I finished up chapter 2 and here it is, by the way there's 7 chapters to this story :)

Enjoy.

Disclaimer: As if.


Sasuke placed his car keys in the bowl beside the door when he entered the house and kicked off his shoes as his wife walked towards him with a smile, though he didn't look at her as he took out his phone and hung up his jacket. "Welcome home Sasuke," Sakura greeted her husband and kissed his cheek much like this morning, and like every other day. It was by Sasuke's request that she did so; he refused to let her kiss his lips.

"Thanks." He replied blankly as he walked past her and towards the stairs, "I'll be in the study," he said as he walked without looking back at his pink haired wife, he knew she wouldn't question him about it, she hadn't since he first started confining himself to that room all those years ago.

"I'll call you when dinner's ready," Sakura said as she watched the back of the raven go with a frown before he spoke.

"No, I'm not hungry," the raven replied, ascending the final steps and walking to his left, down the crème coloured landing towards the study. The door clicked shut softly behind Sasuke as he leaned against the door and let out a long breath he didn't know he'd been holding. The last thing he wanted was to have to eat with Sakura and he was glad she hadn't protested, arguments were tedious events. Sasuke finally lifted himself away from the door and walked over to his desk, turning on his computer as he sat down and relaxed a little as he waited for it to start up, finally logging on and checking his e-mails. If there was one thing Sasuke hated, it was his e-mail inbox, yet he couldn't help himself check it every night. It was something to do. E-mails or Sakura? He knew which one he'd pick every time. Hell, Sasuke would read Itachi's e-mails if it meant he didn't have to sit with his wife, e-mails which his inbox was currently full of, and the raven frowned at the sheer number of them before moving them to the trash. Surely Itachi had something better to do with his time, he did own a business! Sasuke skimmed over the rest of his inbox, disregarding trash and leaving others to read later. His eyes finally stopped, settling on the name 'Naruto Uzumaki':

Sasuke,
Your brother told me to tell you that there is another meeting in the morning, so be in on time.
Naruto.

Sasuke scoffed at the letter, Itachi would tell Naruto to say that, and all it was doing was embarrassing the blond. How sad.

Dobe,
My brother holds meetings every day, didn't the last fired assistant leave you that note? You're not my baby-sitter.
Sasuke.

The raven pressed the send button with a small smirk and read through the other e-mails before starting on his work. If there was one thing he was grateful to his brother for it was giving him work at home, it gave him an excuse to be alone, and would keep him occupied until late in the night.

Sasuke glanced at the clock beside his computer screen, the red lights signalling it was exactly 2a.m and the raven was just about to close everything down when he noticed he had new mail, he clicked curiously since not even his brother was up this late -much to Sasuke's relief since he'd spent most of the night moving new e-mails from Itachi into the trash- Sasuke smirked at the name and read the message.

Teme,
I was just trying to be helpful like any normal assistant, I've been here for a day! If that had slipped your mind, how was I supposed to know Itachi held meetings everyday? I'm not a mind reader. Ha! I don't get paid enough to baby-sit you.
Naruto.

Sasuke scoffed and smirked at the reply from Naruto. The blond had balls to talk to Sasuke like that, that's for sure. Sasuke's reply was short and once he had sent it he turned off the computer, stretching in his chair before he headed for his room.

Naruto watched the computer screen as he stretched, his plan of a well deserved nights sleep wasn't going as planned, his first day had been far too hectic, everything kept buzzing around in his head from bumping into Sasuke –literally- to Gaara's goodnight kiss, and it was all annoyingly keeping him awake. Suddenly the screen flashed that he had mail and Naruto opened the new message.

Dobe,
Get some sleep or I'll kick your ass tomorrow for being a useless assistant.
Your boss.

Naruto pouted at the screen, "teme," he mumbled as he re read the message "useless assistant, more like a useless boss," he complained as he shuffled back to bed, hoping that he would finally get to sleep.

******

"Wow Naruto, rough night? Did Gaara take you to a strip club when you left without inviting us?" Kiba commented with a pout as he walked into the meeting room, and Naruto could barely life his head to glare at the brunet with the amount of strength he had in his body, and he gave up with a huff, resting his head once again on his arms against the desk. Rough night indeed, he'd had less sleep than the blond could ever imagine and so was his sluggish behaviour. He hated losing sleep, and so did his body. "Hey, don't let Itachi see you like that or he'll kill you," Kiba warned the other man who lifted his head slowly, his disgruntled expression making the other man laugh before he took his seat at the other end of the table.

"Ok everyone the meeting is about to start!" Itachi called with a clap as he walked into the room, the blond wincing at the loud noise so early in the morning with so little sleep. Itachi glanced over everyone on the table, his eyes finally resting on the blond who was trying to sit up straight. "Naruto, did you let Sasuke know about today?" he asked the blond.

"Oh yeah, but you know how much Sasuke listens to me," the blond said with a small smile, trying to act as natural as possible while he fought to keep his eyes open, and the older raven sighed.

"Sasuke will be Sasuke," he mumbled and turned towards the table as he took his seat, "I guess we'll give it ten minutes since he usually takes that long to-" but Itachi stopped mid sentence when his younger brother walked into the room and took his seat next to the blond without a word.

"Something wrong brother?" Sasuke asked, a tiny amused smirk present on his features as he looked at his gawking brother, who closed his eyes and shook his head, the younger raven was still there when he looked up again and he smirked.

"No, nothing," he said in a slightly sing song way and began to address the meeting again.

"So you have a meeting with your brother at one and a woman called…" Naruto furrowed his brow as he flicked through his papers for a small post-it note, "Sakura called, she said that she had to cancel tonight's plans."

The raven was silent as Naruto spoke and a little afterwards before addressing the blond. "Are you still here?" Sasuke asked with a smirk as the two men walked down the corridor towards Sasuke's office.

"I'm your assistant; I'm here whether you like it or not until Itachi fires me or I quit," Naruto said triumphantly. "So deal with it."

Sasuke mumbled incoherently, the blond barely making out what sounded like "stupid dobe assistant" before the raven walked into his office and closed the door behind him. Naruto sighed and shook his head with a small smile as he walked to sit behind his already cluttered desk, how could he already have such a relationship with his boss after two days of working here? Naruto wondered as he sat down and grimaced at his desk, more importantly, how had his desk become so cluttered after two days of working here? No matter what the answer, the blond knew the papers wouldn't just disappear if he answered right, so with a reluctant sigh he began typing.

********

"What happened today?" Kiba asked as he took a drink of his beer and rested it back on the table before continuing, "I mean Sasuke came to a meeting, on time!" the man exclaimed, shock evident in his voice and Naruto looked at him confused.

"I don't get it," the blond admitted, "doesn't he ever go to meetings on time?" He asked the group and they all shook their heads in unison.

"Never," Shikamaru stated as he leaned forward on his chair and rested his elbows on the table to support his head on his hands, "not once since he started work here," Naruto looked at Shikamaru wide eyed. That was absurd.

"That is weird," Naruto admitted, though he wasn't really interested in digging deeper into this new revelation. "Well guys I should get going," the blond said, standing from his chair and searching his pockets for his keys but coming up empty handed. "Shit, I must've left my keys at work!" Naruto sighed, "do you think the building will still be unlocked?" he asked hopefully.

"Sure, sure" Kiba answered, "Itachi doesn't leave until maybe three and he locks up himself." Naruto sighed with relief.

"Do you need a ride Naruto?" Gaara asked, quickly standing from his chair to follow the blond.

"Thanks Gaara but I'll be fine, stay here, I can get a taxi," Naruto said to the redhead who sat down slowly and reluctantly.

"If you're sure," Gaara shrugged trying not to impose on the blond in case he came on too strongly, so he didn't argue, and Naruto waved to the group before he left.

The building was silent when the blond entered, he looked over to the circular reception desk but the girl wasn't there, -and though all lights were still on, having no one around made Naruto feel a little uncomfortable- but he walked quietly to the elevator and pressed the button for the 21st floor which lit up singularly before the door closed and the elevator ascended. The doors opened, and Naruto looked around, half expecting to see the usual blue haired receptionist sitting at the front desk, but of course it was close to midnight and no one would be on this floor this late apart from Itachi it seemed, though Naruto wasn't going to find out.

The lighting was dim compared to when there were workers around, only small wall lights lit the way, and Naruto silently made his way towards the very end room. He wasn't sure why he was being so quiet, no one was around after all, but he took the utmost care as he clicked the door open and peered into his office, he looked over at his paper cluttered desk, still managing to grimace at it like it was evil, and saw his keys resting on the highest pile. He sighed with relief and walked over to pick up the keys but an unusually bright light for this place so late at night caught his eye and he turned to see light streaming from Sasuke's slightly open office door. Naruto walked over slowly and curiously 'maybe he forgot to turn the lights off,' he thought to himself, and opened the door slightly to look into the room to see if it was empty, but to his surprise he found Sasuke, sitting at his desk, rubbing his temple with his finger and thumb. "Sasuke?" the words came out of Naruto's mouth before he could register saying them and he immediately regretted it, he didn't want to pry and ask why his boss was currently sitting in an empty office at midnight but he couldn't just run away now, besides the raven was staring straight at him.

"What are you doing here?" Sasuke asked the blond who panicked before he remembered the keys hanging loosely from his ring finger.

"I uh- forgot my keys," Naruto said somewhat nervously, showing the raven the metal dangling from his finger as proof. Sasuke just nodded, looking back at his computer screen, but the blond didn't leave, for some reason he wanted to make sure his boss was ok, "is everything alright?" he asked in a concerned voice and Sasuke shot him a dark glare.

"Dobe, you're my assistant not my keeper and work finished hours ago so you can stop pretending to care," Sasuke snapped bitterly and the blond bristled, scowling, something the man never usually did.

"Gee teme I was just trying to be nice, you know the saying a problem shared is a problem halved, but it looks like you don't want my help so I guess I'll just leave!" Naruto said just as bitterly and stormed out of the office and into the elevator, slamming his finger on the 1st floor button like said button had caused him some sort of pain, though with the force Naruto had abused the thing, it now had, and he swore as he clutched his bruising finger. Naruto's anger didn't subside as the elevator descended, and in a blind hurry to get out of the building he walked straight into someone as the doors opened and landed on the floor with a thud.

"Are you ok?" the voice said and Naruto's eyes shot open to see Itachi looking down at him, his head tilted to the side slightly with confusion.

"S-sorry Itachi, I didn't mean to walk into you like that!" Naruto said hurriedly and scrambled to his feet and Itachi laughed.

"No harm no foul," he said and smiled shortly, "what are you doing here anyway? It's a little late don't you think?"

"I forgot my keys so I came to pick them up," Naruto said for the second time, his hands clutched tightly around the item in question which had begun cutting into his skin in his rage. "I better be going," Naruto mumbled as he walked away from the man who called to him.

"Let me give you a ride, it's a bit late to find your own way home."

"Really its ok I'll manage-" Naruto tried to say but the older raven cut him off.

"I insist," he said and pulled out his own car keys, guiding Naruto out of the building and towards his car.

*******

"So what happened?" Itachi asked, breaking the silence as the two drove and snapping Naruto out of his thoughts, the blond immediately shocked by the question. The guy had to be a mind reader.

"I don't know what you mean," Naruto said trying to be somewhat convincing and hoping the older man would believe him which didn't have much success.

"Did Sasuke say something? He usually does, he gets unbelievably cranky when he's working this late," Itachi chuckled, and the blond had a vague feeling that the older raven wouldn't let this go if he kept denying it, so Naruto decided to tell him.

"I just asked him if he was ok and he blew up, saying I'm just his assistant and stop pretending to care!" the blond explained angrily and Itachi smirked.

"That's Sasuke for you, he doesn't let anyone in, not even his own brother," Itachi pretended to be sad very overdramatically and Naruto laughed at the man at how different he was outside of work. "But give it time, I think he might just open up to you," Itachi winked catching Naruto off guard and the blond blushed.

"Why would he open up to me?" He asked, confused and a little embarrassed and Itachi shrugged.

"I just think he will," the raven declared as they pulled up in front of Naruto's apartment building, "here we are." he said and smiled at the blond.

"Thank you for the ride home," Naruto thanked Itachi and beamed at the man.

"No problem Naruto, but maybe you should invest in your own car." Itachi said and chuckled.

"I'll work on it," the blond agreed and closed the car door behind him, waving goodbye to Itachi as he drove away before strolling to his apartment door and walking inside.

He sighed as he lay on his bed and closed his eyes hoping to get some sleep after another hectic day, but he couldn't get the fight out of his head, he didn't know why it bothered him so much, he didn't care what his boss thought of him, though he wondered why he actually cared enough about Sasuke to ask what was wrong, and as the scene kept playing over and over in his head the blond finally gave up on sleep and got up, switching on his computer before getting a glass of water and sitting back down again. Once the computerwas loaded he opened his inbox to check his mail and smiled at the names, the first was Gaara:

Naruto,
I hope you arrived home safely and found your keys.
See you tomorrow.
Gaara.

Naruto blushed, Gaara really didn't need to be so concerned about him, but it was sweet.

Hey Gaara,
I got home fine; you don't have to worry about me, really, I don't want to be any trouble.
See you at work.
Naruto.

He looked at his next message from Kiba and raised a questioning eyebrow, what could he possibly want this late at night?

Hey man, you shouldn't have left so early, you missed Choji eat twelve bags of pretzels and throw up all over the floor, it was hilarious.
See you at work dude.

Naruto laughed, then sighed, the smile the mail had put on his face wavering slightly, that definitely would have been better than the argument he had had with Sasuke, but he rolled his eyes at the screen as he re-read the message, this guy was such a kid, but he expected as much from Kiba, even if he had only known the guy a couple of days. Naruto moved on to the next message which was one he hadn't been expecting, and his stomach dropped, his heart beat raced as he clicked on the message from 'Sasuke Uchiha' 'please don't say he's firing me' Naruto thought repeatedly as he intently read the message before sighing with relief and letting out the breath he'd been holding with the expectation of bad news, fortunately for his that wasn't the case:

Dobe,
You're working over time tomorrow; if you fall asleep while we're working you're fired.
Sasuke.

Naruto replied with a simple 'sure, sure,' more than relieved that he was getting to keep his job after shouting at his boss like that. Suddenly the blonde's eyes felt heavy, the weight of the daunting day ahead lifted a little by the promising but punishing e-mail, but Naruto didn't care, he could take working longer hours as long as he wasn't getting fired. Sasuke was giving him a second chance, and he was grateful for that. So he turned off the computer and headed for bed, he was glad he wasn't fighting with Sasuke; he feared having to go to work tomorrow if they had been but at least the raven was speaking to him now, and Naruto smiled as he drifted off to sleep.


A/N: Not much to say about this one *shrug* I love Kiba's e-mails x3

Review please!

Kit~