Azure King: I liiiiiiiiiiiiiive! Seriously this has to be the worst year for me to get sick, I had this weird rash in the inside of my mouth that swell it, but THANK GOD! It's over, I'm still having some issues IRL tanking up more hours and helping with my family due to my father not being here due to returning his country for his immigration process.

Still thank you to those still reading and sending those reviews for this fic! It means a lot and gives me great pleasure working on this chapter! So some things to note, I will spoil anything about this Naruto weather he's from canon, born here or whatever, I figure it be fun-er to do this.

Anyway it's time for that yearly good news! My yearly mass update is going to happen, but there are some problems. Unlike last year where you all graciously gave me money for this iPad I'm still currently using, thank you all for those who donated for this great present that I can continue my work.

sadly unlike last year where I can do 15 stories, my highest ever lol, i might have to go lower. But I'll do my best to hit double digits again! So please if you can join my pateron later this week the first poll for my stories to be chosen shall be posted most like Sunday at the latest.

CHAPTER STSRT!

It'd been a couple of months since Naruto "enrolled" into the academy for commanders. He eventually became the top student due to military handling and intelligence on written portions. "If you're going to make a choice, between four Miscellaneous NIKKE's or one from a proper NIKKE Squad, you should always-"

Naruto sighed as this washup of a Commander offered his "advice" to the class, 'All life can be saved if you take the time…' he thought to himself, ignoring the female Commanders that were looking at him longingly.

"Now, in my day it's better to save your own-" DING-DONG, "Oh…class is dismissed," The former Commander said in obvious disappointment.

'Finally…' Naruto sighed mentally in relief, thanking whatever deity was up there that saved him from his boredom.

The wash-up then said before he left, "Oh, before I forget, due to the recent attacks from Heavenly Ascension, you're off for this upcoming weekend. Many retired and Active Commanders will be part of an investigation or helping out with the relief effort." The man said. When he left… The class cheered wildly at the prospect of three free days!

"Well damn, that's great." Naruto said with a mildly stunned look. "I'll take vacation for three days any day."

"Tell me about it!" A female student next to Naruto smiled, "Day in and day out we listen to his 'former' great heroes of the Arc or these rude asshole Commanders. All I learn is to die on the frontlines rather than be them!"

"So I've heard Beatrix…" Naruto frowned, as he also felt her rage was justified.

"But anyways, now that we all have the weekend to ourselves, whaddya wanna do?"

"Hmmmm…" Naruto pondered in thought. That was a really good question. What could he do?

Soon the two snapped their heads to see another student with unkempt brown hair and blue eyes walking towards them with a chuckle, "Yo, Naruto, Bea, what's up?" He greeted them. "Feeling excited for the three day weekend?"

"Oh Kuromu." Naruto waved, meeting his friend who fist bumped each other.

"Hell yeah, we're excited, but…" Beatrix then pouted, "We don't know what to do."

"There's always the mall." Kuromu suggested. "We can get some burgers, fries, and shakes at the food court. Don't worry. First round's on me." He grinned, "I meant synthetic meat is pretty good when you salt it enough."

"Heh," Naruto cracked a smile as he stood up, "Might as well, since the dorms aren't for me."

"Count me in." Beatrix smiled, standing up too, with that the three left their classroom where they headed to get some fun in a rare time of relaxation.

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"Please be careful when crossing the streets~!"

The three teens walked by a cute little girl in a modified Police officer outfit with orange colored hair passing the three across the streets…despite no cars in the area at all. "Man she's cute." The female member of the trio giggled at the cute aspect of a hard working police girl younger than them.

"You taking her home tonight?" Kuromu teased the girl.

"God no!" Beatrix paled, "She's cute but I'm not committing a crime!"

Naruto snorted as he turned his head back, "Besides she's a NIKKE not a good idea to mess with her even if she wasn't A.C.P.U." The blonde looked back to see the Police girl comically falling on her face rushing towards to help an elderly lady cross the road.

NIKKE's, the blonde remembered the very first lesson he was told by both Ingrid and the academy, NIKKE's are augmented women who transformed into these Biomechanical cyborgs. They are the only beings able to fight against these Robot/alien menaces called the Raptures.

It's been a war going all for almost decades apparently, that humanity was nearly wiped out from the first invasion battles. Soon they were forced to live in an underground city where the last remnants of humanity could hope to live a decent life.

Naruto gazed towards the 'sky', which was dozens of hundreds of Super HD monitors mimicking the sky that was on the surface. Naruto was sighing as he felt this was weird not feeling the same breeze or calming scene of the wind. It was…hollow to him, he felt even more disconnected to it when one of the companies tried to make an advertisement in the 'sky'. He knew so many people were forced to be reminded at the fact…they were down here…not on the surface.

"Hey Naruto, you alright?" Kuromu asked. "You kinda spacing out."

The blonde chuckled regaining his smile, "Just feeling a bit happy we're ok. Despite being in this… city…" He said lamely as if ashamed at the fact they were here.

"Yeah, I guess so." Kuromu sighed, looking up at the 'sky' too.

The three enter the nearby restaurant, ignoring a white haired girl in red armor laughing like a villain as she shouted, "MUWAHAHA DINE AND DASH~!" Before she left she comically walked back inside, and dusted off her clothes, "Gotta leave a tip, not that rude…" Before bolting away as the three gave weird looks at her.

"Okay… that was awkward." Beatrix said as they entered the cafe and ordered their meals as the three sighed. "Remember the first day of school?"

Kuromu nodded, "Apples, pears, and elk meat."

The blonde agreed. In the Ark they don't really have the means to actually grow food or raise livestock, having a pet is almost dozens of laws to pass through to own one. They have these synthetically made food called Splendamin, wonder food that is… edible, but in order to make it taste or look like the food people used to eat prior the Invasion, the government did all they can to replicate it.

On their first day in the Academy, they gave them a banquet as means to 'work' for a goal to reclaim the outside. It was…glorious until the horrible training and basic lack of kindness when doing intense workouts. One hell of a carrot and stick motivation they made… sick bastards.

"One Steak Meal, One Burger Meal, and one Ramen meal." A middle aged woman said walking up to the three as she placed lovely looking meals to them, the trio loved this place. Despite the 'fast-food' or restaurants nearby they love this place as the food actually does state like food.

"Thanks, I usually hate the food for noodles but this almost tastes like them." Naruto said as the woman lightly slapped his arm for the rather rude compliment.

"Hey, be glad we have any semblance of food." Kuromu pointed out, as he drank some of his milkshake with the whipped cream on top.

"Dude," The girl said while eating her steak, "You have no right to say that when you practically moan in bliss eating real meat." She reminded the teen, blushing as he was rather vocal when that happened.

"S-Shut up…" Kuromu got out.

The blonde cadet didn't speak, as he spied his cola, one of the few drinks that actually taste real… although he still doesn't know how he knows that fact. "Hmm, since we can stay out for a couple of days, wanna crash at my place?" He suggested as his two friends' eyes widened. For most of the students in the academy, they have to live in dorms as part of their training, unlike them Naruto was one of the few that can live in a normal apartment as long as he attends school on time.

They once thought tahat he was rich until they stand over for a group study on Rapture enemies, getting the news that a Deputy Director and a CEO gave him the right commute.

"R-Really?! We can?!" Beatrix asked excitedly.

"I don't see why not." Naruto shrugged, "Besides I know you two could take a break with your roommates." Saying that made his two friends sign in agreement as they had to share their rooms with four or five members of other classes to 'promote' comradery. But really it was for the lack of space due to so many recruits joining only to drop out after a couple days. Originally Kuromu said that he had almost seven roommates, not including himself.

So the blonde offering the extra room to them so they can have a more relatively peaceful sleep is better than nothing, "Well where else to go?"

Beatrix's eyes shined as she had shaking fists leaning forward, "To the casino~! I heard the Bunny pair are doing their pole dance today~ one look and we get lucky for days apparently!"

"Oh, so you're taking them home tonight." Kuromu chuckled, but his wide smile showed he was definitely interested.

Naruto shook his head with a goofy smile, "We can't even if we wanted to, unless they're special events. And even then, those are for adults or graduates of the Academy who can enter there. If we're caught we're no longer allowed to attend school."

"Damn…" Kuromu and Beatrix slumped their heads and shoulders down.

"There's always the arcade next to it." Naruto suggested as they seemed to regain some of their pep. "Come on, the last one has to pay for the first three games!" He said shoveling down his meal and payment, where he soon left the two who tried to keep up and finished their food.

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"Alright, new high score!" Kuromu shouted as he got the shooting game.

GAME CLEAR~!

"Haha, who would've thought Bang Bang Shooting would be my go-to?"

"Pfft, give me that." Naruto said already pushing in tokens into the machine as he selected the highest difficulty.

"Oh, going to beat my high score?" Kuromu asked.

"You know it." Naruto grinned, soon eyes glowed green as his hand seemed to blur as he shot down the enemies in the game. The two teens stood in awe as the score started- no more like blasted into the thousands, then hundreds of thousands! "Come on, come on, come on, come on!" Naruto chanted as he kept his speed, almost with tunnel-like vision of taking down… "crap!"

"Zzzrt!"

"It…froze…" Naruto said as he saw the score was frozen at what his friend had… times five. With the first boss standing still as to show the amount of enemies he took down cause the machine to malfunction. "Uhh does it count?"

The two other cadets chuckled weakly until they heard a rude tone, "It doesn't, since you kids are not going to ever survive two minutes on the Surface like us."

The three Cadets turned towards the source of the voice, seeing a few of their Commanders with smug looks on their faces. Naruto glared at them as he knew who they were Spike and Duo, two of their former upperclassmen who graduated from the academy.

"The hell do you two want?" Beatrix groaned irritably.

"We just came from helping the incident from the Heavenly Ascension attack, unlike you cadets who were actually working!" The leader of the two, Spike spoke with a smirk obviously feeling superior from his 'work'. "I wish I had a couple days off from school, must be nice to be lucky."

"If anyone's a bunch of lazy asses, it's you two." Kuromu said dryly.

"Yo what was that black?" Duo said with a sneer, "You got shit to say to active members of the government?"

"You heard me, you Deathscythe Gundam reject-"

"Kuro!" Naruto shouted to stop his friend from saying anymore, "He's right… he'll technically revoke our rights as cadets if we piss them off."

"Che…" Kuromu clicked his tongue in annoyance. "Stupid laws…"

"That's good boy now move!" He said, pushing Kuromu to the ground as he took his turn on the game, "Thanks for paying for my turn!" Soon his friend was about to join. Only for a moment Naruto was grasping his forearm as he glared at him…only to whimper when he saw a killing intent inside the blonde's eyes! "Hey back or-"

"I don't like to play this card, but I know Ingrid…" the two graduate eyes widen at the name drop as the other cadets didn't, as most cadets don't know who the CEO are due to recent times that two of the former leaders of the company change their positions although the third hasn't since it was made oddly enough.

"Y-You…" Spike stuttered in fright.

"That's right. Do that again, and I'll force you to regret it." Naruto glared.

"Pfft," the leader of the two recent commanders scoffed, "Acting all tough, bet you haven't done the traditional run!"

"The what?" The trio said along as Spike nodded.

"Every new cadet has to choose someone to take something from a gang… in the Outer Rim." He added the last part with a dark smile.

"Are you nuts?!" Beatrix gawked. "Who would be stupid enough to do that?!"

"You're out of your mind, if you think we're gonna-" Kuromu was cut off when Naruto held him back.

"I'll do it."

"Naruto?!" Kuromu and Beatrix gawked at their friend.

"In exchange you leave us the hell alone." He said as the two recent commanders look a bit disturbed. "So… what's the thing I'm stealing?"

XXXXX

The three were near the partition between the Ark and the main and possible entrance of the Outer Rim. "I can't believe you actually agreed to this." Kuromu grumbled as he and the other two finally found their way to the Outer Rim. "This is a bad idea!"

"It's not like I don't know that, besides we all learn the difference between here and the Outer Rim, as long as I don't start shit or look like I'm not from the Ark I'll be fine. Besides I got these…" Naruto gesturing his feet as he smirks, "Never been outpaced by anyone remember?"

"Bea?" Kuromu asked as the girl shrugged, he continued trying to talk his blonde friend out of it,"This isn't like getting in trouble with the professor. Those guys literally kill for your shoes."

"But this makes the effort more serious…" Naruto said getting some dirt and grime he got from class to plaster his face, "They won't ever insult us."

Kuromu sighed at this, "This makes going to the surface safer… I can't believe this, but this better not come back to haunt us later on. So what exactly are we stealing again?"

"I'm stealing, you two are staying here." Naruto said as his tone carried a finality to them. "Besides I'm the only one who can actually seem not like a fish out of water…" he said remembering how the students ignore how the Outer Rim people are like. "No offense you two just scream easy targets."

The two other cadets look sheepish at that truth but nod, "So…what can we do?" The other male said as Naruto tightened a knife underneath a loose robe tied around his waist.

"You can at least keep an eye out." Naruto said. "I'll be quick. I'll keep my earphones on in case of an emergency." And with that, he quietly ran off.

"Great…" Kuromu groaned as he and Beatrix decided to hide at a vantage point where they could see him while also keeping an eye out for anything else that's suspicious and moving.

"I'll keep an eye on the academy maps on the Outer Rim, they might be outdated but it's good for reference purposes." The girl said as the blonde smiled before smacking his cheeks hard.

"Alright, let's do this." Naruto said.

"Just hurry it up." Kuromu hissed.

"Relax, I got this." Naruto assured the boy. Almost like a ghost, he vanished from their sight. The two soon saw how he seemed to appear and fade around the cameras, unable to be caught.

Kuromu then brought out the thermal sensory binoculars and looked into them.

"How's he doing?" Beatrix asked, looking over the information she got on her screen.

"So far, so good." Kuromu answered. "He's making it look easy with all that dodging." He said as the blonde seemed to forge out a way before noting a vent and kicking it open and slid inside. 'He's in."

"Where did he go?"

"Looks like some kind of warehouse. But what would Naruto steal there?" Kuromu wondered.

"The warehouse isn't where he's going to steal, he needs to steal from a gang that's been on the rise." Beatrix said as she spoke into the laptop, "Naruto, take a left…"

XXXXX

"Right!" The blonde said, rushing towards the streets and tried not to gag on the smell. He looked around seeing broken down homes, trash and debris on the floor that was impossible to tell the difference between gravel or crap. "…" he didn't speak as he knew that the Outer Rim was for the illegals, criminals or last resort to live when kicked out by normal society of the Ark.

But he didn't dare spare a second thought as the old saying in the Ark often said, 'Second thoughts means one second death in the Outer Rim.' As he thought to himself, noticing a small amount of women nearly nude, save for star shape pasties on their nipples, holding up signs like 'Nikke brothel services', 'soapland new girls', or 'rent a lover' as they showed a dozen of rather nicely made bars and clubs towards a 'city' of sorts.

"Whoa…"

["Naruto, what's the hold up?"] Kuromu asked.

"Remember that senpai who told us he got fired for getting some ass in the Outer Rim?" Naruto said as he smirked, "Seems he paid for it then he said he earned it."

["You're kidding. Seriously?"] Beatrix got out.

"Yup. I gotta say, those ladies are looking fiiiiine right now." Naruto smirked as he enjoyed a nice jiggling ass.

["Oi, focus on the mission."] Kuromu chastised. ["The sooner you steal whatever it is, and get out of there, the better."]

"Yeah," The blonde said as he took a few more minutes as he arrived at a run down bar. "Ok…" he said as the blonde approached the door and after a few minutes walked in. "Thanks ya fucking dick! I just wanted a drink!" A fake drunk Naruto 'hiccup' as he walked with a limp. "Fucking…" he started eyeing up the location before pulling a bottle from his pants, and saw the prize his upperclassman said he needed to take from the gang.

"A hundred aged Whiskey from the surface, this can literally buy someone freedom out of the Outer Rim." He said, eyeing the faded label as he…

XXXXXXXXXX

"My lord *hic* you earned my respect for producing this rather tasty spirit…" Naruto chuckled as he looked into a whiskey shot glass as he turned his head to see a… it was like a blurry woman in white. "Thank you…" her head leaned on to his shoulder, "I just… need a drink…" she sighed looking at a nearby sword.

"Ren…" Naruto whispered as he looked at the glass…

XXXXXXXXX

Only to see the bottle in his hand, "What was…?" He started only for his head to ring in pain.

["What's going on in there?"] Kuromu wondered. ["You haven't responded in like five minutes."]

The blonde shook his head as he nodded to himself, "R-Right… sorry, just distracted."

["Do you have it?"] Beatrix asked, as keys on a laptop were soon clicking away. ["Better hurry, the night crew are coming soon."]

"Yeah, I got it."

["Good, now get out of there."] Kuromu advised as he looked at the girl next to him and looked at the streets, still no NIKKE's coming to do guard duty yet.

XXXXX

The blonde smiled as he placed the 100-year old whiskey bottle into his jacket pocket, walking with a bottle out in the open was easy to look like he belonged here. He was ready to head out until-

"Don't. Move."

'Ah shit…' Naruto thought to himself. Just when he thought he could get away now. Getting in was easy, it's getting out that was the hardest. He then slowly raised his hands.

"Consigliere, get the bottle…" a woman's voice spoke from behind, it was the oddest mixture of cool confidence yet seductive frosty tone. "Don't move little boy or you're going to walk home on two little stumps."

The blonde didn't move even when heard a soft voice and soon spoke to him, "Easy there kiddo…" her accent was definitely something of an old school gang member. "Got it Boss, our former Boss secret stash of liquor." She said, uncorking the bottle and groaning when she took a brief smell from it. "Yup…" she said with a heavy urge to gag, "This is it…"

"Thank you, Consigliere." The first one said, "Now then, little boy, I want you to turn around. Nice. And slowly."

"Will you promise not to shoot me?" He asked without sounding scared, making the one woman holding a gun on him seem amused given a small snort came from her.

"That depends on how well you cooperate with me."

"Fair enough." Naruto said, before doing what the lady instructed him to do. Slowly, but surely, he pivoted his body with slow steps, before meeting face-to-face with the supposed leader. However, upon doing so, his eyes widened significantly, "Whoa… okay, definitely not what I expected."

Naruto saw the sight of a young woman whose hair was half black and half white symmetrically even on the hairline which cascaded down her shoulders. Her pink was easily seductive as it was mysterious. Her attire consisted of a rather fluffed white fur jacket that hid the black and thinly yellow striped sleeveless top that did nothing to hide her curvaceous breasts and exposed waistline that had a rose and thorn tattoo on one side. She wore rather short hot pants with magazine accessories and was finished up by black leather calf-size boots with sharp stilettos on the heels.

The white and black colored hair woman smirk, her eyes flashing almost dangerously at the long moment the young man had, "While I adore the rather intense staring you're giving me…" she lost her smile as she walked up to him and pull him to her face, "Why the fuck… did you steal from me…?" She hissed as the blonde seemed to shock her, even though she didn't show it, he was fearless in front of her… normally the idea of someone doing that would make her bash their teeth in. But… he was definitely different…

"To make a long story short, some recent graduates from the Academy messed with my friends and I today. They said if I grab the Hedonia rarest bottle for the traditional-"

"Wait…" the other woman spoke, "Is this that stupid senior prank? The run or milk walk challenge?"

"Huh?" Rosanna asked with a dark look as Consigliere spoke.

Naruto blinked at the second woman in surprise. "You… know about that?"

"Oh yeah every year some dumbass Senior got some rookies kicked out of school by this bogus run to steal our booze. Hell you're the first to actually get here, most piss their pants or beg their mama's to save them. Like these idiots… Douce? Dolt? Spank? Stool?" The gang female cupped her chin to remember the names of the two idiots. "Something like that…"

'So those two couldn't even make it to the bar much less grab the bottle…' Naruto sighed, "Well goddamn, this is certainly unexpected. Look, I'll leave the bottle alone and we can pretend this never happened."

"…How did you get here?" Rosanna asked as she hoisted her gun on her shoulder, generally interested in how he got here for the dumb chore.

"I snuck in, how the hell do you think?" Naruto said in a noted tone as the Consigliere aimed her gun but put it away when Rosanna allowed the tone to go unpunished.

"Hmph," The woman scoffed, but her assumed smirk didn't leave. "And… these seniors… Do you have any description or their names?" Rosanna inquired the boy, a delicate eyebrow raised ever so lightly.

"Their names were Spike and Duo." Naruto answered matter-of-factly.

A snapping sound was heard from the third person, "That was it, those two were the worst babies we met!" Rosanna tilted her head for her right hand woman to continue, "They cried when we just pulled out some empty magazines. Literally pissed themselves from the idea we were going to fill them up with bullets."

"Ha! And they have the gall to call this boy not as good as them?" She looked at the bottle and chuckled, "Con get me an empty bottle from the hideout, any will do as long as it can be corked."

"Sure, I'll get a moon to-"

Rosanna turned her head with a sweet smile, way too sickly sweet, to her ally, "Did you say someone else? Get it…" she said as a sneer appeared from the fact her own men cannot understand her meaning.

Consigliere didn't dare speak… but didn't make a move yet before hearing a machine click as she knew her boss was close to shooting her up, "Yes ma'am be right back… don't do anything I would do…" she said even though she said to her boss… Naruto knew it meant towards him.

"Well… this turned out to be a very different outcome than I expected." Naruto commented, as he placed his hands back down. "So uhhhh…"

"I didn't say move your hands…" Rosanna smiled darkly as she moved towards him, "Up… up…" she said almost in the manner of a parent telling their child to get their shirt off… using her gun to motion him to do it.

Naruto sweat dropped at this, before raising said hands back up. "Look, I'm not trying to start something, I just-" he stopped when she did something he wouldn't dare imagine…

"Mmh~"

Naruto eyes widened as the woman cup his chin as she kissed him… clearly enjoying it before pulling back, letting a small trail of their shared salvia connect their lips,

"U-Um… did you just…" Naruto stuttered, as his brain tried to process what just happened. There was no way Rosanna did what she did.

"Consider that my way of saying 'congratulations' for doing what no other could…" she said, holding his chin as her vermillion eyes locked on to him. "Although if you did leave with my booze…" her hand played with his chest making her index and middle finger slowly walk downwards… as he could feel her hand cupping his groin… "Oh a fitting 'gift' I had in mind…"

*ziiiiiiiip*

Naruto blushed heavily, feeling Rosanna's hand unzipping his pants, smooth and impossibly lithe fingers soon playing with a slowly hardening shaft…

"…HAD you stolen something from me~" her turn once again turned sweet as her hand stopped caressing the tool that was hardening in his pants… to grab two spherical objects in the hardest grip he never hoped to feel!

"MMMMMM!" Naruto fought the urge to scream in pain. He tried to steady his breathing but it was very difficult to do.

"Let this be a lesson!" She harshly whispered, "I like you… so don't FUCK with my belongings!" She said as her wrist turned a bit making the grip SOOOOOOO MUCH WORSE!

"MMMMMMMMMMM! YES MA'AM!" Naruto squeaked.

"…Good boy~" Rosanna cooed as she let go… not before giving it a gentle tug and removing her hand from his pants. "Remember that and we might get more 'friendly…'"

"Gahhhhh… haaaaa… haaaaa… oh god…" Naruto panted heavily, falling to his knees, while using the nearby wall to balance his weakening legs from both the excitement…and sheer fucking fright of what she did. "Shit… fuck… errrrgghh… mmmmmm…!"

"I'm back." Consigliere announced, walking back into the room. "I brought the-" She paused mid-sentence when seeing Naruto in his current state. "Is he okay?"

"He'll be fine. We just had a… heart-to-heart talk shall we say." Rosanna smirked in satisfaction, watching Naruto slowly get back up on his feet, albeit shakily.

Soon Rosanna took the bottle and poured nearly ninety percent of the liquid into the empty bottle, making sure to cork the original bottle, she tossed it to the blonde who caught it. "My gift, consider it a small blessing that you entertained me." Rosanna declared with a neutral look. "Never steal from my crew again…"

"T-Thank you ma'am…" Naruto managed to say.

"If you do visit me again…" she walked up the boy enjoying his flinch as she got close but she didn't move only to make sure she her mouth was next to his ear, "You better believe you're going to feel a more pleasurable sort of pain down there…ahh…" she even gave a small nip to his ear but pouted inwardly when he didn't yelp like she wanted.o

"I'll… keep that in mind…" Naruto shuddered. "I… I will see myself out now. Please excuse me."

And with that, he slowly hobbled out of the bar, bottle in tow.

The 'don' of the crime family smirked, "We'll wait here, find where he came from and cover it. I'll get Moran to patch it or something…" Rosanna said as her comrade looked unconvinced, "Speak…"

"Ma'am, I've been on your side ever since we made the old Don swim with the fish an' all…" Consigliere started but adjusted her feet as she tried to find the right words… "I think we should have made an example of that kid. Or at least forced him into a job as payment for not snitching to the Government. Why let him go, even with a small part of the old Don's booze?"

"He interests me." Rosanna answered simply, unfazed by her question.

The female gangster knew Rosanna for many years, even before she came back as this… person, never once did she let things that had her eye go without being played with. "That's all?" Consigliere inquired about the 'don'. "Just… like him?"

"There's something about him that intrigues me." Rosanna smirked, putting a finger to the corner of her lips as she smiled.

'I almost pity the boy… Rosanna is a scary bitch… but she's a freak when her switch is flipped…' "Very well, I'll hide this back at the bar. Might as well hide it in plain sight this time."

Rosanna was alone as she had a dark smirk, "He'll go a long way as a Commander if he plays his cards right. I can't wait to see what happens next. Hmhmhmhm…"

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THE NEXT DAY

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Duo and Spike looked in shock as they saw a bottle of actual surface booze in front of them, "You…You gotta be shitting me…" The leader of the two whispered before opening it up… before gagging at the smell. "It's real, urp!"

"Yeah, you're welcome." Naruto said dryly at the two. "So I've done my end of the deal, now it's your turn."

"…Hold up, this could be fake…"

"You smelled the damn thing. Hell, even the gang members smelled it to confirm it to be real."

"Who did you steal it from?" Spike asked.

"Rosanna." Naruto said, which alerted the two, in the form of their skin crawling and stiffening up as a plywood board. "Oh yeah, she says 'hi'."

Duo nearly fell back in his ass, "Shit man! How are you even alive?!"

"Uhh…" his mind quickly remembered locking his lips… or rather the crime boss's lips. He shook his head comically. "That's not important. Look, are you gonna leave me and my friends alone?"

"…Whatever, we got work to do…" the two said, leaving the bottle as Kuromu was about to move until Naruto grabbed his shoulder.

"It's fine," He turned to Naruto who smiled, "They know I know that Rosanna did something to them that would ruin their reputation. They'll back off…"

Kuromu sighed, "They better."

"Hey, two less pricks to worry about." Beatrix smiled, "So don't worry about it too much."

"Yeah, alright." Kuromu scratched the back of his head. "So what now?"

"I… oh great…" Naruto whispered as Duo returned, "What now?"

"…Here." He said, passing him a ticket, "We got these from our boss, VIP tickets to that Rapper Volume. You can keep it if you agree to not tell anyone what Rosanna said…" he said, forcing Naruto to take it as he left.

"Uh… okay?" Naruto blinked.

"Volume?" Kuromu parroted, as he eyed the tickets.

"Seriously, you never heard of her? She's a woman who is super popular with the music world. She has nonsense attitude about her music, saying it's all natural talent and barely cares for how her process works." She said as she pointed to a screen on a tower. Showing a red haired woman with sexy dark skin.

It was the woman who was posing as chains were behind her with captions that said 'Don't Try To Stand With Me!'

Kuromu's eyes widened at the sight of the picture, "...Whoa mama…"

"She freestyles, but her 'Don't try to stand with me!' Is so real and unapologetic!" The female cadet rambles on as Naruto leaned to Kuromu.

"How can a song be unapologetic?" Naruto asked as his friend shrugged.

"Hell if I know."

"Besides those tickets cause at lest 1000 creds." She said as both teens look like at Naruto's hand was suddenly talking.

"How much?!" They said knowing that much is good for a small down payment for an apartment! "No way!" The blonde said as the girl pulled up her phone.

"Yeah see? The best seats, your ticket, cost that much."

"How the-" Kuromu got out, bugging out at the amount. "How much do those two make?!"

"…dude times it by two." Both the girl and blonde cadet said deadpanning at his lack of common sense."Either way it's sold out, it's a triple encore show. She's going to take a small break as she is infamously known for being well…her…?"

"Do I even wanna know?" Kuromu muttered dryly with some hint of worry.

The girl scratched the back of her head, "Let say it's more fun to see her on the stage than meeting her off of it…" the girl muttered, "Well I gotta visit family, it's been weeks since I've seen them due to classes." She said walking away from the two, "Be sure to get me some Volume Merch!"

"Uh… right." Kuromu waved, before turning to Naruto, "So uh… should we go?"

Naruto shook his head, "Sorry man, I got a small thing with my uhh…guardian."

"Oh, so I'm gonna be alone then… okay. I guess." Kuromu trailed off.

As the blonde left he looked at his phone 'Ten mins til meeting…' he sighed knowing it was going to be an unusually awkward conversation.

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CEO OFFICE OF ELYUSION

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"Im here…" Naruto said walking to Ingrid's office, as he saw three usual people, Anderson, Mana and lastly the CEO herself, "Sorry I was late." He said as he sit down as the scientist moved to his back and coughee, making him take off his upper clothing to let her gingerly touch his back. "Any news?"

Mana shook her head, "Silent…I need to check…"

"I know the feeling isn't fun, but we need to keep these weekly check ups. Given your…spine has been changed we cannot in good conscience let you go without making sure you'll be completely fine." Anderson explained as Naruto grimaced when sharp nails started exploring his skin.

"Yeah, I know…" Naruto answered him, as Mana shook her head.

"Still clear, unless you want me to cut you up to see the real work inside?" The stoic woman offered as Naruto glared at her suggestion making her nod, "Retracted,"

"Thank you,"

As Naruto puts on his shirt again, Anderson offered him a cup of coffee, "Did you hear the news?" He said as Naruto nodded, no doubt the recent attack from the terrorists.

The blonde made a fist, something that didn't go unnoticed by the highest rank officer and the CEO. "If they get what they want, what good will it do?" Naruto said as he spoke, "We're trapped here…we start a war and the Raptures will easily kill us by the time it's finished. Worst case the fighting will alert them to our home and get us killed faster."

Ingrid sighed, she too knew that high likely scenario. As did her colleagues and other CEO's of the Big Three. The fact that the central government is just adding fuel to the fire or having no plans on giving the Outer Dim any hope caused this problem. "That is true but the problem is that no side can really be right or wrong."

"That's right, despite working for the government they aren't exactly perfect with their choices…like a certain man I would kill personally." Remembering the fires he had to put out from one person who carries his same rank.

"Anderson…" Ingrid warned as she might be close friends with him, but she isn't exactly going to let things slide all the time. She had to be neutral for humanity, "Watch it."

"Hmph…" despite being scolded, the handsome man merely smiled softly, "So any news for your plans Naruto?"

"Nothing really, I got a ticket to see a show." Naruto said looking for his slip which he did find.

Anderson raised his eyebrow, eyeing the paper. "May I ask where you got it from?"

"A senpai…" Naruto said as Anderson merely kept the raised eyebrow, "He was acting like an ass and I dug up dirt on him. So to keep my mouth shut I got this." He half lied as the man seemed to be more accepting of that answer.

"I see. So he bribed you." Anderson deduced.

"More like an efficient exchange, I keep my word." Naruto said with an edge to his tone. He can be call lots of things but his integrity was never questioned or compromised. "Not sure if I should go, never really listened to music before." He said as he sweatdrop, despite living in the Ark he was rather quiet and had no real effort on making hobbies like the rest of the cadets.

"Hmm…I say go to it. Even I have some down time to do my models." Anderson said with a comical glint coming from his eye from pride.

"I'm… sorry, sir?" Naruto blinked in surprise, causing Anderson to intentionally clear his throat.

"Pfft…" Ingrid left a small air of amusement escape her lips.

"Anyways, is there anyone else going with you?"

"Just me, it's sold out." The blonde said as Ingrid nodded to that truth.

"Her concerts do get sold within hours of being told." The woman said remember a certain flamboyant man offering tickets to let her enjoy his girl's work. "Still I for one hope you can enjoy it,"

"We'll see." Naruto shrugged, "Will there be anything else?"

"No. You may go." Anderson nodded to him.

As he left the three members looked at each other, "So…the real news?" Anderson said as Mana nodded.

"Well the news is bad, this," she pulled out a small scanner on her right hand. "Did pick up something not right with his spine."

"Some form of scoliosis?" Anderson inquired, taking the scanner to look at.

"No, it's like the reinforcement from the spinal injury we once thought is that…but there's technology in his spinal implant." She said as she looked over, "It's almost too advanced for me to make a guess on what it is."

"Advance?" Ingrid whispered, not able to think what it could mean. "Anderson, what do you think of this?" She loudly question her comrade,

"Hmmmmm…" Anderson couldn't help but ponder. Something was far more advanced before the present day? That couldn't be possible. They were only certain people who were like Naruto but even then…it doesn't make sense, if he was even a significance to them. Why haven't he shown it or why they were questioning him. "Mana, can you find a way to understand what's in Naruto's spine? Noninvasive." He added as the woman pondered the idea.

"I can certainly try, but if all other alternatives don't work, I'll have to get real personal with it." Mana shrugged.

"Very well. Just do what you can, before even considering that." Anderson nodded.

"What should we do in the meantime?" Ingrid questioned.

"Let him be, even if what I think is true he will be a great comrade to work with," Anderson explained, 'And if he does leave, I should be the one to help him for our mistakes decades ago…' he said as his gaze became a bit somber. "...for now let him just enjoy his time."

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Nighttime

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"Uhh here?" Naruto said passing the VIP ticket to the bouncer who smiled and led Naruto inside.

"VIP seats here…" he said as it was literally the front row where the dancers and singers can sweat on the people if they were lucky enough. "You can come back to the backstage until the show starts, no touching Miss Volume." He said going back to help his other bouncers.

"I wouldn't dare." Naruto raised his hands. "Alright, I guess I got some time to kill, so… let's meet the star of the show."

"Hey!" Naruto flinched when he heard a harsh voice when a dark skin… "Holy fuck…" he said as he saw the woman, only wincing again as the woman shouted. The rapper that everyone came to see had lightly tanned skin covered in a nylon-spandex bodysuit with several little rips at the knees and a tear at the waist. Covering her modesty, was a leather bra and panties that had a silver loop with matching chains connected that looped around her torso and hugged her large, firm, E-cup breasts and full, soft ass. She also had two leather straps around her right thigh with white socks while wearing pink, wedge, high-heel sandals. On top of it all, she wore a red, leather jacket with white lining while she wore a black, leather choker necklace. This drew attention to her beautiful face as we see her full, soft-looking lips. Her amazing, gold eyes that seemed to glow in the night, her long reddish-pink hair and the pair of silver-rimmed sunglasses with red lenses on top of her head.

"I said flat not sparkling!" The red haired woman demanded shouting from a scared woman who was holding a cold bottle of water. "I don't go out about to fucking burp! I need it to be flat to keep this voice perfect!"

"Y-Y-Yes ma'am! So sorry ma'am!" The scared woman squeaked before running off.

'Wow, Bea wasn't kidding about how she acts off stage.' Naruto thought, blinking at the exchange that he saw.

The red-haired woman's head suddenly whipped towards Naruto's direction, which made him stiff.

'Shit, I was staring at her too long!'

"Great…" Volume drew out her words, obviously not keen on talking to anyone, "Look no autographs."

"Oh no, no. Wasn't gonna ask for one." Naruto shook his head rapidly. "I uh… got this." He lifted up the ticket for her to see.

"Oh, Mustang?" She murmured before sighing, "Fine, whatever, name's Volume. Guessing on how you carry yourself…you're a cadet?" She asked, crossing her arms with a quizzical look.

"How'd…"

The woman sighed as she gave a smirk, "NIKKE…" she pointed to herself.

"Oh." Naruto muttered dumbly.

"Don't go blabbing, some NIKKE's are supposed to be incognito. I rather not get more rabid fans after my ass." She complained stretching her arms as if the idea tired her out.

"You won't hear anything from me." Naruto raised his hands.

"Good, so then…" Volume then approached the blonde, smirking, tracing her finger on his chin, "Why don't you and I go over to my dressing room? We can get more… comfortable there."

'Oh lord…' Naruto thought with a loud gulp.

"Come on…" Volume sighed as she walked towards the back, Naruto only sweatdropped when some of the stage hands gave him looks of pity. One of them even clasped their hands together in prayer.

'What the hell is wrong with these people?!' Naruto said to himself, as he eventually followed the dark-skinned girl to the back. When the two arrived, Naruto found himself in the dressing room, which was a standard, having a leather couch, a coffee table, some odds and ends, and the vanity table with the mirror surrounded by light bulbs for a frame.

"Make yourself at home." Volume said, making her way to the vanity table while Naruto walked around, viewing the room.

"Not bad." Naruto commented. looking to see some roses that a card that said 'Good Luck - A' and some throat soothing Medicine from a 'N- Hope you nail it.'

"Friends?" Naruto said looking at the notes, but clearly heard Volume's snort.

"More like noisy rivals." Volume smirks seem to be more good nature than actual annoyance.

"Hm," Naruto hummed in thought, before deciding to sit on the couch. "So~ anything else you do besides singing? Any hobbies of some sort?"

"Pfft, laying down sick jams is my hobby!" Volume laughed at the question. "'Sides not like I have hobbies when I can-!" She lifted two fingers to her head and made a cocking gesture. "Be dead at any time up on the surface."

"Wait, you go to the surface?" Naruto questioned. Why would a celebrity still be going up?

The woman gave the ideal 'Are you serious dude?', "…Duh! I'm a NIKKE, just because I have status and hot bod doesn't mean I'm not going up. I'm not a specific fighter like Matis or Absolute, or stiff workers like Cafe Sweetie, we're more or less entertainers and Ark's main defenders."

"Ah, right. That makes sense, I guess." Naruto nodded nervously.

"Do you really?" Volume questioned the boy dryly with a deadpan look.

"NIKKE's made by the Big Three are outside Central Government are not control by regulation or standards orders. So I know that unlike them, you guys have more freedom and are less forced to do work up there."

Volume looked impressed at his words, 'I assumed he was just a green cadet, but he's a bit more smart than I gave him credit for.'

"Well, well, check out the big brain here." The red-haired girl smirked. "You're more interesting than I originally thought."

"In…what way, if I may ask?" Naruto inquired.

"I…" she perked up, and sighed, "Another time, shows on." Volume then stood up, ready to leave. "Thanks for stopping by, I guess. Someone will show you to your seat. So enjoy. After the show, maybe we can talk more."

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AFTER THE SHOW

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"Ok…she really is awesome…" Naruto mumbled leaving the arena who watched as the people around were in high spirits. While he had no memory of his past, there's no doubt no other concert can be as wild as that one. Volume songs and on the fly rhyming was awe inspiring, despite the harsh words and lyrics, the way she said all those things without shame or fear made the blonde think of his friends words from earlier, unapologetic indeed. "But man that personality…"

Volume was literally the personification of two different sides of the same coin. She was ok to talk to if you got her good side, but her… yelling at the poor stagehand was fresh in his head. 'I better be careful with my words from now on. I don't want to be caught between a rock and a hard place.'

"God, that thing lasted long, I need something easy to eat…oh I wonder if that Chinese place is still open?" Naruto cuts a corner to the alleyway to get something to eat before going home and resuming the academy.

"I wonder what special they have for ramen?" Naruto pondered with a grin to his face, before eventually finding the chinese restaurant. With his grin widening, he entered the facility with a pep to his step. "Yo, old man, you still open?"

"Oh Naruto, did you leave the academy?" An aging man with slight white on his black hair frowns worriedly at the blonde. "I know they never let cadets off school grounds this late."

"Nah," Naruto eased the man's worries, "The uh…academy gave us some time off…" he said, unable to say the real reason in case the man lost someone in the attack. "You ok?"

"Yeah, I'm good, I'm good." The man said as he went to his stove, "My family is ok thankfully."

"You sure?" Naruto asked again

"Yeah, totally!" The man grinned. "So! What are you having today? Getting the usual?"

"Yeah I…" he started before looking for his phone, "Damn! I must've dropped when I jumped over the fence. Double my order and please don't say it's in the house!" Naruto said as he left the restaurant as he went back to find his missing credits and phone.

Retracing his steps he was able to get a good idea where he left it, as he said earlier, he always parkoured over this fence for fun but it might snag his jacket causing his phone to fall out.

"Aha! There you are!" Naruto smiled, eyeing the phone and credits that were left laying on the ground, rushing over to pick them up. "Phew… thank goodness…" As he turned on his heels he heard from the other side of the fence barely from a corner nearby he heard something wrong.

"Let go! I ain't an escort!" A tough female loudly shouted, not letting this go any further. The blonde quickly jumped over the fence as he turned to the corner and saw a man pulling a woman into another alleyway…the blonde ran towards the two using the wall to blend into the shadows it produced. Grabbing an empty bottle from a trash can…he leaped over the woman who seemed to be shocked of his sudden arrival

"Hey!" The blonde said as he slammed the bottle to the male, "FUCK YOU!" He yelled as the bottle shattered at the attack, knocking the kidnapper out cold.

Naruto sighed before turning to the victim. "Are you o… kay…" He trailed off, seeing a familiar face. "Volume?"

The woman was wearing a beige colored hat that covered her hair as she hid it inside of it, and a baggy jacket to barely cover her usual attire. "Yeah…" she turned her head to the man trying to pull her in. "Thanks, fucking perv was stalking me these past few days. "Probably had a rich daddy buy the VIP tickets to my shows."

"Why didn't you push him off?" Naruto said as Volume scratched the back of her head.

"Even we, CEO produced NIKKE's, are also produced with inhibitors." Volume said as she looked embarrassed at the

"Meaning you're not able to fight back…" Naruto sighed, "Yeah, I've heard that's a pain in the ass."

"It helps that I usually have bouncers…but Mustang has to follow rules like the other CEO's." She started before looking at the fence, and then her watch. "Damn, I missed to get something to eat…" she clicked her tongue in hate as she was about to stomp on the man…only to stop with a fateful look on her face.

"Uh, I was just about to have some ramen over at a Chinese place. Wanna grab a bite?" Naruto offered her as the red haired rapper seems confused.

"Huh?"

"Look, you got better things to do then stepping on that piece of crap on the ground." Naruto pointed out to her. "Granted, he deserves every stomp you want to administer, but you're better than that. So how about we leave him and get something to eat. And don't worry, this one's on me. You showed me hospitality backstage, so now I'm returning the favor."

Volume took a moment to think on it before grinning, "Alright, already sent a text to A.C.P.U to pick this ass up." She explain as the woman followed the blonde.

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"Whoo! That tastes good!" Volume said happily, before slowly eating the noodles, before smirking from her side as Naruto ate another bowl. "Come here often?"

The blonde chuckled as he closed his eyes and smiled sheepishly, "That obvious, huh? Yeah been coming here since I lived on my own, kinda feels like home. Ain't that right old man Teuchi?"

"You betcha!" The old man laughed, looking at Volume. "He's been a regular of mine for the last few months! Always love having him and his friends around!"

"Huh…" Volume mused, then turned his attention back to the blonde. "So these friends of yours, what are they like?"

"Fellow cadets, I'm still getting to know them. But they seem to be great friends." Naruto said as he had a plate of rice and Tempura Splendamin. "Besides…making too many can be bad in the academy…" he trailed off as he opened a new pair of plastic chopsticks.

"Why's that?" Volume raised an eyebrow oh so delicately.

The blonde didn't speak, knowing the possible deaths, what the academy teachers didn't say was that a massive portion of the first year of Commanders who graduated die in their first mission to the surface. Sadly loads of commanders don't have a choice, unless with backgrounds or money, they can stay on the Ark.

"Ah, sorry, that's… a bit complicated." Naruto said sheepishly. "Sides, I don't wanna bore ya with all that nonsense anyways."

"…fair," Volume responded despite her own curiosity she owe the kid some privacy for helping her. "…Hope you're going to be ok with being a commander." She openly commented, before putting her arm on the counter and used her hand to keep her hand up. "Buuuu~t if you decided to quit, I can offer a job to you." She said with a wide grin.

"Thanks but no thanks…" Naruto returned the smile as the woman seemed surprised at his choice.

"Huh? Why not?" Volume couldn't help but ask.

The blonde merely did a small prayer gesture to his meal, "Cause…" he started leaving his credits for his and Volume's meals. "I can only live on the battlefield…" he spoke leaving the woman behind to ponder his words.

As Volume took a moment to let his words sink in her mind she sighed, eyeing the chef who gave her a plate of karaage, "Ohhh?" She huffed out, "Kinda sad…" Biting into the fried food…Volume said one thing, "Man that's bad…"

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THE NEXT DAY

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Naruto sighed as he was back in his classroom… "Wish I can leave here…" he said ignoring the teacher's annoying ramblings as he took a moment to think to himself. 'Live only on the battlefield…? Yeah for someone who has no past and has no people to tell him.'

He looked to the window as he noticed smoke coming from buildings, "What?!" He shouted as the other cadets saw what he did and gasped at the sight. "What the hell happened?!"

Before the teacher could say anything the schoolroom suddenly flooded with red lights, as the students all stood up in fear a feminine voice spoke, "WARNING! WARNING! An attack on the ARK hospital has happened! All Commanders, Retire Commanders and Cadets are to report to the designated hospitals and provide help."

"Alright kids, time for you to learn how to get ready for this!" The retired commander said as he looked serious, line up and follow me!" He said only watching Naruto react to his words, "THE HELL ARE THE REST OF YOU WAITING FOR?! FOLLOW UZUMAKI NOW!"

The blonde male felt this was a lot more than what he thinks but will do his best to help the people of the ARK. Or die trying…

CHAPTER END!

AK: Well I said it once and I will say it again OC chapters are hard! But I want to build the world so bad cause I want the girls I want to join the harems ASAP. BTW the oc commanders are just for me to make Naruto have friends they have no plot to the story.

But anyway this will not happen as long as we learn from the game the academy is pretty bad but not short. So I will say maybe another two or three chapters before canon happens things start rolling, so please let me know which NIKKE's should Naruto meet during these chapters? Infinite Rail, Mighty Tools, Maid For You? Which team or girls should he see soon?

Please vote with your choices and tell me how I did!