Naruto Uzumaki: Ultimate Chef
Konoha, Say Hello to Naruto Uzumaki!
Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto or Toriko.
Previously on Naruto Uzumaki: Ultimate Chef,
After the whole feast, Naruto was packing up for something. Komatsu had to ask. "Are you going back to Setsuno's diner?"
Naruto halted and he turned to Komatsu with everyone else except for Setsuno who had already left the vicinity for the said restaurant. "No. She said it herself that I no longer need to be trained under her anymore. The last three months were I ever need to finish my training with her. Now it was time to make a name for myself but not anywhere under IGO."
"Why? You are a great cook and you could make it to the top hundred." Komatsu said in his usual modest and humble tone that tried to bounce the praise to others who were involved even the slightest.
"Thanks but now it is time for me to be needed back at my home at Konohagakure." Naruto said and before anyone could remark on never hearing about that, "It is in the Human World but off any maps in the Elemental Nations that refuse to be part of IGO. The only way there is to be that interested and already knowing where it is." Naruto made it clear but before he could leave altogether, he was asked of something he never even dreamed of,
"Can we come along and train under you?" Naruto turned to Toriko as the voice behind that question. Komatsu was by his side, nervous but not budging from that spot near Toriko along with Rin for more like interest and accompanying him. Naruto didn't know what to say about all this but if he could see the future, he will have the definite answer to that question.
"Can I have some of that…what is it called again?" Toriko said as he walked down a rugged path with Komatsu and Rin while Naruto was leading, and drinking something out of a sake gourd. "And should you be too young to start drinking Sake?" Toriko brought up that finally got Naruto to take a break and grinned like a drunken lord.
"Hey! 'Old enough to kill, old enough to hunt, old enough to drink'. That is the saying of all Shinobi here. And I like that rule." Naruto said before going back to drinking again but not before looking back at his companions. "As for your first question, this is Hellfire Sake. The Drink from my Full Course Menu."
"Can we try some!?" Toriko asked since he figured that this sake was better than the Puffer Whale Sake that Naruto had prepared for the feast a while back. Otherwise, that will be on Naruto's full course as his favorite Drink. Naruto just took out a spare gourd and threw in their direction.
While Toriko and Komatsu were enjoying the taste of burning drink that bubbled in their mouth and burned their tongue with orange flames tastes of cinnamon, Rin hurried up to Naruto since she had her own questions. "Can you tell me that you have Gourmet Cells?"
"Because you do? Sure, I do have Gourmet Cells in my body." Naruto said and continued off before Rin could ask even more, "Yours are the basic; you are agile and swift human with above average speed, senses, strength and endurance. But that only works with your different perfumes and fragrances. Have you even thought about your other powers and how it can help your hunting style?" Rin looked down, she admitted that she only had Gourmet Cells in her body to be more like Toriko; proof of her infamous crush on the Gourmet Hunter.
Naruto didn't wait for an answer and went further, "Like I told you two before, my abilities are basically two different ones. One is my Pressure Hold ability, like Lady Setsuno I can use air pressure in my cooking and against beasts. I can also use it to knock them out with vacuums of mine that I can create by extracting the oxygen from a certain area in the atmosphere. That is what every single beast shares; a need for air to breathe in. And I control them by manipulating any atmosphere to my will." Rin realized that could be one deadly ability indeed, "My other is Picnic Setting. I can create clothing for any occasion or purpose for my cooking or situations of danger. And speaking of which, you have got the scarring wrong. Hold still." Rin stopped in her tracks to see Naruto's sleeve grow more fibers and were knitted into a strange cloth cover her entire body. "Correction Cloth." Naruto spoke and knitted the cloth around Rin like a mold of clay.
Finally, Toriko noticed what Naruto was doing with Rin, "What the hell are you doing to her!?" Naruto was not to be stirred and instead finished his work and pulled the clothing off, to reveal Rin with her scarring in the right shaping and in the right position to Toriko's. The 'Glutton' realized that the same was used on Komatsu to turn the underdeveloped chef into more average height and muscle mass.
Speaking of which, the new and improved cook found his new height to be a weird experience for sure in the kitchen and among the ones that were used to see a chef about their age but shorter than them. It took a few months that Komatsu spent waiting for Toriko to get his arm back but ultimately the cook got along with his fellow staff members and boss just fine. This new body maybe more ready for hunting for ingredients than just buying them from the market; Komatsu was now feeling less like a burden of a cook and more like a real hunter's partner.
"That is great Naruto, is there anything you can't do!?" Toriko said in awe that Naruto was able to pull of yet another miracle out of a literate magic hat. Maybe Naruto should share his hunting experience with Komatsu and share their list of captured ingredients some time. Who knows?
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They finally reached the village and it looked no different from when Naruto was taken from by Setsuno. The gate guard didn't as much as point him out of the crowd he dragged along. His new friends were shocked to see that the village barely even missed Naruto or for that matter, notice that he wasn't showing up in the village anymore.
"You really did have it that hard Naruto-san?" Rin said, not caring if she got an answer back or not. She just saw all the glares and hateful looks that Naruto was receiving despite not being in the village for a good number of years.
"Yeah. They claim that their hatred and foolishly bold nature was actually proof that they are better than their leader and champion and they could kill a demon that not even the Hokage can do." Naruto answered with a sad tone and sigh here and there. "The 'demons' in question cannot be killed. They are purely energy."
"And energy cannot be created or destroyed." Komatsu took over, "That is the universal law that allows us to understand physics better isn't it?"
"Yeah but everyone here is far behind in technology, society and science. They are sticking to their own way of making their world a better place. And believing in demons that can be killed by civilians appear to be one of them." Naruto replied and his new friends nodded. Then he moved to catch a full and unopened bottle of cheap sake from crashing into his head.
"We don't want the likes of you demons and demon lover here! This is a holy place and you are not allowed here!" One the civilians happened to be drunk out of mind to not only make a bad impression of his village to the vesting people from the rest of the Human World but he also had to insult them too.
"Some holy place with slums and people getting drunk. Come on let's see just how different you are from me." Naruto will always just ignore it or just play pranks on those who tormented him. But this time, he was feeling a little bloodthirsty. The blonde grabbed the drunken man by the forehead and he tried to shake Naruto off with his strength tampered with his drunken nature until he started to get more aggressive and wrinkled up like he was losing more weight than he can ever ask for. And it didn't stop until he was no different than a fish bone, with not even a third of the average weight for his age and height.
The man then fell to the ground, not even moving. Everyone just stood there, in shock at what happened. "W-what the hell?"
"He provoked a ninja and a combat chef. We are not weak or defenseless. We are capable of defending ourselves and you better remember that." Naruto said and he looked down on the poor excuse for a human being figuratively once more. "He thought that he could take a chef for granted but we are the only ones that can supply food for your hunger and he paid a price. He starved to death." Naruto explained in an emotionless tone and went ahead, not caring if his new friends were behind him.
They didn't move from that spot, only remembering on how they were once full from Komatsu's Century Soup but somehow got their appetite when Naruto arrived with a bag full of ingredients to be cooked. That blonde meant business and won't let anyone in his way live if they to push their luck with this chef. Naruto is, in a word or two, one hell of a chef!
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"Well, here we are guys. This is where I will be living for now." Naruto said and presented his new house that he had gotten from the Hokage after amusing his new friends with some hints on how to successfully blackmail even the leader of a village filled to the teeth of deadly shinobi: offer the secret to defeating paperwork for anything you want, works every time.
"Nice Naruto and we can stay here!?" Toriko was excited like Komatsu and Rin and for good reason. The house was grand and inside had complemented it completely. One master bedroom with ten guest bedrooms. A living room big enough to fit ten people easily. The kitchen could be mistaken for that of a restaurant. Everything else was just prefect for either a huge family or a big house warming party. Too bad the guest are too scarce anywhere in the Human World.
"Alright Naruto-san! I will sleep in the room with Toriko-kun!" Rin said in her predictable response to a situation that involves getting to Toriko as close as she can make her or at least him comfortable while she was it. Before Toriko could say anything, Naruto decided to do a little sneaky work.
"Sure Rin. You can bunk in with Toriko. I will even give you the key and Toriko better not try to break my walls to get out of your room." Naruto said and Toriko felt like he fell into a battlefield as both young but fierce and intimating sets of eyes were glaring on him. They dared him to even think of trying that.
"But how are we going to get ingredients for the kitchen!? The food storages are all empty!" Komatsu yelled from the kitchen just in time to save Toriko from the stare fest and lower the atmosphere with a change of subject. Naruto then smirked and asked everyone out for some reason until he said,
"Everyone, meet my hunting partner." On cue to everyone's curiosity, a strong wind started to stir up in the vicinity and threated to blow them off their feet. And yet they couldn't see anything. There is something there but their eyes had failed in capturing a scope of even the size of this unseen visitor. Naruto then rose his hand into seemingly thin air but had startled everyone by touching something that of a fur and feathers on one animal and started to crease this creature, getting it to growl in pleasure.
Then the very light started to stir and shiver almost like a feathered bird ruffing its feathers. And the creature bared a resemblance to a bird indeed. More like a giant owl that had silver feathers and hair. Each of those feathers shined like stainless steel. Its claws were silver as well and yet looked sharp and not at all heavy to the owl. Finally its eyes seemed to be covered in a special eyelid that was silver on the outside and yet clear on the side that faces the eyeballs. Toriko was able to get all that from his experience with fierce beasts. And ye that also got him reaching for Komatsu and shielding Rin but only made Naruto chuckle at their shock.
"Relax. He is Kuuna, my partner just like that Battle Wolf is yours Toriko. He is a Shaggy Silver Owl." Naruto called his animal partner who hooted with a haunting tone that meant death to those that weren't with his human partner.
[Shaggy Silver Owl, Camouflage Bird Beast. Capture Level Immeasurable.]
"Shaggy Silver Owl!? I only heard of them, they are from the Gourmet World!" Toriko panicked and Naruto chuckled along with Kuuna.
"Yes they are but I first met Kuuna when he was merely a lost child like myself when I got separated from Setsuno-sensei. When she started to train me in order to be a battle chef." Naruto explained while comforting his partner about how they had to remember their bad times all alone. "The Shaggy Silver Owls are indeed of the Gourmet World and were a very ancient race as well. They had the reputation to strike their foes with their features making them unseen by their prey and even those who could smell them or sense their body heat had a hard time tracking them down or see them coming. It only took pure instinct to even survive against a fully mature member of this owl race."
Komatsu and Rin were in shock that Naruto was someone to have a creature of the Gourmet World as his partner. They all thought that only someone of strength at the level of the Four Heavenly Kings can do that. Toriko just watched on how Naruto retrieved bags full of ingredients from a hidden pouch in Kuuna's cloak.
"Just who are you?" Toriko said until Naruto was given two letters by a masked man in a thick cloak and wore a mask on his face. The blonde then started to laugh,
"How about that! I have gotten a job here, a cook at the Golden Leafe Restaurant and the head chef too! I am also asked to be a Jonin!" Naruto said in pure excitement and surprise. "My reputation must reach to these corners of the Human World!" Naruto chuckled to himself until he noticed that everyone was starting at him, as if they we rehanging on a question he has yet to answer.
"And to who I am, I am Naruto Uzumaki. Ultimate Chef!"
End of Chapter 3.
*I am glad that I have gotten back into the game! I am sorry if I have disappointed you all with some of my new stories. Even the best of us have our bad days. I am still waiting until the end of August to actually see how well you want A Wonderful White Lie to continue. I will be waiting!*
