Author's Note: Thanks for those reviews, guys! This was made possible because of YOU, since I seriously wasn't planning to extend this story over an oneshot…but I hate to disappoint the people who put this drabble on 'Alert'. I feel like a big softie, but I'll go along with ALL of your suggestions and make this into a short story. Probably four or five chapters since I've really got to start working on PoF and Unforgivable…But it's a nice break to write something that's not depressing/angsty though.

Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto.

It was almost over.

The first week of her job.

The first week of her job that she had so not wanted.

The first week of the unending torture that was supposed to be composed of nice graphics and designing.

The first week of—

"Just how long are you going to stand there like an idiot? Hurry up and get my coffee!"

Hinata smiled wryly, apparently as a new employee, she was the fill-in coffee girl. Apparently, the blond secretary who usually did this task was out on a sick day. But she doubted that Miss Yamanaka was truly sick; she was apparently avoiding the job. And for the first, second, third time this month, too!

She carefully set down the hot cup on the reception desk, not wanting to disturb Miss Haruno, who bore that struggling face of someone playing Tetris rather than working. Hinata sighed and turned around. She fumbled at the door to the tiny office that she shared with three other people.

Apparently, the person who did the room arrangements (who, by the way was the receptionist) didn't particularly like Hinata. The three other people in her room were frankly, annoying. The black haired man snored on his computer desk all day, wetting everything with sticky drool. And the blond kept screeching when the computer froze or some system went down. And the third always hid a puppy in his coat.

Normally, Hinata didn't have anything against puppies, but when it's constantly barking and peeing all over the place, there had to besome kind of reaction involved. Of course, Hinata kept all these vulgar thoughts to her herself. She had no right to judge people just by their habits or looks.

As she sat down quietly in front of the new computer, she tried to force herself to think good thoughts, calming thoughts. Okay, she thought, let's start with the spiky black haired guy. He's quiet, and seems to get all his work done. And…he doesn't smoke? Then she moved on to the blond, he was…uh…cute and good-looking.

Not that it had anything to do with her work, of course.

She turned her attention to the computer screen, wanting to at least fill in a bit of her quota for the day bef—

"Hyuuga! More coffee! And don't take all day!"

Great.

Sometimes Hinata didn't know what the receptionist did with that coffee. Maybe she just dumped it in a garbage pail just so I could go get more for her, she thought bitterly. Normally, Hinata prided herself in being thoughtful and kind, but there were some people in the world that you just couldn'tbe kind to. Such, she thought as she put down the most recent cup of coffee down on the desk harder than normal, as this pink haired woman.

Just as she reached for the doorknob of her room again, "Oh yeah, wait a sec, Hyuuga."

Hinata was actually surprised to hear a slight growl come out of her own mouth; if that woman wanted another cup of coffee…she left the threat open in her mind. She turned around and smoothed out her frustrated expression to replace it with a normal, smiling face.

"Y-yes?"

"Sasuke-kun—that's Uchiha-sama for you—wants to see you in his office," then she added under her breath, "probably getting fired for being so lazy, glorified slut." Hinata didn't hear those words, but just the mention of Uchiha-san made her blood run cold. Although everyone seemed to think that he liked her since she was actually hired, she begged to differ.

After all, the scariest part of that whole interview was the interviewer, or rather, he.

Her hands were shaking as she turned the knob on the foreboding door that proclaimed 'VICE PRESIDENT, UCHIHA SASUKE'. She stepped into the room and found the vice-president looking through a stack of forms. After summing up all her courage, she cleared her throat softly; the silence was threatening to make her go mad. He looked up through his designer glasses and drawled in a bored voice,

"Oh, it's Hyuuga. What are you doing here?"

"U-um…I-I was c-called…"

His eyes rolled up to the ceiling and suddenly, the expression on his face changed. Like he just remembered whyexactly he had called Hyuuga Hinata to his office this glorious day. He took off the glasses and threw them into a drawer that was conveniently open.

"You haven't been completing your quota, Hyuuga."

"I-I'm sorry…", Hinata looked down at her fidgeting hands. She felt her face getting red; only one week into her new job and she was getting fired. What would her father and friends say? They had been so happy about her new job and so confident that she was going to succeed.

"Normally, I would fire someone—"

"P-please just g-give m-me another ch-chance!" Hinata immediately looked down at the ground again, "…U-uchiha-sama." Great, she told herself, now he's really g-going to fire you. J-just great. You just c-couldn't keep your st-stupid thoughts to y-yourself. Eve-n i-if y-y-you h-had-d an-any ch-chan-ce-ce, n-n-now—

She couldn't help herself and soon, hot tears started rolling down her cheeks. She didn't even see him move until she felt a cold hands against her cheek. She looked up and gasped in surprise when she saw Uchiha-san there. He looked just as startled as she felt when he slowly started to realize what just happened. Her eyes were wide open and trembling with fear and embarrassment.

Her shoulders started shaking and she dashed of the room without a glance behind.

Another figure walked into the vice-president's room and eyed his little brother. A teasing smile appeared on his face.

"Bet you 2000 yen that she'll fall for you by the end of the month."

The vice-president snapped out of his daze and glared at his elder brother with a look that could've curdled milk.

"Shut up, Itachi."

Author's Note: Wow. That was fun. I hope that your enjoyed reading this chapter just as much I enjoyed typing it. Remember, more reviews mean faster updates and (probably) better quality!

SasuHina all the way!

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