Chapter Three
The cab ride home took Naruto about an hour; he had ended up napping most of the way and only woke when the cabbie had stopped in front of his building.
"Hey dude wake up we're here"
Naruto looked up at the cabbie "thanks" Naurto rubbed the sleep out of his eyes sitting up he reached into his back pocket "how much do I owe you?"
"It will be $150 bucks" the cabbie said lighting the cigarette in his mouth.
Naruto handed over the money and got out the cab and headed over to the front door of the building, he greeted the door man and hoped in the lift and went up to his penthouse apartment.
As the lift door opened at the penthouse floor Naruto heard the distinct sound of his mother's voice singing "I Can't Say No" from Oklahoma! Accompanied by he assumed was his dad playing the sighed as his hand rested on the door knob 'Shit... why tonight' Naruto thought as he turned the door knob and entered the apartment, as he walked in to the living room were the piano was located, he saw his mum sitting on the closed piano with a wine glass in hand as she sang, glancing at the clock he saw it was about 12.45.
Naruto smiled as he crossed the living room, watching his mother sing "I'm just a gal who can't say no. I'm in a terrible fix. I always say come on, let's go..." at some point Kushina had notice Naruto had appeared and stopped sing "just when I ought to... Hey, kiddo! Your back is everything OK." Kushina hoped off the piano and walked over to Naruto and gave him a big hug.
Naruto smile returning the hug "yeah they just wanted to ask me a few questions no big deal" Naruto let go and looked over to his father who was sighing with relief
"I'm just glad we didn't need to call the lawyers this time" Minato said with a laugh
"Funny dad" Naruto said dryly "I don't get in trouble that often and beside what are you guys doing here?"
"You were hauled off by a police officer for god knows what and for god knows how long someone needed to take Aiko home" Kushina said as she walked back over to the piano and picked up her wine glass and gulped down the rest of the wine.
"And where is my little angle?" Naruto asked
"She's in the kitchen doing her homework I think?" Minato said turning to Kushina "shall we continue honey?"
Naruto sighed "please by all means just keep it down a bit OK" he smiled and then exited to room.
Kushina laughed as she looked over to Minato.
"Ready to bring it home" Minato looked up at Kushina as she sat back on the piano "Five. Six. Seven. Eight"
Kushina smiled "I'm just a fool when lights are low..."
Naruto smiled as he continued down the hall, his mother could still faintly be heard in the background as Naruto entered the kitchen. He then notices Aiko at one end of the kitchen table watching something on her ipad, she had he ear buds in her ears so she didn't notice him enter the kitchen, at the other end of the of the table sat Jiraiya with an ice pack over what looked like a black eye, he seem to notice Naruto's arrival but Naruto put a finger to his lip to keep Jiraiya quite. Jiraiya nodded in the silent agreement
Naruto smirked as he quietly and slowly snuck up behind Aiko with a small chuckle he put a hand on Aiko shoulder and with a loud voice "hey kiddo what are you watching hope it's nothing pervy"
Aiko jumped and let out a little shriek "dad!..." Aiko blushed "if you don't mind it just getting to the good part" Aiko smiled as she put the ear buds back into her ears. Naruto looked over her shoulder to see what she was watching it turned out it was Game of thrones season five
"Hey I thought we were going to watch that together" Naruto pouted it was so unfair.
"Well you were hauled away by the cops" Aiko said as she paused the episode and turning to her dad "so how was the slammer? Anyone make you their bitch?"
"Sorry, Switchblade. Still belong to you." Naruto then kiss her on the head and turned and walked over to the fridge and pulled out a can of whipped cream "and what happened to your hot date?" He asked Jiraiya "I thought you were going home with Yuki to do some late night proof reading" Naruto winked as he shakes the whipped cream can and sprays a mound of it into directly into his mouth.
Jiraiya just grunted "So did I, then her boyfriend, who by the way she had forgotten to mention, busts down the door and then hits me in the face, I try to explain to him it was just business but he didn't believe me"
"Huh really" Naruto just deadpanned 'serves you right you old Perv' "were you even worried about me at all"
"Not really, you been hauled off by the cop hundreds of time this wasn't any different, besides she didn't even read you your rights or hand cuff you so I figured it wasn't anything serious" Jiraiya said as he removed the ice pack and poked his black eye a little, he winced each time he did.
"Damn... he got you good" Naruto said as looked at the black eye, he sprayed more whipped cream in his mouth. He turned to Aiko who had resumed watching the show "Baby bird?" Aiko looked up to see her dad holding the can of whipped cream over her mouth offering her some, with a smile she open her mouth and Naruto sprays a mound of it into directly into her mouth.
Aiko swallowed it and smiled "so are you going to tell me about it, or do I have to look it up on the fan sites?"
"No..." Naruto turned to put the can of whipped cream back in the fridge "We had a deal. Surf all the internet you want. But stay off the fan sites" Naruto continued
"Well can you at least tell me?" Jiraiya asked Naruto just sighed
"You're not in any trouble? Are you dad?" Aiko asked her dad
Naruto could hear the concern in her voice 'Well I better just tell them I guess' Naruto thought "Despite my best efforts, no. They want my help on a case..." Naruto rubbed the back of his head
"A case?" Jiraiya asked
"Apparently, someone's been killing people the way I killed them in my books" Naruto explained leaning on the table
"That's horrible" They all turned to see Kushina standing in the door way with Minato at her side.
"How many people have been killed?" Minato asked concerned
"Two so far" Nartuo pushed his hair back in annoyance "the cops want me to give them all the fan mail I've received, they hope the guy responsible has contacted me"
"Is everything ok, should we be concerned, about your safety?" Kushina asked
"No, all my fan mail is sent to the publishing office and then sent to me, I haven't given out my home address to anyone" Naruto reassured everyone
Everyone gave a sigh of relief "It's just so senseless" Naruto walked around and sat down next to Jiraiya
"Murder usually is sweetheart" Kushina said walking over to her son and ruffling Naruto's hair
"No. Murder usually makes a great deal of sense. Passion, greed, politics. What's senseless here is the books that the killer chose. Hell Hath No Fury? Flower For your Grave? My truly lesser works. Why would a psychotic fan pick those?" Naruto lent back in the chair
"Maybe because he's a psycho" Aiko said as she turned off her ipad.
"Come on, it's bed time. You can figure it out in the morning, once you have a good night's rest you'll have a clearer head and I'm sure you'll figure something out" Minato smiled "your mum and me will let ourselves out so you guys off to bed"
Naruto sighed "yeah yeah we're going... come on Switchblade off to bed"
Aiko started to pack up her stuff.
"Goodnight Fishcake" Minato patted his son on the back and hugged Aiko goodbye, Kushina gave Naruto a kiss and hugged and kissed Aiko goodbye also and then both of them left the apartment.
Aiko smiled "goodnight Dad, Jiraiya" she then got up and walked to her bedroom
"Well I'm going to bed as well it's been a long day" Jiraiya said as he also got up and went to bed "night"
"Night" Naruto replayed, he sighed and ran his fingers though his hair, 'today was such a long day, I need a drink' he got up and went into the living room to the small bar in the corner of the room next to the piano, with a sigh he open the small cabinet and pulled out a bottle of scotch and a glass and poured himself a drink.
Naruto stared at the brown liquid in the glass, he walked over to the black leather couch and sat down, taking a sip from the glass he rested his head on the back of the couch and thought about everything that had happened that day, he then lifted his head and looked around to see his laptop sitting on the coffee table, picking it up he opened it and typed in his password, and looked at the window that was open and stared at the blank page, still with no idea what to write "damn it" he shut the laptop and placed it back on the coffee table, gulping down the rest of the scotch he put empty the glass down on the table and went to bed.
End of chapter Three