Chapter Twenty Nine
Naruto was dressed in a pair of black joggers and a orange button down shirt with the sleeves rolled up. He wore a black and orange sneaker on his left foot while his right one was in a cast.
He was currently using a pair of crutches to exit the hospital after having his ankle looked at.
The All Star reached into his back pocket and removed a pair of sunglasses and placed them on as he walked out of the hospital. As soon as he stepped out a lone cameraman instantly began snapping pictures of him.
"Naruto how's the ankle!"
The All Star shrugged as he kept moving.
"Game seven tonight against the Rockets. Think your team can pull through without you."
Naruto could only roll his eyes as he reached the curb and texted his driver to come around.
"Come on champ answer at least one of my questions. Where's Kendall? She hasn't been seen since you got injured."
Under his sunglasses Naruto was glaring at the man but before he could snap at him a Black SUV pulled up and Star hopped out of passenger seat and opened the door door him.
"Here you go big guy. Hah bet that's the first time you heard that."
Naruto smirked as his friend made a jab at his height but he was quick to get her back.
"Oh I've been called big plenty of times."
Star snorted while Micey laughed from the drivers seat. After helping Naruto into the SUV they pulled off into the normal LA traffic.
The rookie point guard sighed as he leaned his head against the window and thought about what the cameraman said, Kendall had been AWOL since his injury. Since their fight at the hospital.
The All Star looked out of his window as his mind wandered to a few weeks before the playoffs started.
Flashback
The penthouse was quiet and there was no movement until the loss of heat was discovered. Feeling around for the blankets before finally looking over, Naruto saw the blankets all wrapped around the girl next to him and only a mop of hair covering a face was left. Naruto smiled while looking at Kendall who was in a deep slumber before lightly brushing her hair to the side leaving her face to show with freckles and a small pout. Naruto laughed before getting up and going to move the curtain aside before a look of awe appeared on his face.
One of the main reasons he purchased his current penthouse was the amazing view of the city. Growing up he only had a view of the gangbangers and drug dealers on the corner and he told himself that Nina would never have to wake up and see that out her window. He grabbed a hoodie and put on a pair of sneakers before walking into the kitchen where he found a note on the fridge saying his mother and sister had taken Nina to her acting class so for once he could enjoy a quite morning on one of his days off. He made himself a cup a coffee before walking out to his balcony.
As he disappeared to the outside, the sleeping beauty stirred. Slowly but surely Kendall unrolled herself from the blankets and looked around to see a curtain opened and outside was the person she was looking for wrapped up in a hoodie, sweats and sneakers. Outside the man was staring at the city below watching as the world slowly woke up and people began going about their morning routines. She couldn't see it but he smiled as he got an idea.
Naruto came back into the bedroom grabbed his keys, phone and wallet and before she could say anything he was gone.
As she got up, she shivered as the previous warmth surrounding her disappeared being replaced by a coldness surrounding her body. She grabbed a grey sweater and quickly put it on. The warmth quickly returning and a new smell invaded her body. The familiar smell of Naruto's cologne relaxed her body as she went to the living room and awaited his return. As she sat down she saw the scrawled handwriting 'Back soon, quick run to the store' causing her to furrow her eyebrows, the fridge was full so what could he possibly be getting?
She sighed before laying on the couch and looked at the TV which was of course playing SportsCenter. Her eyes slowly drooped down before she fell into another sleep.
Quickly rushing back Naruto held a white bag filled with the necessary items he planned to use for the day. Setting his items down, he looked over to see that Kendall had moved but was still asleep. He smiled before quietly cooking some eggs. As the eggs cooked, he started cooking bacon alongside it. Humming to himself, he put a cup of coffee down and hot chocolate for himself.
The smell of eggs, coffee and bacon filled the apartment and was enough to wake the model up. Her eyes slowly opened before she noticed Naruto humming to himself as he prepared her cup of coffee. She smiled before silently approaching him and wrapped her arms around him. He glanced over to see her smiling before he gave her a light peck on the lips as he continued her cup of coffee.
"Go sit down babe." His raspy voice whispered.
She nodded and went to sit down at the marble counter table. He brought the cup of coffee and hot chocolate and set it down while smirking before she rolled her eyes at him. He quickly brought over the cooked eggs and bacon as she sipped her coffee. Kendall cleared her throat and the All Star looked up from his plate.
"Why did you go outside? The fridge was full."
Naruto smiled. "It's a surprise, but if you must know we'll be baking!"
Her eyes widened before her velvety voice was heard. "But...But...Naruto, you know I can't cook or bake for that matter."
Naruto reached for her hand and held it while rubbing his thumb over her knuckles, trying to soothe her.
"You'll be fine. Besides we're baking together so it'll be fine and then we can relax afterwards."
His cheerful voice reassured her and she smiled along with him.
"Fine but if the house burns down, I blame you."
Naruto laughed and Kendall couldn't help but stare at her boyfriend as he laughed and she smiled while looking at how happy he was. His laughter stopped bringing her out of her slight day dream as he finished his breakfast.
Naruto quickly cleaned up and as he was about to clean the plates, a delicate hand stopped his reach for the sponge.
"I'll do it, it's the least I can do. That and you can go change into something comfortable."
Kendall grabbed the plate from his hand and turned on the sink. Just as he was about to protest she pointed a finger at him.
"Don't even protest, go change or I won't bake with you."
He grinned before heading upstairs. "You've been hanging out with my mom too much."
Kendall smiled and shook her head as she quickly put soap on the sponge and cleaned the plates, mugs and frying pan. As she finished drying her hands on a towel Naruto came back wearing his All Star warm up tee shirt and a pair of black basketball shorts.
"Are you ready to get baking Kenny?"
"Stop teasing me it's not my fault I'm bad at cooking."
Naruto could only smile as Kendall pouted.
"Welllll, today is your lucky day! Let's see if chef Uzumaki can teach you a thing or two."
Naruto began bringing out the items while the model tied her hair up.
"Let me pre-heat the oven while you grab a bowl, spoon, the cookie sheet paper and the pan."
Quickly washing his hands and drying them, he passed the bowl to her.
"Here you'll mix the items. Crack the egg into the bowl."
As she cracks the egg he measures out some sugar and brown sugar.
"Here mix those while I measure the vanilla and butter." He inserts the butter and teaspoon of vanilla extract.
"You're doing great babe, just a couple more steps!"
"You know, I thought this would be harder." She softly states while continuing the mixing.
"See this isn't too hard, but we'll be adding the flour,baking soda, and the salt. Here I'll take over, just measure out 2 and 1/4 cups of all-purpose flour, a teaspoon of baking soda and a teaspoon of salt. I'll measure the baking soda and salt."
He grabs both before measuring it and putting it into the bowl. As he whisks away, she opens up the bag of flour pouring it into the cups while some spills out. Naruto started laughing while turning back to the bowl pouring the flour in and mixing it to form the batter.
"Here Ken, you can pour the chocolate chips and just mix it in."
As Kendall finished whisking it in Naruto reached over to stick a finger in the batter before his hand was smacked away.
"Wait till it's done, then we can try it together."
The model quickly poured the batter to small bite size's to bake in the oven. Naruto smiled and as he watched his girlfriend finished the batter, he grabbed the tray and stuck it in the oven. As he closed the oven door, she started to smile before cupping some flour in her hand before turning to the all star.
"Naruto turn around and close your eyes."
He did as he was told and closed his eyes as he slowly turned around. As soon as he faced his girlfriend flour hit his face making him open his eyes to find Kendall laughing. He quickly grabbed some flour of his own. "Kenny, it's only fair."
He quickly wrapped an arm her and held her close before releasing the flour onto her head. He heard her gasp immediately and he couldn't contain his laughter as her head was covered in flour.
While Naruto laughed Kendall quickly formed a plan in her head as she reached behind her to grab an egg. Before the basketball player could react the model launched an egg at him. The egg yolk splattered on his shirt with some of the pieces of the shells.
"Oops, it slipped my hand!" She said holding up her hand to hide her giggle.
Naruto grabbed two of the eggs and threw them on her before laughing as the yolk splattered on her head.
"Oops must of slipped my hand." He gave her his signature smirk.
Kendall gasped before whining his name as he laughed at her. She chased after him and ended up landing on him pinning him to the ground.
"Aww come on Kenny, you started it!"
He could barely contain his laughter as his girlfriend held an egg above his head.
"Well I'm gonna finish it."
She quickly smashed the egg on his head and laughed as the yolk seeped into his hair.
He quickly flipped their position and smiled down on her. Their eyes held a longing gaze before he leaned in and their lips brushed. Not innocently, like a tease but fiery, and passionate lips attaching to each other's. Their tongues sliding past one another in a passionate kiss they've mastered by now. Kendall moaned into his mouth as he pressed her back against the floor as their legs tangled together and their hips moving against each other's. Both pulled back from the loss of air as he rolls off her and to the side.
"I love you, you know that right?" He says as he wrapped his arm around her.
"Of course, I don't even want to think about what life would be like without you. You complete me, Naruto and I never want that to change." She says softly as she cupped his face before giving him a light kiss.
"It won't. I'll make sure of it" He says smiling at her before picking her up to go the couch as the smell of cookies filled the air.
End Flashback
The All Star was broken out of his thoughts as Star threw a soda can at him.
"Hey shorty why you spacing out like that."
Naruto ignored her and quickly went through his phone. It took him a moment to find what he was looking for but when he did he showed the phone to Micey.
"Go to that address!"
"Why?"
"Just go!"
Micey groaned as she turned the vehicle in the direction of Naruto's mystery address.
Thirty Minutes Later
"Just like that! Yes! Strong! Fierce! You look amazing Kendall."
The eldest Jenner sister seemed to ignore the photographers words and continued to strike her poses. Everything was going normally until a familiar voice began shouting.
"Wooo! MVP, MVP!"
Kendall stared wide eyed at Naruto who smiled as he leaned on his crutches at the doorway to the studio.
"Um excuse me who do you think you are! Security!"
"No! Can we take a break real quick while I talk to my friend."
The photographer looked at Kendall then at Naruto.
"Five minutes."
Kendall nodded and the photographer stormed off mad that his shoot had been interrupted.
"Naruto what are you doing here?"
The basketball player looked at the model and smiled.
"Isn't it obvious. I'm here to support the women I love."
Kendall shook her head. "No please don't do this Naruto."
Naruto quickly took Kendall's hands into his own and looked directly into her eyes.
"Kendall please listen to me. I was an asshole there's no denying that and I can't take what I said back. But I can make up for it. You've been there for me through everything and I just pushed you away like that and I've been beating myself up about it."
He saw a few tears fall down her face and he used his thumb to wipe them away.
"Kendall I miss you. I miss your smile, your singing in the shower that wakes me up every other morning. The whole point is that I'm not complete without you. I made a mistake and now I'm here trying to make up for it."
Kendall looked at Naruto and smiled softly before leaning in and kissed him. The kiss was soft and passionate but just as quickly as it started it ended.
"I missed you too."
Naruto smiled and went in for another kiss but Kendall stopped him.
"No you've already messed up my makeup enough."
The All Star laughed as he wrapped his arms around Kendall.
Lakers vs Rockets Round One Game Seven
Naruto sat court side with Kendall and Killer B. He was dressed in a pair of black jeans with a orange v neck and a black blazer.
While he tried to keep his attention on the game it felt good to have Kendall near him again and he could tell she felt the same as she laid her head on his shoulder, feed him popcorn and stole little kisses every now and then.
The All Star watched as Nick hit a three and ran down the court holding up the three sign.
"And Swaggy P looking to keep his teams playoff hopes alive! He now leads the Lakers with twenty seven as this game winds down."
"Look at that numba nine, your boy is flyer then a airline."
Naruto shook his head and looked up at the scoreboard, 91-91. Three minutes left on the clock. He watched as the game went back and forth with Whiteside and Howard battling down low, Butler doing what he could to contain Harden and Nick keeping LA in the game with his amazing late game shooting.
The game came down to the last ten seconds as Harden drove against Butler. The former Bulls player tried to stick with him but the Beard's signature step back was just enough to give him the space to get off a mid range jumper.
With four seconds left it bounced off the rim and into the hands of Whiteside who had to bounce it on the floor to avoid falling out of bounds with it. Bad news was Chandler Parsons was there and quickly put the ball in the basket with 0.9 seconds left and Houston now up 98-96.
The entire Staples Center looked defeated as the team called their final timeout.
Naruto watched as his teammates walked into the huddle and Rick immediately began drawing up a play. With the time left Naruto could think of a few plays that could work. The first would be a screen to free up double screen to free up a shooter and the second was a inbound alley oop pass to Whiteside. But with Dwight Howard down there that was out of the question so he knew the double screen had to be coming.
The refs signaled for the end of the timeout and the Lakers set up. As soon as the ref signaled for the start of the play Nick took off using the screen from Butler and Whiteside to get open beyond the three point line. Morris threw him the ball and Young wasted no time shooting.
The entire arena went silent as the ball soared through the air and hit the back of the rim and went straight down!
"It's good! It's good! Nick Young's shoot is good! It's a miracle in LA!"
The entire stadium exploded as Nick was hounded by his teammates. Naruto also cheered for his partner in crime as he relished in the moment.
"The Lakers survive the Rockets despite losing Naruto Uzumaki early in the series and now they will advance to the Conference Semi-Finals and face the San Antonio Spurs."
And Done!
Guess who's back, back again. Fox Sage's back, tell a friend.
It actually feels real good to work on this story again. Sorry for long wait but it's like the more chapters I put out the harder it is to write the next. I wanna thank Dopeenight, Hakeemj, A. 1 and BlackStarr88 (just to name a few there are a lot more) for not giving up on this story and reminding me that people were still interested in it. Now I can't promise a new chapter every other day but I will try my hardest to update at least one of my stories once a week. This story is not dead it's only just begun.
Also in the last chapter I asked if anyone would like to have an OC in the story in the forms of Freq(NBA 2K16), Pres(NBA 2K17) and DJ(NBA 2K18). I received a few submissions and Freq will be making his appearance soon so y'all better act fast.
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And a brief little something on why I should pick your character. Doesn't really matter but it'll help me decide if you guys can convince me.
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