Burger King, the ultimate American Delicatessen. Another five hour work shift in the hell hole that provides top notch eatery for white trash.

Naruto walked into the side door of the restaurant, ignoring Ino's grunts of irritation as he walked into the break room, pulling off his jacket, placing it on the floor, and shoving his hat on his head. Naruto rounded out the door, and walked to the front cash register to clock, amused, as Ino began spouting horribly structured sentences of hatred towards "dumb ass customers".

"This woman," Ino said, flipping her hair, "took her medium sized fries and started screaming 'THESE AREN'T FULL ENOUGH' and shoved her bag of food into my hands, demanding a second. So I pulled out the fries, and held them out to her, and explained that that was as full as they were going to get. So, this pink haired bitch took the fries out of my hand, dumped them on me, and drove away. She just fucking drove away, and did you see the crazy fuck with the green leotard and bowel cut? Ha, shit." Ino adjusted her bangs again, and slapped her hands together, letting out a deep guttural laugh. "College towns are crazy. Motherfucking crazy." Kiba nodded along, taking advantage of his opportunity to escape the kitchen for a few minutes to hear Ino rant. Naruto stood a safe distance away, laughing to himself, until he heard the door behind him open.

He turned around and met lavender eyes. 'Lavender huh? Interesting.' He took a minute to view the rest of the person currently shutting the heavy door. This new person, this lavender eyed person, had long obsidian colored hair that reached his lower back. Once he turned around, Naruto could properly read his name tag.

"Neji"

'Neji, I've never seen him work here before, weird, is he new?' Naruto's thoughts were interrupted by a gently spoken "Excuse me." Naruto looked up from the floor, his eyes widen when he realized he had been standing in Neji's way. He rubbed the back of his neck shyly and began to blush, letting out a jumbled "sorry" and moved out of the way. Naruto stared at Neji's back while he typed in his employee number, clocking in.

"So, so Neji,. Are you new here?" Neji chuckled, "I guess I might be still be considered fresh meat after a year, but I doubt it."

"Oh, I see." Naruto flashed a nervous smile. Neji let out another low chuckle.

"I'm guessing you're the new one here?" Naruto nodded his head.

"And, I'm also guessing that you're the one leaving all of the cigarette butts by the bench outside that I like to sit at, unless my nose is steering me wrong?" Naruto's eyes widened. 'Did I really smell that bad?' he thought. 'Shit, I bet mom can smell me on my way home. Fuuck. Fuck fuck fuck.' Naruto looked up at Neji, "Uh what?"

"Your clothes," Neji replied, "stink of chemicals and nicotine."

Naruto flashed another nervous smile and let out a small high pitched chuckle. "Then yes, I guess I am. Haha."

Neji shook his head. "You, fresh meat, shouldn't do that anymore."

"Heh, I'll keep that in mind."

"YOU TWO, STANDING WORKING."
Ino. She had detected their inert states and began an attack.

"Neji, Naruto, kitchen, now."

Naruto and Neji had turned to crawl into the kitchen when a loud banging of the front door had been heard. That pink haired woman Ino had been talking about, that must be her. Naruto assumed the young Asian man with a bowl cut holding his head in shame following the young woman must've have been the leotard wearing passenger Ino had described earlier as well.

Neji and Naruto watched the dispute between the young college student and store manager from a safe distance away in the kitchen, hidden behind a heating lamp.

"What is this shit?" the young woman with pink hair wearing scrubs said as she violently placed her Burger King bag on the counter. Ino took a deep breath, and turned to face the disgruntled customer. "This," Ino grunted as she picked up the bag, "is a marvelous selection of top quality chain restaurant food."

"Really?"

"Really."

"No."

"Yes."

Muted laughter was heard from behind the food heater.

A sharp cough of warning was issued from Ino.

"Excuse me," the college student pulled up the sleeves of her sweatshirt, "I do believe I demand your full attention as a customer in this situation."

"Okay then, so what's wrong with this 'shit'? As you put it." Ino put the palms of her hands face down on the counter.

"It's shit."

"Really? Is it? Or is it just American quality?"

A deep hearty laugh was heard from the store manager and pink haired customer.

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Naruto became entranced with Neji's hair. After Naruto had finished making a Whooper for drive-thru, he turned to see Neji's back, his shiny, obsidian hair in full view.

Neji let out a sigh before he pulled off his work cap. Running his hands through his hair, he let out a muted "Fuck." and pulled a hair tie off his wrist, putting it around the edge of his fingers, gathering his hair in the other hand, preparing to put it in a pony tail. Naruto had seen hundreds of people put their hair in pony tails before, but not like Neji. Neji place the pony tail holder about five or six inches from the base of his skull, his hair being ling enough to stay in the tie.

"I hate this."

Naruto looked surprised as Neji turned around. "Hate what?" Naruto asked.

"Having to put my hair up if I'm in the kitchen."

"Oh. I see. Heh, I don't have that problem. See?" Naruto pulled off his Burger King hat and ran his fingers through his hair, grinning. Neji smiled and moved forward.

"Really?" he said smirking.

"FFT yeah." Naruto was now smiling fully, his teeth exposed.

Neji smiled and ran his hand through Naruto's hair, earning a gasp from Naruto. Neji's fingers slowing migrated from Naruto's forehead, to the base of his skull, resting there he scratched Naruto's neck briefly, and removed his hand.

"Hm, looks like you use conditioner. What brand?" Naruto's blush reached an indescribable state of crimson.

"P-pantene."

Neji smirked and let out a chuckle. "I'll have to keep that in mind next time I go to the store."

'What? What is this? This Neji guy?' Naruto was confused and thinking furiously. 'This, this man, he, he ran his fingers through my hair, after having known me for only an hour. What is this?'

Neji smirked at Naruto, blushing and shaking his head. He let out a small chuckle. 'This is going to be fun.'