Go-Buster: Game On! Chapter Three.
(Once again we dwell into the realm of fiction and...
I got nothing.
I do not own Super Sentai, Naruto, Kamen Rider, Teen Titans, Batman, Gundam, Yugioh or any of the references mentioned.)
Chapter Start
Uzumaki Mansion-Early morning-the day after the battle of with the Burnaroid.
The previous night after the prank Choji suffered at the super speeding hands of Naruto Uzumaki Namikaze. Naruto's guest leave before sunset and he heads straight to bed and gets to sleep in the next day, until Nick awoke him when it was time for his mansion to be prepared for the fundraiser.
Naruto gets changed into red coat blue jeans and two green belts around his waist. (Think what Jayden wears in Yugioh GX.) Once dressed Naruto goes to his travel case from his journey around the world. He learnt many thing during his journey, how to fight from close to a hundred teachers, to see without seeing even to resist succumbing to his injuries, the last one being saving his life more than once.
Naruto finds what he is looking for, a small ornamental box that holds one of the forms of traing he learnt as kid, a way to relax and train at the same time. And after checking his phone finds what he wants he smiles and leaves the manor with Nick, towards the city.
USP engineering Barracks-around the same time.
The morning after his 'fight' with the Vaglass commander, Lee awakens early as always to exercise in his quarters with enthusiasm. His quarters are meant for two but with Lee's morning routine every roommate demanded that they get a different roommate or even to change rooms altogether, so in the end Lee received his own room.
Once Lee finishes his morning routine, (one hundred pushup one hundred situps and one hundred pull-ups, you get the idea.) he looks to his calendar to see it was his mandatory one day off of the month and collapsed on the floor, muttering how it wasn't far.
He then sits up and looks to his night stand and says, "Looks like I get to practice," referring to the small green tiger themed robot on his desk. Lee then gets dressed. He is now wearing a green vest coat with silver stripes along the arms with plain clothes underneath.
He grabs the little robot from his desk and leaves to go to the one place he always goes on his day off.
USP head's office
Mifune arrives at the top floor of the USP head quarters, wearing a suit while in his hand is an iced moka frapachino. He walks past his receptionist empty desk and straight into his office.
Once inside he sits behind his desk and activates his holoscreens for his computer. He then activates a recorder and starts to speak, "Day three, since the first attack on Element City. Danzo has assured me and the USP council that they are able to handle continuous assaults, and I am tempted to believe him," he sighs and continues, "But I cannot in good conscious. There has been two attacks on two different Enatron tanks," he then opens to videos of the two Metaroid battles and the two Megazord fights.
"During the two battles the Metaroid and Megazords were defeated by a third party. They called themselves the Go-Busters, and so far they appear to be more competent than Danzo's chosen pilot. The young Uchiha is currently in hospital with minor second degree burns. I believe that Sasuke Uchiha should be replaced with a more competent fighter," Mifune finished before he hears someone clearing out his throat.
"So is this the part where you give in and allow for my help," the voice of Nick Fury Director of SHEILD spoke.
"Director," Mifune greeted before replying with, "My issue at the moment has been due to one Danzo Shimura. I read reports on him the current attacks were dismissed when the previous head of the USP was in office."
"This ain't my first Rodeo," Fury replies before saying, "I will look into it," then walks into the shadows and vanishes.
Mifune sighs and complains, "Note to security, have my office swept for breaches," he then starts to type on his keyboard.
Hyuga Mansion-Hinata's room.
Currently Hinata is in a dishevelled state as her yellow pyjama pants and a loose fitting yellow singlet. Her face is slightly flushed and has one of the biggest smiles on her face. To an outside observer they would die of blood loss. Her bedding is completely scattered either on the bed or on the floor, while she is spread eagled on the bed and having a nice dream.
This all ended when her alarm clock went off. Her eyes opened before she gritted her teeth and then smashed her alarm clock with her leg, destroying it and her bed side table, that was a simple stool painted yellow.
Hinata looked to where her alarm clock was, and sighs before saying, "that is the tenth alarm clock this month," before falling back into bed.
She would have gone back to bed, if she didn't get interrupted by five maids barging into the room. The head maid then goes to Hinata while the other maids opened windows and the large wardrobe. The head maid then helps Hinata sit up and says, "Come on we need to get you ready for tonight function."
"Don't you mean school?" Hinata questioned as the head maid leads her to the Wardrobe, "and shouldn't I be getting Breakfast first."
"A lady uses correct grammar," the head maid spoke as she pushed Hinata towards the Wardrobe, "And if you eat before the function you will not fit in your dress, that has been custom made for tonight."
"But I didn't order," Hinata was cut off by the head maid, as they go past an orange dress.
"I took the liberty and ordered it custom made. I'm sure it will impress that Kiba boy you have been crushing on lately. It is good how you gave up on that dropout delinquent," the head maid happily spoke. The head maid has been snooping on Hinata's conversations with her father about Kiba's harassment of her. The head maid believes that Hinata's 'complaints' were signs of attraction, while under the impression that Naruto is an 'Uneducated High school Dropout Delinquent.'
Before Hinata could counter the head maid leaving Hinata in the hands of one of the younger maids.
Akimichi Penthouse
Choji enters his family's kitchen to find his parents cooking breakfast, both having a grand time both happily smiling and laughing.
Thirteen years ago during the Vaglass' first attack, he wasn't there with his parents, he was invited by his friends, who knew of his dreams of designing his own Megazord.
Choji sighs as he remembers what his friends lost during that day. His parents notice him and the mother says, "Good morning Choji, you ready for school?" (I am not going to describe his mother.)
"Yes mom, just need breakfast before I can go," Choji replied as he sits down at the bench.
"Remember Choji, we are going to the Fundraiser tonight," Choza Akimichi informed from in front of the stove before gaining a devious smile, "I hear Inoichi is bringing Ino to the Fundraiser tonight, so come right home after school."
"Sure Dad," Choji replied while his face is slightly flushed, but on the inside his dark inner voice shouts, 'Oh yeah, Now all we need to do is get her alone and show her the real me.' Choji mentally thought back, 'Don't even think about it, The last thing we need is you trying to act cool around Ino.'
'What was that?!' Choji's inner dark voice spoke.
Choji ignored the voice as eat his breakfast and then left the penthouse for school.
Fire District-Blaze Arcade-Shopping District-two hours later.
Lee arrives at the Blaze Arcade after stopping off at a local deli, for a Breakfast Sandwidge. As he finishes his breakfast, he reached his destination, The Blaze Arcade, Element city's best public entertainment centre. Lee stops at the door and sees a poster that makes him smile as he enters.
The poster says, 'Gunpla: free for all tournament. first prize tournament level custom Gunpla. Second prize a month's supply of Cup Ramen.'
Inside Lee sees thirty different people in line to sign up for the tournament, which he joins at the end. As Lee is patiently waiting in line, Naruto arrives to enter the Arcade after seeing the tournament poster outside. He sees Lee and asks, "Is this the sign up for the free for all tournament?"
Lee turns and greets Naruto, "Oh, hello again mister Namikaze, what brings you here?"
Naruto indicates a small box on his belt and says, "I came to battle. I had no idea there would be a free for all tournament, I would have been here sooner. What brings you here Lee?"
"I have a mandatory day off once a month, this is where I go," Lee answered.
Naruto then opens the box to reveal his gundam, coloured crimson red primary, black secondary armour with see through red hollow sections, on its back claymore styled sword in the same colour. (Recoloured Build Burning Gundam with a sword.) Lee looked even closer at the Gundam and notices small black spots along the limbs of the body. Naruto then says, "This is mine, Crimson Ace."
Lee was confused until he realised why Naruto showed him his gundam and says, "This is Tiger Claw," the Gundam blue with silver strips. On its back is a large battle axe while on its chest is golden tiger head styled chest plate. Its head designed to looks like a tiger while it's hand appear to be clawed. (Its is a Custom Exia.)
Naruto put his gundam away and says, "Well no matter the result, no hard feeling," and shakes Lee's hand.
"Of course," Lee replies, "I will try to keep the damage to a minimum," with a big smile.
"Ha," Naruto countered, "you're the one who will be stuck doing repairs," smiling competively.
The both sign up at the booth and now wait for the tournament to begin.
Konoha High-Cafeteria.
Choji and Vic enter the Cafeteria with a sigh. The entire school was almost completely empty, most of the students spending the day preparing for the fundraiser. Most of the teachers didn't even bother to show up.
Choji looked around the cafeteria and sees only one other student, one Shikamaru Nara sleeping at their table. Choji and Vic both sit down next to him and Choji nudges Shikamaru and says, "Oi Shika, we need to talk to you."
Shikamaru yawns before saying, "I know, Naruto is back, the giant red Zord tends to be loud," as he leans back. Shikamaru then rests his head on his hands and says, "There is a tournament at Blaze Arcade today and the only people still at school are the honour students so let's go," before he could say anything else the cafeteria doors are barged open by a boy the same age as Hanabi, wearing nice clothes.
He shouts, "Where is everyone?!" this gained the three older students attention, where they noticed his skin colour, which was very odd because it is green.
The first one out of their stupor was Shikamaru who says, "There is a fundraiser being hosted tonight on the edge of town, at Uzumaki manor. The only other students here are in the Library."
Vic lowers his hood and asks, "What's your name Greenbean?"
The boy smiles and says, "Name's Garth Logan but you can call me Beastboy," while giving a heroic piece sign pose.
Wait you are the guy Hanabi couldn't stop talking about," Choji questioned before saying, "because she failed to mention your unique appearance."
Beastboy smirks and says, "Well I am just that amazing," he sits down with the older students and says, "Well do you guys know where to have fun?"
Choji looks to Shikamaru before saying, "Well we were about to go to the Blaze Arcade, we have a feeling a friend of ours is going to participate in todays, Gunpla Tournament."
"What is Gunpla?" Beastboy questioned.
Vaglass Secret Base.
Delete is currently examining the Buster's fighting styles and researching possible locations to strike. Delete smirks when he finds on, he looks towards Enter's metal back pack and ten minutes later Enter reconstitutes himself.
"When I find that human, I am going to kill him slowly," Enter speaks his mind while he stretches.
"Well until then," Delete replies as he turns Enter's Laptop towards Enter and continues, "I found a target. You will go in alone and set up a small outpost where you will slowly collect Enatron until we have enough for three megazords. It should take you a week."
"A week!" Enter shouts in anger.
"I will create a Metaroid at the other side of the city so they will not realise the loss of Enatron until it is too late," Delete replies with a knowing smirk.
Blaze Arcade-thirty minutes later.
Lee and Naruto are chatting with one another about their opponents, until they hear a large commotion. They look to the main entrance to see Kiba followed by a group of paparazzi taking photos and asking questions.
"Who is that?" Naruto questions Lee.
"Kiba Inuzaka, his family owns Element City's highest rated medical science company, both animal and human," Lee answered before sighing and saying, "In the world of Gunpla, he has never been defeated in every local match but he uses a different Gundam every battle. I have never fought him, but apparently he loses the first round of the nationals every time he entered."
Naruto's eyes narrow and he asks, "So you would know which one was his?"
"I heard a rumour that he only uses the best of the best that have won tournaments," Lee answered, "If the rumours are true, then whoever wins this tournament will be made an offer."
"Well people like that tend to lose big time," Naruto commented.
Then Choji, Shikamaru, Vic and Beastboy arrived to see Kiba signing up to the tournament, and then seeing Naruto. They head over to join their conversation and introduce Beastboy, They talked about the tournament and the favourites to win it.
Twenty minutes later they the owner of Blaze Arcade arrived on the balcony above. The owner is a buff Native American man with white hair, wearing sun glasses and an over the top fancy suit. (KillerBee, and no I will not be raping.)
The Owner of the Blaze Arcade then shouts, "Competitors, I am your host, the Amazing KillaBee. Forty competitors and their Gunpla will enter the ring one will be victorious and receive," he gestured to the covered glass case, "With the recent attack in the Fire District, we bring a custom design based on the Red defender of Element City," the clothe is removed from the glass case reveals a red Gundam themed liked Buster vehicle CB-01 ACE.
Kiba laughed and shouts, "Where is the real first prize?!" getting an amused looks from Lee and Naruto, while the other competitors laughed.
"This free for all will be Tournament rules, meaning working together is acceptable but there can only be one winner," KillaBee informed and continued with, "The one difference between the tournaments and today's event, the field of battle has been chosen ahead of time. The field of combat shall be," he pauses for dramatic effect, "Sky Maze!"
Sky Maze is basically a never ending field of floating small Sky Islands closely packed together and with boulders of multiple different sizes. It is a paradise for heavy Gundams and stealth, as the more mobile Gundams require room to move and Snipers will struggle to get a clear shot further than mid range.
Naruto looks around at the other competitors to see Kiba with a knowing smirk, as he taps his gunpla case that appears to be twice the size of a regular gunpla case. Naruto narrows and asks Lee, "Has Kiba ever appeared to know something before anyone else? During his matches, say the terrains he would be fighting on?"
"For every local match he has used the best suited gunplay," Shikamaru answered he sighs, "It is such a drag to see that inflated ego with an unfair advantage. Present company excluded," causing Naruto and Choji to smirk in amusement.
"Will the competitors enter the Gunpla Tournament room, and Audience members come up stairs for the best view," KillaBee exclaims as the tournament doors open Naruto, Lee, Kiba and the rest of the competitors enter while the twenty audience members, minus Shikamaru, Choji, Vic and Beastboy wait until they were alone.
Beastboy then asks, "Okay, I understand that this Gunpla is like a videogame but requires the pilot or an third party to build and repair a physical plastic model. But what I now want to know is what was the inside joke you two and Naruto are in on?"
SHikamaru and Choji smirk before revealing their Gunpla's, Shikamaru revealing a golden kabuto themed gunpla with Heavy cannons on it shoulders and extending arms, while Choji's gunpla is blue with oversized arms and legs, with missile pods on its shoulders. (Gundam AGE the first gundam, with its muscle form.) Choji then says, "Whenever we played against Naruto he would have us fight in the Sky Maze."
"And let me guess," Vic started before saying, "Naruto's Gunpla has an unfair advantage, right?"
"Actually," Shikamaru started, "Naruto's Gunpla, at least on paper, Sky Maze should be his worst map, as his is speed based."
They then head up to the Audience area. The seats around the tournament area, was mainly empty, with largest group being Kiba's fan girls and his paparazzi.
KillaBee then says, "Competitors Set your Gunpla!" on the large table is a large hologram of floating islands with a large mass right in the middle.
Everyone does as they are told along with their individual control bases. Once Crimson ACE and all the other gunplas' are 'activated,' Ace lifts its head and crosses its arms. Lee's Tiger Claw, puts a hand on its axe while crouching in a launch position.
Naruto then mutters, "Ready."
KillaBee then shouts, "Begin!"
"Go!" Naruto finishes. "Kai!" Lee also shouts at the same time from the other side of particle table. (Kai means release.)
Out of the forty gunpla on the board, thirty seven of them were straight instruction builds, and most of them poorly built. Twenty of them are Zaku models, either heavy artillery models and scout models of different colours. Seven of them are main final Gundams from the different seasons of the anime. The last gunpla revealed was another Zaku model, but customised into a Cruiser Buster, while also double the size of an average gunpla.
Lee looks through the eyes of his gunpla and sees the Zaku models are surrounding the Cruiser Buster and says, "So that is why there are so many base build Zakus, they are teaming up with Mister Inuzaku," he frowns and says, "that is very unsportsmanship of him," refering to the Gunpla that were not with Kiba. Lee looks around for the Crimson Ace but can see it.
As this was going on KillaBee was announcing the destruction of the last base gunpla, as the sounds of young kids crying, turns out today was some young kid's birthday, and he wanted to play in his first tournament, with the gunpla he had built all by himself. The destruction was surprising as the damage was meant to be set to a lower damage level, but it apparently was set to the highest level. KillaBee uses his hand to cover the microphone and whispers to the stage hand behind him, "What the hell happened, this system shouldn't even be able to do this."
The Stage hand whispers back, "The maintenance came in this morning and said there was a Hardware update to the system."
KillaBee mutters a 'dam it' before telling the stage hand, "give those kids replacement kits and give the Birthday boy another one to go with it," the stage hand nods and goes to do just that.
At this point Lee has had enough and goes on the offensive. Tiger Claw removes its axe from its back and throws it towards a group of Zakus resulting in the five gunplas their guns and chests cut in half and exploding, before the axe comes back to its hand. Lee was then forced to dodge a satellite beam that destroyed everything in its path.
Lee was not given any reprieve all the base Zakus went for him. Lee moved Tiger Claw to avoid a barrage of blasts but a sneaky grenade was thrown from the side, and landing behind him forcing him into a large floating boulder, the axe falling out of his grip and into the hands of a random Zaku. Tiger Claw recovers before brawling with a group of Zakus without its axe.
"Why doesn't that gunpla have a gun?" Beastboy questioned.
Shikamaru and Choji looked at each other and Choji says, "When building a gunpla, all experienced players use beam weapons primarily, while the more patient players build each individual missile, and equipment. But there are those players who build their gunpla and play to an extent, focus on their gunpla's performance and agility to the point where they are almost an extension of themselves."
"Clearly that Tiger themed Gunpla's pilot knows what he is doing," Shikamaru commented before adding, "But-"
What happened next was the main cannon firing again and this time the beam destroyed another five Zakus while also destroying the left side of the Tiger Claw.
"The Zakus were a distraction," Shikamaru finished.
Tiger Claw was still moving in a limited capacity, before two of the surviving Zakus grab each side of the Tiger claw and taking it to the Cruiser Buster, and forced it to its 'knee' and they all hear Kiba's voice, "How does it feel to be defeated by a superior opponent?"
"When I fight a superior opponent," Lee retorts, "I will tell you," angering Kiba.
Kiba aims his handheld blaster at Tiger Claw's damaged 'face' and pulls the trigger, only for Tiger Claw to vanish in a red blur. The Cruiser Buster searches for the Tiger Claw only to discover that all his 'troops' were all destroyed by another red blur.
"I hear that you participated in the national tournament but lost during your first match each time," Naruto spoke revealing Crimson Ace above the Cruiser Buster, "from what I have seen," Crimson Ace is upside down attached to a boulder, "You have no right to compete in Gunpla, let alone play against those who have earned the right to fight."
"And who are you to lecture me, when I have participated in the nationals," Kiba shouted as he tried to fire his secondary weapon at Crimson Ace only for it to vanish and appear on another boulder the right way up and level with the Cruiser Buster.
Crimson Ace took a stance, with one hand on the handle of the sword. Naruto then says, "I will give you one free shot. I will not dodge and you can use whatever weapon you wish," Making Kiba smirk.
"This is such a drag. Naruto just won this match," Shikamaru complained.
"I am surprised that he is even using his sword," Choji added.
Beastboy and Vic is confused by this and Vic then questions the two, "What are you two even talking about? He just said he wasn't going to dodge, and from what I have seen the large beam will destroy everything in its path."
"Watch," Choji stated, "This is why Naruto was known as the strongest pilot of the Gunpla World tournament ten years ago."
The Cruiser Buster aims at Crimson Ace and charges its Satelite beam to full power and with pin point accuracy. Crimson Ace drew its sword and changed its stance to that of a watchful knight standing guard, revealing the sword to have a black handle with a red guard, the centre of the blade is a solid red while the blade is a glowing green. (The basic shape is Rebellion from Devil may Cry.) The guard and centre of the blade appear to open and has vents.
"Kiba is taking the bait," Shikamaru commented.
The Cruiser Buster's satellite cannon fires at almost point blank range, but instead of destroying everything in its path, the beam is stopped by Crimson Ace's sword, and is absorbed into the blade causing it to glow brighter.
Crimson Ace draws its sword and Naruto says, "Now," in anger before pausing, "Feel the wrath of those you wronged," and Crimson Ace swings its blade in a three hundred degree slash.
The result of the swing was truly devastating, not only was the Cruiser Buster cut in half, but every rock, boulder and land mass alone the path of the blade was cut in half through the entire field of battle.
Crimson Ace swings his sword in multiple arcs destroying more of the floating terrain until all that remained of the Cruiser Buster was the individual joints and its head.
Lee sees this and concedes the battle, resulting in Naruto winning the battle, and KillaBee announcing, "The winner of this month's Gunpla free for all," and then speaks into a presenter microphone attached to the ceiling and Shouts, "Crimson ACE!"
The crowd, parents and children who watched the end of the tournament, all cheered in amazement as the particles were dispersing with Crimson Ace crossing its arms and landing on its feet, like a warrior resting while waiting for its next fight.
KillaBee then went down to the 'ring' and asks Naruto, "So why did the former champion join this simple free for all," and points the microphone at Naruto.
Naruto collects Crimson Ace and says, "I wanted to have some fun, but from the outcome this was a waste of time," Naruto is then handed the first prize, the themed gunpla. Naruto looks around to see one kid still crying and walks over to him and asks, "Hey kid, what is your name?"
The crying kid who is wearing an over sized blue scarf looks up to Naruto, no older than ten and says, "My name is Konohamaru, and today is my tenth birthday."
Naruto then puts two and two together and says, "Was today also your first tournament?" and receives a nod, "Then here," and gives Konohamaru the Gunpla themed after CB-01 ACE and finishes with, "Here is some advice for you in the future, when building your Gunpla always put your heart and soul into your creations, and when you lose a battle it gives you the chance to improve you gunpla and become better," then walks away.
Konohamaru is shocked as all his friends surrounded him to look at the tournament level Gunpla, not seeing Naruto smiling as he meets up with his friends and Beastboy.
"Show off," Shikamaru commented, "I was half expecting you to forfeit."
"I would have," Naruto replied, "but that Kiba pissed me off," he then looks at the time and says, "I have to go and get ready for the Fundraiser," and received nods from Shikamaru and Choji.
He took three steps towards the exit when he is stopped by Kiba, "Oi, how much for that Gunpla?"
"Excuse me?" Naruto questioned while looking at Kiba like he grew a second head.
"The red Gunpla that just won the Free for All, how much do you want for it," Kiba questioned.
"It is not for sale," Naruto replied before Kiba grabs the front of his shirt and gets in his face.
"Everything has a price!" Kiba retorted in anger.
Naruto looks him in the eyes and says, "Every competitor of the world tournament, build their own," Naruto then grips Kiba's wrist to cause him pain, "Consider doing that instead of cheating, next time," he lets Kiba go and leaves Blaze Arcade.
"Bastard," Kiba says as he glares in the direction Naruto went.
USP ROOT division HQ Medical room-thirty Minutes Later.
Sasuke awakens to see himself in the USP ROOT Med-Bay, and sits up. And then remembers what happened yesterday and says, "Damn you Busters."
Sakura then enters to see Sasuke awake and asks, "How are you feeling? Are you in pain?"
"What happened?" Sasuke questions with gritted teeth.
Sakura sighs and says, "After the Metaroid disabled you, the Busters destroyed it before the enemy could send their megazord. The Busters then deployed the red megazord, along with two unidentified vehicles. They managed to defeat the enemy Megazord before it could steal any Enatron. During the battle Lee retrieved the weapon systems for the armour and he discovered an enemy commander."
Sasuke glares at Sakura, and then gets up and says, "What right does he have to touch my equipment?"
"He went to retrieve the equipment which the enemy commander was about to possibly steal," Sakura retorted as Sasuke was getting dressed, "Where are you going? You still need to recover from your injuries."
"Clearly you have forgotten who I am," Sasuke retorted, "There is a fundraiser that I need to go to tonight, to help raise funds for the USP's main provider, Uchiha Innovations."
"The one at Uzumaki Manor?" Sakura question.
"Where else?" Sasuke says as he leaves the Med-Bay.
Sasuke walks past Lee while glaring at him. Lee salutes as Sasuke goes past him, and once he is gone Lee walks past to see Sakura in the med-bay just sitting on the bed looking tired. Lee then says, "Tough day at the office?"
Sakura looks up to see Lee out of uniform and laughs a little before saying, "Yeah, Sasuke is angry that the Busters defeated both the Metaroid and the enemy megazord. Then that anger shifted to you after he found out you discovered the identity of the Vaglass commander," and receives a nod from Lee, she then asks, "Why are you out of uniform?"
Lee sighs and says, "Today was my forced day off," he then reaches for his gunpla pouch and says, "I normally spend a couple hours challenging people to Gunpla battles until I am defeated or run out of challengers," he shows her the damaged Tiger Claw, "today there was a tournament and I bumped into Naruto. He apparently is a fan of Gunpla battle. Unfortunately one of the competitors tried to cheat and Naruto got mad," Lee then smiled, "his Gunpla was so fast, saved tiger claw from a point blank shot, while also destroying twelve other gunplas. Then he draws his sword and cut the field in half."
"So you and Naruto enjoy kids' games?" Sakura comments with a smirk.
Lee once again sighs and says, "Gunpla battle became a hobby of mine when the rest of the engineering team got sick of me not using my days off. So they made it a major part of my monthly time table," Lee sighs, "I found it by chance, and after my first battle I found myself a natural at it. I spent a couple hours each night just to build this," referring to Tiger Claw. Then Lee says with determination, "I Want to fight him, but Tiger Claw was too damaged to continue."
"Why are you even telling me this?" Sakura question in seriousness.
"I think I have a way of getting answers from Naruto," Lee finishes.
Uzumaki Manor-four hours later.
Naruto is standing in front of his mirror wearing a black suit, while trying to tie his red tie. Out of all the things he learned, how to tie a tie was not one of them. This is the sight that Nick sees as he enters Naruto's room. Nick appearance was different as well. Well if the oversized bowtie was anything to go by.
"Naruto the party has already started," Nick says as he enters the room and sees Naruto struggling, "Let me help you," Nick takes over and tie the tie around Naruto's neck. Nick then 'sighs' and says, "We better hurry, Hinata is down stairs raiding the food from the table and you are going to have to stop her before she eats it all."
Naruto chuckles before replying, "Well if the fundraiser gets boring I could take Hinata to get nice dinner."
Nick chuckles at hearing this and says once he finished tying Naruto's tie, "Well if you need to make a quick getaway," Naruto nods in affirmative.
The two then leave for the main hallway on the second floor. Where they see people entering, wearing suits and fancy dresses, they are either talking to one another or having their photos taken. Naruto walks down the steps towards the function hall past a small crowd. Naruto walked into the main hall to see it full of people, and spotting Choji and Hinata, facing away from him, near the food table.
Hinata is wearing a white strapless dress that reaches her ankles, which is borderline wedding dress. Choji is wearing black suit with a blue tie.
Naruto walks over to them to discover Hinata holding a large metal serving plate full of food and her lower half of her face covered in sauce. Naruto reaches inside his suit's coat and pulls out a handkerchief and says, "Are enjoying yourself?"
Hinata nods and says, "Very much so," not noticing the handkerchief, "The head maid ordered all the other maids not to let me eat, thinking I wouldn't fit into this stupid dress."
Naruto nods and puts the handkerchief into her hand holding the plate and says, "Well you look nice. Even with a dirty face," smiling at Hinata's look of realisation, before laughing with Choji while Hinata's embarrassed red face.
Hinata looks at the handkerchief then her plate of food, she spent five seconds thinking on it and shrugs before continuing to eat her food.
Choji then asks Naruto, "So are you going to participate in any other tournaments?" peaking Hinata's attention.
Naruto sighs then answers with, "No, today was just me failing to relax. That Kiba cheated and ruined the entire event," making Hinata narrow her eyes.
"He likes to do that," Hinata says in annoyance.
Their conversation was ruined when an obnoxious voice speaks, "Well if it isn't the coward who ran away," the three turn to see Sasuke Uchiha walking up to them with a glass of wine in hand.
Naruto looks at him more annoyed then angry and retorts with, "What are you doing here thief?"
Sasuke grits his teeth as he says, "I was just taking back what was mine," in barely restrained anger.
"I know you father's company wants the secrets of transportation, but they are beyond your reach," Naruto says angering Sasuke further he then whispered to him, "and Proto Tiger will never accept you as its pilot," and goes with Hinata and Choji leaving Sasuke to stew in anger.
They go outside to the balcony overlooking the cliff, where they continued to talk. Hinata continues to eat, Choji says, "So the Uchihas are still trying to get your fathers work?"
"The notes Danzo took where incomplete," Naruto replied, "Which is why said 'research' is incomplete," lying towards the end, his eyes looking to the other two, indicating for them to play along, As they notice someone trying to listen to their conversation.
"Well all the research was at the lab," Hinata added to the lie.
Choji nods and says, "I'll leave you two alone," and went back to the ballroom, walking past Sasuke trying to look bored, before walking away. He then looks towards the large group of people and sees a blond girl his age wearing a purple dress at the edge of the group holding a glass of wine in hand.
Back outside Hinata and Naruto are just staring out to the ocean. Both wanting to say something but could not find the words. The first one to speak was Hinata who started giggling like she was being tickled.
Naruto looks to Hinata to see Kurama licking her cheek as Hinata was in the process of 'aiding' Hinata in cleaning her face of the sauce still on her face. Naruto started to laugh along with Hinata until they both hear a slow song start to play. Naruto asks, "Would you like to dance?"
Hinata smiles and answers, "I would love to."
Kurama jumps to Naruto's shouder as he and Hinata returns to the function hall and head straight to the dance floor, with Kurama acting as a scarf around. The two Busters embrace each other as they slow dance with their eyes closed, as if nothing could interrupt their moment together.
Unfortunately their moment was ruined by Kiba who had been looking for Hinata, since he had arrived. When Kiba saw the two slow dancing while closely embraced, he didn't even know who she was dancing with, as he didn't care. He drops his fifth wine glass and stomps over to Naruto grabs his shoulder and pulls him back to punch in the face.
"Naruto!" Hinata calls out as Naruto hits the floor.
When she goes to help him up she is grabbed by Kiba and shouts at Naruto, "Stay away from my girl," as Hinata pulls herself out of his weak grip.
Kiba turns to her to receive a heavy bitch slap knocking him back. Hinata then says, "I am not 'your' girl. I don't even want to know you."
Kiba gets angry and grabs the front of her dress, resulting in it ripping. Kiba then says as she covers herself, "You are my girl, and always will be," he drops her and starts to kick Naruto's side, while he is still dazed from the sucker punch.
With Choji who was still talking with the blond girl hears a commotion, and turns to see Kiba kicking Naruto on the ground while Hinata does her best to cover her chest while trying to stop Kiba from kicking Naruto. Choji'e eyes narrow before becoming Blue. He says to the girl, "We will have to continue later doll, I have to help my friend."
The girl's eyes narrows and she says, "My name is Ino, Choji you know that."
"Choji knows," 'Choji' says, "He will be back in a minute," and winks at her before moving to stand behind Kiba. As Kiba went to swing a heavy kick to Naruto, he was lifted into the air by the back of the neck forcing him into the air. "You know I always thought of you as a bully, completely lame and could never accept no as an answer," he looks around and says, "Well I think I won't treat you like you were treating my friend in his own house, I will just ask you to leave," instead of asking 'Choji' throws him like a bowling ball, and has him slid along the polished floor out the function hall, past the main hall and out the main front door.
'Choji' dusts his hands off. Naruto gets up and says, "thank you Ji. The bastard sucker punched me," rubbing his jaw. Naruto looks to Hinata and says, "Come on, I'll get you another dress," and leads her out the function hall. The now named Ji went back to Ino to 'start' talking to one another, if you look closely you can see steam rising from the top of 'Choji's' head.
Upstairs-Head bedroom-(Naruto's parents room.)
Naruto is sitting with his back facing away from the walk-in closet that belonged to his parents. Inside said closet was Hinata, only wearing lacy white panties as the head maid said to her that the dress would not fit her with it. The now ruined dress was in a trash can, after she ensured that it was nothing but scrap, she was tempted to set it on fire but stopped herself when she realised that she did not have a lighter or other method of starting a fire.
Hinata looks around the large walk-in closet and sees a lot of normal clothing towards the front of the closet while towards the back she sees the formal wear barely pushing past twenty.
"Everything okay in there? Hinata," Naruto questioned over his shoulder.
"Yes, Naruto," she replies, "I just located the formal wear," she looks to the dresses and finds a sun kissed light yellow dress, perfectly preserved. She removes it from the hangers and climbs into it. Once both straps are over her shoulders she looks in the mirror to see the dress is a little loose on her, if it was two sizes smaller it would be perfect on her. To her surprise the dress suddenly reduced in size to fit her frame and height, as she she says like a little girl, "epp!"
Naruto hears her and says, "What happened?" but doesn't enter the closet. Hinata steps out the closet to reveal here wearing his mothers yellow dress, and he says, "Oh, Sorry if that dress scared you, it is a replica to replace the dress my dad destroyed on my parents first date. Self repairing and altering same stuff they make spacesuits out of." (This is a fake material I made up.)
Hinata looked shocked before she went to look at herself in the body length mirror and sadly says, "It is like it was made for me," and she looks down.
Naruto stands behind her before hugging her from behind and says, "Mum would be happy to see someone wearing her dress instead of it being a waist hanging in a closet."
She turns around in his hug a returns the hug and says, "I am so sorry, for what Kiba did to you," lightly crying into his chest.
Naruto chuckles and says, "If i can't accept the good with the bad what kind of boyfriend would I be," Hinata looks him in the eyes in shock when he realised what he said. Naruto realised what he said, and goes to apologise but instead Hinata wrapped her arms around Naruto's neck and brought her lips to his and engaged in a deep kiss with Naruto.
Naruto was shocked until he wrapped his arms around her waist and joined in.
At this point Nick arrives to ask, "Naruto, Hinata are you two," was as far as he got when he saw the two ignore him. Nick then says, "Nevermind," and leaves the room to find Goresaki and Usada.
"Did you find them?" Usada questioned.
Nick chuckles and says, "Looks like you won't be able to tease Hinata relationship status anymore," confusing Usada.
Vic's apartment
Vic and Beastboy had been enjoying some coffee, Vic's with cream no sugar while Beastboy's is black with five sugars. Their difference in coffee flavours lead to their current discussion.
"So you don't eat meat?" Vic questioned.
"Nothing that comes from an animal," Beastboy replied with a sip of his coffee.
"So Vegan," Vic said, "Let me guess parents are also vegan?"
"They died when I was a toddler," Beastboy replied, "I became a vegan when I learnt where meat comes from. Though you being a Cyborg, is quite cool."
"Well it comes with its advantages but just as many disadvantages," Vic adds, "but it is a part of me now."
"I feel the same way," Beastboy started, "My parents died in a car accident, I only survived due to what happened to give me this green skin."
Vic nodded sadly before saying, "To gain power something is lost," they both nodded at that before Vic says, "While we are here let us look at building you a gunplay," making Beastboy smirk.
Blaze Arcade-Midnight
Delete, with his metal bird on his shoulder, enters the building through a power outlet and smirks at sight of a VR fighting game. His bird jumps off his shoulder and transforms into a pistol and lands into Delete's hand.
Delete then reveals a glowing green USB fused with a syringe like device. He loads the device into the gun and says, "Metavirus to control," he aims at the VR fighting game and finishes with, "Install."
He shoots the USB like device at the VR game, but instead of instantly making a Metaroid the USB fused with the VR game.
Delete chuckles before saying, "now to wait," and leaves the way he came in.
Uzumaki Industries-R&D department.
In the centre of the Research and Development division of Uzumaki Industries, is the Vault, holding the more dangerous experimental projects. Composed of an Adimantium, Vibranium and Titanium nano composite that ensure the only things that get in or out is through the main door, which is locked with a holographic biometric security system.
Currently there are two individuals standing next to it while a much shorter or younger individual in a green bodysuit hacking into the security system.
"I still don't understand why I can't just zap the door open, Gizmo," came from the girl with pink hair.
The now named Gizmo replies with, "We are trying to steal very dangerous and valuable research prototypes that your powers could damage Jinx," he then points at the tallest of the three and says, "And Mammoth can't open the vault because it is made to withstand multiple point blank nuclear bombs."
The now named Mammoth blinks and asks in confusion, "Why go to that level of security? Just for some research projects."
Gizmo opens the Vault and they look inside to see nothing but a note on an empty table. They walk inside except for Gizmo who entered using metal spider legs. The girl Jinx reads the note out loud, "To whoever is reading this note, congratulations on being the second person to break in only to discover it to be completely empty. Regards, Ghost."
"Empty?" Gizmo questions and then says, "Our employer is not going to like this."
End of Chapter three
(First I want to say, that Gundam Build fighters both seasons is my favourite series. Mostly because during my youth I grew up with shows like power rangers, big bad Beetleborgs, Digimon, Pokemon and finally Yugioh. The idea that Yugioh had monsters that really came to life is still a cool concept. Imagine if something you built, with sweat and tears, for it to be brought to life.
No transformation this time which is why the Gunpla battle was included so that I wasn't limited to just the battles against Vaglass.
Also in the last Chapter I had a preview for the continuation of Menma's journey, I changed the name to 'Riders in New York' because the original title was too much of a giveaway.
So I hope you enjoyed this Chapter, please review and comment. Until Next time Beware the Wraith!)
