My Boss The Genius
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INTERLUDE SIX
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Temari sighed tiredly as she dragged her feet into the office, throwing her bag onto her desk. She didn't know where else to go once she left the hospital, after checking that Ino was resting with the help of the sedative. Doctor Haruno said she'd wake in the next few hours, so Temari just left. She didn't think she could hang around in that silent room, waiting for someone she didn't even know all that well to wake up. So the woman did what she'd always done to take her mind off of something; she worked.
"Meeting with the board in the morning," she muttered to herself, thumbing through her genius boss' schedule. Shikamaru had been in conference with the FBI so long that she knew he hadn't compiled notes for his meeting with the board. Rubbing her eyes in slight annoyance, Temari got out of her desk to enter his office, heading for the cabinets on wall to her right. Despite his laziness, Shikamaru was always very organized and neat about his work. She figured looking through messy files was more "troublesome" than alphabetizing them. A smile played at her lips at that thought, pulling open a drawer.
"Let's see… federal agent cases," she murmured to herself as she thumbed through the stacks. There were quite a bit of them, Temari thought as the revelation came to her slowly. Why was that? There were many other capable lawyers in the company, yet Shikamaru always got the brunt of them. And come to think of it, why were federal agents even having conferences with her boss? He was just a lawyer. If nothing, he should've been consulted after the criminal had been caught.
Curious, Temari looked up, her eyes sweeping the room like they would give her an answer. She shut the drawer, carrying a few folders and leaving his office. They were deposited on her desk before she turned sharply to head to one of her co-workers cubicles. They worked here far longer than she had, maybe they would know.
Many of her co-workers had gone home, except for one. Udon was idly typing away on his calculator. The young man was part of the financial division, and a whiz with numbers. He always seemed to be snuffling and sneezing though, a napkin or handkerchief always close by. Despite his lack of experience and young age, Udon was still quite an asset to the company, and was definitely here before Temari. He started as an intern, but was hired later for his efficiency.
"Oh, Mr. Nara?" he responded when Temari approached him. "Well as you know, his work is mostly normal lawyer stuff," yes, she knew that, she worked for him, "but he wasn't really hired by the company."
"What?" Temari asked, raising a brow and glowering at the young man. She wanted to hurry this along. And how did Shikamaru get his job if he wasn't hired by the company? Udon gulped at her impatient look, sniffling and wiping his nose with a tissue.
"Well, officially-speaking, Mr. Nara is our FBI liaison," he replied quickly. "He handles all the federal agent cases, because the FBI put him here to do that."
… what? Shikamaru is FBI?
"Why would they do something like that?" Temari murmured to herself. But Udon apparently thought it was a question for him, and a shifty look came over his face.
"No one really knows for sure," he whispered to her quietly, catching her attention, "but rumour has it that one of Mr. Nara's cases went really bad, and he became really volatile and out-of-control. They put him here, hoping that he would calm down."
Volatile?
Bad case?
Out-of-control?
"He's going to get revenge."
Oh my god.
Temari turned sharply, ignoring Udon's calls and questions, walking quickly back to Shikamaru's office. She reached for the cabinets, opening the drawers and thumbing through all the reports. There was something in here… she remembered looking at it once before, an unsolved trial that had never been able to convene in court because the suspect had escaped. Temari had only briefly skimmed it when she was reading through Shikamaru's successful prosecutions. She ignored it because of its incompletion, but now she was starting to understand its significance.
"FBI special agent, Asuma Sarutobi, killed in action while hunting down Red Cloud member, alias Hidan. Probationary agent, Chouji Akimichi fatally injured in the attack while trying to rescue fellow probationary agent, Ino Yamanaka from Red Cloud member, alias Hidan's, capture…"