Naruto woke up quite happy today. Then again, he finally saw the movie Terminator after Kurama had managed to convince him to watch it. When he got ready for the day and went into the kitchen, his mind was occupied with how he could be as cool as the robot in that movie.
"Maybe I should get a catchphrase, y'know." Naruto remarked as he ate his cereal. Kurama chuckled in response. "What's wrong with that idea, Kurama? It would probably make me seem cooler."
'There are a couple things wrong with that idea. For one: you already have a catchphrase, y'know. The second reason is because it would make you seem ridiculous and clichéd.' Kurama responded.
"Well I think I should get a catchphrase, like I'll be back." Naruto rebuked. This made Kurama bellow out laughter.
'That is hilarious. You should be a comedian with how stupidly funny your ideas are. I think I never should have introduced you to the Terminator last night.' Kurama said with some regret.
"It was still awesome with how that lady crushed it in that compactor."
'Agreed. So what is the plan today? Are we going to go train, hang out with Lena, or try to discover some new powers?' Kurama asked. Naruto finished his cereal and walked to the sink where he set the bowl in it.
"Weren't you listening yesterday? Lena is gonna come over and we are gonna try to do more superpower things today!" Naruto replied.
'I was resting yesterday. You may have found hanging out with Lena to be fun but it bored me.'
"How can you even sleep? You're an A.I.?" Naruto asked in confusion. Kurama sighed at this which Naruto knew meant that his partner was either getting annoyed or about to go on a rant.
'I can sleep. It is known as powering down. Maybe when you have the mental capacity to process most of the known internet and some of the unknown, then you'll be able to understand my situation.' Kurama smugly replied.
"Now you're just bragging." Naruto grumbled back.
'It's only bragging when you can't do all that you say. No, what I say is fact. And fact is I am amazing.' Kurama stated with a chuckle. Naruto shook his head in annoyance.
"Keep telling yourself that and I'll keep eating my breakfast." Naruto replied.
'Whatever, but I did have an idea for an ability that we could try later.' Naruto's attention was officially on Kurama now. This made him feel giddy.
"What ability did you mean? And why didn't you figure out some abilities to use earlier? Then I wouldn't have had to do so much thinking." Naruto asked as he finished his food. Jiraiya walked into the kitchen and like clockwork, he grabbed the carton of milk and drank it before grabbing whatever was edible in the food at the time and eating it.
"Morning Naruto," Jiraiya greeted.
"Hey grampa." Naruto replied. Jiraiya took a seat across the table from Naruto and leaned back into the chair.
"Naruto, I have some news to tell you," Jiraiya began with a straight face. Naruto could tell that this was a serious moment as his grampa was much more loose in everyday situations than this.
"What is it? Did something happen to someone or something like that?" Naruto asked.
"No, nothing happened to anyone that we know of. What happened instead is that I got a call from Jack. Apparently there have been some criminals that have been attacking banks in Paris. Normally the police would have been called in but these guys have some strange augmentations that are in small terms, over the police paygrades. Since I'm the closest to Paris right now, I was called in…" Realization slowly dawned on Naruto's face when he heard this.
"Then…are you saying that we're leaving?" Naruto asked with a tone of disappointment. He knew that he would eventually leave England, but not as soon as right now.
"Yes. We'll be leaving in a week in order to catch a boat which will take us to Paris. When we get there, we'll be meeting up with an agent there who will be letting us stay with him." Jiraiya stated.
"Why a boat and not a plane?" Naruto asked in confusion.
"I try to avoid planes whenever possible. There are too many unknowns and I hate having to deal with security in the airports." Jiraiya replied. This made Naruto confused as they had taken a plane to Scotland originally.
"But then why did we take a plane to Scotland?" Naruto asked. Jiraiya gave Naruto a deadpan look.
"Would you have liked to spend a month on a ship instead of a few hours on a plane because I definitely wouldn't?" Jiraiya said as he finished up his hastily constructed breakfast.
"I guess not…" Naruto said. His morning had now been ruined by his grampa, and some criminals in France. He wondered how Lena would take the news. "Hey grampa, will we ever be able to come back to England?" Naruto asked.
"That would probably be doable. But we would probably only to be able to do it once in a while or something like that. Maybe you should try to find a way to communicate with her while you are away. After all, you do have the entirety of the internet inside of your brain." Jiraiya stated
"Alright…but then that means that Lena and I are going to be hanging out all week and you can't stop us." Naruto stated. Jiraiya nodded.
"Then you better hurry up because you're burning daylight, gaki!" Jiraiya said before his eyes widened.
"What was that last word?" Naruto asked.
"Oh it was nothing. Just some Japanese that I thought I blocked from my speech." Jiraiya replied quickly with a grin plastered on his face. This always confused Naruto as to why the man never told him about his time in Japan. Whenever he asked Jiraiya would always say, 'I'd rather not talk about it' which certainly annoyed Naruto to no end.
'Hey Kurama, what does gaki mean?' He asked his partner mentally.
'It is a Japanese word that can be translated simply as brat. So yeah, our gramps just called you a brat. Amazing.' Kurama replied with a chuckled.
"Whatever Kurama." Naruto said in response.
It would be another thirty minutes before Lena would arrive at the safehouse and both children went into the training room where they began to work on a new move for Naruto. Or in more exact terms, do what Kurama wanted.
"So what are am I doing again, Kurama?" Naruto asked as he stood in the center of the room. Lena stood a few feet away with a helmet on in preparation for Naruto causing some type of explosion.
'I figured out a much better way of protecting you than the Hard-Light form you use already. Just activate the emitters and I'll take care of everything.' Kurama replied. Naruto grinned as emitters popped up over his body and three bar marks appeared on his face.
"Now what?" Naruto asked. A second later and Naruto's vision flashed gold before that receded. When he looked down at his body he saw that it was covered in a golden form with black markings over it. None of his original skin color or the color of his clothes remained. Instead it was covered in a shining golden light that moved about him like flames. "Okay, that is really cool." Naruto looked up at Lena, "What do you think, Lena?" Naruto asked.
"That looks amazing. A lot cooler than your other form. So what can it do?" Lena asked. That made Naruto think, what was the real difference of this form compared to the other?
"So, what is the difference, Kurama?"
'You could probably let a building fall on you and you'd most likely be able to walk out without a scratch. I also made it so that you'll be able to go faster due to putting more strength in your body, especially in your limbs. I'd recommend trying to run.' Kurama replied.
Naruto had an idea on how to test is speed. "Hey Lena, get me something to throw, please?" Naruto asked. Lena did as asked and pulled off a ten pound weight from a barbell which she dragged over to Naruto and set at his feet.
"Wow that was heavy." Lena remarked.
Naruto stretched his arm out and a golden arm stretched off of his hand and picked up the weight which retracted into his hand. "Alright, stand out of the way, Lena." Naruto warned. Lena rushed out of the area and hid behind a makeshift barricade. "Okay, let's go!" Naruto threw the weight across the room, and then he ran after the weight.
From Lena's perspective, Naruto was there one moment and a flash of light later, and he was on the other side of the room where he grabbed the weight from the air. "That was amazing, Naruto. So much faster than the red form." Lena said. Naruto grinned at this. Suddenly the golden form dispersed and Naruto's eyes widened as the weight in his hand became too much before dropping to the ground.
It narrowly avoided Naruto's foot before rolling away. "What the heck, Kurama?!" Naruto screamed out, "That timed out much quicker than my tailed mode!"
'Sorry about that but the new mode is using up more energy with boosting your speed, strength, and toughness. We'll need to work on it but other than that setback; it certainly is an upgrade that I've been working on for a while. At least we didn't explode.' Kurama replied. Naruto just sighed in annoyance.
"Well Lena, guess I am going to need to do a lot of training if I wish to actually use that form normally." Naruto stated.
"And are you sure that you won't explode?" Lena asked.
"I am not going to explode." Naruto replied.
"Good." Lena said as she walked out from behind the barricade. "So what now?" Lena asked. Naruto thought that now was a good time to tell Lena about what would be happening in a week.
"Lena, I need to tell you something…" Naruto began, his face slowly becoming a stony expression. Lena was completely oblivious to this and just smiled.
"And what would that be, love?" Lena asked.
"Grampa and I…we are leaving in a week…" Naruto finished as he let that revelation wash over himself as he finally accepted that he would be leaving his friend. Lena's expression soon fell and she had a look of shock on her face.
"Wh- but we were still hanging out? I thought you said that it would be a year before you left?" Lena replied as she began to comprehend this new development.
"Grampa got a call and now we have to go to France. I don't want to leave either Lena but I have to." Naruto said with disappointment. Lena had the making of tears edging down her eyes.
"But I don't want you to go!" Lena shouted before running over to Naruto and gripping him in a hug in some vain effort to somehow keep Naruto with her. She didn't want her friend to leave, her only friend. Naruto returned the gesture and looked down at the girl who was keeping herself from crying. Naruto was trying to do the same.
"I don't want to either. But, I'll come back one day and that's a promise, y'know." Naruto stated. Lena pulled herself back from the hug and looked up at the boy.
"Y-you better." Her voice wavered. "After all, you have to come fly with me when I get my license." Lena said. Naruto nodded.
"I remember." Naruto said in a solemn voice.
"You said we have a week, yeah," Naruto nodded, "then we'll just have use all the time that we have left!" Lena said with a smile that was quickly plastered on her face. She used the sleeve of her shirt to wipe the tears out of her eyes. "Come on, we don't have any time to waste!" With that Lena dragged Naruto behind her and they both made a beeline for the door. Jiraiya watched this interaction with a chuckle before going back to reading on his computer.
One week later and both Naruto and Jiraiya stood before an old boat. Across from them stood Lena and the two other Oxtons. Naruto and Lena were both giving one another tearful goodbyes while Jiraiya shook hands with both Oxtons.
"Well, I guess this is it." Lena said with tears running down her eyes.
"Yeah. But we have each other's phone numbers so at least we can talk to one another." Naruto said in a way to comfort Lena even if he himself was crying.
"Oh, before you go, I have something for you." Lena said as she pulled her backpack off. Now Naruto knew why she had brought that with her. She rummaged about her pack until she slowly began to pull something out that was colored both orange and blue. She then held the object before Naruto and he could see it for what it was, an orange jacket with blue shoulders and a while collar. "I got this for you since I thought that you could use a jacket to match your pants." Lena stated.
Naruto slowly took the jacket from Lena's hands and held it with a reverence. "I don't know what to say…" Naruto replied.
"Then put it on." Lena said. Naruto grinned and slowly put on the jacket. It was comfortable yet also a little loose. In Naruto's mind though, it was perfect.
"Thank you, Lena. I'll take good care of it!" Naruto replied.
"Hey, Naruto, we have to leave." Jiraiya said from behind him. Naruto turned around.
"Just give me a minute." Naruto said before turning back to Lena. "Guess that's my cue. I guess we'll need to meet up one day." Naruto said. Lena moved up close to Naruto which caused some of her spiky hair to tickle his nose. "What are you doing?" Naruto asked. As Lena began to fiddle with his jacket. She backed away and Naruto looked down to see his jacket zipped up.
"Now that just looks perfect, love. And I'll hold you to your promise of coming back, ya hear!" Naruto nodded.
"Yes Fabulous Lena." Naruto said. And in an instant Lena rushed up to him and kissed him on the cheek. Then before Naruto could see her blush, Lena ran back to her parents. Naruto was absolutely speechless at what just occurred even as Jiraiya grabbed him by the back of his jacket collar and pulled him away and onto the boat.
"Alright Connor, start us up!" Jiraiya yelled out as the boat's engine thundered aloud and with a lurch, the boat began to move forward through the water.
"Bye Naruto! Call me when you get to France!" Lena shouted from the docks. Naruto managed to shake himself out of his stupor and waved back at his friend in a robotic fashion.
Eventually the boat sailed off and Naruto walked back over to Jiraiya who had a full blown smile on his face. "What are you so happy about?" Naruto asked.
"Nothing lover boy." Jiraiya replied.
"Gramps, I have a question," Naruto began. Shock still filled him.
"What would that be, Naruto?" Jiraiya replied as he began to lean on the boat's handrail. Naruto looked at Jiraiya.
"What just happened?" Naruto asked as his mind was still trying to comprehend Lena's action.
"Well, sometimes when a boy and a girl like each other very much, weird things happen. If you want, I can give you some reading material that could help alleviate your issue. But to say it in layman's terms, sometimes it means a girl really likes you." Jiraiya replied as he tousled Naruto's hair.
"Girls are weird, y'know." Naruto remarked.
"That's what you think now. Give it a few years and your mind will change. Now, we should probably go to Connor and see where we will be going." Jiraiya said. Naruto looked at Jiraiya in confusion.
"What are you talking about; I thought we were going to France?" Naruto asked.
"That is the destination in mind, but I need to make a stop at one of my contacts." Naruto was about to speak his mind but Jiraiya shushed him, "He also lives on a house boat about twenty miles off of France. We'll be going to visit him in order to resupply some weapons and for me to get some information."
"Why can't any of your contacts just call us normally instead of making us go on extremely long trips to get a few sentences of information?" Naruto grunted out in annoyance.
"It's because most of my contacts are absolutely paranoid and that is needed for this line of work. You'll understand when you are older." Naruto was still not calmed by this information but he stayed quiet as he knew that he couldn't win against the older man.
As this line of thought entered his mind, he was quickly drawn out by the deeply tanned bearded man in a Hawaiian shirt with a robotic right arm who walked up to both of them. "Jiraiya, we have a problem." Connor said in a very calm voice.
"What is it?" Jiraiya asked.
"There are four speedboats that have been following us. I don't know if you are expecting company or not but I would recommend that you lock and load." As Connor said this, he pulled a massive revolver from the back of his pants. Naruto guessed that the arm helped with firing that massive thing.
Jiraiya nodded and pulled out his own revolver while Naruto followed after. "Is it me or do we all really like revolvers?" Jiraiya asked.
"Who cares. Let's just take care of these assholes. Make sure not to damage my boat. I just got it." Connor stated.
"Naruto, take cover. You as well, Connor. I'll see what they want." Jiraiya ordered. Naruto hid under one of the benches of the boat while Connor hid by the wheel. The boats eventually pulled up to their boat. Jiraiya took cover by the railing of the boat.
"Jiraiya and Naruto Namikaze, come on out with your hands up!" One of the men shouted.
"What do you want?" Jiraiya asked.
"We want the A.I.! Now where is it?" The man asked. Oh, so it was Vishkar. Jiraiya suspected that they would pop up again one day but he didn't expect it to be now. At least they didn't know that Kurama was inside of Naruto. Jiraiya could work with that.
"I destroyed it! I made sure that no one would be able to get it, just like now for instance!" Jiraiya replied.
"Sorry, but it doesn't work like that." The man shouted. Jiraiya poked his head out from the railing and noticed that the four boats held three men each. Damn, twelve men and only six bullets. He couldn't crawl over to his suitcase to grab his other guns. Jiraiya pulled out six more bullets and set them down next to himself.
"You guys really don't know when to quit. I'm going to give you one chance, drive off and you get to live, otherwise I'm going to put a bullet in each one of your heads." Jiraiya stated extremely calmly as if ordering food.
"That's it, boys! Fire!" Jiraiya took this chance and poked up from the railing and fired off six shots. Each one made it to their target and Jiraiya ducked back down under the railing. Naruto quickly jumped up from his hiding place and fired at the men, he hit two men, one in the arm and the other in the leg.
He was covered by Connor who took care of the other four. Jiraiya reloaded his revolver and stood back up. The two other men were ended with two shots to the head. "Naruto, your aim was terrible!" Jiraiya remarked with a grin.
"Hey! Blame the shaking of the boats for why my aim was off. I'm not used to it!" Naruto retorted.
"Keep telling yourself that. Connor, get us out of here as quick as you can. I want to make sure that we aren't around when their backup comes by." Jiraiya ordered as he sheathed his revolver into its holster.
"Let's head to Acier's place then!" Connor shouted as turned to his wheel and started the boat up once again. In less than two minutes, the four boats were lost in the horizon and they were heading off to their next destination.
It would be hours later when the group came upon a gray boat with a white house that looked as if it was hastily attached to it. Connor's boat pulled up to it and Naruto was ready to walk onto the houseboat but Jiraiya grabbed him by the shoulder. "No, only I can go, otherwise Acier might just blow your brains out. I'll be back in thirty minutes." Jiraiya said as he pulled himself up the railing of Connor's boat and jumped onto Acier's.
"Why are all of grampa's friends so weird?" Connor gave a glare to Naruto in reply. "Sorry." Naruto quickly finished. Connor nodded and threw a sponge at Naruto's head. "Hey, what was that for?!" Naruto asked.
"Help wipe the salt off my boat, don't want to get any damage on my boat just yet." Connor said as he began to wipe his boat now. Naruto absolutely hated the task he was assigned, but he figured out a great way to get it done quickly.
'I found a way to train our new form, Kurama.' Naruto thought.
'Do it!' Kurama replied eagerly. Naruto grinned at this and his body was covered in golden flaming light. A second later and a gold blur zoomed around the boat before stopping at where Naruto was originally. The boat was now completely clean much to Connor's shock.
The golden form lasted for another ten seconds before it dispersed. 'That is the greatest way ever to use superpowers.' Naruto stated.
'Definitely. But we will need to train repeatedly in order to use that form more often. We could possibly speed the process up by absorbing energy which would theoretically increase our power supply but I haven't a clue as to where we could absorb the amount of energy that would be used to power a city.' Kurama remarked.
'Guess that option is out for now then. We'll just have to do it the old fashioned way. So one question, why is the form gold?' Naruto asked.
'It uses a higher energy output which causes a brighter light. I removed the tails from the form in order to conserve energy. Also, you'll be back at full power in fifteen minutes. Then you can try again.' Kurama said.
So after being alerted to this new information, Naruto waited and when he was alerted that he was at full power once again, he activated his gold mode and ran around the boat twice as well as stayed in his form for a full thirty seconds. Twelve minutes later and Jiraiya pulled himself onto the boat with a bag full of munitions. Jiraiya also looked a lot more rugged and he was sporting a large bruise on his forehead.
"That took a while, grampa. What's with your face?" Naruto asked as he stared at the bag of guns that Jiraiya was carrying.
"Acier wasn't in a happy mood," Jiraiya grumbled out, "the man threw a pot at my face and then for the next two minutes he tried to knife me. In the end after getting him hammered drunk, I convinced him to give me some guns." Jiraiya then dropped the bag of guns onto the deck of the boat.
"Why are we getting guns here instead of at the safehouse in Paris?" Naruto asked.
"When we get to Paris, I wanted to be locked and loaded for when we enter and take down the group that has been showing Paris one hell of a time. We'll also need to be ready to work since we are the backup. None of the other Overwatch agents are available for this mission. It's just us." Jiraiya said in a serious tone. Naruto grinned and cracked his knuckles.
"All they need is us. We can do this!" Naruto replied. Jiraiya nodded and began to fish through the bag of weapons and pulled out a folder.
"This is the dossier of the mission. I would suggest you read it as these are the details of the group that we're going against." Jiraiya handed the folder over to Naruto who took and opened the file. Inside were multiple documents that had pictures attached to them.
The first had a picture of a bald man covered in tattoos. None of his skin was shown as it was covered under a layer of ink. One of his arms was missing and instead a Gatling gun took its place.
Sean O'Brien
Age: 29
Scottish
Sex: Male
Wanted United Kingdoms for the murders of over one hundred civilians in a subway. Used to be mercenary before criminal activities. Is known for using his gun arm to shoot off the arms and legs of his victims. Has extreme hatred for legal authorities.
KOS
The next page had a woman with one eye while the other was covered by an eyepatch. She had scars all over her arms while in each of her hands were machetes covered in blood. She had a feral grin on her face as she stood over the bodies of two soldiers. In any other situation, she would've been beautiful, in this moment of stilled clarity, she was a monster with blood red hair.
Cat
Age: Unknown
Nationality: Unknown
Sex: Female
Nothing is known about her except rumor that she came from Australia. She has augmentations in her legs which give her immense speed which allows her to use her machetes in combat. She only uses her machetes.
KOS
The page after that had a third person who wore a grey overcoat which covered his body with grey gloves, boots, and pants. His face was completely covered by grey gasmask which gave him a fearful appearance.
Crocket
Age: Unknown
Nationality: Unknown
Sex: Unknown
Stay away from at all costs. Is known for entering random buildings and killing all those inside. No explanation is known for why Crocket is working with Sean.
KOS
Overall, they keep seven other mercenaries, psychopaths, etc. as an entourage. All members have KOS labels. They have managed to trek throughout all of Europe, Russia, and China without being stopped. Have encountered Overwatch twice and yet they managed to still escape.
The photo for this file contained pictures of seven figures committing various acts of violence. Naruto closed the folder in disgust and looked up at Jiraiya. "Grampa, why at the end of each of their files do they have KOS?" Naruto asked.
"It stands for Kill On Sight. The world has labeled each and every single one of them as too dangerous to be imprisoned. I have fought them once and I nearly lost my life to them. This is one of the few times I can easily admit that I nearly died. Whatever happens, this will be the most dangerous situation that you've ever had to deal with." Jiraiya said as he pulled out an assault rifle and began examining it.
"Don't worry, grampa, with your awesome shooting skills and me and Kurama's hardlight, we'll take these guys down." Naruto said with bravado. Internally he was sweating over this information. If his grandfather nearly got killed by these guys, then how tough were they?
At a shooting range, two people stood. One was Jesse McCree aiming down the sight of his revolver. The other was Gabriel Reyes who stood over the teenager with a dispassionate look on his face. "How was that Mister Gabe?" Jesse asked. He had managed to get a new set of clothes which was made up of a tan shirt, dark brown pants, and a new hat. These were probably the best clothes he had ever gotten as he didn't have to commit any crimes in order to receive them. No blood money was involved.
These past few months had been a change that Jesse greatly accepted. It was also the first time he had anyone who actually cared about his wellbeing, even if said person didn't like to show that he cared. Jesse could easily remember his first day of training with Gabriel which involved the man in question taking his gun so that he could be trained in how to fight with just his hands. This was due to him just specializing in gun fighting.
Gabriel handed Jesse his ass that day.
Now though, Gabriel had been training Jesse in how to speed up his shooting. After beating his record of scoring bullseyes on ten targets in six seconds, Jesse lost his grip on his gun as his fingers were extremely sore from the training. The gun fell to the ground and Jesse felt a small smack up the back of his head.
Jesse rubbed the area that was hit and looked at Gabriel who had a disappointed look on his face. "Never drop your gun. It is to be respected otherwise what use is your gun." Gabriel said.
"But I couldn't hold my gun anymore." Jesse whined. Gabriel shook his head.
"Never let your gun hit the ground. No matter what." Gabriel said. Jesse sighed and leaned down and picked up his revolver. He wiped some dust off of it and put it back into its holster.
"Hey, at least I am getting faster. You have to admit that!" Jesse said smugly. Gabriel snorted before he began to walk away from Jesse.
"You're doing good work. Keep it up." Jesse's eyes widened at this compliment. He rarely received them and it was always an amazing feat to actual get one from Gabriel. Jesse ran after the older man and walked next to him.
"So what's next Mister Gabe?" Jesse asked.
"Lunch." Gabriel said in the usual cold tone that Jesse was used to.
Naruto and Jiraiya stepped off the boat together. Jiraiya had covered the top of the dufflebag with some cloth in order to not display the large amount of weapons that would probably scare the hell out of any civilians that noticed them. In front of them stood man in a gray wool sweater with black pants. His brown hair was slicked back while his body looked completely relaxed.
The young man grinned before walking over to Jiraiya. "Monsieur Jiraiya. How are you? My name is Gerard Lacroix. I am to be your escort." Gerard said as he walked up to Jiraiya and held his hand out. Jiraiya held his own hand and shook Gerard's.
"I'm so happy that you got our message." Jiraiya stated with a grin.
"Oui. I was quite surprised as well when I got a message to meet you in this location. I thought that you didn't like to make contact with anyone unless necessary." Gerard said. Jiraiya nodded before patting Naruto's shoulder.
"You can thank Naruto here. He managed to get the message out to you. We did this because we wanted to meet up with you immediately to plan." Jiraiya said. Gerard looked down at Naruto.
"Well, it is quite a pleasure to meet you, Naruto." Gerard said with a smile.
"It's nice to meet you too, Mr. Lacroix." Naruto replied. Gerard looked back up at Jiraiya.
"Please, let me take your bag for you, Monsieur Jiraiya. You are the guest here and it would make me feel like a terrible host if you had to carry your bags here." Gerard said. Jiraiya smirked at the hospitality being displayed.
"Sure. Here you go." Jiraiya said before handing his bag to the young man. Naruto handed his bag to Gerard who took it graciously. Gerard began to walk towards a gray truck and set both Naruto's and Jiraiya's bags in the back.
"Hope on in, I'll give you a tour of the magnifique Paris." Gerard said. With that, he turned the truck on and they began to drive off. They traveled through Paris and took a look at the sights.
"So where did the KOSs attack?" Jiraiya asked.
"They have been hitting banks recently. They just appear and disappear faster than we can catch them and now they attacked the docks." Gerard replied.
"Any idea as to where they could be?"
"No, they are quick and precise which is quite surprising for a group of psychopaths." Gerard said.
"I got it. I'll look into it when we get to HQ." Jiraiya stated.
"That's good. So will you be having dinner as well? My Amelie will be cooking tonight and she is an amazing cook." Gerard said as he turned the truck. Naruto listened to his stomach grumble. This caught the attention of Gerard. "I see that it will be a yes from you." The group chuckled before they pulled up next to a gate. Behind it lay a small two story building with a large courtyard. Gerard pressed a button in the truck and then pulled the car into the courtyard and parked it. The group got out of the truck and Naruto and Jiraiya grabbed their bags after convincing Gerard to let them carry their own bags.
They approached the building and entered it and the trio were quickly assaulted by the smell of delicious food being made. "Amelie, I'm back and I have guests!" Gerard called out.
"Just a second, I'll be right out!" Amelie shouted back. Gerard grinned at this and motioning for Jiraiya and Naruto to set their bags down. A few seconds later and a tall woman with long black hair that reach down to the tail of her spine walked into the room with a smile on her face. She had a curvy figure that Jiraiya appreciated immensely and wore a pair of black pants with a purple shirt that was covered by an apron.
"Hello, you two must be the Namikaze's. It's a pleasure to meet both of you." Amelie said before walking up to Jiraiya and kissing him on both cheeks before kneeling before Naruto and doing the same. This caused Naruto to blush which Amelie found adorable.
"Oh you are just so mignonne! Can we keep him, Gerard?" Amelie asked as she squeezed the boy into a hug which managed to squeeze Naruto's face deep into her chest which made Jiraiya quite jealous at the attention Naruto was getting from the beautiful French woman. Gerard chuckled at this.
"I'm sorry mon amour but he is here with Jiraiya to help with the KOS group." Gerard replied. This caused Amelie to pout before she let Naruto go which caused Naruto to take a big gulp of air.
"What's with girls kissing me? It's weird." Naruto asked quickly which caught the attention of Amelie who smiled.
"Oh, girls are already kissing you; you'll surely be a heartbreaker when you get older." Amelie stated. She eventually stood up, "La nourriture est prête." Amelie stated. As Naruto listened, he found it quite jarring that Amelie and Gerard kept switching between languages.
'I could help with that problem if you wanted.' Kurama said.
'What do you mean?' Naruto asked.
'We have the whole of the internet at our fingertips. It would be quite easy for me to just download the French language into your brain.' Kurama said. Naruto thought about this before coming to a decision.
'Do it after dinner when I'm going to bed.'
'Alright.' With that, Kurama severed their mental connection. The group of people then walked towards the kitchen where they found a feast before them.
"You outdid yourself, Amelie." Gerard stated.
"Well, I didn't know how much the guests would eat. I may have overdone it." Amelie said with a small hint of embarrassment.
"No, that will be big enough." Jiraiya said. Amelie and Gerard looked at the older man.
"Really?"
"Yes, Naruto here eats a lot. It's quite ridiculous actually." Amelie and Gerard then looked down at the young boy with some disbelief.
"If you say so, even if he is really tiny." She trailed off. The group took their seats around the table and began to load their plates with food. Both Amelie's and Gerard's doubts about Naruto's hunger were squashed when they saw the boy devour all the food before him.
After the delicious dinner, Gerard and Amelie showed Naruto and Jiraiya the sleeping quarters of the base where Naruto got ready for bed. Jiraiya instead walked off to where the computers were located so that he could study the information on KOS team.
'Hey Naruto, have you forgotten something?' Kurama asked. Naruto stopped what he was he was doing and began to think. 'Yeah, let it roll around your mind for a bit.'
"Oh man, I gotta call Lena!" Naruto shouted out before running to his bag in order to get his phone. Kurama chuckled at his partner's flailing as it was quite funny to watch Naruto act all upset about calling a single girl, even if she was quite likable. Though the girl was extremely…perky which Kurama found to be annoying at times.
In summation, the girl was easy to deal with in small doses, in large amounts though then she got grating. Kurama listened in to the conversation that Naruto was having with Lena but he eventually grew bored with the conversation and instead began preparations for inserting a whole language into his partner's head.
It would be something much larger than anything that he had done before, he would wish for Naruto to be asleep when he installed the information into his head.
"And now we are here at the Overwatch base with one of the members, Gerard. He's really cool, y'know! And Amelie is also really nice. But I am really nervous." Naruto stated.
"What do you mean by that, love?" Lena asked.
"Well, we are going up against these really strong guys and all of them are really evil and kinda scary." Naruto said.
"Oh…" Lena paused and thought her next words out, "That shouldn't bring you down, you are really strong, the strongest I know, and you made me a promise that you would come back when I could fly a plane." Lena said. This slightly cheered the depressing mood that Naruto was in.
"Thanks Lena. I guess that's all I have to say…" Naruto trailed off before remembering what happened earlier, "Hey Lena," Naruto began.
"What is it?"
"Earlier before, you, well, you kissed me. What was that all about?" Naruto asked.
"I'll tell you when you come back to London." Lena said hurriedly with a giggle in her voice before ending the call on Naruto.
"Oh come on! What is with everyone telling me things later!?" Naruto asked. Kurama laughed at Naruto's displeasure.
'Maybe the world just likes to see you squirm. It is quite funny to watch you run about like a decapitated chicken. By the way, you should try and go to sleep now since I need to upload this language into you and I don't think that it would be wise to stay awake during this.' Kurama warned. Naruto nodded and put his phone back into his bag. Then he walked over to his bed and jumped into it.
"Night, Kurama. See you in the morning."
'Goodnight.' Naruto closed his eyes after this and fell into a dreamless sleep. Kurama took this as his chance to begin the process. 'Uploading Language: French.' Kurama stated. A progress bar appeared before Kurama and steadily grew. 'This is going to take awhile.' Kurama whined.
Gerard and Jiraiya both sat in the break room together. After reading all he could, the old man took a break and had been joined by the younger agent. "So, anything new?" Gerard asked.
"No, nothing of interest. All the reports are uninformative which is quite annoying. I think I'll be taking a break from it." Jiraiya lifted his head up with a grin as he looked at Gerard. "I do have a question for you." Jiraiya said. This caught Gerard's interest.
"And what would that be?" Gerard asked.
"How did you and Amelie meet? It seems like it would be quite the tale." Gerard chuckled.
"Well, to put it simply, I went to the beach and there I saw the most beautiful thing I had ever seen rise from the water. It was Amelie and she made me speechless. For some reason she began walking towards me and eventually she came right up to me. I will always remember what she said after that, 'you look like a cute fish'. I tried to stammer something out be she had disappeared. But I wished to see her again so I came to the beach the next day." Gerard leaned back in his chair.
"She once again walked up to me and once again, I was speechless. This time she took my hand and put a piece of paper into my hand. I looked at it and it was a note that told me to meet her at a restaurant. I managed to gather the courage to go to the restaurant and yet, I was still speechless. When we were asked to order our food, I spoke for the first time and I said-"
"-fish." Amelie said as she walked into the room. Jiraiya grinned at this.
"Wow. That is a weird way to start a relationship, then again, my wife used to beat me up when we were kids." Jiraiya said.
"That is quite interesting. Would that be due to your pervertedness?" Amelie asked. Jiraiya smirked at this.
"You're good. What gave me away?"
"You were staring at certain parts of my body for much too long. And you are the author of a very dirty book series." Amelie said.
"Agreed. So, when are you two getting married?" Jiraiya asked.
"It is in one month. We decided to invite our parents and the other Overwatch members. You could attend if you wish." Gerard said.
"That would be an honor." Jiraiya said. Amelie walked over to Gerard and sat in his lap which cause Gerard to smirk at this "So how long have you two been together?"
"Three years." They both answered together.
"Then I hope you both have a good life together." Jiraiya yawned and looked at the clock in the room. "Well, it is getting really late; I'm going to go to sleep." Jiraiya said. The older man stood up from his chair and walked out of the room. "I'll see both of you kids tomorrow. Don't stay up all night." Jiraiya said with a laugh.
Gerard and Amelie looked at one another. "Bedroom?" Gerard asked.
"Bedroom." Amelie agreed.
And there you go. Another chapter and yes I know that it has been a while and my explanation was that I was on vacation. It was amazing by the way even if it was fricken freezing even in the summer.
Either way, we made it to France, wonder what's going to happen next? Guess among yourselves. Stay frosty my friends.