Chapter 7: The Day After

Trouble at the Taco Bell? And a New Hero?

It turns out that banks and stores isn't the only thing that the Black Ninja protects. He protects even those that work in the food business. Two nights ago the Vikings Gang had apparently decided to get drunk and go have a little fun messing with late night open establishments. The one they chose? Taco Bell.

"Those jerks were horrible. One of them even tried to get in threw the window. And he wouldn't let go of my hand! Mike, my co-worker, was trying to help me but they just wouldn't relent."

According to both the witness and the victim there was a lone stranger that selflessly put his foot down to help the workers. From what they had said it was a blond male with blue eyes around the age of 20. As the story goes he called out to the Vikings to draw attention away form the workers and on to himself.

The fight however lasted only a few minutes before the Black Ninja himself went to lend a helping hand.

"After the gang was taken care the blond ordered food for not just him, but for the Black Ninja too. Then they both left before the police got here," says Mike. "Makes me wonder of they like knew each other or something."

Yes it makes us all wonder. Though the blond in question was not photographed the Black Ninja was. By a chance encounter our photographer was able to catch most of the fight. Though he was unable to get any pictures of the mysterious blond the fight pictures will have to do.

Thank you once again to our hero the Black Ninja and to our knew hero the Mysterious Blond. (Story by Sakura Haruno, picture by Naruto Uzumaki.)

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"The Mysterious Blond!?! That's the best you could come up with?"

"Oh calm down Naruto, its not that bad," said Sakura.

"Not that bad! Not only did you make me out to be the Ninja's slut or something but you gave me a crappy name too!" exclaimed the 'Mysterious Blond'.

"Hey don't go pinning this on me! I told you that if I didn't use your real name it was going to sound weird. You're the one that insisted on being anonymous."

"Yeah but I didn't ask you too make me look like some kind of Black Ninja wannabe."

"Tell me again why you didn't want her to use your real name?" asked the still confused Kiba.

The three of them were having lunch at their favorite restaurant, Chouji's Kitchen of course. They along with some of Naruto's closest friends which at the moment included, Shikamaru (a dark brunette that always has his hair up in a pony tail, with black eyes), Ino (another blond and blue eyed women, though a few shades lighter than Naruto's hair and eyes), and Chouji, were discussing what had happened to Naruto two nights ago.

"Jeez Kiba pay attention will you," said Ino. "The reason he can't tell the truth is because he's afraid the Black Ninja will come to beat the crap out of him."

"Hey, I am not afraid of anything," says the indignant blond.

"Whatever," this coming from the lazy genius.

"And why is he afraid that the Black Ninja will come to beat him up again?" this question again from Kiba.

Sigh. "For the last time Kiba, when the Black Ninja mentioned that he hates the paparazzi Naruto panicked and gave him a fake name, so if the Black Ninja were to ever find out that 'Nick Parish' is actually Naruto Uzumaki then he will more than likely be pissed and hunt his tan ass down," finished the blonde.

"Hey I didn't panic; I just didn't want him getting mad at me for taking his picture that's all." He paused for a second, then, "and how do you know my ass is tan?"

"Sorry my secret," was the smirked response.

"Man, what a drag."

"So do you get it now Kiba?" asked Sakura.

"Yeah," he nodded. Then he picked out one of the chicken legs on the table and put it on the floor next to Akamaru, who started munching on it happily.

"But don't you think that he might get mad or suspicious that you were able to take those pictures of him when 'you' were no where near there?" he asked.

"No, well maybe, but for the mean time he has no reason to suspect me," concluded Naruto as he started to munch on his ramen. "Yum."

"Anyway enough talk about Naruto's life, what are we going to do today? This is like the first day-off we all get of in a long time," said Ino.

"Well actually I was wondering of you guys wanted to check out that knew movie that just came out, um, what was it called?" asked Sakura.

"Oh, that new one, 'Green Massacres'" said a now excited Kiba.

"Yeah that's the one. I heard it got some really good reviews."

"Yeah sounds good. Then maybe we could check out that fair on 18th St." said Ino.

There was a murmur of agreement as everyone finished eating and started to get up and get ready to leave. Once they were outside they waited a few minutes for Chouji to lock the restaurant.

"Ok, so whose car are we taking?" he asked.

Sigh. "I knew this would happen that's why I brought the mini-van," said Shikamaru.

"And Shikamaru saves the day again," shouted Naruto.

(Scene Change)

In an alley across the street form Chouji's Kitchen, a snake hisses as it watches the group leave to the parking lot.

"Interesting, so that's the blond you saw the Black Ninja have diner with?" asked a sly voice behind the snake.

The purple snake turns to his master and gives him a nod. The 'master' turns back in time to see the grey van leave the parking lot and towards the closest cinema.

"Let's see how much the Black Ninja is willing to keep his blond friend alive," he said.

Then both the snake and its master turned and disappeared in the shadows.

(Scene Change)

"The story of the movie was ok, but the gore was a little over done," says Ino.

The group has just finished watching 'Green Massacre' and was heading over to the fair. Shikamaru was of course the driver and Ino was in the passenger seat talking over her shoulder at Sakura and Naruto who were in the middle seat. Kiba and Chouji were in the back seat discussing their favorite gore scene.

"What!" exclaimed Kiba. "The gore scenes were the best parts! How could you say that it was over done?"

"Because it was," counters Sakura. "After a while they were just really sick and there was way too much blood. Then even after the charters lost so much blood they were still alive and weren't even fazed by it at all. How fake is that?"

"Yup," nodded Ino.

"Oh who cares, I still think that the gore scenes were awesome."

By this time Naruto had leaned in to the front to talk with Shikamaru.

"I bet you predicted the entire story huh?" he asked.

"It wasn't any different than all the other 'horror' films that have come out lately," shrugged the brunet.

"I know what you mean. They just don't make good horror movies like they used to," he sighed overdramatically.

He was about to say something else when all of a sudden the van was jerked into a stop. There were a few startled yelps and a scream that came from one of the girls.

"What the hell Shikamaru!?" screeched Ino.

"It wasn't me woman!" he screamed back, which surprised them because he almost never screamed.

"Then what the hell was that?" asked Kiba.

Hearts pumping and hands sweating they were about to get out of the van when it was jerked back this time.

"Aaahh!"

"What the hell is going on!" exclaimed Shika.

"Oh my god. Is that a huge snake?" asked Chouji.

Sure enough when they turned around to see out the back window there was a huge purple snake about the size of an average house. And was that a man on top of the snake?!

"What the hell dose he want?" asked Naruto.

"Oh man we're gonna die, we're gonna die," was all that Kiba could say. Akamaru was whimpering in on the floor of the van where he lay.

"Shut up that's not funny," said Chouji.

"Dose it look like I'm laughing?"

By this time the snake had grabbed the van from the middle lifting it until it was eye-level with its self. Shikamaru had turned off the van and was holding on tightly to the wheel.

The snake then started to tighten its grip on the van. Sakura screamed as the van was being crush. Glass was flying everywhere as the windows were shattered.

"Oh fuck, fuck," this came from Ino who never swears.

Then the snake dropped the van, which was about a two story drop mind you. They all screamed. SMASH. The two front wheels went flying the hood was torn of, the remaining windows were no more and the trunk door flew open. There was a brief silence.

"Augh… is...is everyone alright," asked Naruto, blood was dripping from the side of his face. There were some cuts on his arm and his ankle hurt like heck.

"Ow… oh, I think my arms broken," said Sakura.

She too was looking around at the rest of the group to see how they were fairing. Shikamaru was out cold, his head on the steering wheel. Ino was checking his pulse, only a few scratches could be seen on her.

"Thank god, he's still alive, but he might have a concussion," she said.

"I think my arm might be broken too," said Chouji.

"My head hurts, but I'm alright. Akamaru?"

"Arf," was the dog's reply.

"Is the snake gone?" asked Chouji.

"I don't kno-"

The van was jerked forward this time. They could see the head of the snake bite into the hood and its tail was wrapped around the other half of the van.

"It's going to tear the van in half," figured Naruto.

"What?!" asked Kiba.

That was exactly what the snake was doing. It started to pull and pull. Moans and groans and the sound of ripping metal were heard as the van was torn in half. Naruto could see the floor of the van break apart, and the front seat he was holding on to was pulled from his hands. Ino started screaming but the snake let go of the half with just her and Shikamaru in it.

"Good job," said the man on top of the snake. He then got of and started to walk in the direction of the other half.

"Shit, get out everyone get out," said Naruto.

They didn't have to be told twice what to do. They got out and started to run in different directions. Chouji and Sakura ran over to help Ino get Shika out and Kiba and Akamaru were trying to get the attention of the snake man, but it was no use. With one flick of the snake's tail both dog and master were sent flying.

The blond saw this and made to run away, or at least he tried to run. As soon as he tried to take a step with his right foot pain shot up the entire leg and he fell forward.

"Aargh,…huff…huff."

When he looked over his shoulder he could see that the others had managed to get Shikamaru out and were now checking him over. Kiba was out cold next to the car he landed on and Akamaru was trying to get him to wake up. Then he saw something that made his blood run cold. The man that had been on top of the huge snake was now about four feet from him! The man in question then did something very strange, he bit his own finger.

'What the hell is he doing?' thought the blond.

The creepy snake guy held out his finger and let a few drops of his blood fall to the ground. As soon as this happened the blood began to expand. It grew bigger and bigger until it was the size of an SUV, and then it started to take on the shape of another snake! Only this time this snake was a bluish type color.

'Another SNAKE?!' Naruto thought. He started to crawl ready to hop away from this monster of he had to. Just as he had managed to get on to his good foot he felt something grab him from around his waist and then lift him a few feet in the air.

"Aaah, let go of me you stupid snake!" he yelled.

The man had by this time now reached him and was now only about a foot away from him.

"What do want with me?" asked Naruto. He was at least grateful that his voice sounded steady.

"Heh, heh, heh," was the only response that the man gave. He turned to look behind Naruto to the news crew that had just arrived on the scene.

Looking around Naruto could now see that both the fire department and a couple of ambulances had also arrived, but still no police or the Black Ninja in sight.

"This is a massage to the city's beloved superhero the Black Ninja," said snake guy to the camera now on them. "Meet me on the city's tallest building in one hour. If you don't I might just have my snake drop this adorable little blond friend of yours," he smirked.

He then grabbed Naruto's chin forcing him to face the camera. Once he was sure that they got a good shot he turned to start back to the giant snake, the second one following with the struggling photographer held tightly in its tail.

(End of Chapter)

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