Disclaimer: Why do I even bother with this? I do not own Naruto.
Haha, awww, wittle Silo-chan likes Jack XD
The sun rose up into the sky, its bright shine beaming through the thin slits of a bedroom window. The golden rays ran over two closed eyelids, making them twitch and open, black orbs appearing. Yes, it was a gorgeous Saturday morning and Uchiha Sasuke wanted nothing to do with it. All he wanted was to stay in bed and sleep the day away, but knowing Kiba, that wouldn't happen.
"Get your ass up, Sasuke!" a voice screamed from the other side of the locked door. There was a loud slam against the oak door before footsteps could be heard going down the creaky barn house steps.
The raven groaned in annoyance and slowly sat up, his dark hair in low spiky tuffs. Running slim fingers through tangles, he stood up, hissing at the feeling of the cold floor against his heated skin. He stretched, bones popping, and he frowned when he saw the horses out in the pasture below his bedroom window. When the horses were out, that meant Kiba was going to wash them... and that usually meant Sasuke had to help as well.
Slipping on a pair of working jeans, he stepped over to his closet, pulling out a set of boots Kiba had given him the night before. He put those on, then grabbed a simple blue T-shirt, the cloth hugging his slender frame in all the right places. Opening his door, he went downstairs, nodding to Kakashi who was sitting at the kitchen table, a mug of steaming coffee in his grip.
"I'm guessing you know of the agenda this morning?" Kakashi had his mask off, his handsome face revealed.
Sasuke snorted and stuffed his hands in his pockets, "I saw the horses from my window," he pushed open the sliding glass door before slipping outside, the gentle breeze caressing his porcelain skin, "is Kiba already out in the pasture?"
"He just left," Kakashi took a sip of his beverage.
The raven closed the glass door and headed out into the slightly tall grass, his boots sinking in mud. He glared at the moist earth before making his way to his friend, the brunnet already working on one horse with a sopping wet scrub brush.
"Took you long enough," Kiba grinned, flashing his abnormally sharp canines. His large dog, Akamaru, was by his side (as always) and the white animal seemed to be interested in watching the horse's tail swish back and forth, "has the world of the rich and famous gotten you used to waking up late?"
Sasuke smirked, "No, I just happen to have a job that doesn't require me to be up at the crack of dawn."
"Whatever, Pretty boy," Kiba chuckled, "get to work on one of the males. Just be careful because some of 'em might be a bit frisky."
Sasuke held back a twitch, "I don't want to be raped by a horse, so I think I'll clean one of the females."
Kiba shrugged, a grin still plastered on his face, "Hey, have you found any good actors yet? Ya know, for your new movie?"
"I haven't been searching. This small place seems to only be filled with the elderly and teens with A.D.D," he began scrubbing at a light tan horse, "although... I did see a boy who looked perfect for the part. I just doubt he could act."
"You don't know that, man. Why don't you ask him to audition?" Kiba suggested.
Sasuke thought about it while he cleaned the large mammal, "I suppose I could."
xXxXx
Naruto was crouched down behind a bush, moving forward every once and a while to see if his son's "friend" had arrived yet. He had dropped Silo off because he had to run to the bank in Germantown, knowing very well that the boy didn't like long trips. But before he took off, he wanted to see just how close his son was to this... Jack kid.
After a good ten minutes, a white van pulled up, a dark-haired woman climbing out of the side door with her little boy's hand in hers. She smiled to him and led him to the door before kissing him good-bye and walking back to the car, the vehicle taking off once again.
When Jack walked in, Naruto snuck to the side window of the establishment and peeked in, watching with interest as the kid ran to Silo first, a wide smile on his face, "Huh... they must be really good friends..." this did always say that relationships sprout from friendships.
He snickered when he saw Silo blush, but nod and smile cutely, that reaction causing Jack to laugh.
"Mr. Uzumaki?"
Naruto turned around in a flash, coming face to face with one of the caretakers at the daycare. He smiled nervously, "H-Hello, Emi... I mean, Miss. McDowell! It's a lovely day today, don't you think?"
The woman looked at the blond suspiciously, her dyed red hair glowing under the rays of the sun, "What were you doing?"
"N-Nothing!" he pushed himself up, his baggy jeans hanging low on his hips, his boxers showing, "I'm just... um, I was just about to head out to Germantown, so... yeah! Bye!" he ran off, stumbling over his own feet before slamming into his car, opening the door and leaping in.
He sighed and backed out of the parking lot, turning on the radio as well. He grinned when he heard Lil' Jon(1). He could never resist the urges to copy the rapper, "yeahs" and "oks" slipping off of his tongue as he flashed pretend gang signs to passing truckers.
Merging onto the highway, he reclined his seat slightly, settling down to just mouthing the words of the song, Hmmm, Silo's too young... but puppy love is so cute... and I just have to get them together! God, I can hear him now! 'Can Jack come over, Chichiue?' 'Please let Jack come over, Chichiue!' 'I'm not a pervert, Chichiue, we're only cuddling!' "Ah, how lovely youth is."
xXxXx
Naruto sighed as he came back from the bank, parking his small Honda by the front doors of the daycare center. The whole reason he went to the bank was so he could get the child support money from his ex-girlfriend. Even though the girl left him with their child, she still had a heart. And she chose to send them five hundred dollars a month. But it seemed this month there was only two hundred.
He got out of the car and slammed the door, a frown on his face, "I needed that money so I could go Christmas shopping for Silo," he gritted his teeth and angrily kicked a stone that was lying by the mulch, "out of all the fuckin' months... it had to be fuckin' Christmas!" he growled, stepping into the center.
One of the girls, Nikki, looked up from her clay figures, "Silo, your daddy's here!" she called.
Silo stood up from his spot on the floor, dropping the cards he was using to play goldfish with, "Chichiue..." he trailed off when he noticed the angry look on his father's face, but the blond looked up and quickly hid it away, replacing his scowl with a smile.
"Come on, Silo, let's go home and make some curry."
The raven-haired boy smiled slightly and ran to Naruto, looking back and waving to Jack and his other friends. As they walked out, Silo glanced up at the taller male, "Chichiue? Why are you mad? Did I do something wrong?"
Naruto blinked and looked down, "N-no, don't ever think anything's your fault," he sighed and ran a hand through his hair, opening the back car door so Silo could get in, "it's just... nevermind, you don't need to worry about it," he ruffled the boy's hair.
Silo watched his father's expression go from faking a smile, to just letting a frown stay on his handsome face, Chichiue...
xXxXx
"Look!" Sakura held up a baby blue coat, her emerald eyes sparkling over the top of it as she showed it to Naruto, the blond shrugging on his Wal-mart vest, "I bought this for Silo! Isn't it cute?"
Naruto smiled, "Thank you so much, Sakura..."
She lowered the clothing item and tilted her had to the side, pink hair tumbling over her shoulders, "What's wrong?"
"Well..." he sighed, "I went to pick up Sunako's money from the bank, but she only sent two hundred this month. Two hundred, Sakura-chan! It's Christmas! She's should've sent more, not less!"
Sakura frowned, "Have you called her? Tried asking her why?"
"I wanted to... but I was with Silo all day yesterday and he..." Naruto sighed again and leaned against the counter of his register, "he doesn't even know I'm still in contact with her. I thought it would be better if he didn't know his mother was still talking to me from time to time... and still didn't want to see him again. That would really damage a kid..."
Sakura bit her bottom lip, "I see... so... what are you going to do about Christmas gifts?"
"I don't know, Sakura-chan... I think two hundred's enough for one kid, right? God, but I wanted to get him a Playstation 3 so bad!" he groaned, frustrated, "that's the one thing I definitely know he wants!"
Both workers turned when someone cleared there throat.
"I'd like to purchase something, if you don't mind," Sasuke smirked, having not really heard the conversation beforehand. He placed his items on the conveyer belt as Sakura stepped back.
"Sorry, sir--" Sakura's eyes widened, "y-y-you're..."
Sasuke knew the girl recognized him by the look on her face, "Yes, I know, don't say anything, though."
The pink-haired Subway worker nodded dumbly before setting the blue coat on the closed register behind her, yanking out a notepad and grabbing one of Naruto's pens, "C-can I at least have your autograph... Sasuke-kun?" she blushed and giggled like a crazy fangirl. When Sasuke slowly took the pad, she squeeled.
Naruto raised a brow, "What's your problem?"
"Don't you know who this is?.!" she screeched, hushing down a second later, "this is Uchiha Sasuke, the sexiest man in all of Asia and one of the top actors in the world!"
Everything finally clicked in Naruto's head, His fancy car, his nice clothes, getting into the pet store after closing hours... he gasped inwardly, "You were that guy starring in that movie Sakura-chan bought!"
Sasuke handed the autograph to Sakura and turned to Naruto with a slight smirk, "I trust that you won't tell the entire store? I came here to get away from publicity and attention."
The blond nodded slowly.
"U-Um, I'll just go now," Sakura had hearts floating around her as she hugged the autograph to her chest, "bye, Sasuke-kun," she cooed before skipping away.
Naruto rung up the items, then bagged them, "That'll be $40.96," he waited for the raven to slide his card, then he handed him his receipt, along with his two bags, "so... what's it like being rich?"
Sasuke stared at him for a second, "It's not all that great."
Naruto smiled, "I'd do anything to have tons of money... or at least a fair amount of it. I'm sort of low on cash at a really bad time," he chuckled nervously, "but yeah, I'm sure you don't want to hear my whole life story, so... have a nice day, Sasuke."
The raven cocked an eyebrow, Kiba told me to ask him... and he just said he didn't have enough money...
"Oh, and thanks for the slushies the other day! I'll have to pay you back somehow!"
Sasuke was about to say that the blond didn't need to, but someone interrupted him.
"Gaki, can I have a word with you?" Jiraiya asked as he came walking out of the cart section.
"O-Oh, sure," Naruto closed his register and grabbed the baby blue coat Sakura had bought for him before running after Jiraiya.
Sasuke watched the blond leave, then turned on his heel and left through the exit doors, muttering something about the stupid blond probably not being able to act anyway.
xXxXx
"I've been hearing from workers that you're having money problems," Jiraiya stated as he told the blond to sit down in the chair in front of his desk.
Naruto looked down at his folded hands atop of Silo's new coat.
"I can give you a raise if you absolutely need it, Naruto, I'm not a cruel person. You should know that I'd love to help you because you're like a son to me."
The blond smiled, "I know, Ero-sannin... and I suppose I could use a raise, but that wouldn't really be fair. I'm only getting it because you care about me... what if someone else needed it? Like Sai?"
"Even though I dislike that boy with a passion, I would still give him a raise," Jiraiya chuckled, lightening the mood, "as you know, that's just how I am."
Naruto grinned, "Then... can I have a $50 raise?"
Jiraiya chuckled, "Heh, I think Silo's going to have a very nice Christmas this year."
xXxXx
Kakashi made his way into Wal-mart, his lower face once again covered. He nodded his head to the greeter and walked to the frozen food aisles, trying to find a large bag of hashbrowns. When Sasuke had come back home, Kiba had mentioned that the raven forgot them, but the actor had refused to go back, so the brunnet had ordered Kakashi to go instead.
Opening a freezer door, he bent down to grab a bag of hashbrowns. As he went to go check out, some loud voice caught his attention and he glanced around the freezers to see a black-haired boy glaring at a tall man.
"Why don't you drop over at my place tonight? I bet we could have a little fun," the man snickered, eying Sai like he was a slab of meat, "you want my address?"
Sai narrowed his eyes even more, "I don't want anything to do with you. If you don't mind, I'm going back to electronics," he shoved past the taller male, but a rough hand grabbed his wrist, swinging him back around.
"But I do mind."
Kakashi raised a brow, I should do something... but I don't want to draw attention to myself.
"Oi! Sai!" Naruto called, running to him.
Sai forcefully yanked his wrist away, red finger marks apparent on his light skin.
Naruto immediately knew what was going on and he wrapped his arms around Sai's neck, his cheek nuzzling the raven's silky hair. Pressing his body closer to Sai's, he whispered, his voice like honey, "How come you didn't meet me for our lunch break?"
Sai smiled inwardly, knowing what Naruto was doing, "I'm sorry... but I was helping him find something," he glanced up at the man, a smirk in place.
"Oh, well, Lee! Help this guy out, will ya? I wanna go out and spend some time with Sai," he pressed his lips against the base of Sai's neck.
Lee bounced over, "Yosh!" he cheered, "what may I help you with today, sir?" he asked, excited, not paying much attention to his two fellow workers.
The man's scowl deepened, "There's need for you to help me. I think I found it," he glared at all of them before shuffling off.
Lee pouted, "Aw, I was looking forward to helping him... it seems I have not yet been able to share my youthful beauty with our dear customers today," he then blinked his round eyes at the scene of Naruto with his arms wrapped around Sai, "Naruto-kun, have you decided to finally give your lovely youth to Sai-kun?"
Naruto chuckled and pulled away from his friend with a grin, "Nah, I was just helping out a friend."
"Ah, with what?"
"..." the blond sighed, "nothing, nevermind."
"I see, then! Well, I am probably needed in the back storage rooms, so I shall see you all later!" he leaped off, a bounce in his step.
Sai smiled to Naruto, "Thank you, Naruto-san."
"No problem," the blond's grin widened, "anything for a good buddy of mine."
Sai stepped past Naruto, knowing the older teen would follow him so they could go on their break together. He smirked, "But for a straight man, you're a very convincing queer."
Naruto's right eye twitched, "Thanks... I suppose."
Sai laughed softly and both he and Naruto made their way to the entrance doors, ready for a small meal at McDonald's.
By the freezers, Kakashi's eyes turned into upturned 'u's. Pulling his cellphone out, he called Kiba's home phone, delighted to hear Sasuke's voice on the other end.
"I think I found our star."
(1)- Dear god, I hope I spelled his name right XD