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Day 2 – Something More (SSM17)

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Naruto glares down the man beside him; staring at his work, underlining and scribbling notes between the empty margins of the page. Naruto narrows his gaze.

He knew the bastard was hiding something. And it wasn’t a simple white lie – oh no. This, this, was something more.

Sasuke puts down his pen, and looks up, “is there something you need?” he asks; it isn’t as if Naruto had been subtle with his scrutiny.

Naruto places both hands on his desk, and leans forward, “where were you yesterday?”

Sasuke reacts with indifference towards Naruto’s attempt at intimidation, “I was here, in your office,” he smirks, “did you forget, you asked for my help”.

“I know,” Naruto quickly replies, his voice a little higher in its pitch.

Sasuke tries not snort.

“So,” Naruto continues, “I left before you yesterday, you remember…right?”

With an expression akin to one of boredom, Sasuke replies that yes, he does remember and continues to ask as to what the point of this interrogation is. He’d done the ‘idiot’ a favour yesterday, “you weren’t going to get through all that paperwork by yourself”.

Naruto shrugs, “yes, that’s true,” he laces his fingers together, “but that isn’t what I’m asking about”.

Sasuke grits his teeth, then relaxes, “then what is your point?”

“Yesterday,” Naruto stands up, “after I left,” he crosses his arms over his chest, “did Sakura-chan come and visit you here? In my office?!”

Sasuke narrows his eyes – there is no way the idiot could know that. They’d been careful – they’d cleaned up!

He must be bluffing…

Sasuke scoffs, “don’t be stupid”.