When the two of them returned to the Uchiha mansion, Sasuke immediately went to his study with Naruto following him. Sasuke was actually exhausted when they got back. He always hated large crowds. They seemed to suck all of his energy out of him and yet he had to go to so many of these social gatherings. He completely hated it. He would much rather stay at home and take care of his mansion.
"Should I ask the cook to get dinner ready?" asked Naruto.
"I'm not hungry," Sasuke grumbled as he settled into his desk chair to do some work.
"Very well," said Naruto as he turned to leave the room. "I'll just go tell the cook to start dinner."
"I just said I wasn't hungry," Sasuke growled, but Naruto had already left the room. He sighed cautiously. Naruto really was different from all of his other servants. The man didn't like to actually stick to the norms that a servant would stick to and didn't care if he broke the rules or didn't listen to his master. It was strange, and yet, Sasuke found that he liked that. He liked that Naruto didn't treat him as all of his other servants do. It wasn't like the man treated him as an equal, but he came very close to it. Sasuke sighed again. He had only known his new servant for a day and he was already beginning to like him. This couldn't be good.
Naruto returned to the room only a few moments later with a smile on his face. "Is there anything else you need?"
"No," said Sasuke as he rubbed his head.
"Then I will be exploring the house. If you need anything, just send someone to come find me wherever I am," Naruto said as he turned to leave the room again. Sasuke was almost shocked. He knew that almost every new servant wanted to explore the house, but they all knew that at some point or another they were going to see the whole house anyway. Some even snuck around the house to explore it, but none had outright told him that they were going to do so. He always got angry at the ones that explored his house because they never came when he called, but he just couldn't get angry with Naruto for some reason.
Half an hour passed before Naruto returned to his room. "Dinner is ready," he said upon entrance.
"I'm busy," Sasuke mumbled without looking up from the papers that lay before him.
"Dinner is ready," Naruto said again.
"I said I'm busy," Sasuke said a little louder thinking that Naruto hadn't heard him.
"I heard you the first time," Naruto said, "and I said that dinner is ready."
"Look," Sasuke growled as he turned in his chair to look up at Naruto. "I need to get these done. I don't have time to eat dinner. I can't stop working on these."
"You aren't working on them now," Naruto pointed out from his place at the door.
"That's because you are distracting me," Sasuke sighed exasperatedly as he turned back to the papers.
"I see," Naruto nodded. "Well then I'm afraid you aren't going to get any work done until you go down to eat dinner because I will keep distracting you until you go."
"How dare you!" growled Sasuke as he stood from his seat and stomped over to Naruto. He was a full head taller than the other man so Naruto had to look up at him. "You insubordinate dobe. You cannot do this to your master."
"What are you going to do about it?" Naruto smiled despite the glare that Sasuke was throwing at him.
Sasuke stopped. Was Naruto not afraid of punishment? That would make sense if he acted this same way to all of his other masters. They would not be so reluctant to punish their servants for something like this. Sasuke sighed and backed off slightly. "Fine," he said as he rubbed his forehead, "I'll go to dinner."
Naruto actually seemed shocked by these words. He had seriously thought that Sasuke would punish him by taking away his own dinner. As Sasuke passed him he watched cautiously. Sasuke was not like the other masters that Naruto had worked for, but he still couldn't believe that his new master was as kind as he seemed to be. Sasuke would do something sooner or later. They all had before and Sasuke was probably no different.
Still, Naruto felt that he owed Sasuke something since the man chose not to punish him. He turned quietly to the desk that Sasuke had been working at and scowled at it. The thing was a complete mess. Papers were thrown all over the place and several had even fallen on the floor. Naruto sighed. The least he could do would be to straighten up the papers so that it would be easier for Sasuke when he came back.
Sasuke returned to his room feeling very refreshed. He hadn't known how stressed he was about getting his work done until Naruto had pulled him away from it. With a full stomach and a rested mind, he felt that he could get the work done much faster. He walked into his room and to his desk and his eyes widened. The thing was so neat. Each paper was placed in a stack of things that it went with and anything else that had been on his desk was placed in the drawers except for one pen that sat neatly on top of the desk with a jar of ink next to it.
He stood there shocked for fully ten minutes before he slid back into his seat and wrapped his hand around the quill. This was definitely going to be a lot easier now, but he just couldn't stop thinking about who would be brave enough to go through his desk. He usually told the servants to stay away from his desk because most of them either couldn't read or wouldn't know what document went with what. Usually they just messed it up even worse. Whoever had done this was very intelligent. Could Naruto really have done this by himself? No, that wasn't possible. There were no underclassmen who were that good at reading to be able to do this.
Sasuke stood up from his desk, deciding that there was no way that he was going to be able to finish his work until he got this matter solved, and called on Iruka.
"Is there something the matter sir?" asked Iruka.
"Who touched my desk?" Sasuke asked.
Iruka stiffened. He knew that whoever it was was going to be in big trouble. "I don't know sir," he said. "I wasn't aware that anyone had come in here after you left for dinner."
"I left Naruto in my room," Sasuke said.
Iruka stiffened again. He had only known Naruto for a little while, but he was already starting to like the boy. He really didn't want him to get into too much trouble. "Oh please don't punish him too hard," Iruka pleaded. "He's still new and he didn't know any better."
"I'm not mad at him Iruka," said Sasuke.
"You aren't?" Iruka asked with a surprised voice.
"No," Sasuke said. "He actually organized my desk very well. I just wanted to thank him."
Iruka was shocked. He knew that his master was kind, but he had never heard him say that he was going to thank anyone. This new servant must be something if he was able to get this reaction from Sasuke so easily. "I could go get him if you'd like," Iruka said half expecting Sasuke to decline and not thank Naruto after all.
"Go get him then," Sasuke said.
Iruka gave a short bow before he rushed out of the room only to return with Naruto in tow.
"Did you need something from me?" asked Naruto.
"You touched my desk," Sasuke said as he was working on the documents that he had started working on when Iruka had left.
"I did," Naruto said simply.
"Why?" asked Sasuke.
Naruto only shrugged. "Does it really matter?"
"I suppose not," Sasuke answered.
"It was dirty," Naruto answered anyway. "It's my job to clean things."
"That's the other servants job," Sasuke said. "Your job is to be my personal servant."
"And that entails me doing anything I can to make your life a little easier. Including cleaning a messy desk. I was only doing my job."
"You're strange," Sasuke sighed.
"So I've been told," was Naruto's only answer. "Is there anything else that you need?"
"Where did you learn to read?" Sasuke asked suddenly.
"Excuse me?" Naruto asked.
"Where did you learn to read?" Sasuke repeated.
"I don't see how that's relevant," Naruto said.
"Most servants don't know how to read," Sasuke said as if that would answer Naruto's question.
"Some take it upon themselves to learn to read by themselves," Naruto answered.
"Yea," agreed Sasuke, "but not as well as you would have to be to be able to clean my desk."
"I still don't see how this is relevant."
"I need to know how much education you have received so that I can know whether or not you will be able to help me with my work."
"I am very good at reading and writing," Naruto said, "and I will be happy to assist you in anyway that is necessary."
"But how did you learn to read and write?" Sasuke asked.
"One of my previous masters wanted me to be able to help him so he made me learn," Naruto answered.
"One of them?" Sasuke asked. "How many masters have you had?"
"Quite a few," Naruto said.
"Why?" asked Sasuke.
"I have done several things that have pissed off previous masters and then I was forced to leave."
"They fired you?" asked Sasuke.
Naruto only shrugged.
"It was there loss than," Sasuke said as he looked back at his paper.
"Is there anything else that you need?" Naruto asked.
"I need some help getting all this paperwork done," Sasuke sighed. "I let it pile up and now it's going to take forever to finish."
Naruto smiled and Sasuke decided that he like Naruto's smile. He would have to get the boy to do it more often. Though, that was going to be a hard task for the famous ice prince.
"I would be happy to help," Naruto said. "Where do you want me to start?"
"Here," Sasuke said as he handed a rather large pile of papers to Naruto. "If you have any questions come ask me. The last thing that I need is for my paperwork to be all wrong."
"Yes sir," Naruto agreed as he took the stack of papers from his boss. Flipping through them quickly, he immediately got to work.
Sorry about the late update guys. Last week was really busy.
Unfortunately, this is my last prewritten chapter so I will update it whenever I finish the next one.
Thanks again for reading.