Diclaimer: I don't own Naruto or the Mannequin
The Mannequin is a movie from 1987 starring Andrew McCarthy and Kim Cattrall, and i'm simply basing the fic off of it starring Naruto and Sasuke. the beginning might be confusing at first, but after you learn about what's going on its relatively simple to follow. so i introduce to you all my third fanfiction "Mannequin"
A long time ago in Konoha, Japan, right before lunch, Itachi looked for his brother.
"Uchiha Sasuke, I know your in here! The wedding is already set!" The man looked around the room at all the samurai mummies, until he noticed that one was breathing.
"Oh please Gods, help me out of this," the one mummy pleaded.
"Sasuke, you have to marry her! You turned down everyone else."
"What does she do?"
"She's a high priestess."
"Brother..." the raven-haired moaned, knowing Itachi was lying.
"Alright, alright, so she's a camel dung dealer."
"No, I won't do it!"
"Sasuke you have to. She's the only one left! You turned down the baker, you turned down the milk maid, you turned down Hokage's food taster. There is no one left," the older man looked down at his younger brother.
"Brother, don't you understand? I want to see the world! I want to be to places no one has ever been before! I want to fly!"
"Yeah, and I want to smoke and tell our father to go to hell!" Sasuke moaned at his brother's response and leaned against the wall. "Sasuke, Sasuke, if there was anyway to stop this don't you think I would? No, these are the times we live in."
"Please Gods, help me find a way. Help me to be anywhere but here," Sasuke said while looking up.
"Oh yeah, sure. There is a food shortage, the river is over flowing, the Hokage has hemorrhoids... the Gods have better things to worry about than you!" After Itachi spoke, the ground rumbled and shook. A huge puff of smoke came over the room and Sasuke shrieked.
"WHOAAAA!" The smoke cleared and Itachi looked for his brother, but he was gone. Sasuke just vanished. Only his mummy wraps were left.
"Sasuke! Sasuke!" Itachi now whimpered. "Sasuke!"
Philadelphia Today
"What if I told you that you get more beautiful everyday?What's that? You want arms and legs? Of course!" a blonde young man said as he was talking to the body of a male mannequin he created. He walked across the factory to where all the mannequin legs were standing and arms were hanging. He carried the body and placed it on different legs. "Speak up now, don't be shy," he said talking to his sculpted master piece. He laughed at the one pair of legs he placed the body on. "Haha, wrong sex." He quickly found another pair and set the object on them. "There you go. Nothing beats a great pair of legs!" The blonde-haired man now moved to where the sets of mannequin arms were hanging. He picked one set up and chuckled. "Heh, the Pop-eye look." He found another set of arms and placed it on his mannequin. "There, perfect." The man went to turn when he bumped into his rather large boss.
"You know Uzamaki, you could win dummy of the month."the rather large man said sarcastically. The blonde looked at his creation once again.
"Yeah, he sure did turn out pretty realistic didn't he!" His boss dropped his mouth open.
"I was talking about you, Uzamaki!"
"Oh, well I was thinking that if I kept up like this I could make 3-40s a month..."
"You're supposed to be making 3-40s a day Uzamaki! Now get back to work!"
"But sir, these things take time, and quality. You just can't..."
"That's it! Uzamaki, your fired!"
"Well could I finish him first. I'm trying to be an artist and..."
"No! Get your paycheck and leave!" The blonde man looked at his creation once more.
The blonde man looked at the newly cut hedges he trimmed. His employer walked up beside him.
"You been trimming long Uzamaki?" the man said looking at the hedge. It was now cut into the shape of a frog.
"No, really I'm an artist. But there's no reason hedges shouldn't become art too, right?" the whisker-scarred man said smiling and scratching the back of his head.
"You're fired! Get your pay check and get out!" The blonde looked down sadly and handed his employer the large shears he used.
"There you go, next!" the blonde yelled. He was making balloon animals for a birthday party. He felt a tug on his shirt. "Oh hey! How 'bout a monkey for the birthday boy?" The boy just looked up at the blonde man and shook his head. "No, how bout a zebra?" The boy continued with his shaking. "A giraffe? A poodle? How 'bout a hint?"
"I want the big one stupid!" he said pointing up to a big balloon that read 'Mel's Party Supply'.
"Oh, sorry, that's the company balloon. How about a pony?"
"Listen biscuit brain, my old man is paying for this party!"
"Fine, one giant balloon coming up." the man said sarcastically as he untied the massive balloon from the helium tank. "There you go, next!" As he handed down the balloon, it lifted the boy into the air.
"Whoa, daddy!" The blonde quickly grabbed the boy's leg before he went too high in the air. Two other men came rushing over. One in the same uniform as the blonde, whisker-scarred man, and the other the father of the boy in the air.
"Biscuit brain, get your hands off my kid!" The blonde did as he was asked.
"My balloon!" yelled the second man. He looked at his employee. "You're fired!"
The pizza place was very busy. The extremely large, Italian owner looked in at his workers, where he saw that someone was slacking. He went into the work area and stood over the blonde man who was delicately placing on the pizza toppings.
"What do you think?" he asked the large man cheerfully.
"What do I think?" he repeated angrily.
"Haha," the blonde chuckled nervously. "I'm fired, I'll pick up my paycheck and leave." he said as he was backing up from the Italian man, being chased.
It was dark outside, and the blonde man drove his motorcycle through the city, on his way to pick up his girlfriend from her job. He pulled up to the curb of the store "Illustra".
"Look here comes the road warrior," someone mumbled. A pink-haired woman waved goodbye to the other men and women waiting for rides.
"The Jag's in the shop." she lied.
"Hey Sakura!" the blonde said.
"Hey Naruto, you know it would have been nice if you would've picked me up in something with doors." Naruto chuckled as he tried to get the engin going on his motorcycle again. "So where are we going to dinner?"
"Oh, well I thought maybe we could just walk in the park and get a hotdog or something..."
"Ugh, you lost your job again?"
"No, I didn't lose it. It's just that somebody else has it right now, that's all." Sakura looked back at the building where another man came out. She quickly turned her head, trying to hide her face from the man.
"Naruto, can't you get this thing going?"
"I'm working on it." the blonde said trying to get his vehicle started. The other man walked by, out of the store to his limousine.
"Good-night children," he said to Sakura's co-workers. He turned his head and saw Sakura's pink hair. "Good-night Sakura." She turned her head and waved.
"Night!" she quickly turned back, as Naruto turned to get a look at the man.
"Who's that?" he questioned.
"That's Orochimaru. That man is Illustra!" Naruto got his motorcycle started and looked back at the freaky looking man.
"Wow, that must be nice having your own personal limo. You can go to a mini funeral right after dinner." Sakura forced a laugh and then Naruto drove off.
Later down town
"... and you just have to face reality." Naruto placed a finger on one of his whisker-looking scars. He didn't like what Sakura was telling him.
"You know, reality can be very disappointing!" he answered. Sakura just glared at him as they came closer to his bike.
"I'm not the one who can't keep a job. And I really do care about you, but I think sleeping with you tonight would just confuse things. I think you should see a professional." Naruto laughed.
"What, you mean like a hooker?"
"No," Sakura looked back at him. "I mean a psychiatrist."
"Oh come on Sakura. You know I can't afford to go to a psychiatrist."
"Then why don't you call one of those people on the television or something." she said as she was looking at the cars go by, trying to find a cab. She then raised her hand when she found one.
"Please, they can only handle problems that fit in between the commercials." The pink-haired woman laughed at him as she stepped foot into the cab.
"Good-night Naruto." She slammed the door.
"No, come on Sakura. Sakura!" The cab drove away. Then to make matters worse, Naruto heard some thunder, and following that thunder was a heavy downfall of rain. He ran quickly over to his motorcycle. He tried to get it started three times but it wouldn't budge. The man looked up at the sky again, seeing that the rain was only getting heavier. He kicked his bike softly, then lifted it off the kick stand, and began walking it in the rain.
He now walked seven blocks, the rain not lightening up a bit. As he walked by another department store, the lights of a window display flickered on. Naruto looked up at the lighted scene and froze. He put his motorcycle on the ground carefully and walked up to the window placing his fists against it.
"It's you!" he exclaimed, looking at the male mannequin he previously made. The blonde gazed at it, admiring how gorgeous it looked in the display. It was put into a dark blue pant-suit, making the pigment of the figure look a pale, creamy white. He then looked at the raven-colored hair he gave his creation. It almost resembled the hair style of Billy Martin from "Good Charlotte." Naruto began talking to his creation once again. "I wanted to take you home with me, but they wouldn't let me. You know, you're the one thing I created in a long time that made me feel like anartist again. I haven't felt like that for years." The thunder rumbled and the lights in the display went back out. Naruto smacked his hand on the window slightly. "No, don't go!" he looked at the window for a moment longer. The blonde ran over to his bike and tried to start it again. And it did. He smiled as he jumped on to his means of transportation. As he began to drive away he looked back at the window. "See ya tomorrow!"
Next Day
Naruto walked up to the department building that he was at the previous night. He stood next to an old woman, and both of them looked up at the large sign that was being put up. It read 'Prince & Company, 100th Anniversary.' The woman turned and looked at Naruto.
"A customer lining up to get in our store, how exciting!" she said.
"You've really been here for a hundred years?" Naruto replied still looking up at the sign.
"Not myself personally, but the store yes! It was built in 1906 by my great grandfather, Top Teddy Prince. He then handed it down to my grandfather, and then to my father. It wasn't until recently that he died and I got the building."
"Oh, I'm sorry."
"Don't be, he was very old, and he died the way he wanted to, in women's laundry." Naruto looked at the woman curiously.
"Pardon me?"
"Oh, he had a heart attack walking through the women's department." Naruto smiled at what the old woman said. He then looked over to where a man was working the pulley system for the sign. Some man behind him wasn't paying attention and was about to run into him.
"Hey, look out!" Naruto yelled. But he was too late. The other man bumped into the guy doing the pulley system for the sign, then he dropped the rope that was supporting the one side. The sign came down and was moving directly towards Naruto and the woman. "Excuse me miss," he said as he pushed the woman out of the way. The sign swung by, still being held up by a rope on the other side. Naruto ran up to the side of it where it was swinging and tried stopping it, when it went and swung back the other way, getting him latched on to it.
"Young man, you just saved my life!"
"Yeah, it was no problem," the blonde said while clinging on tight to the sign.
"Is there anything I can do to repay you?" she asked, watching the sign swing back and fourth.
"I could, I could use a job!" he said making his voice crack as he saw the electrical line behind him getting closer and closer with each swing.
"Great! What do you do?"
"Eh, anything!"
"When can you start?"
"Right after I'm done with this!"
"Young man, what's your name?"
"Uzamaki Naruto!" he yelped hitting the electrical wire. "Ahh!"
After Naruto got off the sign
"So Tsunade," Naruto said, now knowing the old woman's name. They were walking around in the store. "This is like your second home?"
"Since I was a little girl! Right over there," the woman pointed out, "was where Greta Garbo used to get her make-up done. Though you probably don't even know who Greta Garbo is."
"Sure I do," the blonde man responded and started to list some films the actress was in. He smiled nervously. "I don't sleep at night."
"Neither do I. At least not since I've been in charge of this place. I just don't know how we're going to make it great again." Naruto had no idea what she was talking about. The place was huge. It looked like a castle from the way it was designed. Naruto stood in a hall where he could see all three floors of the store, steps and everything. "It looks pretty spectacular to me," he said gazing up at the tiled ceiling. "So when do we open?" Tsunade stopped, then Naruto did too. The woman breathed heavily then was able to say,
"We are open." She began walking again.
"Oh," Naruto said, then ran to catch up with her.
Vice President of the Prince & Company's Office
"Don't worry about it Roch, at tomorrow's meeting we'll set up the offer and she'll have no choice but to take it... no...no... no, Roch, she's coming... I have to get off..." a man said, quickly hanging up the phone.
"Mr. Kabuto, do you know what this young man just did?" Tsunade questioned, bringing Naruto in the office behind her.
"Eh, shop lifting?"
"He just saved my life! Uzamaki Naruto, let's show him our gratitude!" Kabuto shuffled through his pocket and took out a wallet.
"Well fivedollars should do it."
"No, I want you to give him a job!" she demanded. She then winked over to Naruto and gave him a nudge as she left the office. Naruto now took a good look at this Kabuto guy, and quite frankly, he was geeky looking. He had his silver-gray hair slicked back, with the worse side-part Naruto has ever seen, and wore huge, thick-framed glasses.
"So, Uzamaki was it? What exactly do you do?"
"Oh you know, I've had just about every job there is, briefly. I was hoping maybe I could do something with the mannequins..."
"Right," the man paused."I have just the job for you..."
Naruto came out of the stock room wearing a light blue cover jacket and pushing a huge bin filled with boxes. He stopped when he went back into the stock room where he found a pay phone. He picked it up and called Sakura's work number.
Sakura's office at Illustra
"You got a new job, that's great! What is it?" the pink-haired woman asked speaking into the phone. One of her co-workers, Rock Lee, was in the office with her.
"Let's just say that thousands of dollars worth of merchandise goes through my hands everyday..." Naruto said. "Listen Sakura, I got to go, but I'll pick you up for dinner at eight,"
"Alright, I'll see you then." Sakura hung up the phone and Lee turn and looked at her.
"I see that little piss ant pick you up from work on the stupid little motor bike. You can't possibly tell me that he satisfies you... sexually."
"That's none of your business!" she snapped back.
"I would like to make it my business. i would love to sink my teeth into your, little bottom." After Lee spoke, Sakura got up from her chair and smacked the perverted man across the face.
"Our relationship is strictly business! You got that!"
"I'm, I'm sorry. My tongue, it slides..." Sakura rolled her eyes at the pitiful excuse she was given.
Back at Prince & Company
Naruto pushed around the cart now, looking for the doors that lead to the outside window displays. He found one and looked inside, but his mannequin wasn't there. He saw another door that looked just like that one next to it. He opened it, but there was a woman changing in it. He quickly closed it, then turned and bumped into Mr. Kabuto.
"Finding anything you like Uzamaki?"
"I was just looking for more boxes."
"Well you found them, however, you missed the warehouse by two floors." Naruto just forced a smile to the man. "Well get going!"
"Uh, right." Naruto walked a few steps away from the man and then mumbled, "Asshole."
"What was that?" Kabuto questioned.
"Eh, nice hall." the blonde said, turning to face the man and pointed to the area. He then quickened his pace to get away from the silver-haired man, and continued his search for the right display door. He found another one, and looked inside it. And there he was, Naruto found his male mannequin that he created. He walked up to it and stared at it. "I know every artist falls in love with their creations, but you just seem so special." The boy sighed and rested his head on the shoulder of the ceramic figure.
"Woot! Well roll over Bill Shakespeare! That was the sweetest segment these ears have ever heard!" Naruto jumped, not realizing that anyone else was in the room.
"I didn't know that anyone else was here, I was uh, reciting some lines from a play."
"No it's cool. I find it best not to explain. That way it gives a certain mystique to one's rep-u-tay-see-oon." Naruto smiled at the other man and offered his right hand.
"Uzamaki Naruto..."
"Sai, Dante Sai. WHOA! Doesn't it just sing!"
"Oh it sings." the man replied nervously, trying not to laugh.
"I'm the window dresser here at 'Prince & Company'.We are going to have fun, fun, fun! I am so glad that you are working here!"
"You are?"
"Well yes. I never thought that they would ever hire anyone stranger than me!" Sai said beamingly. Naruto pretended to chuckle.
"I'm a regular kinda guy..." Sai just glared at him.
"Don't disappoint me. Now, when you're done with your conversation, would you please bring him to window number three?" he asked talking about the mannequin. Naruto nodded and picked up his artwork.
Later that night
Naruto walked down the store carrying a box full of props for the window display.
"Halt!" a man in a police uniform spoke. He had a dog with him as well. "Identify yourself!"
"I'm Uzamaki Naruto. New stock boy."
"Yeah, Mr. Kabuto told me all about you. I'm captain Inuzuka Kiba, night security commander. It is my responsibility to secure the perimeter here, at Prince & Company."
"I didn't know that there was danger of invasion." Naruto said mockingly.
"There's no danger of nothing as long as me and Akamaru are on patrol!" the man paused for a moment, getting a good look at Naruto. "Just what is your assignment here tonight boy?"
"I'm helping Sai with the window."
"Oh? The little Mary has an assistant now." Kiba shook his head at Naruto, being homophobic about the whole thing. "Just where do you people come from?"
"Ohio," the blonde answered sharply.
"Ohio? You mean they got 'em in Ohio? . . . So, you like your new assignment?"
"Could've been worse," Naruto defended. "They could've put me with a pig-headed jerk!" The whisker-scarred man then continued to walk back to where Sai was. Kiba was outraged.
"Hold it there boy! Did you have anybody in particular in mind?" The man didn't answer. Kiba looked down to his dog. "You think he meant anybody in particular Akamaru?"
The window
"Oh don't let Kiba get to you," Sai began as he was touching up the display. "He just has a bad case of my anti-virus." Naruto put down the box.
"Listen, I gotta go. I promised my girlfriend that I was going to take her out tonight." After Naruto spoke, Sai shrieked and started to whimper loudly. "What! What happened! What did I say!" Sai took a deep breath, preparing himself to answer.
"Shino left me, that bitch! He said my thighs are too fat, do they look fat to you?"
"Eh, no," the blonde said, trying not to look at the other man.
"You didn't even look!" Sai whined.
"Well I don't know, I mean they look alright to me."
"Shino called me cellulite city. Maybe he's right. Maybe I should have my hips lifted..."
"No, if you wanna lose weight, just a diet..."
"Oh, diets are no use. It's those jelly doughnuts, they call to me in the middle of the night. 'Sai, oh Sai... come and get me Sai'." Naruto couldn't help but laugh at the man. "I can't stay away from them! It's like you, and ladies' dressing rooms."
"No, no, that was just a misunderstanding."
"Have any of your friends been vacuumed out? I heard those doctors in Beverly Hills," Sai placed his foot on a small stole, "they just open you up and suck those fat cells out!" Naruto put a handover his mouth to stop himself from laughing.
"It uh, it sounds nice," he said nodding his head assuringly.
"I wonder if there's anyway you can do it yourself, like with a vacuum cleaner or something." The man shrieked once more and began his whimpering again. "Shino's been off work for an hour now! There's just no telling what he's got himself into!" Naruto ran up to him and patted him on the shoulder.
"Hey, hey, take it easy. Just go home and, and get some rest." Sai sniffled to Naruto's reaction.
"An art-east does not leave his work unfinished."
"Well it looks fine to me."
"In that case, I am a dream that once was!" He moved the blonde to the side to get passed and spoke one more. "Look out Shino, cuz Sai is on your case! Woot!"
"Yeah, go get her!" Naruto said as the other man was leaving. The blonde sat down on the stole next to his mannequin creation. "Good grief!" He picked up a piece of cloth that was lying next to his sculpture. "Ha, what's wrong, don't you like your scarf?" he asked not really expecting any answer.
"Not especially," a deep voice spoke into his ear.
yeah... i didn't know if Sai had last name... so i just kinda made up Dante. anyways, hope the first chap wasn't too horrible. reviews are always welcome!