Sorry for the lateness guys! i really struggled to write this chapter because i tried my best to write this as accurately to the D.C law system as possible (which i had to do alot of unwanted research about) it frustrated me so much up to the point where i really regret making Naruto a lawyer LOL but oh well the show must go on!


Naruto had woke up at exactly 6am courtesy of the alarm he had set on his phone. It wasn't as loud and as effective as the digital clock he had in their bedroom, but then again he had to make do with what he had considering Hinata had kicked him out of the room last night. The blonde had sat up on the one pillow that he had and was immediately greeted with a booming migraine. He had never felt like this before after one of their fights. Even though they fought frequently, none of the quarrels had ever escalated quite like that before. Naruto knew they would have to eventually talk about it, and try to work something out. But he glad be wouldn't have to deal with it until later because like every morning Hinata wasn't home. Hinata had to be to work by 6am because she had to be the first person to get to the casino to unlock the doors and set everything up. While Naruto on the other hand didn't have to be at the office until 8am, so Naruto was used to waking up alone on most mornings. Which was fine by him, especially after that fight they had last night, Naruto figured that they needed a little bit of time apart.

Naruto then finally dragged himself from off of the comfortable sofa bed and headed down the hall towards their shared bedroom. He then opened up the door and was shocked by what he had saw. The room was filthy. Even though Naruto knew he didn't clean it the best last night, he knew he damn sure didn't leave it looking like this. Clothes were strewn about everywhere, his as well as Hinata's. The sheets were on the floor, shoes were scattered all over and even the dresser drawers were removed from the dresser and laying on the floor.

"What the hell?!" Naruto had asked aloud to no one.

Hinata was one of the clean and sanitary people that he knew, why the fuck would she leave their room like this? He knew that she was likely upset from everything that happened last night but that was still no excuse for leaving the room looking like this. The place looked as if a tornado had hit it. He definitely was going to have a conversation with Hinata about this later, but now he had to try to ignore the condition of the room and get ready for work.

The blonde then stepped over the huge mess that Hinata had left on the floor and went over towards the linen closet to grab himself a fresh towel, then he walked over towards the bathroom to take a hot shower to ease his nerves. He knew the hot water wouldn't solve everything, but maybe it could do something about the huge migraine he had. He then reached for the bright silver nozzle, and turned the hot water on full blast. Hot water had rained down all over his well-built tanned body, which instantly relieved some of the tension he had built up all over his muscles. It wasn't much, but it was definitely a start. He then grabbed his wash cloth and soap and began to clean himself thoroughly so he could hurry up and get out and actually get dressed and start his day.

After washing himself for another 15 minutes the blonde then finally stepped out of the shower dripping wet and grabbed his bright orange fluffy towel from the linen rack. He then tied it skirt style around his waist and exited the now steamy master bathroom and headed back into their bedroom. He then tried his best to step over all of the carnage that was laying everywhere on the floor to get to his closet, he'd deal with the mess later. He then turned around and looked at the clock, which read 6:45. Which meant that he had an hour and fifteen minutes to get dressed, eat some sort of breakfast and make his way to work. Naruto figured he could manage, considering he's done the same routine with even less time.

The towel clad blonde then sat on the huge bed and picked up his phone that was charging on the nightstand. He then wiped away all his emails (Which were all very important) to immediately tap his way into his messaging inbox to message his favorite raven.

-I'm leaving the office early. Meet me at the usual spot around 3

After shooting off the vague text to Sasuke, he then removed his towel from around his waist and threw it in the hamper and walked his way over to his large closet on the right side of the huge bedroom. He then slid open the see-through glass closet doors and grabbed himself a navy blue blazer and opened up the bottom glass panel to grab a matching pair of navy blue pants. Naruto personally thought that his wardrobe was pretty bland, mainly consisting of neutral and dark colored formal wear. He was a man who really liked and appreciated color, but Hinata told him that wearing too much color in the work place would look really unprofessional so she made him buy a new wardrobe when they first moved in together. And ever since then, his wardrobe hasn't really consisted much besides suits and slacks. With the occasional t shirt and jeans that he managed to hide from Hinata's eyes in his closet.

That was another thing that Naruto didn't like that much about Hinata, she cared a lot about what the media thought of them and their families. Naruto knew that having a good public image was obviously something to strive for, but changing your life around to accommodate people that you don't even know was absurd to him. Even a people pleaser like Naruto had his limits, which was ironic considering how much he aimed for his parents approval. The only people Naruto wanted to make happy was his parents, himself and Hinata. That's it. He couldn't care less about what the news outlets and tabloids thought about how he chose to live his life. He thought that so long as he was making the people around him happy, that was all that mattered. But Hinata saw it differently, she on the other hand wanted to sell the image that she and Naruto had the perfectly life. A wonderful loving family with great careers with little to no problems, which was far from the truth. Well, they did in fact have great careers, Hinata loved her job and Naruto loved his. But the loving family part was definitely up for debate. While he differently did care for Hinata, and have some sort of love for her. But he wasn't in IN love with her, and he doubted that he would ever be. But that's a harsh reality Naruto has learned to deal with overtime.

While they definitely weren't celebrities, they still did get a lot of media attention for being the children of two huge multi-millionaire families with successful businesses. Kinda like the Paris Hilton situation, being the daughter and heiress of the Hilton hotel empire. Except for unlike Paris, Naruto and Hinata actually did work instead of shooting amateur porn—but that's beside the point. Growing up Naruto and Hinata got used to dealing with a few paparazzi and news critics; it was just something that came with their lifestyle. Even though the real stars of the show was the couple's parents, the two still managed to get media attention as well. Much to Naruto's annoyance.

Naruto loved people and socializing, but dealing with the media was just a huge nuisance to him. He just wanted to do his work as a simple lawyer and live his life in peace. He didn't want fame and limelight, he just wanted approval from his parents, which precisely got him in this awful predicament in the first place. But what's done is done he guessed.

After snapping out of his daydream, Naruto finally finished dressing himself in the outfit he pulled out of his closet. He then walked over towards his full length mirror and looked over his outfit and decided that he liked what he had put together. Just as he was primping himself in the mirror, his phone went off—vibrating profusely on the nightstand signifying that he had received a new text message. The blonde then stop fidgeting with his outfit in the mirror and then walked over towards where his phone was charging on the table. He then immediately pressed the home button, which woke up the device and immediately went to his messaging inbox, completely ignoring about 20 new emails just received within the last hour. And he clicked right on the new message that was sent from Sasuke.

-Ok. See you then

Naruto was really looking forward to seeing Sasuke, unfortunately he had to get through work first. Not that he didn't like his job, because he certainly did. Naruto loved his work, it's just that he just really needed Sasuke's presence right now. It was just something about being around the stoic raven that just made him feel really comfortable, a comfort that even his wife couldn't bring him. Speaking of his wife, Naruto still hadn't heard from Hinata since the huge fight they had last night. Usually after their arguments one of them would end up apologizing and they'd have a long conversation about what they could do to not let something like it happen again but this time it was different. Hinata left for work without a backwards glance at her husband on the sofa bed. No text message, no phone call or note on the fridge. Nothing.

That thought alone made Naruto more annoyed all over again. He felt like they really needed to talk about what was going on and why Hinata felt the way that she did. He figured he'd try to talk to her later about it though. Considering he didn't want to call her while she was at work and possibly make her upset, so he'd just have to wait for right now. 'Great.' He negatively thought to himself.

7:26

Naruto figured he'd better get on his way to work if he wanted to be on time, considering the traffic for this time of morning was usually pretty hectic. Naruto then grabbed his phone from the nightstand and his briefcase from off of the floor and then made his way out of the bedroom and down the hall towards the front door. Naruto was completely out of it today, the fight that he had with Hinata last night had really thrown him off. So much though that he really didn't even have an appetite (which was extremely rare) he just simply bypassed the kitchen without as much as a backwards glance. He just hoped that when Hinata got home from work that they could talk about this and move pass it.

But only time would tell.

-XxX-

After being cut off 3 times on the highway and being flipped the bird by an old lady Naruto finally made it to his work building. He then pulled his 2017 Mercedes Benz C300 into the garage that was underneath the Uzumaki Firm. Building. The blonde then pulled into his reserved parking space and shifted the gear into park. Then he reached over into his passenger seat and grabbed his suit case and got out and headed towards the elevator with a grim expression. Whilst walking towards the elevator, Naruto smiled and waved towards the small security booth that always contained a familiar face, that face now buried in a dirty novel.

"Good morning Ebisu! Still up to your pervy antics huh?" Naruto shouted at the man.

Ebisu looked up from his erotic magazine and jumped. Of course it was Naruto. Only he could be so loud and energetic at 7 something in the goddamn morning. Ebisu blushed and adjusted his dark circular glasses. "I'll have you know this is fine literature!" he sputtered out nervously from behind the large bullet proof glass that encased the booth. Ebisu had been head of security at the Uzumaki firm since Naruto's parents had opened up the place. Even though it didn't really seem like he was really paying attention, that was farthest from the truth. Ebisu was the eyes and ears of the firm and always made sure that everyone and everything was safe.

"Yeah right! Whatever you say. Catch you later!" Naruto said as he continued towards the elevator, suitcase in hand. Even though Naruto was a grown man, a lawyer to mention. He still continued to use his same vocabulary and act in his same personality when around people that he knew personally. That was something about Naruto that never changed.

Ebisu then groaned and picked back up his "Literature" and continued to read. He saw nothing pervy about admiring the female figure, he considered it art. He figured Naruto just didn't understand.

-XxX-

Naruto then stepped off the elevator and was greeted by the site of everyone power walking around as per usual. The Uzumaki firm had several different offices in it for different types of lawyers and law practices. So for literally every legal situation, the Uzumaki firm had a person who dealt with it. Naruto then walked from the elevator to the middle of the lobby towards the receptionist who was busy typing away on the desktop computer in front of her.

"Anything new Ino?" Naruto asked as he leaned on Ino Yamanaka's desk. She had been the Uzumaki firm's receptionist before Naruto even finished law school.

"No sir, the police are still trying to gather more evidence on Pain. But so far, nothing yet." She said plainly as she typed aggressively on the keyboard.

Naruto was currently juggling 3 cases right now (his maximum that he chose to deal with at one time) but the one that was the most high profile was a drug trafficking case dealing with a guy nick named Pain who is a well-known crime boss in the D.C area. The police have been trying to put him behind bars for about 7 years now but no one has ever been able to get solid evidence against him, mainly because he gets other people to do his dirty work so it's really hard to pin a crime on him. Since Pain has been too hard to prosecute, the local police and government requested that Naruto personally handle pain's case. Being as though Naruto was one of the best lawyers in the area, they figured that they would have him behind bars at some point, considering Naruto and his team was always successful with the cases that they handled.

"Shit." Naruto cursed aloud to himself. He was really hoping Ino had some new info.

"Don't worry, police have set up a bunch of look outs in area's that he's known to frequent. So I'm sure they are bound to see something useful." Ino said, as she then stopped typing and rested her chin in her palm. She then studied Naruto's expression, which was unusually glum. "You look down, everything ok?"

Naruto quickly straightened himself up and broke his eye contact with the blonde secretary. "Yeah I'm fine, I'm just really worried about Pain's case. That's all." Naruto said, a bit too quickly as his big blue eyes shifted towards the grey carpet.

Ino had been working with Naruto for 2 years now and she knew when he was hiding something or not telling the whole story. She knew that pain's case was something that was likely on his mind, but she also knew that it was likely something else as well. But she decided that she wouldn't pry (for now), if Naruto wanted to talk then he would. However this time, she decided to just buy the lie considering she knew Naruto wouldn't say much else.

"Oh ok, don't worry. I'll let you know if I hear anything helpful." The blonde woman said. She then went back to typing just as she was before Naruto had arrived.

"Alright, thanks." Naruto said. He then stepped away from Ino's desk and headed down the hall towards the elevators.

The Uzumaki firm wasn't a huge building, but it was enough to Naruto. It was a very modern 4 story building that sat right in the middle of D.C's Georgetown neighborhood. Which is a very wealthy and affluent area that had a lot of traffic and tourists daily. The place was designed personally by Naruto's parents and built exactly by their wishes, then 2 years ago they put their son in charge of managing the building and operating business there while Kushina and Minato opened up an even larger location in Springfield Virginia. Of course they didn't leave their building in the hands of their knucklehead fresh out of college son. They also had Jiraiya Sanin, who was a very excellent and well known lawyer himself also not to mention he was Naruto's godfather. Who in fact had taught Minato everything he knew about the government, law and judicial system and even inspired Naruto to become a lawyer in the first place, considering growing up Naruto didn't see his parents too often. As they were busy travelling and handling the business, so Jiraiya was like a second father to Naruto. He had helped Naruto with his homework, studying and other things as the blonde grew up. So Minato knew that with Jiraiya looking over Naruto, everything would be fine.

Naruto then pressed the gold button to call for the elevator car and instantly zoned out. He really did want to ask Ino for advice on how to confront the situation about what happened between him and Hinata. But he also didn't want his personal home affairs possibly being office gossip, so he figured that he would tackle this one on his own. The elevator finally chimed and snapped the blonde out of the internal battle that was going on inside his head. He then stepped into the elevator and immediately took out his phone after pressing the "3" button on the elevator car. He then noticed that he had a text message from Sasuke that he forgot to check when he was at home.

-See you at 3, I can't wait

Just reading over that simple sentence got Naruto slightly horny, he couldn't figure out for the life of him what kind of hold Sasuke had on him. The elevator then came to a sudden stop and chimed, signaling that the car had reached the third floor. Naruto then exited the car, suitcase in hand and headed down the hall towards his divisions office. His division included his godfather Jiraiya Sanin , Kiba Inuzuka and Shikamaru Nara together they were the Konoha Division, the only division that dealt with criminal law cases in the Uzumaki firm. Each floor in the Uzumaki firm dealt with different areas of law and different legal situations, each lawyer was individually screened and placed in the divisions based upon their skills, interests and intelligence.

Kiba was an asset to the team by using his excellent sense of sight and smell. Kiba was the only member of the leaf division who always got instant access to crime scenes and got to occasionally sit in on interviews with the accused perpetrators. The shaggy haired brunette had a keen sense of sight and smell and he easily picked up on sudden shifts in demeanors in people and could easily tell if someone way lying or hiding something. Although no one really knew how he was able to do this, it was just something that the man was able to do. However the brunette took a usual route to get to his current career, Kiba was initially a Criminal Justice major with a minor in psychology. The brunette initially wanted to be a police officer or some sort of direct hands on investigator, but he and Naruto had met in college and became really close. The blonde then persuaded the brunette to apply for his family's law firm and after much convincing (and begging to his parents) he had finally got his parents to give Kiba a chance and let a complete outsider join the firm

Shikamaru used his excellent analytical skills and intelligence as an asset to the team. Shikamaru was the strategist of their division and he was the one who usual got plan ready to decide the course of action. Although the man was very lazy and loved to get out of most situations, he still took his job very seriously and loved every minute of it, even though his demeanor sometimes said otherwise. Shikamaru was at the top of his class at his university and completed school with a major in Political science with a minor in psychology. He also passed law school very quickly with flying colors and immediately got hired into the Uzumaki firm by Minato Uzumaki himself after hearing about Nara's academic excellence from the universities' staff.

Naruto on the hand had a different set of skills that set him apart from his teammates; Naruto had an excellent set of people skills and a good sense of moral ground. That may not sound too important or as cool as the skills of his counter parts but those attributes to the blonde made him one of the best lawyers In the D.C area. There had been plenty of times where Naruto was handed cases just because other lawyers didn't want to deal with them or found them to be too much of a hassle. Naruto on the other hand never gave up, if he took on a case and deemed it something he was interested in. He damn sure was going to take it head on with a fight. Also not to mention it was his parent's law firm, so he pretty much was born with the job. But that's not the point here.

But all together all the men had one common goal; they wanted to clean up the streets in their communities and make sure all people who actually committed crimes were appropriately punished for it.

-XxX-


so next chapter sasuke and naruto "meet up" *eyebrow raise*

also how do you think Naruto and Hinata should address the fight they had?

comments please!