Hey guys~ Nova's back…though I'm still feeling a bit on edge with my health, um well basically what was going on was I had really bad stomach problems that I thought was internal bleeding and now still have nooo idea what's wrong and um well now I'm having chest problems and a bit of trouble with breathing soo I hope to get this all solved soon, but hey that's life. Full of chances huh. Now here I am back in the mojo and hopefully I do this right, sorry in advance if it's a short chapter and really sorry that the chapter sucks! I really have been out of the writing mojo for a while : [!
Naruto's POV
Well this is weird and unexpected. The teme is taking me out to eat…not in a date way I'm sure. Or is it? Naaah, he's probably hungry and I'm not complaining because I'm hungry myself. I didn't want to go out on a date with the teme anyway...Right?
"So where are we headed?" I looked at our surroundings and found ourselves treading in a part of town I had never seen before, and weird cause I lived here all my life! There weren't much people out except for a tremendous amount of couples. Sasuke shrugged.
"Some of my co-workers said there was a nice Italian restaurant over here. Since I know you like to stuff yourself with disgusting ramen I figured you wouldn't mind going here."
"Oh come on! I like ramen but it's not what I eat every day of every second dumbass! I mean do you know how much sodium is in ramen? I got to keep my sexy figure in shape." I wiggled my eyebrow suggestively and roamed my hands down my body trying to make a joke but, Sasuke's eyes kind of bulged out a bit and he turned his head away quickly. Riiiight Sasuke's a womanizer so of course he wouldn't get my joke of gold. I sighed and turned to start walking backwards so I could talk to Sasuke and not have to look at all the couples. I'd be lying if I said I wasn't a bit envious of all the love going on. But when you're a monster like me, love is impossible. Though I've accepted my fate it still kind of hurts you know?
"If you keep that up you're going to fall idiot." The teme's voice brought me out of my depressing thoughts. Like he cares. I bet if I fell and cracked my skull open he would laugh his ass off and then call a doctor cause he is still responsible for me and all. Actually it seemed like Sasuke was more of a babysitter than my counselor. I mean he came to my rescue during the whole physco rampage moment I had and he cooks for me and cleans my house. I don't know about you but if that doesn't just scream babysitter than I don't know what else will.
"We're here." I turned around and almost did fall when I saw the place where we were going to eat.
"Listen I get that you're most likely loaded with cash but I don't have nowhere near enough allowance to even eat from their garbage cans!" Can you blame me!? He took us to La Clique' the most expensive Italian restaurant known to man and animal possibly! They even had a red velvet carpet rolled out to the entrance, who does that!?
"Oi shut up dobe, my family owns the place so it will be on the house." He started walking along the velvet carpet looking more fit to do so than a commoner like myself. Suddenly he turned sharply to me with an accusing finger.
"Do not I repeat do not tell them I am your counselor. And go with everything I say got it."
"And what if I don't and tell everyone what you are?" I pouted crossing my arms in front of me defiantly. His condescending smirk kind of broke through my defiant act.
"If you do, you better have a pretty damn good allowance." He turned back around after a final smirk leaving me to shudder in my spot. What's with this guy? Why wouldn't he want people to know his job? Wasn't helping people in anyway a high paying job? Ehh my minds to busy trying to calm my stomach down, I'll get answers after a nice meal~! I caught up with the teme right in time to get a menu shoved into my hand and be led towards the more secluded part of the restaurant. I looked back and forth between the prick and the waitress.
"Uhh t-thank you?" I dumbly thanked the waitress who had a smile that never seemed to leave her face. She bowed.
"It was no problem . I do think that new hair color rather suits you . Please, call me when you're ready to order alright?" With a final bow she left us to browse over our menus. I nodded my head happily scrolling down the list of mouthwatering food.
"Okie doki no probl— !?" I slapped my menu down on the table. Sasuke chuckled softly while still skimming the menu.
"Something wrong?"
"Is something wrong!? Oh no everything's just peachy except for hmm well the fact that I was just mistaken for some woman. A woman Sasuke! Does that not ring any bells?" I yelled furiously getting lots of annoyed looks in the process. Sasuke closed his menu and set it down gently before giving me a passive look.
"Sorry to hurt your ego but you are hardly known in this part of business. Even with my status I wouldn't have been able to get you into here without a reservation."
"Yea yea but what status and who the hell is Ms. Haruno? Your cousin or something?" I mumbled the last pat into my glass of water.
"She was my girlfriend." I choked on the water getting more annoyed and now disgusted looks thrown our way. When I had regained some air I looked at him like he had grown another head. But the way he looked at me told me he was dead serious. Wow…so he actually DID date some of the girls who fawned over him. But…I wonder why they broke up…
"She was a very beautiful girl; she was strong and was studying medicine and nursing. I guess in other words she would have been one hell of a catch. Sadly it was a catch I didn't want. Or better yet a catch that was never truly mine." He took a sip of wine and called over the waitress from before. I stared at him quizzically. From what he just explained to me he really liked this Haruno girl, and she was hot and smart? You don't come by a girl like that very often.
"W-why…did you two break up?" I said, my voice cracking just a bit. Why was I so nervous? He glanced at me from the corner of his eye.
"My parents bought out her parents company, found out the whole time she was only using me to gain favor over my parents." He said so coldly that I legit felt a few icicles fling my way.
"Ready to order?" The waitress said kindly, holding out a notepad and pencil. Sasuke smiled as he told her his order…but it was such a plastic smile. Sasuke…
"What are you getting Sweetie?" He hissed the last word at me and it took everything I had not to yell something totally obscure like "You got me pregnant" or "I'm a dude" eh what the hell, I can play along.
"Well my lumpy dumpy super boo boo~~ This Ratolli looks completely divine, I'd like to have that please ~~" I smiled my nicest smile and handed my menu over towards the open mouthed waitress.
"M-Ms. Haruno….that has a lot of meat in it you know, are you sure—"
"Yes I'm uhh off my diet so I'd like to pig out as much as I can before…" Suddenly an idea struck me. A dumb idea, but an idea none the less.
"Before I have to go back into the crazy home cause I can't seem to stop being such a bitch~ Now off you go Susie"
"My names Rozalin!"
"Told you it's the bitch in me, but no hard feelings ok~" I flipped a lock of my hair snobbishly and held back my fit of laughter when she walked away in a huff. Sasuke only stared at me, opening and closing his mouth, forming and starting a sentence before trailing off. Oooh now he's speechless.
"W-what was that for? I told you to just go along with the name not take it…damn Naruto you—"
"She hurt you teme. Not even you deserves to go through something like that and it's not like she still dines here anyway. From the sounds of it I wasn't too far off with the whole bitch scenario am I right Sasu-Kuuun~~" I made a whiny girl voice and my heart jumped for joy when he gave me an amused smirk that looked kind of like a smile but I knew better than to think of it as such.
"You are a whole new level of stupid." He chuckled shaking his head and hiding his face in his hand. Please tell me he is not crying or sulking or going full "I hate you why the fuck did I take this job" mode. "Thank you." He smiled softly at me and I wanted to capture this smile and cherish it forever. My cheeks burned brightly I just…didn't understand why they were doing that. I rubbed the back of my head sheepishly looking down at the table.
"Yea yea I'm cool no need to feel like a pussy in my presence teme"
"Oh I'm sure I've gotten more pussy than you have." He smirked challengingly at me, leaning in closer towards me, making me lean back more in my chair on instincts. Grimacing I took another huge gulp of water.
"And what if you have, sorry to break it to you I'd rather have a relationship that was full of love not one night lust. Yet not one person has yet to love a monster Sasuke." I quickly stood out of my chair. "Read up on your fairy tales, I'm not gonna get a happy ending." I quickly walked out of the restaurant passing uhh whoever she was on the way out who kept calling out for me.
"Dammit I'm Naruto Uzumaki! Not fucking Haruno!" But I doubt she had heard me, whatever, I needed to go clear my head. With the little scene I had made I'm pretty sure the teme would find me in about five minutes or so, just enough time for me to put back up my walls. I sat on the curb a little ways from the restaurant seeing Sasuke talking to the frantic waitress while sending me occasional glances…funny, he looked worried. Bet he's mad though.
"Ya think? You stormed out of there like someone had put a mouse in your food kit" Came the unwelcoming voice of the fox. I groaned and hung my head low in defeat.
"There's no use trying to act as if you're a figment of my imagination…or are you? I never did figure that out."
"Is this really the time for that? Listen, it's bad enough that I have to watch the Uchiha kid constantly hint that he has feelings for you but it's even worse when I'm in the body of the dumbest guy alive!" I squinted my eyes in confusion.
"Huh?"
"Oh for the love of—HE LIKES YOU YOU IDIOT!" He yelled in frustration. Ha, it sounded like he just said Sasuke likes me…Wait! Likes me!? All the air magically seemed to leave my lungs. Sasuke chose that moment to finish his conversation with the waitress and was making his way over to me. No, he does not like me and the fox must be on something because frankly I like girls! And so does he. Oh and the nice little fact that we're both dudes and well if by some chance we did like each other, though that chance is highly impossible I say again, we couldn't up and go out! He was paid to rid me of my problems and if word got out that he was dating his clients well…I don't think people would really want him around them, unless they were fan girls of course.
"You know the good thing about being in someone else's body besides having the ability to control them~? It's that I can look deeper into your emotions than even you can. Ahh ~it really does keep me amused while being imprisoned here" The demon chuckled deeply causing a ripple of shivers throughout my body.
"W-who even asked you to be in my body…stop…you're not in my body your my fucked up mind playing tricks on me! So do me a favor and fuck off!" I held my head in my hands, gripping my hair in frustration. He was tricking me…I'm just delusional…I'm just making up voices in my head to get attention. There I admit it! I must be physchotically crazy!
"If telling yourself that will help you, then so be it. But kit, you don't know how far off you are from having physiological problems. Trust me." He disappeared back to wherever he goes when he isn't fucking with my mind and emotions. I tried, I really did, to not believe a word he said but…his tone…he's right, whatever is going on with me is not something a counselor can fix. It's something far more dangerous…Sasuke…I looked up to see him talking with a pink haired girl. Who is she? She's standing really really close to him, and he's not pushing her off!
"Ahh!" I doubled over holding my chest as that same feeling was taking over me. Like that time on the walk to school. I have to calm down but!
"S-sasuke…"
Sasuke's POV
I'm still wondering why Rozalin even works for us, I mean the fact she thought that Naruto was Sakura is very disappointing. Dobe…why did you run off? So many questions running through my head. I didn't know if I should be mad or worried or just ignore it, ok, obviously ignoring it is not the right thing to do. I saw him sitting on the curb.
"Rozalin she's fine, and no I won't be telling my father but if you could keep this whole thing a secret then everything will be alright understood?"
"Y-yes Uchiha-San understood!" She bowed to me and quickly left to attend to other tables. I sighed while rubbing my forehead in frustration. Could I ever just get a break? I was going to go over to Naruto but I was hit with a blast from the past.
"Sasuke-kun?"
Sakura. In front of me stood my ex in all her radiant glory. She hadn't changed that much from the last time I saw her, besides she had cut her back length long hair into a shorter more professional style. It suit her very well since she never was the girly girl type no matter how much she had tried to be.
"Sasuke? That is you right?" She leaned in closer with curious emerald eyes. Glaring, I tried to push past her but she held my hand in a vice like grip, did she get stronger in the years we broke up!?
"Sakura let me go." I struggled to get my hand free but she pulled me closer into her. I gave her a furious glare but that didn't even seem to make her flinch.
"But I've missed you so much." At the much she squeezed my hand tighter making me cringe.
"Sakura, I don't have time for this I—"From the corner of my eye I saw Naruto double over in what looked like pain. He was holding his chest and breathing a bit harder than usual.
"Naruto!" Roughly I snatched my hand out of her grip and sprinted over to Naruto leaving a dumbfounded Sakura in my wake. She was the least of my problems right now. I kneeled in front of him while looking him over. Well he wasn't bruised or bleeding so that was another thing off my worries.
"Naruto, what's wrong?" I asked. He kept his head downward, but his breathing had gone back to normal.
"Come on let's get you home and—"
"Sasuke. Your services are not needed anymore…I talked to my parents and they said they would still be paying you for the time you've spent with us." The void of emotion his voice held had me staggering back a bit. What?
"Naruto, this is no time to be a fucking ass! Get up!" I grabbed his arm and pulled him to his feet. He still wouldn't look my way.
"Naruto look at me" Nothing.
"Dammit Naruto I said look at me!"
"Go the fuck away Sasuke! I don't need you anymore!" He pushed me and ran off deeper into the city.
"He was crying…why, why are you such an idiot Narutooo!" I growled in frustration and fell to my knees, clenching my fists against the concrete while hanging my head low. No…I don't care if he wants me gone. Fuck the job; I'll help Naruto one way or another. With goals set in mind I got off myself loathing and ran after the blonde.
Normal POV
"Ms. Haruno? You change hair colors quick." Rozalin exclaimed while greeting Sakura. Sakura tilted her head questioningly.
"What are you talking about?" she asked, putting her hands on her hips. Rozalin scratched the back of her head sheepishly.
"You were blonde and came to dine with Mr. Uchiha just a few moments ago. Umm you said you wanted to pig out before…and excuse my language but you said you would be "pigging out" until you went back to the crazy house for being a bitch?" She looked to the floor unsure if she should have said anything at all. Sakura huffed in anger. Pulling out her phone and dialing one of her speed dial numbers.
"This is Sakura Haruno, vice president of my family's corporation. Yes…I need a favor. I'd like information on a Naruto; I don't know his last name meaning you guys are going to have to dig deep. I want full detail on this man, understood. I'm leaving no option for giving up." Without waiting for a reply she hung up and walked out of the diner, quickly walking back to her car with determined steps.
"Welcome to a whole new type of revenge Naruto."
