Naruto yawned as he stepped out of the elevator, hands moving through his hair, ruffling it up even more than usual. He noted that apart from himself only Neji and Temari was in the room, the others probably not in yet, or out on some mission. Their work hours were fluid, although most of them overlapped in the late evening. Thankfully Sasuke was nowhere to be seen. Naruto had to go through some files on a case that was building up downtown, and he very much didn't need Sasuke breathing down his neck.

At some point during his first couple of weeks in the department Sasuke had changed tactics. First he had been all about ignoring Naruto, now he was all about hounding him. Always hanging over his shoulder, criticising everything about him, whether it was a typo in a report, or a wrinkled shirt. It was amazing how the raven managed to annoy him that much, while still never going past his "three words is long enough for a sentence" rule. It was all coffee again? when Naruto came in with the tiniest splotch of coffee on his pants, to misspelled word, really? when he well knew it was just a typo. That condescending voice paired with that constant smirk just said so much more.

Naruto had no idea what Sasuke had against him. Sure, Naruto looked a bit dishevelled for an agent, and he wasn't as much of a nit-picker when it came to his typing, but Naruto was good at his job. He'd killed three vampires so far. Sure, Sasuke had bagged nine, but just because Naruto didn't push the other aside to get the kill, didn't mean he couldn't have.

Naruto had tried being friendly in the beginning, but now he had given up and just did his best to ignore the other and prove himself.

Kiba had told him how Sasuke gave all his partners a hard time, but Naruto was going to show him that he wasn't a quitter like the others. Apart from Sasuke he really liked his unit. Kiba was super awesome, and the rest of the guys seemed great as well. And although he had turned out to be a lazy perv Kakashi was a pretty excellent boss as well, although however he managed to run the unit while still devoting most of his time to his dirty novels (yeah, apparently they hadn't been work related at all), was beyond Naruto.

Sitting down at his computer he turned to switch it on while going into his desk drawer to fish out the file he had been looking through yesterday.

He frowned when the drawer didn't budge. Figuring it had gotten jammed he wiggled it, and tried again, but no luck. It didn't budge at all. Hunching down to look at it, wondering if it had some locking mechanism he hadn't been beware of he ran his fingers around the edge of it. There were no visible keyhole, and it really made no sense for his desk to have a super hidden way to lock it.

Naruto grabbed onto the handle with both hands and tugged hard, but all that earned him was a pencil to his head as it rolled off the desk.

About to give up and call for a janitor or something Naruto noticed something lying on the very top of his trash can, like someone had placed it there gingerly rather than just tossed it away. Naruto pulled the trash can closer to see what it was, and the moment he saw what it was he knew who the culprit was.

If Sasuke had been in the room he would have gotten the entire trash can tossed on his head, but the raven had apparently been smart enough to go hide somewhere. Naruto shoved the trash can back underneath his desk and ignored the drawer for now. Why ever Sasuke had superglued his drawer shut he had no idea, but he was not going to give him the satisfaction of getting a response. No, Naruto was just going to pretend it hadn't happened, and find a sharp knife to get it open when Sasuke left. If Sasuke really thought this was enough to get him to leave he was sorely mistaken.

Noticing that his computer had long since booted up he typed in his password, yelping when the speakers exploded in a loud beeping noise. He hurried to turn down the noise, but not before getting the attention of Neji and Temari, as well as Kiba, who seemed to have joined them at some point while Naruto was busy fighting with his desk drawer.

Kiba meandered over, just in time to get a good look at the new background picture currently decorating the desktop. Naruto's eyes widened in horror when he saw the biggest fucking cock he had ever seen, all dark brown and veiny and just. So. Damned. Shiny. A blush crept on his face as Kiba fell apart in laughter behind him. Naruto fumbled for his mouse, hoping to get the picture gone before—

"Oh my, I had no idea you liked those!"

Naruto winced as he turned around and saw Kakashi standing behind him, eyes glittering with amusement. Sputtering he tried to explain that he had not done this himself, but Kakashi just chuckled and walked off, humming. Great, now Kakashi thought he had some great fascination with cocks.

Fuming by now Naruto quickly tossed his jacket over the screen, hiding that awful picture, but sadly not before Temari had seen enough to join Kiba in the breakdown. Neji was the only one who didn't look to have reacted at all, still sitting behind his computer. Naruto wasn't sure if he dared removing the jacket to change the picture, or if he should just take the computer out back and euthanize it. Monstrous cocks in high-definition were not what he wanted to watch while trying to work.

Naruto was going to fucking kill Sasuke. Tampering with his computer like that, that shit had to be illegal! Naruto had a goddamned password, Sasuke must have hacked him to get access to his user, all for a stupid prank. Not even a particularly good one, it would take more for Naruto be embarrassed for long. Besides, everyone was going to have to realise Naruto wouldn't actually have used a monster cock as his background picture, no one was that flamingly gay were they? Naruto groaned and leaned his head against his desk. This was not how he envisioned working at DPA would be. He had hoped it would be a chance for him to prove that Naruto Uzumaki was a good guy, and he had feared that it would be yet another place for him to be ostracised, but never ever had he thought he would end up the victim of a moody bastard like Sasuke. Sure, it was better than being beat up on a regular basis, and in a way it was better than being completely shunned like he had been on the police force, but he wasn't sure how he was going to deal with Sasuke. The raven was complicated, and no matter what Naruto did it seemed to annoy Sasuke. The only times Sasuke seemed to tolerate him was when they were in the field. When they were hunting Sasuke stopped being a complete prick and just went into super-serious-agent mode.

Sasuke snickered to himself when he heard the tell-tale beeps marking that Naruto had logged into his computer. The bark of laughter that followed from Kiba, and Sasuke knew they had all seen the new background on his computer. Temari's feminine laughter soon followed, and Sasuke would bet ever dime to the Uchiha name that Kakashi had seen as well, he was quick to move and had an uncanny ability to catch up on everything perverted.

Sasuke had come in extra early today, and spent the time alone coming up with ways to get Naruto to take the hint and transfer back to the police force already. The glue and the computer was only the first part. To be honest, the computer background was probably the one he was the least satisfied with. It wasn't terribly inventive, but seeing how he didn't really know the guy enough, he went with something blatantly obvious. He hoped Naruto was one of those guys who hated getting his masculinity questioned.

Deciding it was about time he got back to his desk to see the reaction on the blond's face he moved out from the kitchen nook, striding directly across the room toward his desk, which was conveniently placed just behind Naruto's. He almost smiled when he saw the red still tainting Naruto's cheeks. The other looked gloriously pissed off.

Naruto looked up as Sasuke walked past him, and jumped up from his chair, getting right up in Sasuke's face.

"That's fucking illegal!"

Sasuke just smirked.

"You can't hack my computer like that, bastard!"

"I didn't hack it," Sasuke said. "RamenRules is just a really lame password."

Naruto sputtered, hands fisting at his side. For a moment Sasuke thought he was going to attack him, but nope. Too bad, maybe it would have gotten him thrown out of the department. Okay, with Kakashi as a leader it wasn't likely he'd be thrown out just for throwing a lousy punch, at least not when Kakashi knew how much Sasuke wanted Naruto gone. He was pretty sure their leader would take great pleasure in making sure Naruto stuck around for a good long time, just to annoy Sasuke.

"Bastard," Naruto gritted through clenched teeth, but then he seemed to change his mind on the whole confrontation and just turned back, sitting down in his chair again. Sasuke smirked as he heard the small click that signalled that is third trap had been released. Crossing his arms he watched with glee as Naruto's chair wobbled, then fell apart. The whole seat parted from the base, and it sent the blond crashing to the floor in a mess of flailing arms and sprawling legs, a scream making sure the others all got a good look at less than graceful tumble.

Kiba laughed, Temari laughed, Neji ignored them, and Naruto, oh Naruto looked like he wanted to kill Sasuke. It almost made Sasuke slightly worried when he remembered that Naruto was shifter, and angered shifters tended to get pretty damned violent. He almost expected to see the rippling of skin that usually came with a shift, but Naruto just stared at him calmly, murder in his eyes.

Then something snapped, and he exploded up off the floor.

Naruto's fist flew through the air, aimed directly at a smirk. Sasuke dodged the flying appendage, grabbing onto the wrist as it whizzed past him, using Naruto's momentum to send him flying into the wall, teeth jarring with the impact.

Naruto spun around, leg flying out to connect with a shin that did not have the time to get away, and he heard the very satisfying sound of Sasuke yelping in pain. The satisfaction were short-lived when a fist shot out, connecting with Naruto's stomach hard enough to send air flying from his lungs. He doubled over in pain, only to find new pain blossoming on his cheek as another fist connected with his face.

Using the fact that he was hunched over to his advantage he rammed his head into Sasuke's abdomen, shoving the raven back first into the nearest desk. He heard the sound of office supplies flying, and wood creaking, but couldn't muster up a care in the world for the office furniture. All he could care about now was how fucking pissed off he was, and how fucking good it felt to hit his partner.

His fist connected with Sasuke's cheek bones with a satisfying sound, and Naruto knew the raven would sport an impressive shiner the next day. He was about to give him a matching one on the other cheek when Sasuke head-butted him in the nose. Blood gushed, and Naruto's eyes widened, suddenly afraid his nose might be broken, it hurt like hell, so it was a possibility. Fuck, if he hadn't been angry before he certainly was now, he did not want a crooked nose, he really didn't. He liked his nose goddammit!

He sent his foot flying, aimed at the Uchiha family jewels when he suddenly found himself yanked away by the back of his shirt. He squirmed, but strong arms locked themselves around his body, pinning his arms down his side.

He growled, but knew there was no need to fight the hold, not when he saw Neji launch himself at Sasuke, likewise pinning the other man. Naruto settled with the angriest glare he could muster- Sasuke seeming to have taken the same route, judging by the way he looked like he wanted to flay Naruto alive. The raven didn't seem to like having his features rearranged on his face, vain bastard.

Sasuke stared at the grey-haired unit leader through his bangs, ignoring the ache in his face every time he tried to deepen his scowl. Kakashi was staring back seemingly waiting for either of the two guys currently seated beside each other to start explaining. Sasuke had no intention to explain anything, and judging by his silence, neither had Naruto.

Kakashi leaned back in his chair, and not doing anything to break the silence that had been all he was met with the last five minutes since Neji and Kiba had deposited the two hotheads in his office. Sasuke was still not happy that he hadn't been allowed to completely kick the shit out of Naruto's ass before they had been stopped.

Casting a small glance to the side he smirked when he saw Naruto. The blond's cheek was an angry red from where Sasuke had punched him, and cotton buds were shoved into both his nostrils, stanching the flow of blood. It didn't look like the nose was broken, but it had bled like nobody's business. The blond still hadn't cleaned off, so his lower face and shirt was still splotched with red.

Sure, Sasuke was probably not looking too hot himself right now, what with what he could only assume would be an impressive black eye, and a shin that hurt enough that he had barely been able to keep from hobbling when he was half-led, half-dragged into Kakashi's office.

"You are going be the ones to clean up, you know that right?" Kakashi said, getting their attention.

"He fucking started it," Naruto growled in response.

"You fucking punched first, loser!" Sasuke retorted. Now, he had every intention of keeping his cool, but he was finding it increasingly hard around Naruto. Every single thing the blond said and did just infuriated him to no ends.

"You broke my chair! And glued my desk shut! And the computer!"

"I didn't hurt you though!"

"That chair could have killed me!"

"Don't be a fucking pussy."

"What have I ever done to you for you to fucking torment me like this? It's not my fucking fault you need a partner, you should be pissed off at Kakashi!"

"Now, now, now, let's just stop right there," Kakashi suddenly injected, arms held up to protect himself as Sasuke suddenly snapped towards him. Naruto was right, it wasn't his fault he was stuck with the loser as a partner, it was Kakashi's fault.

Sasuke trained his dark eyes on their leader, making sure Kakashi understood that if he weren't their boss he would be in for a world of hurt right now. Kakashi just smiled behind his mask, evidently not very afraid of Sasuke.

"You are both capable agents, and when you aren't fighting you do work great together, even if you don't see it yet. No matter how hard you try I am not going to reassign Naruto and let you go out there solo, so you can just stop whatever plans you are brewing right now. And Naruto, I figured you would be thick-skinned enough not to let this icicle get to you."

Sasuke figured he was supposed to be offended, but it wasn't the first time he had been called cold-hearted, and to be honest there was truth to it. He didn't have the luxury of letting emotions run his life, he had vengeance he needed to get. Stupid things like partners and friends just got in the way of that, but he couldn't very well use that argument. He was pretty sure Kakashi knew all about his side project, he didn't become unit leader for not knowing what was going on with his unit, but so far he wasn't saying anything, letting Sasuke work on it on the side, seeing how it wasn't affecting his work. He probably wouldn't always be this lenient if Sasuke kept pushing him though. Maybe he should call off the other tricks he had intended to pull on the other, and rather settle with just ignoring the blond until he screwed up all by himself. Being a shifter he was probably volatile enough that he would.

Good thing Sasuke had had a good long time to prepare his tricks morning, so even if he didn't go through with any new ones Naruto was going to lose his shit completely when he realised that messing with his chair wasn't the last surprise Sasuke had left him. Sasuke smirked to himself, this might be a fun week after all. Sure, it was utterly childish, and he should be professional enough to rise above it all and just deal with having a moron for a partner, but the reactions he managed to coax out of Naruto was just too enjoyable. No one lost their temper quite as spectacularly. It was totally worth a shiner or ten.

Kakashi closed the door being Sasuke and Naruto as the two of them left his office, shaking his head as he walked back to his desk. The two of them were certainly a handful, and he was sure most of the other unit leaders would have slapped a suspension on their foreheads immediately.

Kakashi wasn't most unit leaders though. He'd been working with Sasuke ever since the raven was a rookie himself, and he put up with the raven's diva behaviour for a very good reason. If Sasuke wasn't working for the unit he would not hesitate to go rogue. Although Sasuke never told Kakashi anything about his past, Kakashi knew enough about the kid's background to know he was driven by a darkness that made it hard for him to fit into the standard agent mould. Sasuke was an impressive fighter, but in truth he was more of a soldier than an agent.

Working for the DPA meant Kakashi could keep an eye on him, could focus his darkness on fighting vampires in controlled ways. Forcing him to have partners meant there was always someone else watching out for him, ensuring that he didn't lose himself completely in the fight. None of the ones Sasuke had been partnered with so far had really understood though. They couldn't get past the mask of arrogance that Sasuke put up for everyone, and soon asked to be transferred.

Naruto was strong though. Having grown up being looked down upon he had hopefully developed the thick skin one would need to work with Sasuke, and Kakashi hoped maybe this time there would be a proper partnership in the future.

He feared Sasuke was getting closer to snapping and going off the grid completely soon, and there was no doubt in Kakashi's mind that by doing so Sasuke would end up dead. No matter how capable of a fighter he was, no human could survive for long going up single-handedly against the demons. He'd take on too much, and that would be the death of him.

Kakashi picked up his beloved Icha Icha book and leaned back in his chair. After dealing with Sasuke and Naruto's fight he surely deserved to relax with his book.