A/N: Hello everybody! Here I am again with a brand new chapter for this amazing story. Enjoy!

Damn Elevator!

Chapter 4. "It just continues to happen".

- "Argh!" Uzumaki was not himself from anger. This guy was pissing him off much harder than the elevators in his house! The arrogance of the bastard, the smirk on his face, and the look in his eyes – everything in the man was getting on Naruto's nerves.

The young Uzumaki was walking in circles around the kitchen on his break, trying to understand the situation he was in. How was it even possible to have such strong reactions towards an absolute stranger? Naruto have never thought that he could feel so emotional towards a person at all! And.. and.. They met only two times, and in one day.. During those times Uzumaki got to experience so many different feelings he never knew he could! Moreover, how could he be clumsy to the extent of bumping into doors and spilling water on the floor...

Being lost in thoughts, Naruto couldn't see as a heavy dark cloud with lightning strikes and thunder was growing over his head. The cloud had a name. I-R-U-K-A.

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The older man was standing in a doorway to the kitchen looking as his adopted son was walking back and forth, back and forth, mumbling something to his own nose. Whatever happened this morning that made Naruto come to the café 6 hours early, he couldn't tolerate this any longer. A vein on the owner's forehead started nervously pulsing. He could never, NEVER, forgive anyone, not even his son, for this kind of behavior!

- "What the hell was that?" he asked sharply, making the other jump in surprise. Walking slowly towards his son, and the younger man could sense just how pissed the owner was. He has all rights to be, though. Naruto thought. He knew it was quite a performance there: spilt water, crashed glasses, slipped and fell... Yeah, it was something! Sure, it was entertaining, but it was a disgrace for him as a waiter, and for Iruka as an owner.

- "Well, I am sorry dad. It will never happen again" he pleaded, looking a bit sad. He didn't want to trouble his dad, and if the bastard, damn him, stopped being a regular at the café, Naruto would blame himself for the rest of his life.

Iruka saw that there was something wrong with Naruto and softened his expression. The time came to know what was going on.

- "Tell me what's wrong."

- "Urgh.. I don't understand it myself!"

- "No, really. Something is going on and there is something you are not telling me. I mean, you have been all strange for a whole day! First of all, you come to the café at 10 am instead of 5 pm. Moreover, you were not even supposed to come here today! It means you missed your job, or you left extremely early! Like 8 hours early! Or 10 or 15 minutes after coming there! Secondly, you are not as smiley as you usually are and you don't want to talk to me. And next thing I know, you are making this scene over there, and now you are acting all weird going back and forth over here!"

Uzumaki was socked for a moment. Iruka was absolutely right.

- "I.. um.. it's just.. er.."

- "Start telling me your story. You know you can tell me anything!" Iruka said that with a demanding look in his eyes.

- "It's just.."

- "It's just what?" Iruka was losing it.. He was ready for everything already! Money problems, girl problems, work problems – everything!

- "It is just... THIS GUY IS DRIVING ME CRAZY FOR THE WHOLE DAY, DAMMIT! aaaaARGH!"

Well... he sure wasn't prepared for that...

- "I mean, I don't even know the guy, not even his name, but a mere thought of him makes my blood boil!" Naruto was nearly tearing out his hear; he could not get the bastard out of his head, maybe he could somehow forcibly take him out of there?

On the other end of the kitchen was Iruka – completely stunned, trying to understand this new Naruto who was now in front of him. However, this New Uzumaki very much reminded him of that small boy he adopted more than 18 years ago. The older man returned from long past to reality. And in this reality his boy was breaking his head over not some normal problems like about university, or work, or maybe, finally, a girl, but about… about…

- "So, wh-who is this b..b-boy?" asked he quietly and carefully, as if not to scare off some rare bird.

- "Hugh? Oh…" Naruto finally looked at him. – "Um.. It is your precious regular with a hair style like a chicken butt. He came here earlier with a pink-haired beauty and a cool but creepy guy with a tail"

Iruka raised his brow and coldly looked at Naruto.

- "You do know you would be in prison already if they heard you right now? And truthfully I feel like telling them this at this instant."

- "EEEHH?" Naruto'seyes could compete with tomatoes on the kitchen table in front of him. -"Why is that? Who the hell is he?"

- "I don't know what you did to Mr. Uchiha, but you definitely did something wrong! Tell me, how do you know him?"

- "Uchiha, hm?"

- "Yes, Sasuke Uchiha" Iruka questionably looked at his son, who was acting weirder and weirder.

- "Damn bastard, even the name is cool, almost perfect, mo$H*Xer f*XKer.. *mumble*… *mumble*"

Now the older man was completely dumbfounded. Never once he heard his son swearing like this! Only when he burned something or hurt himself suddenly, but never actually to this extent!

- "Naruto, I need you to tell me what happened. I know is not the kind of person who gets on somebody's nerves just like that, out of fun."

- "Yeah? Well, the Uchiha , how you call him, and the bastard, how I call him, is doing nothing but that! Gets on my nerves! And I need them, my nerves. They don't regenerate!"

- "Calm down, young man! And tell me, finally!"

Naruto sat on a chair, Iruka came closer and followed his example.

- "Well, today I was late for work"

- "Again? Naruto, this is outdated already."

- "Yes, again. But, but it's not my fault, dad! You know the elev.."

- "I know, I know. The elevators in your house." Iruka yawned; he already lost the hope to change this part of his son. "You were late and then?"

- "I was waiting for an elevator in the lobby of our building, I was bored and then I saw the basta.." catching Iruka's fierce look he slowly corrected himself – "… standing beside me. He caught my eye because he looked like a model. And you know me, if I find something interesting, I would just look at it, from a designer's point of view of course, trying to understand the colour combinations, style etc. So, how perfect he looked: all his clothes, accessories, hair colour, and skin colour. I couldn't see his eyes but was wandering which colour they are. I.."

- "… was openly staring at him." Iruka finished, and Naruto just blushed.

- "… yeah…"

- "So, it was your fault then?"

- "When did you became such an understanding father?" Naruto asked skeptically while making funny faces – "It is not my fault! I said I am sorry, but he called me an idiot!"

- "And you?"

- "I called him a bastard, then he called me a moron, and I called him a duck-butt, and then an elevator arrived, I said sorry again, but he, being a bastard, ignored me completely. Isn't he the biggest bastard in the world? I am even ready to make a special crown for him!"

Iruka was sitting speechless while the boy in front of him continued speaking, emotionally moving hands from side to side.

- "…I would even put a glittering letters on it, saying "The Biggest Bastard in the World" if it is not too long… Whatever. And then I just couldn't concentrate on work. Everything that was black reminded me of him, and even the eyes of my coworker Sai, and the coffee you offered me this morning… I mean the guy looks perfect just like a Japanese porcelain doll and everything. But his personality is the worst! It ruins the image so much it hurts to even think about it! And I can't get him out of my head! And it drives me mad! I am going crazy and it is all because of him! I hate this bastard!" *fugh* *fugh*

Iruka was silently looking at heavy breathing Naruto. After some time thinking he said:

- "You know Naruto, he is a person, not some beautiful doll. And every "person" has a "personality". There is no such thing as an ideal man. And I am sure has his own minuses. However it is very amusing to know that he would call somebody an idiot."

- "Amusing, hugh? Not so much for me!"

- "Don't start, Naruto. I didn't mean it like that. I mean, I can't understand what could trigger him to do that. Usually he is very polite, a bit arrogant and aristocratic, but this is essential for his position. However, this childish side of him is amusing. And this applies to you too, young man."

- "Me? How so?" What was so amusing? Iruka talks weird stuff, Naruto thought.

- "Well, you are all emotional like never, you can't concentrate, you mess up your work, you are clumsy, and you have no idea what's came into you."

- "True" Naruto said softly, surrendering; this made some sense. "So what should I do?"

- "Well, now it is 2:30pm now. Let's work two more hours, and then go home. Don't take it close to heart. Forget everything about this morning and afternoon. Things like this happen, and there is nothing bad about it. Just forget it and let it be."

- "Um, thanks dad. But, who is he? This bas.. ?"

- "Oh right, you don't read morning papers, do you? Your house is full of science and design magazines, but nothing about business, right? I advise you to look at it from time to time. Well then, let's get moving!"

In the next couple of hours nothing was wrong. Naruto continued waiting the customers; Iruka continued to be a good host as always; the café was again warm and cozy. Nothing reminded of the black-eyed man, not even coffee. Naruto even cheered up and was looking forward to the night at the observatory.

Today was a very important night for Naruto's research – the asteroid that he observed for some time now was going to be in the apoapsis of its orbit tonight. This was something that by all means could not be missed! He and his partner Kiba have to make some very important measures. Naruto felt ecstatic!

Sitting in the bus to his house, Uzumaki was as joyful as he was every day. He remembered to make a call to the office to say sorry and ask to send the materials for a new project to his home computer. However,

- "Brat, dammit! You even dare to call me? I will fire you, I will definitely FIRE YOU, YOU HEAR ME?"

Naruto jumped up in his seat and moreover, the voice in the cell scared the hell of the person sitting next to Naruto.

- "S..Sir, let me.." He was a bit nervous, because his boss was furious.

- "DON'T EVEN BOTHER TO COME TOMORROW!"

- "But Sir,.."

- "No, wait. I am definitely waiting for you tomorrow. Khe-Khe. I will wait for you, dear. Just you come.. beep-beep-beep…"

The voice on the other end of the line was cold as the death itself, and Naruto feeling as cold shivers slowly went down his spine dropped his cell. The cold sweat stood out on his forehead.. He screwed up and he was going to be killed tomorrow. Slowly.. but very.. very painfully. (A/N: ^_^)

About 5 minutes later Uzumaki received a message. The sudden sound made his neighbor jump in surprise again. Naruto was afraid to look at it. Very afraid. Because the sound meant that it came from the office. If he looked at it, he would not be able to concentrate on research.

However he decided to take a look.

…

He sighed in deep relief when saw that the message was from Sai. It said that the boss was furious (well, he already knew it), but because of anger he forgot that tomorrow is Saturday (Naruto forgot about it as well) and no one needs to come in the office, and that by Monday, the boss will forget everything about him. Sai also mentioned that he already sent all the materials needed to Naruto's computer, which made the last one very happy.

Feeling a bit better Uzumaki jumped out of the bus on his stop and joyfully went straight to the lobby of his apartment building. Well, the elevators were slow again, and it didn't surprise Naruto. His good mood returned to him and nothing was going to ruin it.

He knew that during the day one elevator was going only up, another – only down, and the third one was used only by tenants who were moving in or out of the building. Naruto waited for the elevator that was on the P3 floor – the most expensive parking lot, but it did not bother him. Not at all. He was just simply waiting.

Finally, it arrived and Naruto prepared to walk in, but as the door opened, he lost all desire to do so. 'Crap…not again…'

- "I'll just wait for another, you go ahead" Naruto said to the man inside while turning around and preparing to leave.

- "Get inside, dobe. You start pissing me off." A pair of pure black eyes with stars inside was piercing the back of Naruto's head. He could almost feel it.

'Why?'

It just continues to happen.

(A/N: he-he ^_^ evil evil me)

The next chapter is the final (I am almost sure). Here is the preview: "…. And stars are falling… and camera's rolling… Damn you bastard, you are… "