AN: I've got Bronchitis! Yay! I had planned on chilling out and taking a break from writing but like I said, I knew I'd probably still write anyway despite coughing up a lung every few minutes. Anyway I'm gonna start writing longer chapters. I actually planned on this being a bit longer but I think for the story's sake I needed to split it up. Hope you enjoy this!
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Night City Legends
Chapter Six: The Flame that Consumed my Hate
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'Wonder if I'll ever really get used to this…' Naruto found himself deep in thought about, well everything. Night City was so different from Konoha in nearly every conceivable way, the people, the tech, hell the values especially. Fish out of water didn't even begin to describe how he felt sometimes but he was adaptable if nothing else, after all, he was already getting used to this cybernetic arm.
Laying on his back, he raised said arm and flexed it a few times, each finger moving exactly like his original. It was nice to have a functioning hand again yet not feeling what he was touching was just something he'd have to get used to. The blonde rested the cool metal against his head for a moment then ran his fingers through his hair a bit, 'hmm, might be time to get a haircut… maybe cut it shorter than usual.'
"Mmm." his thoughts were interrupted by the woman at his side nuzzling closer and rubbing her hand across his chest while entangling her legs around his, "Morning," she yawned, looking up at him through a veil of blue hair with half lidded eyes. "Look like you got something on your mind, what's up?"
'I did something I thought I'd never do,' He gave her a little smile, "Eh, just some little things, and thinking about cutting my hair short." 'I tortured a man before I killed him, listened to him scream while ripping his implants out,'
She clambered up and layed on top of him and planted her chin on his chest, a bit uncomfortable but not outright painful as she hummed, trying to picture it. "I think it'll work on you," her hands slid up his body and through his hair while his wrapped around her back., "Though I'll miss running my fingers through it." she moved around a bit then looked down with a grin, "Oh hello there, feeling a lil stiff are we?" She squeaked when he pinched her rear and sat up, revealing her nude, tattooed body to him with several small cyberware lines on her side.
Naruto grabbed her hips and grunted when she raised up and firmly planted her rear on his lower stomach. "Keep it up and we won't be getting out of this bed anytime soon," he chuckled, only for her to rock her hips back and forth.
"Maybe that's what I'm aiming for."
-xXx-
"... I remember this place," Rico ashed his smoke to the side and gazed at the front of the old garage the kid pointed him to the night before, "Used to be a half decent place to get the old wheels looked at."
The guy next to him snorted, "What, back in 2030? Place is a fucking rustbucket, hows it not falling in?" he was a younger man, much younger, wearing baggy combat pants and a tanktop with 6th ST tattooed on one arm and a passing resemblance to Rico.
"Beats me Neph, owner always talked about fixing this or that, patching a hole here or replacing a wall but never fuckin did it." the 6th Street army lieutenant thumped his smoke towards the road and turned towards his truck, "Ortiz get a fucking move on. Wanna get outta this place before any vulture or meatwagon shows up."
"I'm coming, I'm coming!" his techie choom yelled followed by a giggle. "Bet that's the first time you heard a girl scream that eh Diego?" that earned a small curse from the younger man and a grumble from the older. There was a beeping followed by a whirl and a whoop from the techie, "Fuckin nailed it! Got the drone up."
From the bed of his truck a disk-like drone around a foot or so in size shot up into the air and hovered with a blinking lens mounted below it. It wasn't any brand they'd ever seen around before, military or civilian and when asked she happily stated that it was made of cannibalized parts she threw together. "My baby here will take some pics of the area while we scope the place, so we can go over it later."
"Hey Unc, why are we here again?" Deigo asked, ducking down as the drone buzzed over him, "And why bring that… " he pointed at Ortiz who was fiddling with a command pad for the drone, making it bounce and roll in the air above them. "... you know what, I don't know what to call her."
Rico looked at his nephew and shrugged, "Well kid I'ma let you in on a secret, your old uncle Rico managed to recruit some new talent." he draped an arm over his shoulder and started walking into the fenced in area around the garage, both ignoring the drone that flew around them like an excited puppy, "Well he's not exactly joined the gang, more like some exclusive contract work. He cleared a scav op here last night and I'm curious to see the aftermath."
"That's… kinda morbid Unc"
"You're free to wait in the truck if you want… although Ortiz might decide to stay too, no telling what she'll try and do to you," he joked, "At least here with me I can use you as a shield, I mean shield you from her." he grunted and chuckled when the kid elbowed him in the side. "Damn nephew, that shit hurts."
"I can handle the crazy chick just fine Unc,"
"Don't let her hear you say that, she might take it as a challenge."
"Too late!" Rico flinched at her voice, it seemed like she snuck her way over and was grinning ear to ear at his sister's boy, or at least her holographic visor was, "And don't worry choom, I wont do anything he begs me not to… more than once." She skipped past and slapped his nephew's ass while singing, "We'll finish this later!"
He patted his nephew's shoulder, "Don't worry, she's joking… I think,"
The tree went around the yard and instantly noted the lack of damage, or rather the lack of damage from a fight. There weren't any shell casings or fresh unrusted bullet holes around to be seen and that's with the drone scanning the area as well. It wasn't until they got closer to the front where they found the first sign of any struggle.
"Hey Unc, got a body here." Rico stepped over with Ortiz close behind, "Definitely a scav, throats cut. Looks like they hid the body out of sight."
Ortiz pulled out her equipment and reconnected to the drone. "I got an idea then, I'll reconfig the scan to look for blood spatter and shit, looks like ya boy pulled some ghost ninja shit eh Rico?"
"Unc got tangled up with a ninja? Fuckin-a, thats some nova shit dude."
The drone flew around like an excited animal pinging a few locations around them. One was the trunk of a junk car with a large patch of dark sand underneath, the scanner told her it was blood. Inside they found two more corpses, both looked like they're necks were snapped, one even had his head facing the wrong way.
The second was a van, two more dead inside. "Goddamn, looks like this scav bitch struggled," Diego muttered looking at the scene while the drone scanned both inside.
"Oooh, lucky day!" Ortiz poked and prodded him out of the way and clambered into the van, "This gonks got a BD Scrolling chip. I bet he caught some preem footage!" she rolled the body over and pouted, "Aw, the implants are damaged. Maybe I can find a little something on it though." with that she tugs a small port open and pulls out a couple neural shards.
She sat down on top of the body and slotted the shard into her cyberdeck before typing away.
"Ortiz do you really have to do this now?" The older of the three grumbled, reaching for his smokes once again.
"I'll only take a sec… mm damage to the chip corrupted a lot of the shard, but… I can still see… whoa." she stared at the screen for a minute and grinned, "Check it out, it's the last thing this gonk saw," Ortiz slapped the dead body below her and spun her screen around for them to see.
It was a first person POV, the guy reached out and grabbed the handle of the door only to stop and look at his hand to see it covered in blood. The screen blurred as he was slammed forward and spun around. From there the screen glitched and jerked, probably from the killing blow and the damage to the implant itself, but it paused to see the masked blond staring at them through the screen with cold blue eyes.
"Holy fuck that was some horror movie scene shit. That's who you got working with us? Fuckin hell Unc." he wasn't sure if he was excited or scared honestly, probably both. "Looks like a ninja with that mask… a 6th street Shinobi or something."
"Bring it with us," Rico turned and motioned to the building itself, let's check out the rest of the place, he mentioned some Corpo intel inside so let's see if it's anything we can use.
-xXx-
"Hey Cami,"
Hearing the blond call her, she pulled on her panties and turned to see the blond shamelessly watching her get dressed and winked while bending over to grab her bra and puring, "Yes Naru?"
He sat up from the bed, tossing the sheet aside and sitting on the edge of the bed "What are we?" he reached down and pulled on his own frog covered boxers, which she loved by the way.
"Aside from getting dressed?" she giggled at the look he shot her, "Hmm, that's… actually a good question. It's weird, after that shit with Jackie I just wanted to do my own thing, then you popped up being all kind and shit, stuck out like a sore thumb too." Cami slid on her tank top and sat on the bed next to him, poking him in the side.
"Didn't stick out that bad did I?" he returned the poke, getting a laugh.
"Oh yeah, no one tries to help folks around here without wanting something in return. City usually eats those people alive. But you were cute, figured if nothing else you'd be a little fun and a nice lay… and choom was I right," He yelped when she pinched his rear and rubbed the spot through his boxers. "I wouldn't say I'm ready to make you my mainline or anything so soon… but I definitely wouldn't mind seeing more of you. If you want to, I mean."
Naruto blinked at her for a second when he noticed her blushing, she tried to hide it by turning away to grab her shorts, and just smiled at her, "Yeah, I think I'd like that."
"Me too."
They shared a moment together before she gave him a quick peck on the cheek, "Gotta delta Naru, got some biz to handle. I'll message you later on kay?" grabbing her hoodie, she blew him a kiss and almost skipped out the door. Before the door closed she stuck her head back into the room, "Oh and expect a call soon, I mentioned you to a Fixer I know. Solid old guy, said he'd make contact with you soon," she blew another kiss and disappeared, leaving Naruto to fall backwards with a stupid little grin across his face wondering who she was talking about.
-xXx-
"Hey 'El Captian' what the fuck was with that gig you gave us," Maine was a bit put off from the gig last night, if not for Dorio convincing him to cool off for the night, he probably would have burned bridges with the fixer.
"Yo Maine, whatchu talkin about? You wanted work, I sent you on a simple scav hunt."
He paced the floor in their shared flat while his girl laid on the couch sipping her morning drink. "Simple my ass, some kinda masked psycho flatlined the lot of em."
"A psycho? A Cyberpsycho? Shit, you and your choom manage to get out in one piece?"
"Yeah, guy didn't even try to zero us. He was only after the scavs but almost mistook us for one of em, fuckers packing some hardware too, dented a metal support like it wont shit and get this, disappeared in a cloud of smoke." there was silence for a moment, "Yeah, sounds crazy I know. But it happened." The fixer looked both skeptical and pensive at the story, mainly the disappearing act. After all, with a good set of chrome or a decent enough pair of gorilla arms, one could dent metal or even rip a gonk in half.
"Well either way you're alive, forwarding your payment now and don't look so surprised, even though someone else zeroed em I still hired you for the job and let no one say that Muamar Reyes fucks over his people." he declaired over the holo with a smirk, "I'm gonna look into this, I don't like not knowing about new solos operating in my district." and with that he nodded and cut the call.
Maine idly noticed the notification informing him the funds had been added to his accounts. That's why he took work from 'El Capitan' they both operated on the same principal of not fucking over the other, you always got a fair shake and as far as he was concerned it was the only way to operate.
"Hey babe," he looked over to Dorio who waved him over, "Heard back from Kiwi, no luck. She's running with another crew for now, think she's mentoring a newbie,"
He chuckled and sat down next to her, "Kiwi's mentoring someone, shit whoever it is must have some skill." She laid her head on his shoulder and he wrapped his arm around her. "Well we still have Sasha, the kids good."
Her own holo pinged with a notification of funds being transferred. "Mmm wonder what I'll get… been thinking about saving up for a new pair of legs." she mused looking at the amount, making him lean over and rub her leg, "Or maybe something else, I know you like these," she smirked, trailing a finger down his arm before grabbing his hand and twisting, getting a wince. "But we can play later. You and me got an appointment with a Ripper."
Maine groaned, "Still say I don't need a ripper checking my chrome, nothing I can't handle."
"Well, do it for me babe," she gave a quick kiss that ended his grumbling.
-xXx-
Rico wasn't too sure what to think, after dropping off Ortiz back at her 'lair' and his nephew at one of his hangouts, he had plenty of time to process the shit he saw today, the scene around the garage was the work of a smooth cold blooded operator, no shots fired no one had any idea what was going on until they died. Inside however… that was the work of a psychopath.
Ortiz was a freak, she got off on it, 'Preem' shit she said. Diego was his sister's boy and he loved him but the boy was too young and stupid, what they saw inside brought back memories of the war and not the good ones. Most of the scavs were killed in similar ways to those outside but the last one, he knew torture when he saw it and this was not the kind for gathering intel. This was just pain for the sake of pain. Although, there was still that little voice in the back of his head telling him it was fine, Naruto told him what else he'd found in that building.
Fucking kid-killing scav…
He grabbed his phone and dialed a number, he couldn't just ignore the place and hope someone stumbled across it later, a child didn't deserve to just rot like that.
"This is Officer Ward, wanna start off by telling me how you got this number?"
"Not important, but word on the street is that you're not like the usual pigs, an actual honest cop," Rico told him, "Scav crew got flatlined last night, all zeroed. Sending you the deets on the location."
"Hold on, why are you contacting me with this, how are you connected to-"
"One of their victims was a kid, a little girl. Her family should know."
The officer was silent on the other line for a moment, "Yeah, I'll… I'll pass it along to the right people. Now tell me who-" Rico ended the call. He wasn't too worried about the man tracing the call to him, NCPD didn't waste the time or eddies with shit like that unless they got something out of it. Besides he had other shit to think about and more pressing issues to handle.
-xXx-
After Cami left, Naruto spent some time laying in bed, processing what happened. Were they dating, he guessed so. She said she wasn't ready for him to be her mainline… whatever that was, he'd heard the term several times and it seemed to be something like a boyfriend or girlfriend so…
"Hehehe," he rolled over and grabbed one of the 'new' pillows that Cami made him buy to replace the original Motel one, clutching it and giggling like a familiar sage. He just couldn't help but feel excited, he was dating… well they'd already done much more than date but who cared. He kicked his feet a bit before relaxing with a deep sigh, 'Hm, pillow smells like her…'
But his basking was interrupted when a call came over the holo making him groan into her scent. He started to ignore it but remembered Cami mentioning to expect a call, this could be the fixer and he didn't really want to piss em off since she was the one to contact him.
"Hello?"
The screen popped up and he found himself looking at a elderly, mostly bald man with a mustache and Valentino tattoo above his right eye and a wide patch of cyberware on his temple. He looked at him for a moment through the call before clearing his throat, "I heard a new soul was wandering around parts of Heywood lately. I am Sebastian Ibarra, although most just call me Padre,"
Naruto gave him a slightly confused blink, "Ah, hey nice to meet you Padre, names Naruto. You the guy Cami told me about, the Fixer?"
The man gave a low chuckle, "I mostly see myself as a man of god, looking out for many lost and wandering souls but yes, I am the one she spoke of." He reminded him a bit of the Third Hokage, on the outside he seemed like a harmless and mostly kind old man but Naruto got the feeling that anyone who pissed him off would see anything but that. "Camilla, she is such a sweetheart, I've known her since she was a child."
"Bet she was a handful,"
"Oh yes, a hellraiser that one. But seeing as she vouched for you, I'd rather talk about you… you see, I looked into you Naruto and I must confess I found barely a thing, no records of anything more than a few weeks old. No records whatsoever, birth, credit, medical, financial, not even a net history and even Nomads leave a trail if you know where to look, so you young man do not seem to exist… and they always say that the greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist… makes me wonder, what kind of devil might you be?"
Naruto couldn't help but shiver, not at the old man but at the memory of Gramps using that tone on him, it was like he was sitting in front of the old kages desk after being caught by the village ANBU that time he snuck into the tower at night. The first and only time he tried to prank the old man's office and the last time he ever wanted to see the Gramps look at him so harshly. Looking back, he now knew that he probably would've been sent to prison had he been anyone else.
"I don't know anything about being a devil," he started, looking the fixer square in the eye, "and I don't know what Cami's told you or what information you did find on me. But I'm new here in Night City and she was good enough to put her name out there for me so I'm not gonna let her down. I can handle anything you throw at me."
"That so…" the Padre stared him down before cracking a smirk beneath the mustache "Youth today, you remind me of me when I was young."
"Really?"
He nodded, "Oh yeah, I was a jumped up little shit too." Naruto sweatdropped. "But I'll tell you what, I would hate for little Camilla's effort to go to waste so I'll offer you a job and we'll go from there."
A test? He had a feeling that the old man was fucking with him, but that was alright, he'd show him. "Whatcha got,"
"There's a man in possession of something that belongs to a client of mine and while the Lord may forgive us of our trespasses, I will not forgive him for stealing my clients data and eddies. As penance for his greed I believe the loss of both should suffice, go and steal them back."
"I thought two wrongs didn't make a right."
"Indeed, two wrongs may not make a right but these two wrongs may yet send him back on the right path,"
Naruto blinked, making the man smirk at him. "Damn, alright then, where is he?"
"I hear he's been frequenting a club in Waston every night, no doubt tonight he'll be spending my clients money on all sorts of sin. I believe you're familiar with the establishment, Lizzie's?"
'Oh son of a bitch,' that little smirk made sense now. "Ah I get it now, you know I'm banned from there."
"Yes, although I must admit that you being banned is quite the accomplishment, most who piss off the Mox, in their own club no less, usually don't live to tell the tale and end up in the landfill outside the city."
'Guess I should be grateful he didn't mention the reason why,' Considering how Cami was with him that night and that the old dude seemed fond of Cami, kinda how Gramps was fond of him… yeah let's not go any further there. "Alright Padre, consider it done. Send me the information and I'll handle it."
"Sending the details now…" his eyes lit up and Naruto's holo beeped with the information, "Contact me once you make it out… oh and don't let the Mox kill you, little Camilla would be upset."
It was what looked like a surveillance photo of a man in a suit, who had a low level Corpo look to him with blond hair and some facial implant lines. He was seen holding a briefcase and it looked like he was in the middle of a deal in the middle of a parking lot.
The suit's name is Edward Deans, a foolish man whom sold his soul to Militech in return for a lowly position in their ranks as some corporate middle manager. My client tried to buy some information from them but they took the money and ran, under the impression that his position in the company makes him untouchable. Let's prove him wrong and feel free to be rough with him, after-all spare the rod spoil the child.
I hear he's an avid fan of the Mox's particular collection of BDs, you should be able to find him in one of their booths. You should be familiar with those, right?
Oh yeah, he definitely knew why he was banned from Lizzies bar.
-xXx-
As always prior to 6, Lizzies bar was closed to any customers with only members of the Moxes coming and going freely. Several trusted cleaners were going around cleaning up after the night before, some punks got a little too rowdy for their own good and caused a stir with some other patrons. Unlucky for both groups, the Moxes didn't discriminate and started busting heads as soon as the first punch was thrown… by a Mox.
Behind the bar, Mateo Thigo was restocking several of the more expensive bottles on the shelf, one being a rather nice and expensive bottle of Champaradise as well as several bottles of his personal favorite, Paul Night. Someone had the bright idea of throwing one of the seats during the fight and it flew like a missile right into the cabinet behind the bar. Suzie Q's probably still bitching about the cost.
"Yo Mateo, how's it hangin choom?"
Hearing that voice made him wince a bit, ducking his head as he heard the voice's owner sit down behind him. He idly hoped it wasn't her and slowly looked over his shoulder, hugging the purple glass bottle of Paul Night to his chest.
'Oh fuck,' he held the bottle even tighter, "Hey Rebecca, didn't know you were workin tonight."
She was a tiny thing, both lovingly and mockingly called the Gremlin by those around her both for her short stature and chaotic nature. Soft white skin with pink tattoos on her neck, stomach, and thigh that she showed off by wearing next to no clothing aside from a jacket from time to time.
The girl grinned at him, "Hehe, you know it. Suzie got me working the booths tonight, don't want me on the floor after last night." Mateo inched away carefully, slowly setting the bottle down well away from her, which made her snort, "Oh come on choom, you know I didn't mean to break that shit last night,"
"You almost took my head off with that chair."
She pouted, "I wasn't aiming at you, besides the fucker called me shorty."
The bartender sighed with a short laugh and leaned on the bar across from her, "Rebecca… you are short." he shot her a grin as she stuck out her tongue. "Besides, didn't Susie make you pay for the bottles you broke?"
"Yeah, but I kelpt the shit some of those gonks had on em so I was only out a hundred of so eddies," the gremlin laughed, "Not only that but check this out, one was packin this!" she whipped out a Constitutional Arms Liberty Power pistol that gleamed in the bar's neon light, making Mateo give a low whistle. It was completely covered in some expensive engravings that had to cost way more than the gun itself was worth. "And look at the grips, legit ganic wood!" she ran a finger along it with a giggle, "You know a girl cant get enough of that good hard wood."
He couldn't help but let a laugh escape, "Just don't shoot the place up with it" he muttered while shaking his head and going back to restocking, "Shouldn't you be getting ready too? It's like… half an hour before we open."
The gremlin stuffed the pistol back into her jacket and spun around on the bar stool with her tongue stuck out and a sigh. "Yeah yeah, I guess."
That made the man stop, "You alright Rebecca? You sound… down."
"Eh, not too sure choom, kinda feel… I don't know, bored I guess?" she leaned on her elbow with a half bored look on her face, "Yeah I get to kick some ass here with the Mox but Suzie Q's wanting to turn the gang into a business and… I don't know, I just feel like I don't really belong here."
That made Mateo blink, although this wasn't the first time a member of the Mox felt like this he never expected their gremlin to feel that way. "You wanna do something else?"
"Like what?" she huffed, "Not good at much else other than busting heads… I mean I can make your toes curl in the sack but I don't think I wanna be a Joytoy or anything."
"Don't you know that solo guy, tall and lanky gonk? You were bitching about him a while back. Something about him dragging his feet on a job and not getting his rent paid."
"My brother, what about him?
"He's your brother?" The look of shock on Mateos face made her snort before he coughed, "I mean, if he's a solo, why not team up with him and be a runner? You're a good shot, there's always work for people that can handle their shit." The look of revulsion made him slow to a stop and raise his hands in defeat. "Or not, nevermind. Just throwing it out there."
She was disgusted with the idea of teaming up with Piller. It was bad enough that they shared an apartment and he dragged his feet on the rent, not to mention his… tendencies. Between the weird porn and his habit of going on a bender for days on end she was pretty sure that if she had to work with him she just might actually go ahead and kill him like she always promised.
"Eh, I'll think about it later." She slipped down off the stool and stepped away from the bar, "Gonna go check in right quick. I'll probably stop by later choom, watching over a buncha gonks jackin it to BDs is a fuckin snore." then again that's probably why Suzie Q made her do it, she hated being bored and couldn't fuck with customers that didn't break the rules.
"Just don't slack off like Rita did."
She grinned and returned to the bar, her head barely over the edge as she smirked at him, "I heard she got on Suzie Q's shit list a while back but no one's told me how, come on choom, spill those juicy deets."
He looked around with a little grin of his own and leaned foreword, "You didn't hear it from me, alright," she nodded and winked, "Couple gonks snuck into the VIP booths while she was fucking around on the clock. Some Valentino chica and Blond boy toy from the looks of him." He waggled his optics at her with a grin, "Cutie too, blue eyes and whiskers on his cheeks. Anyway, Suzie and a couple other Mox bust in to tune 'em up and find the chica thoatin the guy in the booth."
"No fuckin way, they kill em?"
"I think Rita tried, probably to try and save her skin. Tried to crush his head with her bat when he was putting his dick away, but get this the boytoy broke it. Like one second his dick was in his hand the next he crushed Rita's bat in his hand." Mateo told her lowly, "Fuckin nova right?" she couldn't help but nod while the guy muttered under his breath, "That lucky cunt, she had a nice piece of ass like him and he's chromed out too?"
Rebecca snickered, "Just your type eh?"
He winked, "You know it… if he'd give me a chance I'd show him just why I got these hi-cap cyber lungs." and laughed at the look she gave him before she did the same.
"Fuckin love ya Mateo." she wiped a tear from her eye and gave him a wave, "I'll catch up with ya again later on alright choom,"
The Bartender nodded and returned the wave, "Got it Rebecca, I'll mix you up a drink later on tonight kay?"
With a nod, Rebecca strutted off deeper into the bar as the cleaning crew packed up and left. They did good work and the place was ready for another night of drinks, dancing, flirting, and rampant BD use.
-xXx-
The outside of the bar was pretty much the same as the last time he was here as far as he could remember… Although, last time he was high on SynthCoke laced with Dorph and drunk on Smash, which he thought was a weird energy drink at the time but turns out is a stupidly strong alcohol. But he was certain nothing had really changed, two Mox bouncers guarded the door, dressed in very little clothing and carrying various weapons. One he even recognized from before, she tried to hit him with a bat.
That made him wince, part of the reason why he was banned was from how he handled that situation, they were under the impression that he was some chrome junkie chipped with enough shit that he would make too much of a mess if they tried to handle him like they normally would. Heard one whisper something about Sandy, whatever that was.
He couldn't just walk in… well he probably could. But he didn't want to cause that kind of chaos to be honest so he smirked and found himself a little out of the way nook to step into and out of sight. In walked a blond man a little less than 6 feet tall and moments later, a young blond woman with long pigtails sauntered out wearing short orange shorts that hugged her thighs and left little to the imagination, a tight tank top that showed off her figure, and a short orange vest over top.
He looked down at himself and grabbed his… her own tits and squeezed, it'd been a long time since he'd transformed into his Naruko form and if he was honest, the time spent with Cami seems to have influenced her shape… definitely how perky and bouncy his breasts were.
Little did he know, a young man saw this blond bombshell playing with her own chest, making them bounce absentmindedly, he couldn't help but stare and nearly walked into traffic. If not for the driver slamming on brakes, he would've ended up a horny red smear on the pavement. Naruto, or now Naruko, walked over towards the entrance of the club and put on her best ditzy party girl face with a little smile, passing several cars and people in the parking lot.
"Choom you got to get your hands on the new BD they just released," one guy was telling his friend before his eyes widened, he started slapping his chooms arm and nodding towards the passing blond, "hey, hey, check it."
"God damn, new Mox?"
"Fuck if I know, damn what I wouldn't do to interface with her. Think she's got a BD?"
Naruko rolled her eyes, if she wasn't already in the middle of something she had half a mind to change the Henge and whip out a bigger dick than those monster dong dildos you see on JigJig street, really terrify those idiots.
"Well hello there fresh meat." one of the Mox hummed seeing Naruko stop at the doorway looking her up and down blatantly. "Haven't seen you around here,"
"Cool your jets, Doll," the other Mox grinned, cocking her hips and holding the bat behind her head, "You can try and get in her panties later." she grinned when the other punched her in the arm.
"Yo not cool Rita." She turned back to the blond, "Stick around though cutie, I'll find you on my break. Go on in and have yourself a good time." Naruko almost blushed at the look she was giving her, the Mox girl was laying it on thick, making a V with her fingers and slowly licking between them, making sure that she knew exactly what she wanted to do to the blonde.
"I just might do that," there was something about her voice that set the Mox on edge, made her grin and take a deep breath while making little movements side to side. "Maybe come and find me later on?" they let her pass and she narrowly dodged Doll's wandering hand that tried to swat at her rear.
"Don't look at me like that Rita," Naruko could hear her hiss through the door, "You want to wrap those thighs around your head too, I saw you staring at that tight little ass."
Lizzies was going strong just like any other day, people dancing, drinks being poured, BDs being slung by the girls. One already very drunk couple were in the process of getting dragged out, rather or not they'll get the shit beat out of them he didn't know but he needed to find his way back to the VIP area.
Several people stared at her as she walked past the front desk, nodding and bouncing a little to the beat and deeper into the club. But before she could even get close to the VIP area she'd already been hit on by a couple different chumps.
"Hey, can I buy you a drink?"
"I like the way you move girl,"
"Wanna see my new Mr. Stud?"
"What can that mouth do?"
Her responses steadily got colder. Naruko didn't know if they were too drunk or too dense to get the hint and wondered why… for a second at least. Looking down she sweatdropped, oh right, her tits.
*Smack*
She flinched and spun around to see a man at least a foot taller than her and two times her size grinning down at her with a pair of round lens for eyes. He was shaking his hand and went to touch her again only for his wrist to be caught.
"Did you just-" she growled lowly, eyes narrowing.
"Oh yeah, got a nice feel of that sexy little- AH!" he sank to his knees, clutching at his arm as she snapped his wrist like a twig, the synth flesh around her hand ripped and sparks shot from his implants as they were crushed inside. If they hadn't already caught the attention of folks around, his screaming definitely did and from the corner of her eye she could see a couple Mox staring towards them both. If she got kicked out she could always just henge into another person and come right back so fuck it fucker wanted to get a feel she'll let him feel something. She twisted again, pulling the screaming man towards her and kneeing him in the chin.
He fell back onto the floor with blood on his lips, only to be kicked viciously in the chest and side. "I'll… teach… you… not… to… slap… my… ass… bitch!" Naruko hissed between each kick and for some reason she wasn't pulled away from the guy like she was expecting to be. It wasn't until she took a step back to get one last kick that the Mox stepped in and pulled her away.
"Fucking hell bitch, thats enough!" the woman snapped, snatching her back by her vest. "Hit the gonk one more time and I'll bounce your little ass out with him!" the woman then snapped at two other moxes, "And you two, you just gonna stand there and watch this little twat kill em? Toss that motherfucker out and do your fuckin jobs!"
"Sorry Susie/Gotcha Suze" the pair snatched the gasping man up off the floor and took him to the back, probably to beat his ass some more before dumping him outside.
She looked tough as nails, and chipped with a good amount of chrome, half of her face was replaced with a faceplate slightly lighter than her own dark skin. The most striking thing she saw at the moment though, was the pink spikes jutting from both arms like a mace.
"What're the rest of you looking at huh? Shows over!" the people around dispersed for the most part while the woman turned back to the blond, "And you, come with me." Naruko blinked as she was dragged away like a petulant child by the woman, for a second she thought about breaking free but fought down the impulse. The woman, Susie, pushed past a couple of people blocking her way, passing the doorway leading to the VIP area as she led her into a rather plain office with a few shelves and a long bench on one wall and a L shaped desk in the corner holding her impressive set of monitors.
"Sorry about that shit," she started, falling back onto the chair at the desk, leaving Naruto/Naruko standing there awkwardly, "Should never have let that gonk in honestly, he looked like trouble. I'm Suzie Q by the way,"
"Naruko,"
"Well Naruko, you got some fucking style I'll give you that." Suzie turned to the computer and taped a few keys, searching through a few screams before bringing up a recording of the blond snapping the guys arm, "couldn't have handled the gonk better myself," she laughed, crossing her arms and watching the beating.
"Um, thanks. Ah… am I in trouble?"
She shook her head, waving off the question, "Nah, we got a policy about customers fighting, normally we'd tune both your asses up and toss you out but shit we all saw what happened. Far as our regulars are concerned, you're getting threatened or shaken down for fighting. Give it a few minutes and your free to get back to partying,"
"Your not like I thought you'd be," Naruko looked around the room and moved to sit on the couch, "Thought you'd be more of a hardass,"
That made the woman snort, "I have to be with these cunts, if I let em run wild they'd burn the place down by the end of week. Hell, every day I wake up I wonder how this place is still standing. Seems like every time I turn around there's another fire to put out."
-xXx-
"Yo Doll, you fuckin missed it Choom," the Mox in question turned along with Rita as the doors opened up and their friend Nox walked out, adjusting her chrome wrap around shades and spiked choker after sliding on her blue synthleather jacket over her leopard print top. "You know that blond whose pic you posted in our chat?"
"Oh yeah, can't wait to chat that up." she grinned watching her friend take a hit from an inhaler. "What about her?"
Behind her shades, her eyes lit up "Might wanna be careful, bitch has some claws. Check the pic I snapped."
Doll's eyes lit up upon receiving the message making her whistle, "Hot damn," it was the blond girl kicking the shit out of another man, "Shit, gonks arm is fucked, wait where is she now?"
"Susie Q snatched her up. Probably ripping her a new one and not in the fun way." Nox mused, making the woman kick a stray rock and curse.
"Fuck!" she groaned out, "Fucking Suzie, she's gonna scare that cutie away!"
"Probably, you know what she can get. Bet she's about to make that girlie piss herself."
-xXx-
"These girls dont understand that I'm trying my best to look out for them!" Naruko awkwardly patted the built Mox on the shoulder, where the woman pulled out a bottle of Ab-Synth she/he didn't know, "Every time I have to put my foot down its, 'oh, Suzie's such a bitch,' 'that stuck up cunt wants to run us like a corp' 'Suzie needs to be reminded of our roots' I just want this place to continue to be a haven for us girls, it can't be that if it falls to pieces or we get shot down."
"Yeah, I totally get you Suzie," she told her once again, "Sometimes it's tough to be the boss and make the hard choices. But that's what makes you the boss, you make em."
"But they act like I enjoy being a buzzkill." Suzie spat, turning the bottle up and taking a huge gulp. "I want to go out and crack skulls, I still want to get fucked up and party too. I'm still Suzie Q, not some Corpo cunt bitch that only cares about business. Wanna drink?"
'How the fuck did I become your therapist?' Naruko thought, taking the bottle and taking a drink for her/himself before handing it back. "Thanks, but you know-"
She cut her off, "We all used to go out and party each weekend, you think they invite me out like that anymore? We'd go and cruise the clubs looking for any fine piece of ass we saw and wring em out, guy or gal it didn't matter."
She sensed that they may be approaching dangerous territory, "Well you know the saying, 'heavy is the head that wears the crown',"
Suzie pouted, "I didn't ask for this crown though,"
Naruko wasn't exactly sure how this started or how to get out of it, Suzie Q kept on and on pouring out her soul, even sharing some very explicit details that she took notes on and looked forward to trying on Cami later. The more the woman talked the more she drank until she finished the bottle and swayed in place next to her.
"-You sure you don't want to try?" Suzie slurred with a grin and a playful tone, leaning heavily on the blond who slowly slid away, laying her down on the couch, "I'm pretty good!"
"How about next time huh?" Naruko took the women's coat from her desk and laid it over her body. It wasn't nearly big enough to cover her torso but she didn't complain. "When you're not so… smashed."
"Hehehe, something will get smashed," she groaned, stretching out and touching the blond's thigh drunkenly, making Naruko grimace.
'Finally,'
Now she could get back to the job at hand.
Sneaking out of the office, Naruko stuck to the shadows as best she could, which proved to be a challenge with the pulsing neon lights of the club plus the sheer amount of people but the ninja made it past the doorway with little to no hiccups along the way… well for the most part.
She had to make a small scene to get past the short Mox blocking the way. But it was taken care of by making a passing paton spill his drink on the girl, who turned into a raging gremlin and chased the guy away at gunpoint, giving her the chance to slip past while another Mox calmed the short pale skinned girl down.
The long hallway of the VIP brought a grin to Narukos face along with a tiny blush at the memory. Several doors were open so she could pass them by since no one was inside but a few were shut so hopefully his target was inside and hadn't left early while Suzie had her held hostage.
The first was definitely not his target. Upon opening the door she had been treated to a small group of men lounged back on the chairs in the middle of their erotic braindances, as evidenced by their tented pants. The second seemed to be a meeting between a small group of people not there for the BDs, she quickly apologized and shut the door before going to the next.
'Bingo,'
There was her target, oblivious to the world around him. A glowing BD headset over his face and his briefcase on the couch next to him under his hand. The round Holo table in the middle of the room pulsed with a holographic woman dancing to the music around them while he stealthy creeped over and grabbed the handle, the job was to get the case not hurt him so she wouldn't disable him or anything, let him enjoy the literal mindfuck he was in the middle of experiencing.
The door slid open suddenly, "Hey gonkbrain! I thought I saw someone sneak in here!" Spinning around, the blond saw the gremlin in the doorway, hair still half wet from where the drink spilled on her and a gun in hand. "Thought you were slick huh?"
"Huh?" the guy in front of her reached up and started taking the BD wreath off, blinking at the sight of Naruko with her hand on the handle of his briefcase, "Hey, you thriving bitch-"
She snatched the case and slung it at the gremlin, who was knocked off her feet and fired a shot into the wall with a scream of rage. Naruko then suckerpunched the man in his throat as he tried to stand, making him fall back down holding his neck. By now, Rebecca scrambled to her feet, teeth blared while bringing her new pistol to bare, "Fucking cunt, I'll kill you!" The gun fired wildly, the gremlin pulling the trigger as fast as she could no longer caring about collateral damage.
Smoke filled the room and she flinched, not expecting that whatsoever but quickly fired again, only for the slide to lock back, "You're not getting away bitch!" she raged, dropping the spent mag and slapping another, "You're getting a .45 in your ass you hear me!"
The blaring music was overtaken by a high pitched alarm from the fire system sensing the smoke in the booth and all three were drenched as the suppression system inside went off to contain and fight what it thought was a fire.
"Fuck!" came another voice. With his henge released, Naruto grabbed the choking man and swung him towards the door where the girl was, using him as a battering ram to clear the way.
A whoosh was heard, Rebecca looked up to see something flying through the smoke and before she could fire another shot, was once again bowled over by a wheezing and gasping man. She kicked and screamed under him, beating him with the grip of her pistol, "Get your fat ass of me you gonk fuck!"
The pistol was kicked from her hand by a blond, but not the one she was expecting, it was… a guy? That shocked her, she knew there was a girl in there. WHERE THE FUCK DID HE COME FROM!
Naruto snatched the briefcase up off the floor and smirked at her, "Better luck next time short stuff!"
"I'LL KILL YOU!"
He stepped on the guy pinning her, making both wheeze before sprinting down the hallway, following the exit signs and away from the screaming behind him. Several turns, one man trampled, and two Mox knocked down later, he burst through a fire exit door and slammed it shut behind him as bullets slammed into the metal behind him. From there it was a simple case of running like hell away from Lizzies bar, quickly leaving the Mox behind with a pale skinned gun wielding gremlin leading the chase as he made his way to a rooftop and made tracks.
He stopped after a bit and held his side, she got him good. Naruto looked at his hand and grimaced at the blood, it was healing but fuck did it hurt. Dialing the Padres number, Naruto sat down on an air conditioning unit and winced as the bullet was pushed out slowly.
"Hey Padre, I got the briefcase where do you want me to drop it off at?"
-xXx-
Unbeknownst to Naruto, his actions garnered a bit more attention than he was aware. News of the killings was glossed over by the media but those that stayed plugged into the scene knew that there was a new runner along the edge and that this solo had some skill. Killing a scav crew wasn't anything to brag about, solo or not, ghosting the gonks without anyone being none the wiser? That was some next level shit and to top it off, this solo was connected to the 6th Street gangers.
Took a while to get around, apparently some banger was bragging to another about overhearing some hush hush biz about the one responsible for the job, that the operator was a ninja, not like those Arasaka ninja but a Shinobi. Jokes were made at the person's expense, yeah right like that was true. But the name stuck and some joked around to 'Watch your six around Arroyo, or the 6th Street Shino will flatline your ass'
But while rumors and gossip flew, Naruto continued gathering what information he could around Night City and played around with some of his new weapons to figure out how they worked. Fun fact, taking the magazine out of the gun doesn't unchamber it he came to find out, it'll still fire. The hole in the wall could attest to that along with his nearly ruined underwear. But strangely enough, no one complained about the gunshot…
-xXx-
Five months later…
-xXx-
Those that mocked and joked about the existence of the '6th Street Shino' quickly changed their tune when more and more scav haunts around the Santo Domingo area and parts of Heywood started being ghosted in the night. Sometimes other members of the crew managed to survive only due to the fact that they happened to be gone at the time, returning only to find their friends assassinated. Some groups were only found by curious people wondering what the god awful smell coming from an abandoned building was. Numbers of scav infestations dwindled and people breathed a sigh of relief at not having to worry about being snatched off the streets by a bunch of Chrome thieving butchers.
Aside from his one man crusade against the scav population, Naruto kept himself busy with helping Rico as well. Undermining the rival faction within the 6th Street gang by sabotaging them covertly and making the rival leader look like a gonk. Apparently, outright killing the man wasn't the best move according to the leader of the gang, Rick Morton, whom Naruto hadn't met yet, not that he really wanted to. But with all his sabotage and stealing their supplies, Naruto now had a nice little cache of weapons and gear locked away in a storage unit for whenever he needed, not including what he had sealed away on his person.
But cleaning the streets and dealing with gang issues wasn't all he did, his relationship with Cami was progressing nicely. They were seeing each other regularly now and while they weren't what she called each other's 'Mainline' more like that she was his 'exclusive input' whatever that meant. They'd both moved out of the NoTell motel and found places of their own a while back, well she found a small apartment that he crashed in more often than not, he had trouble finding a place of his own and stayed in his storage unit when they didn't stay together. It was cramped and didn't have any windows but so was his storage unit and he slept with her so he didn't have any reason to complan. Cami recently hinted at them finding a place together and he wasn't opposed to the idea.
Night City was still a horrible place of corruption, greed, and inhumanity, no doubt about it… but it was growing on him. He saw more of it working some side jobs with the Padre every now and then when he needed a few extra eddies.
-xXx-
"Aw, the badlands?" Cami pouted, her lip poking out with a fake whine, "but thats so far and you'll be gone soooo long.'' She was sitting on her knees on their admittedly too small bed in her apartment, hair in a messy bun while he set his two duffle bags on the floor. One made a heavy thump when he did, loaded with his gear and weapons. She fell back on the bed dramatically with her wrist to her forehead, "I'll be so lonely, whatever shall I do while you're gone?"
The blond chuckled as he sat down and untied his shoes, not exactly the same sandals he used to have but the old pair were worn and had to be repaired or replaced. "It's only for a couple weeks… a month tops. It won't be that bad." he could feel her roll around on the bed before her arms snaked around his body.
"Your heading out tomorrow for a whole month?" her breath against the back of his neck caused goosebumps and she knew it. He felt her body press against his back and her arms slip under his shirt, "You'll be out in the dust and dirt all month playing Nomad and you'll leave your sexy, horny, input all alone here in the city." he smirked, knowing this game she was playing, "Don't be out there fucking some dusty little nomad puta you find out there." she pinched him warningly and kissed his ear. "Cause I'll know."
"Aw but baby, I got three lined up and a bunch of good booze for- ah! Ow ow ow, I'm sorry I was just playing!" she torqued down on his nipple with her fingernails before biting his earlobe "Ah my ear, you're gonna rip it, baby stop!"
She released his nip and kissed his ear, "I know you wouldn't fuck around on me," she gave it another kiss with a grin, "I also know you like when I bite."
"Mean ass." he laughed, turning his head towards her where she captured his lips in a kiss. They stayed like that for a bit, locked in a heated kiss before breaking apart for breath where she leaned her cheek on his shoulder while he finished taking off his shoes. "You have fun with Ms. Welles?"
"You know you can call her Mama Welles too right? But yeah we had a nice time, she really wants us to come have dinner together again." he nodded slowly, he didn't know how she did it but that woman was a goddess in the kitchen, he wasn't exactly sure what it was and couldn't pronounce it to save his life but he'd place it proudly at the number 2 spot of the best foods ever made, right behind Ichiraku Ramen of course. "Oh and I talked to Jackie today. He really wants to talk to you?"
"Eh really?"
"I doubt he wants to pick a fight, Mama Welles and Pepe said he's really changed, he wants to make up for the way he acted and apologize to you. Apparently he'd been hoping to run into you around the bar but…" 'you keep avoiding the place' was what she didn't say. "It'd mean a lot to Mama Welles and that'd mean a lot to me."
"Alright, I'll stop and talk to him before I head out tomorrow,… for you,"
She kissed his cheek, "Thanks Naru, Mama Welles will appreciate it."
"Later on we can all sit down and have dinner with Ms…. Mama Welles." that made her grin against his shoulder. "But first, I need you to do me a favor, babe."
"Hm?"
The blond felt her breasts rubbing against his back the entire time, her hands rubbing his chest and shoulders before and even her breath against his neck had the expected effect on him. He stood up and slid out of his pants before turning back to her with a grin which she soon mirrored.
"For me?" she felt his fingers run through her hair and grip her messy bun before looking up at him, the look in his eye made her tingle.
"Open your mouth," he gripped himself and held it to her lips.
"Ooh I like it when your all commanding,"
-xXx-
Five months, Five months it took to get the guy to agree to talk but Jackie couldn't blame him though, he wouldn't want to talk to the pendejo that tried to open up his skull with a broseph bottle either, a nice classy Centzon? eh maybe then he'd talk. Speaking of which, one of those would be nice right now to be honest…
'No, focus… no alcohol Jackie-boy.' he told himself, holding his Nicola from his place at the bar.
Cami… no Camilla, bless her, after thoroughly cursing him for calling her, had agreed to get her new guy to sit down and talk to him… although he suspected his mama had more to do with it than him. Pepe had given him the stink eye for days after that little scrap and after a while, joked that he got back at him by spitting in his drinks when he finally begged the man to forgive him.
At least he really hoped Pepe was only joking…
"Cami said you wanted to talk," Jackie inhaled and choked on his Nicola, spitting the drink across the bar. "Fucking christo," he coughed a few times and spun on the stool to see a half grining blond standing just out of arms reach, "The hell'd you come from,"
"Outside, I walked," he responded before waving to Pepe, who'd walked over and tossed Jackie a towel, "Hey Pepe,"
"Good to see you again Naruto, bout time you came back around, nice hair cut.
Naruto grinned and rubbed the back of his head, "Yeah, thanks it was time for a change. It's good to see you too man, how's the family?"
"Hehehe, mijo's getting bigger, gonna be a handful when he gets older. Cynthia's back working, thankfully our neighbor is happy to babysit for us. Her daughter is about the same age and they're chooms in the making." the man mused with a grin as he wiped up part of Jackies mess.
The blond smiled at that, Night City was a mess but he was glad to see some good in it. "I'm glad you and yours are doing well, man. But look, I promised Cami I'd talk to this guy before I headed out,"
"Oh yeah, yeah, "The bartender looked at Jackie who finished wiping part of the bar up with a sheepish grin. "I heard you're leaving town for a little while, el jefe will be disappointed she missed you but she left a little while ago... Oh well I'm glad you stopped by, it was good seeing you again." He motioned for Jackie to hand over the towel, "I'll finish up Jackie, let's not keep Naruto waiting eh?"
He nodded and wiped his hands on his pants before turning to the blond, "Hey, let's head out front, where it's quieter," Naruto nodded and the pair weaved their way to the front door, nodding and greeting a few of the Valentinos he recognized on the way.
They stepped out into the sun and there was an awkward silence as they looked at a couple of the cars that passed by in front of the 'El Coyote Cojo'. "So… is this the part where you say if I ever hurt Cami they'll never find the body?" a moment passed before both men chuckled.
Jackie waved it off with a lopsided smirk, "No, no, nothing like that, besides. Between Camilla and mama, I doubt I'd have to do anything." he smirked before clearing his throat, "No, I really just wanted to say I'm sorry. I was a massive jackass before and deserved that asskicking you gave me."
"Ah, yeah about that, I'm sorry too. I never should've gone that far." he tried but the other man laughed it off.
"No Naruto really. My mama was telling me that the way I acted reminded her of my father," he looked down darkly at that and the blond could see how that thought affected him. "He was a hateful son of a bitch and I swore I'd never be like that bastard. Heh, serves me right for acting like him."
"Well for what it's worth Jackie, I don't hold it against you." The pair started walking down the road to a small parking lot a little ways down. "You got a mean hook though but it's too wild."
"I'll work on it, I know a guy who's gonna teach me how to box, says I got potential" he chuckled, "But look, I said I want to make it up to you and I mean it."
Naruto shook his head, "Jackie, really you don't have to."
"No, but I want to. Seriously, if you need anything just let me know. Here," his eyes lit up and Naruto's holo beeped. "Just sent you my contact. If you need anything at all, I'm your guy. Hell, maybe one day we'll look back at this and laugh over some beers."
Naruto stared for a moment and couldn't help but smile at Jackie's energy, he was like a taller, jacked version of himself fresh out of the academy. First impressions aside, he was a good guy. "You know what Jackie, I could definitely see that happening." he got a grin and the pair turned towards a small two door car.
"This your ride? Looks like… an Archer Quartz if I'm right. Preem little ride." Jackie walked around it studying the various mods it was installed with, "Not exactly… eh… factory new."
"Borrowed it for the job, pretty sure it's a Nomad ride that lost its owner. New owner doesn't really expect it back so it'll do to get me out into the badlands." he mused while opening the door. "Got enough room for my gear and the truckspace for my supplies so I'm not complaining."
"Heard you were a solo, been saving up to get some gear myself. Make a name for myself and hit the big leagues." Jackie leaned against the roof on the passenger side.
"Don't want a 9 to 5?"
He snorted, "In this city? Not much else I could do, pretty good with bikes though, even put a lot of thought in opening my own shop to work on em but fucking the corpos try and squeeze every eddie they can from you. Have to pay them for permission to work on the damn things."
Naruto blinked, he definitely didn't know that but honestly he didn't put it past them. "Seems like anytime I hear anything at all about a corporation it just pisses me off." he muttered darkly, making Jackie nod slowly. "I guess it's no surprise people turn to merc work."
"Yeah… but hey, I won't hold you up anymore." Jackie pushed off the car and slapped the roof. "I'm glad you stopped by so I could talk to you, again man sorry for being a jackass."
He waved it off, "It's fine Jackie, you're a good dude." Naruto opened the door and started to climb in as Jackie started to walk away back to his mothers bar. But something crossed his mind and he had to ask. "Hey Jackie!"
"Hm?" he turned and took a few steps back towards the car while Naruto turned and met him halfway.
"Look this is probably out of line but I have to ask, what happened between you and Cami?"
Jackie winced and rubbed the back of his head with a hiss looking down at the ground for a moment, "Damn homes… I don't know what she told you but… it was a lot of stupid shit, both of us were jumping to conclusions. I accused her of cheating, she accused me, it seemed like we'd argue more often. My drinking didn't help… fuck it probably caused a good bit of it. There's more to it but I take most of the blame for how things went down." Naruto could feel that Jackie wasn't lying and nodded. "I wish you and Camilla the best, really, But now I feel like me and her splitting up was for the best."
The blond nodded, fair enough he supposed. With that, Jackie wished him safe travels and once again turned to head back into the bar and this time Naruto didn't stop him.
Climbing down into the car, Naruto hit the ignition and sat there for a minute while the onboard gps took a moment to calibrate. He could probably just run to his destination and make good time, most of his supplies for the trip were already sealed away including a few extra containers of Choo to run this thing but he had to admit that the thought of driving this interested him, especially off road. If he didn't like it he'd just ditch the thing, hell he might even run into a nomad and would just give them the ride.
According to Rico he'd be traveling a few days away to what they believed was a rest stop along a route used by Raffen shiv smugglers. It was well out of range of any Night City border security units and was considered to be pretty much a wasteland with nothing to offer. He'd probably lose signal with his coms, reception in the badlands was spotty and only got worse the further in you went but this was the best chance they had at finding out what Gunner was smuggling and if Raffen were involved it couldn't be anything good.
The radio started playing a song from the old Samurai band as he grabbed his phone and started typing out a message.
"Hey Babe, just finished talking with Jackie, would you let Mama Welles know? I'm about to head out and start driving,"
"I will Naru, please drive safe and be careful.'
"I'll miss you 3"
"Call me or message me when you take a break, ;3
She then sent a picture of herself making a kissy face, making him smile while putting the car in gear. Time to focus, he's driving this thing a little and picked up the basics pretty well but it was a lot different than anything he'd done before and that excited him. Hitting the gas, he grinned sheepishly as the wheels spun with a screech, throwing up dirt behind him onto a long green convertible with six wheels, whoops.
-xXx-
To be Continued…
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