Naruto Fan Fiction ❯ The Art of The Business ❯ When Fools Rush In ( Chapter 10 )

[ X - Adult: No readers under 18. Contains Graphic Adult Themes/Extreme violence. ]

The night was silent and chilly. If people listened carefully they could catch the gentle hooting of an owl or a few bugs chirping. But in a city as lovely as this one, rarely did anyone stop to enjoy their surroundings. Itachi on the other hand, was lucid with boredom and exhaustion. His mind was floating about and he had all the time to listen to the night sounds. With a little sigh he balanced his chin in his palm as he leaned against the armrest of the backseat. Kisame noticed the other's dismal mood almost instantly. He glanced casually into the rear view mirror to see his co-worker looking out the window with melancholy eyes.

"What's gotten you into such a damper Itachi?" he asked with a slight snicker. He truly didn't care to know, but finding out would be more interesting than driving the other male around without saying a word. He had been bitter the first few years when he joined the Akatsuki and was immediately assigned to be Itachi's partner. How unfortunate that such a title was only a fancy way of saying the male's chauffer. He rarely got to enjoy any of the kills himself. He was merely a dog for Itachi's uses. But by now he had gotten use to the treatment and he almost stopped complaining about each assignment he didn't get to participate in. The least Itachi could do for him is enjoy the kill since he can not himself.

Itachi barely looked Kisame's way. "It's all nothing but a huge disappointment. I could have sworn Hitsugi would be a more amusing target but the old pig even crawled on his knees begging for what was left of his pointless existence. How the hell am I suppose to enjoy myself when they give up so easily Kisame?" Itachi asked with mock panic.

Kisame rolled his eyes and shrugged. "Maybe you should take a break for now Itachi. You know how the saying goes...you don't know what you had until it's gone. A few weeks without killing will have you bloodthirsty and itching for more in no time." Kisame suggested. Of course the only thing on his mind was filling in for Itachi on his leave of absence. It would finally give him a chance to show off his stuff to the Akatsuki. Maybe they would even place him in charge of their group.

"And what would you suppose I do with all that free time Kisame?" Itachi questioned in a stern voice. "Living a regular life would be more boring than this. Your ideas are stupid. Next time keep your thoughts to yourself." Itachi commanded idly. He lightened in mood when he saw them finally pull up to the Uchiha estate. It was a truly marvelous three story mansion: 20 bedrooms and 15 and a half baths. The space was seldom used, so it was just a waste by Itachi's opinion. Despite how much he despised it he knew how much it had meant to his ambitious family. Besides, he didn't quite feel like moving anyway.

Itachi didn't even wait for Kisame to come out and open the door for him. He was in need of a good shower seeing as how his clothes were dosed in blood. He let himself in, leaving the door open for Kisame to come in as well. Kisame growled, following the male inside. he knew it was always better to wait out all the excitement police caused by staying at a home other than his own. He plopped down onto the living room couch as he watched Itachi stroll up the stairs to his bedroom. Kisame's eyes strolled casually around the room until they fell upon a simple answering machine; it's red light flashing. "Hey Itachi you got a message!" Kisame called out to the other.

That was no surprise to Itachi. Work always called him at home because they were hopelessly lost without his guidance. Usually he erased all messages before hearing them out, but Kisame, who's boredom was the boss of him, decided to press the play back button. Itachi's ears twitched with annoyance as the machine beeped and began the long list of messages. The shower he got in the shower the sooner he could drown out their voices.

He stripped off his white dress shirt after undoing his tie. Everything would definitely have to be burned. But it was no concern to him, he had enough money to buy a new outfit everyday. Itachi paused as the next message suddenly played.

"Hey Onii-sama. I know you can't come to the phone right now, but if you suddenly decide to wonder why I am not home before you, I'm at a...friend's place." Itachi rose a curious brow at hearing this. Sasuke rarely left the house with the exception to go to work and he certainly never went to any of his friend's homes. The main reason being he didn't have any friends to visit. Sasuke knew this better than anyone. So the message had grabbed his attention. "Umm...anyway...I just wanted you to know...I'll see you at home."

Curiosity had gotten the best Itachi this round. Before he undressed completely, he stepped back out of his room. He crossed the hall and knocked briefly on the oak door in front of him. After receiving no answer, he opened it up to find the room empty. So Sasuke was really out? It was strange, almost unheard of. Usually Sasuke brought back all his flings to the house where he could screw them and kick them out afterward. There were even a few times he bothered taking a room at the hotel. But he had always returned home before the night was through. Itachi gazed at the clock on the nightstand. It was already past three in the morning, hours past Sasuke's usual curfew. And he truly believed Sasuke wouldn't leave a message to tell him he was at a friend's. Perhaps something was really wrong here.

Kisame noted Itachi's peculiar behavior when he came up to the other's room. "What's got you Itachi? Never heard a message before?" Kisame mocked.

Itachi gave the other a stern look before turning away. "Of course. But even I know Sasuke has no friends to hang out with over night."

Kisame couldn't help laughing at that. "Wow Itachi, that's harsh. You'd think as his older brother you'd have a little more faith in him than that."

"I'm merely stating the truth Kisame." Itachi said blandly. "Sasuke is not exactly the social type despite having a magnet to reel in women with ease."

Kisame shrugged. "So I guess this means you don't believe him then?"

"...."

Morning was in adequately refreshing for Sasuke, which was unusual. Rolling over to spread out on what he imagined was his queen sized bed with dark blue silk sheets and ridiculously large pillows, he soon found out he was not at home being that he fell right onto the floor. "What the-?!" He growled, throwing head up as if expecting someone to have pushed him off. Rolling off the bed never happened to him especially with such a large bed and the fact that he was a very peaceful sleeper.

"Well good morning to you too Princess." Naruto chuckled, stepping out of the kitchen. Sasuke groaned and turned to face the blond. How the hell did he end up here? Even though the memories of last night were slowly resurfacing he couldn't believe he had actually spent the night some where outside of home. Sasuke gave Naruto a vicious glare as he walked over and stripped the blankets from the couch. "Hey look if your pissed about not sleeping in some overpriced waterbed then I couldn't give a damn. But I'm sure you'll find it all worth it once I tell you who called this morning..." Naruto began giving his foolish smile. He held up the phone proudly and watched as a look of surprise appeared on the Uchiha's face.

"You're not serious! He wouldn't call back!" Sasuke abruptly stated, snapping out of his astonishment. Naruto was pulling his leg. Itachi wouldn't call a stranger’s house looking for him especially so early in the morning. that would have meant he had to have heard the answering machine which was less than one to a million percentage of probability.

"On the contrary, he left a message." Naruto added, tossing the cordless phone to the dazed raven. He couldn't help chuckle as he marched back into the kitchen to fix him some morning ramen. So much for Sasuke being the calm collect person he thought he was. When it came to his brother he seemed just like everyone else, reacting to the littlest thing.

Sasuke earnestly brought the phone up to his ear after setting it to play back messages. "Hello? Sasuke I just wanted to make sure you were still at your...friend's house. You didn't come back last night so I just wanted to know where you were..."

"You see. I told you it would work." Naruto replied excitedly. "And now that we have him hooked it's time to reel him in." He insisted.

"And how do you suppose we do that?" Sasuke suddenly asked. He wasn't too sure he liked where this was going. He already pretty got what he wanted. Itachi had called back which meant he was a little worried about him. As far as he cared, it proved Itachi wasn't just some robot living under the same roof as him. Anything more and he was sure Itachi was going to kill him too. It was already a definite that Naruto had sealed his fate by interfering. Itachi never liked nose people getting into his business.

"Get dressed and I'll show you." Naruto demanded eagerly. He rushed back to his own room to get dressed for the day. Sasuke watched in total confusion. How could someone be so excited about mischief like this boy? Despite having the feeling that this wasn't going to end well, Sasuke rose up and retrieved his clothes he had yesterday from the dryer. Naruto better not get them into deep trouble.

It didn't take the too very long to get dressed. But Sasuke did have to wait for Naruto to have his fill of ramen before they could leave, which was irritating in itself since he had no particular taste for the fatty meal. Finally they managed to make it his car where Naruto insisted he drive them to his own home. What was the point of arguing with him before if they would end up in the same place anyway, Sasuke wondered? As he pulled into the long driveway of the Uchiha mansion, Naruto's excited blue eyes widened and his jaw was nearly touching his chest.

"You live here?!" He exclaimed in surprise. "Why do you even leave?!" Naruto shouted hysterically. "If I had a place like this I would never be working" he chuckled.

Sasuke however didn't find it quite as amusing. "This place is hardly hospitable anymore. It lost its homey feeling a long time ago." Sasuke said with a sigh. He turned off the car and stepped out. "A giant place like this only becomes a hassle when only two people live here."

"You and your brother? So you don't have any servants?" Naruto thought that was a little weird. The house was simply too big to leave up to two guys to clean on their own. And judging by their jobs he doubted either Sasuke or his brother had the time to clean up around the place.

Sasuke disregarded the question and walked to the front door. He'd rather not admit that Itachi had scared all the workers away. He had odd and mysterious habits that made them suspicious of them. Not that Sasuke thought they didn't deserved the suspicion, after what he knew Itachi had done; he just thought they would be use to the abnormal Uchiha's by now. "So why did you want to come here anyway?" Sasuke asked, letting Naruto in.

Naruto rushed past Sasuke, "show me your room!" He demanded, grabbing Sasuke by the wrist and lead him upstairs where he assumed Sasuke's room was. The black haired male gave a feral growl upon being pushed around by some low-life like Naruto but he restrained himself from teaching the blond a lesson. After all he was only trying to help, despite how pathetic his attempts were.

"This way" Sasuke pointed out blandly when Naruto nearly passed the door in his shuffle. Sasuke quirked up a curious brow when Naruto dared burst in and started trashing the place like he had lost his mind. "What are you up to Naruto?" He asked with slight irritation. He would be stuck with cleaning up the mess later so he at least deserved an explanation for what was going here. Unfortunately he received no answer as Naruto started to spill the contents of his selves and drawers onto the floor. He even went so far as to knock down a lamp and ruffle the blankets on his bed.

Empty, dead black eyes watched with the intent to kill as Naruto walked casually back tot he door. Truly what was up with this kid? Sasuke was even more so baffled as Naruto tapped a simple note on his bedroom door. Sasuke took a step closer and sighed. "A ransom note? Are you serious? No one would fall for this crap Naruto, even if you cut out letters from magazines." Sasuke pointed out, crossing his arms with a huff.

"It just has to work. What guy wouldn't care if his younger brother was kidnapped? Your a model so it doesn't seem so bizarre that a stalker must have been desperate or something, right? And with your brother owning some big company, I'm sure he has gained a few enemies right? He's sure to think it's real. If he really cares about you Sasuke he will bring the money without question." Naruto explained with a proud grin.

Sasuke sighed once more. If only Naruto truly knew Itachi like he did he would understand the pointlessness of it all. "I'm telling you it won't work but since you went ahead and trashed my room, it looks like I have no choice in the matter..." Sasuke grumbled.

"That's right. Now come on, we have to get out of here before he comes home." Naruto insisted, grabbing Sasuke once more and rushing him out of the room. Naruto and Sasuke made it down to the front door before trouble already began to unravel. The two were greet with several pairs of menacing eyes belonging to a few burly men standing in Sasuke's doorway.

"Who are you guys? Do you have permission to be here?" Sasuke asked sternly. Itachi normally didn't invite associates over to their home to talk. And as far as he knew, he never told anyone where he lived.

"I wouldn't concern myself with that if I were you Sasuke" one man replied. "We simply came over for a little business, right boys?" the man from the middle questioned. A smirk appeared on his lips and he merely snapped his fingers before the group was suddenly upon the Naruto and Sasuke.

"What the hell is going on?!" Naruto bellowed, thrashing as two men took hold of his arms.

"How the hell should I know dumbass?! Did you set this up?!" Sasuke shouted back, trying to fight off three men that had come for him.

"Hell no!"

It wasn't long before they were quickly overpowered. Bound by their arms and legs, the two were carried back outside where two cars awaited them. The man who apparently was the leader stepped out after them. "We only need Sasuke, but since we already have a little friend of his, I'm sure another hostage will only benefit us." He remarked.

If Sasuke didn't know any better this would sound like a...kidnapping?!

To Be Continued....

A/N: sorry for the wait. I was forced to attend summer camp and program stuff XP. I'll try my hardest not to let it happen again. So please keep reviewing and I will get the updates in as quick as possible. See you all soon.