thinking of his parents.
"Ah, that's good." The man seemed to be checking things off a clipboard nearing the end of the list. "Last but certainly not least, do you have good social skills?" Sasuke's eyes twitched, that was the one thing he hoped he wouldn't have to answer.
"Honestly I don't have that much experience with contacting other people. I was in a situation where I was too busy to talk to people, much less befriend them or even try to socialize. I'm even surprised myself for telling you so much about my personality."
Which was true, Sasuke didn't know why he was telling this man so many things about himself. If anything this man should have been the last on his list of people to tell. He was just too jolly and happy of a man.
"Well I'm glad you told me so much about yourself Sasuke-san. I knew your father and mother would have loved it if you would socialize some more. You see Sasuke, your father and mother met in this very café."
Sasuke shivered, the death of his parents wasn't something he dwelled on too much. It was just the shock of losing them that stayed in his heart. He knew they were in a nice place and that their deaths were really an accident in the icy roads. What he didn't know was how they got to meet each other.
Now Sasuke was glad he came to this café. Sasuke looked at the manager again he reminded him of his parents, even though his brownish-grey toothbrush mustache and butcher's hair cut didn't really look like either of them. (Thank God).
"That's good to hear. So do I have the job?" Sasuke pleaded with pearly black eyes. The man laughed.
"Of course you do. I'll pay you a good sum of money. My other workers seemed overworked in just 2 days that they had to quit. I hope you won't disappoint me Sasuke-san. What time can you work?"
"Whenever you need me to fill in a gap, I'm free everyday Itachi has given me some 'vacation' time since the death of my parents." The man smiled again and gave a encouraging nudge to Sasuke's arm.
"Don't you have a special someone that you should be catching up with Sasuke-san? Surely a handsome young man like you would have someone." Sasuke chuckled.
"Nope, not yet, women are just too hard to figure out, even for me." He joked. Sasuke wasn't in quite the mood for looking for someone, but played along with the man.
"Let's hope you find someone while working here then. That's how your father met your mother. How many hours can you work?" The man seemed to be in a rush since a movie crowd from across the street was coming by.
"Well, I'm not sure I have plenty of time so I'll work whenever really and I live a couple of blocks down so I can come if someone can't make it."
Sasuke was being overly friendly with this man he didn't even know the name of. But somehow it felt as though he knew him all his life.
"Well that's swell! Now just fill out this form and contact information and we can get you working tomorrow morning!"
With that Sasuke found his first part-time job ever. By the sounds of it, it wasn't going to be a joy ride.
The morning of the first day…
"Sir could you please decide on your order quickly there are customers waiting in line." The rush behind Sasuke and in front of the cashier was hectic.
Employees handling hot and cold coffee right behind him and the push of customers in front, you could say they had to have an orderly system for all of this and Sasuke was one who didn't like to ruin the system.
"Yes um, get me a caramel frappiccino with whipped cream on top. Make it a medium." Sasuke handled the money given to him and the man went to the side line to wait for his order.
Seeing the line grow longer the manager decided to get someone more experienced at the front of the 'to go' line. The man insisted that Sasuke should go bus some tables and ask other people, who were in no rush, if they wanted a drink or snacks.
Cleaning some tables and asking people if things were all right was a snap. The shop was located near a college campus and near a neighboring high school so you would expect some mature people to rise.
But then again you would have your batch of misfits and juvenile delinquents messing up the peace.
Sasuke nearly dropped the plate of crumbs he was carrying when a blonde-man walked passed him and skimmed Sasuke's elbow.
"Excuse me sir, watch where you're going." Sasuke said irritably at the man.
The man just turned around and looked at Sasuke, he looked like he was going to apologize but then stopped and turned back to the table he was heading towards.
What a rude teme. Sasuke's eyes followed where the man was going and it settled to a table near the corner window. A woman with long indigo hair sat there reading a book with no refreshments on the table.
She nodded to the man which was a supposed greeting.
"Sasuke-san, see anyone you like?" Sasuke's manager snuck up behind him and chuckled, the morning rush passed by and only some in and out customers were coming in. Some of them even settled down to a table waiting for a waiter or waitress to serve them.
"I doubt it." He retorted to his happy-go-lucky manager.
"Why don't you go serve that young couple down there? They seem to be of need of some service." Sasuke looked back at the booth he was staring at clearly seeing the back of the head of the young woman and the front of the tan blonde.
Before Sasuke agreed however he saw someone else join their table. A brunette male with wrappings over his forehead, he also looked eerily familiar to Sasuke.
"Now go on! They must be waiting for a waiter to wait them ho ho ho." He nudged Sasuke playfully taking the plates away from his hands.
Taking his notepad and pen he went up to them. They two men noticed him but the female didn't show any sign of acknowledgment.
"What can I get for you today?" He grunted towards the two. The male with the brown hair seemed to be scrutinizing him with his eyes.
"Do I know you from somewhere?" The brown haired asked.
"No, now is there anything I can get for you?" The blonde and indigo didn't respond. They didn't seem to have said a word the whole time they were in the café.
"Wait I'm sure I've seen that scowl somewhere." The brunette man said again. Was Sasuke scowling? He should have been by now since the group of people still hasn't answered his question so he could leave.
"Why don't you take a look at my name tag and write it down like a crazed high school girl then." Sasuke was losing his temper, and when he loses his temper who would usually yell at the person with long sentences.
"Uchiha-san?" His eyes went wide. With that the other two people at the table turned their heads to look at him too.
"Yes? Can't you read?" Sasuke was beginning to think that he really did know the man.
"If this is the way you treat your customers I doubt they would stay long enough to read your name tag." Sasuke huffed, so he did know the man. Not any normal and sane person would say that to someone they first met, except for Sasuke.
"Hyuuga Neji, remember me from college couple years back?" Ahh how could Sasuke forget the obnoxious rich kid that also went to school with him at a young age.
"You're from my graduating class, Hyuuga Neji. Graduated at age 16 and went on to take care of a branch company of the Hyuuga companies. That Hyuuga Neji?"
Neji grinded his teeth, "Well of course that's me, I'm not some stuck up kid who hides in his brother's shadow all of the time." Touché Sasuke thought to himself
"It's not like I try to be behind him it just happens." Sasuke sighed, tired of arguing for once.
"Same here, I don't try to be in a manager to a branch company it just happens." They both sighed in defeat. They, since being closest in age group at the college, used to spend their days together mostly as studying partners. They acknowledged each other as a true classmate and 'study pal' when things would get tough.
"I'm surprised to see you working here though, equally surprised at your parents death a couple months ago."
"Yes, well I have to continue working since I can't access Uchiha funds, so is there anything you guys would like me to get for you?" He asked again a third time.
"Ah sorry for keeping you up, reminiscing about the past seems to have caught up with us. I'll take a cappuccino, and what about you guys want anything?" Neji said referring to the other two people at the table.
The girl merely smiled at him and so did the other man. Sasuke hadn't the slightest clue at what was going on and just stood there with the pen inches away from the paper, itching to get out of his uniform.
Which was a long sleeve collared white shirt with cuffs, black pants, black shoes, and a bluish-blackish bow tie hanging neatly below his chin. (Like a bartender uniform but more elegant if that's possible)
"They would like a cup of jasmine tea and some coffee…" The blonde man gave puppy dog eyes to Neji with a pleading look. "Put loads of sugar in the coffee as well." The blonde man grinned widely, ruffling Neji's hair a bit.
"Naruto! Quit it." Neji pushed away the man called Naruto to the left.
"That all?" "Yeah, how much would that cost me?" He said while putting up his wallet. Sasuke put the check on the table and left to go get their orders without another word.
"Well you took your time at that table Sasuke-san. What kept you?" The manager asked as Sasuke got the cappuccino ready and boiling water for the tea.
"One of them is from the same graduating class as I am. So we were caught up with the past." Sasuke looked for the small spoons that went with the cappuccino mug and the manager pointed it out for him.
"How 'bout the other two?" Sasuke ducked down to retrieve a fallen straw and discarded it.
"Acquaintances, although I don't know the lady's name." Sasuke got the tray ready and was waiting for the coffee to finish brewing from the freshly ground beans.
"Hmm…She didn't say anything when you asked?" The manager asked as well waiting for a cup of coffee to finish brewing.
"She and the man didn't seem to be saying anything really, and I didn't ask." The coffee was done and he poured it on not forgetting the sugar as well.
"That's a bit odd don't you think?"
"What me not asking? I don't think that's odd." Sasuke laughed.
"No, I meant them not saying anything. Think they're mute?" Sasuke pondered about it, but left without saying an answer to the man as he did with Neji.
He gave them their orders seeing if Naruto and the indigo haired girl would say anything. Yet again, they said not a word but only used body language to get what they were trying to get across.
They left not soon after they got their orders. But the girl stayed seemingly having nothing else to do but read the book. Sasuke left because it was the end of his shift, but he wanted to stay just to see if the girl would say anything.
But that would have been awkward. Staring at a girl you didn't know the name of. He figured she was Neji's relative seeing as to how her eyes were almost the exact color of his.
Little did he know that he would see her later that night on his night shift. Reading the same book he had seen her earlier with.
Sasuke passed by her through the window and caught a glimpse of the Japanese style book's cover.
The Eternal Night And The Interfering Day.
Done wit first chapter.
MUAHahahah... Well it wasn't intended as a fun happy fast story. This was just one of the snippets of imagination that seems a bit classic in my mind. I just decided to put it in. I don't think this will be a long fic. probably mayb a 2 shot for when i get bored of Killing Time, my other big fic that I was working on. I'm ganna do another cafe fic that's a bit to contrast with this one. I just love cafe fics. (I dont even know if they're called cafe fics I just made it up) Well yeah I'd call this a cafe fic. So another cafe fic is ganna come maybe a 2 shotter as well.
Oh and the book 'The Eternal Night And The Interfereing Day' Is kind of like a sequal to the other book in Killing Time. I just like things that click. Nothing too serious just some drabble and yada. Review if ya want some more of this. I don't care bout flames, (haven't recieved one yet) but yeah flames are reviews too so i'll gladly take it. -yours truly LightxDark.