[ May I ]

The day is done and your smile is gone away.

Sakura got off the bus that she had took from her home, which was just opposite her work place. She glanced at her watch to find she had only 10 minutes left to work. Better late than sorry.

"Ding ling!"

The bell by the door chimed as Sakura fitted in the key Deidara gave her yesterday in the door and went into the dim office. The light outside guided her to find the switch as she switched it on. The office was immediately lighted up.

Realizing that she was actually the first to arrive for work, she heaved a sigh of relief. One of the reason was that she could relax a bit first before doing anything, and the other reason was that she don't have to have an awkward session with the redhead if Deidara had not come to work.

She placed her bag on the desk right in the middle of the office on the first floor. She slowly walked to the kitchen as she looked at the calendar that was hanging right beside the fridge.

"Meetings, meetings, meetings." Sakura muttered while she flipped the pages on the calendar before walking towards the fridge and opened it to find several different packets and can of drinks, a piece of half eaten pizza wrapper around with transparent plastic wrapper and a slice of sandwich, which was still untouched.

She knew that the pizza must have been just eaten yesterday, well, she ate pizzas most of the time at home alone, and by the smell and sight, she could determine when was it bought and eaten. She was that smart.

Sakura the closed the fridge as she slowly approached out of the kitchen, to be totally stunned when she heard the familiar bell chimed, indicating someone had entered. She froze, not making any sound or movement.

"Sakura?"

Another huge sigh of relief came out from Sakura as she walked out of the kitchen as she met face to face with her boss; Deidara.

"Oh Sakura, good morning, I thought who would it be here yeah." Deidara said.

"Oh, G-good morning Deidara." Sakura bowed politely before rubbing the back of her head. "I was just shocked actually, I thought it would be Sasori." Sakura mumbled awkwardly.

"Ah… Sasori, sometimes he would come darn early or seriously late, depends on the work he have done yesterday. Since he did overtime yesterday, I suppose he would come around ten or eleven today yeah." Deidara assured her.

Sakura nodded, indicating she understood while Deidara took out a hal-eaten sandwich before he stopped and turned to Skaura with a look like he just remembered something.

"Since we have time, let me tell you what are you supposed to do today since Sasori isn't here yet." Deidara started the conversation with his mouth full and made a hand signal, telling Sakura to proceed up the stairs.

Sakura nodded obediently as she approached the stairs while Deidara went into the kitchen to grab another cold drink from the fridge before following her up the stairs.

"So here." The blonde pushed the glass door on the second floor and it opened as they went into the familiar room where she was yesterday. Looking out of teh window, Sakura noted that the traffic outside was extremely jammed that every loud horns that was blasted could be heard even in the closed space.

Sakura felt that she was really lucky she was early, if not she might be stuck in the jam or worst, meeting her second boss out of nowhere just like the petrol station the other day.

The new worker followed her boss to several shelves. "These are the files where we organize the time and date with certain client and the document that are needed during the meeting. We need your help in organizing these files." Deidara said while Sakura was listening to him and injecting all the information into her brain.

"These books belongs to Sasori. You can take some for your reference if you got a project to do with Sasori yeah." Sakura silently gulped hearing his name and nodded profusely, wondering when will she peacefully get her job done with him in the future.

"These are the files for the projects we have done, on-goings or just receive lately and have not started on yet. We also need your help in organizing the files to different sections in the future too." Deidara said, munching onto his sandwich with his other hand while Sakura mentally remembered about all the information she had received.

"And this." Deidara said as he stuffed the sandwich into his mouth to make his hands free from anything and pushed the shelf ,turning it 180 degrees around and it revealed many many different quality and pieces of wood, thick or thin; basically anything, were lying on the shelve neatly and a tag number was sticked on them. Sakura's eyes seemed to be sparkling in glee.

"These are the woody stuff Sasori used for his project, sometimes it may run out and he would go to a warehouse to get more orders. Here are the different tag numbers and woods yeah." Deidara said as he pushed the shelf to another side, revealing another massive amount of wood.

"Amazing…" Sakura muttered, her eyes were all focused on the shelves as she strained her neck just like a giraffe to look at all of them. She recognize some of the wood she had seen back in her school.

"That is the room where Sasori worked in." Deidara pointed at the door with his thumb. "But he hasn't come back yet so I can't open it." Deidara explained while Sakura looked yet again disappointedly and followed the blonde to the other shelve.

"Oh yeah Sakura, here is the mailbox key. The mailbox is just right outside the office, you are in charge of it too and settle these letters for us. Appointments and stuff, you know all these right? You just marked down the appointments in these files and it would be all settled."

Sakura nodded.

"I hate phones calls, so does Sasori, so you wouldn't mind if you settle it for us also right? It's the same as receiving mails from the mail box, just writing down the dates and time yeah." Deidara assured her.

Knowing fully well how easy the phone call job was, Sakura immediately agreed without hesitation and nodded once again.

Deidara let out a sigh of relief as he brushed his invisible sweat away from his forehead.

"All done yeah, you can start work now, practically this is almost just like a clerk job, seemed to have to depend on Sasori's mood to give you the job or project that you actually wanted in the first place yeah." Deidara shrugged.

"Nah, it's alright. It makes me easier to cope gradually." Sakura said. Deidara shrugged, not really convinced by Sakura but just let it go. But before Sakura went down to do her work, Deidara stopped her.

"Oh yeah, Sakura! I've forgot to tell you the three things Sasori hate the most." Deidara said while she turned around surprised, but she just stood there, patiently waiting for Deidara's answer. The blonde took in a deep breath, and let it all out.

"First, don't ever make him wait. He hates waiting very much, and he tends to throw temper when he does."

"Second, he hates people who beat around the bush, practically he wants people to be as straight forward like him. When you beat around the bush, he would just ignore you until you get to the point, which is actually related to him hating to wait; he hates to wait for people to finish babbling."

"Third, most importantly, when he gave you a glare, he's actually telling you don't mess up with him. Yeah, don't mess with him. Just don't do anything that he finds, annoying, stupid, crazy, childish, and practically everything he dislike, yeah." Deidara finally finished.

Sakura blinked almost unable to catch what Deidara was saying the whole time.

"Ar-are there actually more?" Sakura stuttered and a little bit bewildered.

"There are yeah, but if I tell you all, I rather read a Harry Potter book to you." Deidara said but than gave a pat on her back.

"So, just be aware about these main points that's all. Good luck yeah. That's all I can mostly help you." Deidara walked to his seat and opened some letters he just got from the mailbox this morning.

Aware that the mailbox keys were in her hand, she gulped and went down to do her work.

0o0

"Good morning! Yes, this is the right line you're calling, how may I help you, Miss? Oh Mrs. Inuzuka, oh yes, appointment huh…" Sakura immediately flipped through the files and finally found a slot. "Yes, he would be free. Would it be fine if I make an appointment on that day? Thank you very much, goodbye."

Sakura hung up the phone as she quickly made note of the appointment on the file Deidara had told her to update as soon as possible. The blonde walked out of the kitchen, his hand yet another can of drink.

"Doing great yeah."

Sakura beamed with pleasure and before she could say anything, the bell chimed by the door and there came in the redhead. He yawned as he walked in, glancing at Deidara before giving a slight wave and turned to walk up the stairs.

"Good morning!" Sakura partially take a brief look at the clock, making sure she did not get the time wrong. Sasori stopped at his track and stared at the pink-haired woman. He seemed surprise at first, but he soon gained back his composure and returned to his bored look.

"Oh. It's you." Sasori drawled while turning to the direction of the stairs after he realized it was the worker he hired just yesterday.

But trying to be as nice as possible, he halted and turned to the girl, "Good morning." Without further ado, he continued walking up the stairs without turning back and Sakura could actually hear Sasori opening the door at the second floor and entered the room as his footsteps faded away.

Deidara stared at Sakura, so did she. Sakura just didn't expect him to actually reply even though it wasn't even sincere or anything, but he did say something much more better than "Shut up brat."

"Wow, either he have eaten some miracle pills that made him changed his personailty, or he fell on the wrong side of the bed and hit his head yeah." Deidara whispered as he strolled up the stairs and shrugged, wanting to get back on his clay as soon as he got his drink.

Sakura the sat down on her chair and shivered. It wasn't the cold, but Sakura seemed to be afraid… afraid and pondering on her question, why was her redhead boss suddenly so kind to her when she had stepped on his foot like... Yesterday?

She shook her head before getting on her job and flipping through some random document before her phone began to vibrate in her pocket, standing up suddenly, she fished her hand into her pocket and quickly took it out and answered it, afraid that it would interrupt her boss and got fired on the first day.

"Hello. This is Sakura."

"Forehead! How's your job? Getting fired?" Ino said.

"I'm going to get fired if you called me at random times, and why do you seemed to want me to get fired?" Sakura gritted dangerously through clenched teeth.

"I was just caring for you Miss Haruno, and I was just wondering if you wanted to change job if you are unhappy with-"

"I'm ok pig, don't worry." Right then, foot steps could be heard as Sakura immediately covered her mouth and muffled in a soft voice.

"Pig, call you later. Bye." She immediately hung up the call, and surprised when the footsteps she heard belonged to Sasori.

With a file in his hand, he walked up to the desk where Sakura was sitting at. Sasori stared at her green eyes when she silently gulped.

"Ah. Can I do something for you?" Sakura said nervously. She never thought she had to be like that right in front of someone that had stole her cab.

"Here. I have something for you to do since you look like you're very free." Sasori took the yellow sticky note from the file and paste it on the side of the desk and used his index finger and stabbed on the piece of paper.

"Go to this warehouse, the address is written on here, I want you to check the condition of the wood material, the code is on the paper too, and the boss would exactly know what I want when you just show him this paper." Sasori said in a monotone.

"Me? I don't think I am capable to do it." Sakura muttered.

"I didn't hired you to tell me you can't do anything. Just simply go to this address, check the material in perfect condition and sign some paper. I'm pretty busy now." Sasori said, his stare slowly turned into a glare.

Knowing she was in trouble, she took her bag and her phone and tore the piece of paper from the table, making an OK sign. "Yes! I know how to check the condition perfectly, and I'll do it without any more hesitation. I'll be going now!" Sakura said before running out of the office.

Sasori stared at the door while it slowly closed on its own right after the pink-haired girl was outside. Through the glass window, he could see the girl waving a cab frantically for it to stop and got in quickly.

Sasori just scoffed as he went back doing his things.

"Where did Sakura go? I saw her in a rush yeah." Deidara said as he pointed at the huge glass window.

"Just asked her to check on the materials for me." Sasori said, sitting down on his chair and threw the file on the table. He placed his arm over his eyes, trying to get some sleep.

"Oh? You trust her? I'm not saying she can't be trusted, but this is not your personality to do trust someone you barely know." Deidara said.

"I hired her to get things done. If I don't trust her, what's the point in getting her to help out?" Sasori mumbled tiredly.

"How late have you stayed up last night yeah?" Deidara asked, even though he seemed to know the answer.

"6 in the morning, but I'm used to it now." Sasori replied tiredly as he rubbed his eyes like a 5 years old child and then sat up and got ready for work again.

Deidara began to mess up his clay again to get inspiration before he stopped and placed his clay on his desk. The blonde fumbled through his desk and finally took out an enveloped and smiled evilly at the redhead.

"Guess what Sasori, someone is engaged." Deidara waved the letter in the air before giving it to the redhead and started to open the letter.

"Who? Hidan?" Sasori took out the letter while Deidara shook his head and sat on his chair again.

"Itachi?" Sasori said, mildly surprised as he opened the letter. "Invitation to Uchiha's engagement party…" He raised his eyebrows.

"I can't believe it wasn't Hidan actually. But it isn't that surprising that it's Itachi either. There are so many girls who fall for him since when elementary school." Sasori merely said as he placed the letter on the table.

"You can be next also. Just get a girlfriend." Deidara said, a little bit concern of his friend.

"Stop asking me to get one when you yourself have none." Sasori muttered. Ignoring the redhead, Deidara got back onto his work again.

"It's on Saturday, perhaps we should tell Sakura too yeah and let her work till 3 or we could have her day off." The artist said and the other shrugged.

"Anything is fine, you'll just tell her." Sasori said.

"Geez, just try to communicate with her. You can't always ignore her or talk to her just through work. Friendship, I'm pretty sure you heard this word before. Who say you can't be friends with your workers?"

"The book on 1001 ways how to torture your own workers says so." Sasori said as he scribbled some words on his file.

"There's not such book, seriously. I've check on it yeah." Deidara said.

Sasori glanced at him and back to his work, "Oh? Why'd you check it out? Want to try some of the methods? Well, I have few in my mind now." Sasori said as he closed his file and walked towards the shelves and slot it in, taking one of his books and sat down to read.

"I'm not so evil." Deidara pointed out and placed his finished masterpiece. Sasori faked a laugh and went back to his work.

0o0

"Yeah, the materials are great." Sakura said as she patted the wood and gave a thumb up.

"Here, just sign this." The boss gave a few sheets of paper and Sakura signed at the bottom of the page after looking through the papers.

"So Sasori finally hired someone. He was always so tired when he came all the way here just to check the goods." He said. Sakura stopped writing and looked up, recalling when Sasori had entered the office. He seemed so tired that he looked shock when he saw her in the office.

"He finally did..." Sakura rubbed the back of her head innocently again, handing back the papers and the boss gratefully took it back.

"We'll send this in tomorrow." Sakura politely bowed in gratitude to warehouse owner and went out of the warehouse.

Hailing a Taxi, she immediately got in while a taxi stopped right infront of her. Finally settling down and telling where her destination was, she looked at her watch and took notice of the time. Sakura then stretched herself before she looked out of the window and looked at the passing trees and the buildings.

Unknowingly, she turned her attention and stared at the yellow sticky that she had still been holding onto since she came to the warehouse. Giving a glance, she then smiled and thought.

'He sure have a very neat hand writing…'

To be continue

Yeah! Finally finish updating, I know I've been focusing TOO MUCH about their work instead of the Saso-Saku ness, but bear with me first. :D

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