Author: M00nlight Shadow

Characters/Pairing: ItaNaru and NaruSasu, mainly ItaNaru
Genre: Romance/Humor/Drama
Rating: M
Disclaimer: Naruto belongs to Kishimoto
Beta: MarsInsane, Imperial Mint

Summary: Naruto never expected this. It was all because his father lost a bet. A bet that would change his normal life but not only his life… Unexpected things will happen… A story about love, friendship and Betrayal. ItaNaru slight NaruSasu

Unexpected changes

Chapter 2 – A promise is a promise.

A bet is a bet

Damn! Naruto was tired after the whole way down. The elevators were defect today. Lucky me, he thought. Things like this always happened to him. He was actually wondering why Kiba wasn't tired from the way up all to the 26th floor. Well, he always was good at gym like Naruto was but only better, but not in all things. They walked through the glass door, which had stainless steel around it.

Kiba laid a hand on Naruto's shoulder. "Wait here I'll get my car," after he said that, he ran towards the underground parking garage. Naruto smiled.

Yes, he always was there when you needed him. And yeah… He really needed a driving license. But he actually was very lazy and he was afraid he would fail.

He looked around. Many people were walking, cars were hooting, children were crying or screaming because they wouldn't get what they wanted from their parents. Dogs were barking to each other, furthermore this was a regular Saturday. Nothing would ever change here in the city.

After a while, Kiba came into sight. He had a red VW Passat. Naruto actually knew nothing about cars. He mentally shrugged. You can't expect that all boys are interested in cars.

Kiba stopped a few metres from him and waved at him to get into the car. He didn't need to tell him that twice. He ran to Kiba's car and opened the door with a fast swing and jumped in.

"Hey, hey! Relax man." Kiba said annoyed. Then he poked his upper arm, "If you break the door you're paying."

Naruto shrugged. "Well if the door breaks that fast then this is a shitty car," he said while he fastened his seatbelt.

"Hey, there's nothing bad about my car all right. If I hadn't had this shitty piece of junk, you would be standing out a lot in the rain you moron." Yeah that was true. Naruto owned Kiba a lot. He turned left and, after a few hundred metres, he stopped for a stoplight. Kiba looked at his clock in his car, 11:48. Shit. They took too long getting down from Naruto's apartment and getting the car. An irritated groan left his lips. Naruto noticed this.

"Shouldn't I be the one to be doing that?"

Kiba looked at him for a second then his attention was on the road again and shrugged. "Well you're always late anyway." It was green and the car was moving again. "I bet your dad is also late." He snickered, "Later than you."

Naruto huffed. "I don't know. He sounded really weird on the phone." He scratched his nose nervously.

There was an awkward silence between them. Kiba knew that Naruto didn't like to talk if he was feeling uncomfortable. Still, he hated those moments so he would try to get Naruto's mind somewhere else.

"Guess what? Ino asked me out." He almost laughed when he saw Naruto's surprised face. Yup, his mind was definitely somewhere else now. Ino, a nineteen-year-old blond, was in their class too. She was actually a pretty nice girl. She used to be a total bitch but, to everyone's surprise, she changed. She was smart and was good with people. And after that, Naruto found himself to like the girl but he never thought she actually liked Kiba.

"No way... When did she ask?"

"Yesterday," he answered while he drove further.

"Face to face?" Naruto asked curiously.

"Yeah of course. It would be lame if she asked me by sending a silly message right?"

"Well, there are people that are really shy, so…"

"Yeah, people like you." He smirked and ruffled through his hair.

Naruto glared at him and tried to fix his hair. "I'm not!"

"You are." Kiba said simply.

Silence.

"...You're an ass."

"I know." Kiba answered with a smile.

They were almost there. One right turn and Kiba stopped besides the curbed road. They both look at the clock in the car, 12:08. Damn. Naruto was busy fighting with the seatbelt while Kiba spoke.

"Well your highness, we're here." He said sarcastically.

"Thanks Kiba."

They looked outside. The building had at least forty-five floors. God he hoped that the elevators were working here. People were walking in and walking out from the high building. SakuQ hang with big letters above the entrance.

Naruto's father became a successful businessman after moving to the city. People often said he had talent. Naruto actually never knew exactly what his dad was doing. Once he tried asking and he just said that it was complicated to explain. He didn't care anyway. He just knew that he liked his job and that was enough for him. He opened the door of the car and said his goodbye to Kiba. But before he could close the door Kiba spoke.

"Hey if you're done, you can call me. We can get lunch."

"By that time I'll have already had lunch."

"Yeah but I won't have," he said, looking sadly at Naruto.

Naruto sighed, irritated, "Fine. I will call okay?"

Kiba nodded and smiled again. "Good luck."

Naruto closed the door. Kiba drove away quickly after that.

'Good luck with what?'

Yes, there was a god. The elevators were working. He instantly pushed on number 39. His dad worked at the 39th floor. The elevator was nice and big. When you walked in, you saw there was a little wooden bench and, behind it, a mirror. There was a dark red carpet on the floor that also looked very nice.

The elevator stopped sometimes to let people in or out. Some people knew Naruto because of his dad. He greeted them with a smile and nod. A lady asked him if he was related to Uzumaki Minato. He nodded. "I'm his son." The lady smiled and said that he almost was his clone. Naruto took that as a compliment.

Finally, when the elevator stopped at the 39th floor, a little bell rang and the doors shoved open. Naruto stepped out and looked around. He didn't come here often so he tried to remember which way it was to the cafeteria. After some time, he remembered. He took a left turn. Several doors passed by and at the end of the hall he turned right. He could see the word cafeteria above the entrance. He walked faster. At the entrance he looked around. The cafeteria was lighted by daylight trough the windows that reached from the floor to the ceiling. The lights would only go on when it was night.

Several people were already eating their lunch and talking about work or other stuff. Then he saw, near a window, a little round table where a man sat with blond hair. He wore a typical boring business suit. Even his dad didn't like the suit. His jacket hung over his chair so you could see his white undershirt.

Their eyes met and the older blond man smiled, waving at him. Naruto did the same and made his way to his dad while looking at his watch, 12.19. It took eleven minutes because of that damn elevator. While he reached the table he sat on the opposite side to his dad.

"Hey dad," He smiled.

Minato shook his head. "Always late uh Naruto? Well… I expected it anyway."

Naruto just shrugged.

After that, a cup of ramen was shoved under him. Naruto looked surprised and Minato smiled. What timing. It was precisely ready when Naruto got here. Talking about scary, his dad knew him too well. He didn't eat it right away cause it was still too hot for his taste.

So he looked straight into his father's eyes.

"So… everything okay here dad?"

His father hesitated first to answer his question.

"Sort of," he scratched behind his neck. He always did that when he was nervous, because he did the same. Naruto knew something was wrong. Did he find another woman? Did he want to move again? Fired? No definitely not the last one that was almost impossible. This company needed him. So what else could it be? He definitely hoped not it was the first one. Why? He didn't know.

"...I bet your wondering why I asked you here." He took a deep breath.

Naruto frowned. Of course he wanted to know.

"Okay this isn't going to be easy for me to tell so please just hear me out okay?" Then ask questions, all right?"

Naruto nodded once, slightly taken back by his words.

Minato sighed. "Look then and again we have… you know, company trips. The last one was yesterday. That was also the reason why I wasn't home last night. But you knew that." Naruto nodded again.

"Well the one I had yesterday was a little different from normal. Mostly other companies will join us too. Like the company; Sullaka, or the Matakie, the Suzuki or the… Uchiha." Naruto noticed the hollow tone in his dad's voice by mention the name of that last company. Minato continued.

"So this time it was just plain bowling in the Basements." Naruto knew that place. He bowled there sometimes with Kiba, Lee and Gaara. The last two were also on his school but in another class.

"You know how it goes; a couple of drinks then some jokes then some drinks etc." Minato picked his glass from the table and drank a few drops of water then he spoke again.

"I am good at bowling but Uchiha Fugaku was too. Somehow we have always been rivals." He laughed. "Like you are with Sasuke," Naruto blinked. That was indeed true. Since high school they were always been rivals, especially at gym. Sasuke was an arrogant bastard, especially now he'd got his own little band. But sometimes, when people weren't watching, he turned out to be a complete other person to Naruto. Him and his stupid Uchiha pride.

"So… Fugaku and I made a bet and that's where it all started." Minato cleared his throat.

Naruto didn't like where this was going.

"You know one of important motto's of the Uchiha right Naruto?"

Naruto thought about it and then nodded. He had heard it some couple of time from Sasuke during the gym class.

"A promise is a promise. A bet is a bet." He answered.

Minato nodded. He also knew that the son of Fugaku was on Naruto's class. Fugaku always said that a lot against Minato so he expected his son to do the same, guess he was right.

"I guess I will tell first what happened an hour before that bet began. Many people that night wanted to go home early because the next day was weekend and everybody wanted to see their sons and daughters again. And they wouldn't want go home seeing like a drunken fool or wake up like a total zombie. So, like I said, many left. Some people had a bowling competition; others were chatting and drinking at the bar. Just like those people that stayed, Fugaku and I stayed too. Fugaku stayed with four other people from his company. And I stayed with two people from my company. My boss left early with his wife."

He looked at Naruto for a moment. His eyes were still fixed on him and he still looked confused, but they were getting there, although Minato didn't want to.

He continued.

"So I was sitting at the bar with those two people that stayed with me. I had a fun time. They told stupid jokes I told… you know terrible jokes," he winked at his son and Naruto smiled a little. "Drank, jokes, drank, jokes and so on…"

Naruto knew his father was fun to go out with. He wasn't an alcoholic or anything; on some nights he just drank more and hearing the last thing, this was one of those nights.

"Then suddenly, Fugaku walked up to me and asked if I wanted to have a bowling competition with me. You could see that Fugaku had also drunk a couple of beers like me. Anyway I accepted his challenge. The people who had stayed with Fugaku and me watched us so none of would use any sneaky tricks or so, like letting someone trip or something."

Naruto listened to his father, completely forgetting his ramen.

"We were at our last throw. I had already thrown and had a pretty high score, not as high as usual but high enough. I was bound to win even if Fugaku had a strike. Fugaku didn't like to lose. He was about to throw when he stopped himself to throw his last ball of the competition. He turned around with a grin on his face."

"Hey Uzumaki?"

Minato looked at him. "Yes?"

"Let's make a bet to make things a little more interesting."

Minato raised an eyebrow. "A bet?"

"Yes."

"What kind of bet?"

"Uhm… Don't know." Yes the alcohol was getting him, thought the blond man.

Suddenly, the Uchiha called out one of his men then looked at his rival and urged him to do the same. Minato frowned at this but did it anyway with a wave of his hand.

When they stood next to each other, Fugaku laid his bowling ball back and walked to his suitcase to find something. It was strange to Minato that Fugaku even had his suitcase with him when this was a company trip, not a business trip. Company trips were for having fun.

It looked like Fugaku had found his things. He had two pens in one hand and, in the other hand, two blank sheets. He showed it to Minato, who still looked confused, and to the people that stayed with them. He walked to the two people and gave one sheet and one pen to the man who was called forth by him and the other sheet and pen was giving to other the guy.

"These are going to be contacts. They're not real of course, yet."Minato didn't like the sound of his tone, especially when he said the word 'yet'.

"Those two are going to write a contract. If I win, you have to sign my contract and throw away your contract because it will be useless anyway, and if I lose, I will have to sign your contract and throw away my contract. See? It's simple as that."

"And what's in the contract?" Minato asked.

The Uchiha pointed to the two. "They will decide."

The two men looked a little shocked. They thought that they would have to do writing while the two rivals did the thinking.

But, before anyone could protest, Fugaku continued. "You always could refuse to sign the contract, but there has to be a negative side in it. Hell I even give you a week's time to make up your mind before you sign it," he said while blinking a few times. He was feeling dizzy because of the alcohol.

Fugaku was so full of himself. He'd already thought he'd won. This annoyed Minato to the end.

"And you'll just have to accept it. It's not like that they would write that you would have to die if you lose. But, of course we are businessmen so there will be a high prize." He laughed low. Minato looked at the drunken fool. He really loved his games… He knew this because Minato had known Fugaku for years. He was his enemy, his rival and in a vague way, his friend. Well back at school he sort of was..

"Can't we see it?"

Fugaku looked at the blond man. "No. It wouldn't be fun anymore." He laughed softly "Just trust your people like I do with mine. Or… don't you trust them?"

Minato blinked. "Of course I do! Our company has the best people that could be trusted," he said with a smile, or was it a smirk? Fugaku narrowed his eyes.

"Fine, whatever you think." He cleared his throat. "I bet I'll manage to throw a single strike right here right now. If that happens I'll win of course. And if not… I lose. It's simple." He shrugged.

All eyes were on Minato. The blond was thinking.

He knew Fugaku was close to getting drunk. He looked at him for a second. Fugaku drank another beer in one gulp. They both knew there were good but both of them hadn't even thrown one strike in the whole game. The reason was simple; they'd drunk too much, they were feeling warm and light headed. The blond adult grinned. It was time that he learned his place. He was just dying to see Fugaku fail. Wouldn't that be a sight! So Minato made up his mind.

Why not? It wasn't like anyone would get hurt. Well except for Fugaku maybe. He snickered and Fugaku noticed, raising an eyebrow while trying to stand straight. It was amusing to see. There was no chance that the Uchiha would throw a strike in his condition.

"And I bet that you won't succeed. So go ahead and try."

Fugaku smirked, "Finally! I thought I would have to stand here all night." He looked at the two men who still had their sheets and pens in their hands.

"Now gentlemen," he clapped his hands. "Make this evening worth remembering."

The two men looked at each other. One of them spoke. "Can we discuss this with our colleagues?"

The Uchiha mentally groaned and waved them away. "Yes, yes, fine, be my guest. Just do it quickly alright, I hate waiting."

After that, Fugaku let himself sit next to Minato while the others were discussing. "Afraid to lose my blond friend?"

Minato shrugged, "Nah, not at all."

"Well you should be prepared then." He smirked, "Because you will lose."

"First I have to look to believe it," the blond said smiling.

They heard a few snickers behind then. Whatever they were planning on writing in the contract, it wouldn't be nice. Fugaku rubbed his eyes. He looked tired. Then he took his glass that already was refilled and held it high.

"Cheers."

Minato did the same. "Cheers."

They both drank it in one gulp then they heard a voice, '"Done." Then another, "Here too."

"Finally," the Uchiha said. He stood up not before looking at his blond rival. A smirk crept onto his dark face. He walked to get his golden bowling ball with the name Uchiha on it and then he walked to the bowling lane.

There was something wrong… Minato felt it. But what?

"Ready?" Fugaku asked. But before anyone would answer, he had already thrown.

Then Minato saw it in a split of a second; the stand, the move, they were professional, almost impossible for an amateur, especially when you were near being drunk…

He faked it all. The blond watched in horror.

Then he remembered; an Uchiha hated to lose. He played dirty. He knew that he was going to lose when he was supposed to end the competition with his final throw a moment ago but he just didn't want to lose even if it was a little stupid game. So he would make a bet and make sure that he won. Nobody even cared now if he will have a strike or not to earn the last points. It was all about the bet now not the final score of the competition.

If he didn't feel all that fuzzy, maybe he would have noticed it. God he was so stupid…

It was like it was all in slow motion now, everyone watched curiously but Minato already knew the outcome and he wasn't going to like it.

In a second, they all heard a sound, the sound that would change Minato, the sound of the falling keels one by one. Minato lowered his head. Damn.

There was cheering from the bar where the people of the company Uchiha sat. Fugaku looked at them for a second then his attention moved to the disappointed blond.

Minato sighed. Well he wasn't going to be a sore loser so he got up and walked up to him and lifted his hand. Fugaku took his hand and gave it a hard squeeze. Minato took this as a challenge a squeezed harder. The Uchiha flinched a bit. Then the blond spoke.

"Nice acting Uchiha."

The Uchiha didn't response because it was true anyway. He waved the man who was holding his contract to him. The young man quickly came and the blond let out a heavy sigh again.

Then the blond felt a hand on his shoulder. "Come on. It can't be that bad." Minato seriously doubted that.

When the contract was in reach, Fugaku grabbed it instantly before looking at it.

There was an awkward silence. His eyes widened a bit. He looked at the guy next to him. The man gulped. An irritated sigh left his lips…

He couldn't go back now. He said he trusted his men and he couldn't go back because his motto would be nothing anymore. But… were his men this stupid? He couldn't wait he was alone with his people. He would give them something to remember…

This wouldn't be a benefit for them both but he accepted.

Uchiha's and their pride…

He gave the contract to his blond rival. Minato took it slowly and began to read it.

"…"

"…"

Eyes widened.

"WHAT! Oh this has to be a joke right!"

"No."

Minato looked dumbfounded.

"Do you even realised what this says!"

"Yes.

"I'm not letting my child marry your child!"

Fugaku just shrugged. "Well I already thought a couple of times that it was time for my son to get married. You can even see it as a company marriage or something." He laughed. "There now we have a link between mine and your company." The Uchiha laughed again like this was all a fun joke. Maybe the alcohol had some influence after all. "Oh and Minato…" He pointed at the contract. "If you refuse you have to quit your successful job."

Why was Fugaku so fine with this! Minato thought he went mad. Not only because he would lose the job that he loved so much, but the idea of forcing his only son to get married with someone he didn't love was making him sick. His son was his precious person.

Minato gulped. There was another reason why he couldn't quit his job and for god sakes Fugaku knows that! "Come on Fugaku you've gotto to be ki-"

Then one of Uchiha's men stepped forward. "Well there is a benefit here. Like Mr. Fugaku said if your daughter married his son a good relationship could come between the companies?"

"Relationship?" Fugaku said in disgust.

"Daughter?" Minato said, dumbfounded again.

The man began to sweat a little.

"Yeah, her name was Naru right?"

"Naruto." Minato correct him.

"Naruto?" Fugaku frowned. "What kind of name for a girl is that?"

…

"Because 'he' isn't a girl; I only have one son. And his name is Naruto."

…

This time the silence was long.

"Oh." was Fugaku's answer, but that still didn't solve the problem. Then he spoke again. Those were the last words Minato wanted to hear.

"A promise is a promise. A bet is a bet."

Minato looked at his son. During the whole story he had only blinked a few times. Then he did something unexpected; he laughed.

After a moment, he began to talk. "Th-… that one was funny dad." He said still laughing, "Very original! So tell me the real reason why you've called me here."

But Minato wasn't laughing at all. In fact, he looked quite serious. He grabbed his suitcase, laid it on the table and took a single sheet out of it. He passed it slowly to Naruto. He took a good look at it. What was in the contract was precisely described what his father told him. But this time it was typed with the pc looking like a real contract. He saw two signatures; one definitely his dad and the other… he bet it was Uchiha Fugaku. And there were two spots open for two other signatures. This was the real contract that dad mentioned.

Naruto was getting scared now. "Come on dad… this isn't funny anymore," he laughed nervously.

"I'm sorry Naruto… I still could convince Fugaku that it only will go on when the two of you will sign too," he said with a sad voice.

Naruto abruptly stood up and slammed his fists on the table. During the story a lot of people had already left to go to work again and the few who were still there turned their heads to Naruto's direction. But Naruto didn't care.

"I will not marry Teme for god sakes!" Then he calmed down and slowly sat down again. He sighed sadly."But I also don't want you to lose your job." He knew his father loved his job even when he almost never got home.

"…Who is Teme?"

"Sasuke. That arrogant bastard…"

Minato blinked. "… It isn't going to be Uchiha Sasuke, Naruto."

His son looked confused."Heh?"

"It's his brother."

Naruto looked at him with bewildered eyes."Teme had a brother? He never speaks about him."

After a silence Naruto spoke. "…What is his name?"

"Uchiha Itachi."

Never heard of him. Thought Naruto.

"What about school? What would they think if they find out! And what ab-…" Naruto panicked.

"Nobody will find out, only a few people." He saw Naruto relax a little.

His father had a sad smile on his face, "Son. It's your choice okay. It was my fault for being that stupid; it's your decision not mine," he looked at his watch. Break is up, time to work.

And Naruto looked he was about to cry.

He sighed. What the hell was he doing? Did he just try to make Naruto sign the contract? Only for the sake of his job? In income was important but this went too far. He was kicked back in reality. The older blond just couldn't do this to his son.

He laughed a little. That made Naruto look at him, confused.

"You don't have to sign it," he repeated again, but this time the tone was different. "It just was a joke... I just wanted to show you this so you will never make this kind of mistake. Take this as a example." He was about to grab the contract when a firm hand stopped him. Minato was startled.

"No," his son said softly. He didn't believe this was a joke... "I will think about it," he added.

"Naruto…you do-"

"No! You already made your decision by signing this contract already!" Naruto hissed.

He was too shocked from Naruto's reaction. Naruto was right. He had already signed it. Why? He actually didn't know anymore… Was he too drunk last night?

But the adult nodded and was about to ruffle through his hair when Naruto moved backwards out of his reach. He looked at the boy but he didn't look back. He just stared at the contract with hollow eyes.

"Well… I have to work now. See you next Friday."

No answer.

"Just give me a call when you've made up your mind."

No answer.

Naruto, still looking at the piece of paper, heard his dad leaving but still didn't look up.

This… definitely sucks…

And that's how Naruto got there.

He didn't want to sign or to get married but that would mean the end of his father job. And finding a new job was hard to do nowadays. He loved his father with all his heart and didn't want him to be sad. He clearly remembered the years when he had broken heart. It took him years to let Kushina go. He looked lost, lonely and pained. He hated it when he looked like that…

If he signed he would marry to a guy.

A guy named Uchiha Itachi.

Naruto wasn't gay. He didn't dislike gay men or anything; if men liked to be gay then let them as long as they loved each other. He just wasn't one of those men. He was already glad that nowadays homosexuals weren't looked at if they were some kind of trash.

He took a deep breath then he had a good idea. If he signed and got married, he could also divorce after that. He hoped. They surely would keep this secret; it would still be strange for two men, who both were sons of high-class businessmen who were forced to get married only because of a stupid bet.

Naruto mumbled a few words only he could hear.

"A promise is a promise. A bet is a bet."

Naruto signed.

A/N:
Yeah I know long, long, long story nothing big really happened. Only that Naruto signed!

But if I would keep it short with now background then it would just like this;

Minato: here

Naruto: what's this?

Minato: it's a contract. It says that that you have to marry Uchiha Itachi.

Naruto: gasped OMG no ways!

Minato: Yeah I lost a bet sorry… but it's your decision now- points to his signature- Here I already signed. If I didn't I would lose my job –sobs- Like I said it's all up to you… walks away crying.

Naruto: -looks sad and feels guilty- okay I will sign it signed

Okay that was awful right?