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Thanks to everyone that reviewed, I'll try to keep this story going. At this point I don't know how many chapters it will be, but it wont be super long or super short either.
"Naruto! Thank Kami you called I was getting ready to…."
"Mother, I fucked up." Naruto cut his mother off.
"Oh Honey, what happened." His mothers soft voice came through the phone.
"I'm… I'm p...pregnant." The blond shuttered.
"Oh, my baby." She hushed before asking, "Have you told the Alpha?"
"It…. It happened during my heat, so I don't know who it was." Naruto lied. "Can I come stay with you and dad for a bit?" He asked.
"Of course, when did you want to come over?"
Taking a deep breath Naruto collected himself, "I'll call you next week with more details."
"Okay, did you need anything in the meantime?" She asked.
"No, I just…. I just need to….. Think." He swallowed hard.
"Of course you do. Call me when you're ready."
"Thanks mother." Naruto sighed, "I'll call you later."
With that Naruto hung up, a feeling of numbness washing over him as he sat and stared at the wall. "I can do this." He said to himself, running his hands through his hair. "I'll just treat it like a project….. Yeah…. A project…. I can do this." he nodded to himself.
With a final nod the blond got up, be it a bit shakily and walked over to his desk, turning his laptop on. He quickly researched Omega pregnancy and learnt as much as he could before quickly looking over his work contract, after that he started to formulate his plan.
He had until week twelve before his scent would change and he would start to show through his clothes. If his calculations were correct he was somewhere in week four to five. He had one month - to be on the safe side - to organize everything.
His contract stated that he needed to give a minimum two weeks notice before he could resign, but in a subsection he found that if his work was at least a month in advance - giving the company time to replace him - he could give his notice and leave the same day.
So all in all he had one month to prepare two months of advanced work.
Could he do it…. Who knows…..
Would he do it….. Yes, yes he would. No matter what…. he had to.
After taking note of the time Naruto showered, dressed and went to work. He was quick to round up the next couple of months worth of projects and spent his lunch break making himself a timeline of when each one was needed and when he needed to have them done by, to be able to leave on time.
It was after ten that night when Naruto finally left the office, his new personal project schedule was ready and tomorrow he would start to action it. He just hoped no one else would notice what he was doing.
To his luck over the course of the next month no one noticed his workload increase or how much effort and time was spent at the office - not even his friends noticed anything ascue - granted his friends were constantly being given other work by Sasuke and what was worse the raven seemed to be visiting him more and more often which was a constant interruption on it's own, but even he didn't seem to notice the blond overworking himself.
It was finally his last night at work and he was exhausted. He had just sent off the last bit of assignments making his department two whole months ahead of its work, which was more than the minimum requirement. The meetings for the next two months were all scheduled, their design presentations ready to go. All the projects needed in the immediate future had his seal of approval on them and any minor jobs still left for his team to complete had detailed explanations and instructions with them.
With a sigh he hit send on his resignation letter and turned off his computer for the last time. After stretching he gathered the last of his personal effects - he had been slowly taking them home over the course of the month so as not to arouse suspicion - and made his way to the elevator.
At the sound of the doors opening he sighed when his eyes met the absolute last person on Kami's given earth he wanted to see….. Sasuke.
"Chief Uchiha." Naruto greeted politely.
"Need me to help you with your heat again or will any Alpha do?" Sasuke asked slyly.
Naruto was far too exhausted to actually argue with the teme, "What I need in my personal life is of no concern to you Uchiha." He sighed.
"Oh really?" Sasuke growled.
"Yes, now if you don't mind I have a big day tomorrow and need to get home."
Sasuke reached out, placing his hand in front of the blond, against the wall, effectively boxing Naruto in. "Are you sure you don't need help? You must be doubling up on your suppressants since you didn't take any time off last month for your heat. You know that skipping too many heats will make you feel like hell when it finally comes."
"Thank you oh gracious Alpha for that biology lesson. But as I said, it's none of your business." Naruto growled while looking directly at the raven Alpha. The elevator doors opened and Naruto pushed Sasuke aside, "If you'll excuse me I need to go."
Sasuke grabbed his wrist before he could leave the elevator and yanked him back in, making him crash into the raven's chest.
"What the hell Teme?!" Naruto practically screamed as the doors slid shut and Sasuke wrapped his arms around the blond turning them so Naruto's back was against the elevators wall.
"You smell good." Sasuke growled as he lent in and rubbed his face into the blonds neck. Naruto's heart began to pound in his chest. "You smell like….. mine…." Sasuke swallowed, "I can't get you out of my head! I have to constantly make up excuses to go see you, to smell you, to make sure no other Alpha is near you!"
'So that's why most of my friends were suddenly always busy elsewhere…' Naruto thought. Looking at the Alpha in the elevator's reflection he realized this was bad… "Let me go Uchiha." Naruto growled.
"Say my name." Sasuke growled back.
Swallowing, Naruto inhaled and weakly said, "Let me go….. Sasuke." His inner Omega was purring, it recognized the Alpha as the father of his child and somehow Sasuke was instinctively recognizing it too and reacting as such to Naruto's pregnancy.
The doors slid open and Naruto could hear someone gasp, "Sorry."
In that moment Sasuke seemed to vaguely regain his senses and it was enough for the blond to push the raven away and make his escape. He ran out of the building and down the street towards the hotel he was staying at. He just had to get through this last night, then he could start anew.
Breathing deeply he calmed his nerves and calmly walked into the hotel, taking the elevator up to his room. After taking a warm shower and eating something from room service he crawled into bed and slept.
X~~x~~X~~x~~X
The door to Sasuke's office slammed open, "What is the meaning of this?" his brother growled.
Sighing Sasuke looked up from his work - not that he had been able to do much since this morning, his head felt clouded, like something was missing. "What did I do wrong now Aniki?"
"The company's top graphic designer, Naruto Namikazi has quit!?" Itachi growled as he slammed the door, walked over and threw the resignation letter on Sasuke's desk.
"What!?" Sasuke roared as he scooped up the letter and read it. "This can't be right, he can't just resign with no warning and leave us in the lurch!"
"He didn't" The older raven said oddly calmly, "All his and his team's work is two months ahead, he has even recommended a team restructure and internal promotions."
"I'll just have to go and sort this out with him." Sasuke said as he stood.
"His desk is already empty." Itachi sighed. "And when I went to personally ask him if the company had wronged him somehow, I found his apartment empty and then his landlord came and told me that he moved out a week ago."
Sasuke fell back into his chair. "He planned this."
"Have you noticed anything out of the ordinary?" Itachi asked. Sasuke shook his head. "Did you hear anyone say or do anything to him?" Sasuke thought about it and hastily shook his head. "Did you say or do something…?" Itachi finally asked, eyeing him knowingly.
"No." Sasuke shook his head again.
"So this isn't you in the elevator sexually harassing an employee?" Itachi growled as he slapped a picture of Sasuke and Naruto in the elevator from the previous Friday night on his desk. "How long have you been doing this?"
"I… I didn't mean to….." Sasuke said, running his hand through his hair frustratedly, "I don't know what's come over me of late."
"What do you mean?" The older raven asked more quietly, seeming to notice that something was wrong.
"I can't get him out of my head Tachi." Sasuke said as he lent his head down onto his arms on his desk.
"When did this start?" Itachi asked now full of concern, taking the seat opposite him.
Sasuke looked up at his brother and hesitated for a moment as he gathered his thoughts. "About two months ago." He admitted.
"What happened?" the older raven pushed.
Sasuke bit his lip as he looked away from his brother. "We had sex."
"You're not the type to just have casual sex especially with employee's. So I'll ask again, what happened?"
"He was in heat…. He sent me into a sudden Rut." Sasuke confessed taking a deep breath.
"Makes sense." Itachi hummed. "Wait, his file says he's a Beta, Beta's don't get heats."
Sasuke sighed, leaning back in his chair while looking up at the ceiling. "He lied. He's an Omega."
"Lying on an official document is punishable by dismissal." Itachi growled.
"And if he had put Omega on his original form he likely wouldn't have been hired to begin with."
"Of course he would have. He had amazing skills, even before he started here." Itachi concurred.
"No, he wouldn't have." Sasuke sighed. "Face it, no matter how good his resume was, Omega's are still looked down upon even in this day and age. HR wouldn't have hired him because they would have seen him as a liability."
Sasuke watched as realization hit his brother too like it had him.
"So that's it then?" Itachi asked. "We just let him go?"
"Did you call his cell?"
"Disconnected." Itachi said.
"He doesn't want to be found." Sasuke sighed looking up at the ceiling again. "I don't know why I attacked him last week, for some reason my inner Alpha felt like he was leaving and I guess he was right and tried to stop him but in the end I only chased him away faster."
"An Alpha - especially our inner Alpha - becomes protective over their mate's once found and can even sense things that we ourselves are unaware of." Itachi hummed.
"We weren't mates." Sasuke sighed.
"Neither of you gave it a chance."
"You don't date your employee's." Sasuke sighed again. "It's on the first page of the employee handbook."
"I know." Itachi said as he looked at his brother's deflated look.
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