Welcome gathered friends and listen again to another legend of a whiskered warrior.
I've wanted to write that down for quite a bit. So here we have the next installment of Nora's storm, in this chapter we have our lovable blond going through Concord making friends, saving lives and killing everyone. Well almost everyone. From Sanctuary to Diamond city and everything in between. Without further wait, please enjoy and leave a comment.
ps. Please don't crucify me for the content of this chapter.
After spending a day going over all the new beasts of Boston, Naruto and Nora left their house suited up and heading for Diamond City. Naruto had strapped a Tier 4 (T-4) Electric Augmented M-9 pistol to his right thigh and a T-4 Plasma M-9 pistol to his left, both with advanced receivers, extended barrels, poly grips, and large quick eject magazines. On his lower back, he strapped two T-4 Fire Augmented Combat shotguns with round drum magazines, tactical barrels, recoil compensating stocks, reflex sights, and compensators. Slung across his back was a DKS_501 Sniper rifle with a 15x scope and a Tier 4 Hybrid Elemental Augmentation. Nora was given a T-4 Energy Augmented Suppressed Tactical High Caliber Reflex Automatic ACR-W17 with extended fast mags, holographic sight, two times FMJ, energy rounds, laser sight, tactical flashlight, heartbeat sensor, and foregrip courtesy of Naruto and Codsworth.
They passed the Red Robin gas station and went to Concord. The sound of gunshots rang out from the distance, Naruto looked to Nora before running toward the sound, pulling out a pair of Elemental augmented M-9 pistols on the way. When they reached the city, Naruto jumped to the rooftops and he discovered a group of settlers being assaulted by a band of raiders in the chapel by the Museum of Freedom.
Running end of the houses he leaped off the building spinning in mid-air and fired six shots with his right pistol hitting two in the shoulder, one in the head and two body shots to the last one as their bodies fell, he landed, turning around he lined his pistols to the two left standing and put two shots into their necks, the one on the right bursting into flames while the left one burst into goop. Putting his pistols away he turned to the cathedral and called out "Hello, this is Naruto Uzumaki, leader of the Minutemen, is anyone hurt in there? I have stimpacks and other medical supplies if needed."
"We got someone seriously hurt and one with a scratch. Ya can come in, but I'll be watching ya closely." A low baritone rung out from inside.
Nora arrived and Naruto gestured to her to stay put. He walked in and pulled out a pair of stimpacks. On the ground by the altar, was a young woman, her limp hands on her stomach over a bullet wound, with a young girl on her left helping staunch the flow. A man came up to Naruto as he ran over to her, skidding on his knees as he reached her, " Young lady, I need you to listen very carefully to me. What's your name?" Naruto asked.
"Kaylie," the young girl responded.
"Ok, Kaylie I'm going to flip her over. Can you help me? I need to make sure the bullet isn't still inside her, ok?" At her nod, they rolled the woman over, seeing an exit wound Naruto carefully lowered the woman back and administered a stimpack. Pulling out a bottle of water, he carefully lifted the woman's head and had her drink some water. He leaned back and watched as the wound slowly closed as the stimpack did its work. After a minute he injected the second stimpack and the wound closed. He grabbed some antibiotic pills from his bag and gave the woman two. He placed the water bottle on the ground and got up. He turned to the man "She'll live, she will be very thirsty for the next day or so. Make sure she gets enough fluids into her." There was a quiet rumble that echoed from the center of Concord. "I'll need you all to stay in here and hide. Stay quiet, we've got company."
"More Raiders?" The little girl asked.
"Worse." He responded.
Nora heard the rumble echo off the buildings and raised her custom ACR-W17. "Nora! Get to the roof of the Museum. There's power armor up there and we need it yesterday! Go!" Naruto tossed out a fusion core to her. She started running, as she reached the door, she heard a roaring echo from the other end of the street. She bashed the doors open and jumped over the gate, grabbing the ledge there. Pulling herself up, she turned on her jetpack and leaped to the next floor. Reaching the door to the roof and the crashed Vertibird, she ran to the suit of power armor and inserted the core. Turning the release, she hopped into the armor as a roar shook the building. She ran forward and ripped the minigun off the vehicle, as a monstrous beast exploded out of the ground. Its black scales glistening in the sunlight standing over 8 feet tall hunched over, was one of the commonwealth's great beasts, a Deathclaw.
At the entrance of the museum, stood Naruto, twin shotguns in his hands staring down the beast. It pulled back it head in a mighty roar and charged towards the blond and he charged at it. Nora leaped off the roof with a thunderous crash and stood ready to fire the massive gun. The deathclaw swung it massive claw at Naruto, but he jumped over it and lined up his right shotgun firing three shells at the beast's face blasting out its right eye. The beast howled in pain and slammed its left hand into Naruto, flinging him into one of the buildings. Nora took the chance and revved up the Minigun. The beast turned to her as the bullets started flying. It lifted its arms to protect its face as the rounds shredded the hide on its arms and chest. The deathclaw started advancing on her.
Nora keeping an eye on the ammo left in the gun and where Naruto was getting up from the hit, slowly moved away from the beast, keeping the same distance between them. She left off the trigger as Naruto charged the beast, shotguns shredding the beast's shoulder joint. Turning around the deathclaw swung at him. Naruto leaped over the beast's arm and onto its back with a final glance at the beast he rammed the gun into the eye socket and fired once pulping the inside of the skull killing the beast. Getting off the corpse, he went back to the cathedral and knocked on the door "It's safe to come out now. The area's clear and I have a settlement nearby that you can go to if you need somewhere to stay."
"Thanks, ser it was real nice of ya to help us." The man responded.
"Follow me, I'll lead you to Sanctuary. I've just got to pick up something on the way." Naruto leads the three of them out of the chapel and through the streets and he passes Nora and grabs the deathclaw's tail. Dragging the deathclaw, they made their way to Sanctuary.
As they passed the Red Rocket, a German shepherd came running out from behind the station and toward the deathclaw corpse. It's tongue flapping out of its mouth and tail wagging wildly. The settlers drew their guns and pointed but a raised hand from Naruto stopped them from firing. He stepped in front of the corpse and held a hand in front of the dog. It stopped and sat down in front of him. Naruto turned around, pulling out a switchblade cut a small slice of meat off and gave it to the dog. "Hey there little guy, where's your owner?" The dog lets out a sad whine. "You want to come with us boy? We have free food." The dog perked up and barked happily running around them all barking the whole way. Naruto held out a hand and the dog ran up to him as he petted the dog's head. "Now what to name you?"
"I like Christopher." Nora piped up. "I had a dog named Chris when I was a kid and I've always wanted to get another one."
"Christopher it is then. Welcome to the family Christopher." And the dog was named Christopher.
After dropping off the deathclaw corpse and the power armor for Sturges to fix up, they headed their way to Diamond city. On their way to Diamond city, there was some commotion at the diner off the road. Naruto and Nora approached the situation and heard "Hand over the Goods Trudy! We had a deal and you need to pay up!" The man outside the diner yelled out.
"I ain't giving you poison selling shitstains jack shit! Do you have any idea what your shit has done to my boy?" Naruto walked up to the two outside, while he sent Nora into the diner. The two before Naruto whipped out pistols and pointed them at him and Nora.
"Whoa, hold on, easy there, travelers. This doesn't involve you two."
"Keep pointing those guns at us and I will make it involve us. Now let's talk this out like people and not like idiots. Now, Nora, there is going to talk whoever is in the diner and I'm going to get the story from your point of view. Now tell me your name and what is happening here."
"What's happenin' is that I sold some jet to Trudy's son over there, and he got addicted to it and now that I've come to collect the debt the boy owes us, she refuses to pay us." The man replied, "And the name's Wolfgang." Nora exits the diner and walks over to Naruto and tells him the same thing, that they sold some drugs to Trudy's son and got him hooked.
"Okay, so if I've got the story straight so you sold Patrick some jet and kept his order on a tab, and now you are here to have Trudy cover her son's debt to you, however Trudy is refusing to do so on the account that it was your fault that her son got addicted to the chem, and now we are at this standoff with neither side moving on its stance. Nora since you've got a law degree what should happen here?"
"We'll two hundred years ago, Wolfgang and his partner here would be arrested for carrying and distributing drugs of any sort. However, Patrick knew what he was getting into so he should have to pay the debt himself, through either by payment or labor. I have discussed it with Trudy and she has come to the agreement that she will pay for her son's debt. I have with me a tin box of caps with the proper amount of payment. Take it and go." She hands over the tin container to Wolfgang and his assistant and they leave the area. Naruto and Nora enter the diner and order some food from Trudy for lunch.
"So, babe, when does that frag grenade go off?"
"When they open the box."
After finishing their meal, they travel down toward Diamond city. For a while, nothing out of the ordinary happened until they approached Cambridge. Naruto's pipboy picked the signal up first, coming from the old police station. "This is Scribe Haylen of Reconnaissance Squad Gladius to any unit in transmission range. Authorization Arx. Ferrum. Nine. Five. Our unit has sustained casualties and we're running low on supplies. We're requesting support or evac from our position at Cambridge Police Station."
"Well looks like someone needs our help. Let's get moving. Beware of Ghouls they are everywhere here so be aware, point something out if you see anything and make sure we don't get surrounded." They moved into the city and so far, nothing happened, they reached the police station and a man in full power armor came up to them. "I don't know who you are, thank you for coming, I've managed to fight off the ghouls so far but there are too many to fight on my own and I have a man wounded. Scribe Haylen, get Knight Rhys inside and get him healed. You tow civilians I'll talk with you later, for now, we have ghouls to kill." And there was a screech that sounded out of their surroundings, sending chills down their spines.
"Nora. Remember that sound, it will save your life. I'll tell you why afterward and hopefully we never will hear it again." Naruto commented as he lifted his shotguns.
"Nora take the position by the door. Soldier, take the mid, I'm in front. Watch your fire and call out targets." The ghouls hit the mines outside the wall surrounding the station "Here they come." He raised his shotgun as the first ghoul entered his sight and fired blowing it to pieces. Turning to the other entrance aiming and firing killing two ghouls as they appeared. A laser shot fired behind him hitting a ghoul as Nora shot the next. A minute later corpses of feral ghouls lay at their feet. And Naruto reloaded his shotguns and Nora her ACR-W17.
"We appreciate the assistance, civilians. I am Paladin Danse of the Brotherhood of Steel. What business do you have here in Cambridge and where did you come from?" Danse asked.
"My name is Naruto and this is my wife Nora. We were on our way to Diamond City when we heard you distress beacon and came to help." Nora answered. "And what's with the questions?"
"Our mission here has been fraught with complications and setbacks since we've arrived. We've suffered casualties and loss of equipment and now we can't get word to our superiors for assistance or reinforcements." Danse responded. "If you two would like to assist us. It would be greatly appreciated."
"What do you need done?" Naruto responded.
"Inside first, Scribe Haylen has all the details."
"Nora, that Screech you heard before the fight was the sound of an approaching ghoul hoard. During the infrequent Radiation storms that blow up from the southwest often have ghoul hoards within them usually numbering the hundreds maybe even the thousands. The reason why is that the feral ghouls feed off the radiation fueling them, and the glowing sea down south is their birthing place, where they have nothing to do but reproduce rampantly, it's one of the main reasons why the glowing sea is so dangerous besides the perpetually high radiation and the radiated creatures within. The largest of them being what I've called Gojira in respect to those old movies you show me before. Now let's head inside and see what he needs." and they entered the building.
"Nice of you to join us, Scribe Haylen please inform these two of what you told me earlier today," Danse ordered.
"I've modified the tower of the police station to be able to send a distress call to Elder Maxson and the Prydwen, but the signals too weak to reach it, however, we need something to boost the signal. We need a Deep Range Transmitter and there is one in the old ArcJet Systems Facility."
"We need to infiltrate the facility, find and secure the transmitter and bring it back here for Scribe Haylen. Now, are you still willing to lend us a hand?" Danse asked. Naruto nodded and Nora agreed. After a quick rest, they left the police station and headed out towards the alleyway beside the building. They followed the road until they saw a caravan getting held up by a trio of raiders and Naruto whipped out his Hybrid Elemental T4 DKS-501 Sniper rifle equipped with a 15x scope and set his sights on the first raider, as the raider was lining his shot up for the pack brahmin. Firing off the first shot the Raider's head exploded and the following two shots did the same to the last two. Putting his rifle away he marched up to the caravan with Danse and Nora on his heels. "Are you guys ok?"
"Naruto. We do not have the time to assist them, we must get moving." Danse urged.
"Nora head on further with Paladin Danse. I'll take care of things here. Meet me there." Naruto responded.
"Come on, Mister Danse. Knowing him he'll be there before us with an annoying smirk on his face that makes me want to kiss and kick him at the same time." Nora said with a shake of her head. The two of them ran off farther down the road.
"She knows me so well. Now, are any of you hurt anyone bleeding?"
"No just a little spooked I guess, nice shots by the way." One of the two guards commented.
"Good. Now I'm going to ask you for a favor. There's a settlement to the North West of Concord you'll find good business there. Can you take any shipments and or orders from them and run them where they are needed? You will be paid fairly for this upon arrival. However, take off with whatever goods you receive and you will regret being saved from these raiders, I can assure you that. Now I have to catch up to my darling wife and her current companion so I bid you adieu." Naruto requested. He then ran toward the ArcJets facility and sat down to wait, pulling out a mutfruit.
When Nora and Danse arrived at the facility, Naruto had just finished his fruit and tossed the core behind him and watched the two approach, his trademarked foxlike smirk firm on his face, and Nora noticed it evident by her flushed face. Naruto approached her and planted a kiss on her lips. "What took you so long?"
"I happened to get lost on the road of life," Nora responded to him, a gleam in her eyes. Naruto's eyebrows twitched.
"I should never have told you about sensei."
"Well you did, so deal. Now we have a building to rob." And Naruto grew serious.
"Danse how we doing this? You or I am going first and Nora is in the back, her aim's not as good as ours." Naruto reported earning a slap on the head from her.
"I will enter first and lead you through the facility until we reach the objective then we will leave and go our separate ways." Danse opened the door to the building and the three of them entered the building.
When the door closed behind Nora, Danse began to speak. "It is the belief of the Brotherhood of Steel that it was corporations like this one that lead to the fall of humanity. That they exploited technologies for their own gain and profit while ignoring all of the effects of their greed."
"While that may be true Paladin Danse, it was also the fault of people like you or me that also lead to the fall. With our hasty consumption of resources and consequential desire for more, lead to the overwhelming demand for those resources in the first place. Leading up to the beginning of the war that was waged over those dwindling resources which resulted in the bombs being dropped and creating what would be known as the Commonwealth." Naruto responded thoughtfully. Silence followed the three of them as they headed down the remaining hallway to the pile of broken Protectrons that lay upon the ground. After careful inspection, no shell casings were found and each bot had holes burned through them. "These were dealt by high-heat energy rounds, mostly found with laser weapons. Raiders are too cheap for those, sticking with their highly adjustable pipe guns. And the Minutemen were nowhere near here to do this..."
"This was done by Institute Synths, likely to be the older MK 2 model synths," Danse responded
"Unless we're dealing with an Institute courser. But they are only sent out to retrieve lost MK 3s for reconstruction or deactivation."
"Excuse me you two, but what is this Institute your talking about?" Nora asked.
"The Institute is considered the boogieman of the Commonwealth. The earlier models looked like cheap imitation humans and could barely think outside of a computer-like process. However, newer models could easily replace a human and many have already been replaced. The synth in question often wouldn't even be aware of it until they are shown that they are by an Institute employee. Truly nightmare fuel." Naruto answered.
"Let's keep moving." Danse motioned. Moving onward they passed office spaces and desks, "you would think that even after two hundred years this place would be a little tidied up at least, but I still see a few things that the Brotherhood might be interested in salvaging. After we're done here I'll have to mark this place for inspection." They came to an open room with a computer desk and monitoring equipment strewn about the place. "One of you see if you can get the door open or something."
"Babe the door is mag-locked you're going to need to hack into the console there and get it open. I'll look for anything useful."
Nora moved to the center console and began fiddling with the computer keyboard. Naruto looked around the room for anything and glanced at another working terminal in the corner. Going to it he pressed a few keys at random and the screen read:
'ARCJET SYSTEMS | ARCNET'
'Prototype Testing Lab – Analyst Workstation 3'
'[Reminder: Password Security]'
'[Automated Password Change]'
Clicking the password change option, he brought the resulting password to Nora who was getting a little irritated by the computer and received a kiss for his hard work. Getting up as she put in the command to open the door. The first thing Naruto noticed was the abnormal blue lights from the room beyond and the sound of metal creaking. Grabbing Nora by her armor he pulled her down as laser bolts flashed by where her head was moments before. Danse whipped around and fired several shots into the Synths. Naruto pulled out his Electric T-4 M-9 pistol and fired several shots into the first synth while Danse took out the second the third fired a shot that glanced off Danse's armor. The synth was shot by Naruto and exploded as its chassis ruptured.
They entered the room and followed the hole in the wall until they reached an open room. And were promptly ambushed by a score of synths. As Danse moved to the center of the room, Naruto dived out from behind Danse and up the stairs shooting synths with his M-9s and Nora remained in the doorway firing her ACR at any Synth in sight. Following the stairs up Naruto continued to fire at synths till the area was cleared of hostiles.
They moved to the second floor and discovered some workstations, Naruto went to the weapons bench and quickly disassembled his pistols for maintenance. Leaving to catch up to Nora and Danse, they found an opening in the floor in the next room. Following Danse through the narrow corridors, they heard him mumble curses at the synths. They came to some more office spaces ahead, Danse pointed out the turrets upon the ceiling before shooting them down. Danse lead them down some more corridors before they arrived at the Engine core silo. The lights were out and the floors were covered with ceiling tiles, wires were hanging down from the open spaces. Grabbing a length of it Naruto pulled out several meters of the cord before the length of the cord was cut off. Rolling it up he draped the cords over his shoulder like a bandolier.
They walked to the end of the hallway and down the stairs circling the walls of the silo. "Powers out and the elevator is down, the parts we need are in the observatory on the upper floor," Danse reported, but the stairs leading to the next floor were cut off and lay on the bottom of the silo.
"I believe that we are heading into a trap. . . But this is the only option here. We need that transmitter and there should be an auxiliary power generator at the bottom of the silo, Nora would you kindly look into it while we keep an eye out for Synths." Naruto directed. Nora jumped over the railing and landed on the floor of the room, her Exo-suit frame taking fall with its pressurized pneumatic servos. Naruto kicked up a piece of steel and hopped on the railing and slid down to the bottom floor, while Danse jumped down as well. Nora headed down the service corridor and Naruto took the position at the entrance and Danse stood at the monitoring window looking out to the rest of the room.
Nora entered the room and saw the Clunky gun sitting on the table. Making a mental note she continued on to the back room looking around she saw the monitor and the fusion generator. Removing the charged Fusion core and putting it into her bag. She moved to the computer and hacked in activating the auxiliary power supply, the lights flickered on and she heard the sounds of laser fire, running to the observation window she saw Danse getting overwhelmed by synths and Naruto pinned down in the corridor they were slowly approaching, seeing the ignition button for the jet engine. Slamming her fist on the button, she watched as the doors to the room and the silo sealed shut, separating them from each other the countdown started and the synths focused on Danse, who had crouched down and faced out toward the hoard of Synths firing indiscriminately. The rocket cycled up and exploded out with a roar, it's light blinding and Nora could feel the heat through the thick glass. Danse was seen huddled on the ground and Naruto kicked open the doors to the Silo, grabbing the big gun for Naruto she hurried out to the silo. "Paladin Danse, are you okay?!" She asked while tossing the gun to Naruto who had a big grin on his face.
"I'm feeling a little toasty, but thankfully my power armor could handle the heat. Thank you for your concern Civilian. The important thing is that we're alive and the elevator is working again which means we can reach the transmitter now. Let's move." He got up and four of the four of them entered the elevator which creaked under their combined weight, the light lit up telling them they exceeded the elevator's weight limit, "It seems that the elevator can't handle all of our weight. I'll use this to reach the top floor with your dog and you two can use your jetpacks to make the jump to the top floor." Danse who was in front reported.
"We'll see you up top Paladin, hopefully, there still some synths left for you when you get there," Naruto said with a chuckle.
"Indeed. See you up top."
Nora and Naruto ran up the stairs as the elevator doors closed. Reaching the top Naruto turned around his hands down low and tossed Nora up when she stepped into them, then jumped up after her. He whipped out his shotguns as he landed and a group of synths came out of the observation room. Lining his shotguns up, he fired three times, shredding the synths as they approached. Moving forward with Nora behind him on his right, her ACR-W17 pointed and ready. They moved quickly up the stairwell until they reached the hallway leading to the observation room, just as the elevator dinged and Danse stepped out his laser rifle raised and ready.
Naruto leaped into the room planting his feet on the wall and leaping into the center of the room, standing up he unloaded his shotguns into the crowd of synths surrounding him blowing them apart. Nora turned the corner and fired at a synth who had taken cover behind a desk, and the room was silent. Naruto reloaded his shotguns, waiting for more synths to appear. Danse arrived and looked at the destruction caused by the two of them. With a serious look on his face, he said "It seemed that my presence was not needed after all. Now we can look for the transmitter, check the bodies to see if one of them had grabbed it and we can go."
"I've got it here. And without a scratch on it, it should work fine for whatever you need it for."
"Thank you two for your assistance, I doubt I could have done this on my own. As thanks, I would like to give this to you as a token of gratitude, and I would like to extend an invitation to you both to join the Brotherhood of Steel, and as a favor could you take the transmitter back to scribe Haylen for me. I'm going to finish investigating this facility before I return to the station." Danse looked at the two of them and pulled out a laser rifle and handed it to Naruto.
"Thanks for the offer, but we sort of busy right now, we have to find our little boy. Perhaps in the future, after we find him we can talk about it, and good luck paladin Danse it has been a real pleasure to meet you and take care." Naruto responded, accepting the laser rifle. The couple turned to the service elevator to leave the facility, while Danse returned to the upper floors, documenting anything for the Brotherhood's use.
After giving the Transmitter to Haylen, the two of them continued on their way to Diamond city. With the exceptions of taking out a raider gang on the way, they didn't encounter much trouble before some clouds began building and brought a thunderstorm with it. Naruto looked at his Pipboy, making note of where they were and the nearest settlement was Hangman's Alley, which Naruto had cleared out when he first came to the area around Diamond city. The two of them reached Hangman's Alley just as the rain started falling. Taking shelter underneath the open shacks, which he had been meaning to clear out and make the place into a suitable Minutemen outpost. Nora laid down on the thick bedding in the tiny elevated shack and took off her helmet for a short moment, much to Naruto's delight, despite the residual radiation a few minutes of fresh air would do her some good. He laid down next to her after making sure the gates to the compound were locked down and went to sleep.
Waking up to the sound of gunfire Naruto shot up and ran to the gates, seeing a group of super mutants running past, pulled out a shotgun and an M-9, as Nora left the shack her helmet on and closed up. Undoing the chains on the gate, he kicked it open and fired at the closest mutant. The shotgun pellets blew through its ratty armor and mulched its torso. The super mutants hearing the death of their companion turned to the blond and started firing their pipe rifles and a Mutant Suicider charged him, which he didn't get far before Nora put three rounds into his large and empty head.
Naruto after taking cover, put his shotgun away before drawing his other M-9 and peeking out to put two shots into one of the Super mutants firing at him sending the annoyance into a spaz-fest as the electricity surged into him and he fell to the ground unconscious. Hearing the rough growling of mutant hounds Naruto got out of cover and shot the remaining three mutants in the head killing them as the hounds appeared in their line of sight. Nora fired her rifle, taking one of the hounds down in a spray of bullets and Naruto put two rounds into the remaining hounds dropping it. Hearing the gunshots in the distance still, they rushed to the gates of Diamond city.
They arrived at the end of a gunfight between Diamond City Security and the super mutants. Seeing only two of them left Naruto quickly fired his pistols twice at each one felling them before they could do much worse. He reloaded his pistols and collecting the dropped Magazines and headed to the Diamond City's gate. Only to find it shut and a woman screaming at the top of her lungs. "WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU'RE NOT OPENING THE GATE?! WHAT THE HELL DANNY YOU CAN'T DO THIS! I LIVE HERE!" She wore a red overcoat and had a tattered brown press cap covering her well-groomed black hair. She had a belt around her waist with a notebook and several pens and pencils wrapped up next to it on her right thigh was a familiarly designed M-9 pistol.
"I'm sorry Ms. Piper, but Mayor McDonough's really pissed with you about that article you wrote. He's got the whole town in a tizzy about it. I'm just doing my job mam." A young man's voice came for the intercom.
"Just doing your job, huh? Got to protect the city from the only thing keeping them aware of what's out there huh?" Piper replied.
"I can't open the gate for you, Ms. Piper, if I did the mayor would have my job and I can't let that happen."
"YOU OPEN THIS GATE RIGHT NOW, DANNY SULLIVAN OR SO HELP ME, I WILL MAKE YOUR LIFE A LIVING HELL!" Naruto walked up to her and placed a calming hand on her shoulder, which caused Piper to jump and squeak in surprise. "NARUTO YOU INSUFFERABLE ASS! If it had been anyone else you would have been shot. You know not to sneak up on me like that and yet you do it every time."
"Here. Let me take care of this. DANNY SULLIVAN, MAYOR MCDONOUGH, IF THIS GATE ISN'T OPEN IN THE NEXT THIRTY SECONDS, I WILL MAKE THE NEXT THREE DAYS OF YOUR LIVES A THRIVING NIGHTMARE!" The next moment the loud sound of creaking metal as the gate to the once-a-stadium-now-a-shantytown opened up. And they three of them and dog walked into the settlement. They were immediately accosted by Mayor Mcdonough himself. The man wore an old worn out Business suit and a black fedora, he kept his beard shaven but held onto to a little mustache that was nicely trimmed. His face was sculpted into an irritated scowl that he turned to Piper and opened his mouth to yell at her but saw Naruto and his face turned pale.
Naruto walked up to the mayor and leaned down to look him in the eye, a terrifying smile on his face and his eyes were almost closed "Mayor McDonough. How nice is it to see you again? What's this I hear about you kicking Piper out after reading one of her articles again? Do you remember what happened last time you did that and what did I say to you then?" His voice sickly sweet and full of menace.
"Th... Th... that I didn't have to read it if I didn't like what it said. And that she should be allowed to write whatever she wanted on her shiny new printing press." the mayor leaned back away from the smiling monster before him.
"Quite so. And do you remember what I said I'd do if you did it again?"
"Yyyes, I do."
"Good then, you wouldn't feel too bad if I did that right now? Would you?"
"I would indeed mind, I have important business meetings to do concerning the welfare of our great city."
Naruto grabbed the back of the mayor's jacket and lifted him off his feet. "Piper, my dear, would you be so kind as to show my wife around Diamond city and take her to Homeplate afterward. I have some very important business to attend to with the mayor and I'll be very busy for the next hour or so." He threw the mayor over his shoulder roughly and walked into the settlement.
Nora turned to Piper, an eyebrow raised "Something I should know about?"
"You'll find out soon enough. Now I'm Piper Wright, and I'm the only reporter in the entirety of the Commonwealth I was the one who helped dear Whiskers find Valentine and showed him around. He talks about you a lot, ya know. Now that I've met you I can see what he was talking about, your one in a million, with your physique alone, and that ass! Very nice." Piper gave a deep look over. Nora, feeling a bit uncomfortable took a step back. Then Piper burst out laughing the look on her face changing to cheerful as Nora blinked. "He said you'd react that way, I didn't believe him after some of the stories he's told me so had to see for myself." Piper turned around and started walking to the entrance, her expression changing to thoughtful, "He's one of a kind, so take care of him Blue. He might not show it, but he's aching deeply inside. It's not as bad as it was before, but it's still there. He must love you very much to have waited this long."
"Trust me, I know. And he does, And I love him just as much." Nora's expression turning sly, "You know, you're not so bad yourself, and I'll say this once if you ever get the chance to say how you feel about him. Don't hesitate, there's always more room in our bed for another." That stopped Piper cold as Nora walked past her, sly smile still on her face.
"So that's what that feels like."
So here we are with another chapter of Nora's storm. In case if you didn't notice I set up a poll on my profile concerning this, so feel free to check it out and place your vote. I have my own idea of what to do but sometimes outside opinions could mean a lot more. Next chapter we have Trinity tower, unlucky Valentine, and A friendly foreign Cartographer. So please stay tuned, this took me a while to get started but know that it's done I can safely say I enjoyed this way too much.
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