Fox of Woodcrest

(KY walks forward into the light) Hello one and all, I am proud to present the next chapter of FoW! It's been a while but let's get back to it! I know we left off with quite a cliffhanger but don't fret for here is the next installment.

(J walks next to KY) Yup with us having things to deal with on our own ends and whatnot. The cliffhanger is intentional and all for the story ideas we have in mind. Also to let you readers know with how we left the previous chapter off with the bar and all is that Naruto having sex with most women will be implied but we won't be doing a lemon at all for them. Only those being in main pairings with Naruto will get a lemon while other women will just be mentioned.

Hey DRAGONfromheaven and Phoenixlord42 here, we hope you all enjoy this amazing story! We were asked to help out in this and hope you are fine with the long delay.

Anyways, let's get to it!

Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto or the Boondocks.

Index:

["Fuck you!"] - Different language

"I'm sorry?" – Dialogue

"That's gay!"– Thoughts

Chapter 8: More than just Food Wars

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["Currently we have contacted half of the targets as ordered Sai-sama."]His pen swished over the paper, twirling and swirling into hypnotic designs over his newest creation.

["Have they complied with Naruto-sama's stipends?"] Arcing just right the design began to appear as a swan, its eyes next to be formed from his hand.

["Ah, for the most part yes…"] The pen stopped its latest arc.

["Some of them haven't complied then."] He tapped his creation, his voice never giving away the slight agitation he was feeling at the man over the phone. Of course some of them didn't let threats get to them. There were always rebellious people in their business, doesn't mean he wasn't rather put off by that though.

["Yes, they were under the impression that we didn't have the means to… Persuade them to spy on Wuncler Industries."] A ghost of a smirk made its way across his visage.

["From your tone it seems they were wrong."] His pen went back to its arcs, swirling into a current of winds under the swan's wings.

["Indeed, Sai-sama. For once we gave them a little… 'Persuasion', we proceeded to show them the files we have on them. They changed their tune quite nicely afterwards and swore that they would be good little spies."] The man seemed rather pleased with the breaking of Wuncler employees.

["Excellent, I will be sure to report this to Naruto-sama. Also please put in a word to the men in R&D to speed up the Gemini Project, the time table seems to be pushed forward by two months. Our target will be taken according to our Lord's orders, no later than that."]

["Of course, Sai-sama. I will do so right away."] Hanging up the phone Sai smirked as his work was finished. His picture now fully realized as he set it down on his desk.

"Now, we only wait for the next part of the plan to fall into place."

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Jessica Ethelburg, A.K.A. Wondercheeks, was a woman that has known the touch of many a rapper from what Naruto has been able to gather. The woman seemed to be rather infatuated with the 'street life' that rappers lived and tried to harness that through them gaining emotional attachments to the men quickly. Yet, she flew from one rapper to the next left and right as she fell in love and came right back from it as if stung by a hornet. She talked of publishing her stories, her flings with the rappers that she has loved and lost throughout the years.

But most of all, she talked of her greatest love, her dear 'Freddy'.

Oh, she knew he was gay. She wasn't blind, nor was she deaf to the signs of his true nature. For a time she thought she could change him. Make him truly straight so they could be together without anything holding them back from a loving relationship for both parties instead of only herself.

Unfortunately, it never came to be…

"But that was always a dream more than anything huh?" A smile appeared for his words as he took a shot of whiskey.

"Yes, it was a dream that I wanted so desperately to come true." The woman leaned into her hand, idly tracing the rim of her glass with her index finger.

"Sometimes I would wake up late at night next to him thinking we were in love. So, I would try to hug him or kiss him but he would just move in his sleep away from me. Like, like he could just know that I was trying to get closer to him but…."

"But, he didn't want to get that close to you Jessica. No, he just wanted another smokescreen." A sigh escaped him, his eyes taking on a rather hollow sheen as he looked into his glass.

"In a way, he was only doing what any Human being would do. Deny, deny, deny. That's all he did from how you were telling it. And don't say he didn't, because you, you deserve better than that Jessica." She smiled at that, a small blush beginning to form on her cheeks. Whether it was from his words or the alcohol she didn't know.

"Thank you Naruto. It pains me to think it, but you are right. He denied me when he knew that I just wanted to be loved… Loved by him, and only him." She scowled then, her memories flooding back to the surface.

"Only, I didn't hold his heart… That, that was a privilege another person held." Her fingers curled around her glass in anger as her scowl deepened. A calloused hand reached over and clasped her clenched hands, giving them a supportive squeeze. Looking up she saw the blonde giving her a small supportive smile.

"You don't need to tell me if you don't want to Jessica. I'd rather not cause you any unnecessary pain from going over the past.. Even if it will help you move past it." Naruto said softly with a small smile slightly soothing her nerves.

"No no, it's fine. It'll help out to get this off my chest. Anyways, at first I did think he was secretly seeing someone at the time and his heart belonged to her and I was just being an odd fling or affair to him. Turns out I was wrong, well partially wrong. He was not seeing another woman at all, but another man." Jessica said as she took another shot.

His eyes seemed to frost over, emotions leaving as if giving way to something more malignant.

"A man…. So, he was either bisexual or gay. Though a bisexual would at least have the courtesy to tell you about his or her preference before you two dated as is the norm." He hummed, refilling his empty glass of alcohol.

"I just… I just wish I could of changed him… Maybe, maybe then… He would have loved me…" Her eyes stung as tears began to well in her eyes.

Seeing this the blonde clasped her hands in his giving them a small squeeze in comfort to her. This in turn seemed to break the proverbial dam of Jessica's feelings as she threw her arms around him. Taken by surprise he didn't wrap his arms around her till her sobs began to grow in volume, her body shaking with each cry. Putting his arms around her he rubbed her back in comfort whispering to her in a calming tone.

"Shhh, it's going to be alright…." Her tears slowed after a few minutes, her eyes looking up at him in sadness at the loss of the one she loved and gratitude to the blondes kindness.

"How?.. How do you know that?"

"Because when you have hit your worst, you can only become better."

It was almost too easy to make her bend to his will, so easy to twist with his words. To make a story of a broken man, who in his last day on earth confessed of his cowardice. To live as a man that yearned for the feminine wiles of his kind while forsaking his own desires. For him to finally truly leave the earth without a guilty conscious of his lies, he told of his sins and what he wished to do to fix them.

As the night rolled on, things were starting to come together for Naruto's future plans to take down Wuncler and this could indeed be the linchpin for said plans.

His ambition was slowly coming to fruition ever slowly and he will relish the moment when he sees the old fool that was Wuncler crumble from within and become nothing more than another pawn who will do his every bidding.

-Later-

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH!" Nails clenched into flesh trying to grab a hold. Shuddering in pure bliss the woman could only scream as her world burst into white. Eyes rolled into the back of her head as she gave one more shuddering breath before falling back into the bed. Her legs now fell loosely from her 'lover's' waist as all energy left her.

"Hmhmhm, seems you couldn't keep up Jessica." A bright smile appeared over her, his hand caressing her soft cheek.

"I was hoping for at least another hour, yet you could only last the thirty minutes." The smile seemed to grow cruel as his hand pulled her face close to him. His cerulean eyes looking into her brown eyes through a curtain of blonde locks. Judging, calculating, carnivorous..

Dissatisfied..

"Hmmm, how disappointing my dear…" She whimpered slightly, his warmth beginning to leave her as she clenched him in her core to trap him. Yet, he pulled himself from her in force with cold eyes. Now, he rested right over her warm core ever teasing. So close, so close, yet so far.

She wanted it, she needed it. After such a powerful climax all she could think about was getting another and another, another and even another. She couldn't think of anything else than getting him to slip back into her warmth. Nothing else mattered, nothing else mattered at all.

"P-please! I-I can keep going! Just, just give me some time to rest!" Her voice quivered in need, yet her body could not take any more stimuli. Her muscles sore beyond anything she has ever felt yet it begged for more. More of his touch, his warmth, his very being!...

"Now now, we have been over this dear Jessica. I have fulfilled my part of the bargain." A hand cupped her raw breast, getting a mewl of pleasure from her. Slowly, it grasped the large orb and squeezed and stopped. Squeezed and stopped. Squeezed and stopped.

Squeeze….

And…

Stopped..

"P-PLEASE! Don't, don't tease meeeee~" She whimpered as her core writhed and burned as his hand and warmth drove her ever closer to bliss. Yet, it never pushed her over the edge. Over that sweet edge to oblivions welcome embrace of ecstasy.

"Now, it's time for you to do your part…" The hand began to mold and caress her flesh as if it was an instrument under his control. She gasped as her legs quivered. Her hips bucked against him, pushing against him to capture him in her depths again only to fall short.

"N-, no! N-n-not until I, I geeeeeeehhehhtttt…. MOOOOOOOREEEE!" She moaned feeling his knee moving into her core. Pressing into her more and more as his hands played her, twisted her body into his instrument of bliss.

But as she hit the edge of euphoria… It stopped.

"Not until you do your part my dear Jessica." He chuckled slowly moving off of her only for her hands to grab onto him. A hungry look in her eyes as she tried to capture his lips, only to get a whiskered cheek. She kissed and suckled his cheek wantonly as her hands tried to pull his body to hers yet he did not move to her.

"Naughty girl…" He growled letting his fingers go under her moist opening and move just to where he wanted and clenched a rather sensitive nerve. She hissed in pain and pleasure as her body shook in joy at his actions. Her hips swayed on instinct to the sensations of his clenched fingers as she moaned against his cheek.

"NNNNNMMMMMNM~" She bit her lip as she shook with bolts of ecstasy splintering throughout her body. Smirking the blonde got up from the small bed and put on his clothes, wiping away the lipstick marks on his cheek and neck.

Looking over his shoulder at the naked woman on the sheets he smirked. Walking over to the woman he grasped her chin and craned his head to her. His lips close to hers as his breath flowed softly over her plump lips.

"I'll be in touch Jessica, remember, not a word of my involvement. Do your part and I promise, everything we talked about will come true." He whispered hotly, wiping her lips teasingly with his thumb and moving close to her as if to kiss her. Her eyes closed as she waited for it.

Only, for it to never come, as she felt a small pinch on her neck and her world fell into the darkness.

"Sweet dreams little minx." He chuckled as he put on his shoes. Rifling through his pocket he pulled out a small vial filled with clear liquid.

"Can't have you remember my face or name Jessica. You'll remember just the bare minimum for my task." Tilting her head back he opened her mouth and poured the liquid down her throat, making sure she swallowed it with no trouble. Even massaging her throat for good measure to make sure it all went down with no drop remaining.

"After all, a Pawn doesn't have the right to know of her Kings plans. Your right, is only to obey."

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"... We're back with our guest Jessica Ethelburg, also known as 'Wondercheeks', reading excerpts from her amazing new best-selling book, The Private Lives of Superstar Rappers." The hostess of the show smiled signalling for Jessica to begin her reading once again.

Taking a breath Jessica started once again, "Of all the rappers I have met during these years I've loved Gangstalicious the most." She smiled softly, "I called him Freddy."

The Hostess nodded for the woman to continue.

"I wanted more than anything to give my heart to him forever but I couldn't because he was so unbelievably gay."

"Wait wait wait. Hold up and back up. Did you just say that Gangstalicious is gay? As in a homosexual?" The hostess asked in shock.

"Well….yeah. Didn't you read my book at all?" Jessica replied back.

"Yes I'm reading your book, but I didn't read that chapter just yet. Man I need to get my reading done sooner for certain interviews for now on." The hostess grumbled onto herself before staring into the audience. She soon saw that everyone, even the cameramen were wide eyes and opened mouth on the reactions. Before long, many audience members started ripping open their books they brought along and quickly going towards the specified chapter.

"Yeah, should've put Freddy's chapter earlier but I thought it would've been fun to put him towards the end." Jessica said with a shrug.

"But how do you know he is actually gay? I mean sure most people could accuse someone on being gay on the fly or offhandedly but saying that publicly…..and live on the air is really… Bold." The hostess said to her guest.

"Yes I know but I have done a lot of extensive research for my book on each rapper. It was very strenuous and stressful in getting the correct information but it was worth it. All of my research is infact true and verified with the ones I had personally interviewed and ones I'm keeping secret for confidentialities sake." 'Wondercheeks' said before she asked the hostess if it was alright for her to continue reading passages from her book.

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(Insert Huey Freeman voice for this. If you watch Boondocks you would know of the Huey Freeman summary type monologue.)

It has been over a week since the 'Wondercheeks' interview on live television and it resulted in a lot of chaos in the music industry. With the news of Gangstalicious true sexual orientation has shocked many fans across the world with what was revealed. Many people were in denial with what Jessica had said in her book and they called her 'a lying bitch' among other things. But many fans had read the specific chapter over and over again and compared the material to many of Gangstalicious' songs and music videos and they eventually accepted the truth.

Whitney Houston hit top 10 for album sales after her death. Michael Jackson hit the stratosphere after his death. With Gangstalicious, his song sales had almost reached the ladders sales height in merchandise and music shortly after his death was reported which gave his producer, Wuncler, a huge cash flow in royalty checks. But when the news came out with the truth of Gangstalicious, the sales and records for the gay rapper dropped into the negatives.

It was revealed that Gangstalicious hated his sexuality and had kept it a secret for so very long that he even bashed homosexuality publicly to cover his tracks. This had contradicted things badly on his reputation on him either being pro or non-pro on homosexuality causing many people to question if they were gay or not due to being fans of his own work. But honestly, that was just plain stupid. People shouldn't rely on certain music or being fans of certain people that are gay that would make the fans think they are gay, it would just be too confusing.

Take for example with the music artist Eminem. People had thought for quite a while that he was gay with what he had said in his music and what was shown in his music videos. But he had done interviews saying that he wasn't gay at all and was doing some little humor and entertainment for his fans especially for some of his friends who are in fact gay. The biggest things that got people to lay off of him for good that he wasn't gay at all was during one of the Grammy Awards with Eminem performing a musical piece with Elton John and in the end they embraced in a brotherly hug. With that, people laid off of Eminem of being gay and let things go their normal course.

Of how Gangstalicious differed was that he didn't come out with being gay at all when he was in fact gay. The constant lies of his sexual orientation, the bashing of the Gay community and the rather slanderous things he would produce against anyone that supported the Gay community only solidified the end result of his fall from grace in the public eye when his true nature was revealed. For now, the world truly saw what the deceased rapper was. A scared, confused, coward of a man.

A coward that had to own up to his wrongs against the ones that supported him. One way or another, even in death.

-ISIS-

"If I have said it once I have said it a thousand times. Don't. Drink. While. ON. THE. JOB!" Lana growled with each word being accompanied with a slap to the back of her partner's head. Lana Kane can be described as a rather serious person when on the job. A 6'0 ft. tall, thirty-three years old wearing a white turtleneck top/dress skirt that seemed like almost a second skin over her large bust and hips with black heels she would also be considered as a rather imposing woman dwarfing most men in height. Though she could also be considered that of an Amazonian woman in sheer beauty alone with her brown hair falling in a wave to her lithe neck and piercing green eyes that told of a serious but soft centered warrior trained in the arts of espionage.

"Lana 'hiccup' can you like lay off? We didn't 'hiccup' die so I call that a great overall win in my 'hiccup' book." Archer said with a noticeable sway in step and slurs filtering through his voice. Sterling Archer was a thirty-six year old, in his partners mind, train wreck of man with 6'2 ft of alcohol and parental issues wrapped up in a black tux and dress shoes.

His black hair was rather messed up from the slapping as his blue eyes seemed to be unfocused due to the large amounts of alcohol he had and continues to ingest. While mental and alcoholic issues aside he is a rather competent agent when he is needed though his professionalism could use with a bit of an overhaul in many situations and facets of his profession.

One of them being staying sober while on the job, for example.

"I would be surprised if he wasn't on the sauce during the mission." A certain accountant grumbled taking a sip of his coffee. Said accountant was under the name Cyril Figgis, an intelligent forty-five year old man dressed in a grey suit and matching dress shoes for his profession as a number cruncher for the ISIS organization. If it wasn't anymore apparent he has quite a professional and personal bone to pick with his colleague Sterling Archer; who in their most recent job was able to let their target get away because of his drunken stupor. Naturally his coworkers did not agree with that aspect of the job and were rather cross with him about it.

"Which proves my point! You need to stop drinking when people are trying to kill us!" Lana said with scowl on her beautiful face, it frustrated her that Archer never took his job seriously whatsoever always doing WHATEVER he wanted to do.

"Haha, Lana when are people not trying to kill us?" Archer said with a small chuckle before taking another swig of his alcohol.

"Well it'd be much easier if you actually helped out in the firefights instead of slurring your way into the middle of shootouts drunk off your ass! I don't even know how you don't get shot, not even once!" She said pointing to him in an accusing manner to his rather clean appearance with no bullet wounds whatsoever on his body.

"BECAUSE Lana I'm cool like that unlike someone who will remain nameless. That is here in this room. Just a few feet away from me, who is a woman and constantly fires before she aims. CONSTANTLY… Wait, what were we talking about?" Archer said with a questioning look to which all he got for his reply was a hard slap to the back of the head.

"What's going on in here?!" An elderly voice said with annoyance clear in their voice. Coming through the door the voice revealed itself to be that of Malory Archer. At the age of… Well old age in general, the woman was a rather harsh taskmaster when it came to the job of ISIS as apparent to the quick quiet of the room. Her blue eyes surveyed them with critical judgement as one unoccupied hand combed through black overtaken by grey locks of hair framing her wrinkled skin. Her height was that of 5'8 ft tall with a small but noticeable hunch in her back as she walked in with a blue pinstripe business top and skirt with matching heels with a small glass of wine in one hand.

"Dick for brains here seems to think being drunk while he's on the job is a good idea." The femme fatale pointed over to said 'dick for brains'.

"While Miss whoever she is can't accept the fact that some people can be awesome at their job even when they're drunk!" Sniped back Archer his voice rising in his drunken slurring.

"Pssst, who's Miss Whoever?" Cheryl whispered through her hand while another held a bottle of glue close to her nose. Cheryl Tunt of the Tunt fortune was a young woman being 5'7 in appearance of late 20's or early 30's who has semi-bright brown hair tied up to a bun with some showing her bangs. She wore an orange sweater that somewhat hugged her upper figure showing her C-cup breasts while also wearing a black skirt and one inch heels to finish off the look.

"I think it's Horton Who's baby mama or something probably. Just go back to your glue Cheryl." 'Pam' Pamela Poovey said as she was eating a breakfast burrito. She was a blonde, green eyed, heavyweight woman of thirty-two years of age being roughly two-hundred and fifty pounds or so at 5'7 ft in height with her hair tied up to a bun similar to Cheryl's. She wore an orange button up shirt with a beige skirt and white one inch heels to finish up her appearance.

"You're not my supervisor!" Cheryl yelled out while others just rolled their eyes on the usual oddness that is Cheryl.

"Ignoring that, back to my question what is going on in here?!" Malory Archer said with a growl.

"Well besides Archer butchering the mission again and leaving me to do all the work myself again nothing out of the usual, the problem is who we ran into on our mission." The Amazonian like woman said getting said agent to roll his eyes before drinking more alcohol.

"And who might this someone be?" Malory said with a raised eyebrow with her frown still ever present.

"Sagero Roboto, head of Japanese Intelligence with a rather large team of commandos with rather big guns pointed to the back of our heads!" Lana ground out as Malory's drink seemed to stop mid movement to her mouth.

"That… Doesn't sound right, I was sure that Sagero didn't know where the target was. Hence why we were hired." Humming she looked into her drink as if it held an answer.

"So the part where they were toting some very heavy equipment in our direction, more accurately put our heads and faces, isn't surprising to you but that he was somehow able to know where the target was makes you think?!" At this point the woman was getting a little worked up at the dismissing nature of her employer.

"Well considering that Naruto specifically told me that they weren't going to be in the know begs the question…." Malory began in a rather slow remembrance, a show of her age it seems, only for Lana to stand up straight from her seat.

"Wait Wait wait wait wait! Rewind that for a bit. Who did you just say told you they didn't know?!" She said with some hesitation in her voice which everyone caught onto, even a drunken induced Archer.

"What's with the question Lana? Getting a little worked up there over a name. " Archer said with a bit of a hanging question in his tone as if fishing for something.

"W-what? I'm not worked up, I'm just….Curious is all." Turning away from him she continued, "Name, Malory."

Seeing her employee's hesitant look, the head of ISIS just took a swig of her drink before giving her answer with a shrug. "Well if it makes you feel any better might as well tell you. The source came from the son of a business partner I've had for years now and we've done good work with each other since then."

"Seriously Malory, name now!" Lana said losing her patience.

"Ok fine, his name is Naruto Shimura….happy!" Malory said before she was starting to get a headache. Maybe she shouldn't be taking tylenol with alcohol since that's probably what's making her headaches worse. Either that or she mixed the pill labels again…..eh whatever.

"YES!.. Well no, I mean maybe!" Lana yelled back, her face switching from different emotions from anger to relief, hope then anger again to a myriad of emotions. A rather confusing mix really for the Kane woman who usually kept her emotions in check unless dealing with Archer.

"Eh ok. So don't know or care who this Naruto guy is or whatever but can we move on please. Have some business to take care of after this." Archer said with a slight slur to his voice since he's probably getting out of his drunkenness in his usual way.

"Now hang on Sterling, I want to know why Lana got so excited for the son of Danzo Shimura." Malory said with narrowed eyes making Lana curse quietly that she got caught.

"Who's Dinso Simerai?" Cheryl blinked, a large smear of glue over her face.

"Danzo Shimura is a multi-billionaire CEO of Shimura Industries with a focus on technology, weapons, agriculture, energy production and fuel manufacturing while also a few minor branches in many other things that I can't remember at the moment." Cyril listed off scratching his chin over this new information.

"Yes and that is why we are very cautious of them and stay on their good side because they could buy us a thousand times over." Malory said making a few gasp at this information.

"So, what? What's his rich son got to do with anything?" Pam asked with a pensive look.

"Save that for another time Pam, I want my original question answered, how does Lana know Naruto so that just his name drew a positive reaction out of her?" Malory said pouring herself another drinking.

"I don't see why I should tell you Malory. It's none of your business." Lana said holding Malory's eyes with hers. Their was a long tense pause as they stared at each other before one finally relented.

"Fine I'll only tell you a little and it's only bits and pieces. While I was in my more… Rebellious years I was introduced to Naruto through a mutual friend at an animal rights rally. We got to talking and while he agreed that animal testing was wrong it was necessary so that people could have safe products to use. Of course he did say that it could've been better if they used monkeys instead of the other typical test animals since they are closer to us genetically. But I told him that it was morally wrong to do so which-" She said as an exaggerated yawn made its way around the room.

She glared at the interrupter, "Do you mind?!"

"Fine, continue with your boring story about whatever." Archer rolled his eyes and took a swig.

"Anyway...we got to know each other for a year and began to form a relationship. We dated for at least another year before he said he had to go take care of some family business and might not see each other for a while. We tried to make it work but we gradually began to drift apart to the point-"

"He broke up with you." Malory stated blandly making Lana just sigh at the bluntness but nodded. "Also you still have feelings for him from the way you reacted earlier I take it?" Malory continued on.

This got the others attention as Lana was put on the spot.

"I don't, I just would like to get back in touch with him. Sure we broke up but I would like to see how he is doing these days. Before we started dating he was one of my closest friends so when we broke up I tried to get in touch with him but it was hard to get in contact with him. Last thing I heard was that he had to move back to Japan for his family's business and that was that." The ebony beauty said as she adopted a far off look remembering some good times with Naruto.

"Oh my god, can you get any more desperate. 'I don't', says the desperate girl, desperately." Cheryl giggled only to choke as glue went down the wrong pipe causing her to grab the nearest drink to clear it up. Nearest drink being Archer's bottle of booze to which she guzzled it down all in one go.

"Hey I wasn't done with that!" Archer complained before pulling out another bottle of booze from… Somewhere.

"Hey now she said she wasn't into him so she isn't. Right Lana?" Cyril asked only to seemingly be ignored as Lana kept her gaze on Malory.

"Ugh whatever. Malory, do you have his current contact information? I would like to try and catch up for old times sake." Lana asked seeing Malory mull it over while playing with her drink before pulling up something from her phone and started typing away in it. Soon Lana felt her phone go off and pulled it out and saw the information she wanted.

"Hmm I don't see why not, maybe he can loosen you up a bit. You have been real uptight lately; last I heard he was somewhere in the eastern United States area. Here's the contact information I have but don't expect him to be forthcoming with what he has been doing as of late. That man's family always liked their secrets." Malory said as she walked towards her office so she could do her paperwork for the day.

Nodding Lana was already out of the door, planning on calling Naruto later as it probably wasn't a good time, she'd call him tomorrow or later in the week.

Until then she was going to have a very long time figuring out what the hell to say to him since she is going to be very nervous. God it was just like being in middle and high school all over again for her.

"She's so into him." Cheryl said before going back to her rubber cement.

"You said it Katelyn Glue-sling." Pam laughed, with Archer seeming to not really care while Cyril protested in a subdued manner. Just another typical day at ISIS.

-Freeman Boy's Bedroom-

Hands shook as blood crept down them. Darkness consumed everything he saw as he frantically looked for an exit. An exit from this horrible place filled with gunshots and pleading victims. Dead bodies of past gangsters piled high around him in grotesque reminders of his night of horror. The sky bled with ever shifting screams from the barely living souls under its haunting atmosphere.

Fire consumed hands cleansed the blood from his as metal made contact with his skin. Clutching it in both hands he pointed with great resignation to his target. This man, this dead man, only begged him to not kill him.

The Devil behind him never heard him, only egging him on to destroy the man. He just wanted to leave this horrible place. But the Devil wouldn't hear any of it. Wouldn't allow it, not until the final victim was dead.

So, with shaking hands he cocked this weapon of destruction. The man's pleas renewed in hysteric screams. His hands clawed his clothing in earnest, tears ran down his face as his voice grew hoarse from the effort.

Shaking hands started to pull back, only for flames to consume them and constrict them to the metal. Fear gripped him as regret began to plague him, yet he did what he had to do.

BANG

"GAH!" Riley yelled out as he woke up violently in his bed all sweaty and breathing hard to regain his breath.

"Riley, what's wrong?!" Huey asked out as he woke up due to his brother's yell.

"Nothing Nigga, just a bad dream is all." Riley said with a grumble trying to find his sleeping spot again. Fatigue clawing at him as his body began to shut down once again.

"Really? You sure?" The afro haired brother asked.

"Yeah."

"Mind telling me what it was? I mean you haven't had a nightmare in years." Huey said.

"Nigga I ain't no snitch, I ain't telling you nothing!" Riley said in a slight tremble of voice, with his arms crossed. Naruto did teach him not to snitch on something you're trying to hide unless it was gonna greatly affect others around you. Unfortunately he also told him to not show signs of stress afterwards but he failed that the moment he woke up screaming from the nightmares.

"Riley, was it that clown dream again?"

"Y-Yeah. Yeah it was." He lied while looking away. He didn't want to admit he was seeing that night he saw Gangstalicious die and he killed his idol's killer, albeit a rather twisted version of it. It was a hard experience to stomach but Boss told him that first kills are always hard to move on from, he told him the nightmares will stop in a few days….a week at most.

"Seriously I think you need to stop watching Poltergeist since that started that phobia in the first place." Huey said before he got out of bed and went to get a drink of water.

"I can watch that movie as many times as I want Nigga and I don't care how scary it can be." Riley yelled out.

"Riley! Quiet down and go back to sleep!" Robert yelled out from his bedroom since it practically the middle of the night.

After all that little nonsense, Riley decided he'll need to talk to Boss sometime to get this sorted out since he didn't want to deal with this every now and then. For now he covered himself back up and tried to go back to sleep.

Looking over his covered brother Huey could only shake his head at him.

"He's having nightmares there's no doubt about that. But, it's not the clown nightmares that's for sure. The nightmares were never this violent. No, whatever is bothering him must be something else. Question is, what?" He thought, laying down in his bed.

This wasn't the first time Riley has had nightmares this violent this week. In fact it's been the third time now that his screams have woken him up.

"I know it started just after he came back from work a few days ago later than usual. He wasn't as energetic as he usually is. He was… Quiet, for once. Withdrawn even. He didn't watch any TV, barely ate anything and went straight to bed." His eyes trailed up to the ceiling as his mind pondered.

"Change in behavior, withdrawing from others, nightmares resulting in emotional distress all symptoms of trauma filled behavior.." The question that now plagued him was, what was it? What could he have done that shook him so much?

Needless to say, Huey was going to find out what caused his brothers change. One way or another.

-Naruto's home, Morning-

Currently in Naruto's residence Naruto and Ebony were having their alone time they so desired. They were in Naruto's bed roaming their hands on each other bodies feeling each other up and down showing the most tender of care to their respective partner to show their commitment to each other. Hands groped, words were huskily whispered out, articles of clothes scattered and sweet release promised within their grasp they couldn't stop-wouldn't stop, they waited so long for this, to be held in each other arms. After dating for quite some time, the two decided it was time to go into the next step of their relationship and couldn't be more excited on it.

"Mmmmm, I'm loving this a lot." Ebony moaned out after several kisses planted on multiple parts of the body from the neck all the way to her toned stomach before going back into it.

"Can't agree with you more." Naruto said with a smile as the two of them kept on rolling on the bed. Only few clothing barriers were left on each other and it was hard to contain himself from delaying the inevitable.

What remained on Naruto was his jeans and socks while Ebony was clasped in only a skin tight shirt but no pants showing off her red panties. It was only a matter of time and more lustful and loving gestures to finally drive them over the end to blissful nothingness.

Ebony soon brought one hand down to Naruto's waist and unbuckled it with ease and unzipped his pants before slowly putting her hand in there to feel his warm, hardened member getting her lover to moan in satisfaction.

Naruto grasped her shirt and gently pulled her shirt over her head while giving her tender kisses over her neck making her moan and hold his head to her ample breast while he still removed her shirt with practiced ease, now only clad in only their undergarments the final stretch was upon them as all they had to do was let themselves go and their instincts would run rampant with lust and affection.

Things were really turning up well and nothing was going to ruin this moment.

*Ding Dong*

Hearing that sound gave them pause and the two didn't know what to do at the moment. The realization dawning upon them they were so close yet so far away, life worked in mysterious ways and it wasn't working in their favor at the moment.

*Ding Dong*

"Should you get that honey?" Ebony said with her disappointed voice. She was so close to becoming one with her beloved but yet life had to be cruel and not grant them their release.

"It could be some solicitor so we could ignore it. Make them think we aren't here." The blonde growled letting his teeth scrape against her skin making her shudder in bliss.

*Ding Dong*

"Yeah you really should get that. Don't want to be rude. We could always continue when you get back." The dark beauty replied back as she nibbled on his ear.

*Sigh* "Alright. I'll be back. Wait for me." Naruto said as he got up and readjusted his equipment before fixing his pants and walked out of the bedroom.

"Always dear." Ebony said as she licked her lips when she looked at his tight ass.

When getting to the front door, Naruto felt a slight chill of apprehension go up his spine for a moment and he didn't know why but he pushed it aside. That little action will be his little undoing.

*Ding Dong*

"I'm coming I'm coming. Hold your horses will you." Naruto said as he opened the door and felt his heart stop seeing who it was.

"Hello, son. How are you?" Danzo smiled in a tight curl of his lip looking over his half dressed son with a critical eye. Dressed in a casual business attire of a man of his station with a white long sleeved shirt, a black vest and slacks with dress shoes and cane in hand.

"Shit!" The blond cursed in his head with his body going cold. He was not prepared for this at all.

"I-I'm doing well father. How are you? Why are you here all of a sudden?" Naruto asked while a million or so thoughts were running through his head on what the hell is going on. Was this just a nightmare and he wasn't waking up. He bit his inner cheek in hopes of waking up but apparently it wasn't a nightmare at all. It was reality.

"Good to hear on that and I'm doing well Naruto. I decided to drop on by to see how my son was doing on his own in new territory. Not only that but your mother was missing her little 'sunshine' and wouldn't stop bugging me until I came by and get you to talk with her sometime." The old man said with his small smile and it was pretty funny to him seeing his son panic at this unexpected visit.

"R-Right I should call her sometime soon. Let me go get changed and then show you around." Naruto said as he tried to close the door on his father before said father's cane blocked it with great force as he pushed the door open.

"I would rather look around now son if you don't mind." Danzo said slowly pushing the door open while Naruto kept pushing it closed. Thus, a stalemate was created for control of the door.

"And I would like to change into the proper attire so I can show you around in a more dignified manner, father. After all being dressed for the situation is half the battle, its performance and proper etiquette that wins the day. Like say, calling ahead so a certain son can make sure his father would be welcomed in proper fashion as etiquette demands." Naruto said as the door closed further as the cane was moving out of the doors way.

Only for it to reaffirm itself against the door and push harder making the blonde glare ever so slightly at his smiling father. The nosy father that he was as he had that look about him. "I know you have something in there you're not telling me about, son. And I intend to find out." His eyes said with his cane pushing harder against the door moving it ever farther from his son and widening the gap giving him a small glimpse of his son's home interior.

"But you also know I will not let you in because of that very reason, father. So I politely must let you wait, outside!" Blue eyes conferred back to the man in a way only a parent and their child could as the door moved back to a midway position. Not completely open but not completely closed either as the two pushed against the door.

Narrowing his eyes at his son Danzo's cane moved in a flash of motion slapping his son's arm making him move his arm away from the door. Acting quickly Naruto hit the cane downward while pushing the door again only to dodge a stab from the cane.

"While it is rather cold outside I would think that you could handle it for just two minutes, father. After all if you could survive the Criminal Syndicates all these years you can shrug off a bit of cold." He said as the door was pushed into his chest rather forcefully taking him off his guard. Chuckling at his son's discomfort the elder Shimura swung his cane in a quick arc aiming to his sons right knee.

Batting the cane away blue eyes narrowed, "Oh, really now, I thought you could at least take a joke father." Smirking Naruto threw a quick jab towards his father's face only for it to be caught in the iron grip of the rather elderly man.

"You will find my son that I can take a joke." Gripping his son's hand tightly Danzo twisted it in a rather slow fashion watching as his progeny never flinched as pain flooded his arm.

"However, I do not take disrespect the same." A rather quick twist of the arm got a pained grinding of teeth from his son. A small smile graced Danzo's countenance at that.

"Good to know. I apologize if my actions seemed so!" He said, unleashing a quick palm strike to his father's wrist. Pulling back his arm in pain Danzo could only block the strikes that came from his son as he struck quickly pushing him slowly back from the door.

"Naturally it seemed so. But I will forgive you if only so we may move past it." A brow raised, "Though I am rather surprised really, raising your hand against me. What would your mother say?" Danzo smirked as he redirected the strikes with practiced ease with his cane.

"If you intend to hit your father make sure you hit him. Otherwise don't even try." Smiling Naruto smacked the cane back into Danzo's chest pushing him back away from the door. Capitalising on that the blonde slammed the door and locked it with a victorious grin on his face.

"Like I said father, allow me to change and then I will show you around." He said to his father through the door.

Only, to hear a cane stamp onto the ground behind him.

"Now Naruto, I would actually like to see the house now if you please." Danzo said as he started walking around to inspect the residence. Looking back at the door in disbelief then at his humming father walking around his house like it was just another day Naruto walked over to his father with a twitch in his brow.

"H-how pray tell did you get in?" The blonde said as he tried to stay close to the old man as he chuckled at his son's discomfort.

"That, would be telling my son. Also, you need to loosen your arms a bit when going for a Cobra strike and alternating between the Crane strike. I could see you were still a little rigid in the movements but I must say overall I'll give you a passing grade in your close quarters combat." The Shimura patriarch told, getting an even more present twitch of the brow from the blonde.

He nodded, "Yes, well thank you father. Still if you could please.."

"Naruto. Who was that at the door?" Ebony shouted from upstairs. Stopping the two moved their heads to the sound of Ebony's voice. One of them had a rather curious look while the other had a more agitated one.

"I'm sorry, did I walk in on you while you were being intimate son?" Danzo coyly said, a brow raised to his rather twitchy looking son.

"That I will not dignify with an answer father.." His smile now seemed strained, most odd.

"Ah, so you were being intimate!" Naruto only looked at him with the same blank look and strained smile. "Well, no matter. I won't judge you for your activities in your house. You are an adult after all and know what you're doing; though I do hope you were wearing a condom son. Lord forbid you contract a disease. Though if you provided me with a grandchild or two on the other hand that would be nice."

Naruto glared at his father, "Now hold on just a damn min-"

"Naruto, what's taking so.." Ebony said as she came down the stairs wearing a bathrobe only to see her lover glaring at an old Japanese man.

"Hm, so this is who you were with earlier?" Danzo asked as he looked over to his son. Said son only nodded slightly as his father hummed thoughtfully.

"Oh hello there. Who might you be sir?" She asked

"My name is Danzo Shimura, Naruto's father." He said holding up his hand. "Who might you be?"

"My name is Ebony Brown, Naruto's girlfriend. It's a pleasure meeting you." She replied back as she shook his hand in a firm grip.

"Likewise."

"So why are you here Danzo? I didn't hear much from upstairs." Ebony asked in confusion.

"Like I said to my son, I came on by to see how he is doing since he hasn't been calling as of late." Danzo said as he looked over to Naruto with a slight glare to which the blonde reciprocated. Of course his father forgot to mention that they were communicating but not with phone calls.

"Coded messages, hand offs of information, Network communication all used for keeping each other in the loop." Blue eyes never left the eye of his father's. Why would he make it seem like Naruto was not speaking with his family? Sure he hasn't been in touch as much as he usually would but it wasn't to the point that his father would grow concerned. Danzo knew his son's responsibilities, his actions, hell he seemed to know a few of his future plans for the company itself even before Naruto even made them at times.

"What's your angle father? Is this another one of your tests?" Eyes moved between the two other occupants of the room as his thoughts raced. "He has put an emphasis on my decline in calls on the family in front of her. Yet when he did so he was watching her reaction as if gauging for a certain behavior from her.."

"Really Naruto, why haven't you been talking to your family lately? You know family is important." Ebony said with a slight pouty glare that made things uncomfortable on him pushing him out of his thoughts in the process.

"Well I was busy and didn't have time to do so. Sorry." Naruto said in a rather aloof tone looking away with a grimace. Inwardly Ebony smiled, normally Naruto rarely ever showed signs of such shame from anyone seeing it as more of a show of weakness. Why she didn't know, only that he hated to show such things. Yet just now he showed a facet of himself that she never saw before: shame. He never showed such a clear sign of weakness to her, or in her words openness with her. She smiled at the thought of her partner opening up more to her.

"Now while you go and get changed, I would like to have a small chat with Miss Brown if you don't mind son." Danzo said

"None at all." She said as she led Mr. Shimura to the kitchen. With them heading that way, Naruto rushed up the stairs and immediately went to his phone and called Sai.

"Sai speaking." Sai said in a tired tone.

"Father's here!" Naruto ground out.

"What do you mean Danzo-sama's here? He's back in Japan Naruto-sama." The agent replied back.

"I'm serious Sai, he is here. He showed up out of nowhere at my house!"

"Are you sure?"

"Sai!"

"Right, right. Apologies Naruto-sama. What do you propose we do?

"Get everyone ready at our base of operations. Make sure nothing is out of place and prepare the files for him. It's guaranteed he will go over our work so far. If he asks any questions answer them to the best of your ability."

"Should I let him see Project Gemini's reports?"

"No, that will be shown at a later date. There's no need for him to see the progress on the project just yet. After all we are just grafting the Gamma DNA to the subject's tissue and anything could happen in the next phase. Til we can get the results we won't be showing my father any of it."

"Very well Naruto-sama. Will that be all?"

"Yes, and please make sure Tayuya stays on her best behavior while he is here."

"Of course Naruto-sama."

With that the phone call ended.

Naruto soon went all over the room and quickly picked the articles of clothing up and put them away since he didn't want Danzo seeing all this if he so happened to come into the bedroom. After that he quickly changed into a fresh pair of clothes to make him presentable before making his way down to the kitchen.

"Really? Your group had cured that? You must be joking." Danzo said in slight disbelief trying to see if she was lying.

"I'm not joking Mr. Shimura. We were able to cure Patterson's disease and were able to save many lives in the process." responded the dark beauty.

"I think I heard of your group now that I think more about it. The non-profit group traveling to various parts of the world to help 'third world citizens' and researching on various illnesses." The wizened man said.

"You are correct."

"Then you have my thanks Ms. Brown. Two of my closest associates had actually suffered from it and nothing was able to help them out until one day they told me they were getting better after getting help from some group I absent mindedly ignored but now you have my full attention." Danzo said as he poured some more tea into his cup.

"You're welcome then. I hope their recovery is doing well." Ebony replied back with a big smile.

"Well they have gotten better but the disease has taken a toll on them." He gazed into his tea, "They're not as young as they used to be after all. They have a few years at best from what the doctors have said."

"I-I'm so sorry." She apologized with a somber look.

"It's fine, they have lived some rather interesting lives after all. The last time we spoke they were in good spirits."

"If I may be so bold to ask, why? I mean if they knew they had only a few years left I would think they would be a bit more apprehensive than anything about it." Danzo frowned slightly putting down his cup.

"Well Ms. Brown-"

"Oh please, call me Ebony." She said getting a slight nod in return.

"Well, Ebony, my friends have seen many things in their lives and lived every moment to the best of their abilities. It didn't matter what others may have said about them or their ways of life; to them they never let anything stop them from living their way happily. So when they were told they don't have much time left on this world they were rather sad about it at first of course. But after a while they accepted it and have been spending time with all their loved ones making more happy memories with them. That way when they are finally gone they will remember them not in their last moments but for all the good times they had. In a way, they have accepted the inevitable and are making the most of it." He finished looking over to a rather teary eyed Ebony who was dabbing at her eyes with a napkin.

"I-I see." She sniffed with a sad smile. "They sound like good people Mr. Shimura."

He inclined his head, "Please, call me Danzo. I believe it's only appropriate if we're on a first name basis now."

"O-of course Danzo."

Walking through the doorway Naruto saw the seeming moment between his girlfriend and father. Sitting down next to Ebony he kissed her cheek getting a smile from her.

"So, what did I miss?"

"Well I was getting to know your girlfriend here and so far I'm impressed." Danzo said with a small smile.

"As for me, I was getting to know your father on what he does for work asides from what I heard from you." Ms. Brown said to her boyfriend with a slight look saying that he'll be needing to talk to her more on his family.

"That's good to know you two seem to get along well. But asides from you wanting to see how I'm doing, why are you actually here?" The blonde questioned since there are multiple things his father would do when going to a certain location. He knows of the bits with him not catching up on paperwork and knowing the status on Wuncler but what else is there?

"I'm actually here because I'm concerned on my health as of late. As you know I'm getting older so I have been keeping an eye on what I eat and exercising." Mr. Shimura said as he looked at his watch and pulled out some pills to consume.

Naruto leaned forward, "You never told me your health was such a concern."

"You haven't been talking with the family for a while, of course you wouldn't know."

Naruto frowned, "I-"

A petite hand fell to his knee giving it a rather surprisingly painful squeeze. Azure eyes flashed to brown rather cool orbs. Well, she's not pleased.

Gesturing to his father with his eyes a silent conversation went on between them. Naruto tried to give his own reason as to stop his father mid-sentence. He was only trying to get information. Ebony on the other-hand wasn't having any of it with a silent retort of his reason not mattering as he was already on thin ice with her with his neglect of his own family. Even if he hasn't neglected them, too much in his own eyes, he could see that she was rather upset with him for his actions from her expression.

Now, Ebony was a kind hearted woman. From the months that they have been dating he has seen her kindness at work with the way she treated the people around her and the work that she has done for her group. From charity work to just helping out the less fortunate she has been a rather kind and patient woman as well. But seeing her now with a rather cold look of anger it was rather disarming for the blonde. So much so that he looked away from her in slight acquiescence. Damn it, seems Ebony can be rather.. Threatening when she wanted to be.

Letting his jaw snap shut he nodded to her and relaxed letting his father continue to talk. Thus he missed the satisfied smile from Ebony at her ability to be able to cow her boyfriend. If only this much as it were.

"So while I'm here, I would be expanding more on the business by looking into some medical groups in the states to form some partnerships with them. Seems with you being one of the founders and representatives of your group Ms. Brown I find myself being most impressed and would look more into having a partnership with your organization in the future. If with what I find is satisfactory to my company's standards, I could consider help funding your group for several years to come." Danzo said getting a surprised look from his son's love interest.

"R-Really? You'll really do that?" Ebony asked as she looked to her boyfriend in confirmation.

"My father tends to keep his word on what he does when forming partnerships with groups and individuals. That is, until something comes up of said group or individual does something that makes them lose his respect for them." Naruto said as he nodded on the question getting his girlfriend to be happy on the response.

"W-Well I'll do what I can to keep you impressed." She said with a slight stutter since this was a bit of a shock.

"Just keep up what you're doing and we'll see from there. Wouldn't want you to change what your group is doing now with this sudden bit of information." Danzo said getting her to nod in response since she could tell if she told her group now on the possible funding, it could possibly mess with their moral.

"So putting that aside, where are you going to be staying while here?" Ebony had asked.

"I'm just staying at the Magnificent Mile hotel for the time being while here." The wizened man said as he sipped more of his tea.

"I was just asking since I was thinking you could stay here with your son to catch up more." Ebony suggested getting Naruto to pale a little on that.

"And have him watching and testing me in everything I 'lack', no. Not happening!" Naruto thought in panic as he shook his head getting Danzo to smirk at his son's reaction.

"Not that I mind spending more time with my son and staying here for my stay in the city but I already have checked into my hotel. But I thank you for the offer all the same." Mr. Shimura said with a smile

"It's no problem." Ebony smiled.

Time passed as they filled it with just a bit of small talk of menial everyday things. Checking the time Danzo excused himself as Naruto walked him out to his car.

"She's a good woman, son." Danzo said walking out to his car.

"Thank you." Naruto thanked him, his body relaxing at his father's compliment to his significant other.

"She's got potential to be a part of the family of that there is no doubt..." He opened the door to his car and turned his eye to the blonde.

"Still, keep an eye on her . She's not all she appears to be…" Ignoring his son's questioning look Danzo closed the door and drove away from him.

Later Naruto had gotten a call from Robert Freeman and was asked if he would like to come on over for dinner that he plans on cooking for several guests later that evening. He accepted and decided to bring Ebony along to maybe make up for their interrupted time from earlier as well as an apology for his behavior to his family, as far as she knew that is. He did not want to sleep on the couch after all, no matter how comfortable that couch was.

-Freeman Residence, Later that day-

Huey was coming down the stairs from his room since it was getting closer to dinner and he wanted to check up on how his meal was going. As he was getting closer to the kitchen, he could hear a mixture of Granddad singing a little tune and the sound of food being cooked.

"~Add the butter. Add the bacon. Chicken. Doo-ooh~" Robert sang as he was tossing said ingredients to the fryers before pulling other ingredients from the refrigerator. "~Add the fish. Shabado la la la~"

Huey soon saw what his Granddad had cooked up for dinner and this….was what he was expecting. He cooked like this once before a year or so back when Granddad got into cooking some unhealthy stuff for sometime until Huey talked him out of it. Seems Robert had decided to get back into this again.

Huey soon got up the little step-ladder and peered inside one of the cooking steamers and saw ham with his broccoli he had gotten earlier today. He was going to say something until the doorbell rang.

"Riley, get the door!" Robert yelled out to his second grandson as he was drying off his hands. Said grandson seemed to hear him as he walked passed them. Huey watch his brother as he passed, paying attention to the hint of something dark swimming in his eyes.

He didn't like it. Not at all.

"Granddad, is this the broccoli that I bought at the store today?" Huey asked.

"Yep and I cooked it up for you." Granddad said

"Oh and you decided to cook it with the ham!"

"It's pork-flavored broccoli."

"Granddad, there's more pork in the pork-flavored broccoli than there is broccoli. We talked about this, vegetables cooked with pork counts as pork." Huey said before the DuBois family walked into the kitchen.

"Hey...is that pork-flavored broccoli I smell?" Tom asked with a smile.

"Hey everyone." Sarah said as she gave a peck on Robert's and Huey's cheeks before putting the food she brought with on the table. "I brought peach cobbler~."

"Eww!…..Mrs. Dubois….your peach cobbler look like throw-up." Riley said as he peered inside of the opened container. He eyes glaring down at the cobbler as if it would rise up and growl at him.

"Boy!" Robert growled threateningly

"It do! Look! It looks like throw-up with peas in it….Mrs. Dubois have you been eating peas?"

"Boy come here. What is wrong with you?" Robert asked as he grabbed Riley's arm.

"What's wrong with me? What's wrong with her? She the one who brought vomit over here with a tupperware container."

"That is not vomit! It just looks like vomit. Now apologize to Mrs. Dubois." Robert said sternly missing the slight flash of anger in Sarah's eyes.

"Um, it-it's ok really." Sarah said as she raised her hands up to try to calm down the situation.

"Fine. Mrs. Dubois I'm sorry your peach cobbler look like vomit with peas." Riley said.

"Damn it boy!"

"Guys please. We don't have to..." Sarah said since things are starting to get a little out of control. She hoped something could come up to properly defuse this.

"I don't care if you beat me Granddad. I won't eat it! That is disgusting!" Riley said angrily, crossing his arms over his chest.

"Well if you're not going to eat it then maybe I will." A familiar voice called out getting the attention of everyone in the kitchen.

"Naruto!/Boss!" Some of them said respectively, though with Sarah was with a bit more joyful without anyone noticing.

"Hope you guys don't mind me entering without ringing the doorbell. The door was opened and I did knock." The blond said getting Granddad to look at Riley before smacking him on the back of the head.

"Boy what did I tell you about closing the door. This is probably the third time this month you forgot to do that." Robert said.

"Sorry Granddad."

"Mah mah it's alright Robert, he was probably going to shut the door but wanted to be a good host to show the Dubois family in." Naruto said as he waved it off. Once hearing that, Robert gave his grandson an apologetic look to which Riley just rolled his eyes on but felt appreciated.

"Although.." A blonde brow raised itself as he looked down to Riley. "I expected you to have a better manners than what I have just seen Riley. Have the lessons I have taught you not been clear?"

A flush went over Riley's face as he turned his eyes away from his Boss. He remembered the lessons his employer has been teaching him. In the beginning they ranged from simple etiquette, to manners and how to conduct oneself around others. Why he was being taught such things was simple. Naruto saw his conduct as a disgrace to not only himself but Riley as well. The kid was actually very smart when it came to the more gang related subjects and seemed to have a knack for knowing how to get things done when on the job. Yet when it came to talking to people and presenting himself to them he fell flat. Horribly so really.

Naturally, his ingrained training took over and sought to correct such a mistake. After all, even if he was a child, he should know how to keep his foot out of his mouth and conduct himself in a respectable manner. Thus began their lessons, with which always ended up with Riley learning a new facet of etiquette though whether it was from the lesson itself or from pain inflicted upon him for his lack of concentration on the lesson itself varied with the day.

Now with his rite of passage, or at least that's what Naruto calls that night now, over and done with he had no excuse for his etiquette being so poor. He was representing more than just himself after all. Something, that while he has dreamed of, he was still a bit unsure if he wanted to be a part of it. Plus the rather painful lessons in etiquette didn't help him in that regard.

He shuddered as he remembered one particular lesson. It was simple enough really. All he had to do was eat a small meal while making small talk with his employer and never utter a single derogatory phrase or word.

He lasted five seconds. His punishment, well; it involved Tayuya, her tonfa and a really big rock and of course himself.

Needless to say, he wasn't in any shape to continue the lesson with his old speaking habits after that.

"What did I just say Riley?" A glacial stare was all that was said when the young Freeman boy looked towards his Boss.

Shuffling his feet, Riley shook his head in denial. "Nah, nah! I mean… No, no they were clear Boss! They were!"

"Then why did you continue to insult Sarah's peach cobbler regardless of how much time and effort she put into the dish, which by the way actually smells great Sarah. If the others don't want it then I would be happy to eat the whole thing." Naruto said with a smile towards the blonde woman who clearly had a blush on her face.

"Thank you on the compliment Naruto." Mrs. Dubois said with a smile since not that many like her family's peach cobbler. Only people from her side of the family, her daughter Jasmine and a few close friends enjoy it very much while her husband thought it was okay. So this had boosted her ego very well.

"Don't forget about me Naruto. If the smell indicates anything I might enjoy it as well." A feminine voice called out from behind Naruto getting the others to notice her presence.

"Oh I didn't Ebony. No, I didn't think for a moment you wouldn't want to try it out." The blonde male said as Ebony walked into the kitchen in with a black short sleeved dress that transitions to a dark blue once it goes past the hips till it reached her knees. The hem of the dress was lowered deep enough to show some of her cleavage.

"Your learning." She smiled playfully to him.

He chuckled, "Well, I am a fast learner."

Turning to the rather perplexed looking people Naruto wrapped an arm around Ebony's waist in a slight possessive grip to which she silently reveled in.

"Everyone this is Ebony Brown, my date for this evening and a close confidant of mine." An elbow firmly lodged itself in his ribs at the 'date' word but he chuckled at her action. Course she wanted to hear 'girlfriend' as her status but he wasn't about to tell them that just yet. He was still getting to know them after all. Plus he was actually still getting used to the fact that he had a girlfriend to begin with.

Call him selfish but he wanted that bit of information to themselves for now. Treasuring it as something between only them till they were ready to reveal their relationship.

"Oh I didn't know you were seeing someone Naruto." Sarah said with a smile yet she felt hurt for some reason.

"We've been seeing each other for some time now and Naruto thought it would be fun to bring me along." Ebony said as she somewhat caught on what her boyfriend wanted to do but she'll be needing to talk to him later about it.

*Ding Dong*

"I'll get it." Riley said as he went over to the door and opened it up and Ed Wuncler the First was there.

"Good evening Riley. Thanks for getting the door. You know my grandson was wondering if you could stop on by sometime to help him out on some projects of his." Wuncler said as he entered the Freeman residence. Riley soon closed the door before going back to the others before he saw his boss and Wuncler stare at each other.

"So your Naruto Shimura. Good to finally meet you." Wuncler said as he shook Naruto's hand.

"And you must be Ed Wuncler the First?" A pleasure." The blonde grudgingly said with a rather good 'smile' on his face as he slowly crushed the man's hand in his grip. Just a small show of dominance after all. They knew, the both of them, who they were to each other.

Grimacing the elderly man bore it, "Yes well, I unfortunately haven't had the pleasure earlier as a man of my status has quite little time on their hands for such pleasantries. You understand of course being who you are."

"Of course I do. After all, we were never properly introduced since the last time I saw you was at the courthouse. Watching your client be cuffed and sent to prison if I am not mistaken by my prosecutorial prowess." At this the man's smile faltered ever so slightly.

"Ah, yes. You were the Prosecutor for the case." His tone seemed to dip from friendly to neutral at the admittance of the blonde's involvement with his client's sentencing.

"Yes, terrible business that. Seeing such a twisted person in a court of law trying to get his way all because of some preconceived notion that fame can keep him from corporal punishment. In fact, it seemed like he thought he wouldn't get punished." At this he smiled to the old man. His eyes conveying a knowing message to the man.

"Oh, but we both know such people will always get their punishment. No matter how big or powerful they see themselves as."

Frowning in slight indignation Wuncler let go of his hand putting it behind his back as he slowly rubbed the soreness away. Yes, he got the message from the blonde. He got the message loud and clear.

"Indeed, such people have no right to be a part of civilized company. Wouldn't you agree Mr. Shimura?" Naruto chuckled at that.

"Yes, indeed I do." Sensing the rather tense atmosphere between the two Ebony pulled Naruto away ever so gently with a smile.

"Come on now Naruto, you can talk business with Mr. Wuncler later. Were being rather poor guests just standing around like this. Dinner is probably ready by now." Naruto nodded to that but not before he heard Wuncler make a remark behind their backs.

"It was to my understanding that the man was the one that led his date where she needed to be. Most interesting, Mr. Shimura."

A scowl soon made it's way onto his visage from that remark as Ebony, sensing his anger, moved him a bit farther from the man.

No need for a bit of violence before dinner.

"Business rival?" She whispered to him as he pulled the seat out for her. Taking her seat she smiled to him in gratitude for the action of chivalry.

"Not rival per say. More, an annoyance than anything." He replied taking his seat next to her.

Walking in the rest of the guests made themselves comfortable as they waited for the food to be served.

"Robert may I use your little girl's room." Sarah asked as she wanted to present herself more for the handsome blonde for some reason. She was looking great honestly but his unexpected appearance for him coming made her want to look more appealing especially after his date showed up.

"Sure you can, you know where it's at?" Robert said as the blonde woman nodded before heading towards her destination.

"So what do you do exactly?" Robert asked

"I run a nonprofit organization, so my hours are flexible." Ebony said

"Wow. So what kind of work do you do?" Mr. Dubois asked the dark beauty.

"Well, up until recently, we raised money to find a cure for Patterson's Disease. Asides from that we go to rural areas and help places that have been hit by natural disasters similar to the Red Cross." Ebony replied getting others to nod on it while the afro haired Freeman boy gained a questionable look.

"Mind backing up there Ms. Brown but Patterson's Disease? I never heard of it." Huey said.

"Yes, nor have I." Wuncler said thinking the young woman must be telling a lie to impress the other guests.

"Well it's a very serious, terminal illness. Well, it was a serious illness. We cured it."

"Wow. You cured it?" Robert asked in slight shock.

"Yep."

"I've never heard of one of those foundations actually curing anything." Tom skeptically said even with a smile.

"Yes. That sure is amazing that you cured a disease that nobody ever heard of." The rich tycoon said backing up the black lawyer's comment. "Oh tell us, what other incredible things have you done that only you know about?"

"Were you guys talking about Patterson's Disease?" Sarah asked as she came back from presenting herself more for the other blonde in the building and it somewhat showed to some, mainly Naruto and Ebony who slightly raised an eyebrow on why she tidied herself up more.

"Interesting choice of attire." Azure eyes sparked with interest as Sarah sat in a low cut, for Sarah, blue dress as it showed off her figure rather well with it highlighting her curves.

"Yes. You've heard of it?" Ebony asked since some others in the room doesn't know about it which somewhat disappointed her but not by much.

"My nana had Patterson's Disease." The blonde woman stated as she put her hand to her mouth.

"Oh hon, I never knew that." Tom said in sympathy towards his wife. In said wife's head she couldn't believe her husband never knew, she even told him one time. Then again the situation at the time was odd for her to bring up so she had let it slide.

"Ms. Brown here cured it." Robert said getting Sarah to start tearing up in the eyes on the statement.

"O-Oh….my God. You saved my nana's life!" Mrs. Dubois said before she hugged Ebony and started sobbing. There were some 'Thank you!' and 'How wonderful you are!' in a muffled tone but Ebony smiled as she kept hold of the blonde female as it was good to get that response at times. For the Dubois matriarch, her respect for Ebony skyrocketed since her nana was a huge part of her life and when she got better made things much better than from when she suffered the disease.

After Sarah calmed down from her crying, everyone was soon escorted to the dining room to start their meal presented by Robert. Everyone was anticipating on what the elderly Freeman had prepared but when Naruto and Ebony looked at Huey with a disatisfied look, they could tell it was something that seemed unappetizing to him. They soon realized what the meal was when Robert started bringing meal part of the meal out and it seemed very unhealthy with Ebony knowing it was Soul Food. Naruto had a slight thought that if his father was here he would practically have a heart attack after eating this due to his current health conditions.

But the two would suck it up and have some of it so they wouldn't seem rude to Robert. Of what they will mostly have will be Sarah's peach cobbler and some vegetables that Huey had actually brought out from the kitchen.

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"Best meal I've had in years Robert, don't mind me asking but what's this called anyways?" Wuncler said as he wiped off the remaining sauce from his lips with a napkin.

"I call it 'Granddad's pork swine delight'. It consists of two pig knuckles glazed in honey. Pig tongue marinated in butter for two days. Chitlins - that's pig intestines for y'all that don't know - soaked in hot sauce, drizzled with mayonnaise, and then set to harden on my back porch in 3 pounds of cheddar cheese. All before I finish cooking it over hickory wood for that extra taste." Robert said with pride.

"Mommy, I'm sleepy." Jasmine said as she started to feel all droopy from the meal.

"Oh don't worry about that little baby. That's just the itis."

"The what now?" Ebony asked as she looked towards Robert, she's heard of a lot of unknown words in her years but this one was an unknown to her.

"The itis. That's what you call it when you get sleepy after a big meal."

"The itis...hmmm. You know Robert, I own a little health food spot near Meadowlark Park. Great location, but the food tastes like hot armpit on wheat bread. I've been thinking about making a change. You interested?" Wuncler said getting Robert to be interested in the idea.

"My….own restaurant." Granddad said in slight wonder.

As soon as he said that, some of the people on the dining room table started to nod off to sleep with Jazmine going first hitting her head on the table with a light thud.

"That's a great idea Robert." Sarah said as she tried to shake off her tiredness but it wasn't working all that well.

"You know what's even a better idea is a lounge singer. I sing Robert. I could….I could sing to the people while they…" Tom said before he fell asleep with his head falling back. It wasn't long before his wife fell off of her seat onto the floor dead asleep.

"It should have beds instead of tables. So….after people eat, they could just pass out." Riley said before dozing off.

"That's a great idea." Robert said with a smile as he looked at Riley.

"We should get together tomorrow and talk." Wuncler said before he quickly fell asleep snoring with no sign of getting tired for some odd reason. Most people have odd ways falling asleep honestly.

"My own rest…" Granddad mumbled before he too started falling asleep. "Huey…. You handle the dishes." And with that Robert passed out.

"Hey don't worry Huey, I'll help out with the dishes. It's the least I could do to help out our hosts for the evening." Naruto said as he got up from the table with his dishes.

"Same here. It would seem rude for you to do all that work by yourself." Ebony said as Huey appreciated the help since it would be a bit hard to take care of by himself.

"Thanks Naruto, Ms. Brown." Huey said, gathering the plates from the now unconscious dinner guests.

"No problem/It's nothing." They waved off getting the rest of the plates from the table and placing them in the sink in the kitchen.

"Did you have a good time Huey?"

He shrugged, "It was alright Ms. Brown. Wish I could have had something less greasy but I can't really complain."

"I can agree with that. While Robert is a good cook in his specialty I would rather have something that didn't clog my arteries just by looking at it." Naruto remarked getting a slap to the arm by a giggling Ebony.

"Hey now, that's not very nice Naruto. Even it is the truth."Giggled the lady through her hand.

"It's the truth Ebony, it's not alway nice." He dryly stated.

"Well maybe you need to be a bit more nice then." She cheekily remarked.

"Unfortunately that is not going to happen. I'm a Lawyer, 'nice' isn't a word I can be associated with." Naruto chuckled as he washed the dishes with Huey.

"Nice isn't what a Yakuza is associated with either." Thought the afroed youth as he digested the conversation the two adults were wrapped up in.

He couldn't get a handle on the blonde Lawyer. On one hand the man seemed nice enough to him and his family as well as the neighbors. He was respectful and was a rather good member of the community. Heck he even gave Riley a job in his punishment where he could have just as easily sent him to juvie for his assault against him.

Yet, from what he was able to find out his family were Yakuza, Japanese criminals as well as some of the most powerful them. Naruto was surely one as well so he probably has done rather questionable things in his time.

This didn't really bother him as much as it should as he has done some things for the sake of his own ideals for the Black community that may seem 'criminal'. So, he guessed he couldn't judge him if he didn't know his reasons so he would let that one slide if only grudgingly. Yet, the man had a mantle of authority over his rather impressionable brother. Who, till now, didn't seem to change much from it except for his speaking habits and the more respectful approach he had to people.

Now though during dinner, he stayed quiet. Never uttering a word really as he ate in a subdued manner. He played a good show for the guests and Grandad with his acting but his eyes, his eyes betrayed him to Huey. There was something broken about them, something dark. Something that reminded him of…

"Naruto, I'll be right back. I'll just be in the restroom, I don't feel so good. I think something didn't agree with me from dinner."

"Alright, I'll be here Ebony." He smiled as she kissed his cheek.

"... She's a nice woman Naruto."

The blonde hummed in agreement,"That she is Huey, that she is."

"..."

Looking over the silent kid Naruto could only place the last of the plates with the rest.

"Alright, what's wrong? When you get quiet you start to think up questions. Questions that usually seem to be a bit personal but questions nonetheless."

Huey sighed, "It's not… It's Riley…."

"Yes, what about him?"

"He's… Different now. Not different like a gradual change but different as in an abrupt change."

"Hmm, how so?"

"He's more withdrawn with us, not that he's shown it at dinner what with his opinion on Mrs. Dubois's peach cobbler. But with us, his family, he doesn't talk as much. He doesn't really eat as much either, doesn't watch TV like he used to and he's been having nightmares lately that have him wake up yelling bloody murder… So…"

Huey ran his hand through his afro, trying to pick his words carefully. He didn't have much to fall back on in questions as when he questioned Riley. His brother wasn't forthcoming with any type of answers at all. All he got was that there was an accident and he was told that it was best not to speak of it to people not involved. Course he didn't involve all the cursing or the glare from his brother for his questions.

"So, do you know what caused him to change?" There he said it, not very eloquent but blunt and even someone like Naruto couldn't really squirm out of it without answering it truthfully.

"Of course I do Huey."

"..."

"..."

"... Could you tell me what it was Naruto?"

"Ah, well of course I could Huey." He nodded, wiping his hands of dish soap.

"Well, what caused your brothers change was a rather tragic event I'm afraid. You see one of my acquaintances had a rather horrible work accident. Riley was with me at the time and saw the whole thing with his own eyes. Poor kid."

Huey narrowed his eyes, "Can you be a little more specific Naruto? I figured out there was an accident but what exactly happened to make Riley the way he is?"

"I believe I just told you. An accident happened." He said, as if there was no more that needed to be explained. Well it was an accident of sort that the men messed with Naruto and his people that much was true but there end was no accident. Still, Huey didn't need to know that.

"What-"

"Hey, Naruto..." Stopping mid-sentence Naruto turned to see Ebony walk back to him, albeit more under the weather than she looked before she went to bathroom. Huey on the other hand scowled the interruption as he was beginning to get answers.

"Ebony, are you alright?"

"Yeah, but I think I need to lay down for a bit. I'm now ninety-percent sure that something on Robert's menu didn't agree with me even if it was only just the veggies I ate for the most part.." She gulped back some bile as she leaned into him for support.

He looked to Huey, scowling in irritation and then to Ebony who seemed to be holding herself together with only her will. She didn't look to good, not at all. Best to get her home as soon as possible before she gets sick in the kitchen. As to Huey, well at least he answered Huey's question even if it wasn't how he wanted it answered. If Huey asked Riley to confirm what he said to Riley the kid won't answer him anyway, given his own ideas on 'snitching' as it were so Huey wouldn't find anything more out unless he allowed him to.

If that failed it was to easy to create an alibi for him and Riley with witnesses and the like to satisfy Huey's seemingly morbid curiosity on the subject.

"Alright, let's get you home. Huey tell your Grandad thanks for having us when he wakes up will you? See you later." He waved back

"Naruto what about Riley?!"

"He'll be fine. If he doesn't get better in the next week, send him over my way." He called back closing the kitchen door and leaving the Freeman to think on what he said.

-A week later, Eden's Eatery-

As the two got in line to order their meal after their nice morning jog, they were soon approached by a woman with a clipboard in her hands.

"Excuse me sir, ma'am….Would you like to sign the petition to get more humane treatment for immigrant workers?" The woman asked hopefully as Naruto and Ebony looked towards her.

"Sure, I'll be glad to sign it." Ebony said without a second's hesitation.

"I'll sign as well. Anything to help better the work environment." Naruto said as he gotten the form and signed as well.

"Thank you so much. Every signature counts. Hope you two have a nice day." the woman said before going around to other customers to hopefully get more signatures for the cause.

"Well that's nice of you to do Naruto." Ebony said with a smile.

"Everyone needs to work and what better way for people to work efficiently is to be treated the correct way." Naruto honestly said from experience. Sure sometimes some workers needed to be treated harshly if they don't do things accordingly but for the public outlook it's better to treat others in a good light.

"Hello there, what can we get for you two today?" The cashier asked with a pleasant smile.

"I'll have a nutty monkey bagel topper on a toasted whole wheat bagel with a Morning Sunshine smoothie." Ebony said.

"And I'll have a Power Protein bagel topper on a toasted Power Protein bagel with a PB chocolate love smoothie." Naruto said as he pulled out his wallet to pay for their morning meal. From there, they stood to the side for several minutes before their order was called to retrieve it.

Once grabbing their order, they soon went to an available table and started eating their meal with them occasionally sipping each other's smoothies.

"So Naruto, what do you think Wuncler plans to do with Robert's supposed restaurant? I know he owns quite a lot of buildings in the area but haven't seen any vacant ones." Ebony stated getting her boyfriend to nod.

"I know right? I was thinking he could try to put it in the city area since it could be a tad more profitable there with more restaurants being located in those areas. I hardly see one located here but who knows of what they could plan given what was tossed around last night was very rough on the ideas." The blonde lawyer said as the two continued eating.

"I found that the whole health food thing attracts the wrong kind of crowd." Naruto and Ebony heard from behind them of a familiar voice. Once turning around they soon saw Wuncler and Robert just entering the establishment.

The two soon saw the same woman from earlier with the petition they signed walk over to Wuncler and Robert and asked them to sign it but Wuncler had shoved her away before making their way to the kitchen.

"Well that was incredibly rude." Ebony said as she was finishing up her bagel.

"Wuncler, is not a very tactful person when it comes to those he sees as beneath him. Hence the display." Naruto said with a frown another reason to put Wuncler and his legacy down to the ground.

"That's horrible."

"That's how he is Ebony. Horrible, doesn't do it justice."

Deciding to put it behind them they finished up their healthy breakfasts and we're just having small chats with each of them discussing more with their current work. While they chatted they noticed Wuncler coming back out of the kitchen with Robert with an even bigger smug look on his face.

"Everyone, listen up. I'd like to introduce you to my new partner, Robert "Free-Man". We're going to be opening a soul food restaurant together." Wuncler said before many people in the establishment started clapping on the good news.

"Ok, so….You are all fired." He said with glee in his eyes at seeing everyone's face crumble to shock, anger and depression.

With that, things went dead silent until one of the female workers started crying with her hands covering her face.

"Everyone else, I hate your kind. Never come back. Congratulations Robert. This is going to be great." Wuncler said as he patted Robert on the shoulder even though the Freeman felt very awkward on how this happened now.

"Hey Wuncler...Are we fired too?" one male, hispanic worker asked.

"Not the Mexicans."

"I'm half Mexican." the one female worker said hopefully as she tried wiping away her tears.

"Not the illegal Mexicans."

With that, many of the illegals that were working cheered out while the rest held their heads down, especially the one female worker still balling her eyes out.

Frowning at the indecency of Wuncler to throw away such promising employees Naruto made up his mind and quickly walked out the front doors followed by a confused Ebony. He waited outside for about five minutes before seeing the employees walking out with dejected looks on their faces without their employees uniforms. Naruto stepped in front of their path making them all stop and look at him for the questioning act.

He soon introduced himself and told them his sympathies of what just happened and would like to possibly ask if they would like a new job. This got them confused on what he asked of them to which he continued as explaining his offer. Naruto told them that he had enjoyed the previous business and appreciated their hard work on what they did there from bringing others awareness to other causes to help bring together for various events in the past. The workers were happy on hearing all that but we're still curious on what the job he was suggesting.

Soon Naruto explained that he would like to open up the same business again but locate it at a different part of the area because Wuncler owns many of the buildings in said area so it would be hard to buy one from the businessman. The former employees were worried and skeptical, which was ok in Naruto's book since he is trying to convince them into taking the new positions while Ebony had a questionable look on how he'll afford all that. The blonde soon asked for each of the employee's contact information and he'll inform them as soon as possible on further details. They complied in a somber tone as they had to go home and try to start searching for jobs.

Once Naruto and Ebony got home, the lawyer called up his father and told him the details and asked if he could help fund the project with some further explanations. His father agreed thinking this would be a good opportunity to help undermine the Wuncler company while also bringing in some good light to the Shimura family here in the states. Ebony was there hearing the conversation and was glad to hear on what Naruto had in mind which made her love him even more.

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(Once again insert Huey Freeman voice for this summary.)

Several weeks went by as Granddad's new business was being developed from the former Eden's Eatery from retraining the kept workers of the former business with the new soul food menu Granddad planned out.

During that time, Naruto had found a vacant building that would need some renovating due to how long it's been since it was last used. With the help of his families workers, the building was quickly cleaned up and set up to standard resturant codes. He had contacted all of the former employees and told them they will be paid for coming over regardless if they agreed to sign up afterwards or not. When they came over it was almost like the previous health establishment but bigger in various ways like it incorporated more entertainment inside of the restaurant for better results.

Naruto told them that he kept to his promise and made a new business for them to keep on doing what they were previously doing with a better pay rate. The employees were happy to hear all that and signed on right away and it wasn't that long for them to be opened back up for business especially when the Itis opened up not long after.

The Itis was what Granddad envisioned with some of the ideas brought in during the dinner those weeks back from the beds as tables and Tom Dubois singing in the background, although he stopped doing it after a few days due to work. With Eden's Eatery, it kept on running as it was and it became an odd competition between the healthy and the unhealthy side of food.

What people soon discovered was that Granddad's food was as addictive as it was tasty. The restaurant was booked solid around the clock. People started to show up late for work. Others though stopped going to work altogether. Jobs were lost and the Itis addicts who couldn't afford the beds moved into Meadowlark Park. Without jobs, they turned to crime to feed their habit. So within a month after the Itis opened, Meadowlark Park had its first mugging. Sadly though it took three hours for the police to arrive causing the area to be very bad.

During the said month, Eden's Eatery started to go up in business when people started coming in to start losing weight and start eating healthier as per doctor's orders. Some people started to realize that Granddad's restaurant was really unhealthy making the food make people go into debt and even crime. Day by day, Naruto's restaurant grew because people already like eating healthy or was forced to come and Granddad's food kept making more people obese and make them extremely violent and desperate.

Eventually, Granddad learned that white people had their own survival techniques, they call it litigation. Janet Osiren was a regular customer at the Itis and she was originally a blonde woman in her early 20's who was an heiress to a company who had eventually went disgustingly obese due to the constant eating of Granddad's food. She eventually went back to normal with the help of two liposuctions, an emergency gastrointestinal surgery and of her hiring Naruto to help out in the legal case against Wuncler since he owned the Itis while Granddad was just the face of it.

"Mr. Wuncler, my client here has requested half a million dollars to help pay for her medical bills, four million for her emotional damages and two million for the inhumane treatment of your workers. Whom by the way are actually illegal without having the proper papers to work in this country which will end up costing you even more money for each of their own separate documents. I'll forward the numbers to your people later on if you need it." Naruto said in a professional tone as he stood beside his client who was sitting on one of the various beds of the business with smug look on her face looking at Wuncler.

"We can pay for her medical insurance deductible." One of Wuncler lawyers stated.

"Dea-" Janet was about to say before Naruto put a hand in front of her face to silence her before he glared at Wuncler lawyers.

"That isn't good enough. Like I said, my client had asked for those specific amounts paid for in full so either pay up at this moment or by the end of the week or face the repercussions of your foolish actions." Mr. Shimura stated before smiling at them. "Of course you paying for her deductible wouldn't hurt as well." He said with a smirk.

"Oh and um….One last Lutherburger." Janet said

"That I would not advise. Remember what the doctor said Janet." Naruto said turning to her. She ignored him and looked to the old man making Wuncler nod his head and ordered a worker named Chico to go get the last meal they would be making. Janet slowly took her time eating the food once it arrived as Naruto sighed and shook his head at his client, going over to check with his neighbor.

Even though Janet was able get her case taken care of, this would actually be the first of various lawsuits against the Itis. Granddad's dream of having his own restaurant was no more.

"This isn't fair. The people liked this restaurant and they liked me. I never wanted to hurt anybody." Robert said in a saddened tone.

"Robert, I know your dream was pure and simple but you need to realize that it can't always be that simple. There would always be problems in the long run no matter what in any business." Naruto said as he placed a reassuring hand on his neighbor's shoulder.

"Thanks Naruto." Mr. Freeman said with a small smile. He was heartbroken on the whole ordeal but was glad that Naruto wasn't suing him on the problem since it was more so of Wuncler operation to begin with due to him providing the funds and product.

Their conversation was soon cut short as they heard gasping from behind them and saw Naruto's client was grasping her chest in pain.

"I believe our business is done. Have a nice day. Oh and Robert, call me later sometime." Wuncler said as he fixed his tie as he and his lawyers exited the building. He predicted that Janet was gonna die and he didn't have to pay her in the future making his savings still strong as ever.

Naruto growled at the back of Wuncler and would've pursued him if he didn't rush to his client and proceed to do C.P.R. He told Huey to call 911 as he tried to keep Janet stable for the entire time before the ambulance arrived.

She eventually made a full recovery but was asked by her doctors to no longer eat any fattening foods due to the surgeries and liposuctions would still take her body a long time to recover before she could even have the chance of eating anything slightly unhealthy. Naruto had soon brought her to his restaurant which was at the moment the highest top ranking healthy restaurant which would guarantee anyone to stay fit and healthy.

She felt indebted to Naruto for saving her life and help change her life for the better. When Janet found out of him being apart of the Shimura corporation, she had asked if he could set up a meeting with his father to possibly form a partnership. This surprised him but told her he will contact him as soon as possible since this would help things out more with Danzo's plan to fully take down Wuncler's company.

After the whole incident, there was still the occasional Sunday dinner at the Freeman residence since Naruto thought Robert just likes being popular at times. Of course to make things a bit better, the menu gets switched up each week so it wouldn't be like of what happened before the Itis came up.

Also thanks to Naruto service to the community and saving Janet life, which her coporation was very influential, he was able to purchase the block and the next one over from Wuncler. Ironically Wuncler tried to purchase Meadowlark Park but since Naruto had better a better reputation in the cities point of view at this point in time, they had let Naruto buy it from them. Naruto had used some of the vacant buildings in the other block over to help out on the company's future purposes and help expand his family's influence through food restaurants.

"Well this seems look a good spot as any Boss." Tayuya said walking up to him as she directed a few construction workers to the park.

"Of course it is Tayuya." A chuckle escaped him as he looked over the park, a blueprint in hand.

"Will this be enough for the eggheads? You know they don't like little workspace."

"Oh, trust me Tayuya. They'll have more than enough space where they are going. Away from prying eyes and judgemental morals of that I can promise." He smiled as azure eyes took in the designs for his new endeavor for the park land.

Phase two was ready.

-Chapter End-

J: Damn this took forever and once again people we are so sorry for the long delay.

KY: Unfortunately this took much longer than I thought it would. Life happens people and I refuse to let it stop this story.

D: Finally got this finished and excited to see this uploaded.

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