(Sasuke's part)
7:45 pm: I'll fax you more paperwork, it needs to get done before 12:30.
8:00 – 9:00 am: Tele meeting- Hyuga
9:30 am: Interview- Karin Uzumaki
10:15 am: Interview- Tayuya
11:00 am: Tele meeting- Nara
11:30 am: Interview- Naruto Uzumaki
12:00 pm: Fax finished work to me
2:00 – 3:30 pm: in office meeting- G. no Sabaku
4:30 pm: Interview- Tayuya Sound
6:00 pm: Check with meSasuke read his daily agenda, Taking note of the round red writing placed in his schedule by his Secretary, Hinata Hyuga, he is business partners with her elder cousin, Neji and agreed to give her a job as his assistant. He came to find that the mousy woman was actually very good at her job and much more pleasant to be around then some of the other annoying secrataries.
His meeting with the lazy ass Nara lasted ten minutes, leaving with about twenty minutes to calm down before he had an appointment with Miss Uzumaki, hopefully Naruto wasn't anything like her sister/cousin or however they are related. Karin was constantly trying to seduce him, and hung off his arms like a monkey, he knew for sure that he wasn't hiring her.
Sasuke walked into the kitchen, his bare socked feet making a whispering noise on the black tiled floor as he made his way to the sink. Dirty dishes were overflowing on to the counter, crumbs littered the floor and the flies came to eat the leftover food still on the plates, the whole room was starting to smell too. That's another reason he needed a nanny... to clean up his entire house, it was getting really gross.
Thanking whatever god would listen, Sasuke poured some cold coffee into the last clean mug and leaned up against the island behind him and looked out the window directly above the sink, he could see his kids playing in the back yard, Ikkou was sitting on a stone bench reading a book and rocking Ikki in his car seat with his foot, the baby just sat there amusing itself with trying to catch falling petals from the cherry tree above him. His sister and cousin, Chidori and Chion- his little Devilish Duo, were playing a game of tag on the bright green lawn, they were giggling and laughing quietly as not to disturb Ikkou's reading. They all seemed very content. Lovely.
When Chidori noticed her Daddy watching, she stopped running after her best friend and waved with both hands in a way that only little kids can manage.
"Hi, Daddy," was muffled by the pane of glass in between them, lowering his black mug from his mouth he gave her a little smirk/smile of amusement and a two fingered salute. He relaxed as he watched his baby girl go running after Chion again, he let her catch him after an appropriate amount of time before he started to run after her, making sure to keep a bit away from her. He was a good cousin, Sasuke thought, draining the rest of his mug.
The pleasant sound of their deep, chiming doorbell made Sasuke jerk in surprise, before he padded down the hallway with his bare feet. He tugged on his black shirt a bit to make it lay more naturally against his body. Taking a few moments to breathe so he doesn't seem too eager, he finally opened the red door to reveal this punk ass teenager.
The kid looked like a hoodlum with his tight black jeans and belt with silver pyramid studs, not to mention all of those things in his face! Seriously, his hair is unnaturally colored, his face had metal in it, he's dressed like a punk, and he probably doesn't even know who the band on his shirt is. He's just another wannabe piece of dropout shit.
"What?" The kid didn't deserve to be talked to in a polite tone of voice, not even his brother got that half the time.
"Is this the Uchiha residence?" His voice was a lot higher than you'd expect of a boy going through puberty, you'd think it'd be deep and fluctuate often, but no. It was kinda soft, and sweet.. like a girl.
"Look, I don't want to buy whatever you're selling for school or your band." Sasuke said forcefully, switching to a topic before the first could really come up.
"Umm... I'm not selling anything, really. I have an appointment for an interview with a Mr. Uchiha at eleven thirty." He rubbed one of his whiskered cheeks, Sasuke wondered if it was a tattoo or scars.
"No, you must be mistaken, I have an appointment at eleven thirty with a girl named Naruto." The raven told the younger kid, trying to close the door.
"Wait!" He paused in his actions to look up at the blonde, "My name is Naruto Uzumaki, you're secretary set up the appointment with me."
"... You're a boy." Sasuke said after a moment of heavy silence. It might not have been the most intelligent comment, but it worked just the same.
"Yes, I am a boy. And you are a man." There was sarcasm in his voice, Sasuke normally liked sarcasm- just not when it was directed at him.
"Exactly. Now why would I hire a boy when I could get a nice middle aged woman who knows what she's doing?" The taller smirked, confidence.
"Why would you be willing to hire a sixteen year old girl if you wanted someone who knows what they're doing?" Naruto shot back.
" Aren't girls supposed to be born with motherly instinct, or something? They're girls, they're good at it."
"That is sexist and rude. I'm young, not stupid, and a boy not a drug addicted escaped convict." Naruto glared, putting his hands on his hips that made him look strangely like Tenten when she got mad at him for leaving dirty clothes in the kitchen sink.
"Please, come in." Sasuke held open the door for the kid to walk through.
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(Naruto's bit... kinda)
Sasuke's office is nice, a big dark wooden desk sat not ten feet from the door, allowing the owner of said desk to look up at any given moment to see who is entering his space. The room was on the smaller side, the walls were painted a nice dark olive green that made it feel cozier- not so cold and stiff. There was no chair for a visitor to sit which lead Naruto to believe that this was Sasuke's room, no one came in it, not for long anyway.
In the corner of the room there was a tall floor lamp, it's yellow light bounced off the walls and wrapped the room in a warm glow. There were potted plants in little clusters in the corners.
What immediately drew Naruto's attention was the bookcases that lined the walls, big books in browns, blues, and reds filled the shelves. There were law books, business books, parenting, cooking, fiction, non-fiction, classics, philosophy, history, culture and religion books. On the bottom most level there appeared to be many books for children, the ones with this cardboard pages that seemed to be chewed on the big ones with a hard cover with big bright colored letters and glossy illustrated pages that make squeaking noises when you slide your fingers across them to turn the page.
Sasuke sat in the big leather office chair behind the oak desk, his bare feet made no noise on the plush carpet. Seeing no other place to sit Naruto plopped down onto the corner of his giant desk, the dark haired man said nothing but his eyebrow twitched in irritation as he lifted a manila folder file off the stack of other files sitting on his desk, Sasuke's chicken scratches writing scrawled "NARUTO UZUMAKI" across the front in blue ink.
'He could have been a doctor with that writing...' Naruto thought to himself. Bringing his socked feet up on the desk so he could sit criss-cross.
"Naruto Uzumaki. You are a boy." Sasuke started, reading over what appeared to be a very extensive background check on the kid.
"I thought we went over this already. Yes, I am a boy. Yes, I want this job. Yes, I have worked with kids before, I have a clean record and can do the job. I have blood type O negative, so if anything happens." Naruto told the man, a little annoyed that they keep going over this, he knows he's a boy, and is really young. But he's responsible, he can do the work.
"Fine. We'll get back to that. Let's see; employment history..." Sasuke mumbled, reading a list of jobs the kid worked at, he had to pause to flip the page two or three times, "You are very... well rounded."
"Yeah, heh heh heh, I have worked at a lot of places... normally I have four or five jobs at a time, at the most seven, and I started working at a younger age so they tend to drop you before they get the cops called on them because of child labor laws." Naruto explained, "But I got fired for a lot of different reasons... almost as many reasons as I got hired for."
The raven looked interested so Naruto continued.
"When I worked at the flower shop, I got hired because my 'eyes brought out the blue' of the monthly flowers, I got fired because I couldn't remember what any of the plants were called or what they mean. I got hired at the butcher shop for being strong enough to move the meat, but I was too short to put them anywhere. There was this one fancy french restaurant that I got hired at because I knew french and the other applicants didn't, but I thought the food was crap and said so... to the customers."
"You know french?" Sasuke asked, perking up a little bit.
"I know many things." Naruto answered cryptically.
"It says here that you worked at a daycare center for a couple of years before it was put out of business." Sasuke read read to Naruto, deciding to ignore his previous comment and start where the information was relevant.
"yeah, I did. I liked that job, the kids at Mommy's Aid were less demanding than all the other people I worked with." They laughed, Naruto at the fact that children were less pushy that matured adults and Sasuke at the fact that the kid worked at a place called Mommy's Aid. After settling down, Sasuke flipped over the page and started reading his background information. Hinata's red pen wrote in the margins telling him the condensed version.
-Orphaned from birth, never adopted. "Lived" with guardian at age eight who was home two to eight weeks a year. So lived alone for eight years.
- Mediocre Primary school grades, terrible secondary, but finished high school a couple weeks ago. Had straight A's and had four years of credit in two.
-Has night classes this fall at the community college.
-Has practically worked a hundred different jobs. Many skills?
- Has a driver's license. Has had it for eight months.
- No criminal record. There was record of a child abuse while still in orphanage, poor baby... reason for guardian claiming him?
- Relevant jobs: Day care, restaurants (as cook occasionally), maid service, beauty salon (we both know you and Ikkou have issues with Chidori's hair), laundry service.
- Personally, I like him. Good luck. :)
"What skills can you bring to the table, Dobe?" Sasuke liked him too, not that you could tell from his word choice, he seemed nice enough, not as stern as Tenten, and he did get through the door as a guy, so there's gotta be some reasoning skills (and femininity- he needs a makeshift mother, not an awkward older brother figure).
"I can, cook, clean, do laundry, and I have experience with watching children and raising them, Teme." Naruto told him, giving him a big Smile that stretched his cheeks.
'Damn, that sounds perfect,' Sasuke sat for a moment trying to figure out his pros and cons list.
Pros
- High School Grad. Plans for college. That means he's not a complete Dobe.
- Experience with Children and housekeeping.
- Not being a whore and hanging off of me, which is major brownie points.
- He seems responsible enough, considering his background, is really impressive.
- Comes from the other side of the tracks, so he's probably open minded about a lot of things, but is also educated enough to teach my kids not to smoke crack and "tap dem hoes."
-Even though he's an idiot, I find his company tolerable- no nasty habits that I can see so far, doesn't smell like smoke or booze.
Cons
-He's an idiot.
-He looks like a douche.
-He's sixteen.
-He's a boy.
-He can't keep a job for the life of him.
-He's from the wrong side of the tracks.
- He probably has PTSD from his childhood.
'I guess... besides, if all else fails. He has a nice ass and I can farm him for his blood to sell on the black market.'
"Here are the keys to the house and the car you'll be using. Pack up everything tonight, and be moved in by tomorrow, I'll show you the ropes then." Sasuke dismissed the kid, leaving him looking startling like a fish with his big blue eyes and his small mouth opening and closing like a fish. He quickly stood and walked out the door, making his way to his apartment to move, he still had a far away look in his eye, like he couldn't quite believe that he got the opportunity.
Obviously the idiot figured that the Interview would be more... intense. But truth be told, the Uchiha didn't want to scare away the only decent candidate for the job. More than likely the other woman wouldn't be better than Naruto.
"Hello? Hinata? Please cancel My appointment with Miss Tayuya Sound, I think I found my Nanny."
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There's chapter two, y'all. It's crap, but it'll get better. Please review, my muse doesn't exist right noe so unless I get a smidgen of support this is going to be very slow going lovelies.
~Lex
