-1On The Clock

"Wait Shikamaru!" Ino caught up with him.

"Yeah what is it?" Shika replied.

"You want me to start now?"

"Yeah. That was the point of me saying get to work."

"Don't I need a uniform or something?"

"Yeah but were really packed to go through all the formal shit. So just work in that you'll be fine, you will be working in the non smoking section of the restaurant. Now get to work before your first day is your last day." Shikamaru walked back to the front and began seating more people.

Ino decided to go to the kitchen and find a pen and pad. She walked into the kitchen and right at the door was a spot for waiters. It had aprons and a bin with pens and pads neatly arranged to begin each day. Ino put an apron on, grabbed a pen and a pad and went to the area she was working.

'Ok time to work. I hope I don't mess up.' Ino thought as she walked.

When she arrived at her section it was 12 different booths and there were only 2 waiters in that area. Ino was confused on what booths to work since Shikamaru just threw her into it. Ino decided to ask on of the waiters working in that area.

"Excuse me." Ino tapped on of the waiters on the shoulder.

"Oh hey. What do you need?" The waiter asked.

"Well I'm new here and Shikamaru didn't tell me which tables I'd be working so do you know?" Ino replied.

"Yeah he did the same to us. Just take the four booths in the back." The waiter pointed to her spot.

"Alright thank you."

"No problem." The waiter quickly made his way to the kitchen.

'Ok this should be easy' Ino thought as she made her way to the table. There was an old man and lady reading over the menu.

"Hi I'm Ino, I'll be your waiter today. What will you be having?" Ino asked in a polite tone.

"We'll have 2 of the breakfast combos with a water and ice tea." The Man replied.

"Ok is that all?" Ino asked as she finished writing the order.

"Yes Ma'am." The Lady replied.

"Your order will be ready in a few minutes."

"Ok thank you."

Ino went back into the kitchen to give the order to the chef.

'Now which chef do I give the order to?' Ino thought as she looked at all the chefs. She spotted Chouji cooking so she decided to give it to him.

"Hey Chouji." Ino said.

Chouji turned from the stove to see Ino.

"Oh hey Ino. I see you got the job. How you liking it so far?" Chouji asked.

"Good, all of the customers are nice. Its really fun." Ino replied.

"Do you know who I give my order to?" Ino handed the order to Chouji.

"Well you can give them to anyone of the Chefs that isn't too busy. I'll be able to take them."

"Really, Thanks Chouji I appreciate your help." Ino smiled.

"No problem. Well we better get back to work."

"Yeah your right I still got orders to fill." Ino ran out of the kitchen and back to her section.

'She's so beautiful. Maybe I should ask her out after work.' Chouji thought as he watched her leave.

"Chouji what are you doing! Your burning the food!" Kiba yelled.

Chouji was knocked from his thoughts to see a small flame coming from the stove.

"I got it! I got it!" Chouji replied as he managed to make the flame go down.

"You should pay attention to your work." Naruto said.

"I'm doing my job, you guys do yours alright." Chouji said as he finished.

"Order Up!" Chouji said as he sat the food on the counter.

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It was finally break time and Naruto and the guys were out back hanging out.

"Today has been hell. I wonder where Chouji is?" Kankuro asked.

"He's probably talking to that new waitress." Naruto replied.

"I think she's hot and nice too." Kiba said.
"You guys are idiots. How troublesome. That's the stripper from that club. I didn't really notice it until I really looked at her." Shikamaru told them.

"Well I'll be damn. Wait, why are you calling us idiots? You're the one who hired her." Kiba said.

"Well now we have to figure out how to get rid of her." Shikamaru replied.

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Inside, Chouji and Ino were sitting in a booth talking.

"So how have you been liking the place so far?" Chouji asked.

"It's been different. Its better than the strip club. It'll take some getting use to but I like it here." Ino smiled.

"What was it like working in the strip club?"

"One word: dirty." Ino smile faded.

"I didn't mean to bring it up. You don't have to talk about it if you don't want to."

"No it's ok I'm fine."

"That's good, you should come hang out with me and meet some of the people that work here."

"That should be fun. Lets go."

Chouji motioned Ino to follow him to the back. They went through the kitchen and made there way to the outside ally behind the restaurant. There Shikamaru and the others were hanging out.

"Hey guys." Chouji said.

"Hey Chouji how's it going?" Shikamaru replied.

"I been doing fine. Let me introduce you to our new waitress. This is Ino." Chouji announced.

"Hi." Ino waved.

"Ino this is Naruto, Kankuro, Kiba, and you should know Shikamaru."

"Hey." Naruto, Kankuro, and Kiba said in unison.

"You've been doing good your first day." Shikamaru said.

"Thank you I'm glad to be working here." Ino replied.

"So what did you use to do before you came here." Kiba asked.

"She was a waiter for a different restaurant. I had met her there and told her this place paid better than the other restaurant so she decided to come here." Chouji replied quickly.

"Yeah. Chouji and I had been talking about me coming here for a while so I finally decided to take him up on his offer." Ino added.

"Hmm. Well it's good to have you here." Naruto said.

"Thanks."

"Well breaks over time to get to work. Lets go monkeys." Kankuro said.

All of them walked in and began their jobs.

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The 3:00 rush was crazy for Ino. There were a lot of people constantly filling the booths. She thought she would never get a second to break.

'I'm glad I can stay on my feet in these heels for a long time. Being a stripper doesn't have all bad qualities.' Ino thought as she took the food to the booth.

"Here's your order. Enjoy." Ino said as she handed out the food.

"Thank you." the group replied.

Ino went back into the kitchen and to get the order for the next booth.

"Chouji is my other order ready?" Ino asked.

"Yeah almost." Chouji replied.

"There is a lot of people here now. What's going on?"

"It's a special we have going on, but you can only get it from 3 to 5 so it's constantly packed."

"As fast as I clean the tables, the faster people fills them up."

"Don't worry you'll get use to it." Chouji said as he handed Ino the food.

"Thanks Chouji." Ino smiled.

'She has such a beautiful smile.' Chouji thought as he looked into her eyes.

"No Problem." Chouji smiled back.

"Well here I go." Ino grabbed the plates and took them to the customers.

"Naruto come here." Kiba called.

"Yeah Kiba what is it? Hurry up I got get this food out." Naruto replied.

"Ino's gonna have a perfect day we can't let that happen. Trip her up the next time you see her walk by."

"Sure I can do that. I give this order to the customers now." Naruto walked out the kitchen going to serve the food.

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"I got a big order here Chouji." Ino said as she handed him the paper.

"Damn, alright it'll be ready in a minute." Chouji said as he turned around and began cooking.

'Here's my chance.' Naruto thought as he saw Ino giving Chouji the order.

A few minutes later, Ino was carrying two trays of food both heavily filled with food. Ino manage to make it to the kitchen door.

'I think I'm doing good so far.' Ino thought as she carried the food.

At that point Naruto walked past Ino bumping Ino with his shoulder. Ino fell back and a big crash echo through the restaurant all the people stop to look and see what had happened, food and glass was scattered everywhere.

"I'm sorry Ino are you okay?" Naruto asked in the back of his mind laughing at the mess he had caused.

"I'm fine Naruto thanks for helping me." Ino replied.

'that was intentional, it wasn't no accident.' Ino thought as she brushed herself off.

"I guess I should watch where I'm going."

"It's okay, it's not your fault." Ino smiled.

"You go ahead I'll clean this mess up." Naruto smiled back.

"Ok thanks." Ino walked back to the kitchen.

"Whore." Naruto said under his breath.

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"Whew, I'm glad it's closing time. What about you Ino?" Chouji asked.

"Yeah I want to get home. My feet are killing me." Ino replied.

"Yeah that'll happen." Chouji laughed.

"Well I'll be going. See you." Ino waved and proceeded to the door.

"Yeah……Bye." Chouji began going back to the kitchen

'Stupid walk with her to her car. Go. Go. Go.' Chouji thoughts were ordering him to pursue Ino.

"Hey Ino can I walk your car,-I mean can I walk you to your car?" Chouji asked.

"sure." Ino laughed.

Chouji held the door for Ino.

"So do you like this job?" Chouji asked.

"Yeah. I mean it kills my feet more than the stripper stage did, but it's a clean start." Ino replied.

"That's nice."

"Chouji I want to thank you."

"For what?" Chouji had a confused look on his face.

"For covering for me when they asked what I use to do. You didn't have to." Ino smiled.

"Well no one has to know about your past except you. You can keep it to yourself, its no ones place to know about your business."

"Your too sweet." Ino smiled.

"Well here's your car."

"Yeah. Well I guess I'll see you tomorrow."

"Yeah see you." Chouji began walking back to the restaurant.

'Dummy ask her out, do it, do it, do it!' Chouji thoughts screamed at him.

"Uh Ino?" Chouji said nervously.

"Yeah what is it?" Ino asked.

"I-I was wondering if you wasn't busy……on Saturday……… maybe me and you could…. do something?"

"Sure I would love to. Here's my number just call me we can talk about it." Ino wrote her number on his hand.

"Right…….I'll call." Chouji said.

"Alright then bye." Ino got in her car.

"Bye." Chouji began walking back to the restaurant.

'I did it…..I was able to ask her out.' Chouji smiled as he looked as his hand.

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"You made that bitch have a big mess good going." Kiba said as he high 5ed Naruto.

"Yeah but that isn't gonna get her fired." Kankuro told them.

"We have to think of something that will get her fired." Shikamaru said.

"It can't be that hard we just have to think." Naruto replied.

"Don't worry we have more than enough time to get that whore fired and away from our friend." Kiba said.

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A/N: Well that's chapter 6. I'll have 7 and 8 up soon and the next chapter of Untold Desires. I'm also working on a Yuri and a Anko/Gai short story. So be sure to look out for that. Please Review

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