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Naruto opened his eyes. He was cold. Very cold. Not really his fault do to the fact that he was sleeping without a blanket with the AC on could have been a factor. He didn't like blankets though, so why use them?
Naruto shoved himself out of bed and pulled out his phone. He slepped in what he wore a day prior. He generally didn't change his close on the weekend. He didn't really have a reason for it, but it didn't bother him.
His phone took a while to turn on because of the amount of damage it had sustained. It was an old AT&T phone that old man Ichiraku had bought him when he turned twelve. That's what employers did for their employees and he was late for work.
He went into the bathroom and rinsed his face off as he looked at it. It was a very soft face and if he were a girl, he would have most likely married himself. Unfortunatly Naruto was an in the closet Narcissist, so that could account for his slight obsession with himself.
He looked at his arm and traced the maze like design on his arm. It was just a bunch of orange blocks, running around his arm in no literall corrallation. He then took another glance at his face. Three whisker bar tattos adorned each side of his face. They would have looked just like legitamate whiskers if he hadn't had them filled in a couple months back. They were now rectangles rather than long triangles.
Naruto rubbed his cheeks subconcheslly as he thought about nothing in particular.
His phone began to ring. He reached into his black shorts and pulled out his old slightly abused cellular device. Before he answered it however he noticed a blood stain on his shirt from the night befor. It clashed with the orange of his no sleave.
'Probably from that bat.' He thought to himself as he flipped his phone open and answered with a...
"What's up dog..."
"Naruto, I know this is troublesome, but were going to need you down at HQ after you get off of work." Came the reply.
"Sure thing Shikamaru-chan. I'm all over it. Old man's letting me off early cause it's a sunday after all." Naruto told the lazy Nara.
"Whatever... Just get down here when you get the chance." Shikamaru told him and promptly hung up.
"What's run up his ass lately?" Naruto thought to himself.
He went to his front door and placed a pair of orange gloves onto his hands and clenched them as he looked at his door detemindly. He opened it and bolted out immediatly.
He ran fast, his heart barely strained from the work out. He was as healthy as an olympian. He began to weive through the crounds of people. He came up to bench and hurtled over in, flipping in the proccess as nobody around him seemed to care.
He made a sharp left turn into the street not bothering to look as slid over the top of a parked car on the other side of the street. His momentum had been unfazed as he made another sharp turn toward his destination. Nothing could stop him.
He jumped over a babies carrage as the mother was walking with it. The baby promptly broke into tears as the mother began to pump her fist at the Uzumaki. He didn't have time to turn around and apologise, even if he wanted to.
He saw what seemed to be a wall of pedestrians as he looked for a solution as to were to go. The wall to the side seemed to turn orange as he sprinted toward it and ran on the side of it, staying over them for a moment until he was clear.
The wall turned back to its normal brown as Naruto crossed another street, causing a car to skid to a stop to avoid hitting him.
Naruto looked around his bueatiful city as he slightly slowed his pace to see everything. He lived on the south side of Konoha. The poor side, but it was still beautiful. Buildings shot up into the sky, blocking off much of the sun, protecting him from the summer heat.
He was suddenly haulted as he crashed into something, knocking both it and him onto the floor. He was grabbing what he beleived to be a person. He didn't know exactly what he was grabbing, but it felt pretty soft.
He looked down to see what he had hit to see the prettiest girl he had ever seen his his life. She was looking away from his with a massive blush on her face. She had very vibrantly grey eyes, which Naruto was pretty sure was an oxymoron or something like that. She had dark violet hair and the palest most colorful face he'd ever come across. Yet another and Oxymoron.
She wore a simple flowery shirt with loose fitting jeans. He wondered why she was blushing so much.
He looked down to what was so soft underneath his hand and jumped back with fear.
"I-I-I am sooooooooo sorry!"
"N-no i-it was my f-fault... I should h-have watched where I was g-going." She apologized and walked off into the crowed.
Naruto felt a little disheartened at the fact that he did not learn her name, but he wouldn't let that get to him. He had to get to work.
Soon he reached the South side Konoha mall and went inside the front doors. It was a mostly underground place in wich the mojority of the shops where bellow the entrence. Most people would take the stairs down, but Naruto wasn't most people.
He grabbed hold of some railing and pivoted to the drop side and fell utop a bag of pillows. He laughed as he ran away from the angry employee that took hours (lazy bastard) setting up those pillows.
He soon reached a small store that read on the sign "Ichiraku's Ramen Shop." Underneath it had a small sign that read "closed until 12:00 AM". He smiled as he entered and was suprised by the sight of a man holding a girl against the wall.
"Come on Ayame-chan. Don't you want me?" The man asked.
She was to scared to yell for help, so she just cried.
"Shhhh... It will be all over once I take you home." The man said.
He was about to drag her out the back until he felt an incredible amount of pressure land upon his back. He fell over clutching where he had just been hit.
"Isn't Ayame nii-chan a little young for you Teme?" Naruto asked, getting into a fighting position.
Mizuki slowly got up off the floor as the floor began to get blood onto it.
"I'm not going to fight you one on one you little tattoo freak. But I will get you soon." He said, rushing past Naruto and out the front door.
"You alright Ayame Nii-chan?" Naruto asked.
She sighed, wiping away her now dried tears. Not the first time Naruto had to jump in and save; and it probably wouldn't be the last.
"I'm fine Naruto-kun." She said, completely regaining her calm facade.
"Whatever..." Naruto said under his breath.
He went to the kitchen as Ayame cleaned up the broken chair. It wasn't to big of a mess. Generally when Naruto hit someone with a chair, it would splinter everywhere. Guess it couldn't be helped.
Naruto looked around in the kitched only to find Old man Ichiraku asleep sitting on his stool. Naruto smirked eavily and went to go find a bucket of water. He filled it with ice cold water and dumped it on the old man, making him scream like a girl in suprise.
Naruto began to laugh hystarically, holding his sides and falling to the floor.
"What the hell Naruto!" Ichiraku yelled loudly.
Naruto soon regained control of himself and waited for directions.
"What are you doing here anyway? Don't you know works off today?" Ichiraku asked.
Naruto paled. Why hadn't Ayame told him after he hit Mizuki with a chair? Now he had to get to Shikimaru and the group.
"Dammit old man!" Naruto said running out of the building. He decided to climb up the sides of the mall to avoid congestion. Good thing too. He would have tooken ages to get out.
He took the emergency stairs to the top of the building and now looked on at the endless expances of roof. He walked over to the edge of it and looked down. It was well over a one hundred foot drop.
He took a couple steps backwards and looked staight ahead. It was almost instant. His feet went into over drive and he jumped.
Everything slowed down as he was making the jump. The city was beautiful from this angle. Most things tended to look that way when your adrenaline was pumping.
He landed on the next building and rolled to cushion it. He got up instantly in one move and began to go again, not losing his momentum.
A wall soon broke his path forcing him to leap and place his hands atop of it and twist his body over. He landed on the other side and jumped with new momentum over to another building.
He landed again on another and ran. He skidded underneath a pipe and leaped over a lower one. A door located on a rood flashed red for a moment, inticing him to head in that direction. He leaped over to that building and grashed into the door falling onto his butt. Not his best idea.
He got up and opened it. Their stood a very muscular man with a very lazy person standing next to him.
"Hey Shikimaru and Choji. Where's Kiba?" Naruto asked.
"He's on a run bro! He's still trying to get the record!" Choji said, turning around to sit at a make shift desk area with alot of hardware scattered around.
Choji was one of Naruto's closest friends. He was tall, muscular, and had a tatto of swirls on his cheek and the arcaic symbols on his arm much like Naruto.
"Took you long enough." Shikamaru said and went to go sit on a couch. Shikamaru was a skinny white kid with hair that resembled a pineapple. He had a tattoo of a tear drop underneath his right eye. He had that one before they met. His arm was adorned with similar designs.
"What's this all about. I shouldn't be PM'ing today anyways." Naruto said, crossing his arms over his chest.
"Your not." Shikamaru said simply.
"Then whats this about?" Naruto asked.
Shikimaru sighed and reached into his pocket, pulling out an envelope.
He tossed it to Naruto as he slowly fought to stay conches. It was a battle that he generally didn't enjoy.
"What's this?"
"Read it." Shikamaru said.
Naruto hmphed and placed his scan onto it. His eyes widened.
"Upper side wants us?"