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"Teuchi, you know just how to make me smile!"

"Seriously Kushina, how do you not get fat? You don't even have the ability to work off the calories." Sakura questioned when she saw Kushina put away yet another bowl of ramen. Seeing as this was the first day that Kushina would not have Naruto with her around the house in a long time, Sakura and Sasuke both had decided to take Kushina out to a small ramen bar that Naruto was always going on and on about.

Apparently, both he and Kushina were regulars here.

Sakura had to wonder how Kushina ate SO much, and never got fat. She physically could not work her body out enough to cover all of the calorie gain that she was getting, not with her paralyzed legs.

'You weren't frowning though.' Sasuke thought to himself, instead of eating ramen, he had simply ordered a side of rice balls with slices of tomato on the side of his side. Honestly, he had rarely ever seen Kushina frown. He had seen her angry, happy, and sad... but she didn't really frown. She looked livid, excited, or depressed. She never really frowned so much as looked confused about things. "She's an Uzumaki... have you ever seen one of those fat?" Sasuke asked with a raised eyebrow towards Sakura.

She thought about it.

"Well... huh... Yeah, I guess I've never seen a fat Uzumaki." Sakura admit, and she had seen Naruto's family album before.

The Uzumaki of he last 6 generations were in that photobook, and all of them had been very fit, very youthful people with amazing bodies. Even Naruto's great-great grandfather, in his 90s had looked to be simply middle-aged with white hair. She had never seen an old-looking Uzumaki, or a fat Uzumaki now that she thought about it.

"... It is the ramen... it's an elixer of life that flows through our veins, and keeps us both young and fit." Kushina bragged, nose in the air arrogantly. Teuchi smiled, since it was pretty much just Kushina and Naruto that came to his shop without being drunk these days. He often got drunks that would stop by on the way home for food, or he would get depressed people who needed a pick-me-up. It was only Kushina and Naruto at this point that ate at his stand just because they genuinely loved ramen.

He really did appreciate them, so he always added a little bit extra into their bowls without charging them, even if he never told them he did it.

"Another Kushina-Special?" Teuchi asked Kushina.

His response was a thumbs up.

"As much as I question how you don't have a heart disease, or other medical issues... I can promise you if I ate the way you or Naruto did... I'm pretty sure I would die in my 50s." Sakura stated with a dull tone. She didn't even slightly believe Kushina, but she wouldn't outright say that either.

The woman had a temper.

Kushina took the statement well though.

"Speaking of my son, I hope he is eating well..." Kushina spoke up, instantly switching to her worried mother mode.

-With Naruto-

"He's not even BREATHING!" Kawai shouted out with amazement as she watched the STACK of bowls that Naruto was somehow devouring. The ramen in this slurped clean. She had a single plate of non-ramen food in front of her, and thankfully she finished before Naruto sat down, or she would not be able to stomach eating.

"Chuuuug it. Chuuug it." Mio cheered Naruto on as he raised another bowl up to his lips, standing up in his chair so all of those in Group A could watch, and watch they did.

Naruto finished off another bowl, put it on the enourmous stack, and raised both of his hands up.

The girls cheered for him, all of them getting into the mood.

"Another!"

"You heard the man, lets see how deep this abyss goes!" Mio called out, and one of the girls in the group ran towards the front to get another bowl of ramen. At this point, everyone simply wanted to see how many bowls that Naruto could put down before he collapsed.

Some of the more... shrewd girls were using this as a chance to overfill his stomach, and thus make him slower during the physical exams the next day, thus giving themselves better chances.

"13 bowls, going on 14."

-With Kushina-

"Knowing the idiot, he'll be showing off how much he can eat to try and make a scene." Sasuke knew Naruto well enough to know that Naruto loved to make a scene. To turn anything he could into something more "Awesome" than it already was by blowing it out of proportion.

Sakura snorted.

"I do not doubt it." Teuchi agreed with the statement.

"... I know you are insulting my son, and by proxy me because he is just like me, but I have to agree with that... That's totally something I would do, and like, that is really something he would do." Kushina couldn't help but grin. Her son causing some kind of trouble was to be expected, he was her son after all. He might also be Minato's son, but the fact remains that when it came to personally, he was all hers. He had very little of Minato's personality in him, something she was happy with.

It was bad enough her son only looked like her when it came to his handsome face, but he didn't really get any of her colors either.

Why couldn't he at least have her eye color too?

"So what has Naruto been up to lately?" Teuchi asked with a smile on his face.

Sakura and Sasuke both looked at him with surprise.

"Dad! Seriously, do you NOT listen when I tell you things!?" A loud female voice shouted from the kitchen, and out came a young woman in her late twenties. She had Teuchi's tan skin and brown hair, but everything else clearly came from whoever her mother was. The young woman wore her white apron, not even a spot of food on it, with cleanly pride, even with the annoyance on her face.

"Ayame, you know I've started tuning you out when you tried to turn this place into a dango stand." Teuchi remindered her, and she pouted.

"It was on the news. Naruto is going to Setouchi for the exams." Ayame told her father, who looked surprised.

"Naruto's following his father's footsteps and becoming a Keijo Engineer?" Teuchi asked with some surprise. He never knew the boy had a desire or talent to be an engineer in his favorite TV sport. Naruto took more after Kushina when it came to Land, as in, he didn't know all that much, he just loved the sport.

Kushina was grinning like a fool when she felt the amazing urge to tell Teuchi the truth.

Kushina pointed her chopsticks at the man, getting his attention.

"Naruto isn't just going to be some engineer... No, Naruto's going to be the first ever man to become a Keijo player." Kushina informed her long-time friend, and Teuchi's jaw dropped for a moment.

He then closed his mouth, placing his hand on his chin in thought. His closed eyes tightening as he thought this over. He picked up his own menu, before he took a marker out from the register, and started to scribble something down.

The smell of business was practically in the air.

"... A Keijo player... as in a pro athlete... Those are good for business." Teuchi mumbled under his breath.

Kushina grinned.

"... Should we be sitting here doing nothing while our friend gets exploited?" Sakura asked Sasuke, unsure of how she should act. It wasn't like this was anything that would hurt Naruto, but his name was clearly going to be exploited for financial gain. Then again, the more popular ramen at this resturaunt became, the better it would be for Naruto in the end.

Sasuke didn't respond, instead he just smirked.

That smirk said it all though.

It wasn't their problem to deal with.

"I'm sure my son would love to show this resturaunt support after your years of faithfully feeding us." Kushina very politely informed Teuchi, who nodded in return, liking the idea very much. Ayame palmed her forehead and pulled on her father's ear, stopping him from abusing their favorite customer.

Seriously?

"Dad, no. We aren't going to use Naruto just to make a few extra bucks." Ayame stated to him, and he yelped.

Kushina blinked.

"Eh?" Was the duo of parent's response.

"Use Naruto? Of course I'm not going to do that without talking with him first. This is a big moment for him. I figured this would be great for him. But he's the first pro athlete of his gender in Keijo... tons of companies are going to want to sponser him... and use him without really caring about him." Teuchi stated that he very well knew what would happen. Companies would love to target Naruto, after all a male Keijo player? That was something any company of business would love to get their hands on. Business would always SHOOT through the roof when pro athletes were added into the mix, because those athletes would have fans that would religiously go to places that support those athletes.

Kushina nodded in agreement.

"I know, right? If it's you guys, I know I can trust you won't take advantage of Naruto, or ruin his image. It isn't cheap being a sponser, so Naruto bringing a TON of business to you guys would not only be good for you, it would be good for him. Also, it isn't like we are doing this right now... we still need to talk to Naruto." Kushina did have actual worries for her son. She didn't want him to get into some contract that he would have trouble getting out of, or a contract that would limit what he could do.

With Teuchi, it was more simple than that.

Teuchi and Ayame were family friends, Naruto was going to support their business either way. When people saw Naruto come here, it would spark a LOT of interest, and business was going to spike anyway.

"... Oh..." Ayame was just surprised.

She knew her father could be a little greedy sometimes, so she had thought that he was just trying to make money off of their family friends.

"Also, we already have our own medic to look after Naruto if he hurts himself." Kushina stated as she nudged Sakura.

"Eh!?" Sakura shouted in surprise.

"... I'm glad I'm a police officer, and have nothing to do with this." Sasuke commented dryly, glad that he could avoid all of this. All he had to to was support Naruto in his career choice as a friend. He didn't have any other obligations, and his job title didn't help him support Naruto, so he wasn't going to be used.

Sakura sighed.

"... Even if I don't agree to this, it isn't like I can just ignore it if Naruto gets hurt..." Sakura grumbled to herself.

It was Naruto who helped her discover that she wanted to be a doctor, but always getting hurt. When he got hurt, she helped him, and through helping him she discovered her love for healing the sick and injured. Not to mention he was a personal friend, so if she ever heard that he was hurt, she would make sure that he was okay anyway.

"Also, it isn't like athletes are limited to only one sponser. He can still be sponsered by other people, but this way we can make sure that Naruto doesn't agree to anything bad. Who knows what type of trouble he could get into on his own?" Kushina asked with her tone only getting more worried.

Worried mother mode was in full tilt.

-With Naruto-

"There is no way that 34 bowls of ramen could fit in here."

The girl that was rubbing her hands against Naruto's abs was a smaller girl, one of the shorter firls that Naruto had seen at the school. she had short (female short) straight blue hair, and similar eyes. She was a light skinned girl, with a small bust, and a butt that was bubbled, but on the small side. She wore a jersey at the moment, and while Naruto lifted up his shirt with one hand, he had the other in the air, chopsticks to the sky.

"This is an Uzumaki belly, and when it comes to ramen, it might as well be a bottomless pit!... Gettting a little feely there." Naruto commented when he saw the girl moving her hands to the sides of his hips. She look her hands off of him, and laughed a little, grinning at him.

"Rin Rokudo... or Rokudo Rin. Do you prefer the English or Japanese way of introduction?" Rin asked with a grin.

Naruto looked over and saw Mio snicker.

"Suffer." Naruto told her, and Mio just gave him a thumbs up.

"Seriously, we need to team up and get girls together." Mio commented to him, her response was a roll of his eyes.

"No, he's MINE! I saw him first!" Kawai jumped on Naruto's back and wrapped her arms around his neck. Mio chuckled, while Rin simply looked confused at the display. She gestured to Naruto, getting his attention, and looking at Kawai. "... He's my ass-friend." Kawai pouted at Naruto, who snorted.

"Is she-"

"She likes handsome men, I fancy girls more myself though... speaking of which, you are pretty cute." Mio flirted with Rin, who took the flirting in stride.

"I'm straight."

"Okay then, I'm going to go play with a yo-yo then. See you later Naruto, see you Rinrin." Mio winked at Rin as she started to walk towards the exit.

"She's weird, but she seems fun. I saw your race on TV, and I have got to say it would be fun to have a race with you myself. I gets me really-" Rin's hair spiked up on each side, imitating cat ears, grinning more with more energy as she looked up to Naruto. "-excited to see somebody with a lot of talent. I really want to fight you... But first." Rin stopped talking, ending her sentence short.

She moved.

She moved her ass at Naruto at high speeds. Naruto's eyes widened when he saw at least 5 after-images of her ass moving towards him, but not reaching him. He hadn't been expecting her to suddenly use a technique like that.

Kawai literally jumped off of Naruto in surprise when she saw it.

"... 5... no 9 asses." Naruto stated when he finished counting the number of times she launched her ass out at him.

"That's right... I'm the fastest in west Japan, so when we race, you better give me your all." Rin's grin said everything her words weren't saying.

Naruto grinned back at her.

"... The fastest huh? Sounds fun, I'm going to enjoy racing you too." Naruto told her, and she extended her small hand towards him.

He was about to shake her hand, before everything stopped.

"Door's jammed shut... looks like a janitor's broom is stuck between the door and the wall." Mio called out to everyone, letting them know that they were locked in the cafeteria. Nobody was really that startled though, most of the people actually seemed like they didn't care that they were stuck.

Other rather, they didn't panic over it, even if they were worried they didn't act like it was something super bad.

Naruto walked over towards the door, and looking out the window of it, he saw that there was a broom that was stopping the sliding door from opening.

"Don't worry about this. I can take care of it, no problem. My Mom's room uses a sliding door, and it jams like this sometimes." Naruto explained as he started to take off his shirt completely. Naruto placed his shirt on the ground, before getting on his hands and knees, looking underneath the crack in the door. Naruto started to shove his shirt underneath the door, bushing it up against the bottom of the broom.

'Eye candy.' Kawai thought as she appreciated Naruto's body.

She hoped she never had to race against him, or she might be too distracted to actually go seriously against him.

"Aaaaaaaaand... got it." Naruto commented as he pulled his shirt back out from under the door.

"Thanks, I'll teach you some tricks later." Mio told Naruto as she opened the door, and she walked out with a whistle.

Naruto deadpanned.

"But I already know how to do yo-yo tricks... Well..." Naruto stopped when he saw somebody down the hallway, and as his eyes widened, he grinned. His grin was noticed by a few people, and as he walked down towards the person he noticed.

He was followed by both Kawai and Rin, who didn't see the person that Naruto was following after, they just saw him grin and leave.

They made sure to sneak behind him so they weren't noticed though.

What made him grin like that?

Chapter End!
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