Chapter Fifteen

Naruto woke up to the sound of his phone ringing. He groaned and grabbed it.

"Hello?"

"Naruto! Are you kidding me!"

"Who is this?"

"Mitch Kupchak. Your GM!"

"Oh."

"Oh! All you can say is oh! Two straight games where you've been ejected! Two! Not only that you go on and start cursing up a storm in the game where we have our most children viewers!"

"Sir if I ca-"

"I don't want to hear anything! I've got league officials up my ass because of you and it pains me to say this but you've been suspended for the next three games."

"Three!"

"Yes three. Two from the league for the flagrant foul and the cursing. And one from the team. I'm disappointed in you Naruto."

And with that he hung up and Naruto sighed.

"Fuck."

He got out of his bed and found his mother sitting on the couch watching ESPN. He gulped when he saw the headline.

Breaking News: Naruto Uzumaki receives three game suspension

The TV was muted but he could see Stephen A Smith on the screen and he knew whatever he was saying was far from good. The NBA player looked at his adoptive mother in fear as she sipped her tea, something she only did when she was trying to calm down.

"Good morning Ma. Where's Nina and Mia?"

"Disneyland. And Shikamaru is spending the day with Temari and your other friends are probably getting high somewhere."

"Look Ma you know it wasn't my fault. I'm not that kind of player! I reached for the ball but dude as so big and fast I hooked his neck by accident. Then he went and pushed me and you know where we come from you don't let anyone put their hands on you and get away with it."

Amanda sighed and put her tea down.

"I'm not mad at you. You protected yourself. I'm disappointed in how far you took things. You escalated the problem by cursing and screaming."

Naruto sighed. "I know I was just...urgh! I can't describe it."

Amanda smiled. "You have a short temper Naruto. It's never bothered you before but now at this level of competition you need to learn to control it. Your one of the most competitive people I've ever met and if you really want to succeed in this league you need to calm down. As your first coach and mother I recommend breathing exercises and meditation. And if that fails we might have to turn your social media accounts off."

"Woah! You know I love that."

Amanda nodded. "I know. The twenty notifications I got with pictures of your car told me just how much you love it. But if it comes down to it we my have to do it. Especially durning the playoffs."

Naruto sighed. "Alright boss you got it."

"Good now a little birdie told me you have a date today."

"Who?"

"Who do you think. It's Shikamaru's job to know everything that goes on with you. He only thinks your going out with her to make up for ignoring her yesterday."

"What! Why would I do that?"

Amanda shrugged. "That's what I said. No matter how ride to someone you'd never agree to go out with someone to make them feel better. That's when I looked her up and realized just who Shikamaru was talking about. You wanna get mixed up with that craziness?"

Naruto laughed. "Its just one date."

"Yeah but no one goes on one date not hoping for another one. I saw her picture. I know you want more than one date with this girl."

Naruto shrugged and Amanda smirked.

"Your my son I know how these things work. Now before this date I'm gonna need to help you get ready."

"I've gone on plenty of dates before with out your help."

"Yeah well Kendall Jenner is not one of those hood rats from Philly."

"Hinata wasn't a hood rat and I got here."

"Yeah but the first time you met her you had no shirt on so she was mesmerized by your abs."

"That's... actually a good point. So how are you gonna help me?"

Amanda walked into his room and then his closet.

"First is the clothes. You but so much but only wear two main colors. Orange and black. Yesterday was the only time I've seen you wear red or green. So we're gonna keep that trend going."

She threw a white dress shirt at him along with a white tank top at him.

"Why are there zippers on the knees of these pants?"

Naruto sighed. "They're called knee zip pants."

"Yeah but what's the purpose of them?"

"I actually don't know. Decoration I guess."

"Sounds like a way to charge you a extra twenty dollars for nothing. Ah here try this."

She threw a pair of camo jeans his way.

"Good that looks like it'll work Now go take a shower and get ready. While your in there I'll brave your cast shoe collection. Half of which your not even allowed to wear."

Naruto laughed. "Don't talk about my sneakers like that. I don't mention your obsession with Leonardo DiCaprio."

Amanda glared at him. "You just did."

Naruto gulped. "You know what I'm gonna go take that shower."

Downtown Los Angeles

Naruto stepped out of his Mercedes wearing his white dress shirt and camo jeans. He also wore a pair of red and white Saint Laurent sneakers. He topped it off with a gold chain around his neck and a gold watch on his left hand. To throw in a splash of personality he also added a white wristband that Nina made him.

Naruto sighed as he sat in the restaurant waiting for Kendall to come.

"How do I look?"

He stopped a passing waiter who smirked.

"First date?"

Naruto nodded.

"Well don't worry sir. I'm sure the lady will love your ensemble. And a little words of advice don't over think it. If you got this far then you should be good."

Naruto nodded waited again. After about five minutes he could hear a lot of voices outside the restaurant. He went to the window along with a few other patrons and found a massive horde of cameramen outside taking pictures of a young woman trying to enter the restaurant.

Kendall was being escorted by a bodyguard who easily shoved everyone aside allowing her to enter the restaurant.

Kendall's face lit up when she saw him. She was wearing a pair of blue ripped jeans and a grey crop top. She wore a light grey jacket over the shirt.

She smiled at him When she sat down.

"I'm glad that we were able to do this."

Naruto smiled. "Yeah me too."

"I heard about your suspension this morning, you ok."

Naruto nodded. "Yeah I'm fine. A little disappointed in myself but I'm fine. Plus a few good things came out of yesterday so yeah I'm good."

Kendall blushed and looked away as a waiter came and took their orders. Once that was done Naruto turned to her.

"So Kendall what made you want to become a model?"

"Well growing up I would look at all the super models and I saw them like superheroes and I wanted to be some little girls superhero. I wanted to be a role model."

Naruto nodded. "So any big dreams in the modeling buisnees?"

"Yeah I'm definitely trying to walk durning fashion week."

Naruto smiled. "That's cool cause I'm trying to go to fashion week. When you get there don't forget about me. If you can't get a plus one you could sneak me in the back just give the signal and I'll be ready."

Kendall laughed as Naruto did a bird call.

"What about you?"

Naruto shrugged. "What about me?"

"Why'd did you start playing basketball?"

"I don't really know. I went to a NBA game and just fell in love with the game. The competitiveness, the atmosphere in the arenas. It was all just extremely appealing to me."

"But what made you want to take it this far?"

"I guess I didn't wanna settle. In my neighborhood people always say they want to do this and that but end up giving up. I told myself a long time ago that I would never quit. One thing I hate is how people always link the deaths in my life to my resilience. They never talk about how my GPA dropped senior year in high school and I got disqualified from playing Division I basketball. They don't talk about how I roughed it out in junior college before heading to Louisville."

"I get it. Every time people hear that I'm modeling they think I got it because of my family and stuff. They never see me as me you know."

Naruto nodded. "So what was it like growing up with all those camera's around all the time?"

Kendall groaned. "It was definitely frustrating at times. I didn't really like talking about certain things in front of the camera's and my sister's would always use that as a chance to tease me and stuff."

She stopped and blushed which Naruto noticed.

"What?"

"Before I left the house the camera's were there and so were all of my sister's. They had to have asked me about a million questions and I just had to get out of there. My family can be crazy sometimes. What's your family like?"

Naruto laughed. "You'd have to define family."

"What do you mean?"

"Well if your just talking about me, my mom, sister and my daughter then we're just your pretty average family. Now if your gonna throw in all of my friends who I moved out to L.A. with me then I'd saw we were crazy as Hell. An odd group but crazy."

"What's she like?"

"Who?"

"Your daughter."

Naruto looked surprised. "Oh. That's something I don't really talk about on the first date."

"Come on."

Naruto sighed. "Alright well...Nina's one of the smartest five year olds you'll ever meet. She's kind, caring, understanding and extremely creative."

The two talked for about two hours, they even forgot about their food.

After their lunch Kendall looked at the basketball player.

"This was fun."

Naruto smirked. "Who says it has to be over."

"What do you mean?"

"I mean I'm free for the rest of the day. Of your up to it we could make a day thing about this."

Kendall seemed to think about it before nodding.

"Ok, but we're gonna have to get past those guys."

She pointed out the window where the paparazzi were taking pictures of them through the glass.

Naruto smirked. "I got an idea."

He grabbed Kendall's hand and they quickly ran out the backdoor and into a alley.

"Come on we're only gonna have a few seconds head start before they realize which way we went."

They took off down the alley and exited on the street opposite of the restaurant. The sidewalk was filled with tourist and stands selling t-shirts and stuff.

Naruto smirked as he grabbed a pair of sunglasses and a sun hat.

"Here put this on."

"Did you steal this?"

Naruto nodded. "Yeah but it's for a good cause."

He grabbed a pair of sunglasses and a dad hat that said 'I ❤ LA' on it.

"How about a little your of the city?"

Kendall nodded and the two got in line for a tour bus ride. Just as they got on the bus paparazzi ran past luckily not noticing them.

"So what's been your favorite part of Los Angeles so far?"

Naruto shrugged. "I don't really have one particular spot. But I do like how there's always something to do. Parties, concerts, fashion shows. You name it it's here in LA."

The two talked for awhile as the tour guide pointed out some sights and no one even suspected who they were. There cover was blown when a black can pulled up next to their tour bus and the door slid open.

"Kendall! Naruto smile!"

The flashes made Kendall put her hand over her face as the other people on the tour began to pull out their phones.

Naruto laughed. "Well that didn't last long. STOP THE BUS!"

He and Kendall got up and ran off the bus but Naruto climbed back up the steps and put his 'stolen' hat on the head of a kid in the front who was wearing his jersey.

"Keep reppin lil dude."

And with that Naruto ran off the bus as he and Kendall took off down the street. They ran into a nearby park and found a secluded part that was surrounded by tree's and a large bush.

"That was crazy."

Kendall laughed as she looked around, admiring the scenery.

"Wow, how'd you find this place?"

"I just ran and thought, they can't see me from behind the tree's."

Kendall laughed. "Well it's beautiful."

"Not as beautiful as the girl I'm on a date with."

Kendall blushed and turned around to find Naruto in front of her. Brown eyes met blue and the two felt each other gravitate towards the other.

Just as their lips were about to touch a loud boom was heard and rain began to pour down on them.

Kendall looked down but Naruto put his hand on her chin to lift her head up. The rain was beginning to pour down and her hair was matted against her face. In Naruto's eyes this was the most adorable thing he had ever seen.

Naruto used his hand to move her hair behind her ear. Neither said a word as they moved towards each other and their lips met.

The rain didn't seem to bother them as they enjoyed a slow and passionate kiss. The two were so distracted that neither noticed a flash come from the bushes.

And Done!

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