Order Up!
Summary: AU Naruto Uzumaki is a rich slacker who owns the biggest and finest restaurant in New York, the Kingyo Koushou and when eleven men dressed in black suits show up, his six waitresses have the time of their lives…
Disclaimer: If I owned Naruto, I wouldn't be writing such strange things, I would be drawing it! Duh!
Chapter Three
Tension At Table Forty-Nine
Naruto was watching the large dinning area. Right now Ino was practically running back and forth to get Chouji everything he wanted, and was given glares by Shikamaru about her service.
He sighed. This was going to be a long night. Then he heard the door again and excused himself from his salad and Sasuke to meet the guests. This time however, he wasn't shaking hands, but he was hugging his old friend and mentor, Mr. Hatake Kakashi and his longtime rival, Mr. Gai Maito.
"Naruto! I was so excited when I heard about your place, it looks good. Love the name too! I think this is a nice little restaurant, good food I hope!" Kakashi said as they entered and Sasuke gave a smirk.
"Ah! Does my eye deceive me!" Takashi said, looking at Sasuke. "No, it's true, Sasuke Uchiha is here in New York! Come my boy and give your old master a hug!"
Sasuke blushed a little as Kakashi hugged him as Sakura entered with some more bread rolls and gave a little giggle as she waved at Kakashi.
"Hello again Master," she said with a little laugh.
"My goodness! Is that Sakura Haruno! It can't be, she is dressed as a waitress, I thought you would have been president of the US by now my lovely lady!" Kakashi said with a laugh and hugged her.
"I should get back to work, but it was nice to see you again," Sakura said, hurrying off. Naruto then nodded to Temari to come and show his guests to their table.
"As annoying as ever, eh Kakashi?" Gai asked, growling a little.
"Huh? Didn't hear you," Kakashi said with a laugh. Gai growled and shook his head as Temari approached them.
"Good evening sirs, this way please," she said in her sweetest voice, her four ponytails bouncing as she showed the way to a table.
"Man, I am so excited, even my old Master Kakashi came, I can't wait for the others to get here. Sorry for having to keep leaving Sasuke," Naruto said, sitting down.
"Don't worry about it. I understand it's hard to do so many things at once," Sasuke said, waving to Kakashi, who was taking off his black suit coat and smiling at them. (He doesn't look much different from the series, but his mouth is bandaged up a little and his hair falls over his left eye.)
"That's five so far, good timing as always. Only six more to wait for, then we can eat and everything like that, oh man, poor Ino," Naruto said with a sad laugh. Ino was standing a little further away with two trays already covered in food and trying to find room for them for Chouji while Shikamaru laughed at the sight. Maybe it was a bad idea to give those two to her, Naruto thought to himself. In college the waitresses always avoided the tables that the pair were sitting because of their "famous" ideas of service. Ino, however, wasn't a push over and still was smiling, considering it had been ten minutes having to serve the two.
"Naruto. Who else is coming?" Sasuke asked as Ino finally found room for the plates and was practically running toward the kitchen.
"Oh, well let's see. I thought it would be a good idea to get Kiba over to see the place, in case he wanted to contribute so then I had to call Shino Aburame, so then I started to think about boarding to all our old college crew and then called old Rock Lee, just for the heck of it, then there was Neji Hyuuga, but don't tell any of my waitresses because he's the cousin of one of them, and she doesn't know.
"Then there was trying to find someone for publicity so I called uh… what was his name? Oh yeah, Zaku Abumi. Remember him? Well then I was like, that's eleven altogether so I decided to even it out and called on an old enemy," Naruto lowered his voice, but still had a smile on his face, "Gaara Uchiwa."
Sasuke started to choke on the wine he was drinking he lowered his head and looked at the others, all staring at Ino, now balancing four trays on her arms and getting applause from Chouji.
"You called him here? Are you nuts?" Sasuke said harshly.
"Don't worry. He's changed a little, and don't tell anyone this, I have his older sister working for me, so he can't kill me at least."
Naruto gave a laugh and Sasuke growled low. All during college the two, Sasuke and Gaara had fought to be the best and Naruto ended up beating them all so it didn't matter much.
"You're insane Naruto, you know that right?" Sasuke asked, taking a drink of his wine.
"Yeah, well, when you're as wealthy as I am, you learn to deal with it," Naruto said with a laugh.
Ino came rushing into the kitchen as it got onto 6:15. She had been only working fifteen minutes and the Crazy Pair of Table 14 were already driving her up the wall. She had to endure though, or she would get fired for sure.
She quickly got the salad for Shikamaru and was about to go when she bumped into Hinita, standing and staring out the door. Two men had just arrived, one with a little dog on a leash next to him. Ino stared as well because now the man was yelling at Naruto, who was laughing.
"Okay, the dog can stay, it's cool. Hinita! Come on, serve these guys their drinks!" Naruto called, and Hinita blushed nodded, hurrying out of the door and nearly knocking Ino over.
She quickly nodded her head to the men.
"G-good evening, I-I-I am your waitress, H-Hinita, what w-w-would you like to d-drink?" she asked timidly, blushing as Naruto smiled at her.
"This is Mr. Kiba Inuzuka, and this is Mr. Shino Aburame, they are my guests so treat them with kindness. Enjoy your meal gentlemen," Naruto said, smiling once again at the blushing Hinita.
"Y-yes sir," she answered and looked at the men. They were dressed in black suits and ties, and a small dog was sitting in a chair next to Kiba.
"This is my dog, Akamaru, and he gets exactly what we do, and I want a glass of milk!" Kiba demanded and Hinita nodded her head, scribbling it down on her pad and looked at the quiet man.
"He'll be having the strongest sake you have," Kiba spoke for Shino. Hinita nodded her head vigorously and hurried off with the order, blowing past the busy Ino, having to refill drinks hurriedly.
"Are you enjoying your drinks sirs?" Temari asked sweetly to Kakashi and Gai.
"Yes, may I have another plate of salad please?" Kakashi asked and Temari nodded, taking his plate.
"Certainly sir, anything for you Mr. Maito?" Temari asked sweetly.
"No thank you, now back to business Kakashi! I was the victor that game, not you!" Gai said and Kakashi gave a laugh as Temari hurried off. It was getting to almost six thirty when the final crowd showed.
Standing at the entrance of the dinning area were four men, all dressed in black with black ties, looking around, as Naruto greeted them, calling over Tenten and Tsuchi.
"Tsuchi, this is Mr. Zaku Abumi and this is Mr. Gaara Uchiwa," Naruto announced, and a sudden silence fell over the entire room and in the kitchen a crash could be heard and Temari came out the door, holding the door and seeing her brother in his normal state of annoyance.
"Please show them their seats," Naruto said, and Tsuchi nodded and walked with the two to a table in the corner, nothing seeming to faze her. Temari hurried back into the kitchen and Sakura hurried to yell at Naruto.
"Are you crazy! I remember that guy from high school! He's insane!" she whispered, grabbing Naruto by the ear.
"Don't worry about it. I need his family's money, and name, so I suggest you calm down and get me another glass of wine, thank you."
Sakura growled and took his glass and headed off toward the kitchen.
"Now then, this is Mr. Neji Hyuuga and Mr. Rock Lee, Tenten, please show them to their seats."
Tenten nodded and Hinita gasped from where she was standing by Kiba, pouring his drink at the same time. She turned away, hoping her cousin didn't see her.
"What would you gentlemen like for a drink?" Tenten asked, smiling. Lee was staring off into space as Sakura walked by again.
"Sir?" Tenten asked, poking Lee.
"I would like a martini and he would like a brandy, thank you," Neji said, elbowing Lee.
"Yes sir, I will be right back," Tenten said, hurrying off toward the kitchen, passing Ino as she hurried toward table 14.
"Would you like anything else?" Ino asked, still able to smile after thirty minutes.
"No thank you!" Choji said, something he hadn't all thirty minutes, practically eating the entire course so far. "Saving room."
Ino laughed, something she didn't mean to do and Shikamaru lifted his head from his hand but put it back as she left.
"She laughed?" he whispered, Choji eating a bread roll.
"Yeah? That was strange. The last time someone laughed at us, it was because they had a rat crawling up their back. Strange indeed," Choji said, stuffing his face with another bread roll.
"Yeah… weird…" Shikamaru said, watching the kitchen door as the six waitresses came in and out as the night continued.
In the kitchen, Ino was still laughing.
" 'Saving room?'" she asked again, laughing a little more. "Thank goodness I am not his mother or I would be crying right now. Gosh, I better get to work, don't want him to change his mind right away. Okay, I think I might be able to survive at least to desert, then jump ship."
She smiled to herself and fixed her bang and walked out, a brand new smile on her face.
Temari walked by the table her younger brother was sitting at and he looked at her. What was he doing here of all places? Temari asked herself. She hurried into the kitchen to get the order for her table and when she came out Gaara was on his feet.
"Temari, what are you doing here?" he asked in a low whisper. Naruto looked up from his bowl of soup and stared at the two.
"I could be asking you the same thing," Temari whispered back.
"This is where you went hiding after that accident?" Gaara asked, looking serious.
"Look, I needed a job and I found a great one here. I don't want money or anything like that, I just want to be free from our stupid family name. No one knows me here in New York, so I want it stay that way."
She walked past him and he glared after her and returned to his seat. Tsuchi refilled his glass and walked off, watching Temari with cold eyes. The six waitresses were given two seconds to sit and take a breather and they hurried into the locker room, sitting on the benches.
"My goodness, these guys are very tense, the entire place is so quiet, even Mr. Uzumaki is very quiet, I am worried," Hinita said quietly, poking her fingers together.
"Yeah… at least I have an active table," Ino said, a little groan in her words.
"Mr. Lee keeps staring at you Sakura, I think he might like you," Tenten said, smiling and elbowing Sakura.
"Uh, are you talking about that weirdo with the thick eyebrows? He creeps me out!" Sakura said, staring at the ceiling.
"We better get back to work, or things could get worse then they already are," Tsuchi said, standing up and fixing her bandana.
"Yeah, let's go," Ino agreed, groaning still.
"Sorry about your table Ino," Sakura said, getting up.
"Not your fault. I don't think anyone else could handle those two, Mr. Nara though… I get a weird feeling that he's been staring at me this whole time. It's strange… whatever! I need to get to work, come on!" Ino said, leading the way with the plates she needed for the main course, the cooks cheering as they finished the many plates. Just another two hours…
-So, how do you like it so far? This is a very confusing piece, with different tables and things but to make things easier, I decided to do a quick table chart!
Table One: Sakura- Naruto and SasukeTable Five: Temari- Kakashi and Gai
Table Fourteen: Ino- Shikamaru and Choji
Table Nineteen: Tenten- Lee and Neji
Table Twenty-Seven: Hinita- Kiba, Shino, and Akamaru
Table Forty-Nine: Tsuchi- Gaara and Zaku
Does this confuse you still? It's easier with visuals, but I can't show you so try to use your imaginations. Sorry y'all. I got a chart, cause I'm a visual person, so this doesn't make sense to me either, but it's a lot of names, so this way, it's easier, BYE!
Hog OUT!