It's been so long since I have written anything ! I hope that you enjoy the new story. I am looking for a beta. Someone to check my grammar and ensure that my story flows. But know:

There will be sex !

There will be deceit, back stabbing, etc.

I will try to update once a week. Probably Mondays because they are starting to free up. If my work and school schedule get to be too much I still post shorter chapters ( and it will happen because my finals are coming up).

What to wear to a date with the devil?

Naruto took the only three dresses that she owned and laid them on her bed. She gave them a once over and decided that she should have called Hinata despite the questions that it would raise. She closed her eyes and spun around before gabbing a dress absent mindedly.

Nothing like leaving the fate of your ancestral home to chance.

Naruto shared the three-story Victorian house with her mother, Kushina. Her father, Minato, passed away when Naruto was 9 years-old. Minato was the breadwinner of the family and after his death Kushina tried to provide for them, but she could never quite catch a break and sooner than later the life insurance money from her father's passing had completely run out. Kushina had secretly pawn off her possessions, till all that remained was her engagement ring and wedding band.

Then there was a sudden windfall of money.

Naruto had asked her mother where she had gotten the money because she knew that even with her part-time job and the money from the sales of their belongs they couldn't have collected enough money to fund her mom's newest venture: a bakery. Her mother had smiled sadly and assured Naruto that with her father watching over them that they were going to do ok. They were finally going to land on their feet and at first it seem like the tides had really turned in their favor.

Then the fees and fines started to pile up and the truth came out: her mother had mortgaged the home that had been in her father's family since they had first arrived in Konoha. They had 90 days to come up with the money or get out.

Tonight's dinner was a last ditch effort on Naruto's part to finding funding to keep their home.

When Naruto was younger she was friends with several distinguished and wealthy clans. Her family wasn't wealthy, but her family name was old and proud; directly related to the original founders of Konoha. When her father passed away and the little wealth they did have disappeared, along with several of her so called friends.

Her mother was too proud to ask any of their old friends for help, but Naruto wasn't. Especially, when he was the one to call her up to discuss the issue. Naruto zipped up the back of her blood orange dress and combed through her blonde locks before her phone started to vibrate, warning her that there was an incoming text message.

BUZZ, BUZZ, BUZZ Uchiha, Sasuke: 30 minutes, be on time dobe.

'Teme!' Naruto through angrily before grabbing her purse and rushing out the house. Naruto sat in her car and took three deep breaths.

She could not get angry, she was not a child anymore. Sasuke said he was willing to make a deal. A deal that would save her only home.

The restaurant that Sasuke had suggested that they meet in was one of Naruto's favorites, Ichiraku's . Minato had taken their family to eat there during special occasions. They had birthdays, anniversaries, and celebrations of lost teeth all at Ichiraku's. Their family had grown very close to the owners and even when they couldn't afford to go anymore, Teuchi and Ayame had always offered them a seat. But, one could take so many pity meals before the memory of happier times got stained with the sorrows of the present.

'Shit' Naruto thought when she realized that the valet parking required a fee. 'I'm going to be late'.

After Naruto had found parking and jogged up to the building she was at least 10 minutes late. Forgivable for the normal host, but not for Sasuke.

The moment Naruto stepped into the building she saw him, Uchiha Sasuke. He had changed since she last saw him, and she doubted that it was for the better. The last time Naruto had saw Sasuke he had abandoned her in the back of an alley. Leaving her to join his new friends from the Snake gang.

The man striding towards her now was dangerous. He looked like an old school vampire in a new age tween chick flick with eyes as black as sin with a hint of leashed savagery.

A shiver ran down her spine and her heart rate speed up. Looking at Sasuke now she wasn't sure that his meeting was a good idea. She was hoping to talk him into lending her enough money to pay off the mortgage on her home with the promise that Naruto would pay off the debt with any amount of interest Sasuke set within 10 years. They had been close once and even if they weren't close currently, she hoped that Sasuke still remembered her well enough to know that she always kept her promises.

"Parking was hard to find. Hope you weren't waiting too long." Naruto said in a chipper tone. Trying to remember the etiquette lessons she had gotten when she was younger.

"Is that your version of an apology, dobe?"

"Teme." Naruto said through clenched teeth before taking a deep breath in. Before resigning to her fate. "I'm sorry I kept you waiting."

"Hn." Sasuke turned around and stride forward toward a booth in the back. Cut off from the rest of from the rest of the restaurant. Secure and private.

Naruto assumed that it was her cue to follow.

Sasuke lifted a hand to signal the maître d', who summoned drinks and presented them with menus.

Naruto's stomach was in knots and not even Ichiraku's could distract her. " We both know why we're here."

Sasuke briefly glanced up from the menu to study her carefully, sensing the pride, courage and the desperation.

"Let's get some food, before we jump into business." He stated as his eyes returned to the menu.

"The only reason I am here is business." Naruto stated. If Sasuke wanted to pretend that they had no past they so would she.

Sasuke glanced up from his menu and smirked at her before signaling the maître d' and ordering for the both of them. Their food arrived in record time and they ate in silence. All Naruto need to do was to get through the next hour or two. When she was done she would have an answer, and her fate and her mother's would be sealed.

The food smelled and tastes as wonderful as Naruto had remembered it to be, but she couldn't enjoy it. Sasuke would glance up from his meal every once in a while with a smirk that Naruto prayed she could punch off his smug face.

Sasuke had graduated recently from Konoha Prep as valedictorian and had gotten a scholarship to go to Konoha University as a result. The rich asshole didn't even need the scholarship if his clothes were any indication, because really what 19 year old needed an Armani suit?

Naruto bit her tongue, waiting till they had finished their food and the waiter had taken away their plates before bring up what she really came to discuss.

"Could you give us the money? Just enough to pay off the fees, and loans?" Naruto asked in a controlled whisper.

"To what purpose?" Sasuke asked, playfully raising an eyebrow.

He was playing with her, Naruto's stomach clenched uncomfortably. "The bakery was making decent money before we got bombarded with final notice statements and I have a plan. I make decent money right now waitressing and after I graduate from school I'll be making much more. I know that it is going to take a while to repay the money, but even if I have to give you every cent I make till the day I die I will do it, I promise."

"Even if you gave me every penny you'd ever earn in a lifetime, it wouldn't even be a quarter of a percent of the Uchiha fortune. It's not a viable proposition." Sasuke said leaning back in his chair, signing for more ice water.

Naruto could feel her eyes start to well up. "Do you want me to beg Sasuke? Is that what you want?"

One eyebrow rose. "Is that what you're doing?"

Naruto stood up abruptly and grabbed her clutch to leave, "Tonight was a mistake." She turned to leave, but her wrist was caught in a firm grasp.

"Sit down, dobe."

"Why? So you can watch me squirm?" Naruto asked, her rage boiling to the surface. "Fuck off, Sasuke. I should have never turned to you."

Sasuke squeezed her wrist tighter till her felt pain. "Sit down, now." He reiterated darkly. "We're not done."

"You're hurting my wrist Sasuke. Let go." Naruto stated stubbornly.

"I will when you sit down. You are causing a scene." Sasuke's dark eyes bored into hers and after several tense seconds she sank back into her chair.

"What do you want?" Naruto asked in a chipped tone, while nursing in bruised wrist. Wishing that she could have continued her karate lessons when she was younger.

"First dobe let's talk about what you really want." Sasuke said after taking a sip of his water. "You want your home back, your mother's business restored, to be free from debt and to continue you education so you don't end up like her. Broke, with no skills to support herself or her child."

"I had no idea that you had been paying such close attention to my life teme." Naruto said stiffly. Was she still that transparent? Had she learned nothing?

"All of that, rounds close to 5 million dollars." Sasuke said, ignoring her completely.

"What's your point Sasuke?" Naruto asked.

"Everything has a price. Dreams, hopes, everything." Sasuke said.

"I don't get it."

"Of course you don't dobe. It would be stupid to think that you've changed that much." Sasuke said with a sly grin. " I have something you want, you have something I want."

Naruto's cheeks burned red with embarrassment. "Get on with it teme !"

"Marry me dobe, have my child." Sasuke said evenly.

Naruto sat in shock for a moment "WHAT –"

"Shut up dobe."

"What they hell is wrong with you? Do you think that is a joke? My mom and I are going to lose everything and try to pull this stupid kind of prank?" Naruto whispered angrily.

"This isn't a prank dobe. All of the money is in a trust that I cannot touch till I am 30 or till I married and with a child." Sasuke stated.

Naruto took a few three deep breaths in. "I don't know who the fuck you think I am, but I am not someone who would have baby for money. You can wait till you thirty Sasuke and I suggest you never have kids if you think that all their good for is for the benefits that they can give you. You slimy, disgusting, ass—"

"Shut up dobe you don't know anything! You're still the same useless baka from before. Orochimaru has complete control of my trust right now and from what my intel has told me he is using it to fund some rather illegal activities that are harming millions of people worldwide. I need my inheritance so I can regain power of Sharingan and fuck you dobe. You know that I've wanted to revive my clan since I was a child. What part of my depressing back story indicates that I would take a blood relative for granted?" Sasuke said angrily, wishing his water was something stronger.

Naruto sat in silence

"Why me Sasuke?"

"Like I said dobe, you're still the same useless baka from before."

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