Making Headlines

By: Silverwolf

A newspaper hits the front door. Fugaku steps out to the porch to retreive it. The bold print across the front page tells of the purchase of a night club and the sale and renovations of an old theater. At first the older Uchiha disregards the story until he sees the name of the purchaser.

"What the hell is that boy thinking?" Mikoto glances towards her husband, "what boy?" Fugaku sighs, "your son." Mikoto makes a face, "they are your sons also. Even when you think what they do is wrong." Fugaku sighs, "this isn't the point. The point is he outbid me for that property." Mikoto laughs, "you were just going to tear it down." Fugaku sighs, "this is why Sasuke rebelled like he did." Mikoto grins as she leaves her husbands sight, "Itachi might be by later." Fugaku makes a face as Mikoto hears the phone ring. "It's Itachi." Fugaku hears his wife laugh as a conversation begins with Itachi on the phone.

Fugaku sighs as he finishes preparing for work with the rise of the sun. Mikoto hangs up the phone in time to exchange goodebyes with her husband. She is still quite happy over the knowledge her little boy was doing quite well for himself.

~[X]~

Kisame tosses a couple of magazine towards Konan. The female is confused when she notices one of them is on restaurants. Konan grins at Kisame when she notices the face on the cover. "Thank you." Kisame shrugs, "I figured you'd want to read that one also."

Itachi throws the morning newspaper toward Kisame, "read the headline." Kisame bursts into laughter as he stares at the bold print along the page." Itachi shakes his head, "I really wonder what Sasuke plans to do with such places." Kisame shrugs, "well the night club was once a huge gathering place for Triad members." Konan nods, "most of the major players in the Triad are dead or doing twenty-five to life." Kisame shrugs, "the rest are around Itachi." Konan starts laughing loudly.

Sasori points towards his cousins, "I quit when they became my problem." Itachi rolls his eyes, "each one of you has a story of why. That's not really important to me." Konan sits staring at the magazine articles silently as a honey blonde slowly makes an appearance. While staring at the pictures of the raven and blonde together Konan realizes she's staring at.. "Oh wow, it's Naruto;" the female whispers.

"Morning Deidara." The response Itachi gets from the blonde is narrowed azure eyes. Itachi half smirks. Deidara maks a face, "you're all cheery because unlike the rest of us you work as you please." Itachi laughs, "it's because I own my own practice Deidara. Though from what I hear there'll be a new night club opening soon, maybe they'll need a decent bartender."

Suigetsu comes running up the street with Karin behind him. Tucked under the platinum blonde's arm is not only a new magazine but the morning newspaper. The redhead screams for the male to give her the article. Suigetsu taunts the female and continues running. Itachi watches Deidara yawn, "I'm gonna crash on your couch Kisame, yeah." The older male shrugs, "go ahead."

A second platinum blonde slowly steps into view. Everyone seems rather happy to see the other blonde. "Kimi, where have you been?" Kimimaro shrugs, "is Deidara around and awake? I've been working." Kisame laughs, "he's inside my place, notsure about awake though." Kimimaro shrugs, "when he wakes ask him if he wants to do a mural painting. The pay is really good." Itachi looks at Kimimaro, "for where?" Kimimaro tilts his head, "A restaurant called Heaven's Curse."

Everyone's eyes go wide, "you serious? You mean the place even the famous are having trouble getting into?" Kimimaro nods, "that'd be the place." Itachi looks at Kimimaro, "and how did you get the message to hire someone to paint murals?" Kimimaro laughs, "because I'm special like that. No really, the place I work for delivers meat there."

Deidara steps back outside with a yawn, "what's the exciting conversation about?" Suigetsu looks at Deidara, "Kimimaro got you job to paint a mural in Heaven's Curse." Deidara's eyes go wide, "you mean the restaurant that has a reservation list lasting five years?" Kimimaro nods, "that's the place. The pay is two thousand dollars and dinner." Deidara grins widely, "I'm all for that." Kimimaro nods, "then I'll tell the owner."

~[X]~

Naruto sniffs the air a bit, "I smell chocolate." Sasuke laughs a bit and reaches for a spoon. "Here Naru." The blonde grins and takes the spoon from the raven. Naruto makes a point to tease his lover a bit while licking the spoon. Sasuke pulls Naruto towards him gently. The raven kisses Naruto a bit intensely. Naruto grins as the kiss breaks. Sasuke makes a face and shakes his head slightly. Naruto laughs, "you're good at working with chocolate." Sasuke shrugs and continues what he's doing, "but I hate the taste." Naruto laughs a bit, "is that another experiment?" Sasuke nods. Naruto gives Sasuke a begging puppy act. Sasuke laughs, "you know you get first taste." The raven kisses the blonde on the forehead.

A/N: I decided to do this chapter as a small glimpse of things. Hopefully the next chapter isn't so broken. Thanks for reading. And THANK YOU TO EVERYONE that's reviewed!

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