Naruto Sakura Wars SLML AU
By: Sayaalv
A/N: I own nothing and what would happen if Naruto was wearing a mask the whole time up until after Wave? Goodbye Shinjiro Taiga. New York Combat Revue say hello to Naruto Uzumaki. Your newest member!
"Here ya go sir but I recommend changing into your civilian clothes so ya don't draw to much attention to yaself. If ya worried bout secrecy or me spillin ya identity then don't worry. I see you ANBU and secretive type all the time. I know not ta go blabbing my mouth." The man in charge of the rowboat said causing Naruto to nod in understanding.
"I trust you mister. You wouldn't go ratting out the ANBU head Captain of Konoha even if you were drunk. Just give me a minute to dispel my Genjutsu and change clothes." Naruto said causing the man to pale and sweat slightly but nod and turn away from the kid wearing the Fox mask. Naruto first got out of his ANBU gear and dropped the Genjutsu which revealed that he was actually a full foot taller than he was a moment ago with a nice exotic tan, short spiky blond hair with a few natural red streaks in it, very faint whisker marks on his cheeks, and a set of abs and muscles that made Guys look like silly putty.
With the Genjutsu dropped Naruto quickly slipped on a black form fitting t-shirt with the picture of a nine tailed red fox on the back, black cargo pants, a pair of black sandals, and a black and red trench coat that had the katakana for 'Nine tailed Fox Demon' on it.
'Not bad kit.' The Nine tailed Demon Fox, Kyuubi, said in Narutos head.
'Thanks Kyu-kaa-san.' Naruto thought to the female demon that had pretty much raised him and kept him alive all this time. He had first met the Kyuubi by accident when he was two or three and called her Kyu-kaa-chan once and it stuck. The demoness explained that she had attacked Konoha because a snake like man with a leaf headband had attacked and killed her mate and kits and she chased him but was then put under a Genjutsu by Madara Uchiha and was forced to attack the Village Hidden in the Leaves. Ever since then Naruto saw the Kyuubi as his mother figure and trained under her and by himself to one day kill Madara and Orochimaru, whom he later realized the snake like man was, and avenged both Kyuubi herself and everyone that had died trying to stop her Genjutsu induced rampage.
"We're here. Just walk up on that dock and then find your way from there. This is New York by the way. That's the place you said you had to go to right?" The boatman asks looking back at Naruto nervously but was relieved when the dark clad boy merely smiled and nodded at him in thanks.
"Hai. Thank you." Naruto said climbing out of the boat and tossing the man a small pouch full of gold coins as payment.
"Thank you sir and good bye." The man said happily, the blond just gave him enough money to feed his family for a month!
"You're welcome. See ya later." Naruto said raising a hand in farewell without looking back as he walked towards the city with a small book in his left hand opened to a page with a picture of a black skinned woman with black hair and black eyes on it. This was a book of the people he would be working with from now on, taking only a few breaks from his job here when it looked peaceful enough for him to return to Konoha for a while. Sarutobi had given him this with a perverted grin and giggle at some of the pictures in the book which seemed to be mainly female. Naruto glanced up from studying his book just in time to avoid a head on collision with a woman in a suit that had her head in a book too. Apparently the woman glanced up at the same time and moved in the exact same way he had causing them to still have a collision and scatter the books the woman had under her arms everywhere as well as knocking the book out of Narutos hand.
"Sorry about that miss. I was too busy studying to notice much of anything else." Naruto said with an apologetic smile, it was a half-truth since even though Naruto had been studying the pages in the book intently he still noticed quite a bit of what was going on.
"I'm at fault as well. I was too busy studying up on some things too. Huh? What's this?" The woman asks picking up Narutos book which was open at the page about one Cheiron Archer, who looked exactly like the woman in the suit.
"What are you? Some kind of Stalker Fan or something?" The woman Naruto just correctly identified as Cheiron asks glaring up at Naruto, trying her best to stamp down the blush that was rising to her cheeks.
"I take it you are Cheiron Archer then? And to answer your question, no I'm not a stalker or a fan really. I was given this book by my village leader to know who I would be working with from now on." Naruto said picking up the womans books and not looking at her even once as she did a double take at this information.
"So you're the new guy. Not half bad. Follow me and I'll take you to the Theater where you will be working at now. Oh, Thanks." Cheiron says blinking when the blond man took his book back from Cheiron and placed it on top of the small pile of books that he picked up from the ground.
"No problem and thank you. I'll carry these for you as an apology for running into you." Naruto said with a smile that made Cheiron turn away to hide her blush, there was something about this tall muscular man that made her want to act like a high school freshman with a crush on the hot senior football star.
"Thanks. My name's Cheiron by the way. Cheiron Archer." Cheiron said introducing herself as she began to walk towards the Theater, knowing instinctively that the blond was following her.
"Nice to meet you. My name's Naruto. Naruto Uzumaki-Namikaze-Senju." Naruto said giving his full real name as he followed after the attractive lawyer.
"That's a mouth full." Cheiron said looking back at Naruto curiously.
"Yeah but I don't mind. Uzumaki was my mother's last name before she married my father and is the name I lived under for most all of my life, Namikaze was my father's last name while Senju is my grandmothers' last name since my grandfather didn't have one and my father was separated from my grandmother at birth." Naruto explained, causing Cheiron to give a slight 'ah' of understanding before something struck the Harlem woman.
"Why were you just living under your mothers' last name instead of your fathers or grandmothers for most of your life, if it's not too personal for me to ask of course?" Cheiron asks her curiosity getting the best of her while Naruto merely smiled at her encouragingly.
"If it was too personal I wouldn't answer it and the answer is simple really. My dad and grandma have a lot of enemies on their own but if you add their enemies together you won't believe the amount of people who would try to kill me in revenge for the things they've done. My mom didn't have a whole lot of enemies that anyone knew of since she was, supposedly, the only survivor when her home village was destroy and then relocated to my fathers and grandmother home village so it was deemed safe for me to use my mother's last name until I was strong enough to protect myself and those close to me." Naruto said with a shrug, having been told all of this when he was made ANBU head captain at the tender age of seven and having gotten over it fairly quickly.
"What caused them to have so many enemies?" Cheiron asks as she began to lead Naruto down a small side ally that was a shortcut to the Theater.
"War. My grandma and her two teammates, one of which is my grandpa, were the strongest fighters my village had, they still are the strongest today in fact, and had to kill many men and women that were trying to kill them and destroy my village. The family members of those that were killed in action would get any revenge they could on someone close to them, namely me or my father. My father was the strongest fighter in the village during the second war that happened and was able to destroy hundreds of the enemies in a single move or two and in less time that it took for most to pull out their weapons. My father almost single handedly defeated an entire village and now everyone from that village would love to get revenge on him by killing his wife, son, or parents. If they went after my grandparents they were sent back in a body bag if it was my grandfather but if they attacked my grandmother then there would hardly be enough to fit in a napkin. My mother was pretty much the same as my grandmother only not as brutal; she left more body parts so they could identify the idiot. When I was born I couldn't be given my father's name since they would then try to kill me from the moment I was born, let alone the enemies my father had within the village." Naruto explained a moment before a man with a knife stepped out in front of him and Cheiron and pointed the knife at them, swaying drunkenly as he did so.
"Alright hand over all your money and no one gets hurt and I don't use the woman as a plaything." The man slurred drunkenly while Cheiron looked beyond outraged at this and was about to raise hell but was stopped by Naruto shifting the books into his left hand while he curled the right one into a fist. The man began to drunkenly walk towards them and when he was close enough that Cheiron was about to kick him, Naruto lashed forward with a right hook to the guys jaw which caused the man to drop the knife and clutch at his now broken jaw.
Naruto caught the knife by the blade before it could hit the ground and then raised it so that the man could easily see it. Naruto clenched his fist and easily crushed the blade into pieces, causing both Cheiron and the man to look at him wide eyed when he opened his fist to drop the remnants showing that he wasn't even injured.
"Get out of my sight before I do that to your bones for your remarks about using women as play things. I have less than zero patience or mercy on those that say those things, let alone in my presence and the presence of said woman." Naruto said with an icy tone to his words, causing the man to nod dumbly in fear and run for his life while Cheiron blushed at the facts that he was protecting her like this and that he called her a woman. She didn't know why but for some reason she felt attracted to this bo- no, not a boy, man even though she had just met him.
"Well now that that's over how about we get to the Theater before anything else happens?" Naruto said his icy tone vanishing as he smiled at Cheiron, causing her to blush again and smile.
"Of course. It's only another minute or two from here. Thanks for that by the way." Cheiron said smiling softly, which changed her whole look from being stern and unforgiving to kind and loving.
"Not a problem. I hate bastards like him anyways. Way I see it girls are just as capable of doing anything a boy could do only they can do it in heels and shouldn't be treated like breeding stock or objects." Naruto said shrugging while Cheiron felt her respect and trust for this man rise rapidly. Cheiron merely smiled at him again, not knowing anything else to do right now, before she began walking towards the Theater with Naruto by her side.
"So why don't you tell me more about your parents and grandparents and village or about yourself in general?" Cheiron asks trying to start a conversation with the blond as she entered the Theater and waved at Cherry, Anri, and Gemini, all of whom waved back but blushed slightly when they looked Naruto over.
"Sure. Teammates should know about each other so they can work together better. Why don't I start with my grandparents and friends since my grandparents and some of my friends will be coming to check up on me every once in a while?" Naruto said smiling at Cheiron and giving the other three women brief nods of acknowledgement, not noticing their blushes increasing.
"Sounds good but what about your parents? Wouldn't they want to come check on you as well?" Cheiron asks confused slightly when he didn't mention his parents.
"My parents probably would if they were alive. Both of them died the day I was born though so they kinda can't." Naruto said shrugging since he was far too used to not having parents to care.
"Sorry I brought it up. So what are your grandparents and friends like?" Cheiron asks subconsciously linking her arms with Narutos free one in comfort before changing the subject, which she was rewarded by with a large fox like grin from Naruto that made her blush heatedly.
"It's fine. I'm far too used to them being dead by now. My grandparents names are Tsunade Senju and Jiraiya Senju and are two members of a team of three that is called the Legendary Sannin." Naruto said smiling as he told Cheiron everything he knew about his grandparents and friends while she lead him to the roof to meet his new bosses.