Hello everyone... I really am trying here to continue with this fic as you have all been so wonderful with your reviews. This has been difficult but it's worth it for every single one of you.
I'm sorry if the quality is lacking or if the characters don't stay intone, but right now my focus is trying to get a chapter out…
Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto, no matter how much I would like to…
PS to Bubble-chan: Don't worry about me stealing Itachi; I've hooked up with Sai… But if Itachi gets bored, well, you know where to find me…
(Sorry to confuse everyone else out there with this, but it was just something for her)
NB: I wrote this during school 'cause I just wanted to please you guys before I go away on my history trip. We're going to France to visit 'The Somme' as that's what we're basing our history coursework on.
On the outside, Sasuke was as calm as one could be, but on the inside he was screaming his head off.
How could Kakashi be so dumb as to hire a little girl to be his head mechanic. It was just so frustrating. She was barely out of her diapers… okay, so that was an exaggeration, but still, she was too young, never mind the fact that he began racing at the age of 19. He hadn't even taken that into consideration. But then she had begun working here at 14 which was just… preposterous!
During Sasuke's running chain of thought, Kakashi has been staring at him, enjoying the emotion, mainly rage, which could be quite easily seen in his eyes, though his posture showed no emotion whatsoever, apart from, perhaps… boredom?
Naru was sitting next to Sasuke, her arms crossed in front of her chest, a clear scowl visible on her tan face. Her eyes were slightly narrowed in anger, her pupils staring out at a random corner of the room. Her lips were moving as she was mumbling curses and complaints to herself, though it was obvious that she was talking about a certain raven-haired 23 year old racer who had an ego bigger then Kakashi's gravity-defying hair.
Though the two younger occupants in the room were definitely NOT enjoying being here, Kakashi was having the time of his life. He didn't even have the newest edition of 'Icha Icha Paradise' visible anywhere, which was saying a lot when taking into consideration who it was.
"Well…" Kakashi began, but he didn't say anymore as he honestly didn't know how to approach the subject.
He then heard a growl and noticed that Naru was now facing Sasuke, and that he was, in turn, staring at her with discontent.
"Teme!"
"Dobe!"
"Sexist!"
"Baby!"
"Emo!"
"Usuratonkochi!"
"Teme!"
"You already said that!"
"But you are a Teme!"
"Calm down guys, this is nothing to get upset about, we can settle this in a calm and sensible manner instead of this bickering which you are both too old to be doing." Kakashi interrupted.
"I may be too old, but she definitely isn't."
"Why you-…"
"Settle Down!" Kakashi said louder then was needed, but it got the job done. "Just… calm down and we can settle this."
There was a silent pause, though you could clearly see the sparks of rivalry between the two younglings, well, they weren't younglings, but they were acting like they were
Sasuke then turned to look at Sasuke, a look of authority present in his eyes, though Kakashi was higher up then he was, but he wasn't about to voice that when Sasuke was in such a dangerous mood.
"Fire her." He demanded, plain and simple.
"What! You can't tell him to fire me! What right do you have to do that?!"
"Fire her!"
"Sasuke, she's staying and that's that."
"Hah! I'm not going anywhere, no matter what you say teme!"
"Dob-…"
"Enough, I'm sick of this bickering and if you don't stop right now you're both fired! Understood?"
"Yes Kakashi-san." The two of them said obediently in unison.
"Listen, Naru isn't going anywhere, she's staying right here and I don't want to hear a word of unreasonable complaint come from your mouth Sasuke, and Naru. I want you to leave Sasuke alone and just stick to your job. Understood?"
"Yes Kakashi-san."
"Good… now, both of you get out of here, I have work to do."
"More like porn to read…" The two of them mumbled at the same time, then growled at each other when they realised it.
"Off you two go."
Naru left the room, but Sasuke stayed where he was. Kakashi raised an eyebrow in question.
"Meeting." Sasuke stated like it was the most obvious thing in the world, which is should have been for Kakashi as he had been the one to ask Sasuke to meet him here this very day.
In the garage…
Clangs, Jingles and other similar noises were coming from here. The source was one Uzumaki Naru who was currently throwing whatever she could get her hands on, not caring what it was or where it landed. Luckily, nothing had been broken or damaged… yet.
Someone heard the noise and came in to find Naru bright red and her arms flailing around after not being able to find anything else to throw in her frustration.
"Naru?... are you alright?"
Said person spun around so fast that the man missed it for he blinked. She immediately calmed down once she saw who it was, though she was still red and tense, with her clenched fists by her side.
"Iruka…"
"What's wrong Naru?..." He said tentatively as he slowly embraced her. She didn't answer him so he took a guess. "Sasuke?..."
"That teme!"
Bulls-eye.
"That sexist, emo, duck-butt-haired Teme!"
"I think that that's enough for now Naru." She calmed down again, and removed herself from Iruka's embrace.
"Thanks Iruka…"
"No problem… Remember, if you ever need somebody, then I'm always here…"
She smiled her signature smile at him as she thanked him yet again.
Later…
For the past two weeks, things had been tense at the race course, well… for Sasuke and Naru at least and this didn't go unnoticed by everyone else present there.
The two were blatantly ignoring each other and made an effort to do so, even if it took them ten times longer to do something.
When they didn't manage to avoid each other, tense and hate filled glares were shared along with a string colourful insults to match the colour of their faces, which ranged from reds and pinks to purples and blues.
No-one had even seen Sasuke act like this and to be frank, they were afraid, very afraid and they did not want to get on the wrong side of him and they made sure to please him as much as possible.
However, one night, Sasuke decided to go out to a bar, which he didn't do often as he would rather not have girls hit on him. And no, he was not gay, he just hated girls for the first impression which they left on him.
Fangirls, 'nuff said.
He sat at the bar on an old worn stool, with a half empty drink in his hand which he would occasionally take sips of. He wasn't much of a drinker, couldn't hold his alcohol too well either, but one glass was fine.
He heard cheering and shouts of encouragements, even some sobbing followed by weeps of losses from bets made and lost.
He decided to find out what was happening and what surprised to see that the people causing the noise were all from work.
Strange.
He asked the nearest person what was going on.
"We're having our monthly arm wrestling contest and you're lucky, the final two are about to have their match."
As Sasuke didn't have anything better to do, he decided to watch the final.
As he made his way through, he saw one of the finalists. To say that he was huge would not be far off from the truth. He was much taller then Sasuke himself, and much broader as well. A lot of fat was present on him and he was half balled and had stubble on his chin.
Sasuke grimaced slightly. He was 'butt-ugly'.
The guy sat down as the crowd parted to let other finalist through.
Sasuke gaped.
There, sitting on the opposite end of the 'butt-ugly' guy, was her. His jaw hung in a very Un-Uchiha way, but he didn't care… actually, he didn't even know that it was hanging like that. All he could think about was 'how on earth could she be the finalist in arm wrestling of all things?'
Before he knew it the match was over. Naru had won.
'Unbelievable…'
H-how on earth did she win that? Unless… unless he was a real push over… Or maybe there were bribes involved, as he had noticed that there were plenty of bets placed and no-one here wanted to lose.
Yeah, that must be it.
"Hmph." Was his only sign of agreeing with his thoughts.
Everyone around turned to look at him as they had all heard him due to the silence which had been lingering around.
Naru also looked in his direction.
"Sasuke-teme! What are you doing here?!" She demanded.
"I came to see some arm wrestling, but I guess it was a waste of time as this was all I got, kids play."
Someone then nudged him in the side. He turned to see who it was and it was one of the junior mechanics. He moved his mouth towards Sasuke's ear as he whispered something to him.
"I wouldn't taunt her like that. The kid may be small, but she's the best. She has yet to be defeated. It's from all of that work, her muscles are like monsters."
Sasuke then turned his gaze onto Naru's arms. Now that he looked, you could see that there was no fat whatsoever and that there were nice, tan muscles. It wasn't even close enough to be like a body-builder, but they were pretty impressive.
"Well, teme, if you think that this is kids stuff, why don't you take your pretty lil' ass over here and prove it?!" Naru taunted.
NO-ONE and I mean NO-ONE would taunt an Uchiha like that, which was why Sasuke did what she said and sat down on the opposite side of the table, placing his elbow on the table, Naru doing the same thing.
They shared glares for a second before their hands met.
Hehe… I'm ending it there… mainly because I'm not sure what's going to happen next, except for the outcome of the arm wrestling match…
As I said earlier, I wrote this during school as I had a free period, so it's a bit rushed and it's nothing special, but hey, I figured you guys would understand with this being a quick update and all…
There will actually be a long while before I next update…
Sorry…
CHOW!
