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'So this is the world out of Menagerie.' Naruto thought as he walked through the streets of the Kingdom of Vale. At 17 years old, and after being named by his father as the next in line for the chief position, Naruto had decided that he needed more world experience. So he chose to go out on a journey to explore the world around him, see the sites, take in the world itself. See the other Kingdoms, and go to other villages to prepare him and give in the insight it would take to become the best leader for his people that he could be.

It had been hard for him to say goodbye to his family, for the moment, but he knew that it was something he would have to do at some point.

It was something he needed to do.

Naruto took out his wallet, and opened it up to see how much he had on him after he had paid for a meal on the ship. Meals had not been included in the ticket cost sadly, so he had to make sure that he had enough to stay at an Inn for the night. Naruto opened up his wallet, and saw with a grin on his face that he had plenty.

He had been saving up his allowance for years in preparation for this journey, so he had plenty saved up for it.

"Who can I..."

A young girl walked around the docks as she looked at the people that were coming off of the ships. She had a slight curious look on her face, observing all of the people that she could see. Her skin was a chocolate mocha color, and she stood at about 5'6" in height. Her body was thin, both from her being slightly underfed, and her being physically fit. She had a petite frame, but she was well endowed in the chest and butt, though more so the butt. She wore a very revealing white strap-top that covered half of her breasts... and revealed all of her stomach and shoulders. She also wore green pants that cut off at her shins, and brown chaps, with two guns on her back.

'Oh... That is one full wallet.' She thought when she looked with her keen red eyes at the man whose wallet was stuffed with lien. She took her long, mint-green hair, and tied it in a low ponytail behind her head with a red tie. She stayed a healthy distance from him as she watched him with his wallet.

"Okay, I need to find an Inn, and buy a backback and some supplies." Naruto said as he looked around. He didn't know the city too well, so he looked around for somebody that seemed like they would know where an Inn that he could stay at was. "Hey, do you know where I could find an Inn?" Naruto stopped a sailor, and the man shrugged off his question and continued to do what he was doing previously. Naruto twitched in annoyance, before he sighed and rubbed the back of his head.

The girl looking at Naruto cracked her wrists, before she loosened her body up. When she saw Naruto put his wallet in his back pocket, she smiled sinisterly to herself.

She ran forward.

"Look out!" She shouted as she slammed into Naruto was knocked him onto the ground, on his stomach. Very quickly, she placed her hand in front of her stomach. Her stomach pressed up against his butt, and she slipped her finger into his pocket and swiped his wallet out. They stumbled a little, and in that stumble the girl placed Naruto's wallet into her cleavage. She rolled off of him and onto the dirty next to him.

"... Ow... My face." Naruto rubbed his nose, which had hit the concrete rather hard. He rubbed his nose, before he grinned.

No harm done.

"I am so sorry. I'm late for my job, so I was running... I didn't even notice you there. I am so, so sorry that I knocked you over." The girl made went over to Naruto on her knees and placed a hand on his shoulder. She had a look of almost genuine concern on her face, so convincing that not even Naruto could notice how she was faking concern. "I'm sorry..." She paused as she hinted at him for his name.

She wanted the name of the sucker she just stole a lot of money from. She would eat well for over a month no doubt, and have enough to have a place to stay for the same amount of time, with the amount she stole from him.

"Naruto U. Belladonna." Naruto introduced himself. "No harm done, I'm pretty tough. Thanks for the concern. Sorry if I made you late for your job." Naruto apologized as well. He pat the dirt off of his clothes, before he stood up and dusted his rear off as well. He offered the girl a hand to stand up, and she gladly took his hand.

"Emerald... I'm sure my boss will understand. What does the U stand for?" Emerald asked, just to be friendly and drop his guard lower. She wanted to make her escape as smooth as possible, and that meant not raising any suspicious feelings from him.

Curiousity was key.

"Oh, it stands for Uzumaki... when I changed my last name to Belladonna... I couldn't just get rid of Uzumaki. So I decided to change my middle name to Uzumaki instead... after all, who has two last names?" Naruto asked with a laugh at his own joke. Emerald gave a small laugh as well, unsure what kind of joke he was trying to make. She had heard of a few people with multiple last names.

There was a professor at Signal that she stole from once, she so got his wallet, with the last name of Xiao Long.

"Well, I'll be off then. It was a pleasure meeting you Naruto." Emerald waved goodbye to him, and when she turned to face away from him she smirked to herself, sticking her tongue out as if she had once the greatest victory of her life. She discretely took the wallet from his cleavage and she opened it up. She took out all of the lien cards in it, before she stuffed those back into her cleavage.

She would drop his wallet somewhere he would find it, without him blaming her for stealing it, that way nobody would be able to track it back to her... or rather, it wasn't like a broke man could pay somebody to track down who stole his money.

'She seems nice... nice butt too.' Naruto thought as he looked at the way her jeans conformed to fit the shape of her rear end. She had a gentle curve, a nice bubble to it, without it being too big, or too flat either. 'She also has-'

"Hey, you! I saw that!"

"Shit." Emerald cursed when she saw a cop that was coming towards her with an angry look in his eye. It would seem that she was going to have to be leaving Vale and going to a different Kingdom now. She had thought that nobody saw her slick moves... then she realized that maybe the cop had seen Naruto take out his wallet beforehand and matched the color and shape of it. After all, how many people had a green wallet shaped like a toad?

Emerald tossed the wallet on the ground and she started to high tail it. She ran through the people, trying to lose the cop that was chasing her.

The three cops that were now chasing after her.

"Hey, get back here!"

Naruto was just silent through out the entire thing as the cops chased Emerald around a corner, and they all vanished. Naruto walked over to the wallet on the ground, before he picked it up and looked at it for a moment. His eyes were blank as he started to comprehend what had just happened to him. He blinked a few times, furrowing his eyebrows, before he opened up his now mostly empty wallet.

...

"Well shit, I got robbed." Naruto realized for a moment. "Shit!? My money!?" Naruto shouted out when it truly hit him that he had no money to stay at an Inn, or buy any of the stuff that he would need for his journey around the kingdoms. Naruto looked around the corner that the cops chased Emerald.

-With Emerald-

'Shit! Pretty sure orange is not my color.' Emerald thought to herself as she imagined what she would look like wearing a prison outfit. With her hair, she didn't believe she could pull it off very well. They hadn't caught her yet, but they were calling in back up and drawing their pistols as they chased her. The guns were of no concern to her, she had an aura to protect her, but the fact remains that she wouldn't be able to get out of this without resorting to murder.

She didn't mind murder, per say, but the fact remains if she murdered the cops, then her face and name would be placed on wanted posters all over the kingdoms. She would never be able to go into the kingdoms in broad daylight again, meaning that she would have a hard time living her life without being on the run from the police, the kingdoms, and military. While she could easily kill the cops... doing so was not the wisest of moves she could make.

Not wise at all.

She winced when a bullet hit the back of her shoulder, her aura stopping it from penetrating her body. She took out her gun and shot the ground in front of the cops, getting them to back off of her a little, just a little. She looked at her options... she didn't have very good options.

"Stop you know good street rat!"

Emerald shot the cop who said that in his shin. He collapsed holding his leg. He grabbed his radio device, and signalled for other cops that he was down, and more back up was needed. Emerald hissed in annoyance, hitting the side of her head with the butt of one of her guns.

"Stupid, letting your anger get the better of you." Emerald hissed at herself in anger. The man said something she disliked, so she shot him in the shin. She could have shot him in the head, but since he had no aura training it would seem, that would kill him rather instantly. 'I should use my Semblence... but I can't use it on both of them.' Emerald thought as she looked at the two cops still chasing her.

Yeah, she couldn't handle two.

Just as she was turning a corner, a hand came out of a dumpster and grabbed the back of her neck. Before the cops could turn the corner after her, she was yanked off of her feet and pulled into the dumpster as well, the lid being closed silently behind her. She choked at her neck being grabbed so roughly, before she closed her mouth to avoid the police hearing her. She turned to look at who had saved her.

Naruto?

Naruto placed his finger to his lips to tell her to be quiet while he helped her out. She looked at him, suspicion clear in her eyes, but she nodded her head regardless. It didn't matter if she didn't trust him, she could see that if she talked the cops would realize where she was. Naruto leaned up and looked through a bullet hole in the dumpster (it was there when he got there) and he could see the cops running down the alley, before they turned down another corner and continued on their way.

"... Lets stay here for a minute and let them run on their way." Naruto said with a small grin on his face.

"Why?"

"Why what?" Naruto asked with a look of confusion when he saw Emerald staring at him, emotion hot in her eyes, as was confusion. "Why a dumpster? Well, it was the only thing nearby. I was running on the roofs, and I noticed the dumpster around the corner... I jumped into it thinking I could use it to save you." Naruto admitted while rubbing the back of his head sheepishly.

"Why save me?" Emerald corrected him.

She literally just stole all of his money, after pretending to be nice to him and knocking him to the ground. He should be angry with her, super angry. Heck, saving her would be the last thing that he would want to do.

"... Why not?" Naruto returned with another question. Just because she stole from him, doesn't mean that he couldn't save her from trouble. "It's just money... yeah, losing it sucks... but money isn't everything." Naruto reasoned part of the reason why he wasn't that angry with her. He was still a little annoyed that she tricked him, but not that much.

"That doesn't make sense." Emerald noted as she peeked through another bullet hole (did a gang war happen in this alley?). There were no cops around, but better safe than sorry, like getting out of the dumpster and right away seeing cops there. "I stole and lied to you... you should not be willing to help me." Emerald told Naruto, and he grinned awkwardly.

He couldn't help but laugh awkwardly to compliment the awkwardness.

"You aren't the best person I've ever met, true... but I don't think your that horrible yet either. Sometimes you have to give people a chance... I was given a chance when tons of people hated me. Of course, I'll need my money back." Naruto mentioned as he offered his hand to her. She looked at his hand for a moment, and she nodded her head. She reached into her cleavage and took out his money, before she gave it back to him, and he placed it back in his wallet.

Naruto nodded in satisfaction.

"You know, your helping a criminal escape the law..." Emerald stated to Naruto, and he shrugged his shoulders.

Wasn't like his face was seen.

"... So... what are you doing in Vale? You came off the boat from Menagerie." Emerald pointed out. She had to admit that her suspicions about the guy were very quickly fading away. Something about him was like an infection. It spread, and it got under her skin, but at the same time this infection wasn't a bad one. "You were asking about an Inn." Emerald pointed out as well, and Naruto nodded.

"I'm going to travel the world, see the sights. You know... it's lonely travelling alone. You seem to know your way around... Want to travel with me?" Naruto asked her with a sheepish grin on his face. Emerald just looked at him with astounishment the second he asked her that question.

It was like he trusted her or something, which that alone was amazing to her. She stole from him, and he was still willing to put faith in her. Nobody had ever put faith in her before, or wanted to be around her... or wanted to have anything to do with her.

This was new.

"You're serious?" Emerald asked with her eyes glaring into his own.

This better not be a joke.

"I mean, it has to be better than what you are doing now. Being hated by people sucks, and I should know. I'm sure you would be a pretty amazing person if you had somebody to call a friend. It helps I really don't want to travel alone." Naruto mentioned as he offered his hand to her. Emerald looked at it for a moment, before she shook his hand with her own. She couldn't help but smile a little.

Of course, she was so taking a shower after this.

Dumpster diving, not fun.

Chapter End!
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Cinder gave Emerald purpose in her life. Cinder gave Emerald a chance to do greater things with her powers, and aknowledged her existance.
Expect Emerald to show Naruto the same devotion she showed Cinder.