Bringing the fox out of hiding.

Now my friends begins the second chapter of this story. First a few replies to the comments

EliSiS173: Yes he will, though whether it's another one of the 8 kings is a mystery. Sunny has mother snake, Coco has the crow and Toriko has the battle wolf. I may go the route Zebura has and opt for no partners. Though if I do go the partner route I have three ideas for it. Two are in the air and the third is another of the 8 kings.

KingOfPowers: I've already decided on which tailed beasts will be added in, them being the Rokubi, Hachibi and I haven't made up my mind on the Yonbi. Though the Sanbi as a soup dish is interesting, though it won't happen. I will say the Shinju will not be making any appearance at all, period.

I've also been given several private messages that brought up a few interesting ideas but I had to turn them all down as they would not fit too well with how the Toriko world is set up. To be perfectly clear with everyone, Naruto like the other four heavenly kings was an orphan that the IGO president picked up on one of his many trips and decided to bring him along once he saw Naruto had some gourmet cells within him like the other four did.

Also to note, creating new ingredients and such is much much harder than you'd think. so like the manga itself does I would appreciate if commenters would add in their own ideas for ingredients/beasts. capture levels will be of my choice as I will decide when to add them in. having a capture level 600 beast as your addition wouldn't be showing up until gourmet world. Have fun with that as in Toriko, the ingredients/beasts don't have to make sense, they just got to taste good. Hell look at some of those beasts, a turtle that has magma on it's back?! The fuck were they smoking?! And Marijuana snails? HOW?!

Naruto's current full course

Hors d'Oeuvre- Lovers kiss(capture level immeasurable)
Soup-undecided
Fish-undecided
Meat-undecided
Main-undecided
Salad-KusaTora(capture level 65)
Dessert-undecided
Drink-undecided (wants ShinSake, capture level immeasurable)

Hinata's current full course

Hors d'Oeuvre-Lovers kiss(yes they would both share this, get over it)
Soup-undecided( wants to get Lunasoup, capture level 1056)
Fish-undecided
Meat-undecided
Main-undecided (seasoning for it decided oddly enough)
Salad-Ozone herb(yes that herb, I figure given it's nature she'd like it)
Dessert-undecided
Drink-undecided

Again all Toriko characters and Naruto characters are not mine to own. all creatures and ingredients that do not show up in the manga/anime are of my own design

After reluctantly leaving the dancing hall the two combo's sat at a small diner that had set up shop on the outskirts of the town to cater to singles who had just broken up with their unfaithful lovers. Two minutes in Toriko already had a small hill of plates set to the side from his catching up in lost time. Toriko had cried anime tears seeing the diner despite it's intentions as he now could eat some tasty food instead of the plain food around the town.

Naruto sighed sipping his sake dish. " You never change Toriko, still have an appetite that could collapse a small economy."

Toriko huffed between dishes. " Like you're one to talk Naruto. Who was it again that made a dozens shops close in succession from having run out of a months worth of food?!"

Indeed on Naruto's side there were plenty of dishes as well, though a bit smaller than Toriko's it had been steadily growing as well since they had arrived. Though a majority of it Komatsu had noticed were made from bowls previously holding Ramen.

Naruto gave a dignified scoff as he sipped at his sake again. "I haven't a clue what you mean my dear Toriko-chan. All I recall is several employees thanking me for getting a month of paid vacation."

Off to the side the two resident cooks of their respective combo partners watched with deadpan expressions.

Komatsu on the way to the restaurant had been star struck with Hinata who Komatsu had been informed along the way had been Setsuno's first apprentice and had on her own risen to the ranking of 143rd best chef in the world with the title of 'Lunar princess Hinata' on account of her out of this world cooking mixed with her pale moon-like eyes. Komatsu of course had immediately asked for an autograph which she had humbly given with a bit of a blush in embarrassment.

Komatsu couldn't help but say in a quiet voice as they watched. "He's definitely got Toriko's appetite if that's remotely true, and that slightly snooty yet refined way of sipping sake is definitely Coco and Sunny mixed together."

Hinata felt her lips twitch to a smirk hearing that as she glanced to her fellow chef. "I take it you've met the others then?"

Komatsu nodded his head rubbing the back a little bashfully. "Y-yeah, I even met Zebura recently when we went to find the Mellow Cola."

Hinata nodded. " I bet that trip was difficult."

Komatsu nodded. " I was almost killed several times by wild beasts, one even put me near enough to death had I not got lucky."

"I meant with Zebura being there."

Komatsu gave a shaky laugh at that. "Y-yeah, though he wasn't so bad once you get to know him."

That got a a pair of snorts from the two Bishokuya's who had been listening to their respective partners.

Toriko gave a light chuckle. " Yeah I suppose he did behave marginally to the point he wasn't outright trying to fight me every five steps."

Naruto gave a bark like laugh at that. " Well out of all of us he did like us better as we wouldn't back away from a scrap or two with him, as for you..." He lazily ran an eye over Komatsu before turning his eye and shared a nod with Hinata. "Yeah he likes chefs a tad so long as they 'don't get cocky' and give him tasty food."

Komatsu again gave a bashful laugh scratching his cheek. "I-I'm not that good."

Hinata hums to herself. " Mmm I'd say you have talent my friend. These eyes can easily spot talent amongst other things and I can say with certainty that you will cook and do amazing things."

Toriko laughed seeing Komatsu blush from that. "Well I can't deny that, he's done quite a few things already most chefs wouldn't have a chance to."

Naruto smirked setting his sake dish down. " Yeah I bet. Especially with that list that damn old man gave us huh, me and Hinata already got a few things from our list. And of course..." in seconds Naruto's eyes sharpened battle lust and his arm blurred towards Toriko's face, Komatsu gasped even as Toriko calmly flashed his own left hand up to meet the strike.

A metallic clang stopped all activity in the diner as they looked over to see what happened.

Komatsu shivered a moment as an image could bee seen, a large fork that was holding back a clawed hand. With a blink the image disappeared to show Naruto's hand in the same position the claws had been as well as Toriko's fingers holding it back much like the fork had. Komatsu for a second thought he also sawa faint red glow around the hands as well but shrugged it off when it disappeared.

Naruto's smirk grew wider. "You got stronger Toriko. Been eating tasty things?"

Toriko returned the smirk with one of his own. "Still trying to prove yourself copy-cat?"

Their banter has cut off as two hammer blows struck their heads smashing the both of them through the table into the floor.

Hinata glared down at them both as they held large comedic bumps on their heads. "DON'T FIGHT INDOORS! YOU'll BREAK SOMETHING!"

Komatsu who had jumped back in shock from the sudden violence had a small gloomy cloud over his head and observed the now broken table and the pile of broken dishes as he thought "But, you did more damage then the both of the combined..."

Toriko whined quietly rubbing the bump on his head. "Dammit your wife still manages to hurt me no matter how much stronger I got!"

Naruto smirked as he held back his own wince of pain. "Yeah, part of why I love her. Makes you want to hurry and get married to Sunny's sister huh?"

Later~~~~

Once the damages had been paid off Toriko brought up the reason he came in the first place. " Naruto I'm going to need your help with one of the items on that old mans list."

Naruto waved that off. "I'd rather not. The list he gave me is half done already and I only agreed to it because it wouldn't get in the way of our honeymoon. In fact I should thank that old man Because the KusaTora became my 'Salad' so that helped a bit."

Toriko smirked behind his wine glass as he went for the kill. "Well, that old man had given me something he may have meant for you. Something I'm sure you'd like for your soup... The Gold Ramen."

Hinata sighed exasperatedly turning to her husband to gauge his response to that. She was not disappointed as though his face kept a calm, almost uncaring look, a literal waterfall of drool was coming from his mouth, completely ruining the nonchalant look he'd been trying to give.

Naruto shut off the unintentional water works and coughed trying to regain his dignity. "I see, I guess that old man probably did that to get me back out in the open. Or to cut off the honeymoon seeing as he had promised to pay for it all."

Toriko deadpanned. " Wait, you convinced him to pay for everything?! That's why you had such a ridiculously long honeymoon!?"

Naruto smirked rubbing his fingers together as if pinching two coins together. "Hey, money makes the world turn, and if I can get something free I milk it for all it's worth."

Toriko shook his head sighing. "Well you damn miser, how about it?"

Sharing a nod with his wife/combo partner he grinned foxily at Toriko and Komatsu. " Alright, you're on! Let's go get the Gold Ramen!"

Alright that's the end of the second chapter.

Yes Hinata is Setsuno's first apprentice much like Nono. I like Nono and think she may get with Komatsu romantically later on. Anyone else agree? I mean seriously little short player there since he's already got Melk the second interested in him somewhat

Yes Naruto has his own attack similar to Toriko but with claws instead of a knife. More will be revealed in the next chapter.

Also you have no idea how difficult it was to think of a unique trait Naruto could have that hasn't already been used, so I had to mix and match as well as twist a few things to add in to make it somewhat unique.