The story is Shikamaru got sick and Naruto is way too busy with his work and cries for help to Kakashi. Kakashi instead asks Sasuke to sub for Shikamaru. Naruto, obviously, get all happy and is also unintentionally flirty with Sasuke too.
Then, Sasuke kisses Naruto on the head in a spur of the moment. Naruto obviously gets confused and avoids Sasuke for a while. Until a guy who admires Sasuke talks excitedly with him and Naruto gets jealous.
Then, he gets the news that Shikamaru will be cured after 4 days, and he gets a sake bottle to comemorate Shikamaru recovery.
While they were talking, Sasuke decides to kiss Naruto and confesses that he always loved Naruto. Naruto asks about Sakura, and Sasuke says that he only returned her feelings out of guilt from trying to kill her, but he never really loved her. They continues to kiss and Sasuke asks that before Shikamaru return after those 4 days, if Naruto could be his in the meantime.
Naruto does try to imagine Hinata, but her face is a blur in contrast how much his eyes are fixed towards Sasuke's, how afraid that Sasuke might disappear if he stopped looking at him.
While they were having sex for the first time, Sasuke feels Naruto's warm body, his scent, his breathing, how he envelops him, all the expression that it's solely his. But it's not enough, he wanted more.
As they were taking a shower, Naruto have second thoughts because they are cheating to their spouses. Sasuke says that it's only inside that room, no one would know, it's only something between them, it's not cheating. And even though Naruto knows that it's such a weak lie, he accepts it nevertheless.
So they start their affair. Naruto admits that he hasn't been having sex with Hinata because he vaguely realizes his real sexuality. He calls her saying that he's busy with work, he wouldn't be able to come home that night as well as the next day, while Sasuke is fucking him from behind on the Hokage's desk.
There's a day where Sasuke uses a kage bunshin to stay with Naruto while his real body is talking with his daughter, saying that no matter what happens in the future, he'd prioritize his children. Naruto feels guilty because he's actually the other way around.
At last, Shikamaru is back and Naruto realizes the time Naruto and Sasuke had together is over, he should return to normalcy. We see him interacting with his family and all. But then Shikamaru notices that Naruto is not energetic for some reason. Sasuke arrives to deliver a mission report and Naruto flashbacks to their brief affair.
Naruto then realizes that he did have feelings for Sasuke for a long time, but thought that it's not what it's expected from him. He's expected to have a crush on a girl, so he chose Sakura. He's expected to love a woman and have kids with her, so he chose Hinata, that's what it's the usual "happy ending." But he couldn't forget Sasuke's kisses.
Loving a man is seen as a mistake. Loving Sasuke he thought that it should also be a mistake too. When Sasuke suggested the affair, he should have denied this temptation. But he's too stupid to be able to deny it.
Shikamaru receives a phone call and it's from Kakashi. He asks for Naruto and though Naruto wanted to turn it down, Shikamaru insists him to go, since it's only one day. Also, he could see that Naruto had a lot in his head, so maybe it's for the best.
Kakashi greets him and says that he wanted Naruto to see something even though it's not Fire country's style.
Naruto sees a lesbian couple getting married, and says that wasn't it supposed to be only a man and a woman getting married. Kakashi disagrees, he says that he might have failed teaching his students about life lessons, he wants to make amends and see that this line of thought is outdated, he wants to change so that people will stop seeing that homosexuality is "strange".
Naruto thanks Kakashi, looking forward the day he'll be able to marry Sasuke.
He finds Sasuke, saying that after Shikamaru returned, whenever he would wake up he'd feel an instant sadness, seeing no one next to him. He asks if Sasuke also feel sad about it and Sasuke agrees. The sadness is because he wanted to hug (also implies everything else ok) Sasuke forever. Even thought it was only for a short time, Sasuke was his. He thought that he could hold onto those four days, he thought it'd be enough. But actually, he always had the desire to hold Sasuke's hand forever.
Sasuke cries, confessing that he also had that same desire.
Naruto finally kisses Sasuke, apologizing for making Sasuke cry. He promises he'd be with Sasuke forever.
Summary: When Naruto discovered who was going to be his soulmate, he jumped straight at this opportunity, looking forward to spending the rest of his life with his better half. Sasuke well…he was less eager in this regard though. NaruSasu. Soulmates tattoos. Explicit.
Chapter 09
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The grip almost slipped through his fingers, so he tilted his body a little backwards with a grunt, most of the weight of the box leaning on his torso. His legs were already complaining from exhaustion, though much to his relief, there weren’t many stairs left to go.
“Alright, now to the left.”
“Hn.”
“Thanks for the help Sasuke-kun. I definitely saved up a lot of time moving my things with you here. Suigetsu is coming over soon too.”
“Don’t mention it. Now let’s just hope this will be the last time you’re moving out.” The brunet replied, placing the heavy box on the ground as he waited her to unlock the door.
“Hear hear. It’s getting really tiring, I just want this to be over.” She sighed, prying open as they both grabbed their boxes and placed around the entrance.
There were still several boxes left, as they walked back from the third floor back to the first floor, a cumbersome and repetitive task that was tiring as well as necessary. Once they placed it all inside, Karin bought some refreshments for them to drink.
“Really hoping that that fucking asshole won’t find me anymore.” She grumbled, shuffling to hide her tattoo. “I’d love to get rid of this bullcrap on my arm, it just keeps helping him out. Does that happen with you and your soulmate too?”
“Sometimes, really occasionally. I suspect he’s using some kind of technology to help him pinpoint you better.” Sasuke answered. “Doesn’t matter Karin, we’ll protect you. I won’t let him hurt you.”
She smiled, nudging him with her shoulders. “Don’t say stuff like that, makes me want to fall in love with you again.”
“Mm. Too bad you’re not exactly my gender type for me to reciprocate your feelings.” Sasuke smirked.
“Yeah, well, makes me a teeny little bit regretful that I had the surgery to change my gender. I bet if I had your preferred equipment, I might stand a chance.”
“I really doubt that. You look very happy with how you look now.”
Karin shrugged. “Yeah. But who am I kidding, I knew since college that you weren’t interested in anyone. And now that you’re back to dating him, I’m pretty sure I stand no chance against your soulmate.”
The young man opened his mouth and then closed with a frown, grunting. He opened one box and began sorting the contents inside, placing neatly on the ground.
“Ah yes. I can see you shifted to ‘brooding mood’ because you can’t give me a smartass answer. Just don’t break my glasses okay, they are expensive.”
“I don’t know what you’re talking about.”
Karin repeated his same sentence with a mocking expression. “I don’t KnOW wHaT you’re tAlking aBouT. Oh you stupid tool.” She rolled her eyes. “Suigetsu told me how you’re utterly smitten with your soulmate, Naruto-kun is his name right? He also gave me a loooot of details about how your soulmate is a total smoke show.”
“First, you all need to mind your own business. Second, Suigetsu really need to stop salivating over any hot guy that passes through his eyes.”
“Oh! So you admit that he’s hot huh. Now I’m really curious about him. When am I going to meet him?”
Sasuke just gave a deadpan look back.
“You can’t just hog him all to yourself! I want to see with my own two eyes the poor sap that managed to bag you. He must be a fucking saint.” Karin paused for a moment and added. “Either that or he's really good in bed. Or wait. Or both, and if it's this case you're one lucky bastard.”
Her friend merely sighed, still occupied in unwrapping her things and placing on the floor. For a moment, there were only quiet noises of porcelain clattering, while Karin giggled to herself. He contemplated while they opened another box, and decided to ask her. “So you don't mind?”
She blinked and gazed him back in bewilderment.
Sasuke gulped and pressed forward. “You don't mind that, despite you're trying to escape from your soulmate, I'm in a relationship with mine?”
Karin shook her head with ease. “No, not at all. Of course, unless I felt I had a chance to date you I'd probably mind hah. But that's not the case, unfortunately for me.”
“It still feels wrong though.” Sasuke thought to himself but settle with a grunt in response.
She kept studying his low cast gaze, thought lost in his own world. Karin sighed inwardly. Sasuke did have a habit of having a manicheist world view; black and white, struggling to see shades of gray. That usually would help him have a laser focus straight to his goal, but that also meant that he always suffered whenever he received conflicting information on his hands, unable to move forward, not until he could neatly place them in each corresponding safe box. She settled to squeeze his hand, declaring nonplussed.
“I don't need your pity Sasuke-kun.”
That broke him out of his stupor, as one black eyebrow was raised.
“I'm serious. I'm not someone that narrow-minded that hate on anyone with a fulfilling relationship just because of my unfortunate circumstances.”
Sasuke frowned. “But…”
“Oh you're such a big dumb softie.” She huffed, ignoring her friend's glower that showed her statement was very much not appreciated. She gave him some very pointy pokes with her manicured finger. “Listen to me, listen very hard to me.”
When she caught Sasuke's full attention, Karin said.
“You're a stubborn, bull headed, insufferable⏤”
Graphite eyes rolled in exasperation.
“Arrogant, holier-than-thou, narrow-minded⏤”
“Is there a point to this?” Sasuke grumbled.
“Buuuut deep down, very very deep down, you’re a gentle soul. You saw the unfortunate situation I fell into and sympathized strongly that you refused to get involved with your soulmate for years, even though your relationship is way better than mine. You've already done plenty as an ally, listening to our stories, dedicating to our cause. It’s enough.”
“...it feels like I'm being a hypocrite.”
“You’re thinking too much. Every relationship is different Sasuke-kun, and I’m glad that yours is working. He makes you happy, doesn’t he?”
Happy. Such a simple word and yet weighted so much in his mind. These simple 5 letters word were repeated and questioned over and over in a short span of one day, his mother and his older brother's voices echoing in his memories. Yet he couldn't stop his tilt of lips, whenever he recalled Naruto's face, his warm grins and kisses, his sharp quips and smart interjections, his empathetic and kind nature.
Karin certainly noticed his subtle smile and started fanning to herself. “Awwwww seeing Sasuke-kun all lovey-dovey…it’s really hot! You know?” He rolled his eyes once more, too used with his friend's usual shenanigans.
“I better go. Suigetsu is arriving soon and I don't want you both nagging and bullying me about Naruto.”
“Nooooo you have to stay!” Karin groaned, holding the hem his shirt on a vice grip. “We gotta know all the hot details about you and your soulmate!”
“Definitely n⏤” He paused, his tattoo throbbing on his hand.
Karin noticed the glow, previous teasing now gone. “What happened?”
“I think…I have to go.”
⏤.⏤
Flashes. Flashes and more flashes till his eyes could barely see what was ahead. Reporters surrounded him with microphones close to his mouth, a chorus of voices insisting in extracting whatever came out of him.
“Uzumaki-san, is it true that your aunt's late husband used to be her soulmate? Why is she dating once again?”
“Uzumaki-san, do you supposedly approve of your aunt's current choice? Have you met him?”
For once, Naruto was thankful for years of media training that Shizune taught him. He immediately muttered. “Excuse me, make way.”
“Uzumaki-san!”
“I have no comments regarding what you are all asking, make way.” Despite being taller and burlier than all the reporters, he couldn't really pry them all away as most were blocking his building’s entrance.
“Uzumaki-san, we just want a word. Do you know anything about Jiraiya?”
“Who?” Naruto mumbled, further confused.
“Jiraiya is a famous erotic novel writer. He’s seen with your aunt talking in a restaurant, holding hands even. Your aunt Tsunade didn’t mention anything about this with you?”
Cerulean eyes blinked before successfully masking with a nonchalant face. “Again, I have no further comments regarding this.”
“You think that this is alright? You musn’t be right? Or else your aunt would introduce him to you.”
“No further comments, please make way.” Naruto grouched, his patience thinning out.
“So you have an issue with your aunt dating again?”
One older male reporter questioned, practically shoving his microphone on his face. “Don’t you think your uncle would be appalled the way your aunt is not honoring his wishes?”
Something inside Naruto snapped, furious that these people dared to insult Tsunade. He turned to face the reporter, hand moving the microphone further away from him.
“Honoring?” He scoffed. “My aunt honors her late husband every single day, by taking his mantle and engaging in politics. She honors my late mother; her sister, by raising me since I was a child. She honors our society for doing exemplary public work for decades. Did you know that if she gets elected this time, she not only will be one of the youngest mayors in history, but she'll also be the first female Tokyo mayor? Think about the opportunities she'll gives us, the positive repercussions.”
Some reporters flinched from his caustic tone, the more seasoned ones mocked. “Uzumaki-san, we're not here for you to do her campaign.”
Naruto didn’t waste one second in response. “And you all weren't supposed to be here to hunt for the latest gossip when we're talking about serious issues such as an election. In the election we were supposed to be debating about which candidate has the best proposal, which is the most prepared, which is the most qualified. Not who she or he is dating.”
“It is important because whoever she's with, might influence her opinion.” One interjected.
“I can personally assure you that my aunt keeps her professional and personal facets pretty damn separated.” Naruto snarled.
“Isn't she supposed to be ashamed for cheating on her late husband?”
“Cheating?!” Naruto raised his voice, now towering menacingly over them. “My uncle has departed from this world more than 20 years ago, how is this cheating?! Let's go back to how my aunt is the first female candidate for Tokyo mayor with a good chance of winning. How our misogynistic society always creates these double standards. We've already seen other candidates moving on from their deceased partners, re-marrying even. But you're all badgering me, her nephew, from an assumption that frankly, it's her personal life, she should live as she'd like as long as it's within the law.”
“Uzumaki-san, are you telling that you go against the soulmate system⏤”
“Uzumaki-san what's your point of view⏤”
Naruto shouted, silencing them at once. “Let’s talk about important stuff! Let’s talk about Uzumaki Tsunade’s accomplishments! She pushed forward egalitarian laws, equal pay, more protection against abusive homes, more job opportunities! Let’s talk about that! If we’re not talking about that, let me through.” Using both of his arms, Naruto pried the reporters apart with considerable effort, grunting while they were still badgering him all the way through.
“Uzumaki-san!”
“Are you accusing the other candidates for framing your aunt then?”
“Okay, let me through!” Naruto heaved a sigh of relief when he spotted the oh-so-familiar duckbutt head coming from his building as he opened the automatic doors.
Sasuke easily parted the ocean of reporters, clasping the tanned hand in a secure grip as he declared. “That’s enough of interviewing for today. Naruto wants to rest.”
“Excuse me, who are you⏤?”
“Wait, we still have some questions to Uzumaki-san!”
Sasuke ignored them all, not subtly shoving them with the back of his left hand. Some reporters noticed the intricate moon tattoo and were quick to connect the dots.
“Are you Uzumaki Naruto’s soulmate? So what’s your opinion about his aunt dating someone who is not her soulmate?”
Sasuke could also feel his temper rising. “Get out. Now.”
With an aristocratic face, baritone voice and sharp glare, the Uchiha was much more intimidating than Naruto, so most of the reporters shuffled away. Both young men entered the building away from flashes of camera.
⏤.⏤
The moment they managed to get inside Naruto’s apartment, they went directly to the comfortable sofa with a tired groan, safe at last.
“How did you know I needed your help?” The blond man wondered, once he had enough energy to slide to his kitchen and grabbing some beer.
Sasuke only grunted, showing his tattoo with a subtle glow.
“Oh. Thanks. You probably didn’t like this intervention right, these new abilities.”
“Hn. I’m not really surprised and usually I’d be annoyed but at least this time I used for a good cause.”
Naruto’s smartphone pinged several times. “Oh, it’s baa-chan.” He said, reading the messages. “She said she’s coming over and asked if you could stay for now, the reporters are still hounding my building.”
Sasuke wasn’t expecting that he’d waste a whole day away from his office, but Naruto managed to find his iPad for him to work that day. Itachi fortunately comprehended their plight and aided him out, slurping his boyfriend’s favorite ramen (that the blond man gave him as an apology of sorts) and some tomatoes from his garden as dessert.
Tsunade only managed to arrive in their apartment at night, with a smile that stretched wide. She held her nephew’s face, pinching fondly his cheeks. “Naruto! I’m so happy that I feel like my heart is exploding from pride.”
“If you have a heart attack now, you better give me your mansion as an inheritance, old hag.”
“Don’t ruin the moment you brat.” This time she pinched with little more force, leaving Naruto nursing his face. “Uchiha-kun, long time no see. Thanks for helping Naruto out, he always manages to get into trouble right.”
“Heyyyyy⏤”
Sasuke ignored the indignant protest as he shook Tsunade’s hand. “Doesn’t bother me too much, I have gotten used to the dumbass usual misgivings.”
“Don't mention it. But this time he made me so proud. Naruto, you managed to increase 5% intention of votes thanks to that interview!”
Naruto widened and narrowed his eyes by surprise. “What, really?”
“Yes, a big increase between ages of 18 to 25, you know how hard it is to convince them to go out and vote. Also, that speech you gave about combating misogyny? I think we managed to get all women to vote for us! When we polled this afternoon they all said how impressed they were about you and how much you give an honest aura.”
“Well…if there's something that this dumbass is good at, is making people trust them. ”
“They even said that if Naruto launched any electoral campaign right now, they'd vote for him.”
“But I don't want it. Baa-chan, I was only defending you, that's all.” He groaned, throwing his arms tiredly.
“You only defended me and yet you put plenty of rehearsed speeches to shame. We can't deny your natural talent right.”
“But⏤”
“Now everyone in my party said that I have to convince you no matter what to be my protegée! After today, I'm sure that you'll have a brilliant future in politics!” Tsunade insisted, ignoring the increasing look of alarm stamped on her nephew's face.
“Aunt Uzumaki, respectfully…” Sasuke coughed, trying very hard not to cower when he witnessed her glower. “If Naruto is not interested, there's nothing you can do about it. Also, the only reason he has gone so far is because of how much he cares about you.”
The older woman sighed, studying them both as she sat on the chair. “It's such a shame though. Remember when you said you wanted to be a Hokage, that stupid title from that anime you used to watch? I was sure you were going to follow my footsteps.”
Naruto grimaced a little sitting next to her and placing a hand on her shoulder. “Yeah…not interested anymore, sorry to disappoint you.” He mumbled, quirking a mollifying grin.
“Don't worry about it. I'm glad you defended me despite not wanting to get entangled in this mess.” Tsunade squeezed his hand, beaming softly.
“Talking about that…” He bit his lower lip, clearing his throat. “So, are the rumors true?”
Tsunade sagged a little, unable to return his steady gaze. Instead, she turned to Sasuke, saying. “Uchiha-kun, if you won't mind, two of my bodyguards are stationed outside. They will safely accompany you to one of our company's car and drop you in your home.”
Sasuke nodded, bowing in respect, as Naruto stood and followed him to the door wordlessly. Fingers wrinkled his expensive shirt, full lips giving a quick peck on him. “Thanks Sasuke.” His boyfriend murmured close, warm air still tingling on his mouth.
He gave another short kiss back. “Call me if you need anything.”
Feeling his shoulders finally relaxing after an exhausting day, Naruto leaned on the doorframe, eyes hooded and playful. “Maybe I want some booty tonight.”
Sasuke shook his head, smirking. “That's even better. Good luck then, usuratonkachi.”
Naruto closed the door, steeling himself for a very long conversation. Tsunade was waiting with cups of green tea ready.
“So…is it true? You're seeing someone?” He inquired, beverage in hand.
His aunt merely stared back, before nodding.
“Oh. Well…Where did you meet him?”
“He's a childhood friend. I think you met him sometimes back when you were young. He's your father's friend too.”
He squinted his eyes. “I don't really remember.”
“Long white hair tied in a ponytail, sometimes he drew some makeup inspired from traditional japanese masks, he always wore kimonos.”
Naruto widened in recognition. “Waaaaait, now I remember him! Ero-sennin, I used to call him that right? What the⏤you’re dating him, of all people??”
“He mellowed out a lot over the years okay. Still writes erotic novels but won few awards for it, as incredulous this might sound. He decided to visit me after a long world tour…” She placed her chin on her hand and whispered. “And I missed him.”
Naruto sipped his tea, quietly observing his aunt as she was reminiscing. He wondered though. “But you know…after all this time?” He never saw his aunt attempting to date anyone, always focused on her career.
Tsunade drew another long sigh. “Oh Naruto. Ever since Dan died…it was almost like I lost half of my heart, you know? And when your mother died, sometimes every day was just unbearable. I missed them both, so so much. I'd do anything to have them back, and taking his mantle almost made me feel like I could have a piece of his soul back.”
She got lost in her own ocean of memories, flashbacks that she kept rewinding over and over, wanting to feel the throb of her tattoo once again to assure her that he was alive, even if she knew the cruel truth otherwise. She busied herself in an attempt to ignore her broken heart, even neglecting to raise Naruto sometimes, hiring assistants and nannies to fill in, when she knew deep inside that he needed her the most. When she realized the errors of her actions, he was already a grown young man. Seeing his broad back, no longer scrawny or tiny, was the first spark of realization that she needed change.
“But there was a saying…The present should be given just for the living, as the dead should stay in the past. I knew that, I stupidly knew that but I still insisted till I was completely lost. I just couldn't see myself anymore, carrying this weight on my shoulders, every day dedicated to someone else. When Jiraiya showed up and I decided to go on a date with him, after decades it felt like it was my decision. What I wanted.”
Naruto took some quiet minutes to absorb her speech, before retorting. “I see. I just wish that I didn't find this out through nagging reporters instead of you.”
Tsunade flinched, hands curling on her lap as she admitted. “I know. I actually wanted to introduce him to you after two or three dates but these pesky reporters were way faster. I think you're going to like him, Naruto! He's as energetic as you are, really fun and⏤”
“Yeah, I don't care about that for now.” Naruto waved his hand in dismissal. Whatever traces of mirth were gone from his face as he asked. “Tsunade-baasan. Does he make you happy?”
His aunt gazed back flabbergasted, before melting to a soft smile, in calm contentment, smoothing out the hard lines from her forehead and giving her a youthful expression.
“He does. Probably made me happier after so many years.”
He gave a sharp nod. “That's good enough then.”
“Um…that's all? You're not asking me if it's okay I'm dating someone who is not my soulmate, or if I'm going to regret later on?”
Naruto shrugged. “Nah. Don't care about that. As long as he treats you well, I don't mind.”
Tsunade hummed mildly impressed, not expecting her closest family member to end up the least judgemental of all. “I'm really surprised by this turn of events. People are not very forgiving about circumstances similar to mine.”
“Yeah…” He scratched the back of his golden hair. “Let's just say that dating Sasuke has been a very eye-opening experience. Made me see some flaws about the soulmate system. So we don't have to depend on it this whole time.”
“Hmmm. I’m glad that Uchiha-kun is giving you such positive changes then. Now that we got the most complicated issue resolved, I have to talk about something else. I’m sending you a video and you need to sign some documents as consent for using your image for our campaign.”
Furrowing his eyebrows, he pressed the play button on his smartphone. “Wut. Why is my interview already edited for Reels?”
“Well, your interview already blew up all over the internet, Tiktok, Instagram, Twitter, Line…some TV hosts already requested me to talk about you. And considering you were defending me, I already asked the editors to make several short videos and boost them within our preferred age bracket and gender.”
“Baa-chaaaaaaaaaaannnnn⏤” Naruto didn't care that he was whining exactly like a kid, pulling out the most pitiful kicked-dog puppy eyes he could muster.
His aunt smiled, apologetic. “I'm so sorry, but the moment you decided to answer the reporters you became a public figure. Answer me though: if it was anyone else, one of my electorates defending me with the same determination, what would you do?”
The young man sighed. “I'd milk the hell of that moment for as long as I can. Whatever.” He signed the documents and sent it back to Tsunade.
“Thank you. Don't worry about it, you know about viral videos more than I do. Pretty sure it'll die after a couple of days.”
⏤.⏤
5 days later…
Naruto wasn’t bewildered when his aunt asked him to go to one of her offices, used for secret meetings. He was even less surprised when she told him that her makeup artist will go to his apartment as he opened the door with a groan.
“Do we have to, Kasumi-san?”
She bowed, placing her heavy luggage to the ground. “I’m so sorry Uzumaki-sama, your aunt’s orders.”
On the other side of the town, Sasuke and Itachi were bewildered about Tsunade’s request, pausing to see the appointed place she wanted to meet them. It was…a guinea pig café. They entered, a polite receptionist receiving their name cards as she took them to a farther place, far away from onlookers. There were two doors as they were deciding which one to knock, Itachi bumped on a stranger by accident, muttering.
“Oh, sorr⏤” They both widened their eyes in recognition.
Skin being a few shades paler than usual, dark brown hair with long fringes, the thick rimmed glasses still didn’t manage to cover the brilliant sapphire eyes. Naruto was barely recognizable, even wearing unflattering clothes; a white buttoned shirt and dark gray slacks.
“What the⏤” Sasuke mumbled.
“Yeah, there were still some reporters stationed around my building, so I had to do this.” He explained, rubbing the back of his head.
“Did you color your hair too?”
“Of course not, heaven will fall to the ground before I let anyone touch my nephew’s beautiful hair. It’s a wig.” A feminine voice suddenly echoed behind them, Tsunade appearing while she opened the door.
“And it itches you old hag. Can I take it off now?”
“NO! Kasumi took hours to put it on, you’re only removing it once you’re back home!” She roared, her word final. “Sorry Uchiha-kun, for calling you both on such short notice.”
“It’s not a problem Uzumaki-san.” Itachi responded as they all entered the room. “Is there any reason for such secrecy though?”
“Well…I called you all, because you have to see this.” Tsunade picked up the remote control, turning the TV.
A TV segment showed a female anchor exclaiming enthusiastically with Naruto’s face occupying the gigantic screen behind her. “We all want to know the newest sensation in Tokyo, Uzumaki Tsunade’s nephew Uzumaki Naruto-kun⏤”
With another sigh, Tsunade changed channels, displaying a talk show. “Her aunt certainly raised him well and my, what a handsom⏤”
She pressed the button again, now a visibly angered man appeared, complaining with his fellow politicians. “I think it's ridiculous that the news is focusing so much on an inexperienced, impulsive young man! Clearly, my opponent plotted all this as a diversion to hide⏤”
At last, she went to the youtube app, selecting a podcast while a young group debated. “After that I think he's going to be the voice of our generation. Or at least that's what I think his aunt is planning to do. Conniving, usually I'm not into nepotism but…”
“*giggles* He's hot.”
“But I’ve heard some rumors that he’s already dating his soulmate, so sorry to burst your bubble Mizuki-san.”
Naruto turned off the TV, mumbling. “I thought you said that this was going to die down after few days.”
“Clearly, I miscalculated. Since it feels like it’s going to take a while, we need some contingency plans.” Tsunade said, crossing her arms. “As you can see, the internet is already doing a full investigation over you and already found about Uchiha-kun, so I have to get him involved too. Called Itachi-kun too, in any case Sasuke-kun needed his help.”
“Sorry about that Itachi-nii, Sasuke.” Naruto tilted his head forward in apology.
“I’m not going to beat around the bush. Do you two have anything, anything at all that the media could exploit it? Like…writing something controversial, participating on protests, robbery, vandalism…just tell me and don’t spare me any detail.”
“Well…I stole some statues back in college for a prank, but we put back few days later.” Naruto recounted.
Tsunade rubbed her eyebrows. “I guess we’re gonna scrub this history clean then. Anything else?”
Naruto hummed as he rewinded his recollections in his mind, before shaking his head.
“Alright, what about you Uchiha-kun? Aside what I’ve mentioned, did you do anything that might compromise the fact you’re Naruto’s soulmate?”
Sasuke’s pale skin turned sheet white, graphite eyes glowered to the ground.
“Otouto-kun, there’s no point in hiding for now. You have to tell her.”
The younger Uchiha still struggled to share that information.
“If it is too private, you don’t have to be too descriptive, but give me enough tips so I can manage it Sasuke-kun.” Tsunade said.
With a loud sigh, he grumbled. “Back in college, I went to bed with some men.”
Tsunade’s golden eyes widened, she turned her head to glance at her nephew, relieved that Naruto didn’t appear to be surprised instead. Another round of migraine washed in her brain. “Okay…I guess that is quite a landmine. People already dug that you two knew each other since you were tiny brats, so if they get ahold of this piece of information, it might cause a scandal that will favor my opponent.” She massaged her temples and grouched. “So? How many and their names? I need it right now.”
“They were about four or five, but I don’t remember their names. My friend Suigetsu introduced me to some of them in college parties, but his memory is also not that good.”
“Do you have any recollection that might help us out? Their appearances, what classes they attended?”
“No.”
Tsunade gritted her teeth. “You brat…”
This time Naruto intervened, stepping in between his aunt and his boyfriend. “C’mon Sasuke, don’t worry about me, I got over this a long time ago. There’s no way a genius like you wouldn’t remember something like that.”
Sasuke pursed his lips, still miffed that he had to share private knowledge to them, even if by logic, he knew that he had to do this before the internet could catch up to him. “I really don’t remember. You know how my alcohol tolerance is really low and I drank a lot before meeting them.”
Tsunade plopped down to a nearby chair, groaning loudly. “Unbelievable. Now how are we going to start searching for them if we have no clue to begin with?”
Itachi however, who mostly observed the situation unfolding in front of him, decided to give his own assessment.
“That wouldn’t be such a hard task. We just have to look for some blond, blue-eyed men.”
Sasuke glared but didn’t deny the accusation.
However, it appeared that both Uzumakis weren’t in the mood for jokes, as Naruto inquired, his face serious and professional.
“Well, is it? Sorry Sasuke, considering the circumstances, I have to narrow down the pool as fast as I can.”
His boyfriend thinned his lips, unable to gaze back the cerulean eyes, as he nodded.
Naruto sat opening his laptop as Tsunade called in some favors, both combing through social media posts as well as Sasuke’s university website.
“From your university’s database, and cross-referencing with its instagram, there were 7 guys matching your description that it’s around our age. 4 are foreigners and they already went back to their home land, so it’s safe. 1 is stationed in Okinawa military base and our story is still more limited to local news so it might not reach him. So it leaves to two guys.”
“We’re going to keep an eye on those two, the one from Okinawa too in any case.” Tsunade said, massaging her neck from exhaustion. “I hope that's the only bomb you brats threw on my lap.”
“It was baa-chan. Any case, I’m going to monitor the trending topics and post more about the usual content in your account, hopefully this will make people move on to other conversations.”
“Yes, I hope so too. Anyways, Uchiha-kun, Naruto. Keep me informed if anything happens ok.”
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Unfortunately, as soon as Naruto’s name was beginning to disappear on Twitter’s trending page, Sasuke received an annoying DM. His hair was dirty blond, his eyes were pale blue, but after four cans of beer or so, it was enough to trick his brain for some minutes. Now, after so many years staring at an instagram post, the Uchiha couldn’t see the appeal. It was obvious this man’s second intentions though, reading the message suggesting “some catch up”.
He used Naruto’s spare key to open his boyfriend’s apartment. When he heard the soft click, he broadened a huge grin, walking towards Sasuke.
“Hey Sasuke, welcome back.” He dropped a quick kiss, moving back to his seat. “Sorry, I’m focused here writing a posting timeline, but as soon as I’m done we’re going to eat some dinner ok.”
“Hn.” He grunted, considering his next steps. It might be a good opportunity now that his dumbass was distracted with something else to drop the news. He waited some minutes, mindlessly scrolling his smartphone before he muttered. “So.”
“Yeah?”
“One of the guys we were monitoring…he’s an ex-classmate and he contacted me. I’m afraid that he’s probably going to threaten that he’ll be telling the world that I had sex with him, I’m going to talk with him.”
Naruto stopped typing. Raising his face to Sasuke’s eye level, he wondered. “So did you have sex with him?”
“No.” Sasuke growled, but when he saw the raised blond eyebrow he rectified. “Maybe. It’s been years, I honestly don’t remember him.”
He managed to maintain a cool expression through Naruto’s scrutinizing eyes, before the latter shrugged, picking up his wallet. “Alright, I’m going with you.”
That sounded like a terrible idea, in all kinds of senses. “You don’t have to, really.”
“Don’t worry about it. I had to deal with blackmail of all kinds. I once managed an account from an idol, so when some guys claimed that she had a threesome with them, I had to help with her manager as well as PR with dealing with that. Blackmailers all work in the same way, I know how to negotiate with them.”
“Fixing professional problems is very different from fixing personal issues, Naruto. And the day of the election is getting close, we don’t want to hurt your aunt’s race after coming this far.”
“Oh, c’mon, it’s going to be fine! People are already talking about some new tv show instead of me and I haven’t seen any reporter for a while. Plus, I have to give you some tips here and there to avoid any disaster.”
“You can give me those tips without going with me.” Sasuke suggested, hoping that he’d be able to go through his boyfriend’s hard-headed stubbornness.
“It’ll be fiiineeeeeee…you’re such a paranoid bastard. I’ll monitor from afar while you talk, is that ok for you?”
“Honestly? No. Just don’t go.” Sasuke had a nagging suspicion that this wouldn't turn out well.
Naruto narrowed his eyes. “You’re an asshole. I’m coming with you, no matter what.”
Since his dumbass wouldn’t budge, Sasuke asked Tsunade for help concealing his blond hair once again. He also chose a secluded place, a small room usually reserved for co-working. His ex-classmate didn’t look too surprised when he arrived at the appointed time, also noticing Naruto while he opened his arms towards Sasuke.
“Sasuke, long time no see!”
The brunet took few steps back, crossing his arms. “What do you want?”
“It’s been years since we graduated, I’ve seen that you’ve been doing well with your new company.”
“Again, what do you want?” Naruto repeated the question.
That man had the grace to look a little awkward, insisting on the small talk. “You didn’t introduce me to your friend? I’m David, you are…?”
“Naruto.” He didn’t waste his time to shake David’s hand.
“I thought you were blond⏤” David widened his eyes, Sasuke already cut him short.
“Since it’s pretty obvious your intentions right now, what are you expecting coming out of this meeting?”
David frowned, whatever pleasantries were gone. He gave a lazy shrug. “I’m actually curious, nothing else. Your soulmate has been pretty famous lately, and we have some interesting history.” He turned to face Naruto. “Did Sasuke-kun tell you? We used to have sex all night long, whenever he saw me he just couldn’t wait to tear off my pants.”
Sasuke threw a quick glance sideways, but Naruto kept an unreadable expression, until he snorted. “Right. Try another one.”
The lack of response made him speechless for few seconds, before he insisted. “I’m serious, your soulmate cheated on you back when we studied together. I guess he wanted a taste from a real m⏤”
“Get to the point.” Sasuke snapped, noticing Naruto clenching his fists.
“I’m hurt Sasuke, after all the great time we had together. I’m sure many other men you fucked could say the same. You were very busy, everyone knew you probably had sex with half the campus. I hope I was in the top ten though.”
“I’m getting tired from all the lies.” Naruto snarled. “I’m asking again, what do you want?”
“Well…10 million yen is probably a small price to maintain your soulmate’s reputation intact, isn’t it? I promise I’ll be very quiet once you pay me.”
Naruto rolled his eyes, his voice caustic and disdainful. “I’m not going to pay shit. You’re not here trying to negotiate. You’re trying to frame me. It’s a quiet room but I’m sure you put several cameras around. Also, the fact that so far you’ve been trying to taunt me since the very beginning tells me enough. You don’t have any concrete proof about your previous entanglement with Sasuke, which means that you want me to get aggressive so you can sell this to some tabloid. So, whatever, we’re out, I’m not going to give you any precious five-minutes of fame. Good luck trying to get a sponsorship for some shitty yogurt commercial.”
He clasped Sasuke’s hand, walking towards the entrance even though David was stationed close. When they were close to him, he placed a hand on Naruto’s shoulder, whispering.
“I don’t know how many men your soulmate actually have slept with, but I can tell you first hand that I know that your soulmate is very talented in sucking my cock.”
In a flash, Sasuke could see stormy blue eyes glaring in fury, body twisting with a fist already aiming towards that nasty smirk. His own reflexes kicked in, his arm enveloping Naruto's torso and pushing backwards, tanned knuckles almost close to few inches from reaching that face.
“Alright, that's enough. Naruto, calm the fuck down.”
He was quick to grab David’s smartphone, throwing to the ground as he also stomped on it. The other man shouted in protest, but Sasuke was not done.
“I’m warning you, just give up. I have all the resources and money to bury you to the ground if necessary. You’ll talk to my lawyers tomorrow.” They exited the place, not taking one glance backwards as David shuddered in fear.
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Sasuke attempted not to fan the flames even further while Naruto was fuming all the way back to his apartment, even though he was close to giving some smartass remarks, rolling at the tip of his tongue.
He yanked the brown wig off, growling. “You have some fucking terrible tastes, you know that?”
“And I told you coming with me was a bad idea.” Sasuke said.
Naruto scoffed and grumbled, slamming the door close. His eyes zeroed to dark gray ones and in a heartbeat he grabbed Sasuke by the waist, lips interlocking into a furious kiss.
Sasuke grunted when he was shoved to the wall, relishing the close contact of their bodies, tasting Naruto’s tongue. He could barely breathe between their kisses, feeling a little dazed by the rough lips capturing his, Naruto’s hands holding his legs very tightly, bucking forward and grinding their clothed cocks. He moaned before his lover covered his mouth once again, his fingers clutching desperately the broad back as their thrusts increased in cadence.
“Naruto…” He gasped, shivering from the possessive gaze, teeth biting his neck. His shirt was ripped apart in seconds, Naruto peppered kisses on every inch of his alabaster skin with the noises of buttons falling to the ground.
He released Sasuke’s legs, grabbing the pale wrists holding them tightly as he sucked one nipple, spurred by Sasuke moans. His tongue traced a long line back to his thin lips, tracing over and drinking another erotic groan as they kissed again.
Sasuke twisted his arms, freeing them to cup Naruto’s cheeks. He whispered breathlessly, staring at the darkened cerulean eyes. “You idiot…he was no one.”
“Fucking hated that he touched you. No one is going to touch you besides me.” Naruto spun him around, hands groping his ass and drawing another moan.
Sasuke could feel his lover’s cock grinding in between his ass cheeks, mouth sucking between the juncture of his neck and shoulder till it throbbed together with their rapid heartbeats.
He almost wanted to say words of assurance and dark promises, reaffirming that his heart, body and soul was always Naruto’s. Always. That his lover could claim him whenever and wherever, he’d never be apart. He could fuck him in every way, frontal, sideways, backwards, doesn’t matter, all the way. That he’ll be his till the end of time.
But…
With one sharper thrust, Naruto inhaled, nostrils taking in the blend of Sasuke’s scent and arousal as he muttered. “You're mine.”
“I'm her soulmate Sasuke, who else is she going to choose?” His father’s sentence echoed in his mind for a second, disrupting his line of thought.
Sasuke was getting increasingly annoyed how his tattoo throbbed, clouding his judgement. Naruto wasn’t supposed to be like this. He wasn’t made to be consumed by flames of fury, he shouldn’t let those negative emotions overwhelm him. His core was compassion and even if he wore his emotions on his sleeve, Naruto always spun to be productive instead of destructive. Naruto was supposed to be the one to ignite their passion, while Sasuke was the one who calmed him down.
He turned to face the blond man, hands patting his tanned face and breaking Naruto’s stupor. “Stop.”
Dark blue eyes shifted to the usual color, as he complained. “That hurt, you had to slap me like that?”
“Obviously yes, I had to smack some sense on you dumbass.” Sasuke muttered nonchalantly. He cleared his throat. “Naruto, I don’t mind having sex with you right now, I love having sex with you.”
Naruto gazed back, bemused.
“But…we’re not doing this, not when you’re clearly thinking of someone else instead of focusing on us two.”
Naruto shifted his indignant expression to a guilty one, glancing to the ground. He exhaled a loud sigh, enveloping his boyfriend to a tight hug, bodies swaying a little. “I really thought I have gotten over this.”
“Hn.”
“But that guy was an ass. And just thinking about you with him…”
“Then don’t think about it. I’m yours after all, right.”
Naruto stared him back, dazed. He took his time to admire Sasuke’s handsome face reflecting his confidence, the steady personality that always anchored him when he needed the most. And for the first time that evening, Naruto’s insecurities melted away to a warm smile.
Sasuke brushed their lips ever so tenderly, just enjoying their feelings now synchronized. Naruto released with one last lick, combing the dark strands of hair.
The blond man yawned out of nowhere, releasing whatever stress out of his body. Sasuke chuckled. “Tired?”
Naruto nodded, yawning again. “It’s been some crazy days non-stop.” He interlaced their fingers, pulling Sasuke as both young men fell to bed.
“I better go, so you can have a good night of sleep.” His boyfriend ignored him as he wrapped his body around Sasuke’s. “Naruto, you’re not a koala.”
Naruto’s voice was muffled, with his face glued on his chest. “I don’t want you to go.”
“You dumbass, I’m just going so you can sleep well.”
“Don’t care. Last time I let you go you disappeared for years.”
Sasuke furrowed his eyebrows. “Naruto, don’t worry. I'm not going anywhere.”
“Then stay here.”
Sasuke drew a long exhale, glancing below as clear blue eyes blinked back. He shook his head, enveloping his own arms around Naruto.
After some nice, quiet time, he grouched. “I want to take a bath.”
“Just give me some more minutes okay, you clean freak. I put your clothes on the third shelf on that cabinet.”
“Hn.” Sasuke considered. “How many minutes? You’re sweaty.”
“You’re ruining the moment bastard, you’re ruining the moment.”
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AN: So. Some positive news. For some odd reason I didn’t have much problem writing this new chapter, I’m so surprised about this myself. I hope you guys will review!
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
Summary: "Oh crap." Muttered the blond. Sometimes, there's something worse than one-night stands. It's called we're-doing-this-because-we're-going-to-die-tomorrow desperate sex. Too bad they didn't in the end. NaruSasu, AU. NSFW
Comedy, Romance, a dash of drama, Architect!Naruto, CEO!Sasuke, Enemies to Friends to Lovers, fixing an old fic I posted on ff.net.
Summary: “Oh crap.” Muttered the blond. Sometimes, there’s something worse than one-night stands. It’s called we’re-doing-this-because-we’re-going-to-die-tomorrow desperate sex. Too bad they didn’t in the end. NaruSasu, AU. Anal sex. Comedy, Romance, a dash of drama.
Summary: "Oh crap." Muttered the blond. Sometimes, there's something worse than one-night stands. It's called we're-doing-this-because-we're-going-to-die-tomorrow desperate sex. Too bad they didn't in the end. NaruSasu, AU. Anal sex. Comedy, Romance, a dash of drama.
There’s still 4 chapters to go, but since I’m mostly fixing old dialogues here and there, I probably won’t take too long. I hope. :P The chapter that received major tweaks is this one anyways.
Summary: “Why are you watching porn on broad daylight and…is this…is this a blond guy fucking a japanese man?”
Who would have thought that porn watching could have such enlightening results. NaruSasu, blow job, anal sex, mutual pining without angst, Comedy, Romance, AU working in an advertisement agency. Some InoSaku.
AO3 link | ffnet link
Chapter 1
AN: We might probably get bunch of technical terms inside advertisement agencies since I’m taking advantage that I work in this field ayyy. It won’t take too long. Why did I write an AU related to my work? Errrr…'cuz I'm too lazy to research a job I'm not familiar with? Hohoho . This chapter there’s blow job.
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“We’re going to enter a competition.”
Everyone managed to keep a poker face, even though they were groaning inside.
The CEO of the agency continued his speech. "It's going to be tough, but I swear if we win it's going to be very worthwhile. The client wants to make an annual campaign, aiming to boost the sales by giving prizes to their clients.”
“So it's the usual being part of a club, earning points that converts to goodies thing.” Sasuke muttered.
“Yes…but they also want to use this opportunity to expand their sales to other states. South and South-west is already guaranteed that most grocery stores have their products, so they want to concentrate on Center states, North and North-east. That means they are willing to spend about 1 billion to any ad agency that will get this case. The presentation is scheduled on the next month, where we need to showcase the whole yearly strategy, alongside the Key Visuals within each season and a spreadsheet about budget planning.”
This time all the workers grimaced in varying degrees of expression.
Shikamaru raised his hand in question. “So is the whole agency going to concentrate in developing this whole campaign on those following weeks?”
The managers in each sector glanced at each other before the Creative Director explained. “We will, but not entirely. We’ll organize planning, brainstorming fitting with producer analysts. Meanwhile, our art directors will be focusing delivering the daily jobs with our steady clients. When it’s your time to design everything, we already talked with our account managers who will ask for a longer deadline for more meaningless things, other jobs we will hire some freelancers to take care of it. Of course, there’ll be some that will require your direct attention and/or need to be sent daily like social media posts. There will be some days you’ll work overtime.”
The CEO hurried to add. “But we’ll pay the dinner, taxis and everything, and you guys can ask for some days off after that. You’ll have to negotiate with your respective leaders. Like I’ve said, I promise all that this is worth it, if we secure this campaign we won’t have any financial issue this whole year. If we win, I vouch that by the end of the year I’ll pay everyone a trip to Las Vegas all-included for a week.”
That caught everyone’s attention, with good bunch of people clapped and some hoot called.
Encouraged by his workers’ cheers, the CEO continued. “Also, on that day when they announce that we won, we’ll just drop the pen. No more work that day, everyone can go home and relax or join us to celebrate in a bar. So is everybody in?” Most enthusiastic employees and younger people shouted with excitement. “Good! So let’s get this started! Your management will explain more with details ok?”
“Alright.” Their Creative Director mumbled once all the team were in a room. “We’re still in the process to properly accommodate this whole mess honestly, so I have some bad news. Every art director needs to deliver the primary main Key Visual by the end of this week.” Naruto groaned, with other mumbled protests and grunts coming from his fellow coworkers. “And I’m going to keep things exciting here. This time I’m going to sort with a new AD/copywriter/planner team, to make the ideas fresher. First copywriters come forth and write your name here and put in the box, where I’ll select randomly with which planner you’ll be paired with. Then ADs will do the same and we’ll form the trio.”
This situation was all kinds of boring; Sasuke thought to himself, but his heart skipped a beat once he glimpsed blue eyes standing out of the crowd while he folded his piece of paper. His streak of good luck couldn’t possibly stretch this far, right, he’d be probably asking for too much at this point of the story.
“Last team will be…Sakura as planner, Sasuke as the copywriter and Naruto as the AD.”
Thank God in Heaven.
“HmmmMmmmmmMMmmm, well well well.” Sakura approached Sasuke, beaming widely as they both watched the blond man from afar. “I guess it’s about time you should restock your lube and some condoms, right?”
“Sakura.” Sasuke warned her, when Naruto noticed them and waved his hand, they waved back.
“What? ‘M just sayin’, you know, just sayin’...”
“Sakura, your weak attempts of gangster lingo is appalling, I advise you to keep your opinions to yourself and do not try to make any innuendos regarding me and Naruto. Knowing that dumbass, I’m pretty sure it’s going to backfire.”
“Hmm…okay, point taken.” She agreed begrudgingly, while they walked to pick the briefing. Naruto was already reading the content, and curled his lips upwards.
“Hey guys! It’s been a while since I worked with y’all right? I’m sure it’s gonna be great.”
Sakura nodded and smiled back. “So…what kind of KV you need to create now? Hopefully nothing too crazy.”
“Yeah, it’s not that bad.” Naruto sighed. “We have to create the main one that provides enough visual explanation about the campaign but since it’s annual, there’ll be secondary thematic KVs like Christmas, Black Friday, Easter and so on. So it has to have enough personality, but not that much so it’s customizable. That’s the whole trick.”
Sakura grimaced. “That sounds tough.”
“Right, by the way, now that I just heard Naruto…” The creative director chimed in. “No one is going to get extra brownie points if your KV is chosen, you’ll all send to me and people will vote solely according to their preferences, they won’t know who designed it.”
Naruto turned around, throwing a significant glance. “We’re gonna win this, obviously.”
Sasuke snorted. “Obviously.”
Sakura rolled her eyes. “Alright, the first KV is up to you two, meanwhile I’ll do some research about the client and this campaign, and share through e-mail.”
“Alright cool, thanks for the help.” Naruto grinned. “I mean, ignoring all the chaos we’ll face in the next few weeks, I’m excited to be working with you guys! We won pretty cool competitions together right.”
Sasuke was excited too, but for entirely different reasons. He noticed Sakura staring towards him with a knowing smile.
She said. “I’m looking forward to work with you too. Well, I got to go now.” She patted Sasuke’s back, messing with Naruto’s hair before she went away.
“Maybe we should re-read the briefing, see if there’s any info that will help us out.” Sasuke slid smoothly next to Naruto till their shoulders touched, vision focused on the piece of paper the blond man was holding, getting so close Sasuke could feel the steady breathing on his face.
Sasuke focused his gaze back to Naruto, noticing the raised eyebrows. Naruto muttered. “Ok sure, let me read it outloud for you. And then, I guess I’ll search for some references for inspiration then.”
Sasuke had less than half his mind to really listening with whatever Naruto was reciting, his entire attention aimed to see if the art director recoiled or showed any discomfort towards his close proximity. He actually appeared to be further relaxed instead, and this undoubtedly counted as a positive sign. Sasuke had been growing even closer to him in those latest days, but no matter how much he tried to imply he wanted to be included in Naruto’s possible dating pool, that dumbass was oblivious to it all.
He’s going to use this rare chance to make his point across, since his subtle signals went unnoticed.
Soon they finished brainstorming, Naruto groaned as they went back to their station. “Man, I just hope we won’t overwork too much. And if we win this account, I hope that the client is easier to swallow than most.”
Sasuke smirked. “All clients are hard to swallow. Just some gives you a different first impression once they were gliding through your throat.”
Naruto halted on his steps stupefied and retorted. “I can’t believe that an uptight asshole like you is spouting a dirty innuendo at any time you can get nowadays.”
“I see no problem doing so, now that we share a common interest.” He said in a monotone voice.
Naruto studied Sasuke for a while, before he shook his head and snorted. “You’re one of a kind, man.”
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“Well! Now that we received all the material, as well as the chosen KV, let’s get started with our own work.”
“I guess…”
“Hn.”
“I’m excited to see all our ideas come together and trade some back and forth.”
“Hm…”
“Yeah…”
Sakura rolled her eyes and continued. “...anyways, I made a rough sketch about our part of the project, but it's nice having this brainstorm so we can come up with cool ideas so I can refine my planning.”
Naruto whined. “...man, I'm not looking forward opening Shika's psd file. He doesn't name his layers, doesn't organize into folders and for some crazy reason he knows how to find it himself. Honestly it's easier to find a needle in a haystack than navigate through his KV.”
“I still can't believe that he won this round. I mean, it's visually appealing for sure, but ours were good too.” Sasuke muttered. “Well, Temari is this client’s account manager so it's quite understandable. That man can create wonders for his girlfriend.”
“Yeah…bet that she promised one night of kinky sex and Shika is ready to move mountains for her. For a lazy guy like him, that's pretty impressive.”
“Agreed.”
Sakura stared in deadpan and sighed. “Alright boys, will you quit being such sore losers and focus on the job for a second?”
Naruto threw his head to the back with a sigh and Sasuke sniffed imperiously.
“Alright, since we’re responsible with the summer campaign part, I already searched some marketing activations done on beaches, as well as some we could do on music festivals.” She said.
“I already have some sketches in mind to the KV, but roughly it’ll be a lot of orange and blue colors. They are always a good contrast.”
“Noted, I’ll write some slogans with this in mind.” Sasuke said. “Oh, by the way, have you heard from Temari that they are asking around if a celebrity is interested to endorse our campaign?”
“Yeah, she told me that!” Naruto exclaimed. “At least they are going to hire some celebrity to substitute the guy in Shika’s KV, and I’m so glad ‘cuz that guy was like...super fucking pale.”
Sasuke opened the aforementioned picture on his laptop and mumbled, furrowing his eyebrows. “He doesn’t look that bad.”
Naruto craned his neck closer to him, switching between looking at Sasuke and the man in the KV and widened a mischievous grin. “Yeah, you’re right…he appeared that he actually saw the sun at least once in his life…unlike you.”
“Excuse me. I assure you that I fit in the criteria just as well as he would.” He rebutted, lifting his chin.
“What?!” Naruto guffawed. “You look like you never went to the beach once!”
“I do have indeed, I just take good care of my skin. Aesthetically speaking, I could be an excellent choice to represent this campaign.”
Naruto rolled his eyes. “You’re so fucking full of yourself. Yeah yeah yeah, we all know you’re a pretty boy, what else is new.”
“That while I may be a good choice, I’m sure you, instead, is on the other side of spectrum.”
“Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaat⏤!!” Naruto protested. “I’m the perfect embodiment of summer, you asshole!”
“You sure? I mean, you always wear baggy clothes.” Sasuke smirked. “Maybe it’s to hide some beer belly under your t-shirt.”
The blond man abruptly stood up from his seat and yanked his t-shirt upward to show his lean, sun-kissed stomach. Sasuke managed to mask his total interest by resting his chin on his palm with a languid raise of an eyebrow. “See?! Feast your eyes with my sexy self!”
“I’m supposed to be amazed by this? I mean…I think I can see some belly fat over there.”
“That’s my six pack, that’s what I have you bastard! My abdomen is 100% sturdy muscle. You can touch it if you want.”
Don’t mind if I do. “Since you insist.” Sasuke uttered in the most bored tone he could muster. Licking his lips, he raised his hand, feeling the silky warmth once he brushed over the tanned skin. He noticed how it twitched under his fingertips, giving a rush of excitement through his veins. “I’m not entirely convinced, it feels pudgy to be true.”
“Pudg⏤you’re not doing it right, you should touch here, bastard.” Naruto grabbed his wrist to let his hand have full contact on the taut stomach, sinewy muscles and all. “See?”
“Ah...yes. I guess I do. Maybe.” Sasuke kept the airy voice, even if he was sliding down to each bump of Naruto’s abs, fingers skimming through the belly button. “I guess you did prove me wrong.”
“I did, right? Told you I was right.” Naruto grinned, puffing his chest.
“Hm.” His thumb caressed languidly his belly, graphite eyes zeroed onto blue ones. Naruto’s victorious beam faltered noticing Sasuke’s heated gaze, staring back with a little bit of hesitancy.
Sakura was torn between being amused and exasperated while she observed the unfolding situation. Dear Lord, it was almost like they had forgotten she’s in the room, wasn’t it? No wait, they probably were aware of her presence, since Sasuke had the look that he’d tear Naruto’s t-shirt apart if only she wasn’t there right now. She cleared her throat.
“Alright Naruto, now that you had your fun letting Sasuke grope all over your body, can we go back to the brainstorm we were having?”
Jumping startled, Naruto dropped his t-shirt in an instant looking exactly like a deer caught in the headlights. Sasuke however, glared at her for the unwanted interruption. Sakura smiled. They just make it so easy for her to tease.
Soon they focused on the task at hand, right on time when Naruto’s stomach started growling in protest.
“I guess that’s it for now, my boys. Ino and I are thinking about going to a restaurant close by. You want to tag along?”
“Thanks for the invite, but I brought my lunch box.”
“Hm, yeah! Me too, sorry ‘bout that Sakura. Next time for sure.”
“Sure Naruto! Next time.” Sakura threw a side glance towards Sasuke, a lopsided grin broadening on her lips. Sasuke narrowed his eyes.
“Please don’t tell me you’re eating Ramen Cup again.” Sasuke grumbled, while they were walking to the cafeteria.
“My dad actually nagged me about it, so I’m eating something else this time.” Naruto sighed. “Wow, I guess everyone already ate their lunch, this place is so empty.”
“This is not a bad thing, we won’t have to wait in line to heat the food in the microwave.”
Naruto perked up. “You’re right! We’ll be able to eat calmly and slowly.”
“Sure, and if we have enough free time, we could watch some porn together.”
Naruto rolled his eyes and grinned. “Yeah, doesn’t sound bad, we can even do some good ol’ hand jobs to each other while we watch, what do you think?”
“Not a bad idea, where do I sign up?”
Naruto swallowed dryly, shifting his gaze sideways to hide Sasuke’s piercing eyes. Rubbing the back of his neck, he chuckled. “You know, sometimes I really don’t get if you’re joking or talking seriously.”
Sasuke let his hand glide through the tanned arm. “Take off your pants and we’ll see.”
Naruto slacked his mouth, staring flabbergasted. “Yeah sure, let’s just skip lunch and do it right now.” When he witnessed the eager face Sasuke was making, he scoffed. “I’m kidding, you crazy bastard. C’mon, let’s get to eat ‘cuz I’m really fucking hungy I could eat a whole cow.”
Frowning, Sasuke obeyed nevertheless.
⏤.⏤.⏤.⏤
The drumming on fingers on the table followed the constant buzz of the coffee machine, stopping once it was done. He picked his mug, inhaling the nice fragrance and sighing while he went to his seat. Sipping in long, paused gulps, he observed blue eyes focused on the task at hand. His hand rested on Naruto’s thigh, but the latter didn’t show any significant reaction, either he was too busy to notice or he didn’t mind such close touch.
Sasuke inclined his whole body towards Naruto, his mouth settling inches from his ear. “Need any help?”
Naruto stiffened for a second, before dropping his shoulders. “Hm, yeah, actually…if it’s not too much, can you change your text with shorter words? So it’ll be easier to organize the blocks of text and make it more aesthetically pleasing.”
Sasuke narrowed his eyes, but nodded nevertheless. Throughout this entire week where they were all huddled together, he made sure he used the most blatant flirting in his arsenal but even if Naruto recognized it (which is somewhat a showcase of evolution), he appeared to rebuff most of them.
Sitting on the table in front of them, Sakura typed non-stop, occasionally peeking on their interaction. This was so much more entertaining than those sugary drama series she and Ino would binge watch at night. If it depended on Sasuke, he would sit on Naruto’s lap and ride him all week, and he was very determined to reach this goal. She’d pity him if this appeared to be a lost cause, but she definitely noticed Naruto seldom glancing Sasuke’s back when he thought no one would see, eyes locked with a ferocious hunger adorning on his face, before returning to hide behind the monitor in haste.
Yep. Very entertaining.
However, this was probably the 4th or 5th night (or maybe more, they lost count) they stayed extra hours working on this project and their brains were already screaming for help. Sakura was yawning non-stop, Naruto was rubbing his eyes while he was erasing some background with his tablet, and even if Sasuke was the most resilient of the trio, he realized that he was rewriting his texts more than the usual.
“Naruto⏤” Sakura called, the blond AD grunted in response. “I’m done writing the marketing strategies. How much have you done so you can send me some layouts?”
Naruto dropped the pen, scratching his head. “Honestly, I think I’m going to take a while. I’m staring at the same shit for about an hour, and there’s still tons of other things to do on the list. I’m gonna wash my face, chug more coffee till I’m awake enough to do anything.”
“Alright, that does sound pretty ominous. I guess⏤” She stretched her arms and yawned. “I’m exhausted and I don’t think I’ll be much of a help staying any longer. Do you mind if I go home now?”
Both young men shook their heads and Naruto added. “Sure, you look pretty tired.”
“I’ll arrive early tomorrow to put everything you’ll do tonight. Just remember to put on the server before you go. And once you’re done, you two better rest well ok. I’ll talk to our boss that you were up all night and you’ll arrive late tomorrow.” She picked her purse and smiled. “Well, I’m out. You boys better behave!” She said as she threw a significant glance towards Sasuke, and went on her way.
Naruto was still had his hands busy adjusting the picture, so he muttered. “So. You’re almost done too?”
“Yes, I already send you the e-mail. But I’m going to stay until you’ve finished.”
“Oh cool, great. Actually, I’m happy you’re staying the night.” Sasuke widened his eyes, though Naruto grinned playfully. “In case I need your help to tweak other things.”
Sasuke scoffed. “Well, I have to be here in case I need to fix your screw ups.”
“You never waste an opportunity to be a bastard, do you.”
“Well, you like it. Anyways…” Sasuke sat on a chair next to the blond man, their legs bumping to each other. “Let’s check if the new text helps you out.”
“Hm.” Naruto opened the document and began changing each layout, seemingly unbothered by the close proximity. After a while, the blond man could feel eyes practically boring holes through his gaze, and he shifted around his seat. "Jesus man, do you ever blink?!"
"I'm bored." Was his nonplussed answer.
"Then go check your facebook, instagram, whatever."
"Not interested." Sasuke recited with the same droned tone.
"Check the news, go piss off some Trump supporters on the comments session."
"I've already exhausted all the latest feed."
"Well then…" Naruto shrugged. "You tried Buzzfeed?"
Sasuke gave him a look.
"What?"
Sasuke sighed, picking up his notebook. "Alright, I better let you concentrate on your task or we will work till sunrise." He smirked. "I could take a page of your book and watch porn."
Naruto laughed. “Please don’t.”
“...why?”
Because I’ll get hard if I see you jerking off. “Because reasons.” Naruto muttered.
“How eloquent.” Sasuke snorted. “Is the sight of a man masturbating such a turn off to you?”
“What? You know I like guys, why are you even asking this question?”
Just making sure. “So your problem surrounds exclusively to me then.”
Naruto almost bit his tongue, coughing. “No⏤no, no no no. I mean⏤” He coughed again, making an incredulous face. “Whaaaaat⏤noooo, where did you get this idea??”
Sasuke widened his smirk. “You didn’t give me valid explanations, so I have to make some assumptions on my own.”
“Yeah yeah well, you’re wrong, it’s really not what you’re thinking, you arrogant bastard.” Naruto grumbled.
“Hm. So you’re not even a little bit interested seeing then?”
Tilting his head to one side, Naruto said. “Seeing what?”
Sasuke didn’t answer his query, opting to type a very recognizable gay porn website, while he widened his legs.
Naruto’s jaw dropped. “No, hey. Don’t do that⏤we gotta, I gotta concentrate ya know.”
Smirking, Sasuke noted the slight panic in his voice. “So I do distract you.”
“Anyone would be distracted with porn nearby, that has nothing to do with you.”
“Oh? So you wouldn’t mind if I do this…” Sasuke adjusted on his seat, fingers sliding his shirt upwards.
Swallowing dryly, Naruto still managed to roll his eyes. “No, you look ridiculous and I really need to finish designing those pieces.”
Sasuke ignored him, clicking some random video and skipped directly to the good part. Naruto jumped from his seat when he heard a long moan, and threw a dirty glare despite receiving a nonchalant response in return.
“Really? Really?” Naruto groaned, placing his headphones on his ears and putting the loudest music possible. “Some people are actually trying to work over here, ya know!”
Sasuke picked his laptop, tilting it so the screen wouldn’t be facing the blond man. In this brief period of silence, he concentrated in moving an object in Photoshop, till he caught some movement on the corner of his eye. The dark blue shirt was yanked up, completely exposing Sasuke’s lean stomach. He reached the button of pants, opening and dragged the zipper down in an unhurried pace. Naruto drank on the sight of the dark grey boxers, noting all the shadows and bumps beneath it, revealing what was definitely a rather impressive size. Pale fingers glided over the smooth fabric, and Naruto just couldn’t tear this image away from his eyes. He licked his parched lips when Sasuke kept palming on his boxers, though it took to a sudden halt. Naruto almost bemoaned outloud until he realized that Sasuke was staring back at him with quirked lips.
Sasuke flicked one side of Naruto’s headphones, whispering. “Enjoying the show?”
Scowling, he hunched his shoulders. “Do you enjoy being such a exhibitionist bastard?”
“In most occasions, no, not really.” Putting his arm around Naruto’s chair, Sasuke closed in. “Only to few selected people I’m interested in.”
Sasuke studied how blue eyes widened vividly, mouth slack though they didn’t break the gaze trained to each other. Naruto appeared to fall in realization, hastily turning his head to look on his monitor. Sasuke’s fingers reached to the tips of blond hair, tucking it behind the ear before he cupped the tanned cheek, succeeding to let Naruto’s vision trail back towards him. He was getting so close, he could feel the heat emanating from the bronzed skin. When blue eyes were half-lidded, with heartbeats racing, he also shut his own eyes.
Naruto let out a very wide, epic and loud yawn.
“Oh shit. I’m so sorry. I⏤” Naruto yawned again. “I’m so fucking tired man, I swear. Sorry ‘bout that.”
Since the whole mood had evaporated to thin air, Sasuke released his face at once, going back to his seat and zipped his pants. “It’s okay. It’s already over 10 after all.”
“Yeah, I’m beyond exhausted. There’s not a lot of things left to do though, it won’t take too much of our time.”
“Fine.” Sasuke grumbled, in his usual monotone voice. “I’ll stop bothering you then.”
Naruto scratched his head, unable to come up with anything to disperse the dark cloud looming on Sasuke’s head. He returned to his task, a quiet air settle between them with the occasional help coming from the brunet copywriter.
“Alright, finally! It’s the last layout I’m doing today.” Naruto stretched his arms, groaning. “I still need to put all the images in the system, it’s going to take a while.”
Sasuke picked his smartphone, standing up. “I’m going downstairs for a quick smoke then, before it’s all done.”
“Yeah sure! Thanks a lot Sasuke.” Naruto beamed, with an acknowledging nod in return. Once the dark-haired man was out of his sight, he released a loud sigh. Thank God for his baggy pants.
Okay, now he gotta go to the bathroom fast. Sasuke usually spent long minutes for his cigarette break, so he better seize this opportunity well.
⏤.⏤
Sasuke inhaled a puff a smoke, glaring at the fallen ashes. Tonight all signs pointed out that he didn’t have any possible chance being involved with Naruto. Maybe it’s time for him to start giving up, even in the most blatant flirting that dumbass just yawned back at him.
Growling, his foot crushed the half-used cigarette to the ground, his bad mood escalating. He hated the idea of having to step down, but he also didn’t want to push his feelings if Naruto was uncomfortable.
This sucked. Sasuke sighed, walking back to the entrance. He couldn’t wait for this night to be over so he could just go back to his apartment and drink his sorrows away, or something like that. Anything to forget the twisting pain wrenching his heart.
However, once he was back to the ad agency, he noticed that Naruto wasn’t on his seat. He shrugged, walking towards the bathroom. Maybe he’d see the blond man drinking the twelfth cup of coffee in a row, rocking his body back and forth, he’d probably fall asleep while standing. The thought of this made him chuckle a little.
The kitchen was also empty. Sasuke resumed his steps towards the bathroom until he froze on the spot.
He heard a moan.
The pitch of the moan was very recognizable as well. And considering they were the only people left in this entire building and the voice was so deliciously familiar, Sasuke remained standing still, listening to the pleased grunts as it grew in cadence. He almost wanted to scream in frustration. This idiot just couldn't wait for a more appropriate time to do his business, could he? Now Sasuke was sure those moans will plague his dreams for the next few months for sure.
"Ah…" Naruto groaned in a way that shot straight to his groin. Sasuke bumped his head on the door, this dumbass was driving him insane. He better go away. “Ahnnngh⏤” Right fucking now. “Ah⏤Sa…”
“Sasuke…”
He did a double-take, shaking his head. He’s hallucinating, he must be. He probably had been wanting Naruto for so long that he’s hearing the craziest things.
“Ah yes⏤!” His echo brought shivers down Sasuke’s spine, chanting once again. “Sasuke⏤”
He barely registered himself banging the door open, brain gone haywire as he strode in fast steps to the half open stall. He heard Naruto’s panicked grunt, trying to close the door stall but he was faster, prying it open with a wicked smirk.
“Why, hello there. What do we have here?” Sasuke murmured, noting the flushed face, chest heaving heavily and even if the blond man was trying his hardest to cover it, he saw the thick cock jutting out of the denim pants. Sasuke licked his lips.
“Sasuke!! The fuck, you can’t⏤” Naruto still attempted to shut the door but Sasuke used his whole elbow to keep it open, quirking that infuriating sexy smirk of his. “You can’t just barge in like that! Get out!”
“Trust me, usually I wouldn’t bother myself snooping over anyone’s private moments but you called my name. And naturally, I just responded to such call.”
Sasuke saw Naruto clenching his jaw, though didn’t come up with any word of denial. His hard-on was still nestling in the midst of blond curls, so he succumbed the desire to touch it, tip of fingers flickering on the slit and earning a moan from Naruto.
“It looks like you’re in need of my help too.” He gradually let his hand wrap around Naruto’s cock, but only let it graze over it. “In any case you’re interested.”
Naruto hissed when Sasuke gripped his cock tightly, before releasing it at once. Sasuke was gradually lowering himself, with one knee to the ground. He kept teasing him with fluttering touches, brushing through the length and crumbling any remaining resistance. He wanted Sasuke for so long…and why is this bastard so irresistible?
“Well?” Sasuke caressed his inner thighs. “I won’t know if you won’t tell me anything dumbass.” He let out a hot puff of air over the sensitive head. “Naruto?”
Unsatisfied from the lack of response, Sasuke stood up. Sturdy hands seized his hair all of a sudden, growling close to his ear. “You better get there before I fucking lose my mind.”
Smirking undaunted, he continued to widen the distance despite seeing the incredulous blue eyes. He felt a grip on his nape, pushing him down even if he exerted some strength against it. His mouth was practically touching the head of Naruto’s cock, so he licked the beaded pre-cum, revelling the lustful gaze. The hand clenched around his hair when he sucked the sensitive glan, thrusting inside his mouth a few times before he glided it in.
Naruto tossed his head to the back, moaning. With one hand encasing the base, Sasuke’s tongue curled around the joint between the head and the shaft, slurping and encasing with his lips. How sexually gratifying this felt, with each suckle and light bite, Naruto would groan, hiss and curse loudly, crying out in dark pleasure. Their eyes locked together, Sasuke would swallow the cock, staring how those cerulean hue darkened in hunger. That hand was still holding his head in place, tightening in a vice grip and made him moan with his mouth stuffed around that hot flesh.
Without a sign of warning, Naruto shoved till his cock went deep through Sasuke’s throat. Sasuke didn’t deter him, just threw a defiant glance back. With his hand clutching the black strands of hair, he thrust his cock in Sasuke’s mouth over and over, the grip on his scalp with the salty flavor of skin blended in this spicy mixture of pain and pleasure.
His senses were already being overwhelmed by a musky scent, signalizing that Naruto was getting close. He released the cock from his mouth, stroking till one spurt of cum reached his face, bursting and flowing on his hand. Naruto was still heaving heavily, so Sasuke cleaned the best he could, tucking the flacid dick back to the orange boxers. He patted the tanned cheek, whispering close to the ear. “You want to continue somewhere else? My apartment is pretty close by.”
These sentences were enough to sober Naruto up, as he stared back with uncertainty and longing, before his eyebrows knitted in blazing determination. Feeling a little rattled about this sudden shift of emotions, Sasuke opened his mouth to question until arms enveloped around him, lips silencing him with a kiss.
Whatever was inside his mind just evaporated as Sasuke responded immediately, lips gliding and matching in a wet lock, his own hands reaching to hold Naruto’s waist. Soon his tongue slipped in, drinking the pleasurable grunt, consuming him, pulling him even closer. Sasuke inhaled sharply when their mouths parted for a second, coming together in increased intensity while Naruto embraced him tenderly, almost possessively.
Both men paused to catch their breaths, staring longingly to each other. Sasuke was acutely aware of warm fingers caressing his back, while his own hands wound up brushing Naruto’s cheeks. Blue eyes crinkled soft and open, approaching in an almost lethargic way, with his nose nuzzling his cheek till full lips reached his mouth.
Naruto was kissing him harder, unyielding, akin to some unnamed desperation that Sasuke returned in kind. His hands instinctively reached to Naruto’s t-shirt, craving to yank it out, but the blond man seized his wrists and pushed it down. Growling, Sasuke thrust his pelvis, however Naruto just remained liplocked, not touching anywhere that would provoke any sort arousal.
Naruto backed away, his eyes still brimming with affection while he combed the dark hair. He didn’t resist the yearning to brush those beguiling lips, capturing once again to a swift kiss. He released with a loud sigh, shaking his head. But Sasuke held his chin with his fingers to catch his attention, closing in with his teeth lightly sinking on the lower lip. Naruto yielded for a while, though his hands were already placing in between their bodies, slowly pushing away.
At that moment, nothing in the world mattered for Sasuke aside Naruto. He was ready to rip his heart off if necessary to keep him by his side, but Naruto uttered out:
“I think…we should really call our uber.”
That declaration was so out of left field that broke Sasuke’s line of thought. He muttered. “What?”
Naruto nodded. “Uber. We gotta call an uber. We’re pretty tired tonight right? We should go.”
Graphite eyes blinked, not quite catching the whole situation. He managed to murmur, his lips trying to reach Naruto’s but the latter deflected away. “We can go to my apartment, it’s close…”
“Yeah, um…” Naruto gently nudged Sasuke body off his lap, standing up. “I’m just⏤so fucking exhausted, I swear.”
“Naruto.” Sasuke clasped his arm. “But what about⏤”
“I know. “ He rubbed his eyelids. “I’m sorry, we’ll talk later. Okay? I’m sorry.” Naruto pleaded, gulping dryly. “I’m so sorry. I⏤” Sighing, he exited the bathroom with a thunderous noise from the door.
Sasuke took too long seconds to really absorb what happened, running in search of Naruto. Too late, he already exited the building.
What the hell just happened?
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AN: Ayyyy what's this sudden angst? It's probably my fault lmao. Anyways...Hmm…while I was writing the beginning of this fic, I actually thought to myself if I didn’t embellish like it’s a cool place to work and it had so much cool prizes and recognition. So before anyone is changing their mind over their careers, let me tell you something: Most of the time, it’s a lie. And most ad agencies (at least here in Brazil) sucks. It’s changing pretty slowly, but it still sucks. You work overtime most of the time, recognition is mostly “I’ll pay for tonight’s beer” but no salary raise or bonus. There’s backstabbing involved too. Oh, and at least where I used to work, they won’t pay for those overtimes hours and even though they claim “you can rest another day”, it’s really complicated to negotiate the “I want to rest on x day”.
The Las Vegas trip thing is real, but it’s something out of the norm, sadly. Also, the ad agency that gave such trip though, makes their employees work, like, twice the time.
Anyways, like any job, it has its merits and its downfalls.
