Naruto Underground
A/N: Chapter 2 is here. Anyway, I thank the reviewers and hope I can live up to their expectations. Here goes, hasta la vista baby!
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Chapter 2
"Uchiha Itachi" Naruto breathed hard, his eyes narrowing to slits as he glared at the police officer. He had been in some trouble with the hard-eyed guy before, so he didn't think too keenly on him. Itachi shrugged off his yell.
"Listen, little man, I'm not here to bail you or anything. I just want to ask you a few questions." He stated.
Naruto's glare softened slightly but he kept his distance.
"And what would those be?" He asked. Itachi shrugged.
"Let's go somewhere else, the walls have ears. You too, redhead" He said pointing at Gaara, who instinctively snarled and threw some very dirty insults at Itachi, who shrugged again. "For such little kids you have dirty mouths".
The ride to the police station was uneventful. Naruto and Gaara kept glancing out the car windows, seeing a lot of familiar people. Naruto smiled fondly as he saw Ichiraku's Ramen stand, his favourite place in the whole city. Mr.Ichiraku was one of the few people who helped the homeless and even gave them food.
A few minutes later Itachi said in almost a bored voice, "We're here."
They stepped out from Itachi's car, and followed said man inside the police office. Itachi called the lift and they rose to the twelfth floor. There they followed Itachi to his office to find some few new recruits there.
"We were told to come here," One of the boys said, handing Itachi a few slips.
"You have the wrong floor. That office is in the tenth floor. Ask for Maito Gai and Hatake Kakashi" Itachi said simply.
"YOSH! I told you Neji! Now we must do a hundred push-ups to pro-" The green clad boy yelled hyperactively before being cut off.
"Please. Just go." Itachi said and the two young men hastily left the office. Itachi sighed. "I hate that Gai, it's a miracle Kakashi can deal with the guy twenty-four seven. But anyway" Itachi turned sharply at Naruto and Gaara, the latter hadn't still said a word.
"Alright. What's the catch?" Naruto asked. Itachi's brow rose.
"What catch? I just want to ask you a few questions."
"Spit it" Gaara said, surprising both Naruto and Itachi. Kisame, who had just entered the room, said: "Well, for one, where were you last week's Wednesday, at 23.27?"
Itachi looked annoyed he had been cut off, but didn't pay too much attention as his eyes bore into Naruto and Gaara. Naruto was the one to answer.
"We were running away from some social workers who tried throwing us to some orphanage. Bullshit, says I. They tried to just kill us, but anyway. I believe the place was Hokage's Square" (A/N: I'm sooo original, aren't I)
Itachi though. That was where Sarutobi's body had been found. "Can you say you saw anyone... suspicious there?"
"Well, we saw that snake man, what was his name? Oh yeah, Orochimaru, running from the spot, but he was so very high I don't think he knew where he was going. There was a huge sword, the kind of the Seven use, and there was also something else. A part of a black suit, probably some drug dealer or stuff. And also the body of a dead man, but I didn't pay too much attention."
"I see." Itachi said. "You see, the body you saw was that of Sarutobi, the mayors. We are looking to catch the murderer."
"And kill him?" Naruto asked, realization dawning on him. Gaara yawned.
"You want our help in catching the murder?"
"That was what I just said" Itachi murmured under his breath. He turned to Kisame.
"Kisame, please go and examine Hokage's Square again. See if you can find that piece of cloth. As for you kids, you are free to go. Just don't speak of this encounter to anyone, or your lives may be in danger. The walls have ears."
As Naruto and Gaara exited the office, a silver-haired man in the other office smirked.
"Yes, Itachi-kun. The walls definitely have ears..."
(A/N: no, it's not Kabuto, if that's what you thought. You'll find out later.)
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Hyuuga Neji sighed. Unlike anyone in his family, the young man had joined the police force. The others, except maybe Hinata, just lived in luxury living off the money of your average taxpayer. Anyway, he had just graduated from Police Academy, and for his first year he and his partner were put under the care of an already existing police officer and his partner.
His just happened to be Maito Gai.
His (Neji's) partner was named Rock Lee and he was just as hyper as their assigned senior, Maito Gai. At least the other guy, Hatake Kakashi, seemed cool enough.
Until he had started to read some Come Come Paradise book. He had heard of them before.
And didn't like them at all.
Just some regular perverted book.
"All right! Now, as for our assignment, we are to patrol this street" Gai pointed to a specific area in the map. "You youngsters are to sit in the back of the car and assist us! Isn't that right, Kakashi, my rival? I WILL TRIUMPH OVER YOU WHEN WE GET TO ACTION TODAY! EH, KAKASHI?"
Kakashi looked up from his book and his legs slumped down from the table. "Umm... what was our patrol, again?"
Three officers immediately fell on the floor. (Sweat-dropping anime-style.)
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Naruto and Gaara were, again, trying to make a living in a small theatre somewhere in where there was almost never any people to watch their shows, which translated to not getting any money.
Not that they wanted to work for Jiraiya. They more or less had to.
Jiraiya's theatre consisted of some random people playing out the plays whenever he went. He never kept the same people.
Naruto and Gaara were pretty much standard whenever Jiraiya came to Konoha. Although only a few diehard fans actually came to watch.
And Jiraiya kept most of the cash to himself, handing Naruto and Gaara just enough to eat for the day.
Now, they were playing the Great Ninja War. This had, surprisingly, attracted quite the audience.
Naruto and Gaara had a knack for fighting, so they were naturals in that kind of stuff.
"Eat this!" Naruto yelled, his sword clanging fiercely into Gaara's, to which the redhead countered,
"No. You eat this, rat face."
This continued for quite some time until the play had ended. The audience burst into applauds and Naruto even blushed slightly at the attention, Gaara was more or less neutral.
When they confronted Jiraiya about their pay, the silver haired old man smiled.
"You know what, brats? I'll give you a 30 interest in today's ticket money, which is at least three times your usual pay! What's more, I'll be leaving tomorrow so don't bother coming here then. Oh, and good luck to your lives! Sincerely!"
Naruto whooped at the 200 bucks he now held in his hands, but Gaara suddenly snatched half of them.
"Mine" He stated simply, making Naruto pout. They exited in low voices, though.
The streets were eerily silent as they walked back to where they usually spent their nights in. Until Naruto spoke,
"Hey Gaara... you'd think there would be more... noise around here, ne?"
"Don't know, nor care" The other boy answered rather coldly. "And neither do you, so stop pretending."
"Point taken", Naruto answered. "But still... it's too silent."
As on cue, a generic villain #999 jumped right from the corner, totally unexpected.
(A/N, remind me to never write at 23:42 o.O;)
"Hey, brats, you shoulda just hav' listened to that Itachi when he told ya the walls haf ears!" The bulky one said laughing coldly. He was of mediocre length, but made up for it in fatness. He wore black jeans, a red sweater, doc martin's boots and he was bald.
The other man shook his head. This one had brown shoulderlenght hair, wore black just as his companion, and carried a shotgun that had been snapped from the middle of its pipe. (A/N, PLEASE someone what they call those in English, I really don't know o.o) "Gerin, you shouldn't shout too much. The citizens will... notice it."
"Anyway" Gerin, the fat one, said, turning back to Naruto and Gaara who had combative looks on their faces.
"You better get ready to die, because we ain't letting you live with what you know"
The fat one and the thin one rushed the two young men, who instinctively jumped to the side. Naruto sent a swift kick to Gerin's side, making the fat one cling in pain.
"Ohh... Ari! That kid... "
Ari almost cried, but he had his hands full with Gaara. The boy had somehow found a broken piece of some pipeline and was using it as some sort of a spear. The thought of his shotgun attracting the police, Ari had no choice than to fight Gaara hand-to-hand. And the redhead was much stronger than he looked.
The same case as with Naruto. He had already sent numerous kicks and punches at Gerin, while throwing a few rogue stones from the ground at him, them been dodged everytime. Eventually, Gerin did manage to pin Naruto to the wall, and Gaara crumbled when a pistol was roughly pressed to his neck.
Everyone turned to look at the new guy.
"Don't scream or I'll kill you" Threatened the newcomer.
"Took your sweet time, Neko" Muttered Ari, shaking his head. Neko smirked, "Better late than never. Besides, I was stuck in the crowd," She smiled sweetly at Ari as she turned back to Gaara.
"We have an agreement here?"
Gaara nodded, and the two were taken to a blue car.
"Blue?" Naruto asked stumped.
"Black just screams, 'we're criminals, come get some!', we want to look like normal citizens" Neko answered, seating herself on the drivers seat.
As they drove, Ari spoke.
"Brats, what do you know."
Naruto scowled. "Like hell we're telling you, bastard" he spat, crossing his arms in front of his chest. But before anything could happen, though, Neko had hit something.
That something happened to be a police car.
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Shikamaru yawned. Just another boring day at police academy. And he couldn't care less for some police academy. Just that his father had pressured him into going there.
His best friend Chouji was also there, so that could also be a part of the reason.
Still, he had better things to do than listening to Sakura and Ino bitching about Sasuke's hotness.
Just today, he was listening to Asuma's special lessons, that police work was nothing but brawn.
Shikamaru was pretty sure that it was aimed at him. The guy was extremely lazy, but sported an IQ of over 200. Something that youth seemed to lack these days.
When Shikamaru had been confronted about it, he had stated simply, "Meh. Too troublesome".
"... and after a few weeks, you will be put on field surveillance. For a month, you'll be patrolling the streets on your own, helping out in the lab, and so on. If you perform poorly, I'll personally smoke you out of your hides. You have been warned. That's it. Any questions?" Asuma's voice suddenly hit him like a whip. He wasn't allowed to goof off?
Ino raised a hand from her seat.
"Umm, Asuma-sensei, are we on our own?"
"No. You will be put in groups of 4. This requires all your focus. You can't have quarrels in your groups. Look what happened to them." Asuma pointed to a picture on the wall. In the first frame of the comic there were four young energetic aspiring officers, side by side, their names embedded on the bottom. In the middle frame, they were fuming. The last one was total chaos.
Ami raised her hand. "Do we get to pick our teams?"
Asuma sighed. This came up every time. "No. But there will not be girl-boy groupings unless absolutely necessary."
Sasuke smirked from his seat. 'Saved,' he thought. Behind him, Ino and Sakura scowled and glared at each other. They, Ami and Akemi (twins) were the only women in the class currently. Usually, you never got more than that anyway.
Shikamaru stood up in attention, which was very rare for him, and asked, "Asuma. What exactly are the groups?"
Asuma smirked evilly. "Not telling you yet. But I tell you this, you and Chouji will definitely be in a group together."
Shikamaru muttered something about Asuma being troublesome before sitting down and snoozing off again.
Today just wasn't his day.
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END!
...of chapter.
A/N: whatever. I don't know if I'm gonna put any pairings in, so don't get your hopes up. I'm always open to suggestions, however, so if you need to know something regarding my story just leave it in a review and I'll get back to you in an A/N the next chapter.