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Naruto held back his laughter as he sneakily tied a string to the lever of Kiba's chair. The brunet was currently in the toilet, but just in case, Naruto had enlisted the help of his other friend Chouji Akimichi to distract Kiba if he came out of the bathroom early. The others in the office sent him glances, smiles on their faces as they waited until he was finished. It was Tuesday, but the prank war between Naruto and Kiba was ongoing. Everyone on the ninth floor was eager to see how the day would turn out, and what wacky pranks the two would pull off.

Naruto snorted before catching himself as he slowly backed out of Kiba's cubicle, carefully threading the string down in a way that it wouldn't be seen, but still be used. He thanked the Gods that Kiba's desk was higher than others due to his friend receiving an office that used to belong to a giant of man.

"Thanks for the help Kiba!" Naruto heard Chouji yelling and with a breathless giggle he hurried back to the photocopier against the wall, opposite Kiba's cubicle.

"No problem Chouji," Kiba said, waving to the large man as he walked into his office. He glanced at Naruto, but at seeing the blond holding a proposal paper, he dismissed him with a small shrug and sat down, opening up his email.

Naruto waited, and he could feel the secretive glances of everyone around watching and waiting. Finally, when he knew Kiba was concentrating, he turned around with a wide grin and reached for the string on the ground, blending in with the wires of the photocopier. He picked it up, easing it higher and winding it closer until it was taught. It was almost like the whole floor sucked in a breath and held it as Naruto counted down.

Then he tugged firmly, and the little lever on Kiba's chair turned. There was a whir as the chair sunk from its highest level, clanking loudly as seat hit base. Kiba, flailing at the sudden drop, ended up toppling his entire chair backwards and falling to the floor with a loud yell while his legs kicked up in the air. Everyone started laughing hysterically, but Naruto's was loudest of all as he turned in a circle, nearly crying from laughing before he fell to his knees and slapped his palm on the ground.

"Dammit!" Kiba yelled, thumping his head against the floor for having walked into the trap. "You bastard!"

"Did someone call me?" Sasuke said, poking his head out of Itachi's office which he had taken residence in. He saw Kiba on the ground and Naruto wetting himself in a corner, and easily deduced that another prank had taken place. "Please tell me someone got it on camera!" he said, looking up at the spectators.

"I did!" a voice yelled, and heads turned to see a woman with blond hair pulled back into four stubby knots. Her name was Temari Sabaku. "I got it all here!" she said proudly, waving her phone.

Sasuke walked over to her, leaning over her shoulder to watch the video while others also joined, wanting to relive it. Everyone easily heard the crashing of Kiba's chair, as well as his yelling and Naruto's hysterical laughter, coming from the small device. Sasuke smirked as he stepped back.

"Send that to me, please," he said and Temari nodded, laughing as she went back to her desk. Sasuke calmly walked over to the two on the floor. "Inuzuka, please fix your chair and continue working. I want those contract papers for the new branch in the South District finished up and sent to me as soon as possible. Naruto, stop laughing, go change your underwear and please finish making the copies of the Gatou-proposal," he instructed and turned, walking back into his new office and closing the door with a snap.

Slowly, everyone started to pull themselves back into work, chattering about the prank as they sat down and settled.

Kiba got to his feet, rubbing the back of his head as he started to readjust his chair. Naruto walked up to him, still laughing and knelt down to retrieve his string.

"I'm going to get you back for that!" Kiba hissed through a grin. Naruto nodded eagerly.

"Bring it on Kibs!"

"Good idea, by the way."

"Why thank you. And you can thank Chouji too. He was my distraction," Naruto said, and laughed anew at the look on Kiba's face. The brunet jumped to his feet and turned to the rest of the room.

"CHOUJI! YOU BASTARD, I'LL GET YOU TOO!" he yelled. A hand emerged above the cubicles, easily recognizable as Chouji's. It waved happily before giving him the finger and sinking back down, making Naruto laugh and Kiba growl.

"Oh, it's on now!"

Sasuke brushed some hair out of his eyes as he read over the proposal. It wasn't anything major; it just had to be reviewed before being sent for finalisation. God, how he hated red-tape.

"Then again, without red tape this floor wouldn't exist," he mumbled.

He finished the page and placed it back in the folder, leaning back in his chair and stretching his arms out. Since the morning prank with Kiba's chair, nothing had happened. Sasuke was right when he had thought that leading this floor would be boring. Even the manager's work was mundane. At least when he was assistant manager he was a bit more active, moving through the building on occasions. Out of everyone on the ninth floor, aside from Itachi, he'd seen the most floors in the building aside from their own. He rather enjoyed going up to the thirteenth floor. That was the design floor or something like that, and it was mostly a room full of desks and sketch boards, where designers worked on ideas for their next clothing range, accessories and such. There was usually something interesting happening on that floor, mostly because of one particular blond man named Deidara who had a penchant for bringing some strange things in with him. Sasuke remembered one time he had been up there, delivering the overviewed design sheets, and he witnessed Deidara getting chased by the floor manager for setting fireworks off in the bathrooms, scaring the crap out of half the employees in the process.

Fun times.

He scratched at his cheek, thinking of his own co-workers. It seemed that Naruto was the one to start the prank war, and it made him wonder if the blond had known how dreary the weeks ahead would be. Or had he been planning this for ages, but never gotten a chance to act it out with Itachi around keeping an eye on them all?

He looked up at the ceiling, deciding he didn't really care whether Naruto had planned this or not. The truth of the matter was that Sasuke found the idea of having an ongoing prank war in the floor to be…perfect. As long as the pranks didn't completely screw-up their work, then he thought it was a brilliant way to keep everyone entertained and on their toes.

Standing up, he walked to the door and eased it open, looking out at the workforce. He crossed his arms, leaning on the doorway as he watched everyone type away, make copies or go to the few enclosed offices to get items from the residents. The only other people on the floor with enclosed offices, aside from him, were Kakashi Hatake, Iruka Umino, Genma Shiranui and Ibiki Morino. Everyone else had a cubicle, and some even shared office space.

"Sasuke! Need something?" Naruto asked, walking up to him. He held several papers in his hand, and a glance showed Sasuke that they were the Gatou-proposal papers.

"Ah, you finished with those then?" Sasuke asked, holding out his hand. Naruto nodded, smiling as he handed them over. He stepped closer, clapping a hand on Sasuke's shoulder and giving him an intense look.

Sasuke returned it, an eyebrow raised. "What?"

"Just want to say good luck with taking on Itachi's workload! I don't really know what type of stuff he had to put up with from the higher ups, but I'm sure that you'll be able to do it just as well if not better!" Naruto said and offered a bright smile.

Sasuke blinked. No one had ever said something like that before. He'd had plenty of people telling him that he might become as good as his brother, but never better. A little bubble of happiness formed in his heart, and he found himself giving Naruto a grateful smile.

"Hn. Sure. Anyway, I have to deliver these to the higher ups," he said, and Naruto nodded, clapping him on the back a few times.

"Sure thing, Mr Boss-man!" he said and walked away back to his little cubicle to work while Sasuke continued onwards.

It was after a few steps that he noticed something odd. People were looking at him as he passed, and his sharp ears caught the sound of a few badly muffled snickers. His eyes narrowed in suspicion as he turned his head, looking behind him in time to see all heads quickly turn back to their own devices. Suspicion even more aroused, he slowly resumed his walk to the elevator. People continued to try and hide their glances as well as their laughter. He reached a hand up, feeling his hair. There was a badly concealed snort, and he made sure to thoroughly check his head but he couldn't find anything that could be considered weird. He reached the elevator to find Kiba waiting there, looking bewildered.

"What're you doing here Inuzuka?" Sasuke asked, still fiddling with his hair, trying to find anything odd. Kiba shrugged.

"Naruto told me to wait here for you for some reason. He said I'd know once I saw you."

Sasuke blinked before frowning. "Is something on my face?" he asked. Kiba peered at him, eyes searching.

"…Nothing that I can see. You look the same to me. Maybe Naruto was just pulling a weak prank on me?" he wondered aloud. Sasuke huffed, wondering why everyone had been laughing. He stepped forwards, pressing the button for the elevator while Kiba pushed away from the wall. The brunet glanced at him again, and this time he let out a high pitched cough before laughing, stumbling a bit as he finally realized what Naruto had been talking about.

"What? What is it?" Sasuke asked, turning around in a circle like a dog chasing its tail. Kiba chuckled, moving forward and reaching around Sasuke to grab at something on his back. He pulled and stepped away, holding it up for Sasuke to see. It was piece of paper that had a very large 'DUCK-BUTT' printed on it in bright pink, along with a huge picture of a black duck's bottom, with the feathers sticking upright much like Sasuke's hair did at the back. There was even an arrow pointing upwards towards his head.

"What the…" Sasuke's eyes widened as he thought back to when Naruto had smiled and clapped him on the back. "That sneaky little shithead!"

Kiba smothered a laugh in a cough, examining the page with interest. His eyes kept glancing up at Sasuke's hair before looking away again, a badly concealed snort stopping in his throat. "He must've told me to wait here so that I could remove it before you got to any of the other floors. It wouldn't do for anyone else to get involved in our floor's pranks," he said and coughed again.

Sasuke sighed. At least the blond idiot had taken that into consideration. Sasuke could deal with pranks in their floor, but if they started making a fool of him on the other floors, he'd never let them get away with it. He would get them fired…if he wasn't fired first.

But this brought about a new dilemma…Naruto had pranked him. Was that considered a challenge?

A slow, evil smirk crept up on Sasuke's face and he turned to Kiba, who gulped and held the duck page to his chest as if it would protect him.

"Kiba, kindly tell Naruto that I accept his challenge…and that he'd better watch his back."

And with that, Sasuke stepped into the elevator, and Kiba swore he heard demonic laughter ringing inside before it left the floor.

We have a new contender! XD What shall Sasuke's revenge be? What will Kiba's revenge be? Who else is going to get involved in this prank war?

Find out next time on 'When the Boss is Away...'

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