Naruto Fan Fiction

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Trying his chances at the Ramen Shop, Sasuke finds it more relaxing to chop up vegetables than decode paperwork, is it the overall calmer atmosphere or the fact that his lovable blonde is close at hand?

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Working With A Dobe - Surprisingly Relieving

Uchiha Sasuke had fallen asleep soon after his mouth was captured in Naruto's kiss. Naruto himself had stayed up longer just so that he could; watch Sasuke sleep, memorise every mark on his body, witness a blush merging with his pale complexion as he dreamt. Naruto, himself had fallen asleep eventually curling up close against Sasuke.

It was late morning, the sunshine outside shone in through gaps in the curtains, illuminating the couple wrapped so tightly together under the duvet. The raven roused as his surroundings hinted for him to wake. Eyes opening, he noticed his dobe tucked under his chin.

Tracing Naruto's whiskers with his fingers, he smirked as Naruto mumbled something about winning. "Hn, you may have caught me off guard last time dobe but now I feel much more alert" he whispered into the closest ear "That means I can get you while you sleep" Naruto's eyes shot open and within seconds he was sat on Sasuke.

"I don't think so Sasuke-teme! Heh from now on, I won't sleep till you do first. Hmph" he crossed his arms, still sitting on Sasuke. "Hn, dobe. You're going to be in for a long night. What time is it anyway?" Looking at the clock, Sasuke sat up straight with such force, that Naruto toppled backwards.

"Damn! I'm late! I have to call work! Where's the phone-! Naruto why is the phone un-plugged?" he picked up the unconnected phone plug.

"It kept ringing and you looked so beautiful while you were sleeping and I didn't want to disturb you" Sasuke grappled at his hair and began pacing around the bedroom. "I'm going to be fired for sure. This is the second time I've been late. Damn it!" Snatching up the phone plug, he wedged it into the socket and began checking all the messages.

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Hello welcome to your phone messages, you have seventy-three messages. First new message received at seven thirty two am:

Damn it Uchiha, you've given me no choice but to suspend you. I have spoken to Tsunade-sama and she agrees with my decision. Uchiha Sasuke, you are suspended from work with out pay for the next two weeks. That is all.

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"Great, I'm suspended." He slammed down the phone and sank backwards onto the bed. Naruto scrambled back onto the bed next to him. "Hey, it's two weeks extra holiday. Any way you said you'd come and help me out at the ramen shop" Sasuke rubbed his eyes "Did I really say that?" a nod from Naruto made him roll over. "It'll be fun! Making ramen all day, just me and you and of course other customers but they'll leave."

Sasuke smiled, "Hn, at least on our lunch break I won't have to spend ages phoning you to remind you about meeting up for lunch." Naruto pouted and dropped backwards next to Sasuke, "I only forgot three times…it was busy at the mission briefing" Hands grasped him, and began drawing him in. "I'm sure it was…"

"It was all because Sak-?" Sasuke cut him off by taking hold of the soft lips beneath his. "Hn, sorry dobe you're not fast enough and I couldn't let that name come between us" he smirked evilly before pulling back and walking away.

After her girlish crush on Sasuke, during the long time they were separated Sakura had developed those feelings for Naruto. The raven was very possessive and as soon as Naruto was in his grasp he would never let go, he would never be willing even to consider the thought of sharing him with Sakura. He wouldn't so much as allow her a friendly hug with him.

"Oi, where are you going!?"

"To take a shower, I can't turn up for work at a catering job with poor hygiene" the blonde bounded up excitedly "So you're coming then!?" There was no reply, instead the sound of gushing water falling from the shower head.

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"Hi Ayame!" Naruto greeted the Ramen Master's daughter. "What time do you call this!?" She tapped her foot on the floor. Her father had been ill with the flu and if Naruto hadn't offered to help out, the shop would have had to be closed meaning no ramen for a while. Although turning up late wasn't exactly good for business. "Naruto, I need to leave early but I don't want to leave you all by yourself"

"It's ok Ayame, you can go I won't eat any of the ramen unless to taste it and plus Sasuke's here so I'll have assistance" Ayame didn't look too sure but finally agreed to Naruto's terms providing that while he tasted the ramen, he didn't eat a whole plate full. She left after bidding farewell to both of them.

"Yosh, let's get this ramen cooking! Sasuke you can chop the vegetables while I do these noodles. The old man himself showed me how to, hehe while you were gone there was this competition thing where we had to help him out by making a new recipe." The raven smirked as he listened to his lover's story. It was fun and very therapeutic cutting up vegetables much more fascinating than decoding paperwork.

"Sasuke you're cutting those wrong, you have to cut them at angles so they're thin at one end and thicker at the other. Here I'll show you" taking Sasuke's hand that held the knife into his own, he guided the knife into position. He used his other hand to steady Sasuke's grip on the vegetable. Working together they chopped it into fine angled pieces, both looking like a newly married couple cutting the wedding cake.

"Ahem, when this love fest is over, can one of you get me a bowl of Miso ramen?" A customer, presumably with business as a career entered the little restaurant and sat on one of the stools. "One order coming up" Naruto grinned while filling a bowl with the noodles swimming in their sensuous soup. Sasuke added the freshly cut vegetables on a crispy slice of roast duck before adding a fried egg to the mix.

"There ya go one bowl of Miso ramen!" Naruto set the bowl down and he watched the business man tuck in. "What the hell where are the leeks!?"

"Sorry, you didn't specify that you wanted leeks, I'll go chop some now" At least at the office, everyone other than Neji were polite when something went wrong or was not correct. The raven started to chop up the leeks up as Naruto had demonstrated. Scooping them into his hand he turned back to the business man, and sprinkled the leeks onto the contents of the ramen bowl. "There you go sir, Miso ramen with leeks"

Naruto asked happily, "What do you think? It's our first time cooking ramen by ourselves" The ramen lover was disgusted when a mouthful of ramen was spat back into the bowl. "What the hell is this crap!?" Sasuke still with a knife in one hand retorted "It's the ramen you ordered"

"I'm not paying for this" he got up to leave, trying to take advantage of the fact they were not professionals but instead were merely replacements for the original Ramen master. "Wait a minute, that there is good ramen you can't waste that" Naruto hated seeing people waste food, above food he hated seeing people waste ramen, "Sasuke interrupted "If you're not going to eat it at least pay for it!"

The business man knocked the bowl on the floor "Are you threatening me boy!? You, you're no doubt an Uchiha, the last as a matter of fact. The second traitor to ever be born into that clan!" Sasuke scowled, gripping the knife tighter in his hand, so tight that it cut into his hand but he was so full of rage he didn't notice.

"You should have been locked away as soon as you stepped foot into the village. You cause as much trouble as that Kyuubi kid, all those Shinobi hovering around the village to protect the very reason Konoha crumbled in the first place."

Naruto, who had been despairing over the spilt ramen, sent a flying punch at the uptight business man and sent him hurtling to the floor outside. Sasuke snapped out of his shock to restrain Naruto who was now furiously trying to claw his way over the counter. "Sasuke! Let me go! I'll kick that guy's ass!"

"Naruto its ok let it slide." Sasuke had managed to subdue Naruto, "…It's not that he wasted all that ramen, or that he called me a monster. It's that he hurt you" Both boys had slid behind the counter and were now sitting on the greasy floor. "He didn't hurt me, and what do I care if some idiot feels the need to express his opinions so rudely" Naruto fumbled in a cabinet for the first aid kit and pulled out a bandage from the little green box.

"Sasuke, give me your hand" he started to bandage up Sasuke's offered bleeding hand. "See he did hurt you, he made you so mad that you did this to yourself" Ignoring the wound in his bandaged hand he pulled Naruto in. "Maybe working here wasn't such a good thing"

"But Sasuke, before that idiot came in, you looked so happy and relaxed." They could hear the sound of people outside fussing over the casualty outside. "Dobe, where's that first aid kit?" The blonde lifted his head, "Huh?" Sasuke rubbed at bruised knuckles. The owner of the knuckles winced. "Hn, you'll need this sorting. I think you've cracked a knuckle or two." Blonde hair shook in his face, "No, I'll be ok. If we went to the hospital they'd ask questions…they'd blame you"

"Hn, and how will you work with only one hand?" Naruto shrugged "I'll manage…we'd better get cleaned up it's nearly midday and there'll be more hungry customers" He helped Sasuke to his feet and they walked over to the sink to wash the previous incident off of their hands. Sasuke tried carefully to not soak his freshly dressed hand but for the remainder of the day he would have to wear gloves.

"Hn, it is hard cutting vegetables with gloves on" he struggled to cut a carrot without cutting the finger tip off of his glove. "Ha, you think that's hard. Try making these noodles with cracked knuckles" Sasuke smirked, even though he was freely complaining about his injuries Naruto managed to continue working at his best regardless of the pain.

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The day droned on and they served customer after customer, this time without any fuss or hassle. Sasuke was relieved when Naruto gave the all clear to close down and lock up the shop. The raven couldn't help but feel a little stressed, not as much as he usually was at the office; however the sight of his beloved blonde made it all disappear in a second.

"Today went well don't you think?" Naruto asked cuddling close to Sasuke as they walked back to the Uchiha house, taking the pleasant peaceful route. "Hn, put it this way at least my boss today was attractive and treated me like a human" Naruto grinned, "Guilty as charged, I'm a handsome devil" he felt something pinch his cheek "By attractive I meant cute and adorable, we both know I'm the handsome devil out of the two of us"

"Oh really?" Sasuke pulled him closer into an embrace. "Yes, it's a known fact" Naruto rested his head on the inviting shoulder. "Hmph, maybe you're right…mm you smell like ramen, speaking of which I haven't eaten today…Sasuke?" Looking down at the blonde blur Sasuke gave his typical 'Hn' as if to say 'yeah'

"Can you buy me some ramen?" his stomach rumbled at that precise moment. "Hn. We've been working in the ramen shop all day; I'm amazed you didn't try a whole plate full while testing to see if it tasted right."

"Ehehe too busy serving others I guess…I could eat anything right now. Considering you smell so much like ramen you'll be first on my menu" A smirk appeared on the raven's face. "We'd better get going before I get cold" Turning back to the path a head, they carried on walking admiring the late night and the few stars that twinkled in between wisps of cloud.

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A\N: In Sasuke's position, who would you rather have as a boss? Neji or Naruto? I know who I'd pick :P Currently I'm working on my other fic and when inspiration strikes I will update XD Hope you enjoyed it!