Disclaimer: I do not in any way shape or form own any part of the USMC (United States Marine Corps) or any part of Naruto!!
Author Notes: The Marines in this story in completely made up. (Obviously)
I also would like to say that I am not in the military (yet) and I will try to get as many details correct, so please, give me a break!
This is my first Fanfic so suggestions are welcomed, but please be gentle. And please review!
"," Means someone is speaking.
"," And Italics Means someone's thoughts.
Means action (like sighing)
Here are some ranks that may be used. (High to low)
Rank abbreviations: Msgt Master Sergeant, GySgt Gunnery Sergeant, SSgt Staff Sergeant, Sgt Sergeant, CPL Corporal, LCpl Lance Corporal, PFC Private First Class
People may be a little out of character from now on but I'll try to keep them as they are.
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"Hey Kyle, this is Choji another student at the academy." Kyle looked at the boy stuffing down handfuls of chips practically non-stop, only stopping to say things. "Hey, got any food from where you're from? I want to try something new." Kyle just smiled, "Well none you may like. MREs aren't very tasty, all they do is keep you alive, but I may be able to get stuff together to make up something. How does that sound?" "Great just tell me I'll be there instantly." Choji said then walked out and back to the residential district.
"Excuse me sir?" Kyle turned around to see the counter full of stuff making his eyes go wide. "There is Soooo much stuff! Shuriken, kunai knifes, fishing line, leg pouch, travelers bag, and…holy shit it's a Windmill Shuriken!" Kyle's jaw dropped when he saw the windmill shuriken, "I've always wanted one of these! I love this place!"
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Kyle picked up the windmill and held it in his hand smiling from ear to ear. "Know how to use one?" Ino asked laughing joking like everyone did know how, "Nope, but I'm a quick learner." He replies still smiling. Ino inches herself over and guides the giant shuriken back to the counter where the clerk quickly picks it up and puts it in the travelers bag, mainly to get it away from him for now, he doesn't want a mess on his floor.
"Yeah I know scary thought." He said not caring what everyone else thought of him. The clerk took a pen and marked off all the things he gave him then handed him the list. "Go down the street a little ways, there is a shop that you can get the armor at." "Thanks a lot." The clerk pushed the bag across the counter, "Watch it, it's kinda heavy." Kyle reached for it and put it on without a problem. "Nah I'm used to being a pack mule." He put it all on his back, waves bye to the clerk and begins to walk out when something catches his eye. He looks on the wall and sees a ninja sword; it is black with silver engraving that makes a barbed wire type patters spanning from the very tip of the sword to the handle, weaving across each other every inch or so. "Whoa…" Kyle looked back at the Clerk, "Is that functional or decoration, and how much?" Kyle asked pointing to the sword. The clerk just replies, "It's in this shop and 42000 yen." "Ok." Kyle said walking out.
"Keep dreaming, that's way too expensive!" Sakura said following him out. "I'm gonna guess that's a lot…Oh well I'll just save up for it." Ino says bye to Choji who walks off and catches up with Sakura. "So that caught your eye huh?" Ino says when she caught up. "Yup." Kyle says smiling. "Are you seriously gonna waist your money on that?" "Maybe, I got to have money first." All three laughed "Very true." Ino says looking at the patch on his left arm.
"Hey can ask you something? What's this?" She said pointing to the colorful patch. "Oh that's the U.S. flag, it tells the soldiers what country I'm with. The wars we are in have multiple countries fighting so they want a way to tell who is who. It's been that way for some time." "Oh I like it it's colorful, does it have any meaning though…and I thought the object of camo was to help hide you? That kinda sticks out." Kyle laughed and looked at her, "Yeah that is a good point, I never thought of it that way before. Well the meaning on the flag its self is: the stars represent the number of states in my country, so far there are fifty, so there are fifty stars. Next are the red and white stripes, each stripe represents one of the colonies that founded the country, and there were thirteen of them. As for the blue patch I think signifies justice." The girl just looks at it, "That last one is a bit random…" "Yeah I know I read it in a book. Personally I think it stands for the Ocean that they crossed to start the U.S. but that's my opinion."
"Why do you keep saying 'U.S.' why not 'us'?" Sakura asked trying to get into the conversation. "Well were called the United States of America, U.S. of A, U.S.A. or just U.S. all in all it means the same thing." "So you just make it shorter and shorter because it's easier to say?" "Well either that or were lazy…I'll guess were just lazy." They laugh as Ino grabs his left arm forcibly turning him into a store that had armor all over the walls.
They had cloth armor, metal armor, but no actual Kevlar. They had armor for every part of the body, arms, legs, head, and body all made to help stop sharp objects. "Well this is kinda cool." Kyle said walking up to the clerk and handing him the paper. He does the same thing as the last one but much faster. "Like the other place more?" Sakura asked observing the patches of his right arm. "Yeah I do."
Kyle realized Sakura was staring at the other patches with the same look Ino was wearing when she asked about the flag. "That's my rank insignia, I'm a Lance Corporal. It tells all the other military personnel what rank I am." Sakura just nodded.
The clerk came back with a standard vest that covered the torso. He handed it and the list over to Kyle, "Come again!" he said then walked away to help another costumer. Kyle turned and both girls were walking outside, "Thanks." Kyle says to the clerk as he exits the store to see both girls directly across the street looking at cloths.
Kyle walks behind them and sees what they are looking at, it's an assortment of skirts and tops, and a few were even on the manikins. "Well, thank you two for all your help today." Sakura, not looking from the contents in the window, replies "Hey no problem, were happy to." "Yeah we didn't have anything else of importance to do today." Ino added.
"Well there is still one thing you could help me with…" Ino looks over, "What's that?" "Know where a marine can get some chow?" Ino and Sakura snickered a little, "Yeah there's a few places down the street, they're impossible to miss, the smell will hit you before you get there." Kyle smirks, "Sweet, well thanks again. I'll see you two around." They exchanged waves and Kyle walked down the street to the general direction of food.
"So what do you think of him?" Sakura asked Ino, "I like him, course he just met us so of course he's gonna be nice." "True, true. Well he definitely makes a good first impression." Sakura said nodding. "Yeah, by the way, did you see that thing strapped to his right leg?" "Yeah I've never seen anything like that before, what is it?" "I don't know we should ask him next time." "Ok." And then they went inside and bought half the store.
Kyle was walking down the street when the smell him. "Oh hohoho…oh man that smells good." He starts sniffing the air to get a better sense on where it was coming from, and he follows the smell to a small food stand, "This place looks good." He walks up and sits down on the far left side of the stand. The man who runs the place looks over from chopping vegetable and smiles.
"You must be Kyle." Kyle just stared at the man confused, "How did you know?" "Iruka was here about ten minutes ago, he told me about you and what the Hokage said, so what'll it be?" Kyle smiles and looks at the hanging menu, it was all ramen, lots of kinds. "I'll take a beef ramen." "Sure coming right up."
A couple people walked up, the man looked over and smiled widely, "Ah if it isn't my favorite customer, and he even brought a friend." The boys walked up and sat on the far right side of the shack. One kid was blond with goggles on his head, had whiskers, and was wearing an orange jump suit. The other had red marks on his face, wearing a gray coat with a little dog tucked in the open part at the top.
"Your paying Naruto, you dragged me over to the training area for nothing." The boy in the gray coat said. "Yeah sure, two pork ramen please." He said to the man, "coming right up." He said handing Kyle his. The two followed the man with there eyes finally ending at Kyle, 'Crap they use chopsticks' he thought. The two boys blinked a couple times, "Wow of all the places this is where we meet you…" The guy in the gray coat punched Naruto to the ground, "All that walking for nothing!" he yelled. "Ow geez sorry!" Kyle separated the chopsticks while watching the two's antics.
When they stopped they walked over to Kyle and sat next to him in a row. "Iruka told us you would be walking around town so a few of us split up to try and meet you. Which I'm going to guess you have." Kiba asked. Kyle looked up, "Correct. So far I've met five people that go to the academy." "Well add up two more! I'm Naruto Uzumaki the next Hokage!" Naruto said quite loudly, "And I'm Kiba Inuzuka." "I'm Lance Corporal Kyle Christian, nice to meet you." The old man brought the other two their order, and Naruto's attention quickly switched.
"Yes! I'm starving!" He grabbed the chopsticks and started eating. Kyle also turned his attention to his food. He took the chopsticks in his hand, and then one fell out onto the counter. He picked it up and tried holding it again, with the same result. "Having technical difficulties?" Kiba said with a little mockery in his voice. Kyle picked up on the mockery, looked over with only his eyes, and responded with a serious tone, "We don't use chopstick where I come from." "Oh it's easy, look, hold this one like a pencil and put the other one here." Naruto said showing him with his pair. Kyle did so and they didn't fall out, until he tried picking up some food. 'Great now I get to look like a fool…well it's not the first time, so I know it's not the last' he thought as kept trying. "Hey it's alright it'll get easier as you use them more." Naruto said cramming the last of the ramen down then holding his bowl up for seconds. "Yeah I guess so."
"So is it true you don't have ninja where you come from?" Naruto asked as he waited for his second bowl. "Well, not like here. The closest thing to ninja we have where I'm from is either, SWAT or the navy seals." "Hmmm…how do you get seals to fight?" Kyle and Kiba both choked on the food that they were eating then started to laugh with the old man behind the counter. "What? What so funny?!" "I don't think he means thoughs kinds of seals." Kyle finally stops laughing and just looks at the kid shaking his head, "No not the animal seal, these are people at sometimes have to wear underwater gear that sometimes if not closely observed can look like seals. But they are practically the other only things tougher than us marines. They clear the way for us if we have to storm a beach or something." Naruto nodded his head trying to imagine what they looked like. "Hmmm…Ok I think I got it." 'Doubt it' Kiba and Kyle both thought.
"So what's the academy like? What do you guys do there?" Naruto finally raised his head from his second bowl; "Well we do a lot of running, throwing shuriken, push ups, sit ups, and of course the most boring part, the class work." (Sigh) "Yes the paper work…I hate pushing pencils…" Kyle said and all three nodded in agreement. Kyle started looking around, it was starting to get dark and less and less people were out, "Well I ought to be going." "Yeah good idea. See ya guys tomorrow." Kiba said walking way.
Kyle stood up and grabbed his stuff, "Come again!" the man said behind the counter, "I will." Kyle replied. Naruto jumped off his seat and into the middle of the street, "You know I will!" he said smiling from ear to ear. "Well I'll see you again eventually. Ummm, do you know where I could go practice throwing these things?" Kyle asked as he approached Naruto in the street. "Yeah course! The training area is a great place to do it! I'll take ya there tomorrow and show you how." "Cool…Ummm where is the training area?" "Oh do you remember how to get here?" Kyle nodded, "well just keep following the street down two more blocks, turn right, and straight ahead, I'll meet you there sometime around noon." "Sounds good, thanks." "Hey no problem!" "See ya." "Yeah."
They both leave to go home, which they find themselves going the same way. "Awkward when that happens huh? Say bye to someone and they end up going the same way as you." Kyle said trying to break the Awkwardness of the silence. "Yeah it is." Naruto says putting his hand behind his head. About twenty or thirty minutes later, he stops in front of his apartment, "We'll this is where I say bye…again." Naruto had an odd expression on his face that was a mix of jealousy, anger, and surprise. "What?" Kyle asked looking at him in confusion. "You live…here?" "Yeah, that one." Kyle pointed to the top floor on the very right side of the building, just inches from the building next to it. "Why?" Naruto pointed to the house, "That's where Sakura lives." He said glaring at Kyle. "Really?" he said then shrugged his shoulders and went inside, leaving Naruto standing there alone.
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