My Ex Want To Marry Again

Part - XIV

6th Nov, 2023
14:59

It had been an exhausting month since Itachi had come home, but a healing type of exhaustion. With Itachi pushing him, Sasuke had thrown himself back into work with ferocity, replacing his addiction to alcohol with an addiction to work. He only took breaks for helping Itachi with his physical therapy. It gave him a sense of purpose, and he finally felt the haze lifting that he had been living under for the past two years.

The only problem was that Itachi would not let his marriage to Naruto go. He kept asking Sasuke to let him have the photos and hotel records so he could look into it. Sasuke didn't want to look into it anymore. He had done that already, and was finally starting to be able to function normally again. The absolute last thing he wanted was to get sucked back down into the hell of boning it was some sort of mistake, only for it to be proven real. Again. There is no way he would take that emotional risk. He couldn't imagine anything that would convince him otherwise, and had told his brother as much. He wasn't interested in Naruto or their past relationship anymore. It was done and he was over it. He knew that Itachi had searched through both their houses, and all the company properties looking for it. But Sasuke just ignored him. He was finally getting his feet back under him, and he wasn't about to be knocked down again.

Sasuke was standing in the corner of the office lunchroom, waiting for his tea to steep. He had been working through most of the night and was feeling exhausted. He tried to ignore the sounds of the chatter from the workers behind him, but they were annoyingly loud. He vaguely recognized several of them as belonging to the marketing and creative advertising groups. Figures - loud and talkative as usual. He tried even harder to shut them out. The new head of the group had started today... Suigetsu, he recalled his name was. He was the 5th person to take on that role in two years. Karin, also in marketing, was sitting next to him. She had just been hired in the past month, but apparently she and Suigetsu had known each other for quite some time. Hopefully they would stay. He was tired of hiring someone new into those roles every few months. They just hadn't been able to really find a replacement for - he shut himself off from thinking about that, looking at his tea to see if it was ready yet.

"Karin, you have to come to the Onyx club this weekend, Suigetsu was talking in an annoyingly loud voice. You haven't been there in months! Yahiko has been chasing this new artist and has actually been turned down at least twenty times by the guy. No one can believe it."

"Yahiko? Since when does anyone turn down Yahiko? He usually barely has to look at someone and they jump him. Especially an artist. Doesn't this guy realize that Yahiko runs one of the most influential art galleries in Japan? Not to mention being unbelievably hot and a total legend in the sack?"

"No, this guy, Naruto, totally fucking knows. Yahiko is actually the one who brought him over. He was painting in Andalusia, and his godfather somehow knew Yahiko from way back and sent him some pictures of this guy's work. I swear Yahiko had a hard on for him before he even saw him. You should see his paintings. They are seriously dark... made the hair on the back of my neck stand up. But then you meet the guy, and he's like this blond haired, blue-eyed, innocent looking Adonis." Suigetsu was completely oblivious to the abrupt silence that had fallen in the lunchroom at the mention of that name, nor did he notice the sudden and utter stillness of the dark haired man holding his now-forgotten tea.

"Are you sure that Yahiko is the only one falling for this guy? You sound pretty into him as well," Karin teased.

"Well, I generally prefer girls, but this guy is worth the swing," he waggled his eyebrows expressively. "But I don't have a chance if Yahiko is after him. Even Konan is eyeing him, and she has never looked at anyone besides Yahiko, despite their open relationship. Everyone is just waiting for Yahiko to bag him before they make their move. I mean, if they guy won't even say yes to Yahiko, what chance do the rest of us have? Besides, I think he's starting to give in. There is definitely interest there on both sides. But evidently Naruto is pretty messed up about relationships or something." Suigetsu shrugged, as though this was a minor inconvenience soon to be brushed aside.