Disclaimer: I do not Naruto or any of its characters. Except in my head.

A/N: Geez I'm just a little writing beast today. Just over 3000 words of R&F and I get home from work and my brain's like, "You know what, you should see what you can do with that office fic you've been thinking of!" Well fine then. With that in mind, I'm going to be vague with Sasuke's business, it's not something I'm very knowledgeable on and Google was failing me when I tried researching office life and jobs. If anyone wants to help out, I'll love ya 4ever. And less is more, right?

This fic is also inspired by Dumb Dares by CloudNineKitty, which is a hilarious and great fic. Just the concept of the office games, I've had a hankering to write a boss!Sasuke for a while now. Onwards!

It Started With a Hat
Chapter 1 - Spark of Life

Naruto was sprawled out on the couch in the coffee shop, his white dress shirt not buttoned up all the way, and he was trying very hard to not doze off. While it was early, yes, he should be used to it by now; he's been getting up this early for a year now. Most of the time.

A bell overhead went off, signaling that customers were coming in. Naruto sat up, and finally, one by one, his friends walked in. Sakura, Kiba, Shikamaru, and Lee. Naruto stood up to order the croissant he's been eyeing—he himself wasn't that fond of coffee—and Shikamaru flopped down on the couch he previously occupied. "What are we, the cast of Friends?"

Naruto tore into the buttery morsel and said, "Har har," ignoring the disgusted look Sakura sent his way. He swallowed. "Would you rather go back to meeting up at the office and getting snarled at by the dick that is our boss? Besides, this place is in walking distance, and it's convenient."

Sakura sat down next to Shikamaru, a frappuccino in hand. "I was getting scared he was going to set us on fire by glaring alone. This place is more comfortable, at least." As if to prove a point, she settled into the couch more, smiling.

Kiba, Naruto's best friend and the only one in the group who he knew before this job, was wolfing down a muffin, a stray blueberry already on the side of his mouth. "He acted like we were chilling out in his damn office instead of the employee break room."

"You guys are being a bit too harsh on Mr. Uchiha!" Lee said. The rest of them groaned, knowing what was coming. "He's spending his youth stressed over a business. We should pull together our efforts to throw him a party to show our appreciation!"

"I don't appreciate him," Naruto sighed. "He's sadistic, and it's creepy how stoic he always is, and his glares could be used as a weapon of mass destruction."

"Which is a shame," Sakura mused. "He really is very sexy. Maybe if I borrowed Kakashi's mask to give to Mr. Uchiha so I could sleep with him without having to look at his scowls and glares..."

They pretended she said nothing at all.

Shikamaru groaned. "This job really is troublesome. Weird coworkers, a tightwad of a boss, the same things day in and day out for the past year. I should just quit and try a career in..." He trailed off. He was too lazy to aspire to anything, really.

Naruto sat down at a coffee table that was next to the couch, slamming down a hand on it. The owner of the shop glared at him. "We should do something fun in the office. Liven things up."

"I have a nice porn collection," Kiba offered. "Quite a few lesbian ones, that'll liven things up."

"I'm not talking about that, and we'd be fired faster than it'd take for them to pull their shirt off. Like, I don't know... a game or something. I'll think of something."

"Oh!" Sakura said. "An acquaintance of mine told me about a game they played in her office. She didn't like it, though, thought it was dumb. They basically made up an invisible rope that stretched across the office and everyone had to remember to avoid it by going under or over."

Shikamaru gave a "meh," holding his hand in a 'so-so' gesture.

Lee jumped up and down. "We could make a game of not touching the floor!"

"I like that idea," Kiba agreed, and the others nodded. "Knowing my luck I'll be zooming somewhere in my chair and I'd run over Mr. Uchiha, though."

Naruto snickered. "You say that like it's a bad thing."

"I'd be fired!"

"My point exactly." The blond got a kick in the shin.

He grimaced, hopping on one leg to rub his shin for a moment. "What about something like a truth or dare?"

"Truth would be boring," Sakura said. "We could just stick to dares. Maybe we can just find a list of dares or something and we could vote on the dare and who would do it for that day."

Shikamaru glanced at his watch, and signaled to the others that it was time to start heading out. They threw away their trash, Lee deciding to slam dunk his into the trash can, and walked out into the nice summer morning.

"We should all do a dare every day," Lee said.

Shikamaru nodded. "More fun that way. And we should make a point system, and the winner gets something cool at the end of next month. It could be something to look forward to each day and actually care about doing."

Naruto nodded, feeling more and more excited about this. The boring office life is about to be over! He glanced into a clothes shop window they were walking by, and the lightbulb went off. "Guys, hold on for just a moment!" and he ran inside.

The group waited, every few seconds or so checking their watch. Finally, Naruto came back outside, an ugly stovepipe hat on his head, another in his hands. Kiba raised an eyebrow and snorted. "The hell are you doing with those?"

"These," Naruto paused dramatically, "are our Dare Hats!" He swept the one off his head and gave a bow to his audience. "It'll be great, I have the idea now. We can all get slips of paper, write as many dares on them as we can think of, whether it's a prank or saying something to someone. We can give them to Shikamaru who can assign each one a number of points, and each day we draw one randomly and we have to do the dare before we go home."

Lee clapped his hands at the show. "What is the second hat for, though?"

"Oh, yeah. Not only are the dares random, but who do the dare to. We'll exclude ourselves, and put everyone else's name in the second hat."

Sakura chewed on a thumbnail. "So each day we'll be doing a random thing, and the name we draw is who we do it to, or say it to? Can the dares be a general thing? Like doing an air guitar show in the middle of the office?"

"I don't see why not."

Shikamaru followed Lee's hand clap, and grinned. "It sounds like we have ourselves an office game. I'll think of a prize to make it worth it, you guys work on some dares and get them back to me tomorrow. That'll give me the weekend to get the points sorted, and maybe add more dares to the mixture."

Kiba cackled as the group continued their way to the office. "And Monday our new office life begins."

This was more of an introductory chapter to see what you guys thought of the idea. And the only setting won't be coffee shop/office, if anyone is wondering. Continue, or should I just stop and throw this fic under a train?