Chapter 6: Ramen and Blonds

The night was dark. They usually are, but this time silhouetted against it was something darker.

"Ami?" Kisame asked sleepily.

"Yes?"

"Where is Orpheus?"

"… Probably best not to ask."

"Also, what are you doing in my bed?"

Orpheus explored. There didn't seem to be much of this village. He stopped at a place with its light on that looked like a noodle bar.

"Give me something tasty?" He asked. The old man at the counter decided that this meant ramen. He looked at the prices, ramen was 700 yen. He passed the stranger a bowl of ramen.

"That will be 900 yen please."

The stranger grinned. "Not a chance."

"800 yen?"

"Nope".

The old man sighed. "700 yen."

"That's more like it." Orpheus looked around the place. It looked like a fairly decent kind of noodle bar. There was no-one one the right of him and there was a little blond kid sitting to the left of him, eating ramen noisily. A flick oh the kids chop-sticks and a small amount of liquid spattered on his face. He had killed people for less. The kid looked back at him.

"Sorry about that." The Kid said. A small ball filled with red mist came from Orpheus's hand. He placed it on the counter.

"What's that?" The blond asked in wonder

"Rage ball. Stops me killing people." Orpheus looked at the kids eyes and then at the ball. He passed it to the blond. "Here. Take it. It's yours."

"Wow thanks mister! My name's Naruto! What's yours?" Orpheus could see that Naruto was a little bit strange.

"But not as much as Sekai". He thought aloud with a grin.

"What?" Naruto asked in a puzzled voice.

"Nothing. Take care of that ball". He got up to leave.

"Wait, aren't you going to eat your ramen?" Naruto asked hoping that he wouldn't so that he could eat it.

Orpheus considered this. "You have it. I used your money anyway." He grinned widely. "My names Orpheus. Catch you later!"

Narutos mouth opened wide and his hand went to his wallet "What?! All gone!!! Damn it!!!!" He calmed down after a minute and picked up that ball that the stranger had left. "Well, at least he's friendly; he could have killed me at any time! I

couldn't even see him take the money!" He finished his ramen and stashed the ball in his cloak. "Better go and see sensei about this in the morning!"

Orpheus watched him go from the rooftop of a nearby building. He smiled widely. "I can't wait to see what happens when they find out about that ball!" Then he decided to go to sleep.