I'll always love you (re-continued)

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Neji sighed as he placed the document down on his desk, he brought his hand up to his face and rubbed his eyes. He grabbed a black pen, quickly placing his signature on the document before placing it in the stack of papers that he had already gone through. Neji clicked the pen a few times prior to placing it on the desk and typing away on the computer.

He didn't know how he felt about his job, he didn't like it nor disliked it, he made a good amount of money from it so it wasn't too bad for him. If he was being honest he felt like a machine with the same old boring schedule, he didn't realize how much time he was spending on the computer until his eyes started to hurt. "Come in." He said once he heard a knock on the door.

"You know Hinata has been worried about you." Sakura said as she leaned against the open door with her arms crossed underneath her chest.

He sat back in his chair and sighed heavily as he closed his eyes. "Tell her that I'm fine and she has nothing to worry about." He rubbed his forehead now feeling a small headache starting to form. He should've expected this, whenever he stared at his computer screen for to long he would usually always get a headache. With a job that involved typing on a computer for a good portion of it, he should be somewhat immune to these headaches or take small breaks inbetween, and yet he never did.

"You should really go and visit her, she would love to see you." Sakura pushed herself off of the door and uncrossed her arms, she wasn't close to her cousin-in-law, if she had to say the type of relationship they had she would compare it to someone who wasn't an acquaintance but also someone that was that much of a friend. They got along fine, the only thing was that they never bothered to get to know each other outside of seeing each other at work or social gatherings. "Thinking of which you should be on lunch break soon."

She glanced around the room, if Hinata found that she didn't at least try to get him to take a break from work she would go home to a very disappointed wife. Sakura hated when Hinata was upset with her. "We could go together."

He quickly glanced over at the time that was located on the bottom left screen on the computer. "1:39 pm..." He muttered. "It is my lunchtime- I suppose that I have enough time to go with you."

"Fantastic. I'll meet you in the front, I believe that the cafe is within walking distance." After she finished talking she walked away from his office.

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Neji didn't know what he was expecting from the cafe, perhaps he expected it to be less people. For a place that just opened it was lively, it didn't have enough people that made it seem like this cafe had been opened for a few days, but there was a good amount for opening day. Somewhere inside he felt a small amount of happiness, opening a cafe was Naruto's dream, seeing him being able to achieve that goal had made him feel proud.

Strangely enough Naruto didn't feel stressed, it was opening day, a good amount of people had showed up and he found himself enjoying every second of it. He knew that he had remain professional, be friendly and as nice as possible if he wanted people to continue showing up. He gave himself a silent pep talk as he watched Sakura and Neji come in.

Naruto used his forearm to push up his bangs as he smiled. "Hello, welcome to Rasen café. How may I help you?" He was grateful for the number of people that came into either look or try out the new cafe, it made Naruto feel as though all of his hard work had paid off.

"Could I get vegetable miso soup with a medium-size ice water?" His stomach felt empty even though he had breakfast that morning, he had gone a few hours without eating anything. Neji internally smiled, he wouldn't admit it out loud but he was happy that Naruto finally accomplished his goal. He remembered when the blonde would go
on for hours about how he wanted to open a cafe or maybe even a coffee shop and Neji would silently listen to him while he added his own comments, he swore that he could've listened to him talk for hours about it at the time. It wasn't that the topic interested him, it was how his eyes lit up, and the smile on his face as he talked about it. But now... that was all in the past.

"Okay, that'll be.... 15.98." Naruto quickly counted the money, he knew who was ordering yet Naruto didn't feel the need to try and run away from the other boy, perhaps it was due to the fact that he was working or maybe it was because he had already spent some time with him, regardless of the reason Naruto would dare say he felt semi-comfortable with him. "Your soup should be ready in 10 minutes."

Naruto stepped away from the register and grabbed a clear plastic medium-sized cup, he filled the cup halfway with ice before filling it up with water. "Here you go." He said once he was at the register again.

"Thank you." Neji used his left hand to take the water from Naruto, his eyes lingered on the blonde for a few extra minutes while his mind began to swirl with questions that he felt that he could no longer ignore. "If you don't mind, could we talk?"

At first, Naruto wanted to say "no" to the question but he didn't know how important it was to Neji. "Oh um sure... Could you stop by here again tonight?" He didn't have the time to take a break now, he was alone and needed to tend to his costumers. He'd be able to give his full attention after he closed for the day.

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Don't think I forgot about Tenten! I will add her in the next chapter :3