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Chapter Shi: Gathering Info Part 1

The Brawny Group

The brawny group followed the map to the farmer's farm. There were tons of plants in the front yard, and you could even see some of the back yard, which of course was filled with plants.

"Dang. This place has a lot of plants." said Naruto scratching his head looking at his surroundings as they walked to the door. Which was in the middle of the field.

"Duh. This is a FARM Naruto. Of course there's going to be plants." said Kuro shaking her head. Sometimes she wondered how Naruto even survived before they picked him up in those mountains.

"LOOK THERE'S AN APPLE TREE!" yelled Cooro as he ran towards a huge apple tree next to the house.

"HEY! WHAT ARE YOU KIDS DOING IN MY FIELD!" a scrawny looking man came around from the behind the house waving a shovel.

"Cooro! Wait up!" said Kuro as she ran to catch up to Cooro. She finally got a hold of him and pushed him towards Naruto who kept him in place as she talked to the man. He looked at the kids. They were all boys, maybe around the ages of 14 or 15. Muscular…good looking…just his type.

"Hello there sir! We heard that you were having some trouble harvesting! So we came down to see if we could get some work done for you! Course you're going to have to pay us." said Kuro with confidence and a grin.

"Oh yes," said the scrawny farmer acting all worn out and tired, "I've been trying to harvest all day and I've only gotten about a quarter of my fields done. I'll certainly give you a some of my harvest and a good amount of money, plus an added bonus of refreshments, if you're willing to work."

"We're ready whenever you are! Just tell us what we have to do and we'll get this done faster than the speed of light!" said Cooro who was almost drooling at the sound of refreshments and food.

"Good. You boys look strong. I want you 3 shorter boys to start pulling the radishes out. The tall one can help me chop wood for tonight's bonfire." said the farmer as he shooed Kuro, Cooro, and Naruto into the fields.

The three of them looked for the leaves of the radish and when they found them immediately started pulling them out, working fast so they could get their refreshments, while Senri followed the man. He led Senri to a shed far in the corners of the field and set him to work chopping wood. The farmer disappeared into the shed for a while and then came out looking like he accomplished something. Soon enough things started to heat up and Senri took off his shirt where on his chest and back he had scars from bear fights. He worked up a good sweat when the man stopped him.

"Boy go in this shed and rest a while. There's a pitcher of water I leave out for whenever I'm here. Get a drink of that and wait for me to come back before you start chopping again." said the man.

Senri did as he was told and drank the water in the pitcher as he sat in a chair. A couple minutes later after finishing everything in the pitcher Senri looked at what was in the shed. There was mostly farming tools and a couple odd things like whips, or lines and lines of rope. But other than that nothing out of the ordinary. As he stared at the blazing heat outside things started getting dizzy and Senri collapsed hitting his head on the table with a thud before he blacked out.

With the other three

Kuro, Naruto, and Cooro were working hard pulling out radishes and were just about done when the man came outside of his house.

"Ah good work boys! Now I need one of you to help me inside the house. I can't seem to fix this one lamp, and I can't really afford to buy another one." said the farmer with a saddened look.

"Oh if it's fixing things then leave it to me!" said Naruto as he walked into the house. Naruto THOUGHT he could fix things. But really all he did was make things worse and sooner or later whatever he was fixing fell apart. But Kuro let him go anyways. She was too busy trying to pull out this one really stubborn radish.

"Hey feather boy." called the farmer. He waved to Cooro (yes he still wears his headband with feathers XD). "I need you to cut up some apples for me. My wife's coming home later and she told me to prepare apples so she can make her famous apple pie."

"Apples! I'll cut them!" said Cooro excitedly. He loved apples!

"Good! Let's go. I'll show you to the kitchen." The two of them walked into the living room where Naruto was having a staring contest with the deer head on top of the farmer's fireplace.

"Oi! Blondie! Come with me!" called the farmer to catch his attention. "I'll deal with you later." mumbled Naruto as he glared at the deer head.

The farmer first led the two boys to the kitchen where he showed Cooro how to cut the apples and put them in a special way so that it still looked an apple. Once he was occupied with that, the scrawny farmer led Naruto to another room where there was nothing but a desk and a book case filled with knick knacks. He showed Naruto the lamp and Naruto immediately set to work, first trying to figure out what was wrong with it.

"Oh the problem with the lamp is that it-"

"Don't tell me! I can figure it out! Just…let me work on it!" said Naruto shooing the farmer out as he shook the lamp and stared at it. The farmer left with a big smile of accomplishment. He thought, Now there's only two more to take care of and their all mine. The farmer left Naruto to the lamp and pursued Kuro who was still trying to pull out that stubborn radish.

Naruto stayed in the little room by himself examining the lamp. He looked and looked and found a small little door on the side. He opened it and gas came out. Thinking it was just dust he brushed it off. Naruto started shaking the lamp again making even more gas/dust to come off/out and he inhaled a lot as he tried to yawn. The room was dark and boring making Naruto tired. Soon he hit the floor falling into a deep sleep. There was a shattering of glass as the lamp slid along the floor hitting the bookcase, tipping over a bowling ball that fell near Naruto's head and rolled to a stop a couple feet away, making it look like it hit his head and knocked him unconscious.

The farmer headed on out to the kitchen where he saw Cooro eating the apples instead of actually cutting them. Exactly what he had expected. He watched as Cooro slowed down his apple eating until he could barely even lift up his hand. Cooro slumped over. Drool coming out of his mouth as he slept a deep sleep. The farmer laughed maniacally as he walked out to the last one.

Kuro was out in the field STILL trying to get the radish out of the ground. She was struggling an awful lot when the farmer tapped her shoulder and she yelped. "Farmer! Sir you shouldn't scare me like that! I could have hurt you!" said Kuro. She was in her fighting stance ready to punch the lights out of whoever sneaked up on her. After saying that she stopped the stance and shook herself off of dust and dirt.

"I've let the other boys have their refreshments while you were out here pulling radishes. You should come in the house and have some with them." said the farmer kindly as she wiped the sweat off her forehead and walked into the house. He followed her with a smirk and a huge block of wood he left outside his door for occasions such as these.

Kuro exclaimed at the deer head in his living room. The farmer gave her a mighty whack on her head. She fell with a thud and he worked to bring Kuro, Naruto, and Cooro into the shed. He tied all four of them up and took them deep into the depths of his basement which was hidden under bags of grain. They were all either knocked out or in a deep sleep and he made sure everything was tied up nice and tight. After all that work the farmer went back up to give himself some refreshments for a day's work well done.

Will anyone come to save our brawny group?

Why did the farmer capture them?

Why is he so scrawny?

And will Kuro ever be able to uproot that radish?

FIND OUT NEXT CHAPTER! XD

Finally got this written down. Wait for the next chapter! XD hope it comes out soon XP