Haze
Arc one { Out of the blue } Chapter two
Obito entered his office to find Naruto spinning around in his chair.
"Hey! Stop that!" Naruto stopped the spinning and steadied himself.
"Oh hi boss, is it time to get down to work, because I'm a hard worker! Believe it!"
"Something is not allowing me to believe that notion," Obito deadpanned. "Anyway, yeah it's time to work, but you will be doing a different type of work than the others," Obito smirked at the thought. This was perfect.
"Really?! Does that mean I'm more important than the others?" Naruto bounced up and down in his seat like a little kid on Christmas.
"Well when it comes to my personal life, yes," now, Obito may be contradicting what he said earlier to his staff, but he didn't care right now, this had to be done.
"I thought we couldn't talk about our personal life here?" the blond questioned.
"Well, this will just be our little secret, okay? Now, let me tell you, my wife is the laziest woman in the world, and it is time to expose her," Obito almost felt bad for talking about Rin this way, but he had reached his wits end. "So you and me are going to install some little security cameras in my house. So one, I can spy on her while I am gone to make sure my children are okay, and two, I can prove to my friends and family she is a lazy bitch," He smiled and clapped his hands together.
"Wow boss, you must really hate your wife," Naruto was a little uneasy about this. Wasn't this an invasion of privacy? He would never do this to whoever he married.
"No, of course I don't hate her, but she needs to learn that it's not o-fucking-kay to sit on her ass all day and ignore our kids, and then put all the work on me when I get home," the man glared at the thought. "So first things first, we need to find some security cameras, and that is your first task,".
Obito set up Naruto on a laptop in his office and had him do a search for cameras. He reminded him that they needed to be discreet and good quality. Price didn't matter at this point.
Obito left him to that and decided to go check on his other new staff members. He exited his office to find Ino sorting through some papers, while Konan was no where to be found.
"How are you doing?" he asked her.
She looked up and gave him a grim expression. "Fine I guess," she looked back down at the papers.
Obito clicked his tongue and took a swig of coffee. "Something tells me you don't want to work here," he raised an eyebrow.
Ino widened her eyes and looked up at the man. "Oh no, of course I do, I-".
Obito shook his head and laughed. "You don't have to lie to me, you know,".
Ino sighed. "Sakura may have forced me, but I needed the income anyway," she felt bad admitting it but he didn't seem much like he would care.
"Ah." Obito mused." Well, I could always fire you," he smirked, nodding his head.
"Wait, what? No, please I need this job," she started explaining.
Obito chuckled. "Don't worry, Ino was it? You seem to be doing a fine job," complimenting her.
"Yeah, Ino Yamanaka." she said, blushing from his compliment.
"Mmm, well you are doing good Yamanaka. Keep it up," He said as he walked over the cubicles to check on Sakura and Deidara.
"Ugh, are you even going to do any work?!" Obito heard the pink haired girl shout.
"Oh no." Obito whispered. He came to the cubicle to find Deidara sculpting something out of clay. "Deidara! What the hell are you doing?" Obito yelled.
"Oh… Hey there Obito. I was just taking a little morning break, yeah.." Deidara's eyes were looking back and forth.
"He is such a liar. We haven't done anything that would qualify as work," Sakura sighed in disgust with her hands on her hips.
"Look Deidara, put the damn clay away and do some, you know, WORK," Obito yelled.
"Right, whatever, yeah," Deidara huffed, tossing his hair back.
After a few hours of searching, it seemed that Obito and Naruto had decided on a set of security cameras. "So are these the ones, boss?" Naruto asked.
Obito tapped his chin and nodded. "Yeah, yeah they are. Order them, here is my debit card information," Obito felt like the kid wouldn't do anything stupid with it, for some reason he actually trusted him.
Naruto's eyes widened. "Wow you trust me with this?" he was happy that his boss might actually have some faith in him. Most people who had ever employed him brushed him off as an idiot.
Obito rolled his eyes. "Yeah, yeah whatever. Just give it back to me when you're done," as he said that, Konan's voice came in over the intercom.
"Mr. Uchiha, call on line one," Obito strolled over to his desk and picked up his phone.
"Obito Uchiha here, can I help you?" he said, trying to sound somewhat professional.
"Oh, Obito you sound so cute trying to be all business like," the voice on the other line gushed.
"What do you want, Kakashi?" Obito sighed into the phone.
"Wow, is this how you treat all of your callers?" Kakashi mused.
"Get to the point." he glared. Obito didn't have time for Kakashi's games today. Especially after getting no sleep the night before.
"Fine, fine, wanna go out for drinks after work? Around five?" he asked the Uchiha.
Obito pondered the thought, Rin would probably be pissed and his kids most likely need him but damn it, he needed some time off for once. "Alright, text me where to go and I will be there," .
"Good, I actually have someone I want you to meet. So we will see you then," and then the phone clicked and the call was over.
Obito sighed, and slammed his phone down. "Did you get it ordered, Naruto?"
"Sure did!" Naruto grinned.
Obito smiled back. "Good, good. Now we wait for them to arrive," obviously they had them being delivered to the office, and not Obito's home.
It was finally the end of another tiring day. Obito was really surprised he didn't fall asleep, but he had been quite busy, per usual.
Kakashi had texted him and told him to meet him and his mystery guest at a bar called 'Blue'. Obito had never been there before but he had heard more of the younger crowds hung around there so he was confused as to why they were going there.
The exterior of the building seemed okay enough and surprisingly no one was really there yet, though he assumed most people came out later.
Obito pushed the door open and saw Kakashi standing there with a woman who had, well to be blunt, huge tits.
"Over here, Obito," Kakashi waved him over.
Obito almost laughed. "Oh don't worry, I couldn't have missed you guys,".
"It's my hair, isn't it? It is spikier than usual," Obito rolled his eyes.
"Sure, we will go with that," said Obito as he walked closer to the supposed couple.
"Anyway, this is my new girlfriend, Anko," Anko stuck out her hand and Obito shook it. She had a pretty firm grip for a woman, but maybe that was just Obito being sexist
After observing her for awhile, Obito learned she had a very loud mouth and swore a lot. She seemed like a better fit for Hidan, not Kakashi, but he would not rain on his friends parade.
A few drinks in, Obito heard the door chime once again. And that is when he heard the trio of mostly idiots, who now worked for him
"Ino are really going to force me to drink?" Naruto whined.
"Yes. You need to man up for once." she elbowed him in the ribs jokingly.
"Yeah, Naruto." Sakura laughed, "Loosen up. We are of legal drinking age and we should take full advantage of it- oh.." that was when she saw her new boss sitting at the bar with two other people.
While the trio stopped in their tracks, Obito was trying to pretend like he didn't realize they were there. If they stayed, he would ignore them. It would probably be easy, right?
"Maybe we should go somewhere else?" Ino suggested, it might be weird having drinks at the same place as her boss.
"Nope," Naruto deadpanned. "We are staying here and I am finally going to drink. Hey, bartender dude, get me the strongest thing you got!" he yelled.
"Oh, Naruto," whispered Sakura as she shook her head. This wouldn't be good.
Ino sighed, "Well, forehead, we might as well kiss our jobs goodbye if Naruto makes a fool out of himself here tonight," she stated.
"Well maybe Mr. Uchiha will leave soon," Sakura suggested, hopeful, although Ino wasn't as sure as her friend. Maybe their boss wanted to stick around and make sure they were actually fit to work for him?
Obito was stuck between a rock and a hard place. He couldn't just leave his friend and his friends new girlfriend this early. That would be considered rude, but it was becoming increasingly awkward with his new staff members here. Sure, he was friends with some of the people that worked under him, but usually those friendships had formed before they began working for him.
"Oh come on Obito, have something stronger, you work too hard," great, now their friend Asuma was there. "Get this man a shot!" Asuma shouted, waving over the bartender.
"Really guys?" Obito frowned, "I have work tomorrow you know?" these people just didn't listen. They would tie him down and pour the drinks down his throat if he had to.
Over on the other side of the bar, Naruto was flapping his arms around, "Hey! Do you guys sell ramen here?!" He yelled over to the bartender.
"Naruto! Shut up, idiot. You are gonna get us fired!" Ino whispered as she covered his mouth. This was going down hill fast. Very fast. It had become obvious that alcohol and Naruto did not go well together.
Kakashi looked over his shoulder to see the trio and suddenly remembered he taught them in college, as he was a professor where they had attended. He taught basic college algebra. "Oh, my favorite students! I missed you guys, why don't you come over here? Meet my friends!" Kakashi suggested to his former students.
The trio hadn't even noticed that their old professor was here too, they were too focused on ignoring their boss. Although Professor Hatake had been great, it would be weird to drink with him, especially with their boss right next to him.
"No!" Obito and Ino yelled at the same time. Kakashi raised an eyebrow.
"Why not? I can understand why my former students may not want to share a drink with their old hag of a professor, but why should you care, Obito?" questioned Kakashi.
Obito gave an uneasy laugh, "Well I mean come on, Kakashi, who wants to hang out with their old students? Only losers" he laughed again and his friends gave him a strange look.
"Gotta be one to know one, eh Obito?" Kakashi winked at the man.
"Ahh, I get it," Asuma started, "You find those pretty little young things attractive don't you, Obito?" Asuma teased.
Obito nearly spit out his drink. "What? No! No, I do not! That is ridiculous," he crossed his arms and tried to glare even though his face was beet red.
Kakashi laughed. "You never were good at hiding how you feel, huh Obito?"
"Oh god, please stop," he whined. "Fine, I don't care, they can come over here," he sighed.
"Well these kids are different than your average students anyway, come on over guys!" Kakashi waved his former students over.
"Oh believe me, I know," Obito whispered under his breath. Asuma heard him and raised an eyebrow, but didn't say anything.
"Really, don't you think this is weird, professor?" Sakura insisted.
"Not at all, you guys were great students and its good to see you again," he smiled, and ordered another round of drinks for everyone.
Obito noticed that Naruto was staring at him with an odd look and he knew the blond was about to say something to him. He mouthed "no" to him repeatedly, practically begging him not to, but it didn't work.
"Oh hey there, boss!" Naruto grinned. "Almost forgot you were here," the blond cheered.
"Why me?" Obito looked up and whispered to the ceiling.
Kakashi turned to his friend. "Wait, Naruto works for you, Obito?" he inquired.
Obito sighed. "Yeah, all three of them do," this day just kept getting worse.
"Oh, so thats why you didn't want to drink with them," Anko laughed.
"Yep, my boss over there is a real sneak. Has me doing a super secret project for him," a red faced Naruto laughed as if it was the funniest thing in the world.
"Naruto! Shut up!" Obito pleaded.
"Oops, aha, sorry boss," Naruto laughed again. Obito just wanted to go home and sleep forever at this point.
"Alright, let's change the subject kids," said Anko, "So Obito, you said you are married, right?" she asked.
"Yes," the man sighed, "Why do you ask?" he questioned, running his fingers through his black hair.
"Okay, well on average, how often do you fuck your old lady?" After that the room became silent, except for Obito who began choking on his drink.
"W-what?!" he stammered.
"Oh, you heard me," the big breasted woman grinned.
Obito actually felt like he was dying inside. Who asks things like this?
"Well, for your information, Anko, I have not had sex since my second child was conceived. Happy now?" Obito was about fifty shades of red.
"Wow, rough life," Ino blurted out, and she covered her mouth right afterwards. "Sorry," she whispered.
Obito actually laughed. "You are right, Yamanaka. Life is rough, and I am sorry to disappoint you all, but it is time I get home to make sure my kids are alright,"
"Why wouldn't they be? Rin is a great mother." Kakashi smiled.
With that, Obito let out a sharp laugh and left the bar.
Next time: Obito and Rin have it out, everyone experiences hangovers, a new business opportunity comes to light, and Obito and Ino share an awkward moment.
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