Disclaimer: I do not own Animaniacs or Naruto, wish I did but, what can you do? Anyways, I've come to a decision. Because I now have five stories on my profile I will be changing how I upload. I will be typing as many chapters for my stories in a week that I can, then uploading them Sunday. This will help me keep up with story demands AND with those longer stories I have. For now, enjoy this week's chapter. (Chapter is dedicated to iamzim87, who gave me the idea)
Maelstrom on the Lot
"Goodnight everybody!" –Talking/yelling
'I'm hungry!' –Thinking/thoughts
"HELLO NURSE" –Singing
"GO AWAY!" –Shouting
Chapter 10: Squit Quits
Last time, on Maelstrom on the Lot; Rita allowed a smirk to come to her face. "The boy is dense with a capital D, I can't wait until he figures out that was an attempt at a subtle date." She snickered to herself before heading to bed herself, thinking a single thought before falling asleep, 'who needs a soap opera? I can just watch his life.'
Now; Morning at Naruto's Apartment
The next day came much too quickly for Naruto, who was enjoying his dream about three female silhouettes swimming in ramen. He grumbled once again as he said, "there has to be someone to talk to about destroying that thing. Unknown to him, a large headed lab mouse just sneezed.
He gave a heavy sigh as he got up and stretched his back, getting several satisfying pops. Sighing he got up and went through his morning routine. First he showered, then he made breakfast for him, Rita, and Runt, then he went over his To-Do-List. So far, he had his home and new friends, now for the thing he had been dreading…finding a job. (CUE THE THUNDER *BOOOOM*)
He pulled on a shirt that covered his chest, for once, and called back to his roommates/pets. "I'll be back later, just going to try and find a job," he said before walking out of the house, missing Rita's raised eyebrow. She looked to the drooling Runt before she spoke.
"Think we should tell him that his trip with the Warners will be made into a cartoon?" she asked him, getting a quickly nodded head from the dog. She signed and shook her head before jumping off the table and onto Runt's back, "okay, we'll tell him later. For now, why don't WE go on a trip?"
Runt gave a giant smile, "Oh definitely! We should definitely go, oh definitely." He started walking towards the door with Rita on his back. Rita smiled and thought to herself, 'we can tell him when he gets back. Besides, how long could he be out?'
SEVEN HOURS LATER
"WHY THE #&$^ CAN'T I FIND A SINGLE AVALIABLE JOB?!" screamed an extremely pissed Naruto, scaring the crowd of people around him. He grumbled to himself as he hunched over, kicking small pebbles with enough force to go through bullet proof glass. Poor guy had tried ten jobs so far, and something ALWAYS went wrong.
The first and second were at restaurants. Having cooked for himself so often he could be a five-star cook, if he wanted to. Problem there? They wanted him to shave off all of his fur….he punched the first guy and flipped the second lady's desk. (Naruto does not hit women…unless they try and kill him first, then $&#^ her) he had stormed out of those places so fast, people only saw an orange blur.
On his fifth try the guy started cursing Naruto out for being a toon. What followed was what one might call a 'Raging Fox Moment.' It's were you tick off a toon fox so much, you're lucky to have survived the pranks that followed you around all day. Sadly, the other five places he went to had heard about the moment and calmly told him to get out.
Now, he was walking through the street, trying to think of a way to make money. "A circus? Nah, I'd have to leave town with them or risk losing the job…A nurse? Nope, I hate hospitals too much," he grumbled to himself. He stopped next to a statue and sighed, running a hand through his hair, "what's a guy got to do to get a job around here?"
"You could pick up trash in the park," came a reply from above him. Blinking, Naruto looked up and saw three pigeons on top of the statue. One had grey feathers and a giant smile, one had squinted eyes and bluish feathers, and then one who looked angry and had lavender feathers. The grey one spoke up again, "we fly there all the time and see loads of trash, isn't that right Pesto?" he looked towards the Lavender one, Pesto, apparently.
Pesto glared at the grey one before saying, "What do mean by that?" the grey one started sweating, stating that the park has lots of trash once again. "OH! So I'm trash, is that what you're sayin'?! That everywhere I go, people like you call me trash?!" before the grey one could answer, Pesto tackled him off the statue and to the ground. As they began fighting, and the bluish one started laughing, Naruto looked on with a blank face.
When he hear small cracks coming from the grey bird he snapped. "KNOCK IT OFF!" he yelled at the birds, who immediately stopped everything. Pesto was in the middle of chocking Squit, whose name had been called out by Pesto during the fight. Glaring at the anger-prone bird, Naruto growled, "Get. Off. Him" Pesto gulped and slowly backed away from Squit, who winced as he tried to move.
Now glaring at Pesto and the Bluish bird, Naruto slowly said, "You two, are going to leave. NOW" he punctuated his order by snapping his fang filled mouth at them, making the two scream and fly off. Naruto turned back to Squit and his eyes softened, "hey buddy, you okay?" Squit seemed shocked that someone cared about if he was alright or not, so it took him a second to answer.
"Uh, yeah. I'm a…I'm pretty used to this," he said while forcing himself up, wincing as he leaned too far onto his left wing. Naruto saw his wince and got down on his knees, taking the wing and slowly spreading it. Squit immediately let out a cry of pain, pulling his wing back in shock. 'My wing…my wing's broken,' he thought in shock, 'Pesto's never broken my wing before…but, what did I expect from the lunatic.'
Naruto frowned and interrupted Squit's thoughts, "Broken wing, should take two weeks to heal on its own." Nodding to himself, Naruto carefully picked up Squit, minding his wing, before he started walking. Squit was so shocked that it took him a few moments to say anything.
"Hey, what the heck you doing?" Squit asked out loud, hoping to find out why this fox guy was holding him so gently and where they were going.
Naruto smiled at the bird and said, "well, I'm carrying you right now, and right now we are walking back to my place so I can set your wing and you can rest." He tapped Squit's forehead gently and said, "After that, it's up to you what you do. Just know, those guys back there don't deserve a nice guy like you."
Squit looked at Naruto in confusion, "how can you tell how nice I am?"
Naruto chuckled, "only a nice person would let someone beat the crap out of them, not retaliating in any way." He smiled at the bird once more, "I like you Squit, so from now on you're my friend. Now hush, rest up and I'll let you know when we get home."
So Squit did just that, he was quiet. His mind was running at a thousand thoughts per second, going over his life up until this point. 'All these year of abuse, and it's a broken wing that gets me a real friend…' he smirked to himself, 'yeah, I can live with that.'
Back at the Park
"Hey Pesto, think we should go find Squit? We kinda left him back there" said bobby, the bluish Pidgeon.
"What do you mean by that? You calling me a chicken?! A scaredy cat who leaves his friends behind to save HIS OWN TAIL FEATHERS?!" Pesto asked then screamed.
"Yes" bobby replied calmly.
"…Good, because it's true" Pesto said calmly before going back to the popcorn they had found earlier. Bobby just shrugged and joined him a second later, forgetting about Squit for now.
Chapter 10 END