"This is boring." I said, turning around to give a glance to my staff. They were like kids on a field trip. It was amazing how care free they could be. There was something worrying me today, The feelings I'd felt so strongly for Naruto had vanished. I was still left with some feelings, I'd describe it as lust. Never had Karin felt as good as Naruto did. I was never a stupid man, I knew fully well someone had poisoned me.
I then smiled tenderly at the blonde who was currently arguing with Sai. "Sasuke- is something wrong?" Karin asked. "Nothing is the matter." I lied smoothly, realizing my smile had turned into a displeased frown. "You intend to tell stories to me. What did that one do?" Karin nodded to Naruto. "Come closer." I knew I could trust Karin with anything, she loves trying to seduce me in bed and forcing me to impregnate her which never works but when it comes down to it she's the only person I trust here.
"I would like anything I eat or drink to be tested before I eat it. Someone in this house is trying to force me into something." I told my right hand woman in a low voice. "I see." Karin hesitated, thinking my sentence over carefully. She always tried to say the right thing around me, I'd noticed and that was one of the reasons I could never feel for her in a romantic sense. "So we should act normal yet investigate undercover?" She suggested, though more asking if those happened to be my thoughts on the matter.
"Yes. For now Naruto is clean, he seems as if he may be a target as well." I said, it didn't make sense if you truly thought into the matter but I could feel a ache in my heart at the thought of Naruto plotting against me. "I trust Kakashi as well." I added, the man had taught me just about everything I knew untill Orochimaru came along. "I would like to mention I distrust of Suigetsu." Karin was absolutely dying to give him the strap. "I don't trust or distrust him." Sasuke looked over at him. Naruto was on him, trying to give him a hug and Suigetsu looked thoroughly irritated. "I don't trust the pink haired rank 4, whoever the hell she is." I said, jealously corrupting my rationality. "Right. Is Juugo trusted too?" Karin asked, though already typing the man's name in her PDA. "He's clean." I knew for a fact Juugo would never betray me.
"Master Sasuke! They have our room." Sai turned his head, pale as ever. I had to wonder if Sai was trusted because he was too new or distrusted for that same reason. I really hate men, maybe I'll make him crossdress. "Okay." I waved the thought off for the noment as I walked into the hotel, my staff at my heels. Naruto then appeared beside me, "Sasuke teme can we talk?" He asked, trying to match his strides to mine. "Are we not talking right now?" I asked stiffly, I usually couldn't stand being around men but with him I didn't feel an intense hatred. But, that love wasn't there either. I just wanted him in my bed and that was as far as my emotions went.
"In private." Naruto lowered his voice a ways. What the hell could he need to talk to me in private about? He's been warming up to me lately, a confession? This isn't high school anymore does anybody even do that? I sighed, I'm going to the gift shop. I excused myself, walking off towards a sign that gave instructions to it. I soon could feel Naruto's presence beside me. "first floor." He said easily, obviously experienced with map reading. I will buy you something." I said, I couldn't explain why I wanted to spoil him like a cute little wife. But it's not love, I don't love another man. Maybe the poison has after effects or something similar.
"You make it appear like a date." Naruto laughed as we headed to a set of stairs, he glanced at my with a slight sparkle in those endless skies of blue. He closed his eyes, a sour expression riddling his face for only a second until he opened his eyes where the sparkle was gone. Is he fighting back something too? Not that I'm fighting back anything, I just lost it. If he wasn't poisoned, could he be honestly progressing in this relationship? Not that I even know what that is, it isn't as if I don't toy around with my staff but somehow I feel like we've gone farther than that. Shit, what have I been thinking, I'm his master and he is my maid there's no further relationship than that!
We arrived to the gift shop quickly, I had not realized we had arrived so very quickly. "So, Sasuke I, ah- Should I call you Master still?" He asked, he looked a tad distressed. "Sasuke is fine." I shrugged it off, him calling me Master would be strange. "That's what I want to talk about, I call you Sasuke and you are always fooling around with me. The first time we had... you did it to confirm your feelings then you proclaimed I would be your wife." Naruto shifted his weight on another leg. "Look, I do not love you and lying about that kind of thing is bad," Naruto looked me in the eye for the first time since the conversation began.
Why does it hurt? My chest feels unbearably tight. "But I like you, even if you're a baka teme." His unrelenting eye contact signaled he was waiting for my opinion. "I don't love you, I need to tell you something. Some people are plotting against me and-" I started but Naruto cut me off, "and they poisoned you? Stop making excuses." Naruto frowned at me. "I was poisoned. But that isn't the important part, it's dangerous for you to get too involved with me even more than my uncertainty containing my feelings." I said, "Besides the media would tear me apart for relations with you if they knew I liked you and sully the Uchiha name."
"So you like me?" Naruto simply picked out his favorite part of the sentence and zoomed in. I looked away, sighing. Inside my heart thudded in it's cage, trying to escape from its cell. "You're some commoner dobe, I should just fire you to get you out of my face," I then traced one of his whiskers with my finger, "You're adorable." Sasuke used that sane hand to stroke his face. "Another reason to hate the male species." I moved my face closer to his and I could feel him shiver underneath my gentle caresses.
"You're such an asshole." Naruto muttered, his face not at all matching his words. I held a soft smile on my face, loving how affectionate and innocent the man seemed. Sasuke you're in public. I shook myself to reality and released him at once. "Come to my room at midnight and we'll discuss this further. Now pick out something so we can have an excuse for being here." I straightened my face out.
Naruto only pouted for a second before running around the giftshop for five minutes pulling me around to look at things and how expensive they were and I would simply laugh, ruffling his hair and telling him that price was of no importance. He was like a kid in a candy store, wanting everything just because it was now available to him. In the end I'd gotten him a bear, mood ring, jacket, cup, candy bar and shirt. I got a teacup for myself, happy they had some.
"Uchiha-san?" A woman asked, wearing a crisp uniform and her hair in the style that just made you think 'receptionist'. "That is myself." I said, figuring Karin had sent her to find me. My suspicion was confirmed when she handed me a room key and directions on how to find it.
"Sasuke we are busy, what did you get anyways?" Karin blasted on at full force as soon as I entered the room. I pulled my tea cup out if the bag Naruto was holding and showed it to her "Tea cup. Now tell me we aren't playing sleepover." I said, noticing everyone was in my room."We were waiting for orders." Sai spoke out of turn and I grew a disgusted look on his face. "Was he not made aware of rules?" I asked, if it had of been a girl I'd of shown leniency but he was a man.
"I'll punish him immediately!" Karin piped up, going in a bag and pulling out the strap. Naruto's eyes widened, he was probably imagining how sore he'd be right now if he got in trouble for all the times he spoke out of turn around Sasuke or called him names. "Already?" Kiba's eyes spoke for him. Everybody looked so shocked and spoke to each other with their eyes, a language I noticed my pets learned.
"Leave it to Suigetsu, Karin I'd like to see their rooms." I wanted to assure Naruto I wouldn't let him get the strap but I didn't have the ability to express very much using just my face. Karin handed the tool to the cutting-obsessed man then linked her arm with my own, "Of course Sasuke-kun~" She sung. I noticed Naruto giving Karin a frightfully sour look before dismissing it to poke at the stiff and composed Neji.
"Yes, let's go then." I said and Karin begun walking, "Hinata and I will sleep here, together, alone." She said, making her words obviously pointed towards Neji who looked at me in return. "Please refrain from illicit actions as we have a reputation to uphold." I sighed. "Yes, of course. Now this is The room for Suigetsu and Juugo. Next directly across the hall is Neji and, the rest." Karin made it obvious on a daily basis that she highly stuck by the rank system. Though everyone does, it's a huge social factor.
"What needs to be done today again?" I asked, not in the mood to do a bunch of tedious tasks. "A few press conferences and speeches then a meeting with Nara, they're getting bigger lately and we're donating them a lab completed with Uchiha technology." Karin said, "Our first conference is approximately right now in the ballroom so if everyone could get dressed, WHERE THE FUCK IS SUIGETSU!?" Karin got highly irritated at being late.
"Karin quieter, unless we have decided to represent ourselves as a screamo group." I smirked. "I am sure you would be a much better fit for lead vocalist." Karin said and I snickered. "I am sure. Anyways are the male counterparts of my staff changing?" I asked, they always had on butler suits anyways. "Yes, everyone is including you. You need a bowtie now will SOMEBODY HANDLE THAT AND WHERE IS SUIGETSU!?" Karin begun to storm off just as Suigetsu appeared with Sai.
"I heard your calls my fair maiden. Though mating calls are best left to animals, wait you are one." Suigetsu cracked he was holding onto a rack of clothes on wheels, Karin quickly slapped him, the action not being unfamiliar. We are all in the animal kingdom, Karin just gets annoyed by him too easily. "Line up." Karin demanded. She handed each male a suit as they arrived to the front of the line. Hinata received a sparkling white and light purple dress and Karin moved her red and black dress to the side. Naruto was last in line and all of the outfits were gone, "What about me dattebayo!?" Naruto asked. "You, will wear that." I snapped and as we practiced Juugo materialized a orange ballroom dress that had black bows. The very front was cut off to mini-skirt length while the rest of the dress hit the floor in elegant ruffles.
"Why don't I get a suit." Naruto's eyebrow twitched. I went to the floor of the rack and held out a pair of black heels to him with my face probably replicating a cats (He means the :3 face) "Is it the color?" I asked just to tease him. "It's the fact it's a woman's outfit. I am clearly a male." His eyebrow twitched once more. I then pulled out a box from the floor of the rack. "Which is why I got hair extensions." I then handed the box and shoes to him.
A nice 10 minutes later, everyone was dressed. "Teme." Naruto mouthed to me. His hair was in two long but length ponytails that perfectly matched his blonde hair color and his bangs were changed to mirror a girl's. "Suigetsu will accompany Karin, Neji Hinata, Shikamaru will accompany Naruto and Kiba accompanies Sai." I stated, me being a bachelor was important for my image so I was going alone and Juugo simply served as body guard. Karin at some point had gotten a silk black dress for Sai.
The staff marched forward at the order of a extremely bossy Karin, Naruto hung back to fall in step with me. "Why am I not with you?" He asked, his innocent look being framed perfectly as his pigtails tilted to the side with his head, big blue eyes giving me an unconscious puppy dog look and his lips slightly parted. His entire body was on a mission to tear down my Uchiha will of steel. "Being a bachelor is good for my image and it would be just a pinch suspicious if I held you like the princess you are, Naruko." I spoke to him in a low voice, my tone huskier than intended.
"Don't call me that!" Naruto insisted. "I will, its your crossdressing name." I smirked at the seducingly pouty Naruto. I then put a arm in front of him to stop him from walking, when everyone else turned the corner I pushed him against a wall and slammed my hand into a patch of wall near his shoulder, trapping him. "Who's your seme now? My beautiful darling." I held his chin up with my fingers, a sly smile upon my fa ce.
