(this is my newest, so it's the shortest, but i think it is going in a good direction, enjoy

BTW: I dont own any of the characters, (thou i dont think i would mind so much ^_-))

ONE:

Sasuke knew something was different this morning as he sat down at his desk. He looks out the window, twenty stories to the ground. Twenty-stories to instant-death when your body

smacks the pavement and all the bones in your body take the impact and splinter into your muscles and veins and break through your skin and clothing, blood spewing onto the cement,

pedestrians screaming as sirens come flying down the street.

A voice cleared in the glass doorway of his medium-sized office.

Sasuke turns his black eyes onto a very familiar man, dressed in blue slacks and a blue long sleeve shirt and a green vest, his right eye covered with a thick blue head band. However unlike

last time, his lower face is not covered, and his lips show a bright smile. "I know you."

"Hello Sasuke, it's been some time. What that was…? Oh…five years. Good to see you doing so well."

"Professor Kakashi what are you doing here?"

He chuckles, his spiked white hair swishing with his head motion. "It's not Professor any more, actually, I'm the new office CEO here at Exquisite. I'm shocked to see you there though, I

didn't think you were a diamond person."

"My uncle got me in, then gave me the manger position when he moved to Malabo. It makes the money I guess."

"Well, it's nice to have someone one I know around here."

There was a moment of silence as Sasuke stared back at his ex-Professor at the Academy. He was always transfixed by the man and couldn't quite get his thoughts about the bubbly man.

"May I come in?" Kakashi asks.

Sasuke shakes his head, "of course, sorry I was so rude as not to ask. Please take a seat," he watches the man walk to the two chairs and small coffee table, he sits in the left one and

leans back, letting out a sigh.

"How have you been?" The man asks.

"I'm doing fine."

"Just fine?"

"Just got a puppy, he's a three month old Doberman Pincer, named Shy."

"Any family?"

"No. Just me. How about you?"

"Got 'let-go-of' about two weeks ago from the school, my girlfriend 'let-go-of' me three days ago, just watched my apartment burn to the ground this morning, oh and, I have fifty dollars to

my name because my girlfriend took all my money and I fell fabulous," he gave the younger man a sincere smile.

"I'm sorry to hear about that."

"Don't be, the school got taken over by a bad crew, and my girlfriend was a nag, my apartment was too small and smelt of fish, and when the cops show up at my girlfriend's work at noon

today after they trace all the spending on my credit card, I will receive a large compensation check in a month, and my insurance will cover everything in my apartment, including my

brand-new gamming computer, my 56' flat-screen high-definition TV, my X-box 360, Playstation 2 and 3, m y brand-new eighteen speaker theatre system, and my eight exotic jelly-fish, four

Chocolate starfish, and my genetically engineered mini-great-white shark."

Sasuke just looked at the man sitting in front of him. He didn't think that a teacher could make that much money, and afford the insurance on all of it as well. He started to wonder what

Kakashi did on his spare time, "that's reassuring."

"Today is a good-day for me," he turns his eye to the ceiling, a grin spread across his lips. He looks back to Sasuke, "so, tell me about everyone around the office."

"Um…" he flicks his eyes around the office he could see through the glass windows that made up two of the wall of his office. He hated them, yet at the same time, he liked that he could see

the whole office on the floor below him. "There, the girl at the printer, that is Sakura, she's the photographer. And the blonde man sitting at his desk to the far right, that Naruto, he's the

advertisement manager…"

Kakashi listened to everything Sasuke had to say. And he watched as the younger man pointed out different people below. Sasuke hadn't changed much from when he had last seen him in

his English class. He was in loose black business shorts, and a loose blue button up. Kakashi had to admit that an office job was not what he had expected from his favorite student.

"What did you start off as here?"

"Office runner, then I came up with the most recent motto and they promoted me to the advertisement manger, and then here when my uncle left."

"How long have you been working here?"

"Three years."

"And you are office manager. I better keep an eye out for you."

"Well, what I want to do is work the show floor at the parties. But the company says I'm not what they are looking for."

"Which means they don't want you any higher than where you are right now. They told me that you are the best office manager for this place next to your uncle," Kakashi leans forward.

"There is a show-floor I am working next month, I will request you as my assistant."

"That would be great," there was a comfortable silence for a moment, "where are you staying until you can find a new place?"

"You know, I hadn't thought of that. I mean, my girlfriend took off with my car when she left, my mother is in a different country…so…"

"You can stay with me, we come in at the same time anyway, you can carpool with me," Sasuke offers.

Kakashi stands quickly, "that would be most pleasant! Even if awkward."

"Great," Sasuke was cut off with the loud tone of the phone.

"Sasuke-kun there is a man on the phone for you."

Both men look at the phone for a moment. "Sorry, I have to take that, come back here after you are off."

"You got it. Thank you again," Kakashi turns from the office, and heading up the stairs another level to his office. After a moment of sitting behind his new desk, he lets out a sigh, and calls

his mother in England.

"Kakashi, how are you doing dear?"

"I'm alright."

"I know you are still in shock about the apartment, I'm sending money to your account to help you out, I know that wretched woman took everything from you."

"You don't have to do that for me mom."

"Oh hush you. Your still only 36, your still my baby."

"Whatever mom. I found a place to stay for a little while."

"Not with another woman I hope."

"No mom, he's one of my students from the Academy, he's my office manager."

"Now, Kakashi…"

"You don't need to say anything mom, it's not like that. I respect Sasuke as a business partner and a friend and I cannot let emotions for him rise because it will conflict with work."

"I hope you believe that."

"I'm just going to be there till I get the money from my insurance and from the system. It wont be that long."

"Be careful Kakashi."

"I know mom, I have to go now, I love you. Yeah, call you soon. Bye."

Sasuke dismissed his last worker and waited for Kakashi to come to his office. He plays some music off his computer and leans back in his chair, throwing a small ball into the air and catching

it. He thought about what he has said this morning all day.

It hadn't sounded odd when he had told his new boss that he could come and live with him for a little while earlier. Now it sounded odd. He knew that the he was Kakashi's favorite student

in school. He knew that Kakashi like him as a student and loved his writings.

It was also odd, because he knew that he personally thought Kakashi was a better friend then he was a teacher, and enjoyed hanging out with him regularly after school hours. Even his

mother let him go out with his teacher, because she liked him to. He had heard her talking over to phone to one of her friends and said that she thought Kakashi was like the father figure

he'd never had.

Sasuke disagreed with that. Kakashi was like his best friend. His secrete best friend of course, because they couldn't really be friend-ish around the other students and teachers, that's just

not right.

They went and did things friends did, not father and son. Kakashi never treated Sasuke like a child, or like a son in any manner. They went out to theme parks, and skating, and they hung

out at restaurants talking until they kicked them out. He never understood why it was that Kakashi would want to hang out like this with one of his students. Why it was that some one ten

years older then himself would want to hang out like they did.

He misses the ball and it bounces once off the floor and rolls to the door as Kakashi appears. Sasuke doesn't notice, continuing to stare at the blank ceiling. Kakashi waits at the door,

watching his ex-student run a hand though his jet black hair and close his dark eyes. He never understood why his best friend stopped coming to his house on the weekends to watch

movies and play video games all day, and stopped answering his phone. But most of all he never understood why his student, had any interest to hang out with him at all.

'I told you Kakashi, the other students know something.'

'What could they know Sasuke? You don't say anything and I don't say anything. I don't give you better grades then you deserve, and I don't treat you any different than my other students.'

'Gara saw us last weekend at the movies. He thinks that we are gay for each other, and that some trashy student-teacher affair is going on.'

'What did you tell him?'

'He should keep his nose out of things he doesn't understand.'

'What could one student do?'

Sasuke lets out a puff of air, and leans back on his desk. 'Kakashi, I don't want anything to happen to either one of us. This could get you fired, and with something like that on your record,

you couldn't ever work a good job again. I don't want that for you.'

'I will tell you what. Next month is the writing competition, write something for it, and I will invite the principal out to dinner in celebration of your victory, and we will show her, that there is

nothing going on, and that you are only my pride student and I am only helping you get into a good track on life.'

'What then?'

'Then we can hang out after school and your mother can come and make it all just a little more believable.'

'I don't know, Kakashi.'

'Think on it, and let me know,' Kakashi gives him a small smile and puts a hand on the teen's shoulder. 'I would never want to hurt you Sasuke, you're my best friend; even if you are ten

years younger than I am.'

Sasuke opens his eyes, and turns them to the door. Kakashi is just about to knock, but comes in at his look. He watches the man enter the room and take the left chair, propping his feet up

on the table in front of him.

"How was your first day?"

Kakashi lets out a puff of air and a smile, "easier than my first day at the school I'll tell you what."

"You don't have to deal with a bunch of snot-nosed teenagers here."

Kakashi laughs, the sound makes Sasuke inside do an odd flip. He had heard that laugh so many times as a teen. "Very true, very true. Then again, adults are always worse."

Sasuke nods. A smile spread across his face.

"What?"

"It's been a while sense we had a sleepover huh?" Sasuke laughs, only because it was ironic, that he would run into his high-school buddy at work, and have that buddy be his former

teacher.