Manga Team

Another fic. My third, I should be writting the other chapters, but I just couldn't ignore the idea I had to make this fic. I hope you enjoy this first chapter! Go read! xD

pairings: main pairing sasu/naru, lee/gaa, ino/saku, tenten/shino, shika/chou, kiba/neji, sai/haku


ps: The parts of songs that appear here are both from Breaking benjamin, Had Enough and Topless.

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Naruto ran like crazy down the stairs and entered his car at full speed, he was late for work. It was the third time that week, he couldn’t keep getting late, he needed another alarm clock, the one he had was crap. Half an hour went by and he had finally arrived at a large building, he made his way in receiving the greetings of the other workers.

“You’re so late Naruto.” Kiba laughed from his desk.

“Shut up and finish drawing, our publisher is already asking when we’ll be done.” Naruto retorted sitting in his seat.

“You have to draw also, not only me. By the way, did you bring the rest of the script?”

“Yeah, finished it last night.”

Naruto owned that manga studio, he started off alone in making his own manga, but he realized he couldn’t keep going all by himself. He needed help because he wasn’t being able to keep up with the deadlines his publisher gave him. He hired people he trusted, among them were old college friends, such as Kiba, his best friend, and others. He writes the manga script, since it’s his own story, and the others help him putting that into the paper, he assigned jobs to his helpers, such as character designing, background designing, and other things, but everyone did a little of everything.

“C’mon people, let’s wrap this up, the deadline is ‘till next week, after we finish we’ll go celebrate at Vogue and then we’ll have a three weeks vacation!”

Everyone cheered and clapped their hands, Vogue was a very popular disco in town, everyone cool went there, it had great music, good drinks, hot people. Naruto loved going there together with his teammates, they always had a great time and got so drunk.

“Now sit your buts down again and let’s work, we have a long day ahead.”

Everyone sat down again and started working, things were going pretty well, they had already published a manga and it had great success, they were a great team and Naruto’s stories were awesome! Shikamaru didn’t like the silence that suddenly fell in the room, he stood up from his seat and turned the radio on tuning in his favorite station, suddenly loud music filled the room, Naruto glanced back at Shikamaru.

“What? We don’t have to work in silence. It’s troublesome.” He responded with his usual bored tone going back to his seat. Naruto agreed, and after a few minutes one of his favorite songs started playing on the radio.

“Hey you guys, you know this song?” The blonde asked looking to the others.
“Of course Naruto, who doesn’t?” Sakura answered noticing that Naruto was starting to dance around the room singing along with the music. She smiled and stood up as well heading for the blond and placing one of her arms around Naruto’s shoulders, the others joined the party and in a few seconds everyone was dancing and jumping around the room singing along with the song.

You had to have it all
Well have you had enough?
You greedy little bastard
You will get what you deserve
When all is said and done
I will be the one
To leave you in your misery
And hate what you’ve become

They continued singing like that until the music was over, then everyone went back to their seats and started to finish what they were doing before the little show they pulled. The room was filled with laughter as they talked about daily stuff but never leaving their work.

“Hey Sai, how’s your hitting on Haku going? Did you fuck him already?”

“WHAT??” Both Haku and Sai shouted. “What the hell are you talking about Chouji??” Sai was fuming and Haku was blushing like mad, he buried his face in the drawing hoping Sai wouldn’t notice.

“Oh, c’mon, it’s so obvious you two are drooling all over each other.” Naruto said between laughter.

“How the hell did this conversation get in here?? I’m so not drooling over anyone, especially not over Haku the dumbass.” Sai pointed his finger in Haku’s direction.

“What? Sai, no need to insult me okay? Just pay no attention to what they say, why are you so flustered?” Haku retorted narrowing his eyes at the raven haired boy.

“Hey, Sai doesn’t like Haku!” Ino said standing up with her hands on her table.
“Ino like’s Sai!!” Kiba shouted with excitement standing up and jumping.

Ino threw a pair of pencils at Kiba who dodged them gracefully sticking his tongue out at Ino.

“Ino throws poisoned darts to her enemy, but he successfully dodged them! What will Ino ---“

“Shut up Lee!!” Ino shouted irate and throwing another pair of pencils at Lee that was using a giant rubber as microphone.

“Oh no, Ino started going crazy and attacking her allies!!” Lee dramatized his speech putting his hands on his head with a horror expression, he then threw the giant rubber at Ino “We have no choice but to attack too!” However the rubber failed to hit its target landing on a red head. Gaara took the rubber off of his head and used it to erase a minor mistake on the drawing bellow him. Lee and Ino looked at each other.

“You stole all the fun Gaara.” Lee whined going back to his seat.

Naruto was laughing his ass off, he loved his team so much, he never got bored with them and they were great professionals. This was perfect, all he ever wanted, well, except for the bossy publisher, but that doesn’t matter, Naruto was happy just the same. He glanced at the watch, it was almost noon.

“C’mon people, let’s get some lunch!” Naruto articulated fisting his hands in the air. He was so hungry. The others stood up as well and started strolling to the door leaving the building soon after. They were going at Ichiraku’s Restaurant, Naruto loved it, they served his favorite ramen, they were the best! It was their everyday lunch spot, the owner already knew them very well.

They sat at the same table by the window on the same seats. The restaurant had a fancy decoration, the windows were large and adorned with long red curtains, the tables were round and the wood was shiny, Naruto could see his reflection in it. The table cloth was handmade, round and completely white. There were tapestries on some walls, beautiful pieces of tapestry, Naruto thought that the old man was growing money trees in his garden.
The waiter came to take the orders of the fourteen teens present.

“What do you guys want?”

“Kankurou you look so pissed, what happened?” Tenten enquired looking at the boy with a worried face.

Kankurou shrugged and pouted, he didn’t like these kinds of questions. “Nothing, I’m fine, this is my face, deal with it, now, what do you want?”

“I’ll have the sukiyaki.” Sakura mumbled still looking at the menu, she wasn’t quite sure if she wanted that. Deciding that sukiyaki was fine she handed the menu to Kiba.

“Don’t need, I’ll have the same as her, we’ll all have the same as her.” The spiky haired teen stated smirking to his blonde boss.

“Heyy!! No, I want meh ramen Kiba you ass.” Naruto stuck his tongue out at kiba who rested his head on his hand. “Uzumaki, put that tongue in its place before I give it another use.”

“Kiba, you’re such a perv!!” The dog lover leaned back escaping the Menu thrown at him.
Kankurou rolled his eyes and headed for the kitchen to place the orders, that group was so annoying.

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Food on the table, everyone started eating except for Naruto, Naruto doesn’t eat, he devours the food he calls ramen, his team mates didn’t know how he could handle eating all that every day and not getting sick.

I love your face

Just get away

I’m on my knees

Fuck you, fuck me…

“What is this??” Sai uttered looking around the table, everyone else was doing the same. Suddenly a very red Gaara stood up and placed his cell phone on his ear walking away from the table. Everybody was staring at him, and then…

“Jesus!! Hahahahahaaaaaa… I never thought Gaara could have a phone ring like that!!”

“Haku, behave yourself you dumbass, your making a scene and you look like a pig laughing and shoving your arms like that.”

“Damn you Sai!! Don’t insult me you freaking statue.”

Sai slowly turned his face to look at Haku, his eyes wide, his eyebrows arched, of all the names Haku called him, statue was the weirder one. Shino let a sound escape his throat, not quite comprehensible, maybe it was a small laugh, maybe not, no one ever saw Shino laughing. A few minutes later Gaara came back and sat with his friends again.

“Who was it Gaara?” Lee asked leaning a bit to peek into the red head’s cell phone, his shoulders slightly touched Gaara’s and the pale cheeks flushed, he immediately shoved the fuzzy eye browed boy away.

“Don’t do that Lee.” Was the short response the pale boy gave the other one. “It was Sasuke, a friend of mine, looks like he works here, I don’t see him though…”

Blue eyes blinked a few times “Sasuke? You never mentioned him before.”

“Yeah, I don’t talk a lot.”

“Really?? I didn’t know that!” Naruto teased in a sarcastic tone. Gaara simply ignored like always, he was no fun in Naruto’s, well, in everyone’s opinion.

“I have to go to the bathroom.” Standing up the spiky haired blonde turned and was about to walk when his face buried itself on an unknown surface, he stumbled on his own feet and felt himself falling down on the floor in slow motion, the unknown surface still pressed on his face. Distant laughter filled his ears as he raised his head and froze completely. Right beneath him were a pair of midnight black eyes staring at him, he let his blue eyes wander to a pink sexy mouth, he blinked again and looked into the eyes again, he then realized he was on top of someone, the unknown surface of before.

“You’re gonna get off me or what, dobe?” Blinking again Naruto stood up not noticing he had been insulted until a few seconds later.

“Hey! I’m not a dobe!!” Naruto pouted pointing his finger at the other person.

“Sasuke.”

Naruto looked at Gaara. Sasuke? So this conceited bastard that called him dobe was Gaara’s friend? Naruto decided right away he didn’t like him. Calling me dobe, he doesn’t even know me, that bastard.

“Sorry for that, Naruto is clumsy.” Gaara spoke in his monotonous voice tone.

“It figures, dobe’s are clumsy, no surprise there.” The raven haired boy smirked brushing away some bangs from his eyes.

“Hey you conceited bastard!! Shut the fuck up!! You don’t even know me so stop insulting.”
“Look who’s talking, you are insulting me too.”

Naruto was still for a moment narrowing his eyes at the other teen. “You started first.” Sasuke arched an eyebrow. You started first? What a childish attitude, well it figures coming from dobes.

“Sakura-chan, want a napkin?” Lee asked offering her one. Sakura took the napkin in her hand staring at it. “What’s this for Lee?”

“Well, you see, you’re drooling.”

Sakura placed her hand on her mouth automatically, she really was drooling, it was Sasuke’s fault for being so damn hot. She glanced at Ino who was also having the same reaction as her, she threw the blonde girl a napkin too. Ino slowly faced her with her mouth half open and the saliva running down her chin, Sakura mouthed the words “You’re drooling” and Ino grabbed the napkin to clean herself, her cheeks were flushed.

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“Say Gaara, how did you end up becoming friends with the bastard?”

Gaara rolled his eyes, Naruto could be so irritating sometimes. “I don’t remember.”

Naruto’s face contorted in what seemed like a surprised stare “How’s that possible?”

Gaara didn’t bother answering, instead he returned to his work. They got back from the restaurant half an hour ago. Naruto then decided that they would call it a day at five pm, he was tired and didn’t sleep well last night, besides, the conversation with the bastard shot down his good mood. They spent the rest of the afternoon like every day, listening to music, hearing Shikamaru’s “So troublesome” musings, laughing, some fights between Kiba and Ino with Lee in the middle.

“Naruto, can I leave five minutes earlier?”

“Sure Neji, go ahead, I’ll see you tomorrow! Well, I’ll get going too, it’s almost five.”
Naruto stood up and the others did so too, Naruto ended the work day too soon, not that they minded of course, they have been working nonstop for the past few weeks to get the manga done on time, they needed some time to chill out.

“You guys, I’m going to Akira’s today at 10 pm will you guys meet me there?”

Everyone nodded at Kiba confirming their presence except for Naruto, he didn’t want to go to Akira’s Café today, he needed to rest, and to spend some time in his house, he’s hardly ever there, he missed home even though he lived alone.

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Haku was walking around in the supermarket to buy something to make dinner, he still didn’t know what to cook, maybe he would buy some fast food, he didn’t feel like cooking anyway, he grabbed a can of ramen and giggled, Naruto’s head popped up in his mind. He was heading to the checkout when he remembered he forgot to pick up some tomatoes and carrots to make a salad.

“Damn this all, I hate coming to the supermarket, why do I have to do the groceries, it’s so troublesome---“ Sai stopped in his musings and widened his eyes. “Shit, I’m under Shikamaru’s influence, he doesn’t shut up with ‘It’s troublesome’ how irritating.” Sai sighed and raised his hand to scratch his head while deciding which carrots to buy, they all looked ugly to him. He picked up a carrot to look at it when suddenly he felt something hitting him, he felt on his back with something on top of him, the situation was so abrupt that he didn’t even process it right, he found himself staring at the supermarket’s ceiling coming back to reality when the damn orange vegetable smacked his forehead.

“I’m so sor--- Sai???” Haku shouted in disbelief, of all the people he expected to find here, Sai was surely not one of them.

“Haku you big DUMBASS!!

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“Hey Naruto.” A man shouted from the balcony right next to Naruto who was currently hanging the washing out.

“What do you want ero-sennin?” He asked in a bored tone.

“We have a new neighbor, moved in today, did you know?”

“I wasn’t home almost all day, how would I know?” The blond retorted shaking his shirt before hanging it out.

“He’s moving right to the empty apartment in front of yours. Maybe it’s a hot babe!” Naruto could almost see the drool coming out from Jiraiya’s mouth.

“So you’re saying you didn’t see who is it yet?” Jiraiya nodded.

Naruto went inside to eat dinner, he would go welcome the new neighbor when he finished his meal.

About an hour later, Naruto stood up from the table, washed the dishes he used, and decided to go see who the new neighbor was, he was curious to know what kind of person would be living right across him. He took a few steps forward leaving his door open, he heard a voice from the other side of the door he was currently looking at. A male voice, so much for Jiraiya’s babe. A faint smirk crossed Naruto’s face when he imagined the disappointment ero-sennin would have by knowing the new neighbor was a guy. He knocked three times. A few seconds later, the new neighbor opened the door. Both were in complete utter shock, Naruto’s chin almost dropped to the ground.

“Bastard??!!”

“Dobe??!!”
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