AN: Hey guys! I'm back and I just came back from holiday! I'm all hyper about a conjoint ficcie that I'll be working on in the autumn with Kaye. Some of you guys know Kaye as the person who made '20 ways to annoy Gaara'

Anyways, sorry for the really late upload but I've been ill again and stuff keeps popping up everywhere. I'll do my best to update and finish Chance as quick as I can since I lack that little bit of writer's will to update.

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Chapter 9: Storm

The walls seemed to shift back slightly back to its normal as he squinted his eyes; it felt like his world was a giant Merry go round. The lights blinked and he clutched the sofa he just awoke from for balance. He felt weak to even have to lean on something for support and sighed.

'This is the last time I drink funny smelling coffee…'

Gathering the strands of strength left in him he limped over to his desk to get the documents against the Uchiha's case. He grunted in memory of the Uchiha as he looked over the documents one more time.

'No doubts about who's responsible here …'

He smirked; it would take a lot more than a cup of bad coffee to keep Sabaku no Gaara down. He had much stronger doses of drugs and poison that never even affected him. Before he even thought about taking over the business he had been living in conditions 1000 times worse than what he has now. In the eyes of all his father's associates he was a well fed and mannered boy that would one day help his father with his business. They never knew of how much he and his siblings had suffered under their father's tyranny; the days where they were thrown out like dogs.

After a several minutes of thinking and resting the red head strolled down the hallway towards the conference room, a small buzzing noise came from his pocket. Juggling between the files he flipped out his phone and answered.

"Sabaku no Gaara spea-"

"Oi Gaa-chan, no time for introductions now. We're moving the conference to the 3rd floor conference room. Seems like our guests insisted we see them there. Get your butt here now, they just arrived-" The call was suddenly cut as he fired curses at his secretary.

"Damn woman talks too much…" He slipped his phone back into his pocket as he headed towards the silver lifts on the end of the wide hallway, his arms full of documents as he cursed his secretary once more for leaving all the documents on his desk and forcing him to carry them up to the 3rd floor knowing that the 3rd floor was especially busy and he could easily be pushed over along with the mountain of paperwork with him.

Finding it rather hard to push the small button going up with his fingers he finally gave up and tried to even push it with his elbow, his non-existent eyebrows were furrowed and he made a slight frown. He was going to be late if he continued with this nonsense. Taking a deep breath he pushed open the fire alarm door and ran at full speed up 3 flights of stairs, the fire alarm going off while he sprinted with a mountain full of paperwork the wobbled in his arms as he out of the 3rd floor fire escape, almost collapsing as he glared at the silver lift that just opened to reveal his secretary along with the guests.

He never noticed the bin that was innocently placed in front of him.

'Damn… Why couldn't anyone had done this instead of me?' She pleaded and begged as she slowly made her way towards the waiting lounge on the Ground floor. Daisuke went off to look for Gaara even though she had assured that he was fine, leaving Sakura to welcome the one person she would hate to see again. She sighed and glanced outside the window.

'He never fails to be over-dramatic…' She snorted before glancing away from the white limo that stopped in front of the door.

The silver handles of the car rotated slowly as the figures emerged from their seats; shiny black shoes reflected the early sunrays. 4 figures stepped out of the white limo, clad in full black, a single long white tie on their neck, the leader came out with sunglasses and a small silver chain with a bullet in the centre; his hair spiked as usual the way it was the last time she saw him, she looked at the clock with anxiously.

'God save me…'

Silently she fished out her small phone from the pockets of her jacket and speed dialled 19. After several rings he picked up:

"Sabaku no Gaara spea-" She was almost fuming with anger, her ex boyfriend was outside the door about to come in and take over the company and her red head boss was still this calm? She was on her last nerve with him.

After a few quick words with him she hung up on him, her eyes returned to the dark haired man in black as he took off his shades to look at her. She winced and slowly walked over to him. Seeing him after so long still haunted her, his black eyes the same from years ago. Those two weeks she had spent as his girlfriend seemed so long, so dreamy and yet… it all burst into flames.

Snapping out of her memories quickly she strolled down casually towards him and the 3 men behind him. He looked bored and tired as he clicked his fingers, 2 of the men opened the doors for him and the other carried the documents. She dared herself to take another step closer to him, her fingers shaking ever so slightly as she took her hand out of her jacket pocket and offered it to him.

"Haruno Sakura, Sabaku no Gaara's Secretary. Good Morning and welcome to Suna Electronics. If you would like to follow me to the lifts I can escort you to the conference room for the meeting." She managed to keep her voice as normal as possible, she focused on his left shoulder as she didn't dare to look at him directly. It was already too much just to see him again. Talking directly to him might just be too much for her.

He shook her hand gently and lingered slightly causing her to withdraw her hand quickly. Her breath quickened as she felt his gaze on her.

"Sakura, you don't seem to be happy to see me again…" He trailed off as she shuffled slightly. She didn't reply but led them to the lift as she pressed the up button, after several seconds the lift doors opened and she led them in. He continued to glance at her as they entered the lift; his gaze had her on edge. Something she hadn't felt in years. Taking forced breaths she counted each second that went as they waited for the lift to arrive on the 3rd floor.

It's rude to stare.

She thought as she looked at the silver lift door, through the reflection of the polished doors she could make out his tall figure looming over her with a blank look, his eyes fixed onto the back of her head. Cautiously she looked slightly above his shoulder, her eyes glancing at his before he looked ahead at the reflection and caught her staring and smirked at her before the lifts door opened; his ex girlfriend stepping out quickly. Replacing the slight smirk Sasuke walked out, the hectic offices just outside the lifts seemed to quieten down as Sakura walked out with the 4 men. At the exact same time a loud bang was heard as a pile of paperwork emerged from the fire exit, the figure holding the paperwork almost tripped over the bin next to the fire exit and set off the sprinklers with one swift motion. The whole hallway of people were silent for a split second before almost all of them dropping on the floor, the automatic sprinklers had gone off after the fire alarm went off, Sakura's co-workers had retreated back to their office space and several giggles were heard from underneath the wooden desks.

Fuming and dropping the documents in the small flood that had gathered by his feet he glared at Sakura who was half shocked and half rolling on the floor laughing. His flame coloured hair seemed to darken in colour as he stood directly beneath a sprinkler, he grunted and took a deep breathe before walking over to Sasuke, who held a look of bemusement at the scene.

"Welcome to Suna Corporation Uchiha-san."

"Haruno-san, please show Uchiha-san the way to the private toilets for us to sort this mess and while you're at go and sort yourself out as well. You looked soaked." He murmured as he barked at a few people that watch the sprinklers spray him with more water, his suit soggy and his hair a mess.

Without another word he stormed off, taking his phone out of his pocket and walked into the meeting room, his eyes lingered on his secretary who looked away from Sasuke and walked on ahead towards the toilets.

He punched some numbers on his phone quickly, knowing Daisuke would be sorting out the files in his office he waited for the man to pick up. His anger grew as no-one picked up and called Temari who picked up the phone after 5 rings.

"Temari, bring my spare suit from my office to the 3rd floor meeting room. The one I'm wearing got ruined. The Uchiha is tidying himself up in the private toilets with Sakura and they'll be here soon. Get here NOW."

"Ok, I found your spare suit in the bathroom but… errr… you need to borrow another tie. It's gone a really bright shade of-" She was cut off by Gaara:

"I don't care what the hell the colour of the tie is just bring the God damn suit up here now." With that he ended the call and paced around the room. Within 2 minutes there was a knock on the door and Temari emerged from the door, holding a black suit with a non-matching pink tie which lay on top of the pile, its shade beyond bright and almost neon pink.

He was silent and sensing that it would be dangerous to stay any longer his sister retreated outside of the room and quickly ran back to her office on LG (lower ground floor).

Meanwhile, Sakura had reached the private toilets on the 3rd floor and silently pointed to the gentlemen's toilet before quickly going into the ladies. Her hair was dripping wet and her blouse was half wet, quickly she moved towards the hand dryer, attempting to dry her jacket. She didn't mean for Gaara to run up the fire exit and set the sprinklers off, in fact she hadn't planned ANYTHING against him ever since that time he had bandaged her hand. She had almost felt pity on him as the sprinklers seemed to have soaked him completely while she just got out of the lift and was sprayed by one on the left while Sasuke was sprayed on her right. She giggled, both Gaara and Sasuke had a full blast of it since they were right under a sprinkler and both were sulking in the small miniature flood.

Her dripping wet hair was dried off after several minutes of drying under the hand dryer and as she finished fixing her hair she switched the dryer off with a flick of the plug. The small bathroom was silent until she went to open the door to exit she felt a small breeze above her head, sending shivers up her spine. Stopping to investigate she found a small air vent that was located on top of the sinks in the corner; she carefully climbed up and gasped when she heard noises coming from it. Both toilets were connected by wall that was less than half a meter thick and the small vent that was on top of the sink amplified the conversations in the toilets.

"Have you got it?" A voice asked, his deep voice was clear to Sakura, swallowing all her guts and pride she found herself temped to listen to them.

I really shouldn't be doing this… She thought as she leant closer to the vent to hear what was going on.

"Uchiha-sama, the document is here. It was made to the highest perfection to be as real as it can be." Another voice added into the conversation.

What is going on here? She thought as she tried to peer through the gap of the vents.

"Hn." The pink haired woman rolled her eyes.

I guess not much has changed in your lack of dialogue Sasuke…

"I assure you Uchiha-sama, nothing will go wrong. The documents are dry and the fake is safe in the pile for Sabaku to sign, there's only one small detail different in there you requested on the document and it's fitted in on the fake as you asked sir" The first man said and the room was silent.

Quickly Sakura climbed off the sinks, landing on her feet softly to avoid any of her shoes clattering. Something was planning and by the sounds of it the documents that were meant to be signed and looked over today was tampered with on his orders. Clutching her dried jacket she waited for them to exit and several seconds later she heard a knock on the door and flinched.

"Sakura, we're ready to go." Quickly, gathering her things she sighed as she opened the door.

Let's just say this is to pay you back for bandaging my hand last time Gaa-chan…

Sulking as he put the tie around him, making it neat as possible on his neck he ran his fingers through his short crimson hair. His hair was still slightly wet and he cursed his secretary again for making him run up those stairs. Thanks to her he was made a fool out of in front of his enemy and his workers. His grunted as a knock was heard and he pulled his blazer from the hanger and flung it over his shoulder.

It's gonna be a long day…

It was beyond awkward.

She was standing on the side of the desk, her boss on her left hand side and her ex boyfriend on her right. They had entered the meeting at the same time, taking their respected seats and Sasuke's men behind him staring aimlessly and silent. The two males on both sides of her were silent as well; the glaring contest seemed to last on eons until she had herself convinced that they won't get anything done if they continued this way. Giving both males a quick glance she caught Sasuke telling the men behind him to exit for now. They followed silently and the door clicked shut as the silence was broken for a second.

"Gaara-sama, Uchiha-sama would you like some coffee?" She offered as she kept herself as calm as possible. Sitting ever so close to her were the two men that were still silently glaring at each other like there was no tomorrow as they silently made truce and had a coffee each.

"Uchiha, I don't want to waste time. What do you want instead of trying to take over Suna? You don't have power to wipe us out completely. You know that" Gaara started as he leaned back on his chair, his hand absently running through his short red hair.

"Just a few shares of your company. Nothing much. Nothing you can't afford Sabaku." He glanced in the window direction looking out beyond to the skyscrapers that cowered under Suna Electronics.

Suna Corporation was a major industry, they specialised in the electronics department which concentrated on Robotic engineering and had many ideas for the future. The ability to look ahead at around 20 years was not only a valuable detail in their line of work but it made them prosper in the industry. His own line of industry specialised in Medicine and was making enough money to be considered as a would-be rival for Suna after the other leading corporation such as Konoha and Iwa. With some shares in Suna he could decide to take it over some other time as well as make money if he were to sell it on the stock market. It was a win-win situation. He had other things planned as well…

AN: Oh noes!!! What has evil Sasuke-san planned for Gaa-chan and Sakura? Lol, find out in the next chapter of Chance! I've just started school again and its gonna be another busy year TT

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