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Chapter 270 - Chapter 2: Just for Love

Western Mongolia

"… But from now on, I am your Queen!"

If the Light had not been pissed off before due to her uninvited and unwelcomed visit, they sure were now, especially Queen Bee and Vandal. The former could not tolerate anyone claiming the title of Queen beside herself while the latter had zero tolerance for being ordered around.

He had lived for thousands of years, planned the complete annihilation of countless civilizations and still had plans to further his ambitions till the day the entire world … no, not the Earth but the entire Universe trembled at the simple utterance of his name.

And suddenly some woman of unknown origin and unknown motives barges in, kill his subordinates and claim that she was to be their queen? Not on his watch.

Needless to say, Vandal was itching to summon Klarion.

And he did.

A bright light from Vandal's ring announced the dramatic appearance of the childish Lord of Chaos. A short and formally dressed boy with an abnormal hair style, closely resembling pointed horns, appeared out of the light, a large cat gently snuggled up his torso.

"Vandal, you better have something for me to destroy because I am in a bad mood" Klarion announced in a rough but childish voice, the cat releasing a soft meow as if to agree with its master.

The evolved caveman barely paid attention to the irritated boy, simply pointing towards a smirking Lady Chaos as she observed the newcomer like a hawk. "Deal with her"

"Who is she?" the personification of chaos asked with a raised eyebrow of interest. Honestly, he didn't care who he destroyed but he felt like this woman at least deserved that privilege due to her beauty.

"Does it matter?" Vandal's dry and unconcerned question washed away any semblance of regret he felt in potentially destroying a beautiful creature as he grinned evilly.

"No, I suppose it doesn't" he countered nonchalantly, a malicious grin threatening to split his face from its wideness as he stepped forward and carefully observed the redheaded woman. "Time to die, lady"

"Really?" the self-proclaimed Queen asked mockingly, placing a delicate hand over her massive chest and trailing it down the curves of the weighty mounds as she closed her eyes in lewd bliss.

That rude dismissal of his threat was not taken well.

Not at all.

A pulsing seal array around Klarion was the only indication of his anger, followed by the darkening of his eyes and the appearance of two large fireballs in his hands. With a roar that did not suit his seemingly dwarf-like size, Klarion unleashed the spheres of flames in a direct course for the still moaning and unaware woman.

That was his greatest mistake ever.

Almost as if afraid to interrupt the self-pleasuring woman, the orbs of dark magic shifted direction midway and zoomed right into the interior of the assembly hall, blasting away the gathered members of the Light towards the surrounding walls in a burning pile of barely alive flesh and on the very verge of death.

Among this carnage, among the smoked remains of shattered walls and scorched flesh, Lady Chaos plopped one of her long legs over the armrest and glided to the side of the throne, providing anyone who would dare look a clear view of her undergarment-clad womanhood and exposed womanly thighs.

"The game has officially begun, Naruto Uzumaki, I hope you are ready"

The room almost immediately became home to the reverberations of a tyrannical maniac's insane laughter, devoid of even a shred of sanity or stability, closely followed by the blood-curdling screams of agony from the downed members of the once mighty Light.

Naruto's Apartment

The redheaded Leaguer casually tossed the pancakes onto another side on a frying pan, whistling a jaunting tone while also cutting onions on his other hands in a way that would leave even the most skilled chef green with envy.

It was more like a show of skill than actual cooking if someone was to become its witness. And that someone just so happened to be the still sleepy princess of the ferocious amazons.

"Good morning" Naruto chirped happily, shooting a quick look at her appearance over his wide shoulder. "Nice outfit"

The black haired amazon was dressed in simple black booty shorts which, quite obvious from its name, showed off her plump booty and thick thighs like she was on a manhunt. A black tank top barely stopped her giant funbags from tearing it into shreds and bouncing out into the open air in all their jiggling glory.

Even if her hair was disheveled and not done in their graceful style, she still looked as drop-dead gorgeous as she always did.

"Good morning" Diana answered back in a somewhat sleepy tone, too tired to even offer the smile she was quite known for or think of a respond to Naruto's quirky jab at her choice of dress.

"Coming down for breakfast without a shower first?" He conveniently neglected to add the word 'again' to the sentence.

"What is the point of having a bath if I am going to get sweaty once again?" she retorted in a pointed but vague tone, a tone she knew that the redhead would understand. And he did if his chuckle was anything to go by.

"Point taken"

By the speed of Hermes, he didn't even have the decency to deny that he was going to have sex with her right after breakfast.

Honestly, by now she shouldn't even be surprised since their morning 'delight' was now a must-follow rule in the small apartment and she had gotten so used to having his fat tool thrusting into her quim every morning that she felt oddly depressed just thinking of not getting the same action this morning.

But still…

It would be nice to at least see the damned redhead show a little bit of shame when discussing such a private topic.

"Where is my Ice Cream?"

"No Ice Cream today, just cream" Naruto retorted with a self-satisfied grin as he pilled all of the pancakes, bacons and scrambled eggs, absentmindedly reaching backwards to grab a chair from smashing into his head. "And you wonder why I call you a hopeless prude"

"I tolerate your perversion in other things simply because you are at least somewhat … good at what you say and do" Diana began in a threatening tone, rosy lips stretched into an angry frown while the golden dark flesh of her cheeks glinted a dark red. "But I will not tolerate anything lewd directed at my favorite food"

"Thanks for the compliment princess" the tall redhead countered with a cheeky wink. Who wouldn't want to hear that he was good in perverted goodness from a woman, especially when she is angry at you for said perversion?

"Don't call me that!" How she hated that nickname, especially when he said it.

"Ok sheesh, I can't even tell you to get laid" the redhead murmured under his breath as he grabbed the chock-full platters of food and cautiously strode towards the table, where a cranky amazon was glaring a hole through his head.

They say that a woman has a certain glow around her in the morning when she has intercourse. He failed to see that glow around Diana and he had been pounding into her soaking wet cunt for the better part of the night and would've continued even further had she not collapsed from exhaustion, which is why she appeared so sleepy.

Where was the damn glow?

There was no denying the fact that she always looked absolutely gorgeous, whether she was sleeping like a cute kitten, battling a strong opponent or even when having a thick slab of man-meat inside her Amazonian love-channel, but he was searching for the mysterious glow that he had read about in some of the books Diana loved to collect.

Whoever had said that would pay and he would pay dearly.

"Did you say something?"

"Nope, just muttering to myself" he neutralized smoothly as he slipped into a chair, arranging the plates full of food onto the table one after another. He arched an eyebrow when the touchy amazon crossed her hands under her enormous tits and looked away in an immature huff. "What's with the pout?"

"I am not eating breakfast without my ice cream" she grumbled heatedly, planting a little more force into her pout for added effect. It always worked. Something about her lips being so damn irresistible and such, according to Naruto.

If someone had told her that one day she would get a boyfriend who had been with her mother before she was even born, who had lived for who knows how long and one who would make her do these … juvenile actions, she would have sent them straight to the deepest pits of Tartarus without a second thought.

Diana and pouting? These two shouldn't even be put in a single sentence, but it was the truth nevertheless. He was compelling her to do things she hadn't ever imagined herself doing and the most disturbing part was that she loved it.

For once, she wasn't the great Wonder Woman who could rival the greatest of heroes and even match the legendary strength of Superman.

For once, she wasn't the ambassador of her home island with a goal of spreading understanding and peace among Man's world.

For once, she wasn't the graceful and beautiful princess of Themyscira who had won the Tournament of Champions and sent into Man's world to represent her people and fight against the forces of evil.

For once in her entire life, she was just Diana, a woman with all the needs, temperament and insecurities of a normal woman. He didn't feel threatened by her status, quite the opposite in fact when you considered that he _ much to her chagrin _ had also been with her mother before her birth.

He surpassed her in power, thus easily able to handle her angry outbursts. To put it simply, he loved her for who she was and she would be damned if she didn't love him even more.

"Come on Diana, eating ice cream first thing in the morning is not healthy" Naruto started in a placating manner, earning a piercing glare from her in return. "I know I shouldn't be the one talking about healthy food and whatnot but you can see that I am not having ramen either"

She could see that. A round bowl of noodles sloshing around a dense, salty and unhealthy broth was nowhere to be found, a refreshing sight she had to admit. Then again, so was her ice cream.

Naruto was the same when it came to ramen, maybe even worse. Give him a friendly advice about forgoing ramen for just one day and you may find yourself in the hospital faster than you can say 'ouch'.

"You have no idea how hollow a morning sounds without my fill of ice cream" she argued stubbornly, slamming her open palm against the table in a show of fake anger.

The redhead could feel a massive sweatdrop sliding down the side of his face as he gaped at her. "And you think I feel all sparkly and bubbly without my precious ramen?"

She ought to keep up her stubborn attitude and force him to bring her some ice cream but damn if those strips of bacons didn't look absolutely mouthwatering.

"Come on, just this once. For me" he pleaded in a whiny tone, though on the inside he was practically begging her to refuse his offer because the previously mouthwatering bacons and eggs were appearing much less appealing than he thought they would.

Sighing in resignation, the black haired princess muttered something incoherently under her breath and grabbed the plate full to the brim with bacons with a dry look expression. "Fine"

Damn, there goes that idea. She was practically going to attack him a few minutes ago for suggesting that she eat something other than ice cream and now when he was ready for her to refuse one last time, she went ahead and accepted it!

First bite, the second then the third and before he knew it, Diana was devouring the bacons like she was one a mission, in a manner that would give her stoic mother a heart-attack. Juicy and meaty stripes of bacons disappeared one after another into her mouth while a gaping Naruto looked on with round comical eyes.

"Where the hell does all that food go?" the redhead blurted out in surprise, receiving a haughty smirk from the occupied beauty. He was almost tempted to forget about breakfast, bend the erotically smirking princess over the table and hammer into her like a man possessed by the devil.

"Where do you think?" Diana countered in a suggestive tone, darting a quick glance towards her milk-tanks with an alluring smirk.

"Considering how big those tits are and how fat that ass of yours is, I guess I don't need to think much harder over that topic" Naruto countered with an equally lecherous snicker as he slid the plate of eggs away, no longer feeling the urge to eat. He was in the mood for something else. "Speaking about tits and ass, we haven't even done our morning ritual"

"Not until I eat my ice crea… hey!"

By the time Diana had composed herself enough to notice that she was sprawled on the table she had just been eating on, it was too late. The redhead was already in his birthday suit and his not-so-little friend was stiffer than an iron rod, no doubt ready to go exploring.

And it just so happened that the sight for said exploring was her snug pussy. Oh to Tartarus with it, who cared anymore? Breakfast and even her precious ice cream could wait.

At the end of the day, it didn't matter to her whether the cream was cold or scorching hot and whether she ate it through her mouth or had it directly pumped into her fertile womb.

Cream was cream after all and by Zeus' beard she loved it!

Watchtower, Monitor Room

A dark frown adorned the Dark Knight's face as he grimly watched the large computer adjusted into the wall of the room, taking note of a small red dot flickering a few times before vanishing completely.

It was bad news, not for him alone mind you but for the entire League as well as the safety of human kind. Whether he believed in magic or not was up for debate but he was still a cautious man by nature and knew that a powerful weapon such as the Helmet of Fate was not a good thing in the wrong hands.

He may agree with Superman's idea of leaving Kent Nelson, the caretaker of the Helmet, to his own devices but nobody said anything about keeping an eye on him.

He had put a tracker on the elderly wearer during one of their meetings in order to monitor his travels and to ensure that nothing out of the ordinary happened.

It seems his worries were coming to pass. The tracker was no longer functional. It meant it had either been destroyed or tampered with. Kent's last location read 'Salem' which may provide enough information to track him down and get to the bottom of the issue.

Batman barely took note of the automatic door sliding open or rather he ignored it in favor of checking on the cave.

"Hey there Spooky" Naruto announced casually as he and a thoroughly satisfied Diana walked into the room.

"Greetings Batman" Diana greeted politely, nudging a smirking Naruto in the ribs. The jab to his ribs did little to dissuade the redhead from continuing with his activities.

That oh so important and essential activity was gently fondling Diana's meaty ass-cheeks and teasingly trailing his middle up and down the crevice of her covered buttocks.

"Diana, you were supposed to be on monitor duty an hour ago" Bruce droned out in an emotionless tone, not even bothering to look at the couple he was addressing. And good thing too.

The voluptuous princess could ignore the rude way he waved off their greetings but her warrior-like mindset would never allow her to be ordered around by anyone. "Let me remind you that I volunteered for the shift in Paradox's place since he had a meeting with the young Sidekicks, no one has the right to tell me when and how I should do it, not even you"

Naruto had to give the broody man credit for not reacting in any way in response to Diana's infamous temper. He could clearly sense Batman's unease and a hint of defensiveness which showed that he was a victim of fear like all beings are but still it was something.

Only a select few could brag about ever withstanding her anger and apparently Batman was one of them. Must be because both were the founding members and thus knew each other's temperament well enough.

"And besides we were held up due to an unavoidable matter" she added softly, glad that the detective wasn't looking at them. The blazing blush on her cheeks would have revealed too much at once.

"Actually, she was held up" Naruto chimed in pleasantly, gentling patting one fat, doughy cheek at a time as he teasingly dig his middle finger into the crack, almost threatening to tear away the star-spangled fabric and embed itself in her backdoor. "I was the one doing the 'holding up' thing"

"Shut up!" the princess hissed out in a mixture of anger and embarrassment, all the while trying to ignore the way the redhead was groping her meaty ass and practically fingering her rosebud.

Indeed they were held up or more like she was held up. She vividly recalled the feeling of his strong arms holding up her lithe form like a weightless doll and spearing her down on his throbbing shaft.

The feeling of a long, stiff and pulsing pillar of meat thrusting into her tight opening, reshaping it with every single plunge and unloading thick spurts of scorching semen that could only be measured in the gallons directly into her insatiable and anticipating womb was simply out of this world.

No wonder Man's world was filled with such debauchery.

If Batman noticed the hidden meaning of their words, he didn't comment on it as he turned around with a neutral look on his cowl-covered face. "The place is all yours, Wonder Woman"

Diana nodded firmly, inwardly sighing in relief when Naruto removed his daring hand from her jutting ass before the detective could spot him. "Thank you"

"And stay away from each other when you are aboard the Watchtower"

The Dark Knight didn't stay long enough to see the effects of his comment as he marched out of the room and into the Zeta Beam platform, teleporting away to tend to his duties and … avoid being on the receiving end of Diana's anger once again.

"Damn, I didn't even make a crack at him" Naruto grumbled depressingly. Seeing Batman and not annoying him was like forgoing ramen for a few hours, which basically amounted to pure torture.

"He knows" Diana muttered out in disbelief, several scenarios going through her mind before everything reached a single conclusion. "And it's all your fault!"

Yeah, that caused the normally ready redhead to take a few seconds of thinking before he blinked and answered the way any intelligent man would answer when faced against the unknown. "What?"

"I told you to control your hands!" The voluptuous princess plopped down on the comfy chair reserved for the member in-charge of duty, unconsciously giving a tempting jiggle to her fleshy breasts. The redhead's eyes instantly gravitated towards the wobbling twins. "My eyes are up here"

Naruto lewdly licked his dry lips; conveniently ignoring Diana's twitching fists as he stared at her still softly jiggling tits. "Don't know why but I suddenly want to drink some milk"

No matter how tempting that subtle offer was and no matter how her womanhood tingled in excitement, the black haired amazon knew she had to put a stop to his advances before they went too far into their lust to return. "Not a chance"

"Aww come on, I just wanna gently suck on them"

"No"

"Just a tinsy winsy little lick?"

"Absolutely no and that's final" she retorted quickly, far less force in her words than before while her cheeks flushed bright red. He wanted milk from her? Did he even stop to think what that insinuated? "I thought you had something to do, something about a whiny kid with a cat?"

"Oh right, I almost forgot" Realization dawned on him as he sprung up swiftly, grabbing a blushing Diana by her hand as he forced her to stand on her feet before turning her around.

With a firm slap that sent glorious ripples through her fat, meaty globes of flesh she called her buttocks, Naruto vanished into thin air with a snicker before she could register the slap.

"See you later, princess!"

"Don't call me that!"

Oh how she hated that name. She wasn't angry because he had spanked her ass, he always did that and she had long since stopped being angry over it. That nickname simply drove her crazy!

Unknown Location

"Damn those brats! Damn that old fart! Dammit all!"

Klarion barely paid any attention to his familiar, Teekl, as he continued to vent out his anger on an unfortunate boulder that had been in his sight after his embarrassing defeat.

He was the physical embodiment of Chaos. He was destruction incarnate. He was unstoppable. Then how? How could a brat in possession of Fate's helmet defeat him? That old fart, Nabu, shouldn't have been able to stand a chance against him due to possessing a human with no affinity for magic whatsoever.

"So should I help you in defeating the evil boulder?"

Klarion snapped his head towards the source of the sound, eyes squinting in an unnatural way until they resembled round little dots of red among a deformed visage, a clear indication of his anger.

That anger tripled when he saw the owner of the voice.

Calmly seated on a large boulder to the side of the landscape was a tall redhead, dressed in a formal blood red Armani suit and nonchalantly waving at him with a friendly smile.

Paradox, the recently inducted member of the Justice League and the prime reason why the Light was now under the control of that sadistic monster hidden under the flesh of a woman.

This redhead was the reason why he, a Lord of Chaos, was reduced to nothing but an errand boy by a woman of all creatures. He was the reason why the Light was forced to be practically enslaved by that beast. He was going to pay!

"YOU!"

Naruto blinked cutely and pointed at himself "Me?"

"I will kill you!"

"No monologue about you being superior to me and how painfully you are going to make my death? Straight to the killing part?" Naruto commented offhandedly, not the least bit concerned about the dark clouds gathering above the growling boy. "You work fast kid"

"I am not a kid!" Klarion shouted in outrage, bringing down his raised hands in a crisscross fashion.

Naruto nodded sympathetically, well aware what the kid was going through. Denial, a great thing really.

"I understand kido, but I have to ask you one question" Naruto voiced out casually as he calmly dodged continuous lighting strikes raining down upon him from above. "Do you have a sister?"

"How dare you!"

"Ok, so no sister" the redhead mused out loud as he stroke his chin. "A mother then, I am a bit of a milf lover"

That did it for the childish Lord of Chaos as specks of dark magic erupted out of his small form like a broken faucet, eroding any semblance of life from the surrounding due to its sheer tainted nature while Naruto observed the spectacle with a smile.

"You. Are. Dead!" it didn't take a genius to figure out the fact that Klarion was pissed off and likewise, it didn't require a person of unmatched intellect to realize that Naruto was ready to beat him into submission.

"No, I am not" the redhead retorted pointedly, flashing him the middle finger as a form of 'motivation'. "Still pretty much alive and kicking"

A stream of dark magic rushed at him from all angles, effectively blocking any way of escape. The former Shinobi took the attack head on, not even trying to block it or make his escape.

The Witch Boy, seeing the undisturbed way the redhead took on his attack, decided to further solidify his belief of actually incinerating the redhead by sending countless shards of spear-like energy into the smoking center.

It didn't take long before the smoke dissipated to reveal a shocking sight. Klarion watched in shock as a completely unscathed Paradox walked out of the crater and much to his astonishment, was using one of his energy spears as a toothpick.

"Thanks kid, I really needed that toothpick" Naruto stated in a friendly tone, offering a polite nod before discarding the energy sphere to the side, much to the continued shock of the Witch Boy. "That damned thing was being a pain in my ass … a pain in my tooth actually but you get the idea"

"H-how?"

"I don't know exactly how but I ate roasted beef for breakfast so I think that strand of meat got stuck during that time" Naruto explained 'helpfully', further agitating the already fuming Lord of Chaos.

Actually, he barely ate anything even though he cooked quite a lot… unless you counted exploring Diana's Amazonian pussy with his tongue as eating.

"I didn't ask about that!" the pale boy yelled in anger, clenching his fists as he remembered how that damned woman known as Lady Chaos had defeated him so easily that he barely registered it. Now this man was reproducing that scene of shame and dishonor. "You should be vulnerable to magic!"

The redheaded Leaguer blinked owlishly. "Are you telling me what I should and shouldn't be vulnerable to? Seriously?"

"Just shut up and die!"

"Just chill kido"

This was what the supposed Lord of Chaos was capable of? Really? Just energy spheres, lightning strikes and spears of dark magic? This was really turning out to be a major disappointment.

That is until he saw the cat.

"I see" Paradox muttered in realization, nodding his head in understanding before he snapped his finger and a puff of smoke blasted around his shoulder. These two so called Lords were not directly connected to the mortal plane and needed an anchor to make their appearances.

The Helmet of Fate was Doctor Fate's way of making a place for himself in the physical plane while the cat represented Klarion's connection. It seems he would have to fight the Witch Boy on the magical plane to see his full power.

Klarion shifted wearily when numerous reddish orange tails appeared out of the specks of smoke before the body of a small fox, almost as big as his familiar, made itself known to the dark world.

"Kurama, be a dear and turn that cat's furry butt into your personal punching bag, will you?" Naruto requested in a sing-song voice, making the nine tailed fox grin like a … well fox.

"Trouble follows your ass like a moth to a flame …"

"Hey watch it, fuzz butt!"

"But at least I get some enjoyment from it" Kurama finished with a large grin, rolling his neck in anticipation for the torture he was going to put the little furball through.

"What's with the whole cracking your neck thing? It's not like I asked you to battle Superman" Naruto interjected sarcastically, prompting a massive tic mark to appear on the fox's forehead. "It's just a cat!"

"I know it's a cat, you moron!" Kurama yelled in irritation, slapping the redhead with his tails. "I was just pausing for dramatic effect!"

"There is nothing dramatic about fighting a cat"

Another tic mark soon joined the first one, throbbing with intensity. "Do you want me to skin that furball or not?"

"Yes, I do"

"Then shut up and let me do my job" the nine tailed fox muttered out in impatience, slumping into depression when he saw his 'formidable' opponent hissing at him as he jumped down from Naruto's shoulder. "I can't believe I am about to fight a cat of all things, I am the Great Nine Tail fox dammit!"

"I see nothing great from where I am standing" Naruto commented cheekily, dodging to the side when a fireball nearly blew his head off.

"Will you shut the fuck up? Can you at least let me imagine that I am fighting an army instead of this shitball?" Kurama shouted in frustration, stomping around the clearing like an angry bull. He used to fight the likes of Madara Uchiha and Kaguya, how could he sink so low?

"You can imagine whatever you want but it's not going to change the fact that you are fighting a cat" the redheaded Shinobi countered irreverently.

The once giant beast sighed in depression. "I hate you"

"Stop ignoring me!"

The two partners snapped out of their musings when they realized that they had been in the middle of fighting a certain Lord of chaos who was not looking very happy at the moment.

"Who the fuck is that?" the energy construct asked with a frown, not liking the fact that someone was bold enough to interrupt their argument. He had been too busy with his partner to notice that there was someone else as well.

Seriously, this guy must have balls of diamonds if he was willing to interrupt an argument between him and his partner.

Only one person was bold enough and frankly powerful enough to interrupt them.

This little brat was either incredibly confident or astoundingly stupid.

"Actually, I was asking him if he had a sister or mother" Naruto answered smoothly, ignoring Klarion's glaring stare. "He says he doesn't have one. Do you think he was found in a flood or something?"

"I am never going to understand your tastes" Kurama stated dryly, eyeing the small kid. "You seriously want to sleep with this brat's mother? If he looks like a burnt log, I shudder to think what his mother would look like"

"WHY YOU…"

"I think you pissed him off" Naruto revealed sagely.

Seeing the way Teekl transformed into a giant saber tooth tiger and how Klarion was suddenly looking much taller than before, the two gave each other strange looks before nodding firmly. "Yep, I definitely pissed him off"

"Nice job, partner" the redheaded ninja praised, giving his foxy friend a thumb up for good measures.

Kurama slapped his tiny chest in pride. "Thanks, I am really good at pissing people off"

"But…"

Kurama palmed his chibi forehead in irritation when Naruto dashed towards the transforming Witch Boy with an unreadable look on his face before punching him square in the face with enough force to send him soaring into the distance like a ragdoll. "Seriously?"

Oh right, the cat.

The nine tailed fox grinned widely and turned towards the transformed Teekl, waving his tails in sick glee. "Come here you little shit"

ROAR

Within the next few seconds, an irritated Kurama was sitting on a bruised Teekl with a twitching eyebrow and pulsing tic mark on his forehead. That was it? What the actual fuck?

"KURAMA!"

Whatever irritation he was feeling washed away instantly when he heard Naruto's maddened shout. The cat was connected to that little shitstain, so if the cat was down then obviously it meant that Naruto's opponent was also down… before the redhead could vent out his anger.

"I seriously love this fucked up logic!" Kurama remarked cheekily, as he blissfully lay down on the cat and waited for his annoyed partner to appear.