Hello again.

Sorry about the late update as many of you already know i didn't have a beta and i am currently super busy with my job.

firstly i wanted to thank you all who supported this story ... the feed back from chapter 8 was simply amazing.

secondly i may go on hiatus for a while but i will try to finish this ark before that.

and lastly here is the answer to some of the reviews :

GrinReaper7 : I know what you are saying and in the start i wanted to do a simple naruto being sallys hero story but when i thought about it, it was kinda lame so i used the twist with the disguise .you know it was refreshing to write about a naruto who isn't exactly a Hero.

sabery : Hmmm... i have plans for that one but they are secret ;-))

: it will be explained in the feature that why they are here but gust know this their case isn't the same as the over used scenario of being sent away by kamui or the likes. as for the percy he won't go ninja on people just because naruto is there. sure he will be fitter and more intelligent but not a basass from the about percbeth i have plans for them that you have wait to see.

and thats all.

now enough with talking.

disclaimer : i own nothing.

"talking"

'thinking'

STORY START

Chapter 9

The package

* knock knock*

The clear sound of a wooden door being knocked was heard from where Sally was checking herself in the mirror of her bathroom.

Knowing already that who was behind the door, she walked toward the entrance with a little nervousness apparent in her big green eyes.

Putting her hand on the handle of the door she stilled her nerves and after exhaling a deep breath opened the door to come face to face with the enigma that had plagued her life for the last year.

Smiling pleasantly she greeted him warmly.

"Hello Naruto. It's nice to see you again ."

Smiling back at her, the tall blond answered back. "Hey Sally! It's good to see you too. Can I come in?! "

"Ahh! Where are my manners!? Of course... Why not."

"Oh! I got you some faloodeh ... I hope you like it."

With that he handed her a plastic bag that contained a plastic bowl that had some cold beverage which was mixed with white, thin and short fibers; from the smell she could tell it was sweet.

Accepting the plastic bag she stepped aside and let him enter her house. Naruto directed himself towards her living room and made himself comfortable in her blue sofa.

Neither Sally nor Naruto dared to speak a word to each other while they made their way to the living room. There was simply an unending silence between them. Clearly, there was still some awkwardness left between them due to the incident.

Naruto didn't blame her, it was kind of a dick move on his part when he tortured her for months using a disguise of the filthiest human being he could think of.

Looking around the house that he had lived in for the last few months under the disguise of Gabe Ugliano, he spotted the now one year old Percy sitting in front of a TV while looking toward him with a child-like interest apparent in his eyes.

From the looks of it, previous to his arrival Percy had been watching a TV show about colorful ponies or something like that.

Naruto gave a kind smile to the child and made his way towards him, he lifted the young child and placed him in his lap and started making funny face at him. Percy immediately started to give an adorable giggle while clapping his hands repeatedly. It was so childish and so…innocent.

"So, what can I bring you?! Coffee or tea maybe with some cookies?! "

"Hmmm... Tea will be fine. I recommend that if you don't have plan to eat faloodeh that I brought , you should put it into your freezer."

"Oh! OK."

With that said Sally walked back towards her kitchen to follow the instruction given by Naruto.

After a few minutes of silence she came back with a tray that contained two cups of tea with a dish of fresh cookies at the side.

"Well, for the second time since the last year it's nice to see you again."

Said Sally with a teasing tone while her guest mockingly put a hand on his chest where his heart was and retorted "Ouch... So heartless."

Sharing a small laugh together they went back to silence once more.

It had been 3 days since the incident with the hellhounds.

After that Naruto had given her some time to get a handle on everything in her life once more because even if she didn't say it out loudly, his absence in her life and the guilt of what she had done was taking a toll on her.

After 3 days' time Naruto had been on a trip doing whatever he did at his free time and the day before he had called her and had said he will be there to meet her and likely explain a few things.

So here he was sitting in front of her while he was calmly drinking the tea and eating the cookies between intervals.

Turning her thoughts back to the present she spoke up once again. "So where have you been for the past few days?!"

Sipping the last of his tea Naruto let out a sigh of relaxation and leaned back into his sit. "Well I was in this beautiful and big city to the east and had a fun vacation for the last two days. And I even brought you some delicious faloodeh and believe me when I say this it may look plain and simple however it tastes heavenly."

Explaining all of these with a hipped tone he smiled at her assuringly. Actually he had neglected to tell her when he said east that he meant the east of the planet aka Asia, not the east of USA. But for now such a thing didn't matter. So, after a few seconds of silence he spoke up again but this time with a more serious tone.

"Well, I also saw that I had enough fun for now and came back here so we can continue with our talk."

Pausing for a few seconds to gather his thoughts he continued. "You see I wanted to have things between us to be a little more peaceful and I wanted ... To uh... Explain things to you and ... Ummm I wanted to -"

"OK! Stop right there!" Sally stopped Naruto using a clipped tone.

In the past few minutes Sally had kept calm and has been silent so he could talk freely and without any problem but he was proving to be a little annoying talking about all of this and right now she didn't exactly have the patience to listen to all this nonsense.

"OK, I know that explaining about all of our issues is hard for you but for god's sake I'm tired of hearing you babbling about 'explaining about everything' ... So tell you what? Let's just go with flow and in time when it comes up explain about things that are unknown to me OK?! "

With that said she huffed and leaned back into her sofa while grumbling under her breath about her awful luck with men and stupid blonds.

Fidgeting in his seat Naruto silently agreed to her words and kept his mouth shut for the time being.

"Although, I have to say I seriously want to know why it is that the monsters avoid you. Because right know you don't smell like a pig showered in goo. So I can say that it wasn't because of your smell. "

Right after hearing her words Naruto looked even more nervous and started chuckling slowly.

"Ummm... I assure you that it was the smell that kept them away though it doesn't have to be exactly foul... It's just more efficient this way."

And he finished his sentence while looking everywhere but at an angry but confused Sally.

Sally was exasperated and kind of pissed off but this wasn't the time to freak out and beat the blonde within the inch of his life. There was a time and place for everything.

"You know I don't care anymore why you enjoyed torturing my poor nose. Just tell me what you mean when you said that it was the smell?!" She sighed lowly and started rubbing her eyes.

Looking guilty and ashamed the young man stood up from his seat while putting on a smile.

"Well about that... I guess it would be better to take you somewhere. "

Standing straighter he held his hand towards her while putting the other hand on his chest and bowing his head a little "Well my fair lady! Will you honor this peasant and accompany me for a short trip?!"

Looking at his dramatic proposal for a ride around the city she chuckled and played along.

"Hmmm… It will be nice little peasant. Sooo where do plan to take your lady for her entertainment."

Smiling wildly at Sally the blond laughed a little and took her delicate hand in his much bigger one.

"We are going to the slums of New York. So, I suggest you wear much modest and simple set of clothes."

Looking at him blankly she turned on her heels scooped Percy in her arms and walked back toward her room to get changed in a set of simple clothes like he suggested.

She already knew she was going on the greatest ride of her life alongside the enigmatic blonde.

'Sigh. I should murder him as soon as possible.' Sally couldn't help but keep that thought in her mind.

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Currently if you said that Sally Jackson isn't happy it would be a great understatement.

Since, she was walking down towards some of the shadiest streets of New York that she didn't even know existed. Sally was freaking out more and more as the seconds ticked away while she continued to walk alongside Naruto deeper and deeper into the slums of New York.

After what seemed like endless agonizing minutes she finally barked out a shout of anger and threw a punch toward his shoulder.

Well...that was Bad move with capital B, because she almost dislocated her fingers from punching his seemingly rock hard shoulder and the oh so prefect ball of sunshine had the audacity to play it off as if he lost an arm.

"Uhhhh... You are such a cruel woman Sally. Look at what did you do to my precious arm..."

The blond bellowed as he clutched his arm while shedding two miniature waterfalls of fake tears.

"Ugh... Don't play the idiot with me. Just tell me why we are in these parts of the city?! "

Just a second after hearing her words the blond man straightened his posture and putt a hand on Sally's feminine shoulder and began to guide her toward a direction that seemingly parted ways from the street and toward even more dark and shady looking back allays with a faint smile that showed he was now all about business.

"Well you see... To understand fully about this I have to start from the beginning. "

After a few seconds of contemplating to what to say Naruto began to talk.

"In the beginning when I disguised myself even back then I thought about everything and I knew that clearly soon enough monsters will appear one by one and honestly I couldn't let things like monsters ruin my day by showing their ugly faces at my door step . So, I started to set plans in motion to prevent that from happening. "

At her deadpan look that was directed toward him Naruto, he knew that he shouldn't stretch his luck with her on the matters of past and his creepy planning of all things so he hastily continued with his explanation.

"Well as said before I had done some research about supernatural and the world of gods and monsters. And one of my newly made friends suggested a solution to me that was almost perfect. "

At this point Naruto was grinning like a lunatic.

"And that solution was the use of some special brand of perfume to cover Percy's scent."

And with that he finished his explanation while grinning widely. Sally absorbed all of these info with a thoughtful look playing on her face.

But just as she was thinking about all the details something suddenly clicked into place an at that moment she wiped her head upward toward where she knew his face was with an expression that showed horror and disgust.

"You ... You are telling me that all of the time that I was almost suffocated by the horrible smell was just to... To PRANK the hell out of ME?!"

At seeing her response and words his grin got painfully strained and slowly but surely he begun to sweat more and more.

"Well I did to umm... As I said before... Ahem... Cover Percy's scent but when I smelled that perfume I couldn't control myself so I uh... DidThatForSomeFunAndAmusment. "

At first Naruto had started awkwardly but as seconds passed and with each word that he said he begun to sweat even more as the horror in Sally's face vanished and pure anger took its place and maybe that was the reason that he blurted out the last sentence fast enough that Sally almost didn't understand his words.

Or maybe the reason for that was the sound crunching fingers and knuckles that came from sally s direction.

And it was the day that Naruto Uzumaki understood the true meaning of physical pain.

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So far it had been a rather good day for him. You ask why?!

Well that is simple. It was around afternoon and since he had woken up from last night sleep everything had been seemingly perfect.

To be more specific he had woken up this morning peacefully without any incident like the last week fiasco with the idiotic guy who wanted a piece of him for apparently no reason... Ummm well now that he thought about the day that the incident happened the guy had said something along lines of banging someone or something like that while screaming bloody murder at him... Well you can't fault him now, back then he had been experiencing a killer headache caused by a very bad case of hangover from drinking too much the night before hand now that he thought about it even more he was having a guess that maybe in some point sometime in a very unknown place he had banged some pretty woman but for the life him he couldn't remember witch one of them was a milf or something like that...

...

What? He was a VERY popular Gigolo and he had bedded more women that he could probably count. And certainly he wouldn't go out of his way to memories every single one of them.

Aah...but that wasn't the point here and really didn't matter right now. What matters is that today he had woken up peacefully without any headache or any pain from his left eye.

He had taken a surprisingly a warm shower (in the area that he lives a warm shower was a rarity) and after that he had dressed in his OWN fine and expensive suite and had eaten a very good and freshly baked breakfast (another rarity in his life ) and when he had checked his pockets instead of an empty pack of his favorite Marlboro he had found a nearly full and fresh one and to make it all the better his favorite and regular costumer Mrs. Johnson , a very attractive white woman in her mid-thirties had called him for a very intense and exciting job .

And here he was in Johnson's apartment, the normally peaceful and quiet atmosphere of the house had been distributed by the load sounds of moaning and groaning and intense screams of pure carnal pleasure filling the apartment.

After what seemed like hours everything became silent once more. After sometime that felt like 30 minutes a tall man in black suit came out of the door of apartment into the hallway accompanied by Mrs. Johnson who was smiling joyously towards him.

He was a man in his early to mid-twenties with an athletic build who stood a little over six feet with long sunny blonde hair that was pulled into a ponytail that descended almost between his shoulder blades and a single eye that was a bright blue, almost like the color of clear sky outside, the other one being covered by a black eye patch. He also had a thin mustache and beard that gave him the attractive bad boy vibe.

Mrs. Johnson pulled back from him after boldly groping his back side and giving him a chaste kiss on the lips. She pulled out a rolled stash of dollars from her generous cleavage of her bra and chest and placed it inside the breast pocket of his suit and pated it down.

"Well dear it was a pleasure working with you again." Said the woman with a sultry voice.

Grinning charmingly back at her.

"I try my best Sarah. It is our policy to do our job at the best way possible and our ultimate goal is to always satisfy our customers to their need. "

With that said he gave a lazy two finger salute and left the complex with a last word.

"Please pick us to do your jobs next time."

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It has been a quick but relaxing walk back home and he had chosen to grab something in the way so he could eat some well-deserved dinner that he still hasn't gotten due to his long term job.

But imagine his surprise when he saw one of his newer costumers that had managed to become his regular on the ground twitching painfully while holding his groin with one hand and covering his face with the other one.

For the first few seconds he was surprised but after that he was perfectly on guard.

Thought after a few seconds of checking the back alleys that housed his apartment / work office he saw a scowling woman with a baby boy in her arms sitting on the stairs leading to his house.

Slowly but surely everything became clear for the sunny blonde and as the seconds ticked by a very amused grin began to stretch his lips. Kneeling down still unnoticed he started to poke the golden blond with a finger to the ribs.

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"Get the fuck away from me you fucking blond."

And it was after his fourth attempt to poke him painfully in his ribs that his hand was slapped away and was yelled at for having some amusing time to himself.

He would have yelled back some insult but the sight of the surprised but angry woman at the other side stopped him from saying anything because before he knew it the golden blonde was kneed in the face quite viciously.

Well wasn't she an angry chick with very strong hits...

"You idiot do not use such foul words in presence of children."

And right then his strait grin turned to a charming smile as he stood up from his position from aside of now wailing man in favor of facing this new face... What can he say, he was a sucker for strong woman like that... being a young mother was just a bonus .

"Hello there miss... It seems that you have a-"

But before he could continue with his speech to reach the heaven he received a wild and strong uppercut to the chin that threw him away and on his back and almost knocked him out.

The formerly agonized man was the one who had thrown the punch in the first place now was standing protectively in front of a surprised Sally with a hard look on his face.

"Bad move pal. She is off limit." Naruto said to the other blond who was groaning on the ground and slowly rolling to his side to get up from the ground.

Now that Sally saw his reaction to what the new comer was trying to do, for some reason her anger drained after witnessing it. And in the same time now that he was standing he could see that there was a rather nasty black bruise around his left eye and it was already fading away to be replaced with his normal lightly tanned skin.

In the meantime the other blond had gotten to his feet and was nursing his bruised jaw.

"Possessive much pal?!"

"Well I don't know what you are talking about."

Naruto said with an innocent smile playing across his face.

Naruto was a very clingy and possessive man and it wouldn't do if someone tried to make a move on HIS possessions. And he had taken some pleasure into punching his supplier

... Even if he knew he was going to get back at him for the punch.

"So all of this aside... Who is your lady friend here?! "

"Oh right... This is Sally and the little guy is Percy and Sally this is Rick."

"Well if you wouldn't punch me again my friend I would like to welcome you to my humble office ... Please come in." Rick insisted.

Said the newly dubbed Rick as he opened the heavy iron front door as made a gesture indicating to follow him inside.

Sally looked nervously toward her blond companion and received a reassuring smile that was followed by a gentle hand on her back.

Slowly the two young adults followed after Rick inside. They climbed a flight of stairs and were rewarded by the view of a small apartment that contained a few pieces of furniture and a coffee table, a small kitchen at one side and an oaken desk occupying the other corner beside the window. Possibly acting as the office because there was the place that Rick sat and offered them to sit in front of his desk on some black leather couch.

"Well what can I do for you today kind sir?!"

Said Rick jokingly while smiling lazily toward them.

"Well I...we are here for some of your special package. Thought unlike the previous times I would like to choose a different one."

"Hmmm... It shall be done but before we start can I offer you a drink?"

Said the sunny blond while standing up from behind his desk and walked toward his mini kitchen.

"A glass of orange juice would be great."

"Some fresh water will do for little Percy... Thank you."

And so after a minute of silence he came back with a simple tray in hand that respectively contains an orange juice glass and a glass of water for each.

"Here you go. I hope it satisfy you thirst little hero."

And with a little pinch of Percy's chubby cheek he went back to sit behind his desk.

At the mention a hero Sally's mind went back to remember monsters that she had seen in her life and began to panic but before she could panic even more she heard the smooth voice of Rick telling her something.

"Do not worry miss, I assure you that there will be no harm that would come to your child in this house."

There was something in his tone that soothed her worries and there was a tiny little voice in the back of her mind that told her maybe some of it was because of the strong and warm hand that gently held onto hers.

"Well now onto the business." Rick pulled out a briefcase from a hidden case in his desk.

He opened the briefcase and spun it around so they could see the contents. It was filled to the brim with bottles of different color that she suspected was this special perfume that she was desperate for.

"Hmmm...Let me see ... An aquamarine. This will not work not this one either ...hmmm... AHA! This should do the job for now.

He pulled out the bottle that had golden tag that she couldn't read... Possibly because it was written in Latin or something.

"You will need to use a little of this every day. Be sure to apply it on his main blood vessels. Like both sides of his neck, armpits and the likes. If you use it right it will last for 3 months."

"Though it is a little pricy..."

When hearing this a sense of dread appeared in her gut.

"How much are we talking about?!"

"Each bottle for 5 thousand dollars and it is not that much because I wanted too but because the material needed for making them are a little expensive to be honest."

She was hopeless now... She couldn't afford to buy even one bottle...maybe she could struck a deal with this guy-

But before she could finish that grain of thought the golden idiot in kill me orange came to save the day once more.

"There is nothing to worry about. Here is this month's."

Said the man while throwing a stash of dollars in front of Rick.

"Y-you shouldn't buy it for me I can find a way to -" Sally stammered.

"Look Sally when we exited your apartment I took you here not because I wanted you to buy something, I did it with the intention of buying this myself. "

He said with a serious tone.

"B...but I can't accept it."

"Consider it a payback for all of those noodles that you paid for. "And then Naruto chuckled sheepishly.

"see... If you put it that way it will be a different matter entirely."

"OK Rick the money is yours ...give me a damn box for the cover and we will be gone."

Rick chuckled and pocketed up the stash while pulling out a small box to put the bottle into it.

"Here you go miss. It is always a pleasure to have business with you Mister Uzumaki. "

And with that said the two (and half) exited the house and walked back toward Manhattan.

The whole time they were walking back Sally was in thought but after a while when they were nearing to their destination she finally spoke up.

"You know you didn't have to do that. Why did you do it?!"

After a few seconds of silence her answer left his lips.

"You know, you are right but I prefer to do this as a means to comfort my own mind in regard of both of your safeties."

Sally was a little shocked and maybe a little touched too. When Naruto had confessed about his reason and concern the seriousness and truth in his tone and words had had kind of warmed her heart and maybe somewhere in the back of her mind she was beginning to think that maybe she wasn't alone anymore and completely on her own and all of these truly made her happy for some reason.

And then realization struck her that maybe having the enigmatic man known as Naruto Uzumaki in her life wasn't as bad as she would have thought.

But for now she would leave all of those thoughts to the back of her mind because they were close to the door step of her apartment complex. So, when they arrived she slowly turned back to face Naruto.

"So ...Thank you for all you did for us today. I will be eternally thankful. " saying that Sally smiled warmly at the blond for the first time since the last year that Naruto had known her, and being at the receiving end of that smile made his heart jump with something akin to happiness that he couldn't name exactly. But that didn't matter right now, what was important in this moment was that he was slowly gaining Sally's trust and that meant a lot to him.

"I didn't do anything really and I would be happy to be of service to you and if I know that somehow I can help you I will happily do everything needed to be done ... No matter what."

Sally was left speechless at hearing the serious and firm declaration from the blond man.

Well right now she was happy and that meant he deserved a reward.

So in a bold and fast motion Sally rose to the tips of his toes and planted a kiss on his cheek and before he could register what exactly happened she blurted out a fast goodbye and ran away in the safety of her apartment with a flaming face .

Slowly a stunned Naruto raised his hand and placed on the place where Sally had previously kissed his face a little reddened but instead of being embarrassed a glint of happiness entered his eyes and a large grin appeared on his face.

And then he started to walk down the street.

Maybe his situation with Sally wasn't as bad as he would have thought. And maybe there was still a chance.

But before all that he needed to celebrate and what to do as a celebrations better than eating ramen.

And with that thought in mind he vanished in the busy crowed in the search of some well-deserved ramen.

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well that was it.

it was my longest chapter so far... i hope it wasn't too bad.

i want to end this arc in under 4-5 chapter.

all suggestions are welcome.

sorry if in this chapter they acted a little bipolar i tried my best to write it better and here we are.

about 'faloodeh' It is a desert and if you want to know what it looks like just google 'faloodeh shiraz'.

spacial thanks to my beta reader crazyrajat .

see you.

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