To Pick a Lock
By: Silverwolf
Itachi sits rattling a piece of chain. Madara looks at his nephew. "I told you before, you'd have to cut through your ankle to get that off. You aren't wandering the streets at the value you have so sit tight and be friendly." Itachi narrows his eyes. Madara laughs.
Several people enter the office in silence. Itachi places his head against the desk. Madara looks at Itachi. "For eighteen you still act like a brat." Itachi's hand wraps around a pencil from the desk. Madara moves just missing being stuck with the object. "Now, now, Itachi, there are better things to do besides stabbing family with pencils." Itachi's eyes narrow farther. The teen turns aways from Madara in the chair. Several people give Madara an odd look when they hear a chain rattle.
Madara shrugs, "ignore my nephew he's in a bad mood." A teenage blonde flops along the floor near Itachi. Madara watches as his business partner waves a hand before something is stated to the young blonde. "He's my adopted son. I figure that him being around today couldn't harm anything."
Itachi narrows his eyes at the blonde. The young teen looks at Itachi with a pair of cobalt eyes and a grin. Itachi turns away. The blonde rattles the chain locked around Itachi's ankle. The Uchiha pulls his ankle away. Instead of giving up the blonde wraps his hand around the chain pulling Itachi's ankle back towards him. As soon as the adults leave the office for a meeting the blonde starts digging through the desk. Itachi looks at the younger teen.
"What? It can't be fun to be locked there." The child makes short work of the lock. Itachi looks at the teen. "Why'd you do that?" The blonde shrugs, "you want to leave, so leave." Itachi looks at the other teen, "you'd better put it back before someone beats you." The blonde laughs a bit. "See that's the thing... I've been beat before. Besides you might want to hear what they're talking about." Itachi looks at the blonde teen, "you're weird." The blonde laughs, "you're not exactly normal. I was told you're some kind of prodigy and yet you can't pick a lock." Itachi rolls his eyes, "it's not that I can't it's more like I don't bother. There's no reason to bother anymore. Hasn't been in five years." Itachi lowers his head, "he trusted me to protect him. I couldn't even do that."
The blonde teen makes a face, "I don't have a clue what you're talking about, but come on." The younger teen snatches Itachi out of the chair pulling him along out of the office. The older teen stops in front of a cork board with pictures pinned to it. Itachi stops snatching one of the pictures from the board. The blonde teen laughs a moment, "that's the kid that won that stupid cage fight the other night." Cobalt eyes stare at Itachi, "you know something you kind of look like him." Itachi looks at the younger teen, "you know something, you're not as dumb as you act." The blonde laughs a bit, "you shouldn't insult the person the brought you out here. I'd have to get you locked back to the desk."
Itachi looks at the blonde, "so what is your name. Mostly because I want to be able to spell it right when I carve you a headstone." The blonde gives a nervous laugh, "Naruto." Itachi shakes his head lightly. Cobalt eyes look at the picture a bit, "so you know him?" Itachi narrows his eyes a bit in annoyance. "He's my brother." Naruto makes a face, "well every Saturday my father takes me out there. I've seen him a bunch of times. Sometimes he's friendly, sometimes he's like you." The blonde laughs nervously.
Itachi narrows his eyes again. The blonde grins widely. The older teen rolls his eyes. "I can't decide if you're stupid or not." The blonde laughs a bit, "I'm not telling." Itachi watches the younger teen pull Itachi into an office. "Always avoid their assistants. Mostly because you don't need the questions." Naruto pulls Itachi through one office and into another. "How the..." The blonde grins again, "I used to play hide and seek here. I know what closets or storage rooms are connected to other places." Itachi watches as the blonde moves to against the wall. "We should be able to hear everything through the vent down there." The blonde points to a spot in the wall. Itachi decides to take a seat along the floor. Both teens sit listening to the meeting they weren't supposed to know anything about. "You understand this stuff more than I do, right?" Itachi nods lightly, "correct." Naruto grins, "good then you'll be able to explain the rest of this crap to me." The pair sit silently. Naruto digs around in one of the boxes. The blonde produces a couple of cans of Pepsi from the box, "don't tell anyone I stash stuff here." Itachi shrugs, "I know nothing." Naruto grins.
A/N: Well we've discovered how Itachi spends the day now. Or maybe things will become interesting with a new acquaintance?
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