Hiashi and Fuguka blinked, walking into the twenty-second floor conference room. Hinata and Sasuke were in each other's faces, pointing to her laptop and yelling about the latest development. Hiashi grunted and they both glanced up, facing them. Hinata smoothed down her pearly lavender sleeveless blouse, cloud gray pencil skirt and lavender satin Gucci slides, glaring at Sasuke.
"Hello father, Fuguka. We were just discussing something."
"Yes, we can see that," Fuguka muttered, sinking into his cushy chair. "But has this discussion lead to anything?"
"At two-thirty in the morning, it was great," Sasuke paced the room in a faded blue button-down shirt and khaki dress pants. "But now it's ten-fifteen and all we've got that we haven't erased is the."
Hiashi's jaw clenched and Hinata had to stop herself from laughing aloud. It was actually kind of funny because what had caused them to lose everything was her closing the laptop without saving. That's what they were fighting about in the first place.
"Do you think this is funny?" Fuguka snapped and she cringed back, her hand flying to the gold charm bracelet (from Tiffany's. It even came in the little blue box she adored) around her wrist. He gestured towards the beautiful day outside their bay window. "Hinata, this is nothing to laugh at! We've lost a valuable alliance ! There is nothing laughable in that!"
She lowered her eyes to the floor, both Sasuke and her rigid. "I know that sir, but-,"
"But nothing!" Hiashi hissed, running a hand through his long ebony hair. "What the fuck are we supposed to do now, huh?! If you're so ashamed, then why aren't you doing anything to fix it?! Do you know what your damn mistake has cost us? What if there are others who found out about this and now want to quit their alliances with us? What then?"
"Hiashi," Sasuke inquired, causing the room to look at him. "It wasn't her fault. Hitachi had been apposed to the idea long before his father died. It wasn't as if we weren't expecting him not to sign. It's just a tremendous shock to the system. I assure you, none of the alliances we've made are being looked upon. We are in the clear."
Hiashi eyed him as Fuguka sighed, gazing out the window. "And how do you know this?"
"Hinata looked into the matter long before you asked about it."
Hinata felt the heat rise to her ivory cheeks as both presidents looked to her. Hiashi sighed placing his hands flat on the table, tension dripping off his body and into the air like a thick oily film.
"If you fuck this up, I will personally see that neither of you are able to raise your heads in the streets of Tokyo, understood?"
Hinata's eyes widened and she nodded quickly and Sasuke rolled his eyes and turned back to the laptop. Fuguka's eye twitched as his son ignored their threat before both of the men left the two of them. The frosted glass doors closed and Hinata place a hand on her chest, taking deep breaths as she walked towards the window.
"Quit hyperventilating, nerd," Sasuke muttered, his fingers dancing across the keys of the keyboard. "I've just thought of something."
"Uchiha, I swear, if you mess this up," Hinata stomped over to him, the silk lavender scarf around her slender neck fluttering.
"Shut up," he snapped, glaring at her. "For once, can you just let me handle this? It's all so very simple and you make it like I'm the one going to mess everything up. Have you ever thought it was you?"
"Take that back! I've done everything in my power to make sure this company's reputation was not ruined by last night's-,"
"Miss Hyuga! Mr. Uchiha!" Ayame and Yuki burst through the door, tea and coffee cakes sitting on a tray Ayame was pushing.
"What?" both snapped, looking to the two of them, Sasuke sitting and Hinata standing above him, a fist on her hip.
"On the news!" Yuki said, grabbing the remote and pressing her thumbnail into a button. The large screen in the room clicked on and she flipped to the appropriate channel. Hitachi and Kandi were on screen, looking very professional as Hitachi shook hands with the president of a rival company of them.
"Motherfucker!" Sasuke said, his grip tightening around his coffee mug.
Hinata let out an anguished cry and dropped her head in her hands, her shoulders heaving as she took deep breathes. "This can not be happening! Oh my god! Oh my god! Oh my god! Make sure Hiashi doesn't see this! We are so fucked! So fucked! I need a brown paper baggie!"
"Shut up!" Sasuke snapped, pinching the bridge of his perfectly straight nose.
"How dare you!" Hinata screeched at him, causing everyone to look at her as she stood and began pacing the room. "What the fuck are we going to do now Uchiha?! What now! We're truly fucked! Hiashi is going to fire us on the spot! We lost to him!" She pointed a buffed nail at the paused picture, hysteria dawning on her. "A fat, balding man with no idea of how much damn power he fucking has! What the fuck do we do now?!"
Sasuke grabbed her by the shoulders, locking eyes with her. "Breathe, Hinata. We're okay. There are more chances. We're okay. Chances are that man will fuck everything up and that power will be useless. With our luck, we can probably find a person second most powerful and still do something."
Hinata nodded and he let go of her shoulders, looking to their assistants. "Why don't you tell Hiashi and Fuguka we're leaving early? I think Hinata needs a day off. A week probably but let's just take baby steps."
"What?!" Hinata shook her head vigorously, confusing the girls even further. "We do not have the luxury of a day off, Uchiha! We don't have a luxury anymore! Hiashi and Fuguka are going to chew our asses, spit them out and then stomp on them when they find out what the rotten bastard did!"
Sasuke grabbed their coats and slipped an arm around her tiny waist. "That's why we're leaving now." He slipped a pair of aviators over his onyx eyes looking to the girls. "Tell them we'll be gone for the rest of the day."
"Yes sir," Yuki bowed and Ayame began to clean up the tea things. Sasuke whisked a complaining Hinata outside and into the spring humidity, which was slowly letting up to summer hotness.
"Sasuke," Hinata griped, even though the cool air of the A/C was refreshing. "We cannot walk out on this."
"Watch me," he grunted, shifting gears and driving out of the lot faster than necessary.
"Seriously, Sasuke," Hinata sighed. "Take us back right now. We can't run away in the mist of things! Not now!"
"We're not running away," he said, looking straight ahead. "We can't do anything about it now. You were acting over dramatic. There is nothing wrong with getting our contract rejected. Yes, I am pretty pissed about what the dumbass did, but we've got backup. So relax and calm down."
Hinata blinked, before sighing and tugging the elastic from her ponytail, letting the soft blue curls spill down around her slender shoulders. "Fine. Where are we going first?"
"Just what I want to hear," he smirked. "How about I treat you to brunch and all that and we enjoy ourselves."
"A date is what you're explaining."
"Then consider yourself fortunate."
She eyed him. "What do you mean?"
"You're sitting in a new model car by Mazda, with the most eligible bachelor in Japan." He shook his head, shifting gears. "Women would kill just to know me, just to be in your seat."
"You conceited jerk!"
"I love you too."
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The Next Day . . .
Hinata and Sasuke sat across from Fuguka and Hiashi, the room immersed in silence. No one was speaking because there was nothing to say about their new development. It was all too much for them to get excited over.
Finally, Hiashi took a deep breath and dropped the contract on the table. "Are you lying?"
Hinata shook her head. "No, Hiashi." She tapped a buffed nail on the folder, smiling brightly. "Not two hours after Ari Inc. took up Mr. Hitachi's offer, than this company decided to up them and wanted a piece of us."
Fuguka shook his head slowly, looking out the window to the darkening evening sky. "Galore Corp. huh? I can't believe our luck."
Sasuke smirked. "The company to rival Ari's power. They've got access to things we've never even thought of. If we take this offer, we're not only golden, we're solid golden."
Hinata shifted in her seat, tucking her ankle behind her leg. "So, what do you think? Because we believe this is our chance."
Hiashi ran a hand through his hair and looked to Fuguka. Fuguka shook his head and pulled the file towards him, reading over the contents again. After a few minutes of hushed talking, both men came to agreement.
"Give me a pen," Fuguka motioned for Itachi who was standing with Neji in the corner. "You could learn something from all of this."
Hinata felt pride swell in her chest as Itachi and Neji read over Hiashi and Fuguka's shoulders, clearly impressed by their turnabout.
"See," Sasuke leaned over to her. "I told you everything was going to be alright. You were just being over dramatic."
She rolled her eyes. "Okay, I admit, I was acting a little immature, but you can understand why."
"No I can't. Because you were making it hard for me to even think with all your "oh my god" and "what the fuck do we do now", which was quite funny, let me tell you."
She shot him a glare and he smirked, leaning back in his chair. Either way, both were happy and neither one of them was going to be fired from their job. Neither could go into extremely early retirement just yet.
They probably could, but . . .
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