Jiraiya sat on a boat in the middle of a lake. It had been three weeks since both he and Naruto had arrived in Scotland. They had gotten onto a flight from New York where Jiraiya made a tearful goodbye to his car before he put it into lockup in a safe house which was one of the five that Jiraiya had made in the city. In truth, Jiraiya had in most main cities in the world at least five to ten safe houses. Well except in Australia. There was only a small shack filled with a stockpile of weapons and food.
He didn't really come to Australia anymore since the place was nuked. The only reason he even had a shack in the place was because he wished to cover his bases in case anything happened to all the other safe houses. After all, no one went to Australia, no one…
After a 13 hour flight, they finally made it to Scotland where they took a car out into the wilderness where Jiraiya would begin Naruto's training. And the first part of the training was survival which is what the wilderness of Scotland would serve in part for.
What Jiraiya expected during the beginning of the trip was for Naruto to flounder about until he gained the knowledge in order to survive out here at least that was what Jiraiya had to deal with when his father first took him out for survival training. He didn't expect Naruto to have gotten the information to survive out in the wild via direct download into his brain due to Kurama. Personally Jiraiya thought it was a little unfair that Naruto had help doing all of this.
A silver lining to all of this was that while Naruto had the knowledge, he did not yet have the experience for it. An example of this would be right now for instance.
"Naruto, you still doing fine?" Jiraiya asked over the side of the boat. In the water Naruto was doing his best to stay on the surface of the water. It was quite easy to tell that the boy was freezing due to the slight blue hue of his skin.
"I-it's f-f-freezing, grampa!" Naruto replied while his teeth chattered together. Jiraiya chuckled at this. At least he got to enjoy the little things.
"Yeah, that does tend to occur when swimming in a lake." Jiraiya replied cheekily as he gripped the oars of the boat in his hands and with some effort, moved it next to Naruto.
"H-how l-long have I-I been in h-here?" Naruto asked. Jiraiya looked at his watch and felt some pride at Naruto's time.
"It's been three minutes." Jiraiya saw the happy look on Naruto's face at this announcement. He thought about letting Naruto stay in the lake for another minute but changed his mind. Let the kid have a break. With that thought in mind, Jiraiya reached into the water and grabbed Naruto's arm. Then he hauled the boy from the frigid waters and onto the floor of the boat where he began to shiver as he rubbed his arms in order to keep warm. Jiraiya threw a towel on the boy so that he could dry off.
"So are we going to have to do this every morning, grampa?" Naruto asked as he used the towel to dry his hair. Jiraiya began rowing before he answered.
"Yep." Naruto looked disappointed at this. "Oh don't give me that look. When I was your age my father would take me out into the ocean in order to do this, and trust me, swimming in the ocean is much harder than swimming in a lake. Now let's get some food."
"What food?" Naruto asked.
"Oh you know some deer."
"What deer? There wasn't any deer food in the cabin." Jiraiya let go of one of the oars and pulled a pistol from a holster in his jacket.
"And that is why we are going to go hunting." Naruto's eyes widened at this.
"That sound cool, y'know!" Naruto replied. Jiraiya chuckled at this as he put his pistol back into its holster and continued rowing.
"You say that now but just wait for when we actually have to work."
It had been thirty minutes since the duo had made it onto land and began hunting after Naruto put on clothes. Naruto had to fight off the ever looming boredom that assaulted him during this time as they looked around the woods. During this time, Jiraiya began to teach Naruto about tracking which Jiraiya was thankful that Kurama didn't teach Naruto. The two eventually found a couple deer tracks which they began to follow.
After ten more minutes of following the trail that the deer had made, Jiraiya grabbed Naruto by the shoulder and held him there. Naruto looked at his grandfather. "What is it?" Naruto whispered out.
"Crouch down and stay quiet." Jiraiya whispered back. Naruto followed the order and crouched with Jiraiya. The man then pointed at a clump of trees almost twenty feet of front of them. There in the middle of it was a deer that was eating grass off the ground. Jiraiya then pulled out his gun moved until he was behind Naruto where he held the gun in front of the boy at chest level. He then grabbed Naruto's hands and placed them onto the gun. It looked quite comical due to Naruto's hands being small compared to holding the gun.
Jiraiya pulled the hammer back on the gun. With Naruto's finger on the trigger, Jiraiya moved the gun so that it was aimed at the deer. "Do you have the target lined up?" Jiraiya asked. Naruto nodded. "You need to take deep breaths and calm yourself." Jiraiya could hear Naruto breathing in and out slowly. "Now hold your breath and squeeze the trigger."
It took a couple seconds for Naruto to gain the courage to fire the gun as a sense of excitement and fear filled him. Naruto slowly squeezed the trigger and the gun went off with a loud bang. The recoil of the gun was taken mostly by Jiraiya's arms but Naruto felt some of it enter his arms which caused his heart to beat quickly. The deer in front of them went down to the ground. Naruto let go of the gun and Jiraiya holstered it and patted Naruto on the head.
"You did a good job. Now let's get some food." Naruto smiled at the praise and followed after Jiraiya as they walked to the dead deer. Jiraiya picked up the deer quite easily and walked towards the area of their cabin while Naruto trailed after the older man. "I'll teach you how to shoot in a couple years when you get a little older. You're still too weak to handle the recoil of a gun." Jiraiya stated.
"And I'll get good at shooting like you and Mr. Morrison?"
"Yeah. Well, maybe not as good as me. After all, I am Jiraiya: Traveling Shooter of the World!" Jiraiya bragged humorously.
"I'll become even better than you, and that's a promise!" Naruto stated with confidence. Jiraiya chuckled at this. The boy certainly took after both Minato and Kushina in how he would just not give up. That characteristic of Naruto would definitely take the boy far in life.
"Whatever. Let's just eat this bad boy." Jiraiya said while gesturing to the deer.
After making it back home, skinning the deer, cooking it, and finally eating the creature, the sun had already set and both Naruto and Jiraiya had gone to bed as both would wake up once again to start their new training regimen. Naruto could hear Jiraiya snoring loudly from his bed in the cabin. Naruto on the other hand was still awake from the excitement of today. He was about to go to sleep as his eyes began to feel heavy.
'Hey Naruto, go outside.' Kurama ordered.
"Aww, but I'm tired." Naruto whined back.
'Trust me, it'll be cool.' Naruto thought about this for a second before getting out of his bed and walking outside of the cabin. The cool fresh air blew past his face as he looked around the area.
"So what did you want to show me, Kurama?" Naruto asked.
'I figured out how to control more of the Nanobots last night. Now hold your hand up.' Kurama replied. Naruto shrugged before holding up his hand in front of his face. A second later and a black circle formed on his palm. The circle then grew a ridge at the edge and the interior of the circle began to glow red.
"Woah. What is that?" Naruto asked as he inspected the palm of his hand. A second later and his hand was covered in a red ethereal claw shaped appendage. Naruto jumped slightly at seeing this. "What is that?" Naruto asked.
'That would be the Hard-Light projector at work. Now hold your hand at a tree.' Kurama said. Naruto complied and aimed his hand at the nearest tree. What Naruto didn't expect to happen was the claw to stretch out at the tree and grab the whole trunk before reeling him towards it. Naruto shouted in the excitement as the claw stopped reeling him in and let go of the tree trunk before shrinking back into a form that fit his hand.
"Kurama, that was totally awesome!" Naruto shouted as he aimed his hand at another tree trunk. Kurama humored the boy and stretched out the appendage once more and reeled the boy towards another tree.
'So, what do you think?' Kurama asked.
"Can this turn my whole body red?" Naruto asked.
'I could for about a minute. Unfortunately I can't do it any longer as of right now because I have to fix the energy consumption rate for the emitters first. I could work on it faster if we use the projectors more. Still, wanna try it?' Kurama asked. His tone was full of excitement at the possibilities for the emitters.
"Sure! I wanna turn red!" Naruto said excitedly.
'Of course you do. Now hold on.' As Kurama said this, more circular emitters began to cover his entire body while his face gained three black lines on each of his cheeks. Each emitter began to glow a crimson color before Naruto's whole body was quickly enveloped in a Hard-Light. Coming from out of his tail bone were none red tails that waved about.
"This is so cool!" Naruto stated as he examined himself.
'I have theorized that I could allow you to move at a much faster rate while you are in this form. Try to run back to the cabin.' Naruto complied and sprinted at the small cabin that was thirty yards away. He made it back to the cabin in five seconds. When he managed to stop, he tripped on his feet and fell onto his face before sliding at the door of the cabin. Strangely enough, he felt no pain at all. It was more like a slight numbing sensation that indicated that he had touched something.
"I tripped." Naruto stated with his face still firmly planted onto the ground.
'I can see that. Your emitters are about to power down in ten seconds. We'll have to work on this tomorrow if that is fine with you.' Naruto pushed himself from the ground and the Hard-Light that covered his body disappeared.
"Yeah, that was fun! We'll definitely do it tomorrow. I'll see you when I go to sleep tonight." Naruto said. He stood up from the ground and went back to his bed and let sleep consume him.
The next day Naruto and Jiraiya woke up together and started their daily regimen. It would start with Jiraiya hunting for food which he now brought Naruto with to help, then they would run around the woods for a while as Jiraiya told him stories about the world. Then they would spar together as Jiraiya wanted Naruto to be able to at least know the basics of fighting even if he wasn't strong enough to apply those skills just yet. Later they would have lunch, work on swimming, and finally hunt dinner together and go to sleep.
At least Jiraiya would go to sleep. Naruto on the other hand would work on using his Hard-Light emitters in order to use them for a much longer time period. This practice would continue for the next five years.
As they trained in the forests and hills Naruto grew stronger and faster. On his eight birthday, Jiraiya gave Naruto his first gun which was in the design of a revolver. He was given three packs of bullets. One pack contained 100 rubber bullets that were used by SWAT teams. The two other packs contained 100 hollow point bullets each. That day was also when Jiraiya began Naruto's gun fighting training.
During this time, it was also when Naruto came out to Jiraiya and told him of his and Kurama's training together. To say Jiraiya was surprised would be an understatement. But, once he got over his shock, they added using Hard-Light projectors into his training.
As Naruto trained with Kurama, he began to see the A.I. as an older brother which Kurama was perfectly happy with. They made up for quite the odd family, but each of the three was completely fine with the situation. On Naruto's ninth birthday, a surprise waited in the cabin for the boy as he entered it. Sitting in one of the chairs was an old friend that the boy hadn't seen for a while.
"REINHARDT! Naruto shouted as he ran towards a giant of a man. He jumped into the man's arms and hugged him which was replied to in kind.
"Hello young Naruto. You have gotten quite big." Reinhardt stated as he set the boy down. From the cabin's doorway, Jiraiya stood smirking with his arms crossed over his chest.
"I also get older, Reiny." Naruto replied.
"I can see that. So how old would that make you now?" Reinhardt asked.
"I am now nine." Naruto held up his fingers to Reinhardt that showed nine fingers raised to show off his new age. Reinhardt rubbed his beard and nodded.
"Of course. So how have you been during all these years?"
"Great! I got stronger and now I can use a gun! See!" Naruto removed from his orange jacket which he got during his eighth birthday, a revolver with the safety on. Reinhardt inspected the gun that Naruto held out in his palm.
"So your grossvater has begun gun training with you, eh?" Reinhardt asked. Naruto nodded which caused Reinhardt to smile. "That is great. You're that much closer to entering Overwatch."
"That's awesome! So how did you get here? I thought that me and grampa were alone out here?" Naruto asked as he took a seat in one of the chairs.
"Well, Jiraiya told Jack and I which safehouses that you and he would most likely be attending. I came by to say hello to you and speak to Jiraiya. I also got something for your birthday…" Reinhardt then pulled a bag from behind himself and set it on the table. He unzipped it to reveal that the bag had a couple of partially melted icepacks which he moved away from the object at hand. Naruto's eyes widened at what he saw next.
"I-is that…"
"Ja! Ice cream." Reinhardt responded. He opened the lid of the container and pulled out two spoons. "Ready to eat?" Naruto took the offered spoon and nodded.
"You are the coolest friend ever." Naruto replied. Then, the two dug into the bucket of ice cream and ate. Jiraiya just watched this interaction with barely contained laughter. Those two were completely ridiculous but he wouldn't expect any different. Eventually the two finished eating their ice cream and caught up about what they had done for the past four years. While they did this, Jiraiya walked over to a cabinet and pulled the doors open to reveal a small scotch collection.
He pulled out one of the slightly empty bottles along with a shot glass and poured himself a drink before walking over to the table and taking a seat with them. After listening to the two finish catching up with one another, Jiraiya tapped Naruto on the shoulder after they were done talking. "How about you go outside and train with Kurama while me and Reinhardt catch up." Naruto nodded before waving goodbye to the large man.
"So, what has happened at Overwatch while Naruto and I have been gone?" Jiraiya asked.
"Nothing much of importance. We did get a new member though." This slightly peaked Jiraiya's interests.
"So who would this person be?"
"A young man named Gérard Lacroix. He is an interesting young man and quite young as well. Boy's only twenty and yet he managed to get into our group."
"I'll have to meet this kid one day." Jiraiya said while taking a sip from his glass.
"You may end up doing so. He has been stationed in France as of right now. If you manage to end up there then you should check up with him. The boy is a bit of a romantic and is in a relationship right now. I don't know the girl's name. So has Naruto gotten any good after these past few years?" Reinhardt asked. Jiraiya nodded.
"The boy has been doing great. He also has been learning some new tricks from the A.I. that he has in him."
"What about the A.I.? Is it safe or should we still be worried?" Reinhardt asked with concern lacing his voice. It wasn't for if the A.I. went evil and tried to destroy the world, it was for Naruto as the boy's brain could be directly affected by this A.I.
"It's completely fine. Naruto and Kurama are like brothers. They take care of one another so I wouldn't worry about that. What I do worry about is the-" A loud crashing noise resounded from outside the cabin which shocked Reinhardt, "destruction…" Jiraiya groaned and stood up from his chair which Reinhardt copied.
The two walked to the door and opened it to reveal a fallen tree with Naruto standing besides it. He was covered in crimson ethereal Hard-Light with nine crimson tails waving behind him along with two large ears of Hard-Light sprouting from his head. When Naruto turned around to face the two, Reinhardt noticed the black markings on each of the boy's cheeks while his eyes glowed a crimson red with slitted pupils.
"Hey guys!" Naruto waved as if he was completely oblivious to the fallen tree next to his legs.
"Well…that is new." Reinhardt said with shock. His mind tried to comprehend the sight before him.
"Yeah. They are going to do just fine. So, would you care for a drink?" Jiraiya asked. Reinhardt dumbly nodded and both men shut the door of the cabin so that they could have some good scotch.
In a room a young boy with black hair stood. Surrounding him were destroyed training dummies with bullet holes in all their heads and hearts. He breathed heavily as he finally concluded his training for today. He had been training like this for every single day since he had first had awoken from his operation and showed no signs of his body rejection the implants.
At first, everything had been so slow for him. It felt like eternity for his body or anything else to move but he eventually managed to deal with the altered vision. Now it hardly bothered him. No, these days it was due to the immense headaches that he kept receiving everyday. They had steadily gotten worse over the years but he managed to keep it quiet just so that the doctor wouldn't do any of his tests on him.
The first few tests that he had gone through were quite horrible and he wished that they could be erased from his mind but the implants caused him to remember everything at all times.
He could remember when his parents had attended his first test. They had never acted like that to him during all his life. As he went through the pain that came from the massive electric shocks of what was hooked up to him at the time, he had seen his parents in attendance.
His father he could understand acting like what he did since the man was always quite distant at times. It seemed like he only acted close to him whenever they had to attend any major social event. His mother on the other hand…she is what terrified him.
The woman who was always there for him, always doted on him and encouraged him. She would take care of him whenever he was got hurt or she would go after the people who did manage to hurt him with a vengeance that only a mother could give. Instead, she stood next to his father and watched with a blank expression as he suffered. She did nothing to help him when he cried out for help.
He came to a realization that day. If he was ever injured or in pain, no one would be there to help him. This was why he had never reported any of the headaches he got these days. Today was an exception. Right now, his head hurt more than ever. It caused him to collapse on the ground in a fetal position as he felt his eyes shift into thermal vision mode. He closed his eyes and felt the throbbing headache slightly dull itself enough to allow him to get up.
Right now would be the first and only time he would ever go to the doctor on purpose. He staggered out of the training room and walked towards the doctor's office. The throb of the headache slowly returned and he quickened his pace and reached the office. He walked into the room to see the man in the hazmat suit tinkering with some helmet.
"Doctor, I need your help." The boy stated. The doctor turned around and clapped his hands together.
"Oh Sasuke, what a pleasure to see you…so why have you come here?" The doctor asked. Sasuke slowly staggered into the room before collapsing. The doctor slowly walked up to the convulsing boy on the floor. "Oh and what is this? You know, you could have come to me earlier." The man said as he walked to a table and searched through his tools before taking out a video camera. He walked back to the convulsing boy and started recording.
"Help me…" Sasuke moaned out as he clutched his eyes. It felt like his brain was going to explode. The doctor didn't answer and instead moved Sasuke's hands from his eyes. The doctor could see blood beginning to seep out of the boy's eyes.
"How sad, another failed project." The doctor muttered. Sasuke instead screamed in pain as he could definitely feel his brain doing something. His vision turned red a moment later. All of this pain that he was feeling, he only wanted one thing. He wished that his mother was here. Then the red turned to black and there was no more.
The doctor ended the recording as he looked down at the subject lying at his feet. There was thick blood mixed with some brain matter that was bleeding from his eyes, nose, ears, and mouth. The doctor sighed in disappointment. Why was it that all the subjects failed? Each one always died in similar ways. The only two that ever lasted were Itachi and Sasuke and in the end both still died. The design was meant to not take up space which was why it was placed within the eyes. It might have also been due to the photographic memory that the eyes forced upon the subject along with how they couldn't be removed.
But what would he do to replace it? He looked upon his work table and his eyes narrowed onto the spare helmet lying down upon it. That just might work. He walked over to the helmet and picked it up. Oh the things he would do with this.
But before that, he had one thing to do. He tucked the helmet under his arm and walked over to a comm device built into the wall and pressed the button. "I need someone to clean the trash in my lab. Please take care of it for me." He let the button go and walked to his table where upon he began to tinker with the helmet.
It was the end of the day for Naruto's birthday and Reinhardt was now giving his goodbyes to both Jiraiya and Naruto. It was a sad moment for Naruto as he probably wouldn't see his massive friend again for a few more years. "Naruto, I hope to see you again when you're big and strong. Then maybe you might be able to get into Overwatch then. Who knows?" Reinhardt said as he patted the boy on the head.
"I'll definitely do it, Reiny. Just you wait." Naruto replied.
"I will be waiting. I'll see you both again later. Goodbye." Reinhardt stepped out of the front door of the cabin and began trudging through the woods towards the nearest town which was located about two miles away. Eventually he couldn't be seen anymore due to the trees surrounding him and both Naruto and Jiraiya went back inside the cabin to clean up the mess made in the wake of their party before they went to bed.
It would be another year of repetitive training out in the wood before Naruto and Jiraiya discussed where they would be going next.
"Naruto, today is going to be the last day that we're staying here." Jiraiya said as both he and Naruto ate venison.
"Where are we going then?" Naruto asked. He knew this day would come eventually but he just didn't expect it now.
"We will be going into England tomorrow. I have a contact that will be meeting us tomorrow to pick us up. So we will need to pack for the trip after we eat." Naruto nodded and finished his venison quickly before running off and packing his clothes and gear into his duffle bag. When he finished, he set it down onto the table before Jiraiya.
"Well, that was quick." Jiraiya stated. Naruto just grinned at his grandfather cheekily.
"So how long are we gonna be in England, grampa?" Naruto asked with a excitement.
"I think around one to two years. I have some things I need to do in England first. Then we'll begin traveling through Europe." Jiraiya replied.
"Alright! I'm gonna learn all there is about England tonight! See you later grampa." Naruto then ran off to his bed and fell asleep where upon Kurama would begin shoving information into Naruto's brain. Did Jiraiya ever tell the boy how cheap that ability was? It was extremely unfair. Jiraiya eventually stood up from his chair and pack his dufflebag with all the essentials before he followed his grandson in suit by collapsing on his bed and sleeping.
Jiraiya and Naruto were awoken the next morning by heavy knocking on the door. The duo both groaned as they were woken up from their dreams and went to the door together to see who it was. When Jiraiya opened the door he was greeted to scarred face of his contact. A man with many intricate scars that appeared to be from some bomb blast greeted Jiraiya. He had long shaggy hair and wore Hawaiian shirt over a wife beater and a pair of cargo pants and boots.
"Ello there, Jiraiya. How's ya been?" The man asked.
"Good Max. You want some coffee or something?" Max nodded quickly and entered the premises. Jiraiya went into the kitchen and began to light the wood burning stove with a match. He then looked around and found the kettle for the coffee and filled it with the proper ingredients before setting it onto the stove. Max found himself a seat and sat down while he propped his feet up onto the table.
"So Jiraiya, what'cha been doin' out 'ere in the woods?" Max asked as he looked around the cabin.
"Oh you know, enjoying the nature." Jiraiya replied.
"Don'cha be cheeky ta me. What'cha really been doin' out 'ere?" Max asked once again with a massive grin revealing several missing teeth.
"Training."
"For who, you or the little lad dere?" Max asked while pointing to Naruto.
"The little lad as you call him." Jiraiya replied. Max began to inspect Naruto some more as he took note of the blonde spiky hair that seemed to be a trait of Jiraiya's.
"So is the little squirt Minato's brat?"
"Yup." Naruto finally interrupted at this point.
"I'm not little! I'm actually getting pretty big!" Naruto replied. Max turned to look at Naruto.
"Unless you are five foot eight and twenty one, then you be a squirt ta me." Max replied which caused Naruto to cross his arms and pout. "Maybe one day you'll get bigger. Til' then, you just be a wee man."
"Hey Naruto, how about you take the bags to the car outside?" Jiraiya asked. Naruto got up from his seat and picked up his and Jiraiya's dufflebags before exiting the cabin.
"Cute kid." Max stated.
"He is a handful though. So anything new in England since I've last been there?" Jiraiya asked.
"Well, the Omnic population there is definitely being treated quite horribly. So many fights 'ave broken out there. Then again, you'll find that in pretty much every city with an Omnic population." Both heard the kettle begin to whistle and Jiraiya went over to it and took it off the stove.
"So, what would you recommend?" Jiraiya asked as he poured two cups of coffee.
"I would recommend that ya try to not say yer last name. Not many people there are fans of Minato." Max replied. Jiraiya handed Max a cup and he began sipping on it. "Other than that, the city has reestablished itself quite well after the crisis." Max finished the rest of his coffee which amazed Jiraiya at how quickly that man could drink his coffee. Then Max walked out of the cabin. Jiraiya drank the rest of the coffee and set his cup down. He looked at the cabin that he had lived in for the past five years and smiled at all the memories that were made here.
He walked outside of the cabin and closed the door behind himself. Then he pulled out his key from his pocket and locked the door. After the door was locked, Jiraiya went to the car and sat in the passenger seat. "So, let's get going Max." Jiraiya said.
"Aye Jiraiya. We be going there now. Buckle up lads!" Max then slammed on the accelerator and the car went back extremely quickly before stopping two feet from a tree. Max then put the car in forward and they took off down the dirt road with Naruto screaming in the back. Jiraiya sat calmly in his seat as he was used to the recklessness of Max's driving.
They traveled the countryside for the next few hours which gained Naruto's awe at the rolling hills and cliffs of Scotland. They passed a few villages on their way to England and eventually the passed a short wall made of stone that traveled the expanse of land for miles.
"What's that?" Naruto asked from the back seat.
"That lad, is known as Hadrian's wall. Been 'round for longer than I've been alive." Max replied. For a long time the group was quiet in the car. Naruto decided to go to sleep and watch movies with Kurama, Jiraiya just cleaned his gun on the dashboard of the car, and Max continued to drive silently.
A day passed and Jiraiya eventually fell asleep while Max kept awake through sheer willpower and a bag of coffee beans that he munched on. It was the dawn of the next day that Max woke the duo up.
"Jiraiya, Naruto, time to get up!" He announced. Both Naruto and Jiraiya yawned before awakening to cramped muscles and joints. "We be here, lads!"
"Oh thank God!" Jiraiya shouted.
"Freedom!" Naruto shouted and both man and boy got out of car as quickly as they could and began stretching their limbs out. Jiraiya turned to the car where Max was still sitting inside.
"Thank you for the ride, Max. It was a real help." Jiraiya said. Max got out of the car and walked over to Jiraiya and both men shook each other's hand.
"No problem, Jiraiya! We'll have to go to the pub one day to catch up. See you and the lad later. 'Ave fun on yur journey!" Max quickly got back into his car and left Naruto and Jiraiya at the edge of the city of London.
"So Naruto, what do you think of England so far?" Jiraiya asked.
"It seems like it could be cool. We'll just have to see." Naruto replied. Both of them began to walk towards the city where Jiraiya led the way through the crowded streets. Naruto noticed how there were posters on the walls of the city that were supporting good relationships with Omnics but most of them had large amounts of graffiti on them that mainly said that they should be destroyed. This surprised Naruto as he had never seen this much abject hate against Omnics before.
The two eventually made it to one of the safehouses that Jiraiya owned and they enetered it. The minute they entered, Naruto's eyes widened as the building contained racks upon racks of weapons, tools, and armor. "Grampa, this seems like it's a lot." Naruto stated.
"Not really. I have four other places like this in London. It's part of the job requirement for me at least to have so many safehouses." Jiraiya replied like it was completely obvious. "Now Naruto, I am going to have to do some things while I am here that are pretty boring so how about you go out and find something fun to do."
"Wait, isn't it kind of inappropriate for an adult to leave a kid alone?" Naruto asked.
"Nah, you have Kurama with you and he is a responsible adult. Now go out and have some fun. I'll see you later." Jiraiya stalked off into the safehouse and towards the computer room while Naruto shrugged and exited the building where he stood looking up and down the street to find something to do.
He decided to take a left and walk down the street. London was quite packed at the moment with many people. 'So what would you like to do first?' Kurama asked.
"I don't know. I was thinking about just walking around for a while and seeing where my feet would take me." Naruto replied. He noticed that there were very few Omnics on the street and those that did wander the area seemed extremely cautious as if they were in a field of land mines. Naruto passed an alley where he could hear a large commotion. He noticed that no one was trying to investigate so he took it upon himself to do it.
What he noticed terrified him. In the alley, four teens were beating an Omnic to the ground. Noticing that no one appeared to wish to help, Naruto rushed into the alley and did the only thing that popped into his head, he drop kicked the first teen that he could see.
"Ow! What the fuck!?" The teen shouted as he hit and slid on the ground. The other teens turned their attention to the newcomer of the alley.
"What are you doin' here, kid?" One of the teens asked.
"I am stopping you guys from beating up that Omnic!" Naruto replied. One the teens walked forward with a iron pipe in his hand.
"I think that you need to get out of here or bad things could happen." In response, Naruto held his fists up and was completely ready to brawl with the older teens. He took notice of the two other teens that stood behind the first teen.
A second later and the teen with the pipe rushed at Naruto and swung his pipe. Naruto ducked under the pipe and gave the teen an uppercut to the jaw. The teen reeled back from the hit and Naruto punched the teen in the stomach which knocked the air out of the boy. He fell to the ground while trying to get air back into his lungs. The two other teens were slightly hesitant to go against the younger boy but one of them gained their courage and charge with his fist raised.
Naruto leaned to the side and avoided the oncoming hit and grabbed the teens wrist and punched him in the crook of the elbow which caused his arm to cave in. Naruto followed it up by a haymaker to the teen's temple which managed to knock the teen out. The last teen looked at his comrades and how they all laid on the ground in defeat. He took the smart option and ran away from Naruto and down the alley.
All of this caused Naruto to smirk before turning his attention to the Omnic still on the ground. He approached the white machine humanoid and leaned down to it. "Are you okay?" Naruto asked. The Omnic's blue eye flickered with life and turned to look at Naruto.
"Behind you." It stated. Naruto was unable to react as he was punched in the back of the head by the teen that he dropkicked earlier.
"Yeah, didn't see that coming now didja, fucker?" The teen then kicked the boy in the side with glee. Naruto slowly turned to look at the teen. "What'cha looking at you Omnicsexual? I'll beat you to the ground!" Naruto noticed some movement from behind the teen but decided to keep his eyes focused on the boy in front of him. It paid off as a metal pipe hit the gloating teen in the back of the head which knocked him out.
Standing victoriously over the teen was a short girl with short brown spiky hair and brown eyes. She wore a gray jacket and orange pants. "Cheers love, the cavalry's here!" She stated proudly. She dropped the metal bar and held her hand out for Naruto to grab which he did. Naruto was pulled up from the ground.
"Thank you." Naruto replied.
"Are you alright? Seems like you took a bit of a hit there." The girl asked. Naruto nodded.
"Yeah. I'll heal up. So who are you by the way, if it's okay to ask?" The girl smiled.
"It's completely fine. Name's Lena Oxton. What's yours?" Lena asked.
"I'm Naruto. Pleased to meet you." Naruto said while holding his hand out. Lena shook it.
"How 'bout we talk later." She said while pointing to the unconscious teenagers surrounding him.
"Yeah." Naruto walked over to the fallen Omnic and put it's arm over his shoulder. Lena came over to the two and assisted them with carrying the Omnic out of the alley. "So where do you want to go?" Naruto asked. The Omnic pointed down the street so Naruto and Lena helped carry the Omnic down the street. After a few more turns they made it to a slightly rundown apartment where a few Omnics stood together. They ushered the two kids towards them and took the injured Omnic off their hands.
Before the injured Omnic was carried into the building, it signaled it's brethren to stop. They turned it around and it looked at both Naruto and Lena. "I thank you both for helping me, Naruto, Lena." It then turned it's full attention to Naruto, "You honor me for helping me, my brother. You do our father proud." The Omnic was then brought inside with the other Omnics following behind.
Lena turned Naruto. "So, that was wicked! I never knew that Omnics would know you." Lena stated. Naruto scratched the back of his head.
"Yeah well, my dad did kind of invent them." Naruto stated. This caused Lena's eyes to widen.
"Wait! Ya mean that Minato Namikaze is your dad?" Lena asked with shock. Naruto nodded. "That is totally wicked! I'm meeting a celebrity!" Lena stated with excitement.
"You're taking it a lot better than other people." Naruto said.
"Why wouldn't I take the news well? You are a nice guy, after all, you helped someone that needed it. That would make would make you a hero, yeah?"
"I guess." Lena then grabbed Naruto by the shoulders.
"Then why would anyone hate you?"
"Well, not a lot of people like how my dad built the Omnics. Because of that, they don't like me."
"Well, I'll like you." This made Naruto turn slightly red. "So are you American? You sound like it." Lena stated.
"Yeah."
"Then why are you in London? Seems a little far away."
"My grampa and I are traveling around the world. We were up in Scotland for a few years until yesterday when we came here." This caused Lena to smile.
"So you are new to England? Then that means I can show you around!" Lena stated. Naruto thought about her offer and immediately accepted it. After all, he could always use a new friend and he was new to the city. "Then let's go!" She shouted and grabbed his hand. Naruto was then dragged behind his new friend as they went to multiple places in London that Lena enjoyed.
The two ended up in multiple places in London from the Tower of London to the clock tower known as Big Ben. They stopped by a place called the Borough Market where Lena introduced him to some of the food of London, which Naruto paid for.
After they had the London cuisine, they finished up his small tour at the top of a Farris wheel known as the London Eye. As the basket they were in went down towards the ground, Naruto felt quite happy. He managed to make a new friend and have a fun time doing it.
"So how didja enjoy today?" Lena asked. Naruto leaned back into his seat and smiled.
"It was really fun. We'll have to do this again some time." Naruto replied.
"Yeah, that's for sure. So how long are you staying in London, Naruto?" Lena asked.
"I'm going to be here for a year or two depending on what my grampa is planning. I plan to enjoy myself beforehand."
"After you're done with traveling around the world, what are ya going to do next?" Lena asked with curiosity plaguing her.
"I'm going to join Overwatch and become a hero." Naruto stated with confidence and pride.
"That is wicked. I'm planning to become a pilot when I get older." Lena stated. "Maybe one day we'll meet up with one another."
"That seems like an awesome idea." Their basket finally hit the ground and they were let off. The two walked about for a while longer before separating and heading off to their respective homes. When Naruto entered the safehouse, he saw Jiraiya polishing some guns on a table. He didn't even look up from his progress as Naruto came in.
"So how was your day?" He asked.
"It was great! I made a new friend, her name is Lena." Naruto replied.
"Sounds like a good day." The gun that Jiraiya was polishing was set onto the table and he stood up. "Want to watch some TV?" Jiraiya asked.
"Sure." Naruto replied. The two walked into another room and sat on a couch together. Jiraiya then turned the TV on and they surfed through the channels.
And there you go another chapter ready for action. Now we are in England for a bit. Hope you all enjoyed it. Soon we'll hit Europe. What will the doctor do next? Where will Jiraiya take Naruto after England? And how will Max ever get back home without a speeding ticket?
Who knows?
Find out next time. Stay frosty my friends.