Those Soul Piercing Eyes, Chapter 3
Genbu Uchiha, a loyal ninja of the 4th Hokage, banished from the Uchiha clan after losing his sight. Naruto Uzumaki, the container of the Kyubi, hated by a majority of the Village. Genbu Uzumaki, user of the Konhekigan and Naruto's Uncle.
Genbu lead an excited Naruto as they approached a small stand that was still open, judging from the smell, a fresh batch of what they sold had just been made. Genbu had put his hair up in a perfectly neat bun, keeping it in place with some ornamental chop sticks that where white with glass marbles the color of fire hanging from a thin but strong wire at the ends.
"Hey, Teuchi! You still open?" Genbu joked, as the man behind the counter looked over at him from watching a little girl work at the stove. The man smiled and chuckled as he put his hands on his hips, facing his newest customer, whom he recognized quickly.
"Ah! Genbu. It's been a long time since I've seen you around here. What have you been up to?" The man, known as Teuchi asked as Genbu picked up Naruto and placed the little boy on his right hip.
"Ninja stuff. We came here for some of your best ramen." Genbu told the ramen chief, surging it off. Teuchi nodded and then looked at Naruto in confusion but he still gave the little boy a smile.
"Who's you guest?" Teuchi asked as the little girl behind him turned from what she was doing to look at the new customers, her eyes went wide as she gasped at Genbu and blushed a light pink as his eyes landed on her.
"This is my nephew, Naruto, and I suppose the little princess you have in your kitchen is Ayame?" Genbu asked as he set Naruto down in a stool next to the one he took a seat in, giving Ayame a sweet smile.
Teuchi gave the ninja a proud smile as he gently set a hand on his daughter's head.
"Yup. I was just teaching her how to make Beef Ichiraku Ramen. Say hello to our customers, Ayame." He instructed his daughter as she looked at him nervously and gave a small bow.
"Wel-welcome to Ichiraku Ramen." She said shyly as she looked at the floor of the ramen stand. Naruto blinked in both confusion and surprise, but it quickly gave way to hunger as his tummy cried for food. Both the adults and Ayame looked at the boy in shock, at the volume of his stomach having created an awkward silence.
"Well I think we would like some ramen now, Teuchi." Genbu broke the silence, as he smelled the ramen, he flinched as the scent hit his nose but it was just a reflex that was like a bad habit.
"Sure. Would you mind being the first two to taste Ayame's cooking?" Teuchi asked as Naruto looked at the two adults confused.
"No, not at all. Right, Naruto-chan?" Genbu asked the little blond next to him, but Naruto looked at his uncle questionably.
"Oij-san, what's ramen?" Naruto asked innocently enough but the other three gasped, the two adults paled at the question and Ayame's eyes were wide in surprise as she spoke in a quite disbelieving voice.
"You don't know want ramen is?" She asked, her father quickly frowning as he quickly set a bowl before Naruto, who looked at the ramen longingly.
"Here you go little man. Your first bowl is on the house." Teuchi told Naruto with a smile as, some drool escape the side of the little boy's mouth at the aroma. Naruto's attention only being snapped away by Genbu, who was offering him a soup spoon. Having guessed Naruto had little to no experience in using chopsticks.
"Go on, Naruto-chan. I'm sure you'll love it." Genbu encouraged, chucking lightly to relive the tense atmosphere.
The young Uzumaki unsurely dipped the spoon into the broth, getting come of the beef, which looked very good to the little blond. Wrapping his left arm around his food, a trait both adults frown upon, and Naruto took his first taste of what was known to many, as the wondrous taste of ramen. Before the adults knew it, the little blond had finished the whole bowl. Naruto had a happy smile on his face but it turned upside down as he looked down at his bowl and looked up at Teuchi, his eyes big, round, and watery. Genbu chucked as Teuchi smiled as Ayame tried to carefully set another bowl of ramen on the counter in front of Naruto. The little blood looked in between the two adults before looking at the bowl of ramen longingly.
"Go ahead. Have another!" Ayame told Naruto as she gave him a smile.
He looked to his uncle and Genbu gave him a nod to tell him it was ok to take the bowl of ramen, which Naruto did. However, the little blond noticed that his uncle hadn't had a bowl of ramen. So the little blond looked over at his as he ate his third bowl. Teuchi, with the help of Ayame, where at work making more of the delicious confection.
"Oji-san, why aren't you eating? This ramen is really good!" Naruto asked his uncle who seemed to become pale; his pupils became unfocused, a look of fear panting his features, while Teuchi snickered in the kitchen.
"What's so funny, Oto-san?" Ayame asked her father as he just shook his head, chuckling as he remembered having seen a black blur being followed closely by a red blur that seemed to have 9 tails, zip around the village many times, many years ago, there would be a rare high pitched scream and a monstrous roar.
"Oji-san?" Naruto asked worriedly as Genbu clutched his head with both his hands and muttered something panicky. All Naruto could understand was one word...
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Tomato?
?Mystery Location?
In a room lit only by a single candle, two people occupied the room. One hidden with only his face hidden in the shadows, the rest of him, dressed in a black yukita, was seated in a chair behind a desk with a file, a big red stamp upon it reading, BANISHED. The other one in the room was completely out of reach of the candles weak light in front of the other man's desk.
"He took the Demon with him." The man behind the desk mumbled, opening the file before him.
"GENBU UCHIHA." The man said slowly, his voice full of Venom and distaste. A pair of red eyes with three black tomoe around the black pupil glowed in the shadows behind the desk, glared at the file before him.
"He must not get his hands on the Kyubi. Make sure this information gets leaked, especially to the civilians. Am I Under stood?" The man told the other in the room with him. Looking up from the files the red eyes saw a young boy, around 11 years of age, Long black hair flowing past his shoulders to his chest, dark eyes were focused an alert, beautiful pale skin, dressed in black, stood before the man.
"Yes Sir." The child spoke, no real emotion in his words.
How was that chapter? Bet cha none of you saw that one coming huh? XD