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Naruto had a sinking feeling when he accepted the challenge. A little voice in his head was telling him to call it quits for today but his ego, his mountain sized ego, wouldn't let him. With a quick nod from Naruto, the clone dealing collects the cards. While shuffling, the clone made an error sending the stack of cards sprawling over the table.
"Whoops." Clone Naruto exclaimed a bit flustered.
He gathered them back at lightning speed and reshuffled with extreme precision this time around. The clone bent forward and laid a pair of cards for each player before he straightened up.
10,000 yen for each player.
"Floop."
The first three cards were a Jack of spades, Queen and an Ace.
"I bet 500," Gaia began.
"Call," Naruto and Kuroka said simultaneously.
"Turn." The clone placed the fourth community card on the table. A love of Three.
"All in,." Gaia announced.
Naruto stopped for a moment before sparing a sideways glance at Gaia.
"Is she frustrated?" He thought, thinking her move irrational.
"All in." Kuroka didn't think much of it and decided to follow Gaia's lead.
"Ho, What's this? Kuroka went all in?"
Two chibi Naruto suddenly poofed into existence on Naruto's shoulder, one had a halo on his head while the other held a red pitchfork.
"Let's fold Naruto, we can always play another game next time." Naruto with a halo on his head advised.
"That's unacceptable! What happened to our pride? Uzumaki Naruto never backs down!" Pitchfork Naruto egged on.
"Listen to me Naruto, you have to fold." Halo Naruto yelled using a megaphone and had somehow grabbed Naruto's ears and was pulling it.
"Kuroka went all in and she's a pussy cat! A pussy! You wanna know another word for pussy? It's a Wuss!" Pitchfork Naruto grabbed Naruto's eyelids as he yelled at the top of his little lungs with his pitchfork pointed at Kuroka who was busy staring at her hands scratching her head.
"Argh, damn it all!" Naruto flapped his hands around ending the existence of both chibi Narutos. "All in." He said with narrowed eyelids. He chose to go all the way ignoring the feeling of trepidation he had.
"River," Clone Naruto intoned, placing a spade of Ten on the table.
With 30,000 yen on the line. The three contestants peeked at their cards.(hands?)
Naruto had a clover of Ten and King. A straight flush.
Kuroka had a pair.
Gaia was calm, too calm... Maybe she had a good poker face? Or was she dealt a bad hand?"
"Hmph, I'm the best," Naruto patted himself mentally when saw his hands were the best on the table. He relaxed on his chair and flipped his card face up for everyone to see.
"I won this round... Again." He cackled and made haste to collect his wins but a firm grasp on his wrist stopped him midway.
"Naruto-chan, don't be too hasty..." Gaia said in a sickly-sweet tone.
A bead of sweat rolled down Naruto's temple till it reached his chin. The bead of sweat glistened mid air on it's journey to the table top as Naruto's eyes glazed over. He went silent with his clone staring at him with an alarmed look on his face. They turned their head back to the game with a sigh before they suddenly paled looking out the window again at a specific spot: The third floor of the Hyodou house.
"Shimata!"
Naruto and his clone blasted off, breaking their window in the process. Their speeds sent a wave of air around the room blowing away the cards on the table.
Two cards, Gaia's in particular, danced in the air before it began it descended to the floor on a broken piece of glass beside Gaia, A spade of King and Queen.
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Naruto appeared on the ceiling of the third floor staring at two strangers holding Mr and Mrs Hyoudou at gunpoint. Issei's parents had their eyelids shut tight and Mr. Hyoudou had his wife in a protective embrace. As Naruto stayed stationery, crouched under the ceiling, his brain analyzing different ways to cause the thieves indescribable pain, he pondered on the greatest problem. How to pull it off with his neighbors right in front of him.
It wouldn't take a genius to figure that Issei's parents were totally clueless about the supernatural even though they lived with devils and their son was one and Naruto would love to keep it that way.
Hand to hand combat? He could lie about having formal training - which wasn't a lie at all - but dodging bullets, his clones taking care of the thieves in the other floods was another problem.
Naruto remembered reading different comics about gifted people wearing spandex to conceal their identity, saving people, fighting crime in the city. The problem was that Naruto wasn't a hero and he wasn't interested in wearing spandex nor interfering with things he had absolutely nothing to do with. Now how was he going to do it? His clones had cleared their floor and now, it was time for him.
"Katon: Haijingakure no Jutsu" Naruto whispered with a half ram seal before puffing his cheek, breathing out a cloud of ash.
The thieves below had a coughing fit before they went limp. A sudden gust of wind blew the ashes away and all that remained was a befuddled Mr and Mrs. Hyoudou still holding each other staring at the downed bodies of the guys who tried to cause them bodily harm.
"Honey, what just happened?"
"I don't know. I'm gonna call the police" Issei's dad said before stepping on something. He raised his legs off the ground and a bat shaped black metal was lying on the floor.
"Batman?"He yelled with disbelief, his black orbs widening behind the glasses he wore.
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The blonde shinobi walked in, a frown on his face, blood stains on his knuckles and clothes.
"Naruto! Why'd you run away all of a sudden?!" Kuroka yelled upset, standing beside the window holding a broken shard. She sniffed the air twice before squinting her eyes at Naruto. "You smell like ash"
"Naruto?" Gaia stared at the blood stains on his body.
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