Hello to all my readers! Here is the second chapter to Pieces of the Puzzle so I hope you enjoy! I just posted up the story on Saturday I believe it was and I swear, it scared me how quickly the story was viewed! Thank you to the readers who are being patient and my critics! I appreciate the reviews and if you could keep adding on to my list of flaws, so I can get closer and closer to making a perfect yaoi! Thanks everyone!

ItaNaru Yaoi/Shonen Ai Fan Fiction

-Until Next Time, Evan!

"I still don't know why you just clear it up with the judge." Kisame sighed as he and Itachi walked out of a meeting for the proposition, which had been granted and the two companies were now merging. Itachi wasn't enthusiastic about the plan, but it was one of the only ways to satisfy the Hyuuga Inc. from suing. Why get in even deeper trouble at this point? It would be like digging his own grave!

"What am I going to say? The parking tickets were my brothers and somehow, they were pegged on me?" Itachi snapped. Kisame rolled his eyes and shrugged his shoulders. "All I'm saying it that you should be making Sasuke pay for this time; not you. We have the models to finish here and I can't do it all alone! Don't leave me with Deidara, Madara and Kakuzu." Kisame practically pouted. "There is nothing more I can do to this matter. I apologize for leaving you with Deidra and Madara, but Kakuzu should not be that bad as long as Hidan is kept away a safe distance. Fill me in tomorrow, will you?" He asked as he stepped inside the Lexus. "Yeah, yeah, I will. Have fun with your community service." Kisame waved as he closed the door for his partner and sighed as he watched the car drive off. There went his freedom…

***

Naruto had just finished up the book displays out on the windows as the bickering between Sakura and Ino waged on. He had planned to put up with it when Ino had started filling in applications, trying to prove that she was better than the pink haired woman. He rolled his eyes and sighed, with a small smile dancing on his lips as he heard the fighting continue. He knew that even though they argued so much, they truly loved each other and their friendship would always be defined by their arguments.

It almost reminded him of himself and that black haired boy he had met once when he was in school. He remembered the competitions held between them –the other boy winning hands down more than half of the times- but being pulled out early to go to another school with his older brother. Naruto wondered if he would ever see that boy again. To think about it, it seems that he sounded familiar already. His name was on the tip of his tongue, but no specific names came to mind.

Naruto was just about to make his way down to the basement when he heard the jingle of the front door. He looked up from the corner of his eye to see the most handsome Itachi. He almost jumped out of his skin looking at the pale man with sharply attractive and stunning yet intimidating features. "Ah, Mr. Uchiha! We were so excited when we got your call!" Sakura ran over to the desk and incited a conversation with Itachi. Naruto smiled and continued downstairs, starting over with the piles of books he had discovered yesterday. He knew the only good thing about the library was the fact that no matter where he went, he would always find more and more books he hadn't even thought about or knew existed.

A typical evening would have been spent scanning through titles and keeping the ones he seemed interested in to the side in another crate while sorting out the others by authors. However, Naruto was too jumpy and distracted to work, almost afraid of the fact that Itachi was upstairs. His looks made Naruto nervous and unsure but it was his eyes that pierced through and caught his attention most. 'He's probably straight anyways,' Naruto said to himself mentally. 'As if he would be interest in me.' He assured himself.

Being gay was the least of his worries with Itachi; it was having to be with him. He scared the poor blonde from head to toe with just a glance. It had taken Naruto's courage to step out of the shadows and even make a joke that made him squint his eyes. Through the whole meeting, he had been nodding his head slightly and showing the lest of interest in anything they had been saying. His dark eyes made him seem as if he could see through your soul and know every secret. Naruto had almost started to envy his pale, alabaster skin deemed as flawless as he had first seen it, looking only even more perfect today. Even his hair seemed perfect and he wondered how he got it as long at neat as he did, pulling it back with a red, silk ribbon.

Naruto popped his blonde head up from the basement, only to find Sakura and Ino trying to find something simple for him to do. He sighed, watching the frustration arise quickly within those dark eyes that were hard enough to see, let alone read. He stayed there for a moment, frozen on the stairs while he continued to stare at Itachi thoroughly, watching every move he made until those lips of his finally open to speak, his voice letting out, "Is there someone else here?" You could tell it was a half assed attempt at trying to keep his voice from sounded irritated, but nevertheless, the girls couldn't catch on.

"Well, Naruto's here but he always works down stairs." Ino grunted as Sakura crossed her arms. "Hn, thank you." With that, Itachi turned around to make a sharp turn for the stairs. Naruto scrambled around on the stairs, falling down a couple of steps, only to make himself seem even more flustered as Itachi caught up with him. "Are you alright?" His smooth voice spoke out as if it were silk.

Naruto cracked open an eye only to find Itachi right there with his left hand extended out towards Naruto. He was shocked inside, not allowing his outer appearance to alter in any way, shape or form. "Yeah, thank you." He chuckled as he grabbed his hand and felt Itachi's strong force heave him from the ground in one easy pull. "What are you doing here, Mr. Uchiha?" The blonde was quick to ask.

Itachi almost felt like leaving, the feeling in his stomach interfering with his mind, which was now producing images of the blonde in the position he had seen him in just a second ago. He had to pull himself together to answer him, after all, it was Naruto himself that had compelled him to visit here for community service hours. "Please, it's Itachi." He cleared his throat, in an attempt to make a friendly face without smiling or smirking rather.

"I came here to see if you need any assistance with your book sales or anything else. I'm afraid I'm in need of community service hours." The raven seemed composed enough to where he sounded friendly and genuinely interested in helping out. Who was the blonde to say no? He grinned, his aquatic blue eyes swimming with kindness and looking straight at Itachi with curiosity.

"You bet we do! What times do you have available to come and help?" Naruto questioned.

"Anytime you need. I just work from 8:00 to around 7:00. Did you need someone for a nightshift or anything of the sort?"

Naruto couldn't ask him to adjust his hours. They closed at eight, so that gave him about an hour to work, but that was if he could arrive here at seven sharp. He was the one that usually covered the night shift and it was getting lonely without anyone but the company of hardback and paper covered books. Well, he had Ino and Sakura, but it seemed as if the books held better company with the bound papers than the two fussing girls that never seemed to stop bickering. It seemed as if they never did stop…did they ever take a break? Naruto quickly snapped out of thinking of the two aggravating girls and tried to compose a reply for the waiting Itachi.

"We're open from 8:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m.! I guess we could fill you in for a whole hour if you need it from after work." Naruto winked. "But that'll be between us though. I'm sure Sakura and Ino would go around the town and say something." The blonde giggled. Itachi knew it was true; they probably would, no doubt about it. He hadn't known the girls for very long at all to play a certain judge upon them, although he already knew that they were insane girls that would probably be never under control. Itachi nodded his head.

"That would be greatly appreciated, thank you, but I will aim to be on time every day. Is there a specific day you would like me here? I'm only available on Wednesdays through Fridays."

Those words struck Naruto as odd.

He stared at him for a moment and blinked, his mind wandering off within another dimension.

Without noticing, Itachi flinched at the blonde's gaze, making the normally level headed raven become suddenly flustered for no reason. Maybe it was those eyes; those eyes were what were causing Itachi to act in this way, butterflies bottling up within his stomach, the feeling almost making him hurt.

"Yes?"

"You don't do anything on Fridays? Like with your friends or something?" Naruto stood there stupefied as Itachi nodded his head self-consciously. "Is there something wrong with that?" He replied sharply with an edge to his voice. The raven wished he could have said his words differently right there and then, automatically regretting the accidental sharpness to his voice that made him sound barbaric.

"No, of course not! I'm sorry, I shouldn't have pegged you so quickly! Anyways, were those the only three nights you wanted to work? Every first week of every month on a Saturday, we do a book sale that just goes horribly wrong because it's so crowded and there are too many people and not enough helpers." Naruto winced as he placed his arm behind his head nervously. 'Oh geez, I shouldn't have spaced out like that! And then to say something so stupid! God, he probably thinks I'm the stupidest thing on this planet.' Naruto's voice within his head spoke silently as Itachi came with a quick reply.

"That seems fine. Are those all your openings, though? I'm afraid I have a rather large sum of numbers to kill off and I would like to get them off of my back as quickly as possible." Itachi murmured the last part of the sentence, clearing his throat and allowing his elegant poise to return as he stood erect. "Ah, yes but we have them during the day." The blonde frowned. "Not unless you would rather spend all Saturday and Sunday here cleaning up and helping out with the book fairs." Naurto wanted to cover his mouth just as he had blurted it out. Of course Itachi didn't want to spend his whole weekend at a book store, trapped with him, Ino and Sakura. If he wasn't the heir of the library, he would have quit this job long ago just because those girls were a pain in the ass to work with.

"Hm, that sounds perfectly fine. What time?"

Naruto wanted to fight back a smile. A sudden rush of relief washed through him as if he had been cleansed with an ocean running straight through him. "We open at nine for the customers on both days but we close at around four." Sure they opened at nine, but Naruto got there super early at around five to start getting the books done and searching through the piles of neglected books he had yet touched. He set up the displays as well when Ino and Sakura weren't looking and pointing the finger at his god father Jiraya for making the displays instead. He had a life, sure, but he would rather spend it here in the library where he knew he would always belong.

"Then I'll be here at around seven thirty to help set up, or do you do so the night before?" Itachi questioned, snapping Naruto out of his thoughts once more. Had he just volunteered to come early? Itachi was shocking the blonde more and more, getting him riled up and even more exited to learn more about the dark haired mystery. "No, I set up in the morning." Naruto shook his head.

"Count on me then for coming in the morning at around seven thirty then." Itachi nodded his head and Naruto copied the move, his heart sinking as he saw the beautiful man walking back up the stairs. He was about to turn back himself to be confined within the darkness when Itachi twirled around quickly and called out his name.

"Naruto, I'm sorry, but I have one more question." Itachi waited on the step for the blonde to turn around.

Naruto spun quicker than he thought possible, tripping slightly but catching himself before he hit the floor. "Yes, what is it?" He called out to Itachi as he pushed his body upwards.

"Are they going to be here on Saturday as well?" He nodded his head towards the upstairs level where squeals of joy as well as shrieks from both girls were invading the quiet. Naruto chortled for a moment, shaking his head. "No, they have the weekends off. It's just me and a few of other people. They're not even half as bad as Ino and Sakura, don't worry." He smiled to Itachi, wanting to assure him a place here at the library.

"Alright, thank you very much Naruto. I'll be seeing you tomorrow then."

With those words, Itachi spun back around and headed upstairs where the noise was quickly silenced from the girls as they saw the Uchiha walk towards the door.

"Goodbye Itachi-san!" Naruto yelled out quickly before he would hear the small bell on the door ring to signal his departure. The girls stood there in awe as they saw the raven walk out with what looked like a smile on his face that made the world melt.

"NARUTO!" Both of the women yelled, the blonde giving a hopeless sigh and picked himself off the floor, heading towards upstairs. He stopped short to where Itachi had been leaning against the stairs and grinned, placing his hand over the beam of wood. With his smile intact, he walked upwards to meet his doom with the girls.

***

"NARUTO!"

Both of the girls' screams could be heard echoing from down the street, yet Itachi heard not a scream, but just the name itself.

Naruto.

He loved the way it seemed to roll off of his tongue with ease and straight guidance. He smirked to himself, knowing that the library was one of the best ideas he had. It would be a bit of a pain working with the two girls that seemed to want meaningless prattle with him, but it would be worth it of being in the company of Naruto. He knew from that instant that there was no way they couldn't get along. It was almost too perfect…

Itachi threw down his briefcase on the table and his coat on the rack, part of his routine when he walked in the door of his bland apartment. It was quite fancy and everything, having a sight to die for of Tokyo, but nevertheless, there were no pictures, the bedspreads were always a shade of blacks or reds and there was hardly anything in the fridge. It was as if no one had lived there, yet it was clean.

"Itachi, are you home?" He heard Sasuke call from his bedroom.

"Yes." He replied with his normal tone voice, knowing that Sasuke would pick up his sound anywhere within a mile radius. "What took you so long? You're never usually this late, unless you have a meeting or something, but I didn't get a memo." Sasuke stepped out of his room with a pair of jeans on and a towel draped around his neck with no shirt. He had obviously just gotten out of the shower, judging by his dripping wet hair as well.

"Hn, it was nothing." Itachi wouldn't let his brother know that he had gotten so many community service hours and a humongous fine for his unpaid parking tickets. He wouldn't give him that satisfaction.

"Well, you couldn't have been with a lover and I highly doubt you had to rush back to court so soon." Sasuke prowled around the kitchen, almost as if he were circling Itachi as his prey. He wouldn't let his baby brother win this round, not when he had just won at the library.

"Sasuke, when did I mean so much to you?" He questioned with his eyebrow raised.

"You don't. I'm just staying here until my apartment can get fixed, you know that." He chuckled, amused at the fact that he would even think that he would –or even could- care for his brother.

"Then why meddle? Is there a reason to your inquiries or are you just jealous of the fact that I get out of the house more often than you?" He smirked. He got Sasuke right where he wanted him.

"Whatever, Itachi. I'm going out anyways." Sasuke kicked off from the counter and headed back towards his room with a water bottle in hand. "To mothers?" Itachi smirk laid intact right where he wanted it to be. He had won this battle, thank goodness, which placed him at an even greater mood.

"Shut up! Speaking of mother, she wants us to go over on Saturday. I told her you already said yes."

And shit, he was losing.

"Why would you tell her I said yes? I already have plans for Saturday." Itachi stated with that same edge reappearing towards his brother.

"And what's that? Working in front of your laptop? Yeah, right." Sasuke rolled his eyes as the stumbled through some decent t-shirts to wear, quickly wiping off the water that was on his hair and shaking it a couple of times in order to get his spikes up and going. "I'm not working. I'm going out with some friends." Sure, like he was going to say he was spending it at a library. There was no shame in it actually, but you can't tell your mother that you're ditching her for a couple of books…and Naruto.

The less they know, the better.

"Hmm, this is interesting. I'll be sure to tell mother, then." He raised his eyebrow. Great, that was the code for he was going to get their mother to do some ratting around me to figure out what he was actually doing.

"Thank you." He nodded his head and dismissed himself to his bedroom where he shut and locked the door.

He stayed still on his bed for a moment, just staring at the ceiling and reflecting on today…or Naruto.

He couldn't forget those piercing, oceanic blue eyes that made him want to drown in them almost. He couldn't take his mind off of his soft, blonde hair he just wanted to run his fingers through and then hose lips; how he wanted to claim them as his. A sudden slam of the front door made by Sasuke make him jump, but his mind was still on the blonde named Naruto.

Itachi jumped off of his bed and quickly outside to his briefcase to where he found the card.

"Hn, so it's Uzumaki Naruto." The smile reappeared back on his lips.

Haha, sorry to leave you hanging here! Its nessisary in order to get you guys to come back and read the next chapter, which I promise, I will try to make long! Sorry for making them so short, by the way! This one took me a while and it's totally raw and unedited so yes, be prepared for mistakes! XD Anyways, I'll probably update sometime soon again so be ready!