Naruto In The World of Beautiful CEO

Lights from surrounding shops and bars were flickering in the area, many dark spots and dimly corners occupied by couples, embracing each other tightly, making a weird sound and seductive laughter. Naruto walked slowly, by passing each of the stores while his eyes wandered in the area.

Just as he walked near a bar looked like place, he approached by a girl that stood near the doorstep toward the bar. She's pretty and alluring, with a black dress clung tightly to her body and decent makeup, she resembled a demoness that readied to suck your life dry, "hey there, care about drinking a few cup with me handsome?".

Her Voice was so pleasant and full of flirtatious sound.

Most men would become soft to the bone when hearing her voice but Naruto, sadly, wasn't most of the men, he knew these kind of people as when he travelled around the world before, his mentor tended to visit the red light district with a reason of searched inspiring idea for his book. Naruto usually got annoy by this because that sucky mentor of him would steal Naruto saving money to pay for all of them. The worst of it all, that he sometime had to fetch his mentor who passed out because of the booze. The sudden tripped in the memory with his late mentor, Naruto who usually bright and cheerful somehow felt sad and gloomy.

The girl who invited Naruto to a drink before, saw that he's not answering instead had a sad look on his face, she thought that this hunk handsome man maybe just broke up with his lover, feeling pity, she came over toward Naruto

"Are you ok? Don't worry, there are still a lot of fish in the sea, even if you fail to keep one, you bound to get another one, so cheer up!"

The girl said while her hand turned into a fist and raised it up as if cheering someone on the football. Stunned at her effort to encourage him, Naruto then let out a chuckle. For this kind of girl or woman, Naruto actually never hold disgust toward them, because they are forcing themselves to do this so they could survive the society and lived for tomorrow, this kind of woman didn't have many luxury to choose their fate.

"I'm fine, thank you for cheer me up, hmm... you know what? I suddenly feel like talking with you, does the offer still on the table ?"

"Eheh if you had enough money, I can do more than talk with you."

She said while throwing coquetish look to Naruto.

"Nah, just talking this time, I don't know about another time though."

"Hehe, making me your private server cost a lot you know~"

Naruto and the black dress girl walk inside the bar, the interior of the bar didn't far off different then rose's except for the lighting was dimmer then usual and a lot of exotic girl wearing short skirt and low cut dress hang around, either they were accompanied men drinking or they flirting with of them, some even looked like doing ambiguous thing which Naruto didn't even want to think about. Short while later, they arrived at the bartender

"Boss, the usual, 2 cups!"

"Ah Mei Mei, who's the lucky customer this time?"

The bartender laughed while preparing the girl's order. The girl sent her glare toward the bartender then turned around smiling to Naruto, "don't mind him, always talk nonsense, anyway, please sit, make yourself comfy, don't need to be rush."

Naruto felt something off but chose to ignore them, he shrugged then said with gentle smile, "you're the expert doc, I hear you. By the way, I'm Naruto."

"I'm Mei Mei and of course I'm the expert, I had deal with a lot of patients!" Mei Mei let out a giggle then proudly said that.

"Did the patient had the same treatment?"

"More or less, some of them even got more 'intense' one."

"Well, I wondered which one I get?"

"Humph, you said just talking, so you got the most basic and cheapest one!"

"look at that, lucky me!"

"..."

"..."

Even after the bartender finished making their order, Naruto still conversed and joked with Mei Mei as if they already best bud. Mei Mei take a sip from her cup, "alright enough with the pleasantry, so what's the story here?" Naruto took a drink before let out a sorrowful smile then he started talking about his late mentor with someone he just met.

Mei Mei let out a disappointed expression, because she's thought Naruto was just another heart broken man that need physical comfort but turned out he feel sad because he missed his long-dead mentor. She let out small breath and thought, 'oh well, I guess I can't raise the service then, such pity.' Before returning her smile then listened to Naruto's story telling.

After listened for a while, Mei Mei who just silent started become active and asked a lot of questions like why Naruto's mentor leave him in the middle of the forest only to come back after a week later, why Naruto's mentor like to plundering his saving money, why Naruto's mentor became a writer of such an 'art' book, and many other. She giggled when hear Naruto called his mentor 'Ero-Senin'.

"You won't believe the pale look on his face when he took a peek inside my wallet only to see it empty! Humph tried to steal my money again, dream on!"

"Urgh, he was so smelly when he drunk and the worst of it, he threw up on me one day which the smell had never gone even after I wash my clothes hundred of times!"

"I still remember that both of us just came back from long journey, our appearance just the same like a hobo, when we were taking a break at the side of the road, a little girl running toward us, handed over me a penny... a penny!"

Naruto keep went on about his journey, and surprisingly Mei Mei didn't look bored instead excitedly hearing them, she laughed together with him when a fun and happy event occured, she cringed and thrilled when a terrible and scare event began, she cried when a sad event happened. Of course, despite Naruto telling her about his journey but he mostly only told the normal part. He would not carelessly tell her about 'another' part of his journey which people nowaday hard to believe.

After a while of story telling session, Naruto finally done and as if not willing it to end, Mei Mei kept swinging Naruto hand and acted like a spoiled brat asking for more story, "that's the end of it, after that long journey, we finally back home, then went on our separate way."

"Aww, such a pity, it's so cool that you're able to go anywhere and visit many places, aahh I wonder when I will be able to do that."

Mei Mei pouted and start dreaming about going anywhere without restraint and free like a bird.

Naruto shrugged then said, "my mentor once told me that human has a lot of potentials, so long he or she doesn't give up on them, they can be anything they want." Naruto grinning brightly toward Mei Mei, "so don't give up... ever!"

Seeing his bright smile as if could pierce break any dark thing in the world, making Mei Mei's face suddenly heated up and she couldn't help but turned on, worked in this kind of line made her had seen many handsome faces even seeing them at close range, but after seeing Naruto's, they all as if fail in comparison. Mei Mei, who started feeling nervous and anxious suddenly didn't say anything which caught Naruto's attention and couldn't help but asked her.

"Are you OK, Mei Mei? Whoa, your face is red! Did you catch a cold?"

Mei Mei startled and became even more red as tomato, before Naruto had the chance to ask her again, she abruptly stood up and shouted, "excuse me! I had to go to the bathroom!" She ran away like a chicken.

Naruto stayed on his seat, confused about what just happen, he pondered a bit before decided maybe it was just a woman thing, Naruto drunk his liquor while felt bored waiting Mei Mei

The Bartender who observed at their interaction sighed, he silently praised the blonde, since Mei Mei worked here, the only time she ever looked shy like that when she's handling her first customer, after a while, she more like professional and never got flustered again. Smile at Naruto, the bartender came over and offered another drink to him. Naruto rejected it at first, but since the bartender said it's on the house, he felt bad if he not take upon it. While drinking, his eyes started looking around the area before him, it's not long for his eyes to fall into the furthest corner of the area, there's a bunch of man, grouping there with only one woman at their side. Usually in this kind of place, it's not rare for a girl to serve a lot of men to drink, but what caught Naruto's attention was the young woman that surrounded by these men weren't look like that type of women based on her wearing, she looked like that office type-women or business kind of women.

Suspicious and curiosity filled Naruto's mind but he didn't want to create a trouble without reason so he just stared at them from afar, a short while later, Mei Mei came back from the bathroom, her complexion seemed turned for the better, 'maybe she caught a little cold?' Naruto thought.

"Sorry, it took me a while in the bathroom," Mei Mei said apologetically

"No rush, hey Mei, do you know those guys on the far corner?"

"Which one? Oh, they are Brother Tiger and his gang, the tyrant around here so you must be careful when around them." Mei Mei said while looking at the group on the corner

"Do you know the woman that sit with them?"

"What? Hmm... nope, never see her before"

"Then what do you think about the connection between her and that gang?"

"I don't know or care about it, she's maybe their new woman or just a woman that they want to take advantage, after all, those kind of cases were not rare here, where people want to blow off some steam and luckily, there were people like to help them."

After knowing the situation and circumstances, Naruto got the gist of it, he didn't want to get involved with them but somehow Naruto felt that he will regret for the rest of his life if he did not disturb them. Finally, Naruto chose the hell with it then he stood up, walk toward the group with a steady pace.

"Naruto what are you doing? Get back here!" Mei Mei anxiously said, earlier, he almost made her explode from anxiety and now he was about to do it again

Naruto ignored Mei Mei's warning and just kept going there without a rush on his step, there was no fear on his face. Before long, Naruto appeared in front of the group, there were eight people of them while seven of them circling a man and a woman in the center. They all laughing and grinning like a fool hearing something from the man in the center said, while the woman seems unfazed and oblivious with her surrounding. Naruto tapped the most outer man's shoulder and said :

"Hey pal, mind if i join the group?"