Chapter 19
Sasuke was spinning in circles in his office chair at a decent speed passing the time. On top of the Christmas Party there was also going to be a more intimate congratulations party... Which would be held closer to New Years. His father had already purchased most of Jinchurikis shares and was the company was now the mass majority owner. In January, they would be flying to Los Angeles to formerly meet with the soon to be former CEO and have him retired. Naruto was already planning on taking Hiruzen to Disneyland.
"Mr. Uchiha." Naruto said snapping Sasuke out of his trance and sending him to the floor. He got up and glared at Naruto who was highly amused.
"Yes, Mr. Uzumaki?" He inquired.
"The location and time of the Christmas company party has been compromised. Karin had obtained the information." Naruto said in his best professional tone.
"Fine..." He sighed and picked up his phone. "Itachi... We need more security at the company party. Karin found out where it is." He said and hung up the phone.
"You know... It's also Hiruzen's party..." Naruto said quietly.
"She's not allowed at company events because she's harassed to many of our employees and they put restraining orders on her... It's a legal issue. Not a personal one." Sasuke said and rubbed his eyes.
"Oh..." Naruto said and left the office.
"Oi, Deidara-do you think Karin intentionally digs her grave even deeper?"
"I think she figures eventually she will dig through to the other side where magical ponies fly and Sasuke isn't gay." He answered absorbed in whatever he was doing.
"Any proposal from Sasori yet?"
"Yeah. He proposed the other night... It was lacking something... So he's going to try again next week."
Naruto's face dropped, "What would your ideal proposal be?"
Deidara turned and faced Naruto with a serious expression, "I was thinking we run through a mine field and hoping a boat set to explode, sail out and jump off the boat and swim away and once it explodes he proposes. It's romantic, adventurous and different."
"And a high chance of death..." Naruto included.
Deidara furrowed his eyebrows and tilted his head decidedly going back to what he was doing beforehand.
Hiruzen's birthday party was finally here! They had given him his Cheerios/park day, and now it was party time.
Sasuke got dressed in a suit with a red tie, Naruto with blue and Hiruzen with green. All three of them had matching pocket squares. They put their coats on and Sasuke had a bag ready to go. Hiruzen had taken a long nap so he could last a good portion of the party. They made their way down to the hotel Itachi had reserved for the occasion and upon entering even Sasuke shook his head.
"Naruto... I hope you've learned your lesson."
"I did." The blonde said tight lipped.
The entire room was decorated with a winter wonderland theme. Baubles and snowflakes hung from the ceiling. The bar looked like an ice berg and there was a sleigh full of presents with a sign that said "Happy 1st Birthday Hiruzen". All the servers were dressed like elves. It was more suited to a wedding in Naruto's opinion. Itachi had a play area set up with a bubble fog machine, a slide and toys. On the far side of the room was a picture booth and a Santa who was already surrounded by children and the camera man was taking pictures.
It was definitely impressive. They even used frosted glasses and frosted the windows. Each table had an ice blue table cloth and a snowflake runner and the center of the table had fake snowballs that would be thrown.
"He did a pretty awesome job though." Naruto admitted.
"He did..." Sasuke also admitted.
Hiruzen squirmed out of Sasuke's arms once he spotted his Uncle and ran over to him. Itachi picked him up and walked him over to Santa for a picture.
"That Santa is in for it..." Naruto said laughing.
"I agree 100%" Sasuke said and walked over to the bar ordering a rum and come and getting a screwdriver for Naruto. They sipped the drinks watching as Hiruzen was placed on Santas lap and glared at the poor guy. Eventually Itachi gained his nephews attention and a good picture came out with Hiruzen smiling happily. He put his nephew down and watched as Hiruzen joined the other babies on the floor. Kisame snuck up behind Itachi and grabbed the man by surprised and dropped into Santas lap.
"Take the picture!" Kisame yelled as Itschi struggled against the stronger male and the picture went off. Kisame let Itachi go and the pale man glared death at his partner who stretched out in Santas lap and laughed.
Sasuke and Naruto walked up to the photographer and glanced at the picture, "it should be on the website in 2 hours." The photographer mentioned.
"Good. That's going to be my Christmas card next year." Sasuke said smiling.
The photo ended up with Itachi looking like an animal that had been caught, Kisame mid yell looking like he was yelling a battle cry and a very scared looking Santa Claus.
More and more people trickled into the party, Sasuke received a call that Karin had been apprehended and reminded of her multiple restraining orders and was put in a room because she exploded into hysterics. Sasuke had some food sent down to where she was. Hiruzen's gift pile had become a monstrosity and the one year old was playing happily with the other children his age.
"Naruto?"
Naruto turned around and saw Sakura and Lee standing there with baby Yuki.
"Hiiiiii Yuki!" Naruto cooed at the infant before maneuvering the little girl into his arms.
Lee handed Sasuke a card and when Sasuke gave a confused look Lee explained it was a savings bond for Hiruzen.
"Thank you Lee." He said with a smile.
Naruto carried the little baby over to Santa for a picture, but secretly he was giving Sakura a break... He had never seen her look so exhausted and a tired Sakura was a dangerous Sakura.
"Alright Santa, this little girl needs a picture." Naruto said quietly.
"I have an idea..." Santa said before swinging his legs over the arm rail of the chair. They unwrapped the baby and laid her down on Santas chest. She curled up and didn't stir. The Santa then pretended to fall asleep and the photographer snapped the picture. The second picture Santa held her regularly. Naruto carried the infant around the party, who miraculously stayed asleep through all the noise and saw Sakura sitting down drinking water... Not as oblivious to the noise as her daughter.
Naruto started making his way back to his ex-wife and the two men standing near here when the doors to the party crashed open.
"Seriously?!" Naruto said when he saw the mass of red hair.
Karin ran across the room and grabbed Sasuke latching on like a parasite.
"Marry me!" She demanded.
"No." Sasuke said quietly.
"Why?!" She shrieked and Naruto saw Sakura flinch.
"Because I'm gay."
She started to scream and bang her fists on Sasuke's chest who made no move to touch her and just waited for security.
Naruto watched his ex-wife stand and grab the red-head by the back of her hair and yank hard,"SHUT THE FUCK UP!" Sakura screamed.
Naruto sat down in a nearby chair... He might as well enjoy this. He saw Kisame to his left already recording.
"I want a copy." Naruto whispered and got the thumbs up.
Karin took a swing at Sakura, and missed. Sakura's swing however landed.
The two women fught in an all out brawl in the middle of the hall, and Sakura was winning. Naruto was a tough guy, but even he'd admit Sakura's punches hurt like hell... He found that out the hard way. Sakura climbed on top of the red head and straddled her and kept her onslaught of punches effectively breaking Karin's nose. Eventually security pulled Sakura off Karin ending the ass kicking that Sakura was giving the now swollen up, beaten and bruised red head.
Kisame recorded all the way until the doors were shut and applause erupted. Rock Lee stared at Sakura in an expression that would be described as being enamored. Sasuke was even clapping and Naruto peeked over at Hiruzen who was clapping as well. Naruto brought Yuki back over to Sakura since the infant was now waking up.
"I think it's time for us to head out. My girls are very tired..." Lee said.
"It was nice seeing all three of you." Sasuke said bidding them farewell.
"Hey Sakura, did you ever call...the other guy?" Naruto ask uncomfortably.
"Yeah. He didn't seem to care that much. He's an art dealer and he said whenever he's nearby he will come and see her. I don't even care to be honest." She said exhausted.
Naruto nodded and bid them farewell also.
"Well, here is to the best party I have ever been to." Sasuke said toasting his glass towards Naruto.
Naruto grabbed a glass of champagne from a waiter walking by and inclined his head and bumped his glass to Sasuke's and took a sip of champagne.
"How the hell are we going to get those presents home?" Naruto asked shaking his head.
"No idea."
As the night went on... And the drinking increased... Sasuke and Naruto took their relationship to a new level of public by making out and listening to catcalls from all the ladies. They even had a few interesting pictures with Santa... But Naruto's favorite would end up being the one where Sasuke had a Santa hat on and was laughing with a drink in one hand and his arm around Naruto's waist where he had an elf hat on sitting on Sasuke lap making a kissy face at him. Hiruzen photo bombed one of their pictures and he was eating Cheerios looking at the camera confused.
After sobering up a bit Kisame grabbed the microphone.
"Good evening or morning...whatever time it is!" He said into the microphone.
Sasuke raised his eyebrow holding his sleeping son in a chair and Naruto was close by.
"It's almost midnight!" Someone yelled.
"Merrrrrrryyyyyyyy Christmas! Ho, ho,ho! Where's Itachi?" He said in a jolly tone.
Itachi was spotted and he made his way over to the microphone intent on taking it away from him. Itachi walked over to the podium and made to snatch the microphone but Kisame moved it and pulled Itachi into his arms and kissed him. Itachi froze and stared at the man curiously and skeptically.
"Now, for anyone who isn't aware, I am in love with this prissy, perfect, pain in the ass.i would like to make it known and official." Kisame put the microphone down and got down on one knee and pulled a ring out. Itachi picked it up and flipped the small, seemingly insignificant piece of jewelry around before handing it back to Kisame and holding out his left hand. Kisame shook his head and slid the ring on and stood up pecking Itachi on the lips before the stoic man walked away admiring his most treasured object.
Kisame walked off behind him and followed him to a quieter corner of the room that was cheering for the newly engaged couple.
Naruto and Sasuke walked over to the window and stared out seeing the streets when an explosion went off a few hundred feet away.
"What the hell was that?" Naruto asked and a lot of people came running to the window after hearing the noise and the windows rattled.
People watched as sirens flashed and went off all the party goers confused. About half an hour passed before the doors opened with Sasori in tactical gear holding Deidara bridal style.
"Guess what?! WE'RE ENGAGED!" The blonde said enthusiastically holding his left hand out to be admired.
"Way to go Sasori, my man! Itachi accepted too!" Kisame yelled.
"Yeah... But I bet it didn't cost you a car..." The red head said quietly.
After everyone went home Naruto turned on the news to see the explosion had been a car... No injuries or casualties to report.