Naruto Fan Fiction ❯ Innocent Illusions ❯ Rude Stranger ( Chapter 2 )

[ Y - Young Adult: Not suitable for readers under 16 ]

A/N: Here's the second chapter. Just to mention beforehand. I'm sorry if you're bothered by the OC's in this story but I needed some interactions between Naruto and workers but I couldn't use the girls from Konoha or else that would ruin the plot.

Anyways, I'd like to dedicate this chapter to my dad. Happy Birthday!





Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto and Co.





Innocent Illusions


The first instinct Naruto had was to go jump Sasuke, stuff him into a bag, bring him back to Konoha, and tie him up while laughing maniacally.

But instead, he controlled himself. He learned that most of his anger issues came from topics about Sasuke. He used Sasuke to initiate anger and to try to control it. It helped a little.

But what helped the most was the fact that Naruto would get fired if he jumped another person. It just happened to be a coincidence that two other men came here and just happened to look like Sasuke and it just happened that Naruto had the sudden urge to tackle that guy down.

Kana yelled at him but if you really thought about it, the men didn't seem to mind actually when Naruto landed on top of them. But that would never stop Kana from getting you.

Naruto approached the table and grew more irritated that the guy looked exactly like Sasuke. The other two men had that subtle differences that helped Naruto know that they were different and regret from jumping on them.

Then again, Naruto didn't know how Sasuke aged but the man just looked so terribly similar.

Naruto pushed his irritation away and let his bubbly persona take over.

"Hello! Are you new here? I haven't seen you around. My name is Sobame-chan and I'm going to be your waiter today. So what would you like?" Naruto gave the man his best enthusiastic voice.

He closed his cell phone and looked up slowly from the menu, as if he was reluctant to do something unpleasant. Naruto was peeved but stopped making faces when the man gave him a penetrating glare. "I would like it if you would leave me alone. I'll ask for your assistance when I actually need it."

Naruto hand clenched around the pen he was holding as he forced the words out. "Why! Of course, sir."

Naruto walked away angrily and nearly ran back when he heard the man mutter 'airhead' under his breathe. What the hell is wrong with this guy?

As soon as he was out of eye range from the man, his two friends grabbed him.

Akane was the first one to talk. "Oh my god! Isn't he cute? What'd he say to you? What's he like? Do you like him?"

Miyu seemed hyper also. "We saw the way you were eyeing him. I told you! He is soo cute! You guys are such a cute couple!"

Naruto had to wave them off. And the girls back at Konoha said that he had too much energy!

"He's a frigid ass. That's all there's too it." The girls stopped their excited bouncing and their expression turned to shock.

"But! He's soo cute! Why do all the cute ones have to be jerks?!" Miyu whined.

"How can so much beauty be wasted on a jerk? That isn't right!" Akane groaned.

Naruto stood there, immobilized by their bi-polar attitudes.

"Unless," Miyu said. She was clearly the romantic of the group. "he's a bad boy. Rough on the outside and soft on the inside."

"Aww! It's just like the movies!" Akane gushed.

Naruto left as soon as the two girls started becoming excited again. Even if he spent a few months pretending to be a girl, they were still a complete mystery to him.

"Whatever."

As soon as he reached the counter, Kana sent him off to deliver desert back to... the pervert. Again?!

Naruto set the plates down in front of the couple and looked at the man. "You didn't order anything?"

He grinned at Naruto and made him instantly regret asking. "I already ordered desert. I'll be waiting back at my place, Sweet Cheeks."

Naruto just simply walked away. He was sent off again by Kana to serve another rude customer. The Sasuke-look-alike.

The man was speaking on his cell phone again. Apparently, a very urgent business call.

Naruto waited for a while. For about three minutes before tapping the man's shoulder.

"Wait a minute," The man twisted his head and glared. "What?"

Naruto really wanted to punch this guy.

"Are you ready to order now?"

"Yes, I am. The service takes so damn long." I'd like to kick you in the-

"I'm sorry about that. Well, here I am. What would you like?"

"I'd like this." He pointed at the menu. "And get me this drink."

He pushed the menu away from him before Naruto could read the words.

Naruto, annoyed, went over to pick it up and wrote down the entrees.

"Wait. Let me check what the waitress wrote. She looks like a bubble-head that couldn't spell her name right." The man said into the cell phone.

Naruto almost broke the pen under his grip. The Sasuke-look-alike looked up and took the sheet from Naruto.

"Wow." He said, dryly. "You actually got my order wrong."

Naruto snatched the small notebook back and flipped to the correct page. "This is where I wrote your order down, sir." I've never wanted to hit someone so bad in my life!

The man took it back and looked at it boredly. "Good. You got everything right."

Naruto took the notebook back and marched away, muttering about something about 'slam', 'chair', and 'head'.

Of course, Akane and Miyu were there to interrogate Naruto as soon as he came back.

He explained the situation of what happened to him and then told them his solution with very violent, and descriptive details.

"You know what?" Miyu asked. "I'm going to serve him his food then. I wanna see if this guy is actually that bad."

"You don't know what you're actually asking for, Miyu-chan." Naruto began making a plan. He could go into the bathroom and make a shadow clone that could give him at least one good punch at the guy before disappearing. Meanwhile, Naruto would be innocently working.

But then again, Naruto would never take that risk. The bar was surprisingly one of the safest place he's known. He would see ninjas pass by occasionally but they would never bother the place. So he would never bother them. He didn't want to bring danger into the happy environment of the bar.

Naruto continued to work. He took orders and handed out food. It was the afternoon which was always the busiest. Actually, the night shift was but Naruto never stayed passed nine.

It took him about an hour to get back to Konoha and relax for the night in his apartment and chow down on some ramen. It was actually the idea of becoming a man again that got Naruto to stare at the clock from time to time.

He thought of going back to the inviting apartment and stripping down to noting but his boxers and just do absolutely nothing! That would be a dream, considering that right now, the perverted man stayed at his table while the rest of his friends left. He eyed Naruto as he walked by delivering orders.

Later, Miyu took the food to the 'beautiful stranger' as Akane called it. She came back looking depressed.

Akane and Naruto were quick to jump to anger while Miyu was quick to going into a depressed state.

"What'd happened?" Akane gasped out.

"He's soo mean!"

"I told you." They glared at Naruto and he backed off. "I mean. I warned you. What did that mean man do to you?"

She shrugged her shoulders but started talking anyways. "I was just being nice and I introduced my self and he goes 'What the hell? Another one?' and he just acted like an asshole. He said I was a blonde!"

"Umm. You are a blonde Miyu." Naruto said.

"I know that! He was saying that I was another dumb blonde! God, I freaking hate it when people say that."

"Oh."

"And oh my god! I have to tell you the rest of what he did." Kana looked at them. "Actually, Kana would kill us. I'll tell you later."

She walked solemnly away as Akane clucked her tongue.

"Damn. So much beauty wasted on an ugly soul. The shame! The shame I tell you!" She muttered dramatically.

Akane and Miyu walked back to the bar to receive orders. Naruto walked around to see if anybody needed anything.

He smiled politely at the other customers before narrowing his eyes in frustration when he saw the pervert again. And he looked like he need something. Damn it!

Naruto walked up to the man and tried to smile as nicely as he could. "Hello. Are you done?"

He looked up at Naruto and gave another grin. "Nope. I'm waiting for my dessert."

I give him a point for persistence but this is getting tiring. Naruto thought.

"I think you should go, sir."

"Not until I get some dessert."

"Fine." He perked up. "I guess you'll never leave now."

His happiness disappeared but was replaced with determination. "Well. I think you'll crack eventually."

"And I think you're going to face my wrath if you start to bother me." Naruto smiled menacingly. "So don't bother me."

Naruto may look like a girl because of his jutsu but he still had his manly strength even after the transformation.

The man eyed Naruto's fake frail body and smiled. "I don't think I have to worry about that."

Was he implying that Naruto was weak? Oh boy, he's in for a shock.

"What do you-"

"Sobame!" Miyu called.

Naruto left the pervert before he could do any real damage. "What?"

Miyu pointed towards the stranger from before. "The beautiful stranger. Can you go give him the bill? None of us feel like doing it."

Naruto sighed before venturing out toward the man. He chanted in his mind that he wouldn't get mad. He wouldn't pummel him. He wouldn't hurt him in any physical way. At all. Not even a pinch.

Naruto approached the table and fake smiled at the man. "Are you done, sir?"

"Yes. If you would look, you could see that. Go get me the bill." Naruto happily grabbed the sheet he brought with him. He wanted this guy out of here fast.

"Here you go, sir."

The man eyed the check before taking out some bills. He stood up and started walking out.

Naruto walked away with a bounce in his step, giddy that the troublesome man was gone.

Everything was fine until Naruto heard the man say into his cell phone.

"This is the shittiest place I've ever been to. Full of useless sluts... Who the hell cares what they look like? They're all bimbos with no brains. I can't believe you actually told me to come here. The food's not that great either... The service is annoying... I don't care if you think they're hot... No. I-"

"TEME!"

Becoming an employee here, Naruto met new people and became friends. They also told him about their past, their present, and their dreams. He knew that their life wasn't perfect but they were freaking trying.

Akane was a single mother with a child that was two years old. Miyu's dad left her and she's trying to help her mother pay the bills to support her little brother. And Kana, as bossy as she may be, she worked her ass off to get her tiny business soaring into new heights.

They weren't his closest friends but they were friends and he wasn't going to let some jerk come here and insult them.

And Naruto really wanted to hit this guy and the man just gave him the perfect excuse to use.

Naruto grabbed the man's shirt and lifted him up. "You bastard! How dare you? You think you can just come in here and insult us. What the hell is your problem?"

"Sobame! Sobame!" Kana called. She ran over and tried to pry Naruto's hands off.

Naruto held him in the air for a few more moments while growling at him before he ceremoniously dumped the man on the floor and walked away. He could feel the man's murderous glare on his back but he didn't care.

"Stupid teme." He muttered under his breathe. That man was lucky that there were witnesses around.

He turned his head to the other problem that was aggravating him today.

The pervert paled when he saw Naruto look at him. Before, he would've just grinned and waved.

Naruto plopped himself down right next to him.

"Are you done yet? I'm having a bad day. I don't know what I'd do if someone else bothers me." He stated, menacingly.

He could see the man's body shaking. "Umm... Yes. I'm done."

"Good."

Naruto put down the bill and walked away. He heard the fumbles before the man abruptly ran out of the bar.

The two friends he defended before snickered.

"You scared that poor man away." Akane laughed.

"Aww. You hurt the beautiful stranger." Miyo pouted.

"He deserved it."

"He's still here. You know?" Akane pointed out.

Naruto turned and saw the heated gaze of the Sasuke-look-alike. He froze for a moment before giving a defiant look back.

The man pushed away Kana's attempt to help him. He stood and quickly left.

He was gone and Naruto hoped that he would never come back.

Soon. Hoots and hollers filled the air as men cheered Naruto on.

"Woo! You go girl!"

"That's what happens to men who don't respect women!"

He felt almost proud and wanted to smile until he felt his boss's glare.

He gulped when he turned to find himself under the heated stare. Crap. I'm gonna die. Aren't I?

"Sobame!" She didn't add her usual friendly 'chan' to the end of his name. He was in big trouble. "What the hell were you thinking? You just scared away a potential client and you-"

The excitement died down, and the whining and begging for help soon came from the customers. Men back at the bar were complaining for lack of service.

Kana turned her deadly eye toward Naruto. "I'll talk to you after your shift."

Naruto gulped but he wasn't that worried.

His transformation's body was packed with sin. Men couldn't resist it.

Kana wouldn't fire her most valuable employee but she wasn't scared to yell at him until he went deaf.

He worked and waited on tables. He dodged more attacks by perverts and his mood changed into a happy one when he realized that he hadn't been touched the whole day.

After his shift was over, his prediction turned out right when Kana's voice thundered in the room that was deemed as her 'office' into his very sensitive ear.

Naruto went into the locker room and changed out of his waitress outfit.

He noticed weird looks come at him before when he wore the uniform all the way home. Actually, he changed back to a guy when he was halfway there but they didn't need to know that.

So he went into a store and bought some clothes that he thought was decent for a girl. Although, he did receive some weird looks from the store clerk.

Akane and Miyu showed up for their usual conference before Naruto left.

"You're such a good girl. Coming home at decent hours." Miyu smirked.

"Not that much of a good girl. Did you see what she did to that guy? If she's a good girl, then the world has ended." Akane commented which made Naruto smile.

"Aww. That beautiful stranger?" The word beautiful combined with that jerk made Naruto's smile slip.

"I don't understand why you guys call that jerk beautiful stranger. He's more of a... rude stranger."

Naruto was confused when the girls laughed.

"Rude stranger? Nice one, Sobame-chan but not very catchy. Besides, it's too much trouble to change beautiful stranger's name." Akane said.

"Beautiful stranger's name? You're already giving him a nickname when you don't even know his real name?"

"Of course, Sobame-chan. We don't know his name so that's why we're giving him a name. We don't wanna call him 'that guy'. Honestly, sometimes you're too slow on the uptake." Miyu told him in a friendly way so he knew she didn't really mean it.

"Whatever. Well, I gotta go. See ya."

"See ya." Miyu and Akane harmonized.

Naruto left the dressing room, dodged more perverted attacks, and walked out of the bar.

He breathed in the fresh air and to the naked eye, disappeared.

His leg muscles welcomed the pleasant exercise as he whipped past the scenery. He loved it when he was out of the bar and just let go.

As soon as he was back at his apartment, he made himself ramen and stripped down (as he said before) to his boxers before turning on the TV.

It was hard to pretend to be a girl for most of the day. He loved his 'man' time.

When he finished his ramen, he threw it at the wastebasket. Missed.

He looked at where he was and where the cup landed. I'll get it tomorrow.

Naruto crawled to his room and jumped on his bed. With the new job, he could actually afford one.

He looked up at the ceiling and thought about his day. God, it was horrible.

His hand turned into a fist as he thought about the Sasuke-look-alike. He looks like Sasuke.

Naruto adjusted his pillow. He pisses me off like Sasuke.

Naruto turned to his side. But he can't be Sasuke.

He shifted again and clenched his pillow before quickly falling to sleep.

It can't be that easy.


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Naruto walked through the village in his routine. He wanted to see his friends before he headed off to work.

He popped into the Konoha flower shop and had a quick conversation with Sakura and Ino.

"Well, I gotta go to work. See ya!"

"Gosh. We never see you anymore." Sakura said.

"He's probably just sneaking off to his secret lover." Ino smirked before her face turned serious. "Wait. Are you sneaking off to your secret lover?"

Naruto noticed that Sakura became quiet and he was never one to miss a quick jab. "There's no need to be jealous, Sakura-chan. I don't have a secret lover."

"BAKA! I'm not jealous!"

"Whatever you say, Sakura-chan." He ran towards the door before he got Sakura even angrier. "Bye!"

He walked down the road and said quick hello's to people who were familiar.

Naruto saw Sai by the gate and smiled. "Hey, Sai! You miss me?"

The man's face flickered a small surprise before his emotions became nonexistent again.

"I would but it's just so peaceful around here now."

"Bah! Whatever. You know you guys miss me. Well, gotta go to work." Sai gave him a quick nod and let him out of the gate.

He ran forward and enjoyed the sweet bliss of the wind whirling around his face.

So far, Naruto was in a good mood, and he planned to keep it that way.

He had erased yesterday's memories.

After what he did to the men yesterday, he wouldn't be surprised if they never came back.

When he reached the bar (he usually transformed on the way), he changed into the uniform and headed toward Kana.

"Hey, Kana!"

"Hey, Sobame. There's a customer in the corner section. Don't screw this up again!"

Naruto thought she meant that there was a new customer that he wasn't supposed to harass.

He never expected to turn around and see the Sasuke-look-like.

Again?


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A/N: Review. Tell me what you think! :)