A/N: Hey! Yeah so I added a little twist to the beginning. And we finally find out what "box" is! Sorry for taking months to upload Haha! Enjoy :)
'Soul Eater.'
I bolted up into a sitting a sitting position on the bed I was apparently lying on. I looked around me and soon realized I was in an all-white room, clean and crisp.
Not a forest.
"Oh Hinata-sama! You're awake!"
My brows furrowed a bit as I tried to match a face to the familiar voice. Giving up, I look to my right to see someone smiling down at me.
"Shisui…?" I asked, repeating the first name that came to my mind.
"At your service! You're looking better than you were when you first came here! Though you still do look a bit disoriented…I suppose you would like to know what happened.
I nod my head slowly still trying to straighten out my tangled thoughts.
"Well you see, Itachi had just boarded an elevator with you and you fainted. The end!" He finished with a chuckle.
I almost twitched at his odd sense of humor but there was too much going on in my brain…Wait so that means no forest…no soul eater…Hahaha! Man I really should stop watching these scary movies before bed. Well that's good for me I suppose. But wait elevator! That means everything that happened in that room really happened. So I really did scold him. Well that was awfully rude of me…but he deserved it. I suppose…
"Itachi-sama, how nice to see you."
Well that was enough to pull me out of my train of thoughts. I shift my gaze to the doorway to see Itachi there smirking in all his annoyingly handsome glory.
"Of course," he started his voice still as pleasantly velvety as earlier, "It's only proper to make sure she's doing fine." He turns form Shisui and locks eyes with me. "Shall I take you home?"
I inwardly roll my eyes, but put on a smile nevertheless.
"No I'm quite fine but your concern is appreciated," I say as a slide of the bed landing on my heels and walk past Itachi, hoping he will just leave me be.
If only.
"I insist. In fact, it's no longer a question. I must escort you home."
"And why is that Itachi-san?" I ask careful not to let any desperation slip into my voice.
"Because I learned a few things about proper etiquette and common courtesy."
I recognized my words and felt guilty.
"Look Itachi-san, I am sorry for the way I acted.' I say hoping he would in turn apologize for his behavior and we could turn a new leaf.
"Hn."
Well that's obviously too much to ask for. He didn't apologize. Heck he didn't even accept the apology I gave him. Well I can be the bigger man and look around it. I turn to him and smile. He glances at me and keeps looking ahead.
"Nice. Back to the under-emotional prick you were before."
We both stop.
Why do my thoughts always come out of my mouth when I least want them to?
"What was that?" I heard him ask in a deathly calm tone.
"I said…Nice…Back to the way we were before!" I say flashing him another smile and a laugh or two.
He gives me a long slide glance before smirking and looking forward.
"Don't you like Sakura?" I blurt out.
Itachi who was now walking in front of me in order to guide me to the exit abruptly stopped. Causing me to bump into his back, lose my balance, and fall to the ground. He takes a couple of steps towards me and kneels on one knee using slip his slender finger under my chin.
"Sakura is awfully fun to tease. But you," He leans forward as if to kiss me. I clench my eyes shut inwardly panicking, but all for nothing. After a second or two I re-opened my eyes only to see him laughing. Itachi Uchiha? Laughing? I blush even redder if possible.
"Are even more fun to tease." He finally finishes after his laughs turned into chuckles.
At this I am quite upset. I stand up and march of to the annoying man and begin jab him in the chest with each forceful word I spoke.
"That is it! Look here Uchiha, I am not some toy to be played with." I say in a deathly calm voice almost mirroring his usual one.
This seemed to surprise Itachi himself. But he did something awfully surprising. He smiled. Laughing and smiling in the same day? And I was the source?
"Yes and that's exactly why I want you to be mine," he winked and continued walking.
"We'll see," I mutter to myself with a small smile. And as exit the gates, I can't help but think.
All according to box.
Troublesome.
Truly troublesome.
'The things I do for my friends,' I think to myself as I let out an exasperated sigh. I divide my attention in two. One half Hinata and the Uchiha leaving the other half on the third story window. Not too hard to do when you're sitting on the tree beside said window. It gives you quite the view of both. As I see the car drive off I know it's time to begin my phase of the plan.
I pull a glass cutting knife from my pocket cutting circles in the two top left and right hands of the window undoing the locks from the inside, allowing me to open the window. Why was it so easy to get in?
Who the hell even tries to break into Uchiha Corp.?
Oh yeah.
Me.
I slip in the window and remove my backpack from my back taking out my laptop, a cord to hook computers together, and a timer. I set 30 minutes on the timer and proceed to exit the room I was in and stealthily make my way down the hall. Too easy? Of course not. Infrared. Man this is so troublesome. After hacking the security database I quickly turn off all security on the hall and to the room I'm heading anything more would be to suspicious. This whole process takes about 15 minutes. After sprinting down the hall to the correct room, I open the door and let out a sigh of relief.
Now to begin the hard part.
One of the main functions of the Uchiha Corp is its access to the stocks, shares, and statistics of many companies. This is why Hinata's role in this was so important. She was to organize a party of where company's show their current worth or values as a way to draw customers in. Basically they show people how rich they are so people give them more money in hopes of get money back. Hinata had to personally meet with Fugaku Uchiha in order to guarantee he could show these numbers and of course, she had to pay him.
Hinata had done her job, and now I have to do mine.
I successfully linked the main Uchiha stocks database (almost smart for them not to put everything on one data base) and connected it to my computer.
I then proceeded to wipe the whole statistics of PHD Inc. clean. They now had a worth of 0.
To anyone except me and my father and a few other Nara brains. Yeah, I didn't actually wipe it all clean and make them bankrupt only to make it look this way long enough to ruin them from getting any business here in Konohagakure and drive them back to Suna.
This all took about 20 minutes. Meaning I went 5 minutes over time. I quickly made my way back to the original room and of course put all the security systems back to normal. I jumped from the window to the tree relocking it and laser gluing back in the glass and climbed down the tree. As I walk out of the gates I spot Itachi walking by as well. I tip my hat to him, now glad I didn't discard the security disguise after leaving the building.
"Itachi-sama." He nods and continues on his way, not even sparing me a glance.
Shikamaru Nara, you are a genius.
And as exit the gates, I can't help but think.
All according to box.
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