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So, let's get this started.

[By the way, Sasuke is still screwed.]


"Any ideas, anyone?"

Everyone in the room stared up at Tsunade with puzzlement. None of them knew what was really happening or what this family was going to do! It was a complete disaster. Hinata almost broke into tears when she saw her father being forced into the back of the grossly little black and white car. How was he supposed to breathe back there? And she could've sworn she saw his hair get caught in the door. She wanted to go see him, but it was too early — or late since visiting hours, for him, were over.

"At least we're not broke, hm."

Tsunade glared at the unwanted presence.

"Who allowed you to come anyway?"

Deidara wrinkled his forehead at the old bat. She was a bitch. He obviously belonged there; they can't just fire him and never hear from him again! What Jiraiya did to him was disgraceful and, plainly, mean! Why would he fire him like that? The bastard must've known that he was going to be locked up eventually, so why not put him in charge to fix everything the lazy bum messed up? Deidara didn't understand why Jiraiya couldn't have just...promoted him! Instead, he gives the most arrogant, self-centered guy in the family the position he didn't deserve.

"What..." Hinata sighed with uneasiness. "How are we going to get him out of prison?"

Tsunade shook her head with a pensive expression. "I don't know..."

To her, Jiraiya was a complete idiot. Why would he embezzle without covering his tracks clearer? He should have asked her for help!

"We're...not going to leave him there...are we?"

"I don't know," she repeated. She smirked at the faucet turning off behind the door a few feet away from her. "We should ask our CEO."

All looked at the door, leaning forward as if wanting to gain knowledgeable advice. However, the faucet turned back on after a bothered sigh.

"Go away," he said behind the locked door.

"Sasuke!" Lee called. "You have to help us."

"Sasuke, please!" Sakura cried.

"Get your ass out here," Tsunade said.

Naruto folded his arms. "Hurry up, Sasuke!"

"Sasuke," Hinata called softly, "please come out."

"Leave him in there," Deidara snorted.

Sasuke rolled his eyes and poked his head out of the door. His eyes went straight to Sakura.

He glared at her. "What are you doing here?"

She smiled. "I came with—"

"I don't care," he cut her off. He closed the door and locked it. "Get out."

"He's useless." Deidara frowned with an angry expression. "This is a waste of my time, hm."

"Then leave," Tsunade snarled. "Who brought him?"

Hinata raised a finger. "He...he came with me."

Her mother scoffed and rolled her eyes. The closed door swung open, baring Sasuke with jeans hanging off his waist. He felt his eyes twitch as he stared at that weird-looking thing sitting next to his sister on one of the two beds in the small room. Naruto must have been the nuisance that gave them the address to their hotel and let them in. that was the main point of his current problem — until this blonde wannabe male model appeared. Where did he come from? Sasuke didn't like him!

"Leave," Sasuke announced. "Now."

"Sasuke, you're the CEO of this company now," Tsunade ensured.

"No, I'm not."

"Yes. You are."

Sasuke put on the shirt hanging from the doorknob, and picked up the suitcase against the first bed. "Naruto."

He didn't move. And he didn't have his suitcases packed.

"Where are you going?" he asked.

Sasuke rolled his eyes and turned to his friend.

"We have work tomorrow."

Why was he dumb?

Well, that's what Sasuke was thinking. And he was looking at his friend as if he was an idiot as well. However, everyone else was giving Sasuke a confused look. Tsunade was shaking her head, Sakura and Hinata looked away with frowns, Lee stared aimlessly, and Deidara smirked with evil sparkles in his eyes. Sasuke put his suitcase down at his upcoming heart attack.

"Kakashi sent us an email already," Naruto said slowly.

"What?"

He dug his phone out of his pocket and quickly opened his email, sweating at one subjected, "Goodbye."

"Sasuke," Kakashi started. "I saw...you're family on television, and well, I wasn't going to fire you this early but I can't have someone working for me also working for a rogue company. Good luck, Kakashi. Also, Naruto is fired as well. Just in case."

Sasuke felt his blood heat up. That asshole! He knew he was going to fire him, but it wasn't supposed to be like this! What the hell was he going to do now? He didn't know before, but now! He was broke and jobless. However, he still had a place far, far away; at least he didn't have to be with these people!

"Good thing you told me he was going to fire us," Naruto continued. "Our condo should sell in no time!"

He gave Sasuke a thumbs-up with a grin. Sasuke paled. Why was he so dumb!

"You sold our place?" Sasuke spewed.

"Uh-huh."

So that's why the idiot was packing so heavy; he was moving! And Naruto could've told him this? What about all his stuff! His clothes!

"Meet us back at the house," Tsunade said. "After you check out, of course."

Sasuke glared at his mother with slight a pout and folded his arms like a child. His moping eyes watched everyone exit after her. He wasn't going anywhere! He and Naruto would just have to survive in this freakishly small hotel until they got their feet back on the ground.

He growled at the thought.

They didn't have enough money.

Damn it all!

"Sasuke, you can't leave me in here!"

He shook his head and slid the notepad paper over to his father. "I quit."

"You can't quit," Jiraiya said. "What about...the family!"

"I don't care."

Jiraiya frowned. "But you don't have a job."

"How did—"

"Your mother called me this morning." Jiraiya frowned.

"I'll just get another job." The sentence was strained.

"You're a CEO!"

"I quit."

"You can't."

Sasuke scoffed.

"What about Hinata?" Jiraiya urged. "She'll need you."

"She will be fine," he said.

"But she's...!"

Sasuke smirked. She's single? Yeah, he knew and didn't care — Jiraiya saw.

"She..." he sighed. "You're right."

His son cocked a brow. He was?

"She doesn't need you," Jiraiya egged on. "I...lied."

"What?"

"I lied."

Sasuke glared. "About what?"

"She being single," he said. "It was to get you here and my planned worked..."

"I—"

"She's going out with Deidara, that prude." Jiraiya shook his head. "I don't like him, but your sister—"

He blinked with big eyes when he son left him, alone, at the table.

And of course, Sasuke saw his favorite person when he left the visiting room!

And his very much hated person.

Why!

Hinata smiled up at her brother. She didn't see it but Deidara stared Sasuke down as if being a container of something vile. Sasuke huffed and puffed at the two. Holy shit, he hated Deidara's guts: his blonde hair, the fact that every time he saw his sister he was always there; the little cretin was a mistake to this universe! What were they doing there together? Damn, his father wasn't lying; his father always lied! Sasuke dug his nails into the palm of his hands to keep his blood pressure at a safe point.

"Sasuke," Hinata said. She was still smiling. "You came."

He glanced behind her to the moron. "What is he doing here?"

"Oh, Deidara? He's—"

"Don't answer him, hm." Deidara grabbed her wrist and dragged her into the room.

"Oh, I'll see you at home," she said to Sasuke.

That made him cringe. The thought of his sister even dating that snob! What was her problem? Why couldn't she date a guy more like — oh no; this thing was happening again...but still, really? Deidara? What was wrong with her! She seriously had a problem. She could date someone...else — with black hair...and maybe red eyes. Ugh, this was a problem. It would just stack on the many problems his family obviously came with. He's been back for three days and he was back at home, sleeping on the couch.

After all of his guests left the hotel, he told Naruto to take their condo off the market but it was too late by then. A couple of their former coworkers were also looking for a place. Damn them! So they had to move back to his family's house, and Tsunade rubbed in all in Sasuke's face. She knew her son didn't have enough money to sleep another night in that hotel — she checked his bank accounts. So now, here he was: visiting his father with his third day in prison and trying to resign while sleeping on the couch at home. He would've slept in his old bedroom, but Hinata had gotten a full-sized bed since their high school days. And they were too old to be sleeping together.

Right?

Of course he was!

But maybe he should ask her, just in case.

"Fire him; I'll be the CEO," Deidara contested.

Jiraiya yawned. "You're fired."

Deidara stared angrily. "You already fired me."

"Then go away."

Hinata put her hands on Deidara's rising fist. "Um, we should—"

"Why did you fire me!"

"You should thank me!" Jiraiya fussed. "If I didn't fire you, you'd be out of a job like Sasuke."

"I still don't have a job!"

"You're not trying hard enough."

He jumped up. "You—"

"Hey! Hey!" the guard called. The three looked at him. "Settle. Down."

The blonde growled but complied.

"Hinata," Jiraiya said, "Did you tell SASUKE THAT YOU'LL BE HIS SECRETARY?"

She and Deidara backed up from him screaming. What was he doing? Jiraiya overlooked the two in front of him, trying to looking out the windows from the room. He smirked seeing his son in a rush to leave holding his head. He chuckled.

"I'm sure Sasuke will stay."

Hinata showed interest. "Why is that?"

Sasuke spent the rest of the day looking for any job that was more than fifty miles away. It was hard — well, impossible was a better way to describe it. Everyone he called, even the closer job offers, turned him down as soon as they heard his name. It was frustrating! Even more, Naruto was being a lazy bum who was just eating his fugitive family out of house and home — with no job! Sasuke didn't want to ask if the dimwit was looking for jobs because he knew he didn't, but he had to ask.

"We already have this job," Naruto said, "why would I look for another one?"

Sasuke sighed. "You were never hired."

"Yes I was!"

"By who?"

"Your...dad!"

"Fine." Sasuke fell on his makeshift bed. "You're fired."

"What!"

"Get a job."

"Oh, Sasuke."

Tsunade smiled coming out of her room — she now had it all to herself!

"You were visiting your father all that time?"

"No."

"Oh, did you see Hinata there?"

Sasuke turned to her slowly. Did she mean that Hinata still wasn't home? He left the jail almost seven hours ago — she couldn't still be there; visiting hours had to be over! Oh lord, where was she? With that loser? She had no dignity! He was ashamed to call her his sister. For now on, they were no longer siblings. Yeah, she has disgraced the family with hanging out with that demon and they were no longer related!

So, it was okay to ask her if he could sleep with her tonight, right?

Tsunade gave her starry-eyed son a confounded look and shook her head. He was strange.

"Hinata?"

Hinata came out of her room with blankets and a pillow stacked in her arms. "Yes?"

"How was your father?"

She showed a worried smile. "He was...fine."

Sasuke immediately struck out at hearing that angelic voice. He frowned at her. Damn, why was she here? She wasn't supposed to be here! She was supposed to be out with Deidara. Shit, now he can't deem her an outcast. Sasuke stared at her intently as she unfolded the comforter and placed it on the sofa adjacent to his. She fluffed her pillow. He wondered why she was doing that; as if she was making a bed. Naruto finished his bowl of cereal and quickly snagged the remote off the coffee table prior to jumping on the couch opposite of Hinata's.

"Hinata," Naruto said, flipping through channels, "you sleeping in here tonight?"

She smiled. "Yes..."

"Why?" Sasuke asked.

To get closer to him!

Her bright eyes faded. "Sakura and Lee are...fighting. So I let Sakura have my room."

"Whoa," Naruto breathed out. "That's nice of you."

"Thank you."

Sasuke frowned. Look at them: bonding. Gross. Naruto was his best friend and he didn't even like looking at him, let alone talking to him. She was too nice. And Sasuke gave her the most suspicious look when she caught Naruto drowned in the television and smiled over at him with a nervous stance.

"Thank you for staying," she whispered.

Sasuke was baffled. What! He was leaving. What did their father plant into that naïve mind of hers!

"And...I'm glad you came back."

His face became expressionless from top to bottom, and she realized what she just said.

Her face flushed. "I...I meant! Um, everyone is happy to see you again; I missed you—I mean, we missed you!"

Sasuke smirked at her fluster and almost laughed when she looked away and grabbed her heart...he would like to grab her heart.

In the area.

All medical reasons, of course!

"I'm," she choked. "I'm going to g-get a drink, do you...?"

He shook his head and she rushed off to the room behind them. His smirk stayed plastered on his face.

It couldn't be that bad, working with his family.


Man, Deidara. Your life sucks too!

[Join Sasuke's club!]

Sasuke, you silly goose. You should've disowned her.

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