"Riiiiiiiiiiiiing. Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiing." My alarm goes off.

I slowly open my eyes, waking me up to reality.

"Ughh.." I groaned. I hate waking up. "Crap!" The thought hit me, it was my first day at work! I quickly got up and head to the showers. The warm water hit against my cold skin.

It was sure a cold morning.

Especially in this house, all alone. It's always cold.

This is my life, I'm Naruto Uzumaki. Turning 18 this year. Shit all started when I decided to drop out of school at the age of 15 due to my financial problems. I had to juggle work and school together, it was really tiring. So I dropped out of school..yeah. I recently had an argument with my boss, ahem, excuse me. Ex-boss. That son of a bitch, I put up with him for 2 years already. I was always rebelious. And he was just too demanding for me. I quitted out of anger. Since then, I've been taking up temporary jobs. Today was the first day of my new permanent job.

I cooked a packet of instant noodles and poured some milk into the glass.

Man, this house is just too quiet.

xxx

I ran into the mall, and up the escalator. Looking for a men's apparel store. I quickly noticed it and realized it was a small store. And every shift only needs 1 person, meaning i'll be working alone. But it was my first day. So I'll be under training.

I stepped into the small store and I see a very bored person behind the counter, "Wel-comeee.." He yawned. "Uh.. I'm Naruto-" "Oh, the new guy working here huh?"

"Yeah.." "I'm shikamaru."He yawned again. I fear for my days to come.. It's going to be really boring.

"So shall we start with the training?" I smiled hoping to leave a good first impression.

"Yeah.."

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I learnt how to arrange, fold and price tag the clothes. After that it was restocking and cashiering. And finally how to open and close the store. I was a pretty fast learner, so i guess it went well.

The shift ended. Finally. It was a long day and my face was aching from all the fake smiles, talking and promoting. I closed the shop before Shikamaru and I walked to the subway station. We boarded the train,and talked so much, he almost missed his station.

I reached home and instantly laid on the bed. What a day.

xxx

Morning came almost too fast and I was already going to be late. Again, I ran up to the showers, grab a few bites of bread and ran out of the house.

Luckily I was only 6 minutes late, but i looked like a mess.

"Hey! You must be the new guy right?"

I looked behind me, he wasnt Shikamaru.

"Yeah,I am. You are?" I asked awkwardly.

"I'm Kiba." He shook my hand. Well, he definitely seems more friendly than Shikamaru.

"Nice to meet you, I hope to learn from you."

"Hah, pshh. It's only retailing, nothing much to learn about. It's not like you need some kind of skill to do this." "Haha, I guess you're right."

Today will be my last day in training. Im kind of nervous working alone, but Kiba really made me feel better and more confident.

I stood there, waiting for customers to come in and Kiba nudged me.

"Hey, look at him." "Huh?" I turned to the direction he was pointing.

A tall guy, walking pass our shop, wearing all black from head to toe. Even his hair and eyes were black. His hair was spiked up with a blue tint in it. He wore a black muscle fitting button up shirt with sleeves rolled up to his elbow, black skinnies with a black matching belt. He sure had a cool and classy vibe.

"He's the guy working at the Salon next to our shop."

"Oh, right next to us?" I had a feeling I'm going to work here for a long while..