Naruto was currently shuffling across a now busy highway, bikers, and motorist alike passed by him. He had a small sunburn across his face, but the notable feature of all was the scratch marks on his face. He had fallen into a cactus pit just a few miles back, once again from his lack of being careful.
He looked up, and smiled. "One more mile till LA!"
The Golden Fox Boy
Chapter One: Newcomer Part One: Fast Times in LA.
Naruto stopped at a nearby diner, and walked in. Sitting down, he removed each of his pouches, and made sure to keep his tail tucked in. the blonde smelled the heavenly smell of burgers, fish, and even steak. Reaching into his pocket, he pulled out a wallet that was void of any sort of credit card, state card, or even ID. Instead, it had a twenty-dollar bill inside it's pouch.
The diner had much older music playing, and the blonde just looked at a very old juke box. He looked at a menu that had been on the table, and his eyes bugged slightly at some of the prices of items. "Fifteen bucks for a steak?! Um, what's the kids menu got, oh c'mon! ten dollars for a dinner choice yeesh."
"Hey there darling, I'm Jesse, I'll be your server today." A woman said, breaking his attention. "What can I get you to drink?"
"Uh, um, water!" Naruto loudly said as he got nervous slightly, the woman had caught him off guard. "Can I get a lemon too?"
"Sure thing sweetie." She said walking away.
Naruto looked back over the menu, and smiled as he looked at Chili, it has been awhile since he last had Chili, and that was all the way back in Kentucky. The best Chili he ate was from Wheeler Diner, and it was only five bucks for a bowl, a good-sized bowl you, of the good down south mixture.
The blonde twiddled his thumbs as he leaned back in the chair, and relaxed. Now that he was in LA it would only be a three days' journey along the coastline to Jump City. The blonde was hoping, at least, that the crime wave was still going strong.
After all, Naruto's only reason to go to Jump was to fight bad guys, and pretty much all over America. It wasn't like he had a grudge against them, he just hated people that picked on other people and treated them like dirt. He wondered sometimes, if he could punch a politician in the face and get away with it.
Mentally he made a note to think about that later, and jotted it down for another day.
He could smell his chili now, and it had a spicy smell to it.
However, he then watched as the door slammed open, and two men walking hastily in. The waitress, Jesse, looked at them as she backed up instinctively, but watch one of the men pull a pistol out of his belt line.
"Er'body get the hell down, this is a robbery!" He shouted as she pointed the gun at Jesse. "Move!"
The woman complied as she walked over to the diner's register. The other man turned his attention to the lone patron in the diner. He walked over to the table, and took a sit, a sick smirk was laced across his lips. He looked at the blonde boy in his eyes, and smiled even more sinister.
"Hey there brat, shouldn't you be going to mommy and daddy? We're gonna be doing some bad things in here, you should go." The man ordered threateningly as he pulled a knife out of his pocket, and out it on the table.
"Nah." The blonde merely uttered as he flipped out of the seat, but made sure to kick the booth into the man's stomach.
Landing on the table behind him, the blonde reached into a pouch, and pulled a needle out of his pouch. Everything seemed to slow down as the gunmen turned around, aiming his pistol towards Naruto. The blonde became a blur as he jumped off the table in a stride, and twisted in the air.
Giving his throw momentum, the blonde hurled the needle as hard as he could. The man couldn't react as the needle impacted his wrist, making him lose control of his hand holding the gun. The metal weapon clattered against the ground, bouncing around a little bit.
Naruto smirked as he landed on the floor, and dashed over to the man, jabbed him three times across his stomach and chest. Each finger pressing in a straight line up on the man's body, making it seize up. Fidgeting, which was is only available movement, the man was then shoulder tossed towards the other. Much to the shock of the waitress, the blonde hurled the man into his accomplice.
"Ha!" Naruto yelled as he stood up on his right foot, and folded his left leg over his right knee. "Puncturing Fox Twin Finger Technique!"
He noticed that they weren't moving, and fidgeted slightly. "Oi, are you okay…?"
"Ehhhh." The men moaned in pain as he blinked his eyes. "h-help."
"Wha-come on, if you can't keep up a little fox, you can't possibly be criminals, you're weak!" The blonde insulted as he dropped his stance as he walked over to the two. "Want to leave eh?!"
"Y-yes…" The men moaned weakly as they held their afflicted areas.
Sighing, Naruto looked at them dead in the eye. "Fox Twin Finger Healing Technique!"
The men shuttered in horror as the blonde cocked his arm back, pointing two fingers at them, before he felt them little tap across their afflicted areas, and start to heal them. Though the pain remained, and the blonde only needed to use it on the one person he paralyzed to make effects immediately disappear.
He lightly jabbed the inflicted areas, before pulling the needle out of the man's wrist. He did so quickly, eliciting only a quick yelp from the would-be robber. "Okay, there you go."
Jesse who had ran to the back, was now calling the police. She watched as the boy looked at the men, and then saw something moving in his shirt behind him.
"You little brat, we'll get you one day for this…" The lead man groaned as he slowly got up.
"Oh, I don't think so." Naruto retorted with a cocky smile.
"Oh, and why's that…" The man turned around, only to see a group of cops walk towards the door.
"Because my dear Watson." Naruto joked as he twiddled his needle around, and poked his teeth with it. "It was only a matter of time."
"You, when, that woman!" The man shouted as he saw Jesse cowering in the kitchen.
"So…when doesn't a scared person not call the police." The boy suddenly snapped his fingers. "Horror movies, bingo!"
"Uh…excuse me." A policeman said as he entered the building. "I'm going to need to these bad men away right now, please tell the hero that was here thank you."
"Eh, but I'm the one that held'em here!" Naruto shouted as he pointed his thumb at himself.
"Not such a smartass. ya?" One of the men said.
"Pipe it crook, or I am sending another needle into your wrist!" Naruto shouted as he quickly snatched a needle from his back pouch. "Dattebayo!"
"Easy their tiger, now why don't we all just calm down, you two come with me." The cop said as he motioned for the two crooks, while drawing his glock out and pointing it at the criminals. "No funny business."
The two men complied walking towards the cop, and the leader accepted his fate and walked out the door peacefully. The other on the other hand as he walked right next to the cop reached for the man's gun. Managing to wrestle him for it.
Jesse took cover behind the counter, while Naruto watched as they struggled for the weapon. The blonde twiddled his needle around, waiting for the moment he possibly couldn't hit the cop. What he didn't expect was the gun going off, as he half expected its safety to foolishly be on.
Naruto could only trace the bullet as it flew out of the ground, and right into his temple. Knocking him backwards onto the ground.
The cop managed to wrestle the gun away from the man, before knocking him out cold with a headbutt. "You murderer!" He screamed as he pointed the gun at the man.
"We got a shooting vic at Casey's Diner, please send an ambu-what the…" The cop stopped as he saw the boy get up.
The crushed bullet falling off the middle of his temple, leaving a noticeable whelp on his head. The blonde felt of the area, before scrunching his face in pain. "Ouch! What the hell Dattebayo, are you trying to kill me Dattebayo, that frigging hurts Dattebayo! Raaah!"
The blonde dashed at the man blinding speeds, dragon kicking him out of the restaurants' doors. The man landed hard on the ground, past the cop cars, with heaving blonde standing at the door holding his forehead with one hand.
"Stay out, or I'll kick you to the moon Dattebayo!" Naruto screamed as he walked back into the diner.
He grabbed the ice from his water, and placed it on his forehead which had already began to heal.
"Ah~" he moaned slightly from the ice. "Much better…much much much better."
The boy shivered slightly as the ice melted in his hand, sending ice cold water down his face. Soon the red bruise that laced the area of impact from the bullet slowly faded back to the blonde's normal light tanned skin.
Slowly the blonde calmed as his heart slowly went from something akin to rapid gun fire, a normal rationalized person's cornea. He sniffed the air, then looked at Jesse, and smiled.
"Miss, I think my chili is burnt, Dattebayo." Naruto said while rubbing the back of his head.
Naruto walked out of the diner, and left it in a mostly clean state. The table he had been sitting at was full of bowls, all of it had been full of chili. He even got to keep his twenty bucks, which ended solidifying his first day in California as a major success.
The young blonde was currently walking down the highway, his gut slightly bulging from all the chili he ate.
"Yata, Californian Chili isn't as good as Kentucky Chili, but man it's close. However, none compare to ramen, I hope they got a noodle shop around this place! Speaking of around this place, hope there is more bad guys, my blood's pumping Dattebayo!" Naruto smiled brightly as he inwardly monologue. "Oi, oi! I got an idea, I could just use my clone technique to look about the city! Wait, no, no. I'm too full for it to work right, my chakra is off balance!"
The blonde snapped his fingers. "Oi, oi! Any bad guys on the highway, I'll fight ya! Twenty dollars, c'mon and get'em while it's slightly wet from my booty sweat Dattebayo!"
A pregnant pause followed as he kept walking, some the people on the highway looked at him out of their cars as if he had grown a second head. The blonde just sighed as he continued walking towards the city.
"Yata, yata, walk along the lines. Man, those troops, uphold your rifles, stiffen your drink, and kiss many girls. General Butanone's army goes marching in, ya, ya marching in!" Naruto sung in his head as he started to march to kill his boredom.
The blonde looked at the overpass above him, and crouch down. Wiggling himself a little bit, he jumped up, clearing the overpass's railing by just a few feet, and landed in a group people. Scaring them slightly, making them back away immediately.
"Gomen, gomen!" Naruto yelled slightly as he rubbed the back of his head, before walking towards the city via the overpass's walkways.
A car careened down the highway at breakneck speeds, knocking other cars over. Naruto turned around to see the commotion and his eyes lit up with excitement. "Finally, yehaw!"
The blonde jumped over several cars, and jumped off others as he dashed towards the car.
The masked men inside the car were laughing as they held several bags full of money, save for the driver.
"Yo Franky, that was great man!" One man said as he watched their driver, Franky, drive around the traffic. "Cops didn't know what to do we busted out the nos."
"Yeah, ain't nothing though, we got some good cash here. What you going to buy first?" One in the back asked as he jingled the back a little.
"Probably a luxury car, like a Bugatti, or Ferrari." Franky said as he looked at his rearview mirrors. "Huh, that's odd, could'a sworn someone was catching up to us."
"No way man, you got this thing rolling at ninety right now. Nothing short of Batman, and he's all the way in Gotham."
A large thump on the roof of the car silenced the men, before they looked at each other.
"Johnny, check it out." Franky ordered.
Johnny, the guy sitting next to the driver, pulled his gun out as he dropped the bag he had. He opened the window as they turned into a wide-open traffic free road. The man angled himself so he could look on top of the roof, and almost dropped his gun in shock.
"Sup dude." Naruto said as he was crouched down, and looking directly at the man.
"The fu-aah!" Naruto punched him right in the middle of the head.
"Hey, I'm a kid Dattebayo, you don't get to say something like that!" Naruto screamed as he cocked back his right arm, and delivered a haymaker to the man, splattering his nose all over his face.
The man was barely conscious as he was pulled back into the car.
"Kill that brat!" Johnny screamed as he pointed his gun randomly at the roof.
The group began firing into the roof, minus the driver, and sprayed their bullets across the top. They stopped firing, and just looked at each other.
"Get him?" Johnny inquired as they looked around.
"I think so, hell yes!" The man in back shouted.
They began to celebrate, before the driver heard a knock at the window. He turned, his eyes wide open, and staring back him was the blue ocean like eyes Naruto who was running full sprint, his arms crossed. He held a bullet, crushed, in his hand as he pointed it at Johnny.
"Huh?" Johnny went, before the glass broke on the driver's side, and a small crushed bullet impacted him in the head, knocking him out cold.
"Who the hell are you?!" Franky screamed.
"Sonic the hedgehog, duh, can't you tell by how fast I am Dattebayo?" Naruto winked as he slowly started to run backwards. "So heading to Jump City too?"
"Huh, what, no screw this!" Frank yelled as he tried to steer his car to ram Naruto.
The blonde jumped over the car, falling behind it slightly, and began dodging the volley of bullets heading at him from the back drivers. His eyes narrowed into slits as he pulled two needles from his back pouch.
Bounding with each step now, Naruto soon caught back up with the car, and threw one of the needles.
The back passenger on the right fired his gun, only to hear it stop, even after he reloaded. He saw in the chamber, and pricking his hand slightly was a needle. Disabling his weapon, "what the hell!" He screamed as he reached for another gun.
When he looked up, he saw his partner in the back being impacted by a needle in his collarbone. Almost knocking him instantly, but they watched as the boy leaped into the air, before landing on the hood of their car.
"Hey, sir, this is the police would you kindly pull over?" Naruto jokingly questioned as he saw one reach for a gun.
"Screw you!" Franky screamed as he pulled the emergency break.
Naruto eyes widened as he slammed into the windshield of the car, before toppling over the top of the car. Rolling on the ground, the blonde clutched himself, and braced himself for each high speed roll. On his final roll, he managed to angle himself to avoid being rolled over by semi.
Getting up from the impact, his eyes became blood red. "Make me fly will ya?!"
"I'm Naruto Uzumaki, The Fox Boy, and foxes don't fly!" Naruto screamed as a red energy slowly seeped out of him. "Raaaaghhh!"
The in a burst of speed, the blonde became a blur of red misty energy. Running along the semi, he leaped off it, and landed in front of the truck. His tail flared free as he reached behind his back, and pulled his sword out.
The blade began to have a white misty substance flow around it. "Half Moon!"
The fox boy jumped into the air, and angled his sword above his head, before bringing it to his side. He landed in front of the car.
"Die!" Franky screamed. "Just die you freak!"
"Raaaagghhh!" Naruto roared as he slashed upwards with the blade.
The concrete split apart as a narrow wall of white energy emereged from the sword, and sliced the car in half. The car split off before reaching Naruto, who had sheathed his sword back into its scabbard. The blonde's form slowly became tamer with the red mist-like energy seeping back into him.
The car, having careened on the two separate ends of the highway, was now unusable to the criminals. The blonde looked as Franky, and Johnny tried to escape. Dashing over on both ends of the highway at blaring speeds, that any human eye could barely track up close, the blonde delivered a heavy blow to their heads with haymakers.
They fell before they even knew what hit them.