First, let's get the warnings out of the way: (1) explicit M/M sexual content, when the explicit smut part comes around I'll write a TW, (2) no dub con/non con here, everything here is very consensual, (3) I do my own spin on the ABO lore and rules for this fic, (4) fic is set in Japan even though I'm not from Japan, so a few things could be weird, (5) english is not my first language so there might be some mistakes. If any of these is not your thing, please consider exiting this fic.

Lastly, I don't own the characters from Naruto, I don't gain anything from this, only sleepless nights and generalized horniness. Alright, alright, alright... let's do this.

"Did you hear about the new coordinator hired by director Sarutobi?" Kurenai approached her chair to Kakashi's in an excited manner and he promptly let go of what he was doing to talk to her. He had to wonder if it was wise to put two friends like them to work side by side on the office or if his company just didn't like productive employees.

"Yeah, but he's going over to the finance team, why are you asking me about him?"

Kurenai groaned in annoyance, which was what she did half the time she was around him. "Geez Kakashi, you're the worst gossip in the office."

"Ma, where is this uncalled hate coming from? I don't care about the guy if he's not coming to our area." Kakashi shrugged and felt the stiffness in his neck, he'd need to take a break soon.

"I know but we'll still have to deal with him, you know, between all the cost reduction initiatives in our backlog."

It's all they ever talked about these days, maintenance, stability, cutting back costs… where's the making games stuff and launching new ideas on the market stuff? Kakashi sighed and gave up on talking to his friend, better to go back to his boring debugging session.

"Kurenai, sometimes you forget this, but I only work here." He said putting back his headphones.

She was exasperated and confused. "What? What about me, Kakashi? I only work here too!"

"You're different, you're invested, you wanna do stuff and find out about a random new guy and reduce costs and whatever, I just wanna clock in my 8 hours of work, get my paycheck and go home to sleep a bit."

"Geez, you're so unambitious, it's a mystery how I'm the omega and you're the alpha."

It really was, but he didn't have a good answer for Kurenai, so he just shrugged her way. She groaned again in return before going back to her work, more than used to Kakashi's antics by now, with them knowing each other for almost ten years. He liked Kurenai because she was a quiet and calm person, and she was used to him by now, so he didn't need to keep smiling at her and avoid being rude. And the fact that despite her patient personality he could still annoy her to no end was half the fun.

"Anyway, maybe we should go through the presentations we used in our last projects, you know the ones, the cloud storage, the servers' reservations..."

"Such a good employee, Yuhi Kurenai, our next developing coordinator." Kakashi smiled talking in the most cheerful voice he could muster for a Monday.

"I don't know if you're serious or being sarcastic."

"Both." He answered in a smirk, having a lot of fun annoying her. That's just how he expressed his love for his friends.

"You're unsufferable." She groaned for what must be the hundredth time today. "Just try to think ahead, I'm sure this new guy will want a meeting with us for the cloud costs reports."

"On it boss!" He gave her a mock military salute, even though she wasn't his boss.

"Argh, I hate you so much sometimes." He loved to bring out the worst in people, Kurenai was always so pleasant with everyone, she deserved a break from it.

"I love you too Kurenai."

"I'm gonna get Asuma to come to the company just so he can become the CEO and fire you."

"As long as I get some good deal out of it." He shrugged again already unpausing the playlist he was listening to before.

He was already anticipating a headache just thinking about getting ahead on presentations and meetings and onboarding the new guy. He became a developer because he didn't wanna talk to people, see people, be near people, he liked computers, codes, crunching data, games and he didn't care at all for team building, social activities and being normal, and this only got more obvious when he joined the workforce.

Kurenai on the other hand was the type to be described as "a pleasure to work with", so let her have the meeting with the new guy. She knew him since forever, she knew his corporate persona wasn't the politest, so really, she should've known better than trying to enroll him in any social thing. They haven't changed that much since college, where he met her, she was from his class, and it was a surprise to meet her in STEM graduation, a beautiful, well spoken, outgoing, extroverted woman, he was sure she was at the wrong building when they first met. But she wasn't, she was in the right building and fucking acing all their exams and putting all the other nerds to shame, and Kakashi had to admire her for it.

After Kurenai in the top of the class, Kakashi was in second, mostly because things came naturally to him, but she always told him that he could easily do much better than her, if he ever gave a damn. But he didn't care for grades that much, he liked the extra credits projects, the research, being a teacher's assistant, but not grades. More than a few times he turned in his reports in chewed up paper (courtesy of the dogs he'd often babysit) with unreadable handwriting and let his teachers deal with it. He wasn't gonna stress about homework with so many other interesting things to do at university.

A lot of people used to think they hooked up and were mates because they were alpha and omega and they "looked good together" according to them, but they didn't know Kakashi was exclusively into men. At the end of their course, after she scored an internship at their current company, Konohagakure, she started dating Asuma, another alpha in their circle of friends from college and they married a year ago, they looked much better together than Kakashi and Kurenai could ever dream of. He was very happy for both his friends, even if she left him to deal with all her tasks during their two-week honeymoon when she was shamelessly getting some action while Kakashi rotted away at the office.

Kurenai and Asuma were so in love, Kakashi thought as soon as they married, they'd open up the baby factory and not stop until they reverted the downward trend of Japan's population, but it was no surprise that Kurenai wanted to wait a couple of years. She was ambitious and competent and wanted to climb the corporate ladder, and that was easier on a small gaming company like theirs and no baby on the way, and it didn't hurt that Director Sarutobi Hiruzen also loved his daughter in law. Asuma was Sarutobi Asuma, Konoha Company's owner's son, that's how he met Kurenai in the first place, he mentioned the position to her, and she's been working here since then. Asuma however, never worked on his father's company, he said he wanted to trail his own path in life, and not depend on his family forever, which is kinda commendable, no wonder he and Kurenai made for such a power couple. He ended up going into infosec and taking different paths from Kakashi and his girlfriend, now wife.

Kakashi's worked on a couple of other places before Kurenai invited him to Konoha too. He'd done the gigantic-evil-corporation-milking-nerds-for-their-money thing and the five-person-team-putting-out-a-game-in-two-weeks thing, and some other stuff in between, and Konoha was a nice middle ground. He liked working here, but he wasn't loyal to the point of burning out trying to stick to outrageous goals like her, after all, he had a life outside work, his boring trips to the gym, his games, his porn, his voluntary work at the shelter, just your regular 28-year-old alpha.

Except... he wasn't.

Kakashi was tall and well-built, even if not bulky, and he was good in sports back in school, girls flocked to him because of his good looks, and he was front of the class without much effort, so when he found out he was an alpha he wasn't surprised, it was that or beta, most likely. Still, there were somethings that separated him from a stereotypical alpha. He wasn't a natural leader, he wasn't even very extroverted, his friends needed to drag him out of the apartment otherwise he wouldn't leave, he wasn't ambitious or driven, and despite his misanthropic inclinations, he tried to be polite and agreeable to people, he wasn't confrontational or aggressive like it was expected out of an alpha. Those were just harmless behavioral differences, so he has always shrugged it off as just stereotypes being often untrue and didn't care much.

However, some of his biological/health symptoms worried him a bit growing up. His first rut only happened when he was 19, when the usual age would be between 13 and 16, and he never felt as debilitated by it as other people described it. The scent of omegas didn't bother him in any way, not even when they were in heat, so he didn't need any type of medication to help with his secondary gender symptoms. He could pinpoint a couple of times in his life when he felt excited from the smell coming from an omega in heat, but those were the exception, and even then, he didn't feel that impatient animalistic impulse normally associated with alphas. He went through a brief period where kids at school mocked him saying he wasn't a true alpha, because his smell was weak and that he should be an omega or a beta, but that didn't last long. For self-proclaimed stronger alphas they sure got a lot of beatings from Kakashi, who in turn never sported not even a black eye, missing tooth or broken nose. The same cannot be said about his bullies.

During his teenage years, he kept track of it with their family doctor Tsunade, but all his tests showed normal results, and since Rin got into medical school, he usually talks to her in case of doubts with her to avoid going to the hospital at all costs, even if Rin always chastises him saying her residency was in anesthesiology and not in ob-gyn and yada, yada, yada (he'd always tuned her off by then). If Tsunade and Rin didn't see anything weird, then it was all fine, besides, he liked these little quirks, they made his life easier.

But he never told anybody his dirty little secret: even though he was an alpha, he had no desire to act like one sexually, he wanted to get railed and dominated by a strong alpha and enjoy the sub space that many omegas described as heaven. He's been able to maintain a somewhat satisfactory sex life by going out with betas and passing as a beta himself, and some of them were very dominant and made Kakashi feel amazing. As amazing as the omegas felt when they were mating with their alphas? Maybe, maybe not, there'd be no way of knowing, that's just how life was. No way of imagining what sex feels like for their opposite biological genders. Maybe trans people do carry all the secrets of the universe.

When he first started noticing this particular taste of his, he turned to a trustworthy source of knowledge on the human body, the internet. He found little to no information about his preferences, and he found some alphas on dating apps who were looking for spunky omegas and betas who could put up a fight before being dominated, and even some who'd be willing to fuck alphas too. But everybody wanted to be the top alpha, not the bottom alpha. What a concept. He tried chatting some of these people up, but as expected he wasn't comfortable with any of them. Because his preferences, even if they had nothing inherently wrong about them, were a bit taboo, and carried a lot of connotations and prejudice on how each gender should present and perform, and alphas who wanted to top other alphas were a red flag because of that. To sum up: they were bigoted dickheads, and Kakashi wouldn't give his asshole to them, he'd much rather fuck a beta who couldn't smell he was an alpha and carry on with his unsatisfied kink, but his integrity intact.

He looked down on the corner of his screen and it was almost time for lunch. He'd check if Kurenai was having lunch with her beloved Asuma and if they were accepting annoying third wheels like him. At that same moment the email notification popped with an email from a certain Uchiha Obito, which he presumed was the new guy Kurenai was talking about, and he promptly ignored it. Let her deal with him.

As Kurenai predicted, the new guy sent them an email asking about their main costs, what were the latest initiatives, so on and so forth and Kakashi had to wonder if there wasn't anybody on the finance department to help the newcomer with this stuff instead of them. But Kurenai, that moron, always the helpful one, offered to have a meeting with him, so they could introduce themselves and get him up to speed. As much as Kakashi loved Kurenai, he hated her corporate persona just as much. Whatever, it wasn't a serious meeting, it was just giving basic information and making the guy feel welcomed, even Kakashi could manage that.

"Ma, Kurenai, do you always have to be so helpful?" Kakashi asked her with a smile, and she answered with a warm smile of her own.

"I don't know, Kakashi, do you always have to be such a lazy ass?" They laughed together, each planning on how to kill the other one.

Their meeting was in the following day, and he couldn't even arrive late as usual because Kurenai's seat was right beside him, so she dragged him to the meeting room by the collar of his t-shirt like some bad dog, and he made a point of reading Icha-Icha all the way there. He gained a newfound appreciation for his career of choice as he saw the new guy in a stuffy dress shirt and tailored pants. He didn't feel underdressed on his t-shirt and jeans because they were a gaming company for fuck's sake, there were video game characters posters on every wall, the animators had impromptu laser saber fights, the design team was full of cyber punk goth lolitas, the developers brought huge pillows of their waifus and husbandus with them, if anything, the finance and sales team were the ones always over dressed, but Kakashi knew it came with the job.

"Hey there, Yuhi Kurenai. Welcome to Konoha Company." Kurenai made a little bow with her head to welcome the new guy.

"Thanks a lot, Uchiha Obito, it's nice to be here." He bowed back looking to the both of them.

"Yo. Hatake Kakashi." He answered back putting his Icha-Icha back in his pocket.

Kakashi had expected to feel a lot of things today, annoyed, tired, bored, anxious to go back home… after all, it was a Tuesday morning and he'd stayed up late again playing games and reading Icha-Icha and he only had himself to blame for that. What he didn't expect to feel today was horny. But what could he do? When there's a man like that walking around in the office? Uchiha Obito was gorgeous. By his smell alone, Kakashi could tell he was an alpha, maybe he also wasn't on any medication to help with his symptoms, that's why Kakashi could feel that delicious scent all around. They were the same height, but Uchiha-san was more muscular, enough for the buttons in front of his shirt to look like they were struggling to keep those pecs inside the dress shirt. He had shiny black hair, shiny black eyes and a shiny beautiful smile, and Kakashi was a goner the moment that easy smile appeared on his face as they greeted each other. Hopefully he wouldn't be an asshole like most people in finance, Kakashi could only pray.

"Let's go inside, I booked the meeting room for an hour, I think it will be enough for us to cover everything." Kurenai was already in business mode while Kakashi was still struck silent by the handsome man in front of him. Had Kurenai any eyes at all? It didn't matter that she was already married, any human being would think this Uchiha guy was attractive. She was just mated, not blind, she needed to be sensitive to her single friend's hardships in this life, such as beautiful men falling out of the sky in front of Kakashi.

"Need anything Uchiha-san? Coffee, water...?" Kurenai offered as they took their seats.

"Just call me Obito please, I think we're all the same age here." He said charmingly while they sat on the table and Kurenai plugged her computer to the TV cable.

Kakashi promptly took the distraction opportunity and went straight to the espresso machine that this meeting room had, turning his back to the new guy, trying to avoid staring at that handsome smile or he'd end up drooling on the carpet. "I'll get some coffee, do you want a cup, Obito-san?"

"Just Obito. And thanks, I'll take some." Kakashi was in dire need of coffee today, after his late night, Kurenai was a hopeless caffeine addict, so he was already getting a cup for her too, and he served one for Obito too.

Kurenai was making a bit of small talk, checking how the newcomer was doing, with Obito seamlessly following her lead. Oh, to be a socially well-adjusted person, bless their hearts. He settled their cups on the table and easily drifted into business talk, which required Kakashi to do a lot of talking while Obito looked at him. He tried to cover his shyness by looking at the screen and Kurenai, and only occasionally going back to Obito, who seemed to focus intently on what he had to say. He hoped his awkwardness wasn't showing, and that his troublesome tendency to easily blush was covered by the mask. When it was Kurenai's turn to explain something, he couldn't avoid staring openly when Obito turned his eyes to the screen. When those dark eyes returned to look at him, Kakashi turned away to the screen again feeling like an idiot.

But at least meetings with finance were finally getting interesting.

It seemed his life at the new company would be very good indeed. Everybody was helpful and pleasant, they didn't look like they had their souls sucked out of them, the office was whimsical and fun, and he had just found out who his new crush would be. Mind you, this was not normal Obito behavior. He wasn't a big fan of office romances, because first, in his previous job there was no room for such a thing, between the throat cutting and the carpet pulling and the moral harassment, so any office gossip he was interested in was more a matter of career survival than eyeing potential partners. Second, when he saw the trope in doramas, or tv series and movies, he always rolled his eyes at it, wondering if the characters worked at all and if the screenwriters had ever seen the inside of an office building.

This meant it wasn't a habit for Obito to look at other men at work with nothing more than professionalism. That became a lie as soon as his eyes landed on the silver haired man walking through his floor towards a meeting room. He was the opposite of the men Obito was usually attracted to, he was tall, well built, sharp features, unfriendly bored to death face. He was beautiful. Obito's never quite seen anyone like him. He wondered how his shiny silver hair would feel to touch, how his nose and lips were under the surgical mask, how his voice would sound, what was his name, who was he, what floor he worked because he needed to get there as fast as possible and-

"Oi, Obito, ya listenin' to me?" Genma asked him, pulling him out of his unchecked daydreams.

"Oh, yeah, sorry Genma-san, could you please repeat what you were saying?"

"Chill man, no worries. And drop the san, it's weird, we're colleagues." Obito was glad he didn't mind the small slip up. Back on the bank he'd get an earful if anybody caught his eyes wandering off the screen.

"You have a much more informal treatment here than my previous company."

"Workin' on the video game industry has its perks, lemme tell ya." Genma snickered and Obito smiled back. Yeah, people on the office seemed cool enough. And there was someone who was extremely beautiful, someone who Obito hoped would be very important to his working routine and someone he wanted to see every day. That would definitely make his workdays brighter.

He didn't caught sight of his tall dark stranger after that, but he didn't ask anyone about him either, afraid of looking too forward. Imagine his surprise when Genma recommended him to send an email to a certain Hatake Kakashi to ask him and his colleague about tech costs. Things were working too well for him. He finally got to leave his old job after a gigantic bonus, moved to a much more easy-going industry job, he's working with video games, which was fun, and now the most beautiful man he's seen in all his life had a meeting with him tomorrow morning. He needed to check with granny later if she was praying for him or something, his luck usually wasn't that good.

Obito wasn't one to date much, he mostly worked, and worked, and worked some more. His last boyfriend dumped him because he was always working, but Obito didn't have it in him to pursuit him again. And that was a fucking long time ago, he's been a bachelor for longer than he cared to disclose and even though he tried dating people on apps and stuff, nothing ever came out of it, also because of his insane working hours. Since he'd be thirty next year, he decided he had enough, and didn't want to die at 35 of a heart attack and jumped off the boat before he had another health issue like his appendicitis last year. That was some nasty shit he didn't wanna go through ever again, thank god humans only had one appendix.

His life had been mostly career driven for some time now, and he didn't think much about how changing jobs might also help his love life, but when he saw Kakashi earlier that day he was not-so-gently reminded by his heart that he was a regular person that craved human contact and affection as much as the next guy. The thing is, he didn't know if it was nature or nurture, but as a stereotypical alpha up until now Obito only dated stereotypical omegas, and Kakashi didn't look like an omega not by a long shot. He dated doe eyed men, with a sunny disposition and a small skinny frame, and he'd always thought his previous boyfriends were pretty, but that was clearly because he hadn't met anyone as fucking gorgeous as Kakashi until now.

It was the first time he got attracted by a beta and he wondered how it would be like to date him, but fortunately his rational mind put a stop to his racing thoughts. Yeah, he was getting too carried with this, it was his first day at a new company, a good paying job that more than covers his needs, with a nice boss, nice colleagues, and bonus eye candy. First it wouldn't be professional to get involved with someone from the same company, specially so fast. Second, what the absolute fuck was he doing thinking about dating a guy he never even talked to in his fucking life, was he fucking insane? He'd finally lost it.

He moved to their meeting room trying to forcibly lower his expectations a bit, he hated when he acted like the hopeless romantic crybaby that his granny was always calling him, so he tried to pretend he was not even one bit affected by this meeting. Obviously, it didn't work as Kakashi was even more beautiful up close. But it even in his happiness to finally meet him, Obito was still floored with finding out that he was an alpha too. As they approached each other his scent got sharper and sharper and Obito could deny it no longer, it didn't matter how deliciously Kakashi smelled, how he wanted to drown in that smell, and purr in content, those were alpha pheromones. He wasn't an omega, he wasn't even a beta, and Obito was sad and feeling like a loser.

He kept staring at Kakashi during the meeting, it was ridiculous, he hoped he wasn't too obvious about that, it's just that… he was being repetitive, but Kakashi was too gorgeous. His white eyelashes were thick and looked heavy on his sharp eyes, his skin was so pale, he could see the veins on his neck, he saw tiny bits of freckles dusting his nose, but he couldn't be sure because the mask made it hard to see. At least Obito didn't drool on the table or was gaping at him. Probably.

"Hello Obito, how are you settling at the company?" A heavy hand clapped Obito's shoulder and he turned to look at Konoha's owner and CEO, who looked like he was going out for a smoke on his pipe.

Obito sent him his best customer service smile. "Just fine, Sarutobi-san, thank you for asking."

"Are you getting all the help you need?"

"Yes, I talked to Yuhi-san and Hatake-san yesterday and they helped me a lot with some of the tech costs." The old man visibly perked up at the woman's name.

"Oh, you met Kurenai? Lovely girl, very intelligent, she's married to my son."

"Really? What about her family name?"

"She decided to keep her maiden name, though I do think Sarutobi Kurenai sounds quite lovely. Me and my wife Biwako love her like the daughter we never had." The man explained with longing and Obito wondered for a moment that surely must be good to be Kurenai, working for a father-in-law that loved you like a daughter.

"And does your son work here too?" Obito tried to keep a neutral tone.

"Oh no, he's going after another career for himself, but she worked here before they started dating if that's what you're wondering." The owner squeezed Obito's shoulder in a joking tone but there was a bit of truth to his defensive tone. His family relationship with Kurenai must have been under the audit's eye for sure, but Obito wasn't gonna go around poking things he didn't know anything about.

"Not at all Sarutobi-san. She seemed very competent."

"You're such a sweet talker, aren't you?"

"What are you talking about Sarutobi-san?" The old man just chuckled and shook his head at Obito's antics. "What about Hatake-san?"

"What about Kakashi-kun?"

"What is his background?" Obito tried to look disinterested. He might have failed to do so.

"He has more experience than Kurenai in other companies, but they graduated together. The boy is a genius."

"A genius?" Obito asked trying not to sound too cynical. He didn't like that word, it was too black and white for him. As if Kakashi was just lucky and everybody else couldn't help but be below him forever. That didn't seem to be the man's posture, he seemed too laid back and casual for that. Maybe his genius fame was just an exaggeration of his status as alpha, it wouldn't be the first time Obito saw something like this.

"Yes, Kurenai convinced him to come work here, and she convinced me to pay him a generous entrance bonus too. But it was worth it."

"I see…"

"On his first six months with us, he improved the stability metrics for almost all our services, we no longer had crashes thanks to him. And the New Products Development team love him and his ideas, though I, as an old man, can't judge them. The last game I contributed to didn't have 3d graphics yet, and the only thing I'm playing these days is Candy Crush." Sarutobi scratched his beard and laughed at his own jokes.

"My grandmother plays it too." Obito said with a smile, remembering how granny had reached level 2000 on it already. He was pretty sure they were only making new levels for this game because of her.

"Us old people don't know what's trendy anymore, but Kakashi-kun is always ahead of the curve, he was a good hiring. Hopefully you will help us too, Obito-kun."

"I don't know if I can live up to these expectations!"

"I'm sure you will, don't worry. Please let us know if you need anything." Obito waved the old man goodbye as he headed for the smoking area, Kakashi still in his head.

Genius or not, Kakashi was very handsome, with his height, his unusual hair color, those laid-back eyes, soft smile that unfortunately he couldn't see behind the mask, and despite his loose clothes, he had some muscle, which was different from the developers he knew, and which Obito would like very much to investigate further. But Kakashi was an alpha. Thinking back about it, he looked like a stereotypical alpha too. He wasn't surprised at that, but Obito was surprised at how attracted he was to Kakashi. The men he's dated before were shorter, leaner, more passive, less imposing, cuter- no, not cuter than Kakashi, he was the cutest man he's ever met, with his easy smile making his eyes crease, the way he blushed when embarrassed, even if the mask covered most of it, the way he avoided making eye contact, everything alluring Obito more and more. Even if it didn't make any sense. Even if they were both alphas. Even if Kakashi wasn't his type at all. Even if his scent was the most exquisite, most delicious, most remarkable scent he's ever smelled.

He was proud of keeping the minimum composure and not saying anything stupid during their meeting. Thank god Kurenai was there, or god knows he wouldn't be able to keep the meeting strictly professional, eventually something stupid from his horny alpha brain would slip and Obito would be fired with only two days in the new company because of sexual harassment. It would've been terrible. Why was Kakashi's scent so strong anyway? Wasn't he in any kind of medication? Most alphas and omegas were, it helped society to function better, he's heard the horror stories about the 70's from his granny, he didn't need to know how it was like to live before suppressants were invented. But Kakashi didn't seem to take any, otherwise his scent would be much fainter. Well, it wasn't his place to judge other people's reproductive choices. And now that Obito knew about how fucking good Kakashi smelled, he would be more prepared next time. Yeah. Just daydreaming about his colleague wasn't sexual harassment, as long as he kept his mouth shut and everything strictly professional. Right?

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