Naito One Shot Collection

Do Not Disturb

Featuring: Tetsuya Naito/FC

Word Count: 759

Warnings: language

"Don't wake me up unless there's a fire."

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As usual when I walked into the Los Ingobernables locker room I was completely ignored. After the first ten times or so I had learned not to let it bother me. Sort of. There was still a small part of me that felt that pang of hurt and insecurity when they failed to acknowledge my existence beyond sharply issued commands. Slinking into my corner I pulled out my IPAD to double check their schedules for the following day and make sure there were no last minute changes.

"You sure you don't want to go with us Naito?" Bushi asked as they gathered their belongings.

Naito shook his head as he slung the strap of his duffel bag over his shoulder and perched his signature black baseball cap on his unruly hair.

"I'm beat. I just want to go find my bed and sleep." He said heading towards the door. "I've got to be up at the crack of dawn for an interview."

Pausing with a hand on the knob he turned to me with a tired expression.

"Don't wake me up unless there's a fire. Even then think about it." He said before disappearing.

The rest of LIJ left shortly after in a loud cacophony of laughs and curses as they discussed their evening plans, the door slamming shut behind them in leaving me in peaceful quiet as they vanished without a word.

Pushing down that irritating pang of hurt I made a sweep of the locker room, checking all the crevices to make sure nothing was left behind in the venue before making my own exit. As far as I was concerned Naito had the right idea. A good meal and a warm bed were calling to me. Since I had started working for them, I had learned that sleep was a commodity that I was going to have to fight for. The Ingobernables were truly a 24 hour a day job. They all kept different hours and most of them kept very late nights. Given how out of it I was having just started working for them I was clueless as to how they functioned at the high level they did.

Unfortunately luck didn't seem to be on my side tonight. As soon as I had settled into bed my phone had pinged with a message. Groaning I reached blindly for my phone wondering who had done what and needed to be rescued.

The message I read had me in an entirely different quandary. Naito's crack of dawn interview he had been complaining about had gotten moved back a few hours affording him the opportunity to sleep in much later than he originally planned on. Biting my lip I sat up in bed, wondering if I should go wake Naito. He had left pretty implicit instructions not to wake him. Yet I had news I was sure he would want to hear.

Pulling on my robe and sliding on my slippers I padded down the hallway to Naito's room. My hand hovered over the door for several agonizing seconds before I pulled the trigger and forced myself to knock loudly. Immediately curses were heard through the door, and I cringed as I heard Naito angrily approaching threatening bodily harm to whoever had interrupted his sleep.

The force of Naito's glare had me stumbling back a few steps, honestly frightened at the look on his face.

"Is the hotel on fire?" Naito asked with a sneer. "I don't smell any smoke, or hear any alarms."

"There's no fire." I rushed to reassure him avoiding looking directly at him, instead focusing on the floor.

"Then why are you waking me up?" He snapped. "You better have a damn good excuse."

"You're interview got moved back!" I blurted out before he could rail at me further. "Three hours. You have three extra hours."

Naito smirked as he processed the information, the anger seeping from his face.

"That is a damn good excuse." He admitted. "I'll let you slide this time."

The next thing I knew the door was slammed in my face leaving me staring at the now empty doorway shaking my head in disbelief. The walk back to my room I cursed his very existence with every step, continuing until I was wrapped back up in my bed, turning on my side and mumbling into my pillow about what an asshole Tetsuya Naito was as I fell into a fitful sleep.