A Maelstrom's Venture

Chapter 16

Fallen Arches

Venture Compound

Right now everyone was in Rusty's lab, talking about his "Walking Eye" robot, with the man having no idea how to market it yet, though Brock, Dean and Hank gave their ideas on what it could be used for, "It could also be used for NASA's Mars exploration as well, giving it a multitude of scanners so it could see whatever Mars was, since a lot of rumors state that it was a "thriving planet" before it became the Red Planet that we know of, with its legs being able to walk easily on the planet and each leg having a anchor-type function so it wouldn't float into space or something." Naruto suggested.

With Rusty writing that down as well, planning to add them features to it, making Hank point out that Rusty had got those ideas from them, until there was a noise outside, where it turns out that Orpheus and his "team" were about to audition for an arch nemesis, with the Guild of Calamity, since the Guild was playing by the book, neither Brock or Naruto could go fight them, though Brock did go out to organise the villains, making sure they didn't ruin his herb garden, "I'll help ya out dad, since me and Triana are planning to go out soon, since we don't want to get involve in this mess."

After Naruto states this, he takes his axe off his back, just in case any of the villains try to cause any trouble, while the boys go to their room until everything blows over, which was making them bored, until Rusty made Hank go into the bathroom to clean his face, while giving Dean his version of "The Birds and The Bees" though more than likely traumatising the boy then helping him, seeing as Triana was gonna be staying in their room until everything blows over, which made Dean panic since he still had a slight crush on the girl.

Though Naruto walked in after keeping the villains in line, as well as threatening them with his axe, though noticed that Dean had talked both Brock and Hank into recreating some weird scene that he didn't want to know about, though at least Brock was wearing a tux, which is more than you can say for the boys, seeing as the boys were wearing dresses.

"Um, ye~ah, I don't want to know what's going on in here, um, hey Triana, ready to go, we've still got time to get to the movies, it'll give us time to get snacks and whatever." Naruto states, having no idea what was going on in the boys heads to think this mess up.

Though Hank began complaining about the smell in the bathroom, pretty much scaring Brock away, "Huh, by the sounds of it, he's describing sulphur and brimstone, yeah, nasty smelling stuff, smells like rotten eggs and other messed up smells, I actually fell into some of that stuff before, I literally had to burn my skin off down to the muscles just to remove the smell from my body, never mind my clothes." Naruto simply states.

Hearing this, Triana became curious, "Oh come on, it can't be that ba-! WHOA GEEZ! Seriously Hank, did you eat any sulphur or brimstone to get that smell in here." She complained while trying to stop the smell from entering her nose.

Naruto just smiles, "I told you so, it may not have sound as bad when I stated what Hank was describing, but it is certainly bad, I only simplified it."

He then took a couple of steps back, "PHEW! I'm gonna go get my bike ready, when you're done with this Triana, you know where to find me." He finishes, since he wanted to escape before the smell "attaches" to him again, he burnt his skin off once for it, he wasn't gonna do that a second time.

Once Naruto had vanished, Triana sat on the toilet seat in slight frustration, only to vanish in blue flames, "OH NO I KILLED NARUTO'S GIRLFRIEND!" Hank exclaimed in fear.

With Dean agreeing and stating that Naruto would send him to wherever the smell came from, only for the boys to turn the shower on and a message appeared on the mirror, 'I'm in the Torrid Zone. Tell my father' just as Naruto reappeared, wondering what the hold up was, though he did bump into Sheila, who wanted to use one of the bathrooms to clean herself up after the failed interview, which Naruto helped her out with after explaining what had happened in the bathroom just to warn her about the smell.

Where they both came across the mirror, causing them both to correct the boys on the whole "feather/father" thing that they were confused about, where they then exited the place after Sheila cleaned herself up, while spraying some special holy purifier around to get rid of the smell, considering she worked with villains most of her life, she was well prepared, where the group then came across Orpheus and his team, where he explained that Triana was on a beach in another dimension or something.

Hearing this, Naruto looks towards Sheila, "How about it Sheila, having a few days away from all of this mess and relaxing on a beach in another dimension." Naruto couldn't help but ask and invite her to join them.

She looks at Naruto in surprise, "Are you kidding me, a few days relaxing on a beach with no worries and to work on my tan, just let me get a few things from my car and I'll be back soon." She quickly agreed while rushing off to do as such.

Where one of Orpheus's friends couldn't help but ask, "Yo dude, are you tapping that!?" Wondering if the young man swung that way.

With Naruto looking at the vampire slayer in puzzlement, "Not really, we're just good friends who meet up now and again for coffee to talk about our troubles to each other, ya know, kinda like of those office workers go out for coffee and complain about their bosses or something."

Hearing this, the group can agree that it was an understandable meeting, with nothing happening except two friends confiding in each other about their troubles, with there being no sexual tension at all from it.

"Also, don't tell the doc, otherwise he'll try and find where we are and "accidentally" bump into us, trust me, I've seen him flirt with women before, it's not a pretty sight." Naruto finishes, getting the group to agree, even the boys had to agree that when their father tried flirting it was not a pretty sight, so they decided to keep it a secret as well.

Where they walked into the kitchen, having just missed Brock walk out to join the fight, while still wearing the tux, stating that it made him feel like James Bond while fighting bad guys, with the fight getting started by Rusty, who created it with his walking eye, just to make himself feel important.

It wasn't long until the group explained what had happened with Triana and that Naruto had invited his friend along to join them in relaxing on a beach, though Naruto and the group offered Rusty and his boys if they wanted to come along, but he turned it down, stating that he didn't want to get sand in any of his "places," along with stating that the boys had to help Brock clean up after his fight outside, making the boys fully agree to keeping Naruto's coffee meet-ups a secret from their father all the more official.

Where they all looked outside, "AW~~~ That looks like fun, oh well, maybe next time, I still got to keep my promise with Triana about our date, it'll just be a beach date instead, talk about an upgrade, since me and her can go see the movie she wanted to see next time." Naruto states, feeling like he's missing the action, but Triana comes first before any fights since he cares more about her safety.

With that, the group made their exit, with Orpheus and his team doing their own hero team pose, then going to help Triana out, while the boys moan about not getting the chance to play on a beach.

The End.

Sorry that it's short, but since the episode mostly focuses on Orpheus, The Monarch and the henchmen, there's hardly a need for Naruto to make his appearance.

Also, I figured this be a good place to state that there won't be any sexual stuff between Naruto or Sheila, since the two would hardly feel that way about each other, granted they find one another attractive in their own way, but nothing will come from it, after all, why does "going for coffee" have to lead to any sexual stuff, it could just simply be two people innocently going for coffee to talk about their day, nothing more, nothing less.

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