Sorry it took so long (considering how fast I wrote the other chapters), but I figured I'd wait a little while, just to get the "feel" of how long Naruto has been recuperating. lol

A Maelstrom's Venture

Chapter 32

Operation: P.R.O.M.

Tatyana's House

It's been quite a few months for Naruto to get his head together, but with Triana's help, along with her mother, he was slowly recovering from his ordeal, he had a few night-terrors, but thankfully Triana was with him to calm Naruto down, along with Tatyana using her magic to help him through his mental trauma, but slowly and surely he was recovering nicely.

Not to mention the women he's been with visiting him after hearing that he was alive, though one at a time, or a couple together, while they wanted to "celebrate" his "resurrection" from what had happened to him, they decided to wait until he was mentally healed completely, otherwise he'd use it as a "drug" in someway, so they wouldn't encourage such a thing.

The same could be said for the twins when they visited with their mother and bodyguardess, while the twins wanted to do nothing more than to have "fun" with Naruto, they knew better than that, but obviously that didn't stop them from planting hundreds of kisses all over his face, though due to how much they both "missed" him, Tara had to pull them away, causing them to moan and whine about being taken from Naruto again while pouting, causing everyone to laugh at the two because of their "plight" for such things.

Though lucky for the twins that the dwarven blacksmiths had upgraded their earrings so they could travel to Tatyana's house when they want now as well, giving them more access to hanging out with Naruto and Triana more.

But things began to quieten after the twins had left, though as it turned out, while he was healing at his mother's place, he'd just learnt that Brok and Sindri had visited Tatyana's home, setting up a Gate at her home for Triana, with permission of course, along with Freya introducing herself as Triana's teacher, with both mother and stepfather being both at awe and honoured for such a being to take their daughter under her wing, with Triana obviously getting embarrassed at them pretty much bowing to Freya, which gave Naruto a chance to tease her about it, but they soon moved on from such a thing.

With Naruto asking Freya to help him out with his mental state as well, along with helping him with his training so he doesn't get rusty from being stagnant from a quiet living environment, which Freya agreed to since it'll be nice to mix up training partners as well, though during his retraining Naruto had found out that he was much stronger than he once was, such as being able to chop down one of the large trees in Vanaheim and picking it up with one hand and putting it over his shoulder with ease.

Not to mention learning how to control his new animal form, which Freya was more than happy to help out considering her own transformations, with Mimir offering some advice on the subject at hand, which helped Naruto out more now that Mimir was practically "up-to-date" with everything, so that was helpful, so with that in mind, Naruto learnt how to control his transformation more, even to the point of partial transformation, basically turning different parts of his body animalistic, for example his hands can be turned into claws, with it either be covered in fur or not depends on the situation and how desperate Naruto needed his more animalistic side to appear.

It took some time to get back into the action, but considering how the realms were, there was no shortage of enemies to practise on, but while some of the times Naruto would lose control of both his animalistic nature and rage, Freya had advised that until Naruto runs out of energy, they should let him calm down that way, otherwise they could end up getting hurt by such an outburst, but to stay close encase he needed help, with Triana reluctant about such a thing, but decided to follow her teacher's wisdom.

Where after he exhausted himself, both women then took him back to Freya's home for him to rest, though after Freya first witnessed Naruto's transformation, she gave him a look over with her magic, though what she had found shocked her, since it turned out that Naruto's godly blood had awakened to the point of him becoming a demigod, shocking everyone, though considering his godly progeniratior, his blood was bound to be strong once awakened.

After his training, Naruto was relaxing in the suburbs of Tatyana's house, sitting on a chair out front watching the world go by, though he soon noticed a large child was picking on a littler one, getting up Naruto had casually walked over to the pair, where it turned out the larger one was a girl, so, Naruto figured he'll sort her out a different way.

Having pulled the bully away from the other, Naruto simply smiled at the bully, "Hello mean girl." Naruto simply stated, causing the bully to roll her eyes at him, "Did you know that there's a special place in hell for bullies like you so, enjoy." Naruto finished, only as he blinked his eyes turned into his fox eyes, red and black slitted pupils.

"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHGGHHHHH!"

Thus causing the bully to scream and run away, making both Naruto and the other girl to smile at the sight, though Naruto's eyes quickly returned to normal, seeing as Triana had seen the whole thing from her window and came running out, "Naruto what did you do?" She couldn't help but ask, fearing that he might've hurt the other girl that ran away.

Naruto simply looked at the smaller girl and smiled, "Best be going home for you little one, try not to get into anymore trouble, okay." Naruto ushers her off, with her waving goodbye and thanking him for helping her.

Then Naruto had explained what had happened, seeing as Tatyana and the Outrider had come out to find out what had happened, though the parents giggled and laughed at Naruto for practically scaring a little girl straight, Triana on the other hand, though happy that Naruto didn't hit the bully, she wasn't too keen on the idea of scaring her with his animal eyes, since it could've traumatise the poor thing, but Naruto had simply stated that if she didn't want to get scared herself, then she shouldn't be the one to make others scared, so Triana had decided to lat that argument settle.

Though right now, Naruto was in Triana's room, putting on a tie, though he was somewhat struggling with it, only for Triana to help him with it, "You can fight a horde of magical monsters in another realm, but a simple tie is your Kryptonite." She couldn't help but point out, with an amused smirk.

Naruto though pouted at her teasing, "Well at least my weakness isn't chocolate." He mumbled, "GERK!" Only for Triana to tighten her hold on his tie like a leash.

"I'm sorry, what was that(!)" She'd ask with a dangerous glint in her eye, making Naruto look away awkwardly and a little scared.

"(ahem!) N-Nothing, nothing at all." Naruto simply answered, not wanting to get on his girlfriend's bad side, though outside the room Tatyana could only smile at the couples interaction, knowing that both would help each other out when needed, meaning that she gave her aprovel of Naruto and Triana dating, seeing how they both bring out the best in each other.

It wasn't long before a limo pulled up, though this limo had bullet holes in it, where Brock soon got out of the limo as the driver, leaning against the vehicle while pulling out a cig, where the moment he lit it, his face had dropped in shock.

For there, exiting Tatyana's door, was Naruto, dressed in a tux and tie with a smile on his face, though when the father and son locked eyes, Brock had quickly started to hug his son, tears leaking from his eyes at seeing his son after all this time, the man knew where Naruto was, but due to the secrecy, he couldn't visit his son at the time, but right now he just couldn't help but hug the young man, "I thought I lost you boy!" He couldn't help but exclaim in relief.

With Naruto having a loving smile on his face at having his father hugging him, "Aw dad~" He couldn't help but respond to the hug, since this was basically the first time Brock had given his son a loving fatherly hug. (A.N. Indiana Jones 3 reference. lol)

Suddenly realising where he was, Brock quickly cleared his eyes and throat, "(Ahem!) W-Well done for coming back lad." Brock awkwardly states, while patting Naruto on his shoulder.

Though giving Naruto a quick once over, "Well look at you, thinking about it now, I could barely fit my arms around you in that hug, guess the Samson genes are coming through now, huh." Brock joked out about his son's size being nearly the same as his own.

Naruto gave a quick smile, "Yeah, that's not the only thing coming through, but we can talk about that later." Naruto mysteriously states with a smile, while having Triana hugging his arm with her own smile, with Dean and Hank doing their own greeting, happy to see Naruto back, though Dean was slightly jealous of Naruto dating Triana, but he understood that Naruto needed someone who could help him after dying the first time.

Though Hank did swear, causing Brock to question the boy, though Tatyana had secretly passed the photo of Naruto and Brock hugging to Triana, causing the two to "aw~" at the image, making both Naruto and Brock to look at the mother/daughter pair in confusion, "Women are confusing." Naruto couldn't help but state, with Brock nodding his head in both agreement and understanding.

That is until Hank ended up telling Naruto that he had sex with someone, but had chosen to have his mind wiped of the whole thing, but left himself a video message of him doing the deed, just not with who though, since apparently it was extremely traumatizing for him, though Dean was despondent due to nothing really exciting as that happening to him at his work placement.

Once the group got in the limo, though there was an awkward moment when Hank wanted his date to be the postal worker, things didn't pan out, so they just returned to the compound, all the while Naruto and Triana were telling their own stories of what they were up to, though leaving a few things out since they wanted to surprise them when they reach the compound, as well as when there's an attack, which considering how often the place is attacked would be anytime soon.

Only for them to pick up Dermott with his busted bike, with him asking if he was invited, that if Shallow Gravy could play, causing both Triana and Dean to moan at such a thing, though when Hank states that he got a date, both Naruto and Triana looked to each other in a funny way, "Nice to know that Hank hasn't changed much in these months." Naruto states with a strained smile.

With Triana giving his arm a slap, "Be nice Naruto." She simply tells him, though the smile didn't really help, with Brock seeing the whole interaction, couldn't help but smile to himself, happy that Naruto found a girl that helps him out when needed.

They soon pulled up to the compound, only for loads of bodies laying on the floor dead, each one being Monstroso's henchmen, but they were all killed by Shoreleave and his Sphinx crew, with Henchman 21, Gary, helping them out, with Brock complaining about not having any fun killing the henchmen, though was slightly worried about Naruto having a little relapse, but Naruto waved it off.

With Hank inviting Gary to their Prom, making Naruto wonder about the tubby henchman of the Monarch, but since it looked like the guy didn't want to cause any trouble, figured it'll be fine.

Hanger

It wasn't long before everyone was in the hanger, with Dermott and his fog machine, yet Naruto couldn't help but think why Rusty had even organised this whole "Prom" thing, until the man began talking to the escorts that he had hired, "Ah, it makes more sense now, the Prom is just an excuse for the Doc to order a bunch of escort girls, while trying to flirt with them, considering the guy's personality I was worried something had got in his head or something." Naruto states, though what he said made Brock look at Naruto funnily, but decided to tell him later, since there was the whole "brain" thing before.

Unfortunately, the whole "prom" thing wasn't stacking up to what it should be, considering there wasn't really a certain "amount" of guests, with Naruto sighing at the sight, "Hey dad, do you think I should make a couple of calls, just to bring a few people around to liven the place up a little." Naruto couldn't help but ask, but Brock denied it, since he didn't want anyone knowing about Sphinx or whatever.

Though Naruto noticed Gary was starting to "plummet" with one of the escorts, so he decided to help the guy out, seeing as he did lose his friend during the same explosion that took Naruto out too, of course Gary had questioned about the whole "Naruto coming back to life" thing, but Naruto had simply explained, "Think Deadpool with some demigod blood awakening." Which, due to Gary being a nerd, knew exactly what Naruto was referring to, though he was upset that his best friend wasn't so lucky, Naruto decided to help him out by telling the escort that they guy needed some "brightening up" due to losing his best friend, but states that the guy has amazing knowledge of different films that he could name, while giving the woman an extra $300 for her trouble, along with stating that she might have fun with trying to get Gary to slip up on his film naming, catching the woman's interest.

Where Naruto then pats Gary on the shoulder and walks away, wishing him luck, though what he doesn't know was Naruto had unconsciously used a little magic and made the "ghost" of 24 vanish for a while, though while Gary would've wondered about where his ghost friend went, right now he was more bothered by the pretty woman he was talking to, who was dragging him away somewhere, wanting to try doing the challenge that Naruto had suggested, which turned out to be more fun than she had expected, she also found the guy pretty cute, in an awkward way, but figured he was a nice guy and he did deserve some fun and happiness, though the fact that he was still a virgin made her somewhat reluctant, but knew that nerds like Gary were passionate in otherways, so they both had "fun" together.

With Triana hugging Naruto's arm, complimenting him for helping that awkward guy out, where Naruto explained his reasoning, causing the girl to give Naruto a quick kiss on the cheek for being so thoughtful.

Though the two had heard a "slap" coming from where Rusty was, figuring the guy was really trying to flirt with the escorts, but were coming out short, "Excuse me hun, I gotta go grab the boys for a second." Naruto quickly states, causing her to have a confused look, "I REALLY need to give them two some advice about women, otherwise they'll end up like the Doc." He explained.

Hearing this, her eyes widened, "Well what are you standing around for, go, go, GO, before their father ruins them for life." "Um?" "YES~ Far more than he has now." She quickly tells him, since while she didn't fancy the boys, she did somewhat care about them, like nieve younger brothers and if anyone can help the two, it was Naruto.

With that Naruto quickly passed Triana his jacket to look after, then he had quickly yanked both to a more quieter place, "Alright you two, I'm gonna give you both some proper advice on how to gain the attention of a girl, but there are 3 things you both need to know about understanding girls, number 1, don't follow your instincts, ANYWAY other area in life, instincts will get you there (though you both may need better instincts), not with women, so whatever you THINK you should do, DO THE OPPOSITE, number 2, you need to be open, sensitive, women don't want a man just because he's big and strong and have abs like mine, no, they want a thinker, they want a feeler, they want someone who can understand them, women want a man who is in touch with his most inner emotions, though Dean you could do with being a little less emotional." Naruto explains for them, pretty much getting their attention from the start.

So Naruto continues, "And the third thing is the most important of them all, it's something that women had responded to for thousands of years." Naruto had worded in such a way that they needed to pay attention, but he gave them a dramatic pause just to make sure that they were.

"Well tell us!" Hank soon stated.

"You've gotta do this!" Naruto finishes by putting his hands on his hips and began popping his pecs to the beat of the song that was playing, catching the boys off guard and making them feel awkward at the sight, though they questioned what it was.

With Naruto proudly stating, "That is the "pec-pop of love" now go on and throw a berry!" Though both boys tried to deny it due to how awkward it feels about the whole thing, "Go on and throw a berry, there's some on that table there, grab a berry." Making them both sigh at such a thing, with Dean showing one then throwing.

"BOOM!" Only for it to bounce off of Naruto's chest and go flying between the boys in surprise, making Naruto chuckle at the sight, "I can't believe I get to do this again, but considering I did this before the boys death last time, it's just so much fun doing this to them again." He thinks to himself.

"Go on grab a bunch, rapid fire right now." Naruto states, though before anything else, Shoreleave saw this and grabbed a bunch of berries and began doing rapid fire, with each berry bouncing off and hitting the boys.

"Okay big boy, this one's special." The gunslinger states, with Naruto having a serious look on his face replies back, "Make this one count." Only for Naruto to bounce the berry into the man's mouth, causing him to gulp it down in surprise, while telling the boys that Naruto had a gift, while stating that Brock could've done the same thing if it wasn't for the metal plate in his chest.

With that the boys walked away, thinking to themselves about Naruto's advice in their own way, though what none of them knew was the escorts were actually paying attention to Naruto and his pec-pop of love display, making them slight "warm" at the sight, but with his advice out of the way, Naruto went back to Triana, grabbed his jacket and flung it over his shoulder while putting an arm over hers.

Though she looked at him with a smirk, "I can't believe that you did that stupid "pec-pop of love" thing to them again." She states to her boyfriend.

Naruto just laughs, "Hey now, it worked on you before we started dating." Naruto teases back causing Triana to blush at that, while giving his chest a slap, causing Naruto to chuckle some more.

"Okay, fine, your Adonis like figure got me swooning for you(!) (Eye roll) Though I think you pec-pop worked a little TOO well." She finishes, while discreetly looking around, causing Naruto to look too, noticing that most of the escorts were now "eyeballing" him in desire.

"(Chuckle!) Sorry, I couldn't help but rank the boys like last time, but hey, if you want, maybe we could "borrow" one or two for the "afterparty" part of the Prom~" Naruto teases her by whispering that in her ear, making her blush and shudder at the thought of such a thing, while also being thankful that both her mother and Freya had taught her how to use magic for both safe sex and healing, so she wouldn't have to worry about any STDs from the women there.

Though when Al and Shoreleave made a bet about what a "Rusty Venture" was, in a sexual act, the two kept getting different answers that they didn't know who was right, Al even asked Triana, where she gave her own version of what her friends had told her, though gained awkward looks from her father, who was looking towards Naruto questionly, making Naruto shake his head in denial, while stating that it was only a rumor, while pointing out that nothing so "deprived" had happened between him and Triana, making Orpheus relax somewhat, but due to drinking too much Al had decided to help the guy out by taking him away.

But while Hank and Dermott do their dumb song, Naruto and Triana were just chatting to a few of the escorts, though Naruto noticed his dad had hooked up with one of the women and left, where Naruto simply waved Al over, since he remembered what a "Rusty Venture" was, mostly due to his dad trying to give him The Talk, in the past, but Naruto had explained what Molotov had already done that, which Brock had thanked god for.

"So, yeah, Al a "Rusty Venture" is the name for when you jerk off so much your dick gets all red and sore." Naruto had explained, which made Al slap his forehead, though asked how Naruto knew that, "My mom took me to a brothel to learn seduction when I was old enough, they also taught me how to please the women I was with, before, during and after I've been with them, that's pretty much why all the women I've been with and separated from were left on good terms and how pretty much all of them were at my funeral and everything."

Al nodded at that explanation, he even gave Naruto some respect for having so many women visit his funeral.

Though it wasn't long before Gary exploded at The Monarch, pretty much telling everyone that he quits being the Monarch's henchmen and leaves the party, though the escort he was with ran after him, hoping that he was okay, though the Monarch had simply stated that the villains do the whole "swingers" thing, since they're villains, making Naruto think to himself how it would explain a few things about the villainesses he's been with before, but decided to leave it alone.

But as the villain couple tried to make their exit with a smoke bomb, it lost it's flare, though Sheila did notice Naruto in the group and told her husband that she was gonna have a chat with Naruto and will get a ride back later with him, which her husband agreed to and left by himself.

With that, Naruto, Triana and Sheila had a nice chat with one another, with Sheila asking how her friend was doing now, which he simply states that he's feeling much better than before and thanks to a little "present" from a couple of his friends, he can work at the Venture Compound and return back to Tatyana's place by a few minutes, though Sheila did want to know about such a thing, Naruto simply stated that the whole thing was so classified that not even O.S.I. or the Guild even knows about it, which he plans to keep it that way for as long as possible.

Though during the dance, all the escorts began transforming into flies, more than likely due to Rusty's "Super Science Spanish Fly" formula, which surprised everyone, though Naruto saw his father, where the two locked eyes, "Honey, could you hold my jacket for me please, I don't want fly goo on it." Naruto had asked Triana, which the girl had agreed to, since she left her bow and arrows back at her home.

"(Sigh!) I should've known not to come here without some form of protection." She mumbles to herself, while using a few magic blasts to scare the fly monsters away.

Naruto then moves next to his father, holds his hand out, though waited for a few seconds, where the axe landed in his hand, "Good thing I left this in the backyard instead of the house, Triana's mother would've killed me if I did." With Brock nodding in agreement.

With that, the father/son duo walked towards the monsters, "(cling!)" gave their weapons a tap to each other, then started killing all the fly monsters, "OH YEAH NARUTO! TURNS OUT, YOUR MOTHER HAD SENT HER "BLACKHEARTS HERE TO KILL ALL OF YOUS, THOUGH OBVIOUSLY THEY'D PROBABLY TRY TO SUBDUE YOU AND EVERYTHING!" Brock quickly yells out over the carnage.

Naruto just waved it off, "YEAH! I KNOW DAD, I RECOGNISED ALL OF THEM DURING THAT WHOLE ESCAPE .O.S.I. THING, I DIDN'T SAY ANYTHING MOSTLY BECAUSE I FIGURED IT WAS A PRESENT FROM MOM, BUT NOW THAT YOU SAID THAT, I'M GUESSING OTHERWISE!"

With that, everyone pretty much had a good time, minus the hidden assassins that turned into fly monsters, but it wasn't long before everyone had pretty much killed all the monsters down, with Brock explaining what had happened between him and Molotov, though Naruto simply brushed it off and states, "Did you see her body dad?" Causing Brock to shake his head negatively.

Naruto just smiles, "Then she should be fine and hiding out somewhere, since she is able to get out of certain situations easily enough, but hey, at least we had a father/son bonding experience killing her "ex-Black Hearts" right(?)" Hearing this, Brock couldn't help but chuckle at Naruto's response, patting the boy on the shoulder and goes about helping to clean the place up.

Where Naruto then takes Sheila back to her place, though it did get somewhat awkward when she kept going a little TOO low for his comfort, while she "pretends" that she can't hear him. (A.N. Highschool Of The Dead Reference. lol)

As for Gary, the girl he was with didn't actually drink the stuff the Rusty had made, but instead of following orders, she had actually slept with Gary, where the next day, while he was still asleep, she had a needle-like dagger pointing at his sleeping face, but she couldn't bring herself to end up, so instead she gave him a quick peck on the cheek, very close to his lip, leaving a lipstick mark on him, while leaving a note stating that she had a nice time and that she's sorry that she had to leave, but seeing as her "payment/schedule" was up she had to leave, while hiding the fact that she was an assassin that had planned to kill Gary, she chose not to and leave him with some happy memories.

All the while Gary was relieved and content about the whole thing, deciding to just sleep in and not have to worry about his "ghost" friend anymore due to both Orpheus and Jefferson pretty much stating that he had imagined his friend being there with him, but thanks to the girl that he'd slept with, he was feeling a whole lot better.

The End.

There you have it, a background of what Naruto got up to during his recovery, along with him doing the "pec-pop of love" once more since the boys were the latest and last batch of clones, so he had a "fresh start" to pull that off again.

Along with Naruto and Brock getting back into action together once more. lol

As for, "what will happen next" just wait and see. lol

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