Drunk In Vegas

© by almondeyes97

Chapter 3

Hello my friends! Thank you all for your reviews and criticism! You can't imagine how much it helps me :D I really hope that you will like this story and I will do my best to make it very exciting for you! And I have no ******* idea how two companies emerge okay?! So please deal with my fantasies :D Because I am too lazy to do research on the internet on how two companies form a Corp. Well, let's go on with the story! Enjoy :)

When Sakura finished eating both of them stood up and went outside the hotel where a limousine was waiting for them to drive them to the meeting place.

Both of them were thinking the same thing.

The building itself was very impressive. It looked like it was only made with glass and also it made the impression that it is being cleaned every five minutes. It was at least 120 meters tall and Sakura could see that the building only made Naruto more nervous.

'It's funny', she thought. 'I don't recognize my stupid and arrogant boss again. It's like he is a totally different person...'

Both of them walked in and directly approached the reception.

The woman on the reception desk was talking on the phone and motioned them to wait for a bit until she finished her conversation. After she hung up the blonde woman looked at them and asked them what they needed.

"How may I help you?"

Naruto immediately answered her: "I have an appointment with Mr. Sabakuno today at 9.45 a.m."

The woman looked at him in a flirtatious way with her green eyes and checked the computer.

"Ah yes, I see...he is expecting you. If I may lead you the way?"

At saying that she motioned them to follow her and Sakura noticed her swaying her hips in an enticing way. She looked at Naruto and noticed him giving the woman a smirk and it somehow made Sakura a little bit angry.

'Why am I angry? Am I jealous? NO WAY! SAKURA GET A GRIP ON YOURSELF!' Sakura shook her head to get her thoughts straight and prepared herself for the meeting.

As Naruto and Sakura entered the hall the first thing Sakura noticed was a redhead with jade eyes. He looked very emotionless and cool and watched them attentively as they entered.

"Gaara! Mr. Namikaze is here for your meeting!" She totally ignored Sakura's presence and at saying 'Mr. Namikaze' the blonde looked at Naruto with half-lidded eyes in an attempt to look sexy, which would have made every man drool. But Naruto only smirked and looked at Gaara.

"Nice to meet you Mr. Sabakuno. This is my personal secretary Miss Haruno."

Sakura smiled at Gaara and bowed her head. She observed the people in the room. All of them seem to have deep respect for Gaara. She could see it in their eyes and in the way they act. Well, everybody except that blonde woman.

"Thank you Temari...you may leave now..." It was like Gaara could see Sakura's deep displeasure of her presence. She thanked him silently.

Temari gave Naruto one last look before she left the room with about twenty pairs of eyes belonging to men following her out.

After she left the twenty pairs of eyes went back to the two newcomers and observed them.

"Okay...Naruto Namikaze? You told me that you had an offer that would be of my interest...I am very curious about it..."

Naruto took a deep breath and started.

"Yes. I called you about a month ago with the request of having a business meeting with you. I have a very interesting proposition for you..."

"And that would be?"

A dark haired man interrupted Naruto. He had a grin on his face and unruly dark-brown hair. He was supporting his chin on his hands and his elbows were on the table.

"Shut up Kankurro and let him explain..." Gaara sounded kind of annoyed with him Sakura noticed.

Kankurro only grinned and directed his attention back to Naruto.

"Excuse my brother...he is the vice-president of this company and feels superior about it..."

Kankurro only rolled his eyes at Gaara and pouted a little, but didn't say anything again.

"Well as I was saying...I think it would be of great benefit for both the Sabakuno and the Namikaze Foundation if we would work together and form one Cooperation. We would still have separate names, but in case of an economical crisis we would be able to sustain each other and would not go into bankruptcy..."

Naruto was doing an excellent job in not looking nervous, but Sakura could see in his eyes that he was having very little faith in himself.

"Soo you mean that our Organizations should come together as one, but each still bear their own name? And the benefit would be that we would gain much more money?"

Gaara was looking at Naruto with calculating eyes and it was like he could see what he was thinking. Naruto must have noticed it because he felt like he was shrinking under Gaara's gaze.

Sakura wished she could do something for him, but she knew that this was something Naruto had to master on his own.

"You do realize that this is a very serious decision that I cannot make so fast, don't you?

"Yes of course", Naruto answered trying very hard to hide his nervousness and Sakura really felt sorry for him.

"Well then please meet up with us again tomorrow. By then I will have discussed it with my fellow company members about the matter and I will give you a precise decision."

"Thank you. It was a pleasure talking to you Mr. Sabakuno."

Gaara rose from his seat and walked towards Naruto. "It was nice having a talk with you too. Until tomorrow then."

Naruto shook Gaara's hand and walked out with Sakura who had been making notes all the time.

"You were great Mr. Namikaze really! I am sure that Mr. Sabakuno will agree to your proposition. I thought your speech was very convincing." Sakura was very impressed by Naruto's courage to say something like that in front of so many people, but after all he was the director of a company. It was his duty to be able to do such things.

"Thank you Sakura..."

Sakura looked at Naruto with a surprised look. He has never called her by her first name before and he also looked a little bit down.

Sakura sighed.

"Mr. Namikaze...what is wrong?"

Naruto looked at her with sad eyes, looked away and murmured something.

"Excuse me? I couldn't understand anything you said, could you please repeat yourself?" Sakura blinked.

"I said that I am sorry..."

"Sorry? Sorry for what?" Okay now Sakura was really confused.

"Sorry for being a total jerk to you the whole time. And here you are trying to comfort me. Why?"

To be honest, Sakura also didn't know why? She only knew that she didn't want to see her boss sad. But she couldn't tell him that, could she?

"Well...umm...I...ehh well I guess just don't want to cheer you up a little?"

Naruto looked at her and locked his eyes with hers. "You know...you are the first person to say that to me..."

Sakura was so surprised by what he said that she didn't even notice that they already arrived at the hotel. Naruto quickly got out of the limousine and went into the hotel, straight into his room.

'Well okay...I guess I'll just go to my room...' She didn't understand a thing. Did he like her? Noo...he was her boss...

For the whole day both of them stayed in their room and pondered over what happened. After a while they fell asleep and were waiting for the approaching new day.

The next day, both of them ate in silence and went to the Sabakuno Foundation to meet up with Gaara. They didn't say a word to each other except a "good morning".

Upon reaching there Naruto took a deep breath and went in. Temari was already expecting him as she went towards them and greeted them. Well, greeted Naruto. She swung her hips from one side to the other making every other man in the room getting a nosebleed except Naruto. He simply greeted her with a "hello" and asked her if Gaara was available. She simply nodded and showed them the way by walking ahead of them.

They didn't go to the hall they were the day before, but to Gaara's office which was as clean like the rest of the building. The walls were a shade of red matching his hair-color and his table only had a computer and some papers on it. Except that it was rather extremely empty. But there were some chairs and plants in the room.

As they entered Gaara rose from his chair he was sitting on and greeted them.

"Hello Mr. Namikaze. Nice meeting you again."

"It is also my pleasure Mr. Sabakuno."

"Well regarding what you said yesterday..."

You could see every muscle in Naruto's body tense up to what Gaara was going to say next. Sakura really hoped it would be positive.

"...my fellow members and I have come to the conclusion that it is a risk for our companies to emerge to one..."

Naruto's body tensed up even more, if that was even possible. Sakura was praying that Gaara agreed.

"...but considering the benefits that could come we decided that we agree to your proposition. I hope we can work together in union."

Naruto couldn't believe his ears. Did Gaara just agree? Was he dreaming? He was looking at Gaara like a total idiot and Sakura had to nudge him into his arm before he responded.

"Th-thank you! I am really happy that you agree."

Gaara smiled at him and shook his outstretched arm.

"I arranged a party in my private hotel for celebrating our working together for today evening. I hope you can attend. I would be very pleased."

Naruto who catched himself again nodded at Gaara and accepted his offer. Sakura was more than pleased that everything went so well. She hoped that this made the relationship between her and her boss a little bit better and that they could get along more better.

She was also relieved that she took a party dress along with her, so she wouldn't feel out of place at the party.

As she and Naruto exited the building, however it was like to past day never happened.

"Miss Haruno, I hope you will behave at the party. I will not tolerate your childish behavior in case you get drunk. Well, what am I saying? You would never get drunk. You are too scared of alcohol for that!" Naruto smirked as he looked at her with a superior face.

Sakura was boiling out of anger in her mind. Why was he acting like that towards her again? Did he forget the previous day? She just turned her back to him and got into the limousine that would drive them back to the hotel.

And again she was where she was at the beginning of this story.

Her boss was totally getting on her nerves at the moment.

Big time.

Well I tried to make this chapter a little bit longer. I hope you liked it! I tried to describe the things better than before and looked out for grammatical errors. I couldn't find any, but tell me in case I overlooked some! Thank you again for you reviews and may I ask you to please review and rate again? It would really mean a lot to me! Thank you for reading this chapter and I can tell you...the next chapter is going to be full of surprises ;) Well review and rate!

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