I really don't have much to say for this chapter. We are getting closer to the end! I wonder what will happen in the future for Naruto!

Anyway, hope you enjoy chapter 10!

Chapter 10: My Enemy

Sasori always seems to hide from me. At least it feels that way. Could it be that he's realized I have feelings for him and now he tries to avoid me? No, I don't think he's noticed that. He's smart, but when it comes to that sort of thing, I don't think he's very observant. Maybe I should go back over to Naruto's office. His secretary said he wasn't in yet. Maybe he's finally there, I should definitely go check.

Ah, Naruto, if only you could be more like Sasori. Cool, calm, collective. When you were younger, you definitely were cool. Even now, you are still very mesmerizing with how smart you are and how great of a doctor you are. Still, you just don't notice me, and although he slips through my fingers at times, Sasori still talks to me. Wait a minute, what am I saying? I gave up on liking Naruto already. I can't think about him like this. But I have to question myself. Do I really go to Naruto's office to find Sasori? Or is a part of me still hoping that the more I go to his office, one day he will notice me and finally take me as his? Nah, that can't be it. I go there to look for Sasori, point blank.

Good, the secretary says he's in. Maybe Sasori seen him come to work and followed him to his office. Or even if he isn't in here, maybe Naruto seen him as he was coming in. It doesn't hurt to ask. I knocked at the door. "Yes," Naruto answered. Oh Naruto, to be able to hear your voice makes the morning so much better...well that's only because I can't find Sasori. That's why, of course I'd rather hear Sasori's voice than anyone else's. I opened the door, "Good morning Naruto, I see you are finally here. I was wondering if you have seen Sasori this morning?" Before I could finish, I felt the presence of someone else in the room. Could it be Sasori? I looked over in the direction while finishing my statement, but it wasn't my objective. I could hear Naruto speaking to me, but I lost focus. I even forgot my reason for coming there. Who-who is this woman in Naruto's room? She's-she's gorgeous! Is this, is she the reason why Naruto ignores me? Why I'm nothing more than his childhood friend and now co-worker?

I couldn't take my eyes off of her. She has to be the reason why. Why else would he act the way he does towards me? She, this woman has entangled him in her web of love and now his eyes can only be fixated on her! She is my competition, she is my enemy! I despise this woman sitting on the couch in the office of the man who should be mine! She's...she's getting up, what is she doing?

"My name is Asami Minazuka. I'm Naruto's new personal assistant." That bitch! How dare she have the nerve to speak to me?! I wasn't speaking to her in the first place. I turned my eyes back at my intended party, "Well...that's surprising. I thought you didn't want to have a personal assistant, and such a pretty one at that." I hate this woman! Even while smiling, I can't conceal the jealousy and hatred I feel towards her! Even if she is just his personal assistant. She is too beautiful, and especially too busty to be around him! What man wouldn't go for her? Come to think of it...if Sasori sees her, what will he do? Will he ignore me just as Naruto has?

"Yes, Naruto has been very stressed out lately. I'm here to relieve some of that stress, no matter what I have to do. Isn't that right Naruto?" She's touching him! That whore of a woman is touching him! Naruto is mine, get your hands off of him! I-I mean, at least he should be mine, um, I want, no used to want him to be mine, but that's not the point! Don't touch him! She's here to relieve stress and will do anything, no matter what it is? Oh I'm sure she will. I looked over at Naruto who had an embarrassed look on his face and was talking. His lips were moving, but I didn't here anything he said. The only thing my ears were tuned in on was that woman for some odd reason. That's it, that explains it all. All of my suspicions, what she just said explains them all. Those two, they have to be dating, they just have to be.

She began to talk again, "Of course boss. It was nice to meet you, Doctor..."

"Doctor Yamanaka." She did that on purpose! I know she did! She remembers my name, she just wanted to get under my skin. We stood in our position, with a deadlock stare on each other. She was a true bitch, she could tell how I felt. She wanted to make me jealous! Damn her, I wasn't going to involve myself with this scene any longer. If those two wanted to be together, I was going to let them. Besides, I only came here for one reason, and one reason alone. I was looking for the true person I loved, I didn't even know why I was getting so upset.

"Anyway Naruto, I see that Sasori isn't here, and I really need to speak with him about an important matter, so I will be going now. Thanks for helping me."

"Your welcome Ino."

"Good-bye Doctor Yamanaka." She spoke to me again. I wasn't going to even speak to this woman. Smile and just continue to walk Ino, that is all you have to do. I walked back over to the maternity wing. I wanted to get as far away from those two as possible. "Man the nerve of those two," I exclaimed.

"What was that Doctor?"

There it was, the voice that I have been waiting for all morning. Sasori, he finally showed up. "Oh, it's nothing. I've been looking for you Doctor Sasori. I have a patient and I really need your advice on the situation. Could you please come with me?"

"Why of course Doctor Yamanaka, but let's be hasty. There are many things that need to be accomplished today as well," my charming young prince said with that bright smile of his. He is such a wonderful man. I don't even know why I would let something like that Minazuka woman get to me. This man is all I need to focus on...well besides my work of course.

"Of course Doctor, I will make sure to not waste too much of your time." I smiled while walking down the hall to the patients room that I needed advisement on. This was the moment I had been waiting for. Everything that had gone so wrong with this morning became irrelevant as I walked with this beautiful man.

"Doctor Sasori, it is right this wa-," before I could finish my statement, there was a scream coming from the nurses station. Ten Ten! Is she ok? Sasori and I both looked at each other and then rushed towards the shrieking noise. When we got there, I couldn't believe what I was seeing. There at the nurses station was Naruto, of course with that lecherous woman, and Ten Ten gazing at Naruto! Goggling him as if he was some piece of eye candy! Like he was Adonis himself! What was Ten Ten doing? I've never seen her look at Naruto like that. Maybe Sasori, but never Naruto! She knew how I felt about him. She knew that I was in love...I mean used to be in love with Naruto, so how could she? How could she betray me like this? Just then, more nurses began to run up to the blonde doctor, with that woman there to be his bodyguard.

"Ok ladies please. You can not all crowd around the Doctor like this! Please continue with your work, Doctor Uzumaki is a very busy man and does not have the time to speak with you ladies right now. If you'd like to write your names down in order, I can arrange certain times for you ladies to speak with the doctor one on one," the vixen said with a suspicious smile. Who did that woman think she was? Why would she even do something like that? Arranging times for them, is she crazy? Naruto is not some celebrity, she can't just auction off his time like that to these women! I could feel the jealousy and rage seeping out through every opening on my body.

"What is this," asked Doctor Sasori, "Seems interesting, I'm going to go take a closer look." Doctor Sasori began to walk over towards Naruto and...and that woman! No! This is what I feared! I didn't want those two to get anywhere near each other! There was no way I could stop him! Wait a minute..."Uh, Doctor, what about my patient?" There we go, there was no way a prestigious doctor like Sasori could turn his back on his work.

"Oh, yes that's right. Well Ino, I'm sure you can handle things on your own. You are a very intelligent woman. You really don't need my expertise right? Why don't you go and try to figure out the problem you are having, and if you really need my help later, then I will come and assist you. Besides, my interest in that has run out by now. It's time to move on right. Next interest," he said while walking towards Naruto and Asami. NO! The whole point of me saying that was for him to not go over there! Yet he is still heading over in that direction! My plan has failed. Well, if he's going over there, I'm going over there as well. If you can't beat them, join them right? And I'll make sure to watch that pushy personal assistant around my Sasori.

I followed Sasori over to the crowd surrounding Naruto. "Well look at what we have here! Naruto, you have become the playboy of the hospital huh," Sasori said jokingly. Naruto didn't answer him, well I should say he couldn't answer him because he was still pushing off the enormous amount of women crowding him.

"It's quite amazing isn't it. I've never seen anything like this. Is he always this popular," the arrogant woman said while walking over to Sasori.

I watched as the two made eye contact with each other...no!

"And you are," Sasori asked.

"Asami Minazuka, I'm Naruto's new personal assistant. And who might you be, handsome young Doctor?"

That, that woman just...she just! I can't believe she is that bold!

Sasori smiled, "Straight to the point, I like that. My name is Sasori. I am the head doctor of the maternity wing, and Doctor Yamanaka's mentor."

My mouth dropped! I-I can't believe he just said that to her! I knew it! I knew something like this was going to happen. I knew she was going to try and wrap her slutty hands around my Sasori! No, I can't let that happen! But what to do? The way she's looking at him is the same way those women are looking at Naruto, like she's the lioness and he's some juicy looking piece of meat ready to be pounced upon. "Uh Asami, shouldn't you help your boss out," I interrupted before they could get a conversation started.

"Well, he hasn't really asked for my help, not yet at least. And besides, Naruto is an adult, he can make his own decisions and handle his own problems. Maybe it was the cologne he used this morning. I told him not to use it, but he insisted. He said he just had to use it to make a certain someone notice him."

"A certain someone, who?" Why did I just ask that, why do I care. I don't care who he wants to wear cologne for, not anymore.

"Um, I don't remember. You can ask him yourself though, it doesn't really have anything to do with me. Besides, I'm tired of dealing with this situation. I wrote down the names of these women and for some reason, they just won't leave him alone. I told them they could meet with him one on one. Oh well, guess they can't wait. Anyways, I guess I will move on to the next thing on my list. I should get lunch for Naruto soon, 12 o'clock is approaching. Could you tell me where the lunch room is Doctor Sasori?"

Why did she just ask him, I'm standing here too! "I can-," but before I could finish, Sasori offered to take her to the lunch room himself because he was getting bored with the situation as well. What the hell is going on here! Am I invisible! He just forgot all about me! If he was bored with the situation, then he should have come with me to assist me with my patient! This, this whole situation is wrong, everything about today is wrong. Very well then, if he wants to wander off with a strange woman that he just met that's fine. He's not my boyfriend yet anyway, and besides, if he should happen to become my boyfriend one day I will have to trust him when he is around other women. But it's not him that I am worried about, it's that touchy, feely woman. Trust is the key to a good relationship though, and I trust Sasori. I want to know what woman Naruto is interested in with anyway.

Some how, I made my way through the crowd of women to get close enough to Naruto for him to be able to hear me, "Naruto, what's going on?"

"Oh, Ino it's you! Hello," Naruto smiled. I stared at him waiting for an answer to my question. Suddenly, I watched as that happy look on his face turned to disappointment.

"Naruto, are you ok?"

"Oh yes Ino...every...everything is fine. I-I really don't know what is-," Naruto just suddenly stopped in mid sentence. It seemed as if a dark cloud had just came over him as he hung his head obviously depressed about something. Why would he never talk to me? Was I the reason for him becoming depressed? Before he started talking to me, he was all smiles, but now he becomes depressed and doesn't even finish talking to me! Like, like I'm not important to him at all. This hurts, this hurts so bad. Every time I see him, every time I try to speak with him, he treats me the same, every time. I thought it didn't bother me as much anymore. I thought that if I loved Sasori, that I could forget about Naruto, but I was wrong. Sasori doesn't even look at me the same way I do him. All I am to him is a doctor that he took under his wing to mentor. I don't like this, not one bit. I don't like him having a beautiful personal assistant so close to him at all times, I don't like these women fondling him, I don't like being ignored by him, and I definitely don't like feeling like a nuisance to him. I just...I just want him to be with me, I want him to love me, pay more attention to me! I can't take this anymore!

"Naruto...you jerk," I mumbled under my breath as I turned away from him to walk away from the annoying crowd of people. Everyone was surrounding Naruto, everyone had his attention besides me. It's not like I didn't try to be near him, because I did. I would try to talk to him, say hi, everything! Yet no matter what I did, he never took any notice of it. He never took any notice of me. A tear rolled down my cheek as I continued to walk down the hall back to my patients room. If anything, at least I can bury my nose into my work. That's what I will do too.

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