Lunch
"What the hell is wrong with you?!"
"What the hell is wrong with you?!"
"There's nothing wrong with me but lots wrong with you!"
"That's rich coming from an idiotic, pink haired, fangirl!"
"Who the hell do you think you're calling an idiotic fangirl?! And what does my hair colour have to do with anything?!"
"You're the idiot! And your hair is an ugly colour!"
"I'll have you I graduated third in the school after Shikamaru and Sasuke! And my hair colour is way better than your yellow haired one!"
"Like hell it is! And we all know you always stalk Sasuke!"
"You're the one who stalks him! I happen to be in a relationship with someone else! And we were classmates with common friends, so of course I was near him! You're just jealous that I get noticed by your beloved whilst you get called a nuisance!"
A gasp was emanated from the pink haired girl right before she started crying.
Sakura and Ino were arguing about who knows what and nobody cared enough to question it, and none dared to stop them. They may all be assassin and friends, but those two females specialized in fist fighting and other hand-to-hand combats.
However Naruto Uzumaki was always a force to be reckoned with. But when she's in a bad mood, you want to do everything in your power to not get her mad.
Clearly both of those girls forgot how sadistic the cheerful blonde could really be.
"Sakura Haruno and Ino Yamanaka! I suggest the two of you shut your traps up or I'll show you just what my sabre does exactly. I am in no mood to deal with either of you and I am repressing the urge to stab the two of you." She glared at the two girls as they both paled considerably and, wisely, stayed quiet. Letting out an annoyed breath he asked for everyone's reports.
It was Ino who spoke up first, "Well, everything seemed normal. Keyword seemed. It was far too… domestic and homely that it made me wanna vomit. Previously, the couple were never like that and I believe they were tipped off that someone was tailing them, hence the sudden change I behaviour. Heck, even the girlfriend was surprised by his behaviour."
Naruto nodded towards her and gave her reply, "Good. Keep eyes, and if possible ears, on him at all possible times. So far you've done a great job so keep it up and we'll know everything there is to know. Just don't forget to email this report to the day workers so they're on top of this as well."
Ino left with a curt nod before Sai spoke up, "My target that I have been tailing alongside day workers had been assassinated. We had originally planned on waiting a few more days, however he had a friend with him that somehow must have spotted me so I had to kill them both. The other male was a wanted man on our list as well, so I ended up killing two wanted people." He shrugged like it was no big deal and Naruto gave a nod.
A universal message that all males understood that he was trusted to get on with everything smoothly.
Last but not least, he looked towards Sakura who refused to make eye contact before finally looking up with determined eyes and spoke clearly to her team leader, "My mission was a success. I had to… infiltrate the Moreno family and gain information on their people's locations and their bases locations. I had a recorder on me at the time and will write up all of them immediately and send it to all required heads."
She once again nodded his head before replying, "Make sure that's done here and not at home. We don't want you getting attacked on the way home because of that information."
With that she turned around to sit at her desk before checking the time on her phone. 3:24 AM. Just a little longer left.
She got up to go the bathroom and as she came back her phone was ringing and there was a small crowd around it.
Raising a brow she cleared her cough before Ino handed her the phone with a twinkle in her eyes. "It's Sasuke."
On the outside she was calm and collected however internally she was going through all the curse words she could think of before answering in a confused voice. "Sasuke? Aren't you meant to be in bed?"
She heard a sneeze before the male on the other side of the line replied, "I just woke up and can't sleep. Talk to me and I'll be able to sleep. Your voice is so very boring after all." He said in a teasing voice.
"Ha-ha-ha. Note the enthusiasm in my voice. Do you have a cold? You should seriously be sleeping." She sat down and waved for everyone to continue their work and gave a fierce glare to make sure they did.
"I can't seem to sleep properly without you next to me recently. Most likely because you've conditioned my body to be used to either your scent or heat."
Naruto blinked, that was awfully honest of him, "Well if you need my scent, you are sleeping in my bed. In my room, where I keep my clothes. As for my body heat… you'll have to do without it for a bit longer. I could leave early if it's really bothering you. I'm not allowed to do much anyway. Not with my injuries." She leaned back in his chair and started to go round on it in circles, not noticing the slight smile on her face, however everyone around him sure as hell did.
"I will not condone a person leaving work early for no good reason." Sasuke was laying down on his back facing the ceiling with one hand behind his head. He really did want the blonde here, he missed the body heat that emitted from her.
"I will have you know that the company I work for does not have shift timings. Merely come in whenever you're needed, leave whenever you're done, just making sure your works done." She shrugged her shoulder and stifled a yawn.
"Oh wait and another thing. We hardly sleep together in that bed, now do we?" she asked in a teasing voice with a small smirk on her face. However that smirk vanished when she realized just how everyone would perceive that sentence, and internally groaned.
"No we don't. I usually sleep whilst you go to work, but those few days you were sleeping next to me seemed to be enough to condition me. How troublesome." He muttered the last part but Naruto had heard him and emitted a light hearted chuckle.
"Sleeping together just twice could have that effect, never mind the amount of times you're in my bed with me. Just… let me wrap things up here and I'll be home in about 45 minutes. Okay?" she started to gather the papers on her desk together into two piles.
"Hn. What are you doing now?" she shifted the phone onto her shoulder as she organised her desk.
"Wow. Sleepy you is a very talkative you. I don't think we have had a conversation this long, not whilst it's been initiated by you."
"You still haven't answered my question." Sai gave her a form to sign that had blaring capital red letters on it, meaning she had to read it.
"Sorting though some paperwork. Look Sasuke I've gotta go, but I'll be home within the next hour, kay? Bye."
"Hmm. Okay, see you soon."
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The next day Naruto woke up early with a still sleeping Sasuke, snuggling her. Specifically, his head was between her breasts. Again. Sighing internally, she looked at the desk clock and saw that it was 7:45. Well past the time for Sasuke to be up and gone for work.
Knowing the male was a workaholic who got very prissy when he wasn't working on a work day, she woke him up. What she wasn't prepared for was Sasuke shoving her further into the bed, a gun to her temple and his other arm placed in a choking hold. Looking into his eyes, he saw he was very glazy and not aware of what he was doing, so she decided to pry the arm off his throat slightly so she could talk.
"Well good morning to you too." She rolled her eyes when Sasukes widened and he jumped off the blonde as he had been burned. Brushing what had just happened under the rug, knowing if he questioned it, it would be very hypocritical, so instead she asked, "How comes your still here? Don't you have work today?"
Sasuke glared slightly and Naruto had to admit, with Sasukes dishevelled hair, messy clothes and gun in one hand, he looked absolutely damn right delicious. "You're eyes are screwing me in different positions. And as for work, the company is sorting through paperwork so they said they'd email or fax me if there was something that needed my signature. I had planned on sleeping in for a bit longer since I didn't sleep much last night."
Naruto just shrugged, knowing not to question it and went off to her kitchen to cook something up for them. "Hey Sasuke! What do you wanna eat?!"
"I'll cook. I did promise to cook over the weekend but you were avoiding me."
"Were you drinking last night?" Naruto asked, glaring at the dark haired male.
Sasuke blinked, "A few glasses, yes. What does that have to do with anything?"
"It just explains your behaviour from the phone call." At the confused look Sasuke gave she held back a snicker and continued, "You rang me whilst I was at work this morning, like, 3:30 or something. You went on about how I conditioned your body to fall be enjoy my scent or body heat and wanted me home, to let you fall asleep.
"When I got home you were tipsy. And kept shoving me back on the bed, each time I tried to get up. It was quite the sight to see, if I do say so myself. Although, I could have done without you trying to take my clothes off or shoving your head under my shirt… you even tried to take off my pants. At some point you ripped my shirt and tied my hands to the post. Drunk you is a flirt. Well, back to the present. What do you feel like cooking for me? This'll be the first time I'm having your cooking."
She looked positively gleeful so Sasuke decided to ignore that and went on to make them some pancakes, chocolate, banana, blueberry, plain and a few more.
After, the two of them got ready for the lunch their godparents had invited them to. Apparently since they both had no work to be at currently, Tsunade and Jiraiya decided to just get lunch over and done with.
They would be going with their respective family members as the couple didn't live in the complex and in fact lived in the opposite side of the city.
This would be a lunch they would never forget.
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Sasuke met up with Itachi at the latter's house that was a five minute drive from the place they were going to meet everyone at.
Itachi had rang that morning saying he would come with Sasuke and leave with Inaho as she had his car. Sasuke chose, wisely, not to question why she had his big brothers favourite car.
On the way there Itachi started to talk, "Let's make a deal Sasuke, you don't cause a scene and I will butt out of your personal life for a month."
"Make it two and you got a deal." They shook hands and Sasuke parked up on their godmothers drive way.
Once they got out of the car, they made their way up to the door when Sasuke heard a very familiar voice.
"Oh come on! What on earth could be keeping them up exactly?! I swear, Naruto, when they get here I'll give them a real good lecturing!"
"I doubt they'd appreciate being lectured aunty. Give it a rest and let the boys be boys." Looking over to where Naruto was, he could see she had changed out of her boy clothes and into very fitting female clothes.
Sasuke would have to resist the urge to burn all of Naruto's guy clothes when he got home as her current outfit was causing his brain to malfunction.
She was wearing a tight fit orange and black zip up sleeveless shirt with a black Chinese skirt, the slit going up to her mid-thigh, giving him a glimpse of her weapons pouch but more importantly, her thic thighs. The skirt hugged her arse and upper thighs in ways that gave him thoughts that his godmother most definitely wouldn't approve of.
He couldn't see a single inch of Naruto right now that didn't look positively ravishing. Binding her chest was practically a sin in his mind yet at the same time, he didn't want other people ogling her like a piece pf meat, similarly to how he was looking at her.
He was in fact so distracted by the sight of her, he hadn't registered her coming over till she waved her hand in front of his face, "How long do you plan on ignoring me?" she had a pout on her face as she crossed her arms under her chest making them far more noticeable in the tight shirt.
His brother had gone over to the albino haired woman who always scared the shit out of him, not that he would ever admit it because he wouldn't. And he would sadly have to get used to seeing the woman since his brother was engaged to her and Naruto was her niece.
Gritting his teeth, he gripped her by the waist, pressing her to his front, ignoring her squeal of surprise, before whispering in her ear, "If you were my girlfriend, I would honestly feel like bending you over and ravishing you senseless."
Quite the confession. Thought Naruto a dark blush took over her face as she tried to get out of his grip with no luck, she didn't want to strain her injuries even more than she already had. "Grandma Tsunade is looking."
"Let her look." He smelt her hair which smelt like his shampoo. Which would explain why his had been finished when he took a shower that morning, "You naughty little girl. You used my shampoo." He tightened his grip on the writhing blonde, confused by the look Inaho was giving him.
"One, mine was finished when I got in the shower and didn't want to get out to get a new one. Two, you like your hair products way more than I do. And three, I'm starting to think you like kinky shit. Last night you pinned me to the bed, ripped my shirt and tied me to the bed. You also like pinning me to the walls." She wrapped her arms around his neck as she absorbed his scent, her frame shaking slightly in his hands.
"What's wrong?" he murmured into her hair as he removed his coat which wasn't a very easy task considering the blonde that was latched onto him.
She moved back slightly and gave him a pained smile. At the sight of it he thought of the several ways he knew how to torture people slowly and painfully without actually killing them. He was leaning towards poisoning the person who had hurt her and only giving them the antidote when it was needed.
"My aunt has been pushing that I go back to the five nations and look for a lover. I don't want to go. Granny also wants me to go and get on with it. The two of them are tag-teaming against me. The only person on my side is the old pervert."
She had started to walk into the house whilst Sasuke held her hand, as Sasuke resolved to show or at least tell Tsunade and Inaho that they couldn't control his blonde. Since he couldn't torture them like he planned, he would try and be as creative as he could.
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Naruto was sat next to Sasuke on the round shaped table that her godfather was so very fond of. They were sat in two's; Jiraiya next to Tsunade who was sitting next to Itachi then Inaho who was sitting next to Sasuke then herself.
She was relieved that she wasn't sitting next to either of the elder females. They were all discussing a completely civilian matter; the number of murders that were happening lately.
Okay, not so civilian but it sort of was when it wasn't your company doing the killing.
Lunch was still in the oven and the youngest pair had been requested to set the table. When they made their way to the kitchen Sasuke gripped her left arm.
She furrowed her brows when he didn't say anything, "Sasuke? Is everything alright?" she moved closer and placed her right hand on his dominant arm which seemed to wake him to reality.
He reached his hand into his pocket and pulled out a ring. "I wanted to give this to you for your last birthday but never got round to it since you were on a business trip at the time. Then I was going to give this to you as an extension of my apology for groping you, but I've changed my mind. It also matches my own ring that you gave me for my birthday a while back."
He took a hold of her right hand and placed it on her ring finger, causing her to look up at him confused why he would put the ring there. "I'm not proposing. You said you wanted to stay, all you need to do is pretend to be in a relationship with me… It'll be a pain in the ass but it'd work. At the very least you won't have to be sent away. It'd be believable anyway, the people around us already think we're together. This way, people would still believe we are together even in your male persona."
She gave him a large smile before launching herself into his arms causing them to stumble back slightly. She took a moment to take a look at the ring.
It and saw a simple yet beautiful ring similar to the one she had bought Sasuke a few years ago for his birthday. It was a silver ring with flames engraved onto it and an obsidian stone, the same shade as his eyes. In comparison, the one Naruto had bought had swirls on and a blue gem the same shade as her own eyes.
She could feel an engraving on the inside and when she asked Sasuke what it was he said it was a fancy U, the same one as she had had engraved on his. They both had last names beginning with the letter U so it made sense.
Deciding they had taken too long, they both quickly got a hold of the cutlery that was needed, Sasuke offering to take the heavier things as her shoulder wound could open at any time.
They went mostly unnoticed by the adults as they handed out the dishes. The only one that seemed to have caught sight of her ring seemed to be Itachi yet he chose not to comment.
Naruto was still trying get the vision of the time she had walked in on him and her aunt screwing. It was far worse now because she actually had a face to go with the body.
She was slightly confused however. Inaho had said she was dating an assassin. That meant that Sasuke's older brother was an assassin who worked for the same company she did. She would have to have a word with him to keep her secret a secret.
She had no doubt in her mind that the man had already put the pieces together already. Naruto was even willing to bet he had put the pieces together the night he came over. He seemed to be a very intelligent person, and intelligent people always frightened her, if they were smarter than her that is. But he was most definitely smarter than she was.
Lunch was served a few minutes after they had set the table. Roast chicken and potatoes with lots of tomatoes for Sasuke.
"Naruto. I couldn't help but notice you have a weapons pouch strapped onto your leg… what do you work as exactly?" asked Itachi. By the glint in his eyes, Naruto knew he was screwing with her. It made her understand why Sasuke thought his brother was a bastard. He most certainly acted like one.
"I work as a security guard for a CEO. I work at night since he parties a lot." She gave a glimpse at Sasuke only to see him glaring at his brother, right hand clenching the fork in his hand. His left hand which was under the table suddenly found its way onto her thigh.
Naruto was surprised at the sudden contact but decided against showing it, it would make people wonder why and she didn't want to explain. "Interesting. Oh, I heard you knew my roommate Shisui Uchiha. Do you know many of the Uchiha clan?" Itachi looked towards Sasuke as he finished the question, confusing Naruto as to why. Did he know members of the Uchiha clan yet hadn't told her for her blatant disregard for them?
"Um… I know a few of them. I don't really get on with them, for personal reasons…" she was growing uneasy with the direction of this conversation, yet was unsure how to change it without being obvious.
"Could you perhaps name a few?" Naruto was certain he was smirking under that smile. It made her want to punch him. Similar to how she felt when she met Uchiha's, perhaps that was due to their conversation.
"Well Shisui obviously. I knew the previous head, Fugaku and his wife Mikoto. Then there's this girl, Izumi I met a few times… and Obito."
"So, you don't know a man named Madara Uchiha?" at the name Naruto's blood ran cold. It had been years since anyone she knew dared say that name in front of her.
She tuned out all sounds. She could barely make out loud yet muffled voices through her hands which she used to cover her ears. She clenched her eyes shut, willing the images in her mind to go away.
Yet they wouldn't go. She could see Madara in her home, face and clothes covered in blood as he raised his sword manically. There was no style to how he swing around the weapon, mindless maniac, and psychopath.
Her breathing became irregular as she lifted her legs to her chest, gasping for what little air she could take, yet her throat felt numb and she could feel her sweat form around her clenched muscles.
It had been years since she last had had a panic attack and she couldn't remember how to bring herself out of it.
Her hands were suddenly ripped from her ears forcing her to open her eyes wide as she stared at the person in front of her.
Sasuke.
He was holding her hands as she gasped for breath when he spoke calmly and slowly, "Naruto, please, copy my breathing. Okay?" she gave a small nod and followed his breathing. They inhaled deeply pausing then exhaling deeply. They repeated this over ten times before she finally started to breathe normally yet she knew the attack hadn't ended.
Somehow, Sasuke knew as well. He lifted her in his arms as he carried her upstairs, away from everyone in the room. Away from the madman.
He gently placed her at the edge of her room's bed, kneeling before her as he took her face in his hands, brows furrowed as he looked at her.
With shaking hands she took a hold of Sasukes larger hands and gestured she wanted to lay down with him. He gave her a small smile as he picked her up and laid down next to her, her head pressed against his shoulder as his arms wrapped protectively around her.
In that moment, Naruto knew she was safest in the arms of her neighbour.