Uzumaki Naruto on the Case!
A/N: Oh gosh, I'm so bad at updating. FORGIVE ME! My interests kind of...switch...every so often. Like right now, I'm more into fanart. xD but I'm slowly getting bored of that, so I'll probably come back to fanfics pretty soon. :) BUT I HAVN'T ABANDONED ANYTHING!! It's just...taking me a while...xD SORRY!!
As a repayment for the long time you've had to wait, I'll provide a brief summary of the past chapters, incase you forgot:
Naruto, a private detective working for Jiraiya's Gamabunta Detective Agency (the best there is in Konoha!), is on a case assigned to him by Kakashi. He is to work, together with Kiba and Shino, to track Sasuke and spy on him to determine if he really is relaying information from Uchiha Co. (which Itachi is force to share with Sasuke because of their dead father's will) to other companies. Naruto found Sasuke in a bar and followed him home, Sasuke treated his wounds, and Naruto somehow ended up going to a corporal party. At the party, he met Hinata, Neji, and Gaara, who threatened Naruto to "stay away from Uchiha." Then the stuff in chapter 8 happened, so just go reread that. :)
Chapter 9
"What do you three want?" Sasuke's bitter voice rang through the newcomers' ears, biting at their nerves. His glare hardened so quickly and so cruelly that Naruto couldn't see the resemblance between the earlier-less-frightening-Sasuke to this new one. He inwardly snickered, prepared for the show that's bound to come.
"Sasuke..." Neji, one of the guys, bit back, his own eyes looking pretty harsh. Naruto swore the veins under his eyes stood out...but that'd be creepy...
The silver-haired guy from before stepped forward. "Now don't make this difficult, Sasuke-kun. We've decided that we want..." He glanced to his right where Gaara stood impassively, urging him to finish the rest.
"Double or nothing," said Gaara, his glare traveling across Naruto (who flinched uncomfortably) to Sasuke, where it stayed.
Sasuke's brows furrowed forward and he started tapping his finger against his arm. "What do you mean?"
"We mean exactly as Gaara-san here said. Double or nothing." Sparks flew from Sasuke to the silver-haired man, each daring the other to demand anything else. Naruto almost rolled his eyes at the brute way corporate leaders handled themselves. They probably think acting all big, grumpy, and mean will get them somewhere in life. Well, Naruto knows for certain that isn't the way to happiness. But then again, they probably weren't looking for happiness. Darn those cold hearted bastards!
"Can we please discuss this somewhere else more...private?!" Sasuke hissed out the last word, a malicious aura seeping out of his very pores.
All four eyes suddenly trained onto Naruto, who blinked back in shock. "Who me? Am I bothering you guys?"
"Sasuke, just tell your little blond pal to move it or lose it and we'll be private enough." The silver-haired man haughtily said, now focused back onto Sasuke.
Naruto flared that they wouldn't even talk directly to him, even though he was standing right there. He was not paid enough to go through this humiliation!
Which was why he wasn't going to go through it.
"You bastard, if you want to say something to me, say it directly! Telling Sasuke won't do you any good; it's not like he can make me do anything I don't want either! Don't think that just because I'm not all rich and mighty like you pricks, you get to look down on me! Man, I've never been around people as selfish, stupid, annoying, nasty, and conceited as you bunch! Thinking 'Oh I own a million dollars, I can bully people around because I'm fat in riches!' Well tough luck, the world would blow up before you get to bully UZUMAKI NARUTO around! In FACT, you should fear me since I could probably tu—"
Before Naruto could go any further in his rant, he was pulled back (somehow he had ended up practically nose to nose with the silver-haired bastard) and had a hand tightly clasped around his big mouth. This was a nice turn of events since he was just about to blow his cover in the heat of his rage. He probably shouldn't tell corporate monsters that he could "turn them in to the police based on what information he had already collected." Heheh, that would've been a huge disaster.
"You idiot!" Sasuke basically whisper-yelled into Naruto's ear, "What did I tell you about pissing people off?!"
"Nothing?"
"...Well I thought I didn't have to teach you that! That was completely uncalled for! And now look, everyone's staring at us!"
"...That's probably because it looks like you're raping me."
"..."
Sasuke quickly let go and stepped away from Naruto's backside, which he just noticed he had practically been spooning. Grrrrreeeaaaattttt. As if he needed another nasty rumor spreading about him.
"Well, Uchiha...as interesting as that was, we obviously won't be having any sort of privacy now, thanks to...Uzumaki there."
Naruto felt like sticking his tongue out at the freaking bastard, but decided not to when he saw the knives in Sasuke's eye.
"I'll contact you later, Kabuto. Neji, Gaara."
Naruto mentally winced. Kabuto? That's the bastard's name? Disgusting!
Sasuke nodded stiffly to each of them before they all dispersed into the crowd. Before Naruto could comment anymore on their rudeness, Sasuke had taken a fierce hold of Naruto's wrist and started dragging him off to the bathrooms.
"Ouch! Easy on the grip there, tiger!" Naruto tried prying himself loose but to no avail. Gosh, Sasuke had a death hold when he was mad! Somewhere in the deep corners of Naruto's practical mind, he was running around screaming bloody murder.
Once Sasuke had forcibly thrown Naruto inside a bathroom stall, Naruto finally realized the pinch he was in.
"Uhhh...did I mess something up?"
Sasuke shot a glare to Naruto, effectively making him back up into the toilet, almost making a butt-first plunge.
"Ah, I'm sorry! I'm not very good at controlling my temper...Don't get mad at me!" And please don't murder me brutally! Naruto mentally added.
"Actually..." Sasuke said smoothly, his voice surprisingly not bitter and enraged, "other than the fact that you just insulted three CEOs of very important companies and I probably have to go apologize for you which will greatly deflate my ego, you at least got me out of talking with them."
Naruto let out a breath that he didn't realize he'd been holding. With a grin and a hearty slap to Sasuke's back, Naruto laughed. "Oh wow, that was maybe the longest sentence you've ever said! And glad to know you realize how big your ego is."
"Don't push it."
Naruto gulped. "O-okay. Fine. So what are we doing here?"
Sasuke closed his eyes and slumped his shoulders back onto the stall door. "I'm thinking."
Naruto raised an eyebrow. "About what?"
"Would you shut up for a second?" Sasuke growled and gave Naruto the eye. Shrugging, Naruto flipped down the seat cover of the toilet and sat down.
After about a minute of silence, Naruto was about ready to blow a fuse. "ARE YOU DONE YET?!"
"NO, you idiot."
With a burst of impatience, Naruto stood up and started pacing in the small enclosed space they were in. "Can I go out then?"
"No."
Naruto flung his hands up in frustration. "I'm not the stand-around type of guy! Do I seem like the stand-around type of guy?! No, I'm pretty sure I don't seem like a stand-around type of guy! LET ME OUT!" Yes, he was a bit claustrophobic. Only a bit.
"Huh, seeing as how your job is a grocer, I'd think that you were," Sasuke jeered, eyes now closed again in thought.
Naruto gasped. How dare Sasuke bring his work into this! Besides, he was pretty successful. Sort of. In his mind. GAH!
"Sasuke, at least think out loud. I don't like silence!" Naruto tried compromising, hoping to the dear lord that Sasuke'll be done with whatever plan he's trying to come up with. Which reminded Naruto; he'd have to find out this plan sooner or later, so... might as well do it now. Sneaky little bastard.
Sasuke opened one eye and looked at Naruto like he had grown an extra head. "...No."
"Come on! There's no one in the bathroom right now, I'm sure of it! Here, look," Naruto then stood on tippy-toes and hollered at the top of his lungs, "ANYONE HERE?!"
Silence followed, and apart from Sasuke's frantic sputtering, Naruto was sure no one was going to holler back.
"Are you insane? Don't you ever think before your actions?! What if someone was here?!" Sasuke also peered over the stalls, just to make sure, before huddling close to Naruto and whispering, "Don't ever do something like that again! God, why did I bring you?!"
Naruto grinned and whispered back, "Because you love me?"
Sasuke gave Naruto a blank look.
"...Too soon for love jokes?"
"Never again for love jokes."
Naruto sighed. Oh well. It was so hard to break the ice with this...prince of ice. Hah, ironic.
"So are you going to think out loud now? Or do I have to force it out of you?" Naruto smirking widely, not realizing that he had unintentionally whispered that huskily into Sasuke's ear.
It was at this second that Sasuke realized they were both huddled together, faces about two inches away, and Naruto's blue eyes were staring intensely into his own. Something about that twinkle in the blond's eye...made Sasuke uncomfortable.
Sasuke straightened up and leaned back onto the door again. Although he would love to get out of this cramped space, he couldn't risk going into the public area incase someone unexpected came in. At least in the stall he could get up on the toilet seat and let Naruto pretend he was the one in there.
"No."
Naruto sighed and sat back down on the toilet seat. "Is that all you can say? No? No this, no that. There's a time in everyone life when they have to say yes, you know!"
"I say yes all the time..." Sasuke defended, his brain still jumbled from the close contact. Naruto's breath had smelled faintly of punch...but why did he notice that?!
"Can you think out loud then?" Naruto asked eagerly.
"No."
"Boo!"
"Shut up, idiot. I don't need your distraction right now. I can't think."
"Maybe your thinking will be a lot more efficient if you thought out loud. Eh?" Naruto probed fruitlessly.
"No."
"See?! There you go again!"
"WOULD YOU SHUT UP!?"
"NO I WO—" Suddenly, Sasuke launched himself at Naruto, covering up his mouth with one hand and pushing him off the seat with another. As swiftly as a ninja, Sasuke jumped soundlessly onto the seat himself and turned Naruto around.
"Mmmff?!" Naruto clawed at the offending hand on his lips, completely startled.
"Shhhh." Sasuke whispered anxiously into Naruto's ear, his head almost resting on Naruto's shoulders since he had to bend over in order to not be seen over the stall walls. "Someone just came in."
And as if on cue, the water started running.
"MMMFFMMFMMM? MFMMFFF!" What does that matter? Let go! Naruto mentally screamed while trying to convey his thoughts orally.
"Shhh! I can't be found in the bathroom! Cover for me!"
"Mmm?" WHY?!
Sensing what Naruto was trying to ask, Sasuke whispered again, "I can't be seen with you, remember?! Bad reputation and stuff, don't ask! And especially in a stall together!" Sasuke's head was spinning, hoping that the guy out there would fucking hurry it up and go away!
"MMMFFF MMMMMMMFFFF MFFF??" CAN YOU AT LEAST LET GO OF MY MOUTH?!
Once again, in a surprising act of intuition, Sasuke removed his hand and whispered "Please, just...don't talk."
"Hey, you okay in there?"
Both Sasuke and Naruto froze as the voice of the anonymous guy drifted in from outside the stall door. Sasuke gulped.
"Hello?"
"ANSWER HIM!" Sasuke hissed, giving Naruto a little push.
"Er uh!" Naruto stuttered, mind whirling, "Yeah, I'm fine!"
"You sure? You sound like you're in pain. You're not hurt are you? Do I need to call a doctor?"
SHIT! thought Sasuke. That would be the worst possible scenario! He must have heard Naruto's mumbles! Sasuke gave Naruto another little poke, just to express how frustrated he was.
All right all right! Stop bruising my back! Sheesh! Naruto thought. Long and hard. Well, maybe not long, since a prolonged silence will probably prompt the guy to call medical specialists. Just to stall time, Naruto decided to think while replying.
"I'm fine, r-really."
"Are you sure?"
Fucking nosy rich guy, of course I'm sure!
"Yeah, I was just...just..."
"..."
"...masturbating." Naruto started blushing real bad as he just realized what he just said. Oh how embarrassing!
"...Oh. O-okay then." Sounds could then be heard of the guy high-tailing it out of there and the bathroom door slamming loudly.
A moment of silence followed, Sasuke not believing what the blond had just told a random stranger.
"...You..." Naruto flinched, waiting for the rebuke. "...fucking...GENIUS!"
Sasuke jumped off and almost hugged the idiotic blond, but then realized just how out of character that would be. "Yes, that was perfect! I'm sure no one would come into the bathroom now, since rumors do travel fast with these people!" Sasuke chuckled, opening the stall door and finally into open space. Naruto followed, a bit in shock.
"Sasuke..."
Sasuke turned around, a small grin on his face. "What?"
"...I will never...ever...talk to strangers again."
Sasuke smirked and nearly laughed at the stricken panicked look on Naruto's face. Who else but Naruto would say something so vulgar as to be masturbating!
"When's this party going to be over?" Naruto felt a bit woozy. Fuck the case, he wanted to go home!
"Hmmm..." Sasuke tapped his chin, working everything out in his mind. "Sure. I'll take you home now."
"REALLY?!" Naruto excitedly yelled, finally feeling relief after these intense hours of pretending to be someone he wasn't. "But wait...didn't your brother say he wanted to talk to you later?"
"Yeah well...fuck him. I have better things to do than listen to his petty propositions." Sasuke shrugged. "Besides, this will work a lot better if I—" He stopped himself, feeling wary of Naruto's presence as he was just about to give a lot away. But seeing the childish gleam in Naruto's eyes and his face-splitting grin, Sasuke decided to drop his guard. What harm could some little blond boy do anyways?
"—if I contact the companies at my apartment without the snooping stares here. Come on, let's slip out before anyone notices."
As Sasuke turned his broad back and walked out the door, he didn't see the grin on Naruto's lips curl up into a devilish smirk.
He's got his solid lead now.
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TBC!!
A/N: Due to time constraints, I can't reply to the reviews for last chapter. I'M SORRY!! If I do, I'd have to wait another day before I post this, and I don't want to do that to you guys. But please review, I'll be sure to reply to them next chapter! Reviews make me happy ): REVIEW!! and I might even update my other stories faster (:
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