Chapter two
The best tandem ever seen
His phone rang. Naruto woke up and picked it up without even checking the ID. He already knew who it was.
"- Nani?" He said with a little sleepy voice.
"- Did I wake you?" Asked his boss.
"- Yes. You could have call earlier, it's two in the morning." Naruto said with a sleepy sexy voice.
"- Gomen nasai. I was at a dinner, I couldn't call before."
"- What do you want to talk about?"
"- Were you sleeping alone?"
"- Boss, could you go to the point or are you waiting for me to give you a hard one with just my voice?" "- Hum, interesting. I'd like that but if I had the real thing it would be better."
"- Sorry, it will only be you and your hand tonight. But I'm sure you can find some girls or boys to help you."
"- You're not cute at all but it's what I like about you."
"- What is the mission?"
"- It's different from your last missions. This time you have to rescue someone. It's the child of a friend of mine. You will work in tandem. So you have to come and meet us."
"- I'm working alone. It goes against our contract."
"- I know that but just this once, onegai, Kyuubi. It will be pay twice the original price."
"- Okay but just this time, I won't ever meet with you after. And don't forget the money or I will come to get it and kill you."
"- It will not be that bad if I were to meet with you alone."
"- Don't you fear death?"
"- If I was to be killed by you. If it's the only way to meet you. I'd like you to come right now.
"- If it's what you wish for, someday I will definitely kill you."
"- Tomorrow, at midnight, the warehouse number 9, in the thirteen district. I will wait for you with your co-worker."
"- I got it, then, see you tomorrow, Boss."
"- About the hard one … He hang up."
Naruto's boss put down his phone, turned his chair and faced some people. He definitely had no problem talking about things like that in front of people. He joined his fingers, elbows on his desk.
"- He'll come tomorrow. It won't be long before you see your son again. Shukaku-kun seems to hate the idea to work with someone else too." He stated.
"- My little brother prefers work alone but he had made this exception because he wanted to meet with Kyuubi." Said a woman with four ponytails.
"- There is no one who won't agreed to do a job when it's with Kyuubi. I wonder what he looks like. I can't wait to be tomorrow." Said a man with white hair.
"- I can't wait either." Said the boss with a really small smile that rested unseen.
Naruto woke up with his alarm clock. He was still sleepy but he had to get up. He took a shower, put on clothes and began his daily routine. When he arrived at work, he sought when he saw Sasuke and Neji waiting for him in the parking. He saluted the parking keeper with a cheerful smile and ignored the both of them when he passed near them while eating donuts.
"- You could be polite and say hello to us, we were waiting for you." Said Sasuke.
"- Don't want with you. I told you yesterday that you were annoying." Naruto answered waiting for the escalator.
"- You're stubborn, do you know that?" Neji said.
"- Only with people I don't like." He said back.
The rest of the day went by quickly, Sasuke and Neji always followed Naruto even when he had to go to the toilet. When dinnertime came and so the end of the day, they asked him to come eat dinner with them. He smiled at them and refused categorically. He left and went back home.
There, he dyed his hair in black and made his dinner. The reason why nobody had ever caught him was not only because of that but it help. Naruto was originally a golden haired, blue-eyed man but when he had a mission, he was always dying his hair in black. Like he was always wearing sunglasses, he didn't need to use lenses but he made an exception. After dinner, he went to sleep and put his alarm clock on.
A few hours later, when it awoke him, he put on his usual clothes, put on red lenses, took his revolvers. He was wearing black clothes and black boots, a long leather coat and his sunglasses. He took his keys and went to choose one of his cars. He took his precautions and made some preparations. He, then, went to the meeting place. Just when he was about to arrive, his phone rang. He looked at the ID and sought when picked it up.
"- You're inpatient."
"- Where are you?" His boss asked.
"- I'm right in front of the warehouse."
Naruto hanged up and the warehouse's doors opened. He made his way in with his car. He cut the contact, turned off the light and opened his door. He stood slowly and faced a really large number of men. He closed his door and looked at them searching his boss. He had no problem to find him and something shocked him without him showing it. He made his way to this tall man and stopped two meters away from him.
"- Where's the other one?" He asked with a clear and cold voice like a magic spell.
"- We're finally able to meet. I'm glad …
"- Answer my question, I don't have all night." Naruto cut him.
"- It's me." Said a voice on his right.
Naruto turned his head and locked eyes with a red haired man with green eyes. He analysed him quickly and looked at his weapon. It was a telescope gun. So he was the long-range type.
"- So it's you who's going to protect my ass. Nice to meet you. I'm Kyuubi." Said Naruto while taking off his glasses, revealing his red eyes and holding his right hand to the man.
"- My pleasure to protect them. I'm Shukaku." The red haired man said while taking his hand.
"- You're the long range type, I see. Which calibre?" Naruto asked.
"- It's a special one. It's a thirty eight calibre like your revolvers." He answered.
"- So you're like me. You preferred nice work."
"- Yes, it's more amusing to look at those police officers tiring their hair off to find how dead people had been kill."
Naruto smiled at him and looked at his boss. He seemed a little piss off to have been ignored like that by Kyuubi. Naruto went to him and locked eyes with him.
"- So you're my boss. You remind me one of these FBI agents I met two days ago. If I recalled correctly, his name was Uchiha Sasuke. Are you related to this idiot?" Naruto asked.
"- He's my little brother. How do you find him?"
"- He's the annoying type. More like a playboy, he has always this pink thing hanging at his neck. I wonder how a man like this could have entered the FBI." Naruto said.
"- So you're aware of the fact that a team has been formed to catch you." Stated his Boss.
"- Well, it's more exciting like that. May I ask your name?
"- I'm Uchiha Itachi. It's a real pleasure to finally meet you."
"- Remember, it's the last time. Where is my money?" Asked Naruto putting on his sunglasses.
"- Just there. Are you only interested in money?" Asked Itachi.
"- No, I have other interests." Naruto said, taking the bag, opening it to look at his money.
"- May I ask which one?" Asked Itachi.
"- Nice cars, pretty men, and some others."
"- What are you going to do with this money?" He asked again.
"- I'm going on holidays. One full month on a nice private beach with the sea and nice men all around me. I think I have entirely the right to go and do nothing but taking care of myself. So after this mission and for the month after, you have to ask someone else to kill people. After all, my contract ends after this last mission." Naruto said putting the bag in his car.
He closed the car trunk and looked at Itachi. He added nothing and looked at Shukaku.
"- Let's go, you drive." Naruto said while sending him his keys.
Naruto opened the door and sat on the passenger seat. Shukaku did the same and start the car. Naruto had a bag at his feet and opened it. While Shukaku was driving, he put a talkie-walkie on Shukaku and checked the connection. When the arrived in front of the residence where the child was kept, they left the car. Shukaku went to find a good spot to protect Naruto's ass and Naruto went directly in the house to search for the child.
Quickly, Naruto was seeing on the security camera. In fact, he had done nothing to hide his presence in the mansion. Shukaku was well aware of that and was enjoying himself. Kyuubi was like him. He wasn't losing time stupidly. He didn't hide and was facing danger like it was a game. He was crazy just like him. He could never have imagined that he will be enjoying himself. Kyuubi was offering him a real ballet of bullets and blood. It was so fascinated. He had his own style. When he was short of bullets and he didn't have the time to change chargers, he was using knifes. The military ones. Shukaku had wondered what they were for when he had seen them in the car.
Naruto was also enjoying himself even if his mission was to rescue a little child. He was really mad in fact. Even if he couldn't remember his past, somehow he couldn't accept people who were using children to obtain what they wanted. He will kill all of them. He quickly climbed the staircase and began to search all the rooms to find the little child. When he opened the third on the left, he heard a gun shot and saw a dead man behind him. A bullet in the head. He faced the window where the bullet had gone through. He smiled and bowed to thanks his partner.
Shukaku had a smile, Kyuubi was funny and he was hoping that they would be able to work together again in the future even if he was conscious that he was going on a holidays.
Kyuubi finally found the room where the little child was but he wasn't alone. A snake like man was there too. Kyuubi pointed his two revolvers toward him. Shukaku did the same, the window being just in front of the opened door.
"- Give the child back and you won't suffer." Kyuubi said.
"- So, you're the famous Kyuubi. You're quite the beautiful one. I'm glad to finally meet you." The man said.
"- I didn't know you wanted to meet me and it doesn't please me. Give the child back." Kyuubi told him.
"- What about you come work for me? I'll pay you thrice the amount your boss pays you." The man offered.
"- No thanks. Like I said to my boss, I'm going on holidays after this mission. I won't need a new boss for a long time." He answered back.
"- That's too bad. Do it, Kabuto!" Said the man.
At the same time, the noise of gunshot was heard and a man scream in pain. Kyuubi smiled like crazy. Really, Shukaku was really well protecting his ass. He had a debt toward him now. The man who was shot fell on his knee and held his hand.
"- You weren't think I came alone, nee?" Kyuubi said childishly.
"- You always work alone!" The man screamed with anger.
"- I made an exception for once and I was right to do it. Now give the child back!" Kyuubi said while shooting at him.
The little boy bit the man and ran away to Kyuubi. Kyuubi took this chance and shot the man in his heart not knowing that the man wasn't dead and without checking. The boy's security was more important so he took the child and left the place that was now a bloody bath.
Shukaku was already waiting for them when they passed the gate. They all ran to the car and got on it. The child was on Kyuubi's laps and had a death grip on his coat.
"- You're all right?" Asked Shukaku.
"- Yes, thanks to you but this man is not dead." He said.
"- You shot him in the heart, how can he not be dead?" Asked Shukaku.
"- I didn't see blood. He must have something under his coat. He was waiting for me but not us. I really have a debt toward you." Kyuubi answered.
"- Then, I'll have you pay it after we give the child back to his father."
Silence took place and the child didn't let go before they were back in the warehouse. Kyuubi got off his car and the little child ran toward his father. They left after have thanks them and the child smiled at Naruto. Itachi came near Kyuubi.
"- How was it?" He asked.
"- He was waiting for me. That man knew I was coming. If Shukaku hadn't been there, I wouldn't be here now. Now I have a debt toward him and you by extension. I hate that." He explained.
"- There must be a spy within my organization so I will check it personally." Itachi answered.
"- What do you want?" Naruto asked.
"- What do you mean?" Asked Itachi.
"- Don't take me for an idiot. I have a debt toward you. It's you who had pair me with Shukaku. So what do you want?" Kyuubi asked again." And what do you want Shukaku?" Kyuubi said turning his head toward him."
"- Your cell phone number." Answered Shukaku.
"- You're joking. A cell phone number for my life?" Said Kyuubi.
"- I will call you once I know what I want." He said.
"- Deal. And you boss?" He said facing Itachi.
Suddenly, Itachi took him by the waist and kissed him. Itachi had wanted to kiss him, to taste him since he had first heard his voice on the phone. The kiss deepened and when it stopped, Kyuubi looked at him.
"- You're a pervert but if it's what you want, then I'll do it." Kyuubi said, licking his lips sensually.
"- A dinner. Just the two of us." Itachi said.
"- You're a strange one but it's okay. Tomorrow at nine, you choose the place. I'll be waiting your call. Now, if you excuse me, I'm leaving." He said.
Kyuubi went to the driver seat, taking his keys from Shukaku.
"- Need a ride?" he asked.
Shukaku bowed his head and climbed into the car on the passenger seat. Kyuubi started the engine and left the place. When they didn't see the warehouse anymore, they finally seemed to relax.
"- Where do you live?" Asked Kyuubi.
"- Gaara."
Naruto raised an eyebrow looking at him.
"- That's my name. What's yours? Don't worry I won't tell anyone." He said looking at Kyuubi.
"- Naruto." He simply answered.
"- What about we found a place to talk privately." Proposed Gaara.
"- What about my apartment? But you won't tell anyone about that. If you swear then you can come anytime you want." Naruto said.
The place settled, Naruto drove to his apartment. Once they were arrived, they left the car on the parking, took the elevator and went to Naruto's apartment.
"- Make yourself at home, I go take a shower. You can take one after if you want." Naruto said.
Gaara just nodded and sat on the sofa while Naruto was showering. He looked at the apartment and saw a picture of a blond blue-eyed man with a chubby boy and a tall man with brown hair and a scar across his face. The blond boy was really his type and he stayed just looking at the blond on the picture. The shower finally stopped and Naruto left the bathroom with a towel on his head.
"- You can take one if you want. I already prepare the towel." Naruto said and went to his fridge in the kitchen.
"- Who is this blond man on the picture?" Gaara asked always looking at the picture and dropping it when he saw the blond head before him.
"- Hum? Sorry you said something, I wasn't listening." Said Naruto a bottle of milk in his hand, the towel now around his neck.
"- Why do you disguise yourself?" He asked picking the picture on the floor.
"- That's because blue-eyed blond man, there aren't many in town. It's for my security. While policemen are searching for a black haired red-eyed man, I can live freely without have to worry." He said with a beaming smile.
"- I understand. Can I ask a question?" Gaara asked.
"- Sure. Go ahead." Naruto answered.
"- What have you choose the nickname Kyuubi?" He asked.
"- I didn't really choose it. That's Ino who choose it for me. When I was little it seemed that I had a mental problem. Double personality. I don't remember so I think it's just like that." Naruto explained.
"- Who's Ino?" Gaara asked.
"- A reporter. I met her the second night I have been in this town. She doesn't know my true identity but I love play with fire and I like her. She even helped me when I phone her for work." Naruto answered.
"- So she's not your girlfriend."
"- I love men, I already told the boss, you weren't listening?" Naruto asked.
"- Not really, I was looking at something."
"- So it was you who was looking at my ass during all this time." Naruto pouted.
"- I have been caught." Gaara said.
"- So, have you think about what you wanted me to do to repay my debt?"
"- The offer you made to the boss, can I take it?" Gaara asked and without wait to the answered, closed the distance between them and kissed Naruto savagely.
Naruto put down his bottle of milk with some difficulties and kissed back Gaara.