Ack! I'm so sorry guys. Apparently I forgot to post this chapter before I posted the other one. I'm really sorry about that so here it is.
Sasuke had a raging headache by the time they were able to head home. He would have left much sooner if it wouldn't have been a total insult to the man that had invited him into his home. Not to mention Sakura and Ino were making extra sure that they didn't let him leave. Whenever he was able to get away from them, they would go to the front door and wait until he appeared nearby and pull him back into the party.
Naruto was following him the whole time and he had to squash quite a few snickers as the girls attempted to dance with Sasuke while bickering back and forth about who would get the honor. On more than one occasion he was unsuccessful and the two girls would stop just long enough to glare at him for the interruption. At first he just shrugged it off because he really didn't care what those two thought of him, but after a while it was starting to get on his nerves. He was getting really annoyed of them looking at him as if he wasn't even worthy of being the dirt on their shoes so when Sasuke ordered him to go get the carriage just before midnight he was happy to comply.
"Thank god," Sasuke sighed when they were finally able to head home. Naruto had to silently agree with the man. That ball was exhausting just because they had to deal with those two girls. And Naruto didn't even have to deal with them as much as Sasuke so he was certain that Sasuke much be so much more tired than he was. He kind of felt bad for his boss, but he couldn't get sidetracked. He had a mission that he had to do.
"What are you thinking about?" Sasuke asked after a little while of contemplative silence. He had noticed Naruto get lost in himself some time ago and was curious what could actually get that man to be silent. Of course, he also wouldn't mention that he was also started to hate the silence with Naruto around. It just seemed wrong to have Naruto without some sort of sound.
"I was just thinking about the ball," Naruto responded.
"The one we just came from?" Sasuke asked.
"No," Naruto grinned. "The one that you promised Haruno-san."
"Oh yea," Sasuke groaned. He would have to endure another day with all these people and the annoying girls hanging all over them.
Naruto couldn't help but to laugh and Sasuke glared at him for it. "Oh god!" he said once he was finally able to calm down enough. "Your face." That only made Sasuke growl.
"You know you'll be helping me with this party," he hissed.
"Yep," Naruto nodded, but his grin didn't disappear. "I will be at your side through out the whole thing; doing absolutely nothing except trying to stop myself from laughing every time a girl throws herself at you. I think I overheard that Sakura and Ino are particularly excited to see your house. Although their words consisted of room instead of house."
Sasuke groaned. "Those two are never going to get anywhere near the inside of my room. If I didn't have to invite them, they wouldn't even get anywhere near my house."
Naruto laughed. "You know Uchiha," Naruto smiled one he had calmed down, "you're kind of weird."
"How's that?" Sasuke raised an eyebrow.
"You're not like the rest of them," Naruto replied.
"Like the rest of who?" Sasuke asked.
"Never mind," Naruto frowned instantly. He shouldn't have mentioned them in the first place. He's not supposed to talk about his previous jobs. If he did, then Sasuke might catch onto the facts that he was trying to keep hidden from everybody. It would not do that let Sasuke know what he really was before it was time.
"Like the rest of who Naruto?" Sasuke repeated with a more authoritative tone.
"Nothing," Naruto responded.
"Tell me," Sasuke ordered.
"Fuck you," Naruto hissed, but he sighed. He really should obey a direct order from his master. "You're different from my previous masters," he sighed as he closed his eyes so he wouldn't have to see Sasuke's face.
Sasuke wanted to ask more about it, but the fact that Naruto had responded so horribly to him demanded that little tidbit made him wary against asking further. He would ask again. Later. Maybe when Naruto was in a better mood and felt more like sharing his past with Sasuke.
"Welcome back young master," Iruka greeted them by opening the door when they arrived back at the mansion.
"It was fine," Sasuke grumbled. He was not happy at all. There trip back to the mansion had been so filled with a tense silence that it was completely destroying his head with the worst head ache that he'd ever experienced. And he had just been starting to get rid of it too, before this all happened.
Naruto simply slipped right past him and went straight down the servant's corridor to head to his own room.
"Oh my," Iruka looked after him worriedly. "Is he feeling alright?"
"He's fine," Sasuke replied haughtily as he turned and headed to his own lavish room with Iruka walking behind him.
"Is there anything that you need sir?" Iruka asked like any good servant would, but for some reason it just annoyed him at the moment.
"Just let me be for a while," Sasuke replied with clenched teeth. Iruka nodded and did a half bow before turning to walk off, but he was stopped when Sasuke called out to him. "Check on Naruto."
"Of course sir," Iruka replied with another bow before he made his own way back to the servant's corridor. That had been his plan anyway, but he couldn't describe how much he was happy to hear Sasuke worry about Naruto. Sasuke had never shown that kind of interest in anyone and Naruto seemed to need it in his own weird way.