Chapter 3: "It almost tastes like Ichiraku!"
The next day I woke up at about four in the morning. The sun isn't up yet so I turned on the light and head straight to the fridge in the corner. The Sandaime is kind enough to provide me with my own allowance for living and a fridge stockpiled with foods.
I grabbed a carton of milk and chug it down straight from the jug. Why? Cuz this is my milk, I can do whatever the heck I want with it.
Then I put the milk back and took out some bread, eggs, and salmon slice from the fridge. I scrambled the eggs on a bowl with spoon and dipped the bread into it. I'm making a very lazy French Toast if you couldn't tell.
Finally I fried the bread with some butter including the salmon slices and the rest of the egg. When everything's done, I made myself an egg salmon sandwich for breakfast.
After that, I put the whole thing into my mouth and sat down on a small pillow in front of a small table near my sleeping bed. I looked at my notes resting on the table and opened it.
Inside that note is my whole research on my blonde neighbor. I put in everything I know about him, from the villagers who shunned him to his abnormal eating habit. "What are you Naruto..." I muttered to myself.
Soon however, I realized that it is time for me to get ready. School isn't for another three hours but for once, I wanted to make something special for Naruto. Maybe I just wanted to show him love and care that he desperately needs. Maybe I'm just looking for his attention. Who knows?
I walked back towards the fridge and weighed my option. Since I'm an immortal, I don't really need any nutrients for a growing child. So I decided that I'm not going to need that much of a protein.
Now the question is: What should I make for him? Then I thought about his eating habits and thought about making him something different. A bento for lunch later today doesn't sound so bad, I can make one, I have everything I need in the kitchen.
With that, I spent a full hour making a bento. Starting from cooking some rice, then steaming the vegetables, before finally cooking some fish. In the end, I draw a little smiley face on the rice using dried seaweed before closing the lunch box.
It was five when I finished packing for the day. I walked out of my apartment and stopped right in front of the door next to me. "Naruto? Are you there? Wake up!" I exclaimed while knocking on the door.
I can hear shuffling sounds coming from inside his apartment. The door opened, revealing Naruto staring sleepily at me wearing his pajamas and cute penguin hat. "Eh... Haios?" His eyes brightened a little after saying my name.
"Yes it's me, no you're not dreaming." I replied while entering his apartment.
"Umm, what are you doing here Haios chan?" Naruto asked in confusion.
I put down my bag and walked towards his fridge. "Making sure you have proper breakfast." I replied while looking at cups upon cups of ramen in disdain. "Do you have any bread or vegetables?" I asked him.
Naruto just pointed at a bag of groceries lying on a floor nearby. "That bag was there when I woke up." He said. "You can have it if you want, there's no ramen in it."
I walked towards the bag of groceries, smiling a little when I realized who it's from. "This is perfect. For the first step of your ramen training, I want you to pick your favorite ramen of them all." I said.
Naruto grinned and quickly took out a single ramen package out of the fridge. He held it proudly in front of his face before putting it near the stove. "What's next Sensei?"
I looked at the ramen package. Depictions of vegetables and slices of chicken decorated the whole thing. "Now I'm going to teach you how to make a ramen that looks exactly like in the cover." I explained while taking some chicken fillet and vegetables from the grocery bag.
"First is the easy part, open up the package and boil up some water." Naruto nodded and ripped open the package with his bare hands. Then he filled a pot full with water and put it on the stove.
"Now while we wait for the water to boil, wash your hand and grab some of these veggies." He washed his hand and I hand him a one eighth of a cabbage. "Rip it to shreds with your bare hands and put it on this bowl."
Naruto has a glint of determination in his eyes as he started to rip that cabbage to shreds. "Yosh!" He exclaimed in excitement.
Then I took out some spinach and wash it down with water. "Here you go tough guy." I gave Naruto the spinach for him to shred to pieces.
Finally, I took out a carrot. For some reason I thought it would be cool to show Naruto my power. "Hey, Naruto, wanna see something amazing?" I asked him.
The boy paused a second from destroying the spinach. "What is it Haios Chan? Is it some sort of cooking ninjutsu?" He asked.
"The Force, my dear friend, The Force." Both the knife and the carrot floated out of my grip. I chuckled a little at the sight of Naruto staring at me with wide eyes and gaping jaws. "Pretty cool right? Now watch this."
With a flick of my hand, the knife moved on its own and starts peeling the carrot. The skin of the carrot floated right into the bin below me while the rest of the carrot was cut to pieces above bowl.
Finally, we have a bowl full of vegetables, a pot of boiling water, and flabbergasted Uzumaki. "Snap out of it tough guy, we ain't done yet." Naruto closed his mouth before looking at me in pure amazement.
"What now sensei?" He asked.
"Now you dump everything into that boiling water including these chicken fillets." I said.
Naruto did exactly as I said and I left him on his own devices. "What now sensei?" He asked.
"Now you eat them after it's done and get ready for school." Naruto seemed surprised after hearing that and I couldn't blame him. Most people made cooking looked so hard and complicated with all the different ingredients and different knife techniques.
A few minutes later, the ramen is ready and I can only watch in fascination when Naruto finished the ramen in a matter of seconds. "Does it taste good?" I asked him.
Naruto smiled at me and put aside the empty bowl of ramen. "It taste amazing Haios Chan! It almost tastes like Ichikaru!" Then he realized something and suddenly stood up from his position. "Wait, wait, wait!!! The Carrot!! I've never seen any ninja controlling a knife like that! That was awesome! How did you do that!?" He exclaimed while waving his arms around in the air.
I chuckled a little at all the question he threw at me. "It's a power I had since I came here. I can manipulate energy from my environments and use them to pull or push object." I explained simply. "However, I don't think I can use Ninjutsu like you usually do."
Naruto cocked his head to the side and walked closer towards me. "Fight me." He said with a determined look on his face.
"Say what?" I exclaimed in disbelief.
"Fight me!"
"No! I don't want to hurt you! I don't want to fight!"
"What if we have to fight someday?"
"That's not gonna happen!"