Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto, and I don't own Community Coffee. I sure as hell drink it, though!
A/N: This fic has a total of sixty-three reviews. OMFG. That is so awesome. -tears of joy- KEEP 'EM COMIN'!
In this chapter, we'll meet Deidara. Not much of him in the rest of the story, though. Also, once again, though there are little bits of NaruIno and SasuIno, these two pairings won't happen, okay! This is a SasuSaku/NaruHina fic! nods
And...everybody seemed to like the Telepathic Slut thing. xD I was expecting bor the Ino fans to get really mad.
And just about everybody requested not to have a copy of Icha Icha...that was quite humorous. XD So to all the reviews, you all get cupcakes! And love from me! And BIG thanks!
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Now, Enjoy Chapter 3!
It's Called Icha Icha
Chapter 3: Rivals and Lenses
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–One Week Later–
Riiiiiiiiing! Riiiiiiiiiiiiing! Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiing!
A young man in his mid-twenties rushed into the chair behind his desk. Once plopped in, he pushed his feet, causing the chair-with-wheels to roll to the end of the semi-circular wooden desk. Blowing the long blond hair from his eyes, he took hold of the small black phone, and pressed the blinking "Line 2" button.
"Mikoto Fashion! This is Deidara, yeah. How may I help you?"
"WHERE'S ITACHI?"
Deidara held the phone away from his poor ear as a string of words not meant for the ears of the innocent made their way through the black device. A few Mikoto employees passing by stopped and stared, and with a nervous laugh, Deidara pushed the phone against his ear once again.
"Sasuke-chan?! H-hold on, yeah!"
Before he could even begin to hear Sasuke's quite...colorful opinion on the more feminine suffix Deidara always added to his name, the phone was back in it's place (on hold), and he was rushing down the halls of the building.
He reached the office, and knocked on the door. A calm yet loud enough "Come in," was heard from the inside, and Deidara opened the door, and poked his head in.
"Itachi-san?"
The Uchiha blinked up at the blonde, and Deidara shifted his one visible eye from side to side.
Silence. And more silence. And more.
"...Yes?" Itachi finally asked.
Deidara blinked, and looked back at the new head of the company. He was...a quiet one. Deidara was always always ALWAYS used to Fugaku-san to ask him what was up before he said anything back. Though he had known Itachi for a few years, he surely was not used to the young Uchiha running the company where he worked.
"Sasuke-chan is on the phone...I think he's mad at you, yeah."
Itachi smirked at the sound of his younger brother's name. He nodded, and shooed the blonde away with his hand. Deidara nodded and left, and Itachi stared at the phone for a moment before calmly picking it up.
"Sasuke."
"I HATE THIS PLACE."
Itachi leaned back in his chair, the smirk on his fine face growing.
"Do you now?"
Itachi could almost see Sasuke, behind an office desk, nodding violently as he replied, "Yes!"
"Itachi. It's not fair! I have to look at these...these PORN pictures! And they keep asking me OUT! I DON'T WANT TO GO OUT WITH A SLUT."
Itachi laughed aloud. "Calm down. Don't be foolish. They aren't sluts, Sasuke. They are professional models."
"...I think one can read minds."
Itachi rolled his eyes.
"Sasuke, deal with it. You have THE major company in your hands, whether you like it or not. Now stop complaining and do your job."
Click.
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Sasuke glared at the phone.
"...That...bastard hung up on me!"
Sasuke huffed, and slammed the phone on the receiver. Itachi had NO idea what he was talking about!
His thoughts were soon interrupted as his pink-haired-PA walked in, holding a cup of coffee.
Sakura calmly set the cup of hot caffeine on her boss's desk. She bowed quickly.
"You're coffee, sir."
She watched behind her thick frames as the man gave a sigh of relief as he grabbed the mug and took a sip. There were a few things that Haruno Sakura learned about the new C.E.O. of Icha Icha, and they were as follows:
One: Uchiha Sasuke was very attractive.
Two: She had no chance with him, so One was deemed irrelevant.
Three: She'd do anything to own a car like Uchiha Sasuke's. A BLUE JAGUAR. COME ON!
Four: Uchiha Sasuke had either a caffeine addiction, or just REALLY liked coffee...because she was constantly running to the Community Coffee machine to fix him a cup. By day Two of her job as Sasuke's personal assistant, she had perfected the "Sasuke Cup"...the name she gave to the cup of coffee that had the perfect amount of sugar and cream (Sasuke hated milk) added to it.
Five: Sasuke hated Icha Icha with a passion.
"Earth to Sakura...?"
Sakura jumped a bit and looked up at her boss. Lost in her thoughts again. Shit.
"Yes, sir?"
"One, don't call me that. Two, what are you standing there for?"
Sakura tilted her head. "Sasuke-kun?"
Sasuke sighed. "Better."
"Alright then, Sasuke-kun."
Sasuke flinched...maybe 'sir' was better...
"If you're just going to stand there with nothing to do, Sakura, then I need you to run an errand."
Sakura immediately shook her head, and Sasuke raised an eyebrow with a teeny smirk. 'She's such a nerd...'
"Actually si-...um, Sasuke-kun," she corrected, "I have to tell you that Hinata-san from Fireworks is going to be coming over on the second of the month for the monthly meeting."
Sasuke gave her that 'What-the-fuck-is-that?' look...but after a looong week of receiving that look, she was used to it. She couldn't blame him. After all, Sasuke WAS new.
"Um, Hinata-san is the daughter of the C.E.O. of Fireworks."
Now Sasuke was just plain confused, and it showed clearly on his face.
"What is Fireworks, exactly?"
Sakura took a breath, and began the short explanation. It was different for sure; most of the men she had ever known were interested in porn. Yet Sasuke knew nothing about it. She found the trait a good thing. They didn't need more perverts in this world.
"Fireworks is Icha Icha's rival magazine. At the beginning of each month, Hyuuga-san, the owner, sends his daughter over for a meeting with you so that you both make sure that you aren't taking each other's ideas, and...well, I'm not sure what else."
Sasuke leaned forward, propping his elbows on the edge of the desk and resting his head on entwined hands.
"So I have to meet my rival?"
"Yes," Sakura nodded.
"...That is just weird," the Uchiha commented with a scoff. Sakura looked to the side, nodding.
"I agree, sir."
"I mean, Sasuke-kun."
"Hn."
Sakura sighed. Silence is NOT always so golden...
"Um, you needed me to run an errand for you, right?"
Sasuke's eyes widened a tad, as thought he just remembered.
"Oh, right."
Sasuke got out of his little position, and leaned down below the desk surface. He pulled on a drawer handle, and pulled the drawer open. He took out a manila folder, and closed the drawer. Placing the folder on the desk, he slipped the many photos consisting of naked woman, almost naked women, and women getting naked into the folder. Choosing what photos went into the magazine and what photos didn't just wasn't his thing, you see.
He held out the folder to his assistant.
"I need you to take this to Naruto. Tell him that this job of choosing photos is his job from now on. Also tell Dobe that there needs to be around an equal number of models, so he can't choose every picture of Ino."
The young woman laughed. One hand reached out and grabbed the folder, and the other reached up at her glasses to adjust them.
Her focus, however, was on the folder, and the lack of attention caused her glasses to slip off of her face.
Crack!
Sakura and Sasuke, each with one hand on the folder, paused to glance at the now cracked lenses on the floor.
Well, crap.
Sasuke grabbed the folder, and placed it back on the desk. He watched as Sakura grabbed the glasses from the floor, a frown on her face. Her eyes were a little unfocused, as well. She couldn't see that well anymore, he analyzed.
Sakura stood up again, and looked at Sasuke, the flush on her face clearly showing that she was highly embarrassed. Sasuke caught her gaze, and unaware of his action, tilted his head the slightest bit as he stared.
The glasses had always pulled the attention away from those eyes of hers, he noticed.
Her eyes were, to put in the most accurate way possible, captivating. Without the thick frames, her eyes were five shades brighter, two shades deeper, a shade of blue mixed in, and a hundred times...nicer.
She quickly looked away, and Sasuke immediately realized that he was staring. How rude.
Both adults kept their gaze away from the other for a moments, blushes apparent on both faces.
Finally, after a rather awkward silence, it was the Uchiha who decided to speak up.
"How bad are they?"
Sakura sighed, and looked over her broken lenses.
"I'll have to get them replaced..."
Sasuke nodded, and Sakura continued.
"These things...ugh, they're always getting in the way. This is like, the fifth time I break them."
Sasuke's eyebrows rose.
"Are you that clumsy?"
"I'm afraid so," she frowned. Her gaze lingered at the lens. Sasuke found himself looking at her eyes again. It's just...well, they looked so much better without the glasses, and-
"Have you ever thought of contacts?" he asked without thinking. His mouth clamped shut.
Sakura just shook her head quickly.
"No, I don't think I could get the guts to stick those things in my eyes."
Sasuke frowned...they couldn't be that bad. Itachi wore them sometimes.
"Well," Sasuke started, "I'll get someone to run down and pick you up a ne-"
"Oh! No, you don't have to do that," the girl interrupted. "I have an extra pair in Ino's car."
Sasuke tilted his head a bit.
"Ino's car?"
"Yeah," she answered with a small smile. "We car pool."
"Aa."
"She's my best friend, actually!"
Sasuke opened his mouth to say something, then shut it again. Best friends? Really? Ino, an attractive model with an extremely outgoing personality. Ino, a woman who had come into the office four times throughout the week asking if he was SURE he didn't want to go out on a date with her.
This nerdy, not-really-all-that outgoing, business girl was friends without someone like Ino? That was just strange. They were polar opposites, mostly!
...Then again, he was best friends with Naruto. Never mind.
"Get your glasses first, and then come back so you can send these to Naruto. Be careful, I don't need my personal assistance breaking her nose against glass doors," he said with a smirk.
She sighed, and gave him a look of fake anger, though those eyes said that she had taken the humor lightly.
She bowed quickly, and made her way out of the room, and in the direction of the parking lot.
Sasuke leaned back in his chair, and somewhere deep down, he hoped that whenever she'd get her glasses replaced, she'd ask about contacts.
A/N: Wow. Only one scene in the entire chapter, mostly. But I wanted to have this SasuSaku moment, right? Also, this chapters sets up a lot for the future chapters. I won't tell you what, though! You'll have to see!
To anybody wondering, Hinata will be appearing in the next chapter or two!
Also, it took me a while to figure out a good name for the Hyuuga's magazine name. I wanted it to fit in with the Hyuuga, but nothing sounded...right. xD I want to thank Static Raven and Brittney-chan for helping. In the end, I chose "Fireworks," which is what Hanabi means. Hanabi, of course, is Hinata's little sister. Hanabi won't make a big appearance, so I decided using "Fireworks" would work.
Anyways, please review! If you have critisism, please give it to me, but no flames!
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