Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto. Masashi Kishimoto did. I'm just a humble writer who's trying to go wild with her imagination borrowing his characters.
Author's Note: Thank you everyone again for your support and review; I will be looking forward to more of them.
Last week I got my first guest review to critic me and I am very happy for that; I had said at the starting of my story that critics are always welcome. As my explanation you must understand that Sasuke used to be a playboy so I think kissing a person comes naturally to his character and in this case he is also somehow attracted to Naruto, so I think it's only natural for him to think like that and don't forget I also drop a hint of him liking his blond moron in earlier chapter. I don't think there is any problem with someone liking someone on their first meeting; it is very common if you truly feel attracted to that person and being jealous is also common for any person. I know that the story is going in a very slow pace which I also feel the same about but I promise you that there is so much more to come and I have yet to introduce Naruto to Uchiha matriarch, which will be happening soon.
I know this is a romantic story between two people but it is also a story about family and friendship and for that I have to introduce the side characters and their relation with each other properly. I promise you there will be much more narusasu in the future, so please hang on with me till the end and any critic is always welcome to develop my storyline better.
Here is the eleventh chapter for you. Enjoy.
Chapter – 11
Naruto wake up next morning as sunlight hit his face; he groan and tries to hide under his covers again but something is tugging at it and growl in irritation as his alarm clock rings at the same time. He sits up and looks to his left to see a lump peacefully settled under his cover and poke it once which didn't even stir a little.
He gets up and walks towards the bathroom to complete his morning routine and as he comes out later he sees the lump still there. He sigh a little as he proceeds to gather the papers spreading around the room, once he is done with that he walk to the kitchen and starts to prepare breakfast. After some time he hears soft footsteps coming towards the kitchen and turns around to see the intruder.
"Ohayo" Naruto says as he smiles a little.
"Ohayo" the other person greets back as he sits on the table as he turn towards Naruto "what are you doing?"
"Making breakfast" Naruto says as he walks to the table and place two plates on it "now hurry up we have to go to office on time."
The other person groans as he starts to eat his food "I am feeling sleepy."
"Sai, it was your fault after all" Naruto replies as he takes a bite of his own "you were the one who insisted that we stay awake late; I told you this will happen."
"But I can't control whenever I am with you" Sai replies still a bit sleepy from their adventure.
"No points in arguing now" Naruto says as he looks toward the other bedroom door "finish your food; I am going to call Konahamaru."
Sai silently eats his food as he watches Naruto walk towards his brother's room and knock on the door. The door open after a few knock and Naruto drag a grumpy brother behind him as he force to sit him at the table and serve him his food. Naruto collects the dishes as everyone in done and goes to his room to get ready for the office.
"Can I borrow a pair of your clothes?" Sai enters as Naruto takes off his t-shirt.
"Do you have any other choice?" Naruto replies evenly as he handed him a shirt and pant "use belt, it will be little bit loose on you."
"I have enough experience about that" Sai said with a smile as he proceeds to change.
"Sai, stop staring at me" Naruto says after a moment as he feels gaze on him "it's creepy."
"But I like seeing your moments when ever you are changing like this" Sai said simply with a smile as Naruto looks at his weirdly.
"You know you are both a pervert and creepy" he replies after a moment of watching the other boy.
"Thanks for the compliment" Sai simply replies as he finishes dressing up and walks out of the room.
"That guy" Naruto shakes his head as he follows behind "I swear he give me creeps every time he comments something like that."
Sasuke enters his office and sits on his chair after putting his bag and the files from last night neatly; he orders for a cup of coffee as he open a file. It is not usual for him to order coffee but last night they all had works late and if he wants to function properly today he need some caffeine in his blood, now he knows why his brother and father is addicted to that dark beverage. The coffee arrives a moment later and as soon as he has taken a sip his phone rings out.
"Hello, Sasuke Uchiha here" he replies in a polite tone as he receives the phone without a glance at the screen.
"Sasuke, its Neji here" he hears Neji replies from the opposite side along with some muffle noise but he doesn't mind them.
"Ohayo Neji" Sasuke greets in a polite tone as he keeps the file aside and takes another sip of his much needed beverage.
"Ohayo Sasuke" Neji replies" have you talk with Uchiha-san about our meeting yesterday?"
"Yes, I talked with him last night and he says he will talk with Hyuga-san directly about it" Sasuke says as he hears the noise in the background getting louder "but I think he will support the plan."
"I also got somewhat similar response from oji-san" Neji finishes as a loud crash from the other side catches Sasuke's attention.
Sasuke's eyes twitch as he hears few more crashing sound and Neji shouting over the phone which somewhat sounds like 'will you guys quit it now? I am talking here' but that doesn't makes any difference as a series of crashes follows right after that. Sasuke vaguely think what's going on at the opposite line and why is there so much noise this early in the morning and who could have enough energy to create such a trouble this only in the morning, this lead him to think about the only person he wanted to avoid thinking right now.
"Sorry about all that" Neji said in a dejected tone from the other end after a moment "it's little noisy out here today."
"I wouldn't call it little noisy" Sasuke says with a smirk "it's like a war is going on there. What happened?"
"Well apparently Sai stayed at Naruto's place yesterday" Neji says after a moment "and everyone is making a big issue about that."
Sasuke's breathing stop for a moment to hear that; he can't decide how to react to that statement. He can feel his heartbeat rising and several scenarios pop into his head none of which were pleasant to him.
"Sasuke are you there?" Neji's voice forces him to get back his breathing in range so he can speak.
"Ye...yes" Sasuke says after a moment of more silence "What were you saying?"
"I was saying that they didn't need to make such a fuss about it, it's not like the first time they had stayed together" Neji continues still ignorant about the troubles situation of the person at the opposite end "Sasuke are you ok?" Neji asks worried as he doesn't get any reply soon, usually Sasuke doesn't takes time to react about anything related to Naruto but today he is acting strange.
"I... I am ok" Sasuke replies as he controls himself and continues "Neji I have some work to do now, so please excuse me."
"It's ok and have a nice day" Neji says with a frown as he hears the dial tone at the opposite side, unable to understand the certain change of mood; 'maybe he really have to do some important work' he thinks as he keeps the phone down and enters their meeting room to see it completely destroyed. He stands there for some time and look at the other occupants of the room with wide eyes who are currently sitting at different places on the floor; he heaves a sigh and walk towards his office after closing and locking the door. He believe his team to be capable enough to shot out this mess and their problem before lunch; till them it will be good idea to lock the room and save the rest of the office from destruction.
Sasuke slams the phone down without greeting Neji back, a dark frown margining his face. He looks at his hand and sees his fingers holding the coffee cup in a death grip; he doesn't know why that news effect him soo much, he doesn't even have the slightest clue about that.
"You know if you are not happy with the work and files you should give them back instead of trying to burn them down with your glare" Kakashi's amused voice floats through the office as he enters the room.
"Kakashi, I would have thought you to at least have some decency to knock on an office door before entering" Sasuke says with a growl as he puts his coffee cup down as to not to break it under his grip.
"I did knock" Kakashi says as he takes a seat opposite to Sasuke "but I guess you didn't notice that as you were busy glaring at the poor file there" he points at the file which is lying helplessly on the table.
"I wasn't glaring at it" Sasuke said with another growl.
"I am not quite sure about that" Kakashi says with a amuse tone in his voice.
As he sees Kakashi's questioning gaze Sasuke replies after a moment "it's true, I wasn't glaring. I... I was just reading out a line with concentration."
"I am not quite convince about that" Kakashi says amused but as he doesn't get any reply he frown slightly and continues "what happened Sasuke?"
"Nothing" Sasuke says in a small tone as he takes a look as the file; he doesn't know what to answer Kakashi, he himself isn't sure what is wrong with him, he just know for some reason he is feeling really irritated right now.
Kakashi studies Sasuke as he continues to look at the file; he can tell Sasuke is not reading it and something is really wrong but he doesn't know what and he is sure Sasuke is not going to tell him anything. He sighs softly; he knew Uchiha brothers from childhood, Sasuke even more and he can tell when something is wrong and even more when he can prey into it, and something tells him this problem doesn't need his interference, at least not yet.
"Sasuke" Kakashi says in a soft voice; he knows how to deal with a Uchiha in every situation "if you need it you can talk with me."
"There is nothing to talk about" Sasuke replies irritated without looking up from the file which he isn't even reading.
Kakashi shakes his head lightly; Uchiha's, he hates it when they act like this "then that is even better. Now for which I have came here in the first place" Kakashi continues as Sasuke look up to him "I want Naruto's file that I gave you. I believe that you have gone through it already."
"Why?" Sasuke asks as he looks towards him with narrowed eyes.
"Fugaku and I talked last night about what you said and if we are going to hold a meeting soon Rin and Obito would have to know about it" Kakashi says with his usual bored tone.
"I haven't gone through with it either" Sasuke says as he focuses back on his files "take it later when I am done with it."
"I don't have enough time to waste around such small matters" Kakashi says with a face smile on his face which Sasuke knows actually is a hint of his irritation "if you haven't gone though it yet then drop your useless pride and join us for our group meeting this afternoon. Now save both of our time and give me the file" he finishes as he extent his hand over.
Sasuke sighs as he bend down to reach the bottom drawer and takes out the file he had threw in there out of rage "here take it, it don't need it anyway" he says as he handed Kakashi the file.
Kakashi narrows his eyes as he takes the file and watches Sasuke as he gets back to his work; he can tell by the looks of thing that something is disturbing Sasuke; so he decides not to comment on Sasuke's behaviour and quickly stands up.
"If you want to join us we are meeting at two in my office" Kakashi says before he leaves the room and closes the door behind him.
Sasuke watches at the closed door for a moment; he is still a bit irritated from the earlier event and his thought quickly ran back to Hyuga office and what is happening there. His gaze fell over his phone and for a moment he thought of calling Neji once again but quickly dismiss the thought by shaking his head a little; he don't have any need to call there and listen to the dobe's life adventure any more. He scowls deeply and turn to his files; he have more important matters to handle and don't have any time to deal with idiots; with that determination in mind he get back to his files.
"What should we do now?" Naruto pants from the floor as he saw Neji slam the door shut and heard it to be locked from other side he turns to his other companion and saw them in more worst situation than him.
"What do mean what should we do now fox face? It's it your fault in the first place that we are in this mess" Kiba says as he tries to glare at his friend but it is little bit difficult now see the large black eye and a bruise on his left cheek he is spotting now.
"Shut up dog breath. It was you who started this whole mess in the first place" Naruto says exasperated as he stands up straight and sits on the chair beside him.
"Naruto-kun is right this time you know" Sai said as he also stands up from his perched position and takes a seat beside the said blond.
"I also agree to that" Shikamaru groan from his position where he was dazing slightly at a corner "and I didn't understand in the first place what's the big deal about was anyway? They have stayed together plenty of times."
"Yeah I know that but at least they should accept their relationship to us" Kiba grumbles harshly "they don't need to hide it from us."
"There is nothing like this between us" Naruto shouted this time in irritation "we are just good friends; can't friends stay at each other's house normally?"
"I agree they can" Ino said this time as she slid down from table where she had secured a place during all the commotion "but with you two that is different."
"And may I know why is that?" Naruto said with a irritated growl this time.
"Because my dear Naruto, Sai had a crush on you as long as we can remember" Ino said with a satisfied smirk as she sees blush creeping on Sai's cheeks as she continues "and from the look on Sai's face I am right. It will be very rude for you to play with his emotions like this Naruto" she finishes with a glare.
"Ino, we two had talk about this and we are perfectly fine with being friends" Naruto said as he slump in his chair "I am not a relationship material and Sai understands it perfectly and he also supports it."
"Naruto, it doesn't matters what he says" Ino replies with a huff "you should be considerate of his feelings if you know them; you can't play with them."
"Please can you guys stop talking about me like I am not here" Sai said in a small voice to distract everyone's attention from the topic.
Naruto narrows his eyes at this and after a moment of thought he turns towards Sai with serious look that no one had seen on him before "Sai, this whole topic concerns you" Naruto continues as he looks into Sai's eyes "are you feeling uncomfortable with the present state of our relation? If you are please tell me you know there is nothing that I appreciate more than honesty" Naruto watches Sai with deep concentration watching for any kind of lie just like the rest of the occupants of the room.
"No Naruto; I am perfectly ok with our relation" Sai replies with a small smile "yes I do have a crush on you and I would love nothing more that to at least have a chance with you but if you are not comfortable with it I am not going to push our boundaries. I am happy that you accept me as a good friend."
Naruto turns towards Ino with a raised eyebrow at this who huffs in response "ok ok, no need to be smug about it. I get it though how bizarre the concept is, that you guys are perfectly fine with your friendship" she says as she occupies a chair beside Shikamaru who had came to the table during the time everyone was talking.
"Ok, I also admit defeat" Kiba says as Naruto turns towards him with the same look and Naruto narrows his eyes he continues "and I am sorry to start all this chaos."
"Now that everything is over did anyone have any idea about how we get out of this room?" Shikamaru asks as he raises his head slightly from the table to address everyone.
"How should we know" Ino says as she twirl a blond lock with her finger "you are suppose to be genius here."
"Can't we stay here all day?" Kiba says in a small tone "Neji is surely going to kill us if he gets his hands on us now."
"Yes and by the looks of it he surely didn't seemed very happy about it earlier" Sai states softly.
"If we want to be safe I think we should start from arranging this room" Naruto says as he stands up and proceeds to pick up the vase from the floor.
"I think he is right" Ino also gets to help him by arranging the papers and flowers properly.
"Good for you" Shikamaru says as he buries his face once again in the table "don't drag me into this; I was not responsible for even a single paper to be out of place."
"Oh yes, you are helping us you lazy ass" Ino says as she drag him up by his collar "it doesn't matters if you did something or not; you were in this room and that is enough of a reason for you to help us placing back everything properly."
"Geez, leave me you crazy woman" Shikamaru says as he free himself from Ino's grip "troublesome" he mutters under his breath at the look he receives for that and proceeds to collect the papers on the other side.
Kiba also gets to work as he sets all the chairs back to their place. It took them almost fifteen minutes to set everything back to its place and once they were finished they sat around the table thinking a way to get out of the room.
Sasuke checks his watch to note that it is only quarter to two; he looks back at the file he is reading and decides to stop it there. It took him the whole morning to finally reach to the last file now and if he is right he can discuss these projects with his father tonight. He let out a small sigh as he stands up and walks towards the door; he knew he is going to be tease to death for this but if he wants to maintain his image in front of his father then he must do this. He walks down the hall way and slowly enters through the door after he knocks on it softly.
Kakashi looks over from the mess on his table and mention Sasuke to take a seat with a small nod and goes back to his files "Obito and Rin is not here yet but they will be soon" Kakashi says without looking up "I am glad that you decided to join us."
"Hn" Sasuke replies in a bored tone; it's not like he wanted to come here and watch some moron's work file but it's more like he doesn't have anything better to do or so he tells himself.
The door bang open after a moment of silence as Obito and Rin came in.
"How many times I have to tell you stop trying to break my office door" Kakashi says in a bored tone as he starts to close the files and pile them up at a corner.
"I am sorry that your stupid door is not able to handle my strong fist" Obito replies as he takes his seat beside Sasuke and swiftly turns towards him "so tell me, what are you here for?"
"I am here for the meeting of course" Sasuke replies irritated at his cousins behaviour.
"I didn't recall Kakashi said anything about you being here" Obito says with a playful smirk as Sasuke's eyes began to twitch; oh it's always fun to rile Sasuke up like this.
"I am the one leading this project, so it is acceptable for me to be in this meeting" Sasuke says as he tries to control his temper "or is it so hard to pass through that birdbrain of yours?"
"But I thought that you were in the original meeting" Obito continues playfully "so why do you need to be here? Or is something happened?" Obito asks though he had extracted every details of the meeting form Kakashi but he isn't going to give up on a perfect chance to ruffle Sasuke's feather.
Sasuke for his part clench his fist in annoyance to control his bubbling anger as the memories of the meeting and the events from there after- especially from today morning- came rushing back to him. He takes a deep breath as he replies this time "I wasn't able to join in the meeting that's why I am here to join you and discuss things over", there he said it; though it was not the whole truth but no one said him to tell the whole story.
Obito opens his mouth to counter that statement when he is stopped by Rin grabbing on to his ear and pulling it "stop irritating him" she commands as she takes seat beside him still holding onto his ear "I know what you are trying to do and you better stop it before it gets me annoyed" she let his ear go as she returns Sasuke's thankful look with a small smile.
Kakashi watches the scene before him with amused eyes but he can feel Sasuke's uneasiness that led him to believe that whatever Sasuke is disturbed about must be related to the project but he can't be sure.
"If your bickering had stopped then can we proceed with this meeting?" Kakashi says as he takes out the file from under the table "this file contains the work of the candidate everyone was so interested about. Fugaku and I took a interview of him and deemed him worthy enough to be in this project" he fixes Sasuke with a look as he slid the file towards the group sitting opposite to him; Sasuke just suppresses his urge to roll his eyes at the silent command.
"Wow, these are great" Rin exclaims as she was the once to take the file and scan it first "are you sure this guy is a fresher?" she asks about a moment as she turns the pages of the file.
"He is" Kakashi says crossing his fingers in front of his face and putting his arm on the table.
"This guy really has a talent in his work" Obito says after a whistle as he looks over Rin's shoulder "from where did Hyuga's get this guy?" he asks as an afterthought.
"Well I will say from where ever they got him from, we are very lucky to have him in this project" Rin says as he closes the file and put it down on the table.
"We are indeed lucky to finally find him" Kakashi says in a absent tone but quickly recover as he turns towards the group and saw Rin watching him curiously; he then turns towards Sasuke who was inspecting the file for whether or not to look at it "Sasuke go on, take a look" he continues as he grabs Sasuke's attention.
Sasuke takes the file in his hand; his mind racing with several thoughts of the blond moron. He tentatively opens the file to stare at the first picture in admiration; he takes his time to carefully study the file spending quite amount of time in each one of them. The more he continues with the pictures the more admiration he gets for the person he came to call a dobe.
Sasuke slowly puts the file down as he watches everyone looking at him closely. He raises a eyebrow at them in question when they quickly averted their eyes.
"Well Sasuke what you say?" Kakashi is the one to finally break the silence.
"He is talented I will give him that" Sasuke says slowly, but in inside he is feeling quite more than that but he doesn't need anyone to know that "but that doesn't change the fact that he is a dobe" he finishes with a huff at the smug look in Kakashi's eyes.
"If I didn't know any better, I would say that you are using that word as a nickname" Obito says in a teasing tone causing Sasuke and Kakashi to frown for a completely different reason.
"It's an insult if you are so much incapable of understanding that" Sasuke replies turning to his cousin and glaring at him.
"So is everyone ok with him about working in the project?" Kakashi says to gain everyone's attention as he continues "Sasuke, what's your opinion now?"
Sasuke turns towards Kakashi as he speaks "I guess it is all right" he says tentatively as he continues "have you talked with otou-san about the final meeting?"
"Yes we talked about it and he said that he will talk with Hiashi-san"
"Very well then" Sasuke says as he stands up and walk towards the door "I have some more files to finish we will talk about it later" with that said he walk out of the room.
The rest of the day was spent with normal office work and Sasuke was in a little better mood by the time he left the office.
By the time he reaches home, freshens up and gets downstairs for dinner; his father had already home again with Kakashi. He takes his usual seat beside his mother as they starts with dinner.
"Otou-san had you talked with Hyuga-san about the meeting?" Sasuke asked after a moment of silence.
"Yes Sasuke" Fugaku replies after swallowing "we have talked about that matter and we have agreed for a meeting on next week Monday."
"Then I have to talk with Neji about this"
"Hiashi said that he will inform Neji and it will be good if you discuss the details with him about this."
"I will talk with him tomorrow then" Sasuke replies in a thoughtful tone.
"Very well, I will leave arrangements of the meeting on you then" Fugaku says picking a bite of his food.
Sasuke nodded in agreement as he turns his attention to his food again and the rest of the dinner was rolled silently with little bit of chatting here and there.
The week roll by in a blink for Sasuke and by the time next Monday come around he is anxiously waiting for the most important meeting for his first big project. He had talked with Neji and they both had fixed everything; the meeting is going to be held in Uchiha Corp. and he along with Maira will be the one to receive their guests and lead them to the meeting room. He wanted everything to be perfect and that's why right now he is patiently waiting for their guests to arrive at their office lobby. He watches the Hyuga team enters through the office door and walk towards them.
"Ohayo Hyuga-san" he greets the Hyuga head bowing down in respect.
"Ohayo Sasuke" Hiashi greeted with a polite nod.
"Ohayo Sasuke" his attention in caught as Neji greets him from behind his uncle.
"Ohayo Neji" Sasuke greets with a small smile then turns his head towards the person at Neji's side and greets him too as he extend his hand towards him "ohayo Naruto."
To say Naruto is surprised for his part would be an understatement; he never expected this teme to greet him so politely but if he is extending his hand towards him who is he to deny a new friendship and everyone know he is great at that "ohayo Sasuke, it's nice to meet you again" Naruto smiles one of his happy smiles as ha takes Sasuke's hand and shake it once.
Sasuke's eyes goes a little wide as he sees the smile on the person who is now holding his hand in his big and warm ones; he had never seen anyone smile like that and he have to accept the blond looks good with that smile of his but for now he have control his composer before anyone can notice.
He turns towards the rest of the crowd and greets them too before politely leading the Hyuga head to their meeting room along with Maira at his side. Once they reaches there the first fifteen minutes is spend in basic formalities and introducing everyone properly. As everyone settle down Sasuke notices he is somewhat being sandwich between Neji and Naruto just opposite to the famous team Kakashi, who is watching him with a smirk under his mask.
"Good morning everyone" Fugaku's voice floats through the room earning everyone's attention "I hope you all are aware why we gather here, today in first group meeting before we present our tender and final our contractors for the project starts" as everyone nods he continues "as we all know it will take almost another month to properly start on the project and it will take long to finish with it."
"But there are member of both companies involve directly in this project" Neji asks this time "don't you think that it will be difficult for us to maintain it seeing the distance between the two offices?"
"I was coming to that point" Hiashi says this time as he sees the same question floating around everyone's mind "we have decided to make the Uchiha corp. as our base seeing that it is closer to the site that our office."
"That will be convenient" Sasuke says but continues after a moment with a thoughtful tone "but otou-san do we have enough room for that?"
"Don't worry Sasuke" Fugaku says as he answers the question "we have decided to open the highest floor of our office for this."
"That is acceptable" Kakashi says this time "and as this floor is not accessible to everyone there will be more privacy for our part."
"It's good to see you all agree" Fugaku says with a nod "now moving on to the next discussion."
As the meeting drag on and more topics are discussed and everyone starts to give their opinion on different matters; Sasuke notices the person towards his right to doodling on his notepad. He smothers a sigh and elbows him lightly at the side to gain his attention.
"What are you doing dobe?" he asks once he gets the attention of the other person.
"You know teme, you are a prick" Naruto says in a low voice as he turns towards his attacker.
"And you are an idiot" he answers back as his eye twitches at the response and adds as an afterthought "pay attention to the meeting, it is an important one dobe" he says in a hush tone once he notices Kakashi looking at him an unreadable expression in his eyes.
"Teme, I am paying attention" Naruto answers but quickly continues as he gets a raise eyebrow and a pointed look towards his pad "you want a prove, ok then fine I will give you one."
Sasuke smirks lightly as he sees the dobe to open his mouth to what he believe speak something idiotic, because for his part he knew that the dobe was not listening to a single thing for the last fifteen minutes. Maybe now his father will be convinced that he is a dobe after all.
"Uchiha-san" Naruto speaks for the first time to turn everyone's attention towards him as he continues "when this project is completed we expect tourists to come there for vacations" as he receives a nod and an expression that says him to continue from the Uchiha head he carries on "I think we should also build an emergency medical care centre there, in case you know there is any unwanted accident or anything."
He trails off as he watches everyone to look at him and he sheepishly rubs the back of his head.
"You know Naruto, that is the most intelligent think I have heard you say in this whole week" Neji replies with a smirk.
"That means you agree that I say intelligent things sometimes" Naruto replies turning his head and looking at Sasuke with a smirk on his face.
"Shut up dobe" Sasuke growls as he averts his eyes from the bright blue ones looking at him; he never imagine the dobe will have something like this up his sleeve. He never thought of something like this but a small smile plays across his lips nevertheless "and may I know why you waited this long to say anything about it?"
"Awww teme, are you embarrassed?" Naruto says as he smiles cheekily and pokes Sasuke at his side "what can I say I like to open my mouth when necessary" he replies as he stops his assault and give another playful smile to the now grumbling raven.
"Somehow I want to differ that" Sasuke says in a small voice but Naruto hears him anyway and with one last poke and smile turns towards the Uchiha head as he clears his throat for everyone's attention.
"Naruto, thank you for the suggestion" Fugaku replies in a voice and only one person in the room is able to detect the underline pride in the tone "no one of us have thought anything like this, but now we don't have time to spare any extra moment for that so I think we will find someone to coordinate with this along the way."
"Excuse me otou-san" Sasuke says to earn everyone attention towards him "I think I can help with that matter; I have a friend in the medical field and I think she can spare some moment if I ask her to."
"Very well then Sasuke" Fugaku says with a small smile and a nod "we will discuss about this new topic later."
As everyone agrees to this the meeting drags on for almost rest of the day and it is near lunch time when they have completed with the rest of the topics.
"I think we have discussed about everything in details now" Hiashi says as he closes the file in front of him "let's finish it here."
"Yes, that's a good idea" Fugaku says as he stands up along with the others.
Naruto leans over Sasuke towards Neji "Neji... I want some ramen. Let's find a restaurant to have some" he says excitedly.
"Do I seriously hear you about having ramen for lunch?" as Neji opens his mouth to reply Sasuke quickly cuts in.
"Why what's wrong with that?" Naruto asks as he narrows his eyes towards the raven beside him.
"Well for starters it is not a complete food and secondly it is unhealthy" Sasuke says with a straight voice as he turns towards his side to now growling blond.
"Teme..."
"Naruto, don't create a scene here" Neji cuts in before any of more disaster could happen; he continues then turning towards Sasuke "and don't insult ramen in front of he; he can go berserk for that and please believe me when I say this that half of his body in made with ramen."
"We have arranged lunch for all of you and seeing that it is almost lunch time we should head back to the next room" Fugaku's voice cut in as Sasuke opens his mouth to reply.
"See dobe, there is food for everyone; you will not go hungry" Sasuke replies with a smirk as he turns towards the grumbling blond who is now muttering something about a stupid teme "but I don't think you will get your ramen there"
"Huh, whatever" Naruto replies as he turns his glaring eyes at Neji "and for the record I am not talking with you for that smartass comment of yours" he says as he turns opposite to them sulking slightly.
Sasuke smiles a little at the blonds antics; he has to admit the blond is not a bad person to hang around once you get to know him better; he watches his father leading Hiashi to the next room while talking seriously about something but is distracted as a voice comes from his side.
"Uh teme" Naruto says as he turns towards them after a moment and heaves a sigh as Sasuke quicker a brow and continues "I am sorry about spilling coffee on you at our first meeting" he says awkwardly but quickly regain himself as he sees the small smirk Sasuke is giving him "but you were also wrong about bursting out on me like that."
Sasuke chuckled lightly at that "you apology in accepted and I am sorry too for reacting like that when I didn't even know you."
"So what you say, friends?" Naruto say smiling brightly and extending his hand towards a now surprised raven.
Neji watches the exchange with mild curiosity and it took a moment for Sasuke to compose himself from the blinding smile directed towards him but he smiles slightly anyway and takes the offered hand in his "friends" he says as he shakes the hands slightly.
"Naruto-kun" a light voice from the side catches his attention "should we go to the next room?" Sai asks as he nears the small gathering of three "aren't you hungry?"
"Sai" Naruto says happily as he drapes his arm over the other boy oblivious to a pair of now narrowed eyes watching them "of course I am hungry, you know me but I am taking care of a matter with this teme here" Naruto points towards Sasuke who quickly arrange himself "and now I am hungry so let's go. C'mon teme lead the way."
"I must say I never thought that you two will ever get along" Neji says in a amused tone as he walks beside Sasuke.
"If he is ready to apologise for his mistake the I am also not going to hold it anyway" Sasuke replies lightly as he sees Naruto lower his hand from the other boy and walk straight to the next room.
"It is a wise decision" Neji says smirking slightly with a teasing tone "after all we are going to work together for a long time."
The lunch is spend in a friendly manner with everyone tries to know the other more closely and assess their abilities and specialities, and as the lunch comes to an end everyone walk back to the previous room again and gather their things to leave for the day.
Sasuke is busy collecting his file when his eyes turn to the open notepad beside him. He slowly scans the page and sees that there is a casual drawing on the page of the meeting room and their occupants. He smiles slightly at the neat drawing he watched the dobe making earlier.
"Like that?" Sasuke almost jumps at the sudden voice behind him and quickly turns around to glare at his intruder.
"It's not even that special" Sasuke states but his eyes considerably soften at seeing who is standing behind him.
"Say what you can say" Naruto replies as he chuckles softly "but the look on your face says different, thought I must admit that it is nothing special; I was just wasting my time out of boredom."
Sasuke opens his mouth to reply but cut off at Fugaku's voice "Sasuke, Naruto, will you two please come here" he says in an authoritative tone as the assured both boys to come forwards where he, Hiashi, Neji and Kakashi is standing in a circle.
Sasuke frown his brow a little as he tries to think the reason why his father wanted them both at the front; he follows Naruto to front who nudges him forward gently.
"Yes otou-san" Sasuke says politely as he walk up to the group.
"Sasuke you have to stay a little longer here so don't leave with the others" Fugaku says as he receives a nod from his son and turn towards Naruto as he continues "and the same goes for you too" which also earns him a nod; he the turns to the Hyuga head "it was good to see you again Hiashi, Neji" he says as he extend his hands for greetings.
"Likewise" Hiashi says as he shakes his hand and continues "I trust you to take care of the rest of the things here. I am leaving Naruto with you to help you out and you can always contact me."
"Of course" Fugaku says with a polite smile "I will be looking forward to having the team here" he says with a small smile as he turns his eyes to the rest of the group who had already gather behind Neji.
"It will be an honour to work under you Uchiha-san" Ino bowed politely.
"We all are looking forward to that and are very excited about the project" Tenten says as she too bows in respect.
"I think we should get going now" Hiashi says gaining everyone's attention and turns towards the young blond of the group "Naruto I am counting on you."
"I'll do my best oji-san" Naruto says with a contagious smile of his which spreads to everyone else.
After the greetings are over Fugaku along with Maira escorts everyone to the parking lot while Sasuke and Naruto along with team Kakashi waits in the meeting room.
There is a awkward silence in the room as Kakashi can feel the questioning gaze of his team burning on him throughout the meeting; he knew sooner or later he have to face it but he is not ready to confront it in front of Naruto and risk of him knowing everything, even Sasuke and Naruto can feel the dangerous aura emitting from the single female of the room but isn't sure about the cause.
"Hello" Naruto gulps slightly as Rin approaches him with a smile which he can easily tell was somehow strained "I am Rin" she introduces herself as she continues "you are from the Hyuga group but I didn't get your name earlier."
"Hello mam" Naruto says with a polite smile "my name in Naruto Uzumaki, it's nice to meet you."
A crash sounded from behind caught everyone's attention and everyone turn around to see Obito standing over a broken glass with a wide eyed lost expression; in this commotion no one notices the still form of Rin as her eyes grew wide and glaze over. Rin closes his eyes to compose her beating heart and shakes her head slightly to turn around at Kakashi with a look that causes the said man to take a step back.
"Kakashi" Rin says in a tight tone as she walks to him "may I speak with you for a moment. I think you should come out with me for this particular discussion" she says without any harshness in her tone but the voice of her is enough to send chills down everyone's spine in the room.
Kakashi knew he has to deal with this sooner or later but he didn't know it will be this bad. He sighs deeply as he follows Rin out of the room, away from hearing range of everyone.
"Uh... I... I'll be right back" Obito says still a little daze from the earlier information as he too follows the pair out of the room.
Naruto turns to Sasuke in curiosity who is still busy looking at the office door with a weird expression on his face "Uhh" he says to gain the raven's attention as he continues "what was all that about?" he asks curiously.
"Well I don't know it was weird to react like that even for them" Sasuke replies with a frown brow.
"I didn't know my name is that bad to shoo anyone away" he says jokingly to lighten the mood a bit.
"What do you expect when you are talking with a babbling fishcake" Sasuke replies with a smirk as he turns towards him companion.
"At least it is better than a meaningless name" Naruto smirks as he retorts back.
"But least it is not anything stupid like a fishcake" Sasuke spat back as he turns irrelatively towards the other male balling his fist.
"What do you know about fishcake anyway teme?" Naruto says as he turns his angry eyes to Sasuke.
"Don't call me that dobe"
"Call you what teme?"
"Dobe, you are asking for it"
"Oh yeah, then bring it on" Naruto says as he jumps at Sasuke who returns the favour with equal fight.
Kakashi flatters in his step as Rin turns around sharply after they are safe distance away, the look in her eyes causes him and his trailing companion to gulp slowly.
"Kakashi Hatake, care to explain?" Rin asks in a controlled tone as she narrows her eyes to slit.
Kakashi chuckles nervously and rubs the back of his head as he replies "uh... Rin you see... the thing is..." he pauses as he looks around to stall the moment.
"Cut the crap Kakashi" Rin says as she walks to stand directly in front of him as she glare up at him "is he really who I think he is?" she asks in a straight tone.
Kakashi sighs deeply as he nods his head "yes, he is."
Rin's eyes widen at the answer but she quickly composes herself and punch Kakashi straight on his face with a growl which cause him to stumble backwards a little. Obito for his part is too shocked to say anything about the situation anymore as he stare wide eyes at Rin.
Kakashi rubs his swollen cheek as he turns around; he knew he deserve this but he never though Rin to actually punch him like that but he feels guilty instantly as he sees tears in Rin's eyes as she stands there panting slightly.
"Rin" Kakashi starts tentatively "I am sorry that I didn't inform you guys earlier" he continues as he turns towards Obito who is also watching him with a now sad look on his face; he feels more guilty to see that look on his face "but trust me, we ourselves only knew for two weeks now and we thought it will be good to inform you once we are sure about everything."
"Hatake, what do you think we are?" Rin says as she stands straight again and fix him with a nasty glare "do you think that just because we didn't live in his house with him, we loved him less than you did?" she continues in an accusing tone as her face sadden.
Kakashi winces a little at the accusation as he struggle to answer the question; he can tell Rin is really pissed off at him if her using his last name is any indication "Rin, it's not like that and you know it."
"No Hatake, I don't" she replies in an angry voice "because it surely didn't seem like that. You knew all this for two weeks and didn't even bother to mention it to us once. What do you think we will feel like?" she continues in a strong voice still glaring at the said male as she walk past him "I will never forgive you for this and you better keep your distance from me if you value your life" she walks away with that said without turning back.
Kakashi hung his head low as he relieve a sigh but slowly looks up as he feels a hand settle on his shoulder.
"You know you are wrong this time" Obito says as he gains Kakashi's attention "Minato-sensei was dear to us all and I think Rin has right to be angry at you" he continues after a pause "and I am too about you hiding it and all. You should at least have told us."
"It wasn't my intention to hide it from you guys" Kakashi says in a defeated tone "I just wanted to be sure of everything before telling you. Didn't wanted to hurt you with any false hope."
"And that is the main reason why I am not plumbing you into the ground" Obito says as he puts his hands back in his pocket "but you should be careful of her; Rin is really scary when she wanted to be."
"I know that" Kakashi says in a low tone as he continues "she is never going to forgive me."
"Nah, she will be fine" Obito says with a smile as he nudges him to walk back "give her sometime; she will calm down and maybe then you can apologise to her once again."
"Yeah, I think I will have to apologise to her more than that for her to let me loose this time" Kakashi replies as he walks to their meeting room once again.
When Rin opens the door of the room it took her a moment to realise what is going on as she double take the situation of the room. It had taken her probably ten minutes to talk with Kakashi and he didn't think that in that short amount of time any room can change into a battle zone of world war two.
She stands there for a moment to look at the pair in the room of which one had the other in a headlock as the other his flailing his arms to at least get a got shot on the other or probably trying to free himself, not one of them noticing her standing at the door.
"What do you think you two are doing?" she says as she walks into the complete mess of a room, her voice still strain from her earlier outburst.
The pair stills in their movement as they recognise the voice. Naruto drops Sasuke on the floor letting him go from the headlock as he stands straight; Sasuke for his part starts to cough a little to get his breathing back as he also stands up beside Naruto and directed a glare at the said boy.
"Uhh... well you see..." Naruto trail off as he search desperately for an answer which will satisfy the lady standing in front of them looking like ready to kill at any moment "we are playing to see who is more stronger than the other."
"And you thought that destroying the office in the process was a good idea" Rin says as she walks to them.
"Dobe" Sasuke replies as he hit the said dobe behind his head as he whispers slowly "you are not helping."
"Teme, don't hit me" he whispers back as he rubs the back of his head and turns towards Rin smiling sheepishly as he continues "we are sorry for all this mam but we promise to organise everything back."
Rin stops in her track as she look at the oh so familiar smile and the same posture once again after soo many years; her eyes soften considerably and as she takes in the boy completely, she can tell for sure that this boy is the part of the two precious persons she had once lost. Her earlier anger all dries down as she comes to a halt in front of the said boy as she smiles brightly at him.
"You know you don't have to apologise to me" she says in a friendly tone "and I am sorry for earlier to leave like that but now" she pause as she extent her hand towards Naruto "it is nice to meet you and I am looking forward to work with you."
Naruto takes the offered hand instantly as he also gives one of his bright smile "thank you mam, it is an honour to meet one of the member of famous team Kakashi."
"Please call me Rin" Rin says as ruffles the blond head fondly "you are like a brother to me and I will be happy if you drop the honorific between us."
"You can call me Naruto" he replies still smiling brightly.
Sasuke watch the interaction wild mild curiosity; he didn't know what it is about the blond that helps him to make friends so easily. He hasn't visited this office once and he is already getting familiar with everyone and he can't deny that he himself is looking forward to work with the blond moron despite their fights and differences. A small smile plays across his face as he watches the interaction.
"And what are you smiling about?" Obito's voice snap him out of his thoughts as he stands beside him and casually drape his arms over Naruto in a friendly gesture Kakashi at his side "oh, sorry to not introducing myself" he says as he smile at Naruto who is watching him with curious eyes "I am Obito Uchiha and boyfriend of this beautiful lady here" he says as he pulls Rin into a sideways hug.
"And he is also an idiot" Sasuke replies with a snot.
"Please ignore my cousin for his behaviour" Obito says as he turns towards Naruto completely dismissing Sasuke as he grins "I am the coolest Uchiha you will see there."
"I already like you" Naruto says as he grins back too "and I will be happy to ignore the teme there; he is an ass."
"Hahaha..." Obito laughs at that as Rin chuckles from the side causing Sasuke to narrow his eyes "looks like we will go along pretty good" he says as he ruffles the blond locks.
"Yes of course, only because you both are idiots" Sasuke says sarcastically as he turns to glare at the blond moron.
"Oh yeah teme" Naruto says as the turns towards the said raven too "you wanna another go at it?"
"Gladly dobe" Sasuke says with a growl.
"Says the man who was tasting dust a few moments earlier" Naruto says with a smirk.
"What is going on here?" Fugaku's deep voice causes Sasuke to halt in his step from attacking Naruto.
Fugaku stands at the doorway as he takes a look at the room and his eyes finally landed on the dishevel pair standing in the middle. He shakes his head a little as he walks in.
"Care to explain what happed here?" he then turns his gaze towards the three adults standing there "and what were you three doing?"
"Well you see" Kakashi starts as he takes in the frighten look on everyone's face "we accidently opened a window and the wind was too strong at this height" he finishes with a straight face which earns him snickers from rest of the group.
"Kakashi, please spare me your ridiculous explanation" Fugaku says with a deep sigh as he rubs his template "I don't even know where you learn those from" he looks up to see Kakashi trying to say something and quickly stops him "on the second note I don't even want to know."
This cause Naruto and Obito to blowout badly and the pair started to laugh loudly.
Sasuke bonks nature over the head "shut up dobe, you are too loud, giving me a headache" which stops Naruto effectively as Obito is stopped by a glare from Rin.
"Teme, you should consult a doctor if someone's laughing is giving you headache" Naruto replies as he hit the said raven on the shoulder.
"Naruto there is a reason I ask you to stay here" Fugaku says effectively cutting the duo off before any more argument can start, as he receives a curios look from the said blond he continues "as you mentioned about a medical group in the park; I want you and Sasuke to discuss the details over and work on it together" as Sasuke opens his mouth Fugaku effectively stops him by rising a hand when he continues "i discuss this over with Hiashi and we chose you two because Sasuke knows someone who can help us and you were the one to propose this idea and it will be unfair to you if we handle this to any other."
"I will do my best Fugaku-san" Naruto replies in a polite tone and with a smile on his face.
"I have one more thing to say" Fugaku continues as he gets everyone's attention "can you think I can take you up on that lunch offer of mine?"
"Of course" Naruto replies as he smiles brightly at the Uchiha head.
"Then I want you to join us for dinner today at my house" Fugaku says as he takes in the shock look on Naruto and Sasuke's face oblivious to the rest of the group smiling mysteriously at the pair.
TBC...
A/N: So guys did you enjoy this chapter? Tell me what you think.
There is a little narusasu as you all are waiting for and there will be more of it from now on. We are finally moving onto the main pair so I hope you enjoyed it.
I had cleared things about the Sai situation here, though I think there was a googly at the start of the chapter. As Naruto said they are not involved in any kind of romantic relationship. Though Sai has some feelings for Naruto but our blond doesn't feels the same but he value his friendship very much.
Please R&R.