A/N: *sigh* Okay so I wanna write a new story but I don't know if I should… It's not cause I'm lazy I promise! It's just…. Well it's also based off another manga and I dunno. I already kinda feel like a plagiarist with You Are My Perfect Secretary, so I decided to let you, the readers, decide =D So there's a poll on my profile and I'll probably leave it up for three months (maybe. Still haven't decided) and after that time, the choice with the most votes wins. =] So anyways, enough of my indecisiveness, and on with the story ^___^
Warning: boy love, language, some OOC, and some blood play
Disclaimer: I DO NOT OWN NARUTO OR MIDNIGHT SECRETARY
"Talking"
"Thinking"
??? – Scene/Time Change
A/N: Oh yea, and I would like to thank everyone who reviewed! 100 reviews! That's amazing. You guys are amazing! Gah! I just wanna give everyone hugs, but uh… that might seem a little weird to have some random Asian girl you don't know come and give you a hug so instead I'll give you guys a virtual hug! =D *hug!* And thank you so much again! You guys are beyond amazing =] haha okay, I'm done gushing =]
On with the show!
Misunderstanding…
"… And that's how it all happen Aniki… I'm so sorry!" Sasuke apologized once his brother sat down on the living room sofa.
"It's fine little brother. I was going to go to a Christmas party anyways. But uh… what are you burning in our fire place?" Itachi inquired as he tried to peek around his little brother's blocking frame.
"Uh…" Sasuke answered while poking at the burning material trying to encourage it to burn faster. "Nothing?"
"I'm sure…" Itachi answered watching his brother suspiciously.
"That damned director!" Sasuke threw the metal pokey thingy (*) to the floor in frustration. "He's possibly the worst person I have ever had to work for."
"Ahh, but don't you feel sorry for him?" Itachi asked taking a sip of tea.
"What? Do you? You shouldn't. He shouldn't be such an ass during the holidays!" Sasuke replied glaring at the fire place and most likely the thing that was taking an awfully long time to burn. What was Sasuke burning anyways?
"I understand, but…" Itachi refocused his attention back onto his fuming little brother and threw a sofa pillow at Sasuke's head to get his attention as well. "Director Uzumaki says he despises Christmas, but he still makes you go to a Christmas party with him, you know… He's acting the part of a child… It's kind of cute if you ask me."
"Nope…" Sasuke answered after thinking it over a little. "He's not cute at all."
"But he has a point…" Sasuke mused as he took a seat next to his brother. "The director keeps saying how much he hates Christmas events… But I'm sure he's just dragging me along to annoy me." Sasuke reasoned as he felt a sudden wave of sleepiness.
Sasuke yawned. "I think I'm going to go to bed. Good night Aniki."
"Good night Sasuke," Itachi answered as he watched his little brother walk out of the living room and up the stairs.
After a good minute of listening to Sasuke's sluggish footsteps, Itachi sighed in relief when the sound of Sasuke's bedroom door shutting finally resounded in the house. Waiting a good three minutes, Itachi pushed himself off the comfortable sofa and looked through the living room doorframe. He looked upstairs and saw that Sasuke's door was firmly shut. A little smirk spread across Itachi's lips as he quietly walked over to the fireplace. He picked up the black, metal pokey thing that Sasuke had tossed to the floor and started to poke around in the fire place. Finally finding what he was looking for, Itachi flipped the thing Sasuke was burning over, so that he could get a better look at the object. When it flipped, Itachi couldn't stop the chuckle and slight disturbed feeling from surfacing. It was a voodoo doll that looked oddly similar to a certain blond director. Itachi could only shake his head and head up for bed as well. Though as he ascended the stairs, Itachi couldn't help but think one thing.
"Where did Sasuke get the blond hairs from?"
???
Sasuke was surprised to say the least. When he walked into work that morning, he was not expecting to find a very expensive-looking suit placed over his computer. Sasuke looked at the suit cautiously as he set his things down and hesitantly walked over to the very suspicious looking suit.
"It's a suit, Uchiha. Not a bomb."
Sasuke nearly died of a heart attack as he turned around to see his smirking boss looking very pleased. Sasuke glared at the smirking blond before turning back around to pick up the suit.
"Yes, I know what it is Director. But what is it doing here?" Sasuke asked as he picked the suit up by the hanger and handing it to Naruto.
"It's what you'll be wearing tonight of course," Naruto answered back grinning happily.
Sasuke looked from Naruto to the suit then back again. "This is not necessary."
"Yes, it is." The blond answered refusing to take the suit back. "You don't know how to dress properly."
"I know how to dress just fine," the secretary defended.
"Fine and properly are two very different things Uchiha," Naruto countered smirking smugly.
Sasuke looked at the suit again and wrinkled his nose in distaste. "… Fine… I'll try it on later…" The raven finally answered.
"Now. Bathroom's that way," Naruto gestured.
"The party isn't for another two hours," Sasuke said looking at Naruto as if he'd lost a few marbles.
"This is only one of the suits I want you to try on." The blond answered smoothly.
"What the hell do you mean only one?" Sasuke asked eyeing the director warily.
Naruto merely grinned foxily and walked away, motioning for Sasuke to follow. Sasuke arched an eyebrow and refused to move from his spot.
"Come on Uchiha. We don't have all day. You've still got seven suits to try on."
"Seven?" Sasuke asked dumbstruck.
"Yep. Come on, let's go," Naruto grinned again as he opened his private office's door.
Sasuke wanted to rip out his hair, but since he didn't feel like visiting the looney bin anytime soon, he decided to refrain. Sasuke sighed and followed after the blond director with clear intentions of strangling Naruto with a pant leg if given the opportunity.
Naruto smiled happily as he closed the door behind the sulking raven. Sasuke refused to look up, but after being nudged, more like punched, in the arm, Sasuke glared at the blond and looked around the spacious room. Sasuke couldn't help but gawk, but quickly recovered and settle for glaring at the smirking blond.
"It's official. My boss has finally gone mentally retarded and doesn't know how to count to ten anymore…"
???
Twenty-six suits. Not seven. Not ten. Not even fourteen. But twenty-fucking-six suits! Sasuke was on the verge of taking one of the many ties and strangling Naruto with it. For one and half hour all Sasuke did was try on suits and show them to Naruto. Seriously, the secretary didn't know that a suit could be made out of so many different materials and patterns. Whatever happened to the simple black and white suits, huh? But the thing that really pissed Sasuke off was that after the one and a half hour, Naruto ended up picking the first suit that Sasuke had tried on. Sasuke was seriously considering lacing Naruto's dinner with garlic.
"Ha! Take that you garlic-hating-religion-scared-blood-sucking-nocturnal son of a bitch!" Sasuke fumed as he stepped out of the black limo and pulled his large trench coat tighter around his body.
"Well, don't you look lovely," Naruto commented as he climbed out the limo as well.
Sasuke looked towards Naruto then down at himself. Sasuke reviewed his reflection in the car window and had to admit that he did indeed look very handsome tonight. Although the suit couldn't hide all of his feminine features, it did emphasize some of Sasuke's more masculine ones. It was a tailor-fitted suit that probably cost Naruto a fortune, but Sasuke was too scared to ask exactly how much. The suit was a traditional black and white and Sasuke was forced to abandon his beloved glasses tonight. Naruto grinned happily at his secretary. Sasuke wanted to wipe that grin off his face, but instead, the raven decided to just focus on his secretarial duties tonight.
Sasuke studied the hotel and was slightly awed by the hotel's Christmas brilliance. Following after Naruto, Sasuke started get a little worried.
"Uh… Director, I think it's this way," Sasuke said, deliberately leading the director away from the hotel lobby, and the gigantic Christmas tree that was set up there.
Naruto nodded and followed after his capable secretary. After a few more hallways Sasuke spotted another Christmas tree and quickly directed the blond away from that section of the hotel as well.
"The guests, staying at the hotel, were allowed to decorate it, if I remember correctly. If I'm right then there must be many devout people gathered there," Sasuke quickly rounded another corner just to jump back and lead the slightly dizzy director in another direction.
Sasuke cheered silently when he finally got his hands on a pamphlet. "They really made it visible from everywhere, just like it says here. But there must be someway to avoid it all…" Sasuke studied the pamphlet as if it was his life on the line.
As Sasuke kept all his attention trained on the paper, Naruto couldn't help the sincere smile that graced his lips as he watched his frantic secretary study the hotel map inside and out. After another twenty minutes of wandering around, the two finally made it to the grand ballroom where the charity party was being held. Sasuke sighed in relief but also cursed the person that constructed the hotel.
"This place is a maze more than anything… An overly decorated, blinding Christmas maze." Sasuke cursed as bright lights and a mass of laughing people finally came into view.
"This way sir," Sasuke pointed, a little exhausted. "This way there won't be any trees to trap us. Now, there's only the gather to…"
"By the way…"
"Hn!" Sasuke panicked as Naruto started to turn around to face him. In desperation, Sasuke quickly lifted his warm trench coat up to block the view behind him, but also making himself look rather ridiculous with the trench coat raised high in the air and his "deer caught in headlights" expression.
Naruto and the party behind him looked at Sasuke as if he'd had one too many eggnogs. (*)
"Ah…" Sasuke could feel his cheeks start to flush.
As Sasuke hesitantly lowered his trench coat, Naruto couldn't stop the chuckles that escaped his mouth, and soon the chuckles turned into a full-on laugh attack. "Now, that's what I call devotion." Naruto teased when his laughing finally settled down.
"What in the world am I getting all worked up for!?" Sasuke mentally screamed as the two finally joined the rest of the business partiers.
Sasuke quickly drowned a cup of wine and the alcohol seemed to settle his nerves a little. After sighing, Sasuke then looked around the party to see that, thankfully, almost everyone seemed to no longer be looking at him. The room was beautifully decorated with Christmas light and decorations and everyone seemed to be very absorbed with the Christmas party. "Everyone is so engulfed in the Christmas spirit…"
Sasuke then remembered Naruto's weakness and quickly tried to find the blond. After searching the room for several seconds, Sasuke finally spotted a familiar mop of blinding blond hair. "He seems fine… And I was so worried." Sasuke continued to watch Naruto until he noticed that Naruto's drink was empty.
"Director, your drink…" Sasuke offered politely.
"You should have some too. Is champagne alright?" Naruto asked as he poured the yellow tinted liquid.
"Erm, No I'm…"
"I finally made you into a fine beauty. Take your time and play with a few ladies," Naruto suggested lifting Sasuke's chin gently and leaning inches away from the pale man's face.
"I…I couldn't even if I tried…" Sasuke stuttered while his face flared to life.
"Ohh, so you swing that way. Hmm… Well, I did think it was a little strange that you gave your blood up so quickly. But hey, who am I to judge…" Naruto smirked.
"… Go choke and die," Sasuke glared and stomped away, leaving a very amused Naruto behind.
Sasuke drowned another glass of unidentified alcohol and was glad that he had a very high tolerance for the stuff. Or else he would've had to be a little more caring about what he drank.
"Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for being here tonight…" Sasuke looked towards the grand stage in the middle of the ballroom to see an old man talking into the microphone. Sasuke could only guess that this was Congressman Sarutobi. "We are very grateful for all your donations. We wish you happiness and in expression of our gratitude, we have prepared a song for you, our guests."
"A church choir?" Sasuke panicked as the choir started to sing. Sasuke quickly looked around and was happy to see that Naruto had not gone far.
"He looks fine…" Sasuke studied as Naruto stood in the crowd unmoving. But as someone came up to talk to Naruto, the secretary suddenly remembered the time at the church turned restaurant and Sasuke didn't want to take the chance again.
"No… He would never show his weakness even if he was suffering." Sasuke quickly made his way through the crowd toward the chatting director. "Director!" Sasuke shouted to get the blond's attention.
"Please excuse us," Sasuke apologized as he grabbed the blond's arm and pulled him out of the ballroom. The woman stood stunned as she watched the two leave.
"Uchiha!" Naruto struggled to not fall on his face. "What the hell are you doing?"
Sasuke quickly turned and examined Naruto. "Are you alright?"
Naruto watched Sasuke with indifference before turning his head. "I don't know what you're…"
"Director!" Sasuke interrupted. "Even if you put up a front, you can't fool me." Sasuke's expression turned serious. "The only times when you look like this is when you're trying to hide how much you're really hurt. Not to mention that you haven't had a 'meal' lately, so it must be really hard for you right now. Am I right?"
Naruto stood a little stunned before his expression turned into a strained one. "Nothing less from my secretary…" Naruto staggered and almost fell to the ground; thankfully, Sasuke hadn't caught him easily. "Always so damn perfect…" Naruto mumbled as his vision started to blur.
"Director!" Sasuke couldn't believe his luck as his boss's body continued to become heavier.
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"Where am I?" Naruto asked cautiously as consciousness started to return.
"Still in the hotel. I asked for a room," Sasuke explained. "Luck you. I almost had to threaten them to get it. I think your Scroogeyness is rubbing off on me… Who threatens people on Christmas Eve? A Scrooge. That's who. "
"Right…" Naruto chuckled as he ignored the comment and slowly sat up.
"Not yet," Sasuke said as he helped the woozy blond back down. "Director… Don't you need some blood?" Sasuke asked as he worriedly watched Naruto try and refocus his vision. "Should I call for someone?"
"Don't. It'll only cause more problems." Naruto answered weakly shaking Sasuke off.
"I thought you'd say that…" Sasuke sighed tiredly, but nearly jumped when Naruto placed his head on his shoulder like someone would their lover.
"It only goes to show how well you truly know me…" Naruto answered.
Naruto's warm skin caused Sasuke's own skin to start tingling.
"That time..." Sasuke felt himself relaxing. "The reason I was running wasn't because it was my duty… I wanted to save him. If I step any further into this, the relationship we have now may break. But I want to protect him..!"
"Director."
"Uchiha."
The two said in unison.
"You can have my blood."
"Can I have your blood?"
They also said in unison.
Sasuke and Naruto then looked at each other in mild shock before Naruto started to chuckle and Sasuke couldn't help the sudden rush of blood to his cheeks. The raven was so distracted with trying to hide his blush that when Naruto pulled him forward, he fell onto the bed rather harshly. Naruto held Sasuke close and pushed the smaller man further into the bed.
"I'm sorry. Looks like I'm about to give you some more unpleasant memories." Naruto apologized as he lowered his head.
"This is just a 'meal'…" Sasuke chanted as his eyes closed. "I must understand that. But my heart is trembling…" Sasuke tried to steady his breathing as Naruto's tongue traced a vain before his sharp fangs pierced pale skin. "The feeling of pain is changing into sweetness…" Sasuke's grip on Naruto tightened. "It's frightening…"
Sasuke hesitantly opened his eyes when he no longer felt Naruto's mouth on his neck. "Oh no…" Sasuke could feel himself being drawn into Naruto's eyes. Naruto's usually electric sapphire eyes were now tinted purple. "My heart…" Naruto's warm hands moved from Sasuke's back to cup his face and hold his shoulder. "Is misunderstanding …" Naruto and Sasuke's faces inched closer together. Their lips touched and the world blended together and melted away. Sasuke couldn't even differentiate one sensation from the other: the bittersweet pain from the bite, the warmth of Naruto's body molded to his, or the scorching sweetness of the breath-taking kiss.
"I wanted to protect you, so I offered you my body… Your kiss had the copper taste of blood…"
TBC…
(*) – Haha… I kinda forgot what it was suppose to be officially called. But everyone knows what I mean right? It's the pointy metal thing that people use to move the wood around in their fire places.
(*) – Do the Japanese even have eggnog during Christmas?
^___^ The kissing scene took me forever to write. Gah… I'm screwed when I have to write the lemons… But never fear! I am reading a lot of lemons to prepare myself! XD
Yeps. It's all research… If I should find enjoyment in my research then so be it! XD Okay now I sound like a pervert… . Now I feel bad… *sigh*
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