So here's the second chapter, which mostly focuses on Naruto. Drop a review and let me know what you think :) Oh and btw Sakura is a good person in this, not a huge fan of Sakura bashing haha
Naruto was quite upset. He was already running late for work when he bumped into some jerk who didn't realize sidewalks were meant to be shared, so now he was going to be even later. Sakura was going to have his head on a silver platter. His sketches for the Yamanaka's billboard design could have gotten dirty as well, which would have been a disaster considering he had a meeting with them a little one. If more than one of them was stained in any way, there would be no time for Naruto to redo them and the Yamanaka's daughter was extremely critical.
He was always late, which made Sakura nervous enough to take her anger out on him. She had been his best friend for as long as he can remember, so she knew better than anyone why he needed to be on time. In an ideal setting, Naruto should arrive to his office, go straight to his office on the ninth floor, and have the doors to his personal studio closed before any client entered the building. He was not supposed to be seen by the clients. Sakura handled all the communications for him and he just did the artwork.
Naruto ran a small company that designed and rented out billboards for most of Konoha and the surrounding suburbs. It was called Kitsune because instead of signing his name to his designs, he simply did a petite drawing of a fox in the bottom left corner. Kitsune only employed twenty people, most of them being workers who maintained and updated the billboards. His main employees were Sakura, Gaara, Temari and Kankuro.
Sakura was in charge of everything in the company, even though technically Naruto was the boss. Gaara was an ex-con Naruto befriended one day that controlled his security. The company had its own floor in the office building which provided its own security but Naruto required the extra protection. Kitsune also employed Temari, Gaara's sibling. She worked as Sakura's assistant by setting up appointments, ordering supplies for the company and Naruto and any other menial task Sakura was too busy to handle. The plus side to having Temari working for Sakura was that she was a weapons and hand-to-hand combat expert who normally had no less than five deadly weapons on her person at any time. Kankuro wasn't in the office much because he was in charge of the work crews and was normally on site with them.
Naruto was two blocks away and only twenty minutes late, so he figured he was practically on time. He just doubted Sakura-chan would see it that way. When his emerald office building was finally in sight, Naruto just had to sigh in relief. He hated these open streets but he knew they were necessary considering he hated cars twenty times more. The building was reached, and Naruto pulled the hood of his orange sweatshirt up, letting the lip of the hood hang over his eyes. Keeping his head down, he moved over to the stairs and started up them. He only climbed up to the fourth floor before exiting the stairwell and taking the elevator the rest of the way to his floor. Gaara, head of security, was not a fan of the easily hacked into cameras pointed at the elevators on the first through third floors. They stopped after the third floor because the rest of the building housed less-important businesses.
His back was getting more and more tensed up as the elevator climbed. He knew he was in for a bruise when he arrived courtesy of Sakura. His little incident where he dropped the Yamanaka sketches was almost forgotten in light of his imminent pain. He really wished the elevator would just get stuck so he would have a valid excuse to be late. The elevator dinged his floor and the doors opened in slow motion to reveal a rather angry, intimidating person for someone barely 5'3. Naruto took off running.
"Eep!" He squeaked as he tried to avoid her powerful fist. "It's not my fault Sakura-chan!" She was chasing him around the room as he swerved back and forth. "Someone knocked into me and made me drop my sketches! I was gonna be on time for sure, I promise." Sakura stopped in her tracks.
"The sketches? Let me see them, now!" She demanded, holding her dainty little hand out. Naruto warily handed the papers he had put back into their folder on the walk to the building over to her. She snatched the plastic folder out of his slightly shaking hands before carefully examining them. "You are so lucky these are still perfect. Now go to your studio, I don't want to see you for at least five hours." She glared at him with a look that dared him to resist.
He pouted for a few second until he accepted that she was immune to his charms after so many years of putting up with him. Naruto turned on his heel and huffed "Fine!" before exiting the main office.
The studio where Naruto worked was large, the second largest area in the company's office. One wall was completely glass, the floor to ceiling green window giving the room a slight green tint. At Gaara's and Sakura's insistence the glass was also bulletproof. In the few places where the walls were visible, it was plain white. It was difficult to find places where the wall peeked out because they were completely coated with his favorite, personal pieces and photographs of his important people. Sakura was in almost every single shot. In the center of the room there was a large art desk that was incredibly disorganized except for the folders placed neatly on top of all the chaos.
Naruto sighed in his head as he thought about all the work he was going to have to do. He figured he might as well start as soon as possible so he quickly located the remote for his personal sound system to turn on some inspiring music. The top file was for popular dog breeder and kennel owner, Kiba Inuzuka. He grabbed some paper and started to doodle some puppies till he got a better idea.
Naruto worked solidly for a little over three hours before he heard a loud crash coming from the main room. It broke him out of his drawing trance and made his heart start beating with fear. As he slowly got up from his chair and moved to the door he tried to tell himself that it was nothing. He startled as another loud noise met his ears right before he touched the doorknob.
He slowly opened the door an inch wide, what he saw shocked him. Sakura and Temari were fighting a tall man with a spiky hair who had some serious skill, seeing as he was gaining the upper hand against two great fighters. Gaara was engaged in a battle with a man with his long hair in a ponytail, except they looked equally matched. As Sakura cried out in pain from a hit to her side, Naruto jumped in to protect her. He was so completely focused on his fight with this bored looking stranger that he barely took note when Temari fell to the ground and Sakura stopped fighting to take care of her. Nor did he notice that Gaara lost his fight when the other man fired at him.
Naruto did notice when these two beaten up men who were apparently superb fighters got on either side of him. In an instant, he calculated that he would have to escape because he knew there was no way he could best these men who fought against his friends so well. His attackers saw the look of flight in his expressive blue eyes and decided now would be the best time to put the final part of their plan into action.
"Naruto Uzumaki, how troublesome this has been." One of the men drawled in a lazy way, while the other man pulled out a gun. The men observed how their target's eyes widened in fear before one of them pulled the trigger.
The last thing Naruto Uzumaki saw before was the only people in the world who cared about him lying on the ground before fading out of consciousness because of the dart embedded in his neck.
So yeah they didn't meet yet, but I promise they will next chapter! The better the reviews the better the Sasunaru will be FYI!