We've learnt about the Uchihas now it's time for the strange workplace! Thank you very much everyone who reviewed or put the story on alert!
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"Where is it!" screeched a pink haired girl also known as Sakura Haruno as she went through all her belongings and tore down her workstation (a pink walled cubicle, she was really starting to hate that colour) hunting for a little brown leather bound journal.
"Okay calm down." she said to herself taking a deep breath in and slowly letting it out."Now think where did you last see it?"
Her mind flashed back to all the events of the day. Having an eidetic memory was useful sometimes. And then she remembered.
Glaring at all the branches that had hit her on her way down she saw a pair of onyx eyes staring straight at her from out the window of his room. And on a branch to the left of his face, with its pages open and the spine facing the older Uchiha, was her journal. Unaware, that hours later she would be close to a breakdown trying to find the said book, she fled the scene via a teleportation spell.
"Saki, send me some goodies on Sorority life, I need to level up."Ino called from the cubicle next to her. "Sakura? Oi Forehead-girl! Goodies now!"
When she no screams of 'Ino-Pig!' were forthcoming, she stood up to look at whatever it was that was keeping Sakura so engrossed, only to see her cubicle neighbour (and best friend though she would never admit it) staring into space with a zonked expression .She knew what that face meant and so Ino ran off to the to get some soda. It was moments later when a high-pitched wail resounded through the office and flinching slightly from the ringing in her ears, Ino ran in the direction of the sound of Sakura's anxious breakdown.
Meanwhile in the mortal realm a certain Uchiha was going through a leather bound book with barely hidden glee.
'Otouto, it seems someone is finally going to have to bring you out of your shell...and I will enjoy watching every second of it.' The smirk on his face as he strolled down the hallway tossing the book around in his hands promptly caused one of the maids to faint. When Itachi was amused, it was time for everyone around to run away.
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While Itachi thought of the upcoming days with fondness, Sakura was hyperventilating and breathing in and out of a paper bag while Tsunade and Ino tried in vain to calm her.
"I'm" –Gasp- "So"- Gasp- "SCREWED!"- Gasp-
Tsunade sighed in exasperation.
Sakura made a brilliant matchmaker, and a delightful student to teach. Smart and curious she made the ideal apprentice for any person and as her mentor Tsunade had made sure Sakura was fully proficient at her job so that she wouldn't be stuck in this job forever.
However Sakura's incapability to deal with failure and any surprises along the way was her downfall. While Tsunade herself loved it when things didn't go as planned, giving her even more of a challenge and making an erstwhile job much more fun , Sakura's need for everything to fit into neat little boxes and for nothing to ruin her methodical approach made her...well a wet blanket.
Not to mention she sounded absolutely horrendous when breathing in and out of a bag.
Just as Tsunade braced herself for the wail she knew was coming, silence took over. A beautiful man with golden curls and twinkling blue eyes waltzed into workspace. The cargoes and casual v-neck long sleeve tee belying his age of a few millennia.
"Good morning everyone!" he smiled at everyone seemingly not noticing Sakura standing there with a bag over her mouth eyes wide, pastel hair limp around her heart-shaped face. He whistled a song that sounded a lot like 'Ding Dong the witch is dead' and skipped into the main office.
Cupid was in the house.
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It was a good day for Cupid so far. His mother and wife were getting along ,he passed by twelve happy couples that had his employees to thank for their happiness and he opened the door to his office only to find Jiraiya and Kakashi with the new instalment in the Icha Icha series.
Life was good.
Until a frantic pinkette burst into his office looking like death warmed over (even Jiraiya was repulsed) eyes shining with a crazy gleam that scared him more than Grandfather Zeus ever would.
"Sakura!" He giggled nervously checking his calendar briefly before turning back to her, "How's my favourite matchmaker doing? Any progress on the Uchiha?"
"My journal with all the info is missing and I might have maybe left it on a tree outside the mansion and someone has probably found it by now and now I'll never finish my assignment and I will fail."She rushed out all at once and stopped to take a breath.
Cupid relaxed."Well then nothing to worry about. You know those books have enchantments on them so no mortal can see what's written."
"He saw me even though I was under an invisibility spell."
"You don't say? A seer perhaps."Kakashi mused.
Sakura grew confused.
"So he can tell the future? What does that have to do with anything?"
"A seer doesn't mean a prophet all the time it can also refer to a clairvoyant, someone with an unclouded inner sight."Jiraiya explained. Throughout their conversation, the brightness in Sakura's eyes hadn't dimmed the slightest bit. Cupid reached into a drawer and pulled out a big bar of chocolate and handed it to Sakura who proceeded to tear into it like a wild animal.
'At least she took off the wrapper.' Kakashi thought, wincing at the sight of the chomping jaws.
They sat there as she explained everything that had happened so far while still eating the chocolate. During the narration she eventually calmed down and when Cupid told her he'd take care of stuff and call her when things had been settled down, she nodded and with a sigh of relief left for her house, calling it a (stressful) day.
"I didn't think Sakura was the kind to need to talk things out."Kakashi said once Sakura left.
"What do you mean?"Jiraiya asked. While he knew a lot about the female...well, anatomy, the female mind was a dark and scary place he would never even bother to understand.
"You know some girls need to talk and ramble for hours and hours about their problems and once they're done with it voila it's like they were never upset to begin with."Kakashi explained.
"She's not. It's the chocolate."Cupid said not looking up from the rolodex he was going through."It's a special kind of chocolate that helps with cramps and emotional distress during PMS."
A moment of horrified silence followed as Jiraiya and Kakashi realised the reason why he had taken that brief glance at the calendar.
"Oh come on. Have you not realised that 80 percent of the people working here are female? I need to know which days I need to stay away from work." Finally having found the number he was looking for, Cupid stood up ignoring the aghast faces of Kakashi and Jiraiya.
"Hello, is this the Uchiha residence? Oh may I speak to Mrs Mikoto Uchiha please? Oh Mikoto there might be a bit of a snag in our plans. Are you up to a good challenge?"
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Sakura stepped into her house closing the door behind her softly. A sigh left her as the thought of failing her final assignment weighed down upon her.
"Mom, I'm home." She said and trudged into the kitchen fully intent on drowning her sorrows in orange juice. Without looking up from her shoes she walked towards the fridge and reached out to where she knew the carton would be, only to be left grasping at air. She looked up confused .Her orange juice was missing. This day officially sucked.
"Oh Sakura you're home! This wonderful young man came by to return your notebook. Wasn't that nice of him?"
Still dazed Sakura turned to see her mother with that glow that only a woman in her third trimester had standing next to a smirking male specimen of the Uchiha variety.
"Sakura."
"Itachi."
They continued to stare at each other and a feeling of déjà vu swept over Sakura. Her eye twitched as she recalled that the last time this happened she fell off a tree and was in a lot of pain.
"I found your book on a tree outside - "
"Mom I think I heard the phone ringing why don't you go pick it up?" If her mother found out she had been in the tree outside a boy's room specifically the room of the man standing in front of her right now...
As soon as her mother left earshot, she grabbed her book from his hands and flipped through it quickly only to find her carefully taken notes had little observations added to them. She turned to him in confusion ad he answered the question that was on her mind.
"I felt like you left out certain nuances of his behaviour which might help in the near future?"
"So you-"
She was cut off by the ringing of Itachi's cell phone. He looked at the caller-id and frowned before picking up the call.
"Okaa-san...No I'm out ...How did you-?...Oh...I shall see you at home."
"You're leaving?" Sakura tried to conceal the grin that was threatening to break out .She did not particularly enjoy being in Itachi's company. It left her feeling rather flustered.
"So are you."
"What do you mean?"
"My mother said to bring you along as well."
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