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~Endless Possibilities Arc~
Chapter 107: A Short Sabbatical
San Andreas
Sunday
Harmony was a quiet place on the weekends and Naruto rolled out of bed. He had made sure that Ms. Schultz had left before returning to the motel room to sleep. After a quick shower, he called up MC to tell him what happened…to which his contact had a good laugh.
"Well I made sure to send you compensation for that shit. Just know that I put notice on that bitch on notice given we found out about her ties to Merryweather. So I doubt she'll be a client of SecuroServ again. Either way, I made sure to put notice to you and your friends that you're taking two days off. I know you're eager, but I feel it's needed. MC out."
Naruto couldn't really argue. By all means, he understood why MC was displeased with the whole shitshow. Given he was being given a day off, he reflected it in his clothing choices with an orange Hawaiian shirt, blue jeans, his Datejust watch, a gold chain, and white hi-top sneakers. He walked out as he called up Isaribi to fill her in on what's going on.
"Shit. All that just to try to jip you out of $70,000. Props to you for putting that bitch in her place…" Isaribi said with a smirk. "But we're so close to the finish line. I'd say we could take the day off, but we should probably deal with our warehouses and our other businesses."
"I could handle the warehouses. What about the lockup or the farm?" Naruto asked.
"About that…I want you to handle the lockup and the farm today. You're close to Paleto and I trust you to handle it. I put some thought into it and I decided to split the units in the lockup. Each of us has 125 to sell as we see fit. Sooner we get rid of it, that'll be one less expense on our hands that we got to maintain." Isaribi mused. "I'm taking the newbies to their first group training session at the gym with the others before we get them in some warehouse work. Yara's taking the morning off again…to get a spa treatment or something.."
"Don't blame her for wanting to spoil herself, if anything she can skip a training session or two. She's built pretty solid." Naruto noted. "As for if I'll come to the gym, I'll be a bit late…I'm in Harmony."
"By the way, Anna paid Victoria a visit and apparently used a strap-on poor little rich girl's asshole." Isaribi said, trying not to snicker. "She wanted me to apologize to her at her behest."
"Apology accepted….if anything, I get it. This actually gives an idea…but I'll tell you all later." Naruto said before hanging up.
In the parking lot, he called for SecuroServ's helicopter service to get him. While waiting for them to come, he'd get a call from Victoria.
"Can I please have my job at the restaurant back, please?" She pleaded. "I'll personally apologize to Tiana…just please let me come back to the Bayou. I hate working at the hotel…"
He smirked.
"That's the point. Besides, your father insisted on you learning a lesson…but while I can't get you back in the Bayou, I can shift you to another job. You'd still be a maid, but not for the hotel. I'll bring you to your workplace soon so you can take some time off." Naruto said before hanging up.
He called Anna to tell her the plan.
"You're really going to do that for me. You're a real G." Anna said. "And Elsa's even going to like this too. You can bring her by the evening."
"Yeah, just make sure Elsa goes to the gym with the group." Naruto said before hanging up.
The chopper came down to pick Naruto up. After payment, Naruto was 'Fast Traveled' onto the roof of his garage in Murrieta Heights. It was a simple matter of scaling down and going in to get his Bifta given it was sunny out before heading up to the gym.
~TWG~
Jase was a (mostly) lucky man…at least Josh thought so. He supposed these guys didn't mess around. Tidal Fox called for everyone lacking skill to come in for a weekly workout and training. And Alex was their hand to hand specialist teaching them.
"So is everyone required to come?" Josh asked, punching the practice dummy.
"Mostly the Kobuns. We're here to give you some level of skill so you're a cut above the standard goons." Alex barked. "Now give me 10 more punches."
"These guys don't fuck around." Josh said as Emberlynn was running on a treadmill.
She didn't care about the burning sensation that wanted her to stop, she kept going. Emberlynn was determined to get in better shape and fully intended to take full advantage of Tidal Fox's benefits.
"Hey newbie, don't overdo it."
Emberlynn turned to see Molly offering bottled water to which she accepted.
"I know you want to lose weight, but a rash bit of overwork is going to hurt you in the long run." Molly said as Emberlynn felt her legs wanting to call it quits.
Molly reached over to shut the treadmill off before she fell.
"Thank you…"
"Space out your workouts to ease yourself into it. Also be on standby for jobs…running the cops is good cardio." Molly mused as they shared a laugh. "Molly Michler."
"Emberlynn Visio. I don't suppose you're one of the many single ones here." Emberlynn joked.
"Nope, that hunky pile of dark Russian muscle is my boyfriend." Molly said, pointing him out. "And Ruth's my girlfriend of sorts. We're a throuple."
"Damn." Emberlynn said, nodding in approval.
"But I approached you to give a proper welcome…the Kobuns do need to stick together." Molly mused. "After this is done, all us Kobuns are going to chill at the penthouse suite at Wisdahl. Order some food too. You guys coming?"
"Yeah, sounds like a good time to me." Emberlynn responded.
"Eh, I should let them go." Isaribi thought as Naruto arrived. "At least he's not too late."
Naruto's jeans were swapped with blue track pants that had white side stripes. His shirt was opened revealing a white wife beater under it. He got into doing a few sessions of exercise before a sparring match with Jase.
"Go dad!" José cheered as they traded kicks.
Kara was watching them intently over for Felipe to pull her away with a worried look on his face. Off to the side, he told her the unpleasant news.
"Your mom was released? Why?!" Kara asked.
"Apparently, the cop who arrested her screwed up the paperwork. She got out on a technicality." Felipe grumbled. "I know I changed my phone and everything…but she'll be looking for me one way or another. Hell, it wouldn't even be safe to work at the school." Felipe glowered. "Because I got an email from the headmistress that I'm on unpaid leave until either my mother's in jail, dead, or out of the county."
Kara held him assuring him that he was safe and he looked into her eyes.
"I've made up my mind…I can't live my life with her around. I didn't want to suggest this…given I hoped she'd be in prison." Felipe stated with his voice full of conviction. "So I want to leave it in Tidal Fox's hands…all I said is for you not to be involved. Don't bloody your hands for me, Kara."
"Ok…just tell me how bad it was." Kara asked.
When he did, she wished she hadn't asked because she was sorely tempted to commit murder with extreme prejudice. She hugged him again telling him that his confession didn't diminish who he was as a person. Kara broke off the embrace before interrupting the men's fight.
"Naruto. I need to talk to Jase…and Alex in private. It's important…" Kara stated before dragging the two away.
When she told them, the two came out both debating what would be the best way of completely murdering Florencia.
"Naruto, I'm going to call an end to the training session early. Me and Jase need to deal with an emergency…but can I ask you to drop my son at home?" Alex said.
He was taken aback by her intimidating gaze and accepted given he was already going there anyway.
"Bélén should be home. I'll make sure of it." Alex said as José left with Naruto.
~TWG~
He couldn't believe how these guys lived given the suite that was apparently for everyone in TF bar the four closed off bedrooms for the bosses. Headquarters, a biker bar, and a shared penthouse suite showed well enough that the group was making it in the world.
"'Ey, new guy. I heard you ran with the boss on a car theft gone wild. Not bad for a couple rookie niggas." Riley said coming up. "You earned your colors in my book."
"Thanks. Riley, right?" Josh said fist bumping him.
"Yeah, g. I-"
"Yo Riley, the food's here." Cindy called out.
It really did show that the Kobuns all had their own little groups…just like theirs. Everyone got their food before it all came to idle chat. Josh was a bit taken aback to find himself talking to the Oyabun's boyfriend who seemed as regular as he was.
"How did you bag her?" Josh asked.
"Love at first meeting." Jon teased as Josh looked at him in disbelief. "Me, Ben, and Eric were new fish that ended up swept into Tidal Fox's typhoon. Isaribi took a shine to me…and I really liked her. She's this badass that looks and feels like she leapt out of an action movie, and I'm the guy that's working to catch up in skill. Will say, it's never boring with her."
"Hey, Jon. What's good?" Ben said, arriving with a six pack of Sprunk. "My pizza arrived, right?"
"Yeah, it did. Saved your slices. Ben Dover, this is the new guys and girl. Josh, Caleb, Taro, and Emberlynn." Jon said, taking a soda off the ring. "Guys, this is Ben…the Shateigashira's mechanic and boyfriend."
"Yara?"
"No, she's the Wakagashira. Tomoko, the shorter one is the Shateigashira." Emberlynn corrected.
"Must be nice to have rich partners." Caleb teased.
"I make good money as her mechanic." Ben said casually. "It is nice to be spoiled a bit, but I wanted to make sure I can stand on my own two feet."
"Cheers to that." Jon said as Ben went for his pizza. "But yeah, we're all a well knit group. But you should meet the most recent additions before you. Mitsune, Amalla, and Shinobu."
Jon pointed them out and an eager Josh got up.
"Oh no, he's going to get shot down like a shooting range target." Caleb jested as Josh went over.
"Ladies, I'm new but I rolled in with the tide to catch up right behind you."
Emberlynn cringed at the pick up line, but to her surprise…someone laughed. That being Shinobu much to Mitsune's surprise.
"That line was so cheesy…but I do like you were bold enough to go with it." Shinobu said good-naturedly. "Some confidence."
"If I wasn't, I wouldn't have joined this crew. How I got in is a pretty crazy story." Josh said, sliding into a seat. "It was me, my boys, a car full of drugs, and a group of Mexican motherfuckers."
"Was it an epic shootout?" Mitsune asked.
"Nah, more like a standoff. We were holding it down when a drive swerved in between…on some straight Terminator II shit. Of course, we get in the car as some Harley Quinn wannabe takes the car. Then we get chased and do a bit of shooting here and there. So I find out…the car belonged to the fucking yakuza. Of course, I did some smooth talking and ended up getting me and my group in. Going from a two-bit hood to a 'family guy'." Josh said slyly. "But how did you fine sisters end up in a lot like this?"
Shinobu snorted.
"You're just going out but I like the kind of person who really goes after what they want." Shinobu said before taking his phone. "So how about I give you my number?"
Josh was actually aiming for either Mitsune or Amalla, but he unlocked his phone for her to add the number anyway. He was not going back empty handed. While she was a bit petite for his taste, he wasn't going to pass up a cute girl's interest. Josh slid back to his group looking confident.
"You were aiming to get the other two's numbers, were you?" Caleb said as Josh facepalmed. "Knew it."
"Eat a dick, Caleb." Josh grumbled as Emberlynn snickered.
"Oh I got little sister vibes from her…could have a brother complex." Emberlynn teased as Josh flipped her off. "Love you too."
~TWG~
Florencia was scared out of her mind. She had been confronted by people who knew her son. Relief soon went to panic when they knew what she did to him and were here on his behalf. The verbal leashing from Alex was as bad as the punch to the jaw. Now she was walking up finding herself in the trunk of a car and tied up. The car stopped and the trunk opened for her to be dragged out. The blindfold was yanked for her to be surrounded by mostly female bikers who were all glaring at her. Naruto, Isaribi, Yara, and Tomoko immediately decided to come when they were let in on what was going on.
"Hello…mother."
There he was, her son sitting at the bar with a beer in hand.
"Felipe, what's the meaning of this?!" She screeched.
"My form of justice for the abuse you did to me…making your sex toy." Felipe said. "You isolated me, but now I have friends. A girlfriend, too."
Kara came to his side.
"This scrawny pu-"
Daniela smashed a bar stool over Florencia's head to send her spiraling into the ground.
"I figured you wouldn't go after me…you'd fuck off. But you kept making noise…and now because of you I lost the job I loved so much. I don't blame the headmistress for letting me go…I get it. But instead of just accepting that I didn't want you in my life, you kept pushing. Honestly, I got lucky that the Vagos you tried to pay to go after me…turned out to be the same ones who sold me my ticket to escape. And now it's over…me and Kara are going to be on a short sabbatical for a day or two. Take the van for a road trip up North. I just wanted to let you know the last sight of me getting up and leaving. Goodbye, Florencia."
He got up taking Kara by the hand as the two made their leave telling the rest to have fun. The door closed as everyone was glaring daggers at Florencia. She knew that regardless of what she said…they were going to maul her.
"I guess we're taking some time off." Kara said as Felipe blushed. "It'd be fun…you, me, and the road. Angel Pine does look nice this time of year."
"Kara, anywhere with you will be worth it." Felipe said as the young couple took off to get packing.
Florencia screamed as they rained down punches on her. Screaming gave way to begging which led to pleading. They had, of course, dragged her out into the woods to beat her senseless with their bare hands even holding back just to drag it out. Naruto had actually called up Trevor to ask for some advice.
"Yeesh, you really want this person to suffer. Ok, what did they do?" Trevor asked.
When Naruto told him a sampling, Trevor's joking went away replaced with complete stoicism in his new few words.
"I know a place. Let's just say there's some people in the mountains that'll pay for her…and you'll never hear from you again." Trevor said. "Just restrain her and leave her for me to pick up. After you send me your location."
"Got it. And thank you, Trevor." Naruto remarked before sending it. "It's done. Let me know when it's over."
He hung up as he tied Florencia up.
"Well, it's time we leave. Trevor's on his way and he's going to make this bitch wish she wasn't a piece of human trash." Naruto said getting back on his bike.
"Trevor? I'd say I feel bad about it…but that's a big almost. Either way, I'm not going to be here for that."
They cleared out leaving Florencia alone and terrified as Trevor came up in his Bodhi. Trevor came down looking down at her with cold eyes.
"You can let me go…I won't tell anyone. Please!" She pleaded.
"Did you stop when your son asked you to?" He asked. "I already knew what you fucking did. So don't even try to talk your way out of this. It's the end for you."
"Fuck you." She spat.
"Tempting, but I don't want to smell your cunt on my penis…so you'll have to settle for where I'm taking you too." Trevor said with a split grin. "Some friends in the mountains pay quite a lot for victims."
She screamed. He promptly held her down, sliding off her underwear to use to gag her before tossing her in the trunk of his truck to be driven to her fate.
~TWG~
"Mom, did something happen at work to get you and dad like this?" José asked.
His parents came in, hugged him, and immediately went towards pouring themselves a glass of wine to drink. Alex just stared at her glass knowing she could not drink it to which Jase did so in her stead.
"Yeah." Alex admitted.
"Is this about Felipe's mom?" José asked as Jase nodded. "I heard Felipe was let go from the school…because she got out of jail. Did you guys deal with it? Actually, don't answer that…is Felipe going to get his job back."
"Doubt it." Alex remarked as Bélén gave her a drink. "What's-"
"A mocktail. A virgin mojito. I figured you'd want to drink something." Bélén said as Alex took a sip.
"You are a lifesaver, Bel." Alex remarked.
At the clubhouse, the rest of the gang were cleaning the place up as Naruto sat outside lighting up a bit of a blunt to smoke. That woman rubbed everyone the wrong way and simply spoiled the mood. Olivia came out as Naruto fiddled with his lighter.
"Man, fuck this…" Naruto said putting the lighter and the blunt away. "I don't even feel like smoking up."
"Bitch killed my mood to drink." Olivia mused. "Poor kid."
"He's young and has his life ahead of him. A girlfriend who loves him and he doesn't have to worry about his bitch of a mom. I suppose he could look towards finding his father, whoever he is. But he's free…" Naruto admitted. "It just sucks to hear what he went through for so long."
"Imagine being a parent hearing that. It just makes you want to hug your child…" Olivia shot back. "But given the life we all live…we can take out that anger on some deserving bastards."
Naruto called up Mr. Madrazo to ask for a target citing that he wanted to put out some anger on some people.
"You outside of LS?" He asked.
"For the moment." Naruto mused.
"Good. There's a little operation going on by the Armenians by Stoner Cement Works off Senora Road. Take care of it."
[Gang Attack #6 - Armenian Mob]
When he hung up, Naruto looked to Olivia telling her to gather the sisters. It wasn't a fair fight. Far from it…those Armenians were basically jumped by pissed off people looking to unleash the depths of their rage out on someone no one would miss.
"Fuck! Please….have merc-"
BLAM!
Right through the head would be a bullet to cut him off before that mook slumped to the ground. The quartet did not realize they had wiped out all the attackers until the System reminded that that the job was over.
[Gang Attack #6 - Complete! +$5,000 +RP]
"It's over, already?" Yara said, putting her gun away.
"Not going to lie, I…feel better." Heather said sheepishly. "Though I think I wasted more bullets than I needed."
"It's whatever…job's done and we got paid." Beatrix said, taking up some of the salvage.
"Yeah, all the crates and cash are yours to divide up. Not going to lie, I think I may call it a day…" Naruto said with his hands in his pockets. "I'm heading back to LS."
With the profits split, everyone went their separate ways with Naruto, Isaribi, Olivia, and Tomoko riding back to LS.
"So what's your plan for Victoria?" Isaribi asked.
Before Naruto could answer, he got a phone call from Tiana.
"Tiana, how's your time off?" Naruto said as he answered the phone.
"Charlotte insisted I go to a spa….but I just got a call from Victoria begging for her job back and apologizing. What happened? Did her dad cut her off?" Tiana asked, trying not to laugh.
"For a year." Naruto admitted as Tiana laughed.
"None of that privilege can help her now, eh? She even insisted that she'd clean the toilets without complaint…she just wanted to be back in the Bayou." Tiana remarked.
"If you feel you can give her a chance…you can hire her back but don't give her a lot of hours. Her father has me to ensure she stays under my thumb." Naruto said deviously. "Just don't tell her she has her old job back just yet. Enjoy your vacation and let her squirm."
He hung up. The ride back was quiet after that aside from the occasional joke at Victoria's expense. Isaribi would head home as did Tomoko. Naruto would show Olivia to his penthouse.
"Neenah, we have a gues-" Naruto said before snickering.
A very much naked Neenah had been caught pleasuring herself while clearly watching porn on the television.
"You didn't tell me you had a girlfriend…"
"Housemaid, actually." Naruto clarified. "Even if she was…cuckquean is clearly on her list of fetishes given what she watches. But whatever, Neenah…this is Olivia. She'll be staying here for a while so take her bags to the guest room. And don't bother get dressed…"
Neenah sheepishly took her bags as Naruto casually looked over at the television.
"At least you had the decency to plug your laptop to the television instead of using pay-per-view." Naruto remarked before unplugging the HDMI cord from it. "I'd complain but given the place doesn't smell like your pussy I assume you clean up your mess."
"So what's the deal with your housemaid?" Olivia asked curiously.
When he told her, Olivia laughed…hard enough to shed a tear to wipe. Neenah came out saying the bags were put away.
"I'm sorry…this was one of the Saint's lieutenants? She looks like she'd be working the counter at Bean Machine. I'd be more scared if she fucked up my order not try to rob me." Olivia snarked as Neenah pouted. "And those glasses aren't doing you any favors. It's cute, but you're telling me you couldn't get laser eye with the money you made."
In hindsight, Neenah wished she'd done so. One of her many regrets aside from agreeing to start the Saints in the first place.
"Frankly, I should be impressed you sold the lie given how slender you look. Or maybe not given what happened…so go ahead and fix me a drink please. Wine preferably." Olivia said as Naruto gave Neenah a nod. "But Naruto, there's something I want to ask…given you're more tech-savvy than me and I assume this would be your alley. I was looking to get back into Sailor Moon."
"Sailor Moon?" Naruto asked curiously. "I didn't peg you for a fan."
"I used to watch it back when my daughter was still little…reminds me of simpler times." Olivia mused.
"Well, if I can get that on any pirate streaming site, but you're going to do this…you should see it in the original sub. DiC didn't exactly do the show justice when they were dubbing it. Given they made the lovers cousins to cover up that they were gay for each other." Naruto said getting his laptop plugged in.
"Hold up. They wanted to cover up a lesbian romance…by making them cousins instead?" Olivia asked in confusion.
"Because having them being borderline incestual was okay instead." Naruto said sarcastically.
"Ugh, don't remind me." Neenah said, pouring the wine into a pair of glasses. "They basically dubbed the voices of several male characters into women just to hide they were effeminate. And the backstories they cut."
The door opened as Isaribi, Yara, and Tomoko came in.
"So, what's with the visit?" Naruto asked.
"Jon's on a shift with his mother and I really don't want to be alone at the moment." Isaribi admitted. "Plus, I figured we'd all gather together to talk shop."
"I was going to marathon Sailor Moon." Naruto said sheepishly. "Olivia's request."
"Sub or dub?" Tomoko asked.
"Subbed." Naruto remarked.
"Shall I get more drinks?" Neenah asked.
"Yeah, you should." Naruto said.
As they begin marathoning a classic piece of nostalgia, a thought comes to Yara.
"Remember when you were talking about that Italian chick you snatched for the Irish?" Yara asked.
"Gracie? Well, she's not dead…but she's only a footnote compared to the crazy shit that after she was taken. But how about we leave Olivia to her marathoning…take this to another room…and I'll tell you lot of the story of the Impossible Trinity and the end of Acter's chapter."
(A/N: And end scene. I figured after Florencia's curtain call, I'd end the chapter a bit earlier than normal. After something heavy like that, even crooks would want to take a breather.)
