The 'Million Dollar' Man

The 'Million Dollar' Man

Beta'd by- j7nx


::Chapter 3: Who Is This Moron?::

Sasuke hated him the first time they had met eyes, being force to clean his kitchen that he didn't mess up in the first place. He then realized he didn't know his name just that he's his probation officer. He stared at the mop of blonde hair that was cleaning the counters with a rag.


Sasuke was mopping up the floors; he just stopped to think. The blonde looked over his shoulder, because he didn't hear the sounds of the mop across the floor, he watched Sasuke watch him.


“What?” He asked.


“Nothing!” Sasuke went back to mopping the floors, he was about to ask him for his name but then he asked himself why did he care about some moron’s name.


The blonde man also went back to scrubbing the messed up counters.


“What were you cooking anyway?” Sasuke broke the silence after a few minutes.


“Umm...Heh...I just started putting things in a bowl.” Naruto smirked stupidly with his back to Sasuke.


Sasuke’s right eyebrow twitched a little, soon he was growling. He was cleaning some moron’s mess that he didn't know what he was doing in the first place.


“What kind of probation officer are you? You’re supposed to be teaching me responsibility, not the other way around.” Sasuke paused, thinking, he got it.


“Right now, you're teaching me, aren't you?”


He figured it out already? Amazing! Naruto’s eyes turned to a very serious look. His eyes gazed at the counter.


“That’s just wrong.” He threw down the wet mop, and went out the kitchen.


Naruto let out a sigh, so he made the mess to test Sasuke’s smartness. Now he has to clean up the mess by himself. Naruto snorted, Sasuke's father was right about his son’s personality. A genius, but he hasn't seen any mind games...yet.


“Maybe I should have a little talk with Mikoto?” He thought out loud.


'Sasuke The Genius'


“Mikoto?” Naruto called out, he didn't know where the laundry room was, but he did know which way she went.


“In here!” She shouted.


Naruto was a foot away from the door and he stared at it. He went in front of the door, with one hand on the door and the other on the knob; he slowly opened it.


Mikoto stood in front of the washer and was facing him. The noise that it created was loud so she asked him if they could go to the living room. It would be more quite.


'Sasuke The Genius'


“I wanted to talk to you about Sasuke.” He stated and sat on the couch as she took the other couch. A small table was separating the couches.


“Don't hurt him!” It was a warning from a mother to a stranger that held her baby in his hands. She was staring him down.


“I'm not going to hurt him-“ Naruto said. He blinked at the furry in her eyes.


“Yes you are. You want to change him, because of my husband and my older son, for money!” She tried to use her indoor voice, but it was hard not to just scream at him and not just him, her husband too.


“You like the way he is, don't you?” Naruto sounded defeated, his eyes looked over at her for a second before his gaze when to the white carpet.


“I admit Sasuke is a little out of control, but I don't want him to change. That’s just who he is.” Her hands clenched in her lap.


“Oh I get it. You don't want him to be like 'them.'” Naruto puzzle the information together. Naruto had enough talking to her. He got up to leave her alone. Walking up to flight of stairs, and to his room.


His room was huge. Everything that was in it was huge too. He was thinking about the money and what Mikoto had just said. Was the money worth it? It was a lot of money and he meant a lot! He decided to just do his job and nothing else. He stood in the middle of his room; his hands perched on his hips, his eyes staring ahead to the huge window. The light barely touched him, it went past his knees. He sighed and walked to his door, he went out and down two doors. He bargained in without knocking. Sasuke was on his bed reading a magazine.


“You read Cosmo?” Naruto stared speechless at the boy.


“It's NOT Cosmo!” Sasuke hid the magazine under his pillow.


“Then I guess I read it wrong.” Naruto walked to the side of the bed. He plopped himself right down on Sasuke's bed, staring at the huge flat TV screen that was hanging from the wall. There was a door right beside the flat screen.


Something soft hit Naruto in the back of his head, he felt it fall behind him. Reaching around himself, he brought it in front of his face.


“You threw a pillow at me? ...This isn't a sleep over, so no pillow fights, babe.” Naruto place the pillow beside him on the bed.


Naruto then felt something height ram into him, he fell onto the carpet floor. Sasuke and him rolled around on the floor but Naruto got the upper hand over Sasuke. Locking the brunet’s arms, Sasuke's face was pressed to the floor, with Naruto’s body holding down the rest of him.


“Ha!” It was a deep laugh from Naruto. His lips were pressed against Sasuke ear when he did it.


“I'm not here to fight with you, I only want to help you.” Naruto breathed into his ear.
“Screw you.” Sasuke grunted.


“I'm in the position to screw, not you.” It was said slowly and evenly and also into his ear.


“Do I have your attention now?”


“Yes! Now get off me.” He whispered the last part.


“I came in here to talk to you, we’re going to talk.” Naruto told Sasuke.
“Why aren't you getting off me?” He grunted out, the weight on top of him was making it hard to breath, but in a comfortable way.


“Because I don’t think you mean it. You have to say it louder then the first time you said it...I think you like me right... here.” Naruto then kissed Sasuke’s ear, pressing his warm lips on it. He pulled back real slowly.


Naruto blinked, what did he just do? Naruto untangled his arms that locked Sasuke’s and pushed himself up and away from Sasuke.


“We’ll talk later.” Naruto walked over to the door and left Sasuke alone.


'Sasuke The Genius'


Naruto was lying on his bed. Hours just seemed to pass by within a second. He wanted to take a nap before Itachi came home. All he had to do was wait, which means he can't go anywhere. It made him itchy, not doing anything. He thought that maybe it was time to go and talk with Sasuke.


Naruto huffed; he got out of his bed and walked to his door. He was now standing in front of Sasuke's door and was considering of knocking first. He wanted to make friends with Sasuke not his enemy. He went through the processes of knocking.

Nothing.

He tried again.

He got nothing once more.

He went in. Sasuke wasn't on his bed or in the room for that matter. He though maybe Sasuke went downstairs for something. He strolled over to his bed, where Sasuke was before. He lifted the pillow to see if it really was Cosmo, but in stead of finding a magazine, he found a folded half piece of paper. He blinked at it before picking it up.


It said, Dear Moron, I knew you would look here first, because it’s REALLY easy to figure out what you’re thinking (and it wasn't that hard to figure out too!) Just to let you know I'm not in the house... That’s right I'm gone...try and find me.

Mr. probation officer!


HE'S GONE!! The words ran through Naruto's mind after he read Sasuke's little note for him. Naruto dashed out of the room and down the stairs.


The main entrance door opened and Itachi walked through the door. Naruto stopped in front of the stairs as he watched him come in, with his eyes wide open.


“Itachi, welcome home.” Naruto huffed out.


“Naruto, how was it?” Itachi walked into the dean with Naruto following behind.
“Everything went fine.” Naruto said. Trying to hide the truth with his easygoing attitude and then added a smile.


“Mmm. So how much fun is my little brother?” Itachi asked as he sat at his father's desk.


“Too much fun actually.” Naruto smiled. “I tested his brain... He... passed.” Naruto continued to smile.


“So where is he?” Itachi was looking over his father's papers.


“He's...in his room... Like a good little boy...Itachi… What if... he's alright the way he is?” Mikoto really got to him with that little talk with her.

“You have been talking with my mother. She always thinks...” Itachi looked up at Naruto, “like that.” He finished saying.


“You don't like him, do you?” Naruto walked closer to the desk and placed his hands on the desk, leaning on it.


“He's my younger brother.” He said simply.


“I didn't ask that! You don't care for him.” Naruto pushed himself up.


“I didn't pay you for caring! Don't lose sight of your job? Your job is to make-“ He was cut off by Naruto’s loud compliant.


“To make him more like YOU! Is that right. You want me to turn him into a Itachi double.” Naruto said furiously.


“I'm beginning to question your methods.” Itachi’s voice hardened.


That hit Naruto hard. “Forgive me then.” Naruto said defeated, he lowered his head, looking straight at the black carpet.

“Just do your job and nothing else!” Itachi got up from behind the desk, making his way around it; he stood beside Naruto. His arms crossed over his chest.


“I will!” There wasn’t any more doubt in his voice about his job. He was going to finish it.

TBC


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