One of the grunts lumbered toward him, his ugly expression as if someone just farted right on his face.

"We were chatting with that lady before you show up, is rude to just take her like that," he stood behind Naruto, overlooking him like a king stared at a peasant. The two people behind him cast out their glares at Naruto to express their agreement.

"Chatting?" Naruto slanted his lips, "by that, you mean hara.s.sing her right?"

The man sneered, his chest pushed out, "whatever we do with her was none of your concern."

Wanqiu Xia's nose crinkled, her hand crossed over her chest, "what did you want? I and he have a business to conduct, please walk away."

"Wow, beauty is that how you treat your companion?" The man raised his shoulder and shook his head, "no wonder your company sucks, the employee's att.i.tude is bad."

"Please, mind your words!" Wanqiu Xia's roared

The man laughed, "beauty you better watch your tone with me, soon, your CEO will marry young master Chen and his company will swallow yours, so your future carrier's at a stake here."

She clenched her teeth whilst blood rose to her face, despite his word disturbed her, there's still some truth in that. She can't jeopardize the company's circ.u.mstance, especially in their current situation.

"And what makes you think this young master will care for a goon like you?"

When despair crawled their way into her skin, when smug pulled the corner of his lips, a man's word destroyed the natural order.

The man's face froze, his pair of sharp eyes drifted into the blonde who stood beside her.

"Boy, are you looking for death?" his hands clenched until blue veins started tearing his skin.

Naruto with his arms crossed and eyes half-opened, smirked at the man's question, "I'm looking forward a business here, and you, have wasted my times."

Naruto put down his hands, his smirk has long gone, "and I don't like... waste something."

*Pa!*

In a flash, Naruto swung his hand and proceeded to hit the man's cheek with his right palm, the man lost his balance and slouched on the floor, red mark extra bruise teamed up with the shock on his face. He traced his left cheek and winced like a bee just stung him.

The situation has been reversed, now Naruto who overlooked him same as an elephant mocked an ant.

"Turned out having a big body doesn't equal having a big endurance."

The man s.h.i.+vered at Naruto's remark, he snapped his head at him, and roared like a fierce tiger, "you are courting dead!"

The man launched his fist and aimed for Naruto's face, without any change in his expression, Naruto raised his left hand and met the man's punch with his palm.

*Thud!*

The man's fist unable to push through and it stayed. Naruto's hand resembled a block of iron that even a bullet failed to pierce.

"Is that all you got?" Naruto grabbed the man's arm then increased the pressure on his grip

The man's face flushed red along with his arm, veins started popping on his temple. He tried to pull his hand but fail miserably, even though he already used his free hand.

"Let... my hand... go..." The man said with a heavy tone

"Sure!" Naruto chuckled and opened his grip. The man fell to the ground with a trembling arm, then he held it into his embrace while daze expression masked his face.

"Have you had enough?"

The man still held onto his hand, he glared at Naruto before snapped his head toward the two-person behind him, "what the f.u.c.k were you guys doing?!"

These two people eyes blurred in disbelieve, among the four of them, the man on the floor strength second only to the one who followed the young master. They familiar with his strength as they practiced under one roof, this man fist crumbled a chunk of wood like it's made of nothing, yet now, not only he got slapped, his punch not even matter to this young man.

'Who is this person?' Those question filled their brain.

"Brother are you Ok? What do you want us to do?" One of them spoke and approached the man.

"Ok, my a.s.s! Don't you see my f.u.c.king hand?!" He swept his eyes to them and faced Naruto again with a sinister smile, "beat the s.h.i.+t out of him, show him whose teeth are bigger!"

They glanced at each other, uncertainty filled their eyes, Naruto has shown the capability to beat someone stronger than them, how they suppose to beat him now?

"Moron! Let's gang up on him, I refused to believe losing against him if we join hand!" The man frowned, irritated with his companion brainless att.i.tude.

They nodded and started warming up their arm while moving toward Naruto, "boy it's your luck that sucks, you better pray we only breaking your bone."

Naruto shook his head with a smile still adorning his face, he hoped they would give up, but instead want to use number tactic against him, it's a good tactic, to be honest, but it's impossible for three cups of water to extinguish the entire burning forest. Naruto glanced at them with half-lidded eyes, this charade almost made a yawn of him.

While he readied to take on these men, a waist-long hair figure blocked his vision. Her hair perfumed reminding him of a dew in the creek of a forest, it's relaxing and soothing your mind.

"That's enough!" Wanqiu Xia with solemn expression spoke in a firm tone, "I won't tolerate this kind of behavior any longer!"

She's in quite a state of shock before, it's impossible for her not to since Naruto struck the man out of nowhere, his aggressiveness and overbearing act shook her to the core. It's quite funny actually, a large and bulky man beaten up by a man smaller and less-muscle than him. Another thing that she's unable to comprehend, it's when she heard him chuckling, her heart thumped like a parade. She unconsciously traced her chest to sense its beat.

Then she looked at these people surrounding him, their sinister gaze and grim tone made her unable to breathe, she clenched her hand and gritted her teeth. She took a deep breath and without looking at his face, she moved forward.

"Beauty gets out of our way, or we force you," the man frowned.

She waved her head, this is her company and he is her partner, she won't move her feet regardless of anything.

The man's eyes glinted a cold light, "then you leave me with no choice. Brother's attack!"

The three of them launched their feet with arms hooked and readied to pummel their target. The muscle on the upper part of their arm bulged as if they wanted to jump out of their clothes. She closed her eyes, waiting for the inevitable pain she soon tastes. But then an arm embraced her waist. She wore a grey dress with a white suit today, thus her tummy tasted the closeness of that arm as if it touched her skin, her feet floated and her body flew.

Naruto stood on his toe, one leg raised as he twisted his body with Wanqiu Xia in his arm, by the time his back facing them, he unleashed his leg on the person in his left, the leg hit the man's stomach and pushed him to the ground, at the same time, he threw his head backward and hit the enemy right on his nose, the man swaggered with drolled red liquid and bird swarmed his head, lastly, he struck his fist to the right and clashed with another fist, the force cause the opposite party hand retreated along with his shoulder, he turned around and fell to the ground.

The swagger man unable to bear the high on his head thus follows his companion movement.

Naruto rotation yet to finish until he returned to his initial position, he put down Wanqiu Xia and looked at the result with a grin.

Wanqiu Xia opened her amber eyes and gaped her attractive lips. One second these people rushed with a fierce face and the next second, they laid on the floor, moaning and groaning.

"Ms. Wanqiu is really awesome, your bravery beat them up to the ground."

She rolled her eyes, you were the one who defeats them, why put it on me? She turned her head and wanted to retort but she forgot he still clasped her waist thus the distance of their body closed to zero, so, when she finished turning, their face became very close, she even felt his warm breath on her skin.

Her eyes widened and she almost screamed,

"Thank you.." Naruto glanced at her, with his usual bright grinned, he said: "no person ever did that to me..."

She startled and her scream intention flushed down the toilet, her eyes somehow turned moist, the Genuity inside his tone as if he never been protected before, what kind of life you have been through?

*Pat!* *Pat!* *Pat!*

Surprised flashed over their face as they checked their surrounding. People stood on the side, forming a crowd like a concert audience, they clapped and whistled as if they just see a great performance. In fact, they have been there since Naruto first confrontation, some who still in the outside, admiring flowers arranged in a word of love, they went into the lobby as soon as they heard a fighting happen.

Wanqiu Xia face turned red, then she remembered Naruto's hand still held her waist, her face turned redder, she's like a volcano that ready to explode.

"Naruto, let go of me, people are watching,"

He scratched his cheek, hugging her waist felt like touching a surface of the water, it felt so smooth and silky. With a little bit unwilling face, he let her go.

"I'm sorry."

"It's fine," she took a step away and lightly smiled.

"Elder brother! Someone bully us on the first floor, help!"

One of the goons shouted with a black cell phone on his ear, the one who got kicked in the stomach.

"Yes, he still here elder brother! come quick, or he's gonna kill us!"

Naruto and Wanqiu Xia rolled their eyes, the shameless meter of this people must be pretty high. Not only they planned to gang up on him, they even accused him of bullying them. What kind of food did they grow along with?

The man laughed after he hung the phone, "now elder brother will kill you!"

Naruto nodded, "oh I antic.i.p.ate that."

"Joke while you still can," the man unable to cease his laugh, "unlike us, elder brother is a true martial artist, he destroy you in the matter of a second!"

"Wow what a way to spoil the fun, now my excitement decrease in half," Naruto huffed, the man thought he still joking, a martial artist well-known as a group of people who gained extraordinary power through sheer and intense training, one punch from them enough to burst through an iron plate.

Wanqiu Xia also know about martial artist people, she saw them a lot when she met her customer with high-status, she even experienced their fierceness when one of her customers encountered a heist, yet the whole crew slaughtered with only one martial artist.

"Naruto how about we just reschedule our meeting?" she hooked her finger and put in on her lips.

"Why?" Naruto raised his brow

"Today isn't just... a good time,"

"Every day is a good time for me," Naruto laughed but his expression turned sour, "well, not so much about today though."

Wanqiu Xia tilted her head, she thought what Naruto mean was the martial artist issue, "that's why I think it will be better if you leave now before he arrived, then we can continue this in another day."

"He?" Naruto wrinkled his eyebrows, then he snapped his fingers, "oh you mean this elder brother guy who's on the way here."

"Give up any idea of leaving!" The man sneered, "with young master capability, unless you leave this city, he can find you in any hole you hiding."

"You really confident he going that far for you, huh?" Naruto swayed his head.

The man jerked his lips. No matter how he denied, he still a goon at the end, an expendable one.

The gate toward the lift slid open and revealed a man in a black T-s.h.i.+rt with a cruel looking face. His face formed in an oval contour with a pair of sharp eyes, wide nose, and bald head. Beside him, another man with a complete opposite appearance wore an annoyed face. His white Armani suit resemblance a knight s.h.i.+ning armor that could blind any person who set their gaze upon it.

They got out from the lift and lumbered their way toward Naruto, they expression darken when they saw their people laid on the floor.

The charming man in the suit glowered at Naruto, "are you the one who did this? Good, good, not only you trod on my flowers you even beat up my people."

Naruto wrinkled his brow, "dude, I did beat them up, but I get no clue about any flowers."

"Simply declare you're an innocent doesn't make you free from the charge!" The charming man clenched his fist and stared at Naruto as if he can sp.a.w.n fire with his eyes.

Naruto brushed his hair, tried to remember anything about flowers, then he patted his palm with his fist, "oh, you mean flowers from the bunch of truck at the outside?"

"There are flowers outside?" Wanqiu Xia looked at him in doubt.

"Oh yeah, there were this trucks going in and out of the building while dumping flowers, pretty grand!"

"And you... trode them on the way here?" she gasped while closing her mouth.

"How can you accuse me too... I swear to you I'm not harming any plant," Naruto declined his head in a dejected manner.

"Humph, man word cannot be trusted, you need to put some effort!" She curled her lips.

"I can treat you a food..." He raised his head and beamed at her.

"Are you bribing me?!" She put her hands on her waist.

"Nooo..." He caressed his chin, "it's called convincing people."

"With money!"

"With food!"

"Buy with money!"

"Of course, or you prefer me to steal them?"

"Don't steal them!"

"It just a thought!"

Watching these duo people bickered like a couple and completely ignoring them, the charming man and his bodyguard face twisted in a very wrong direction, like evil kind of wrong.

"Wanqiu, what's going here?"

From the direction of the lift, a voice with an elegant yet cold tone entered everyone ears and their expressed varied countenance. The charming man's face turned uglier like he just got slapped by a cow's dunk, Wanqiu Xia's face turned bitter as she prepared some explaining to do, the crowd's face showed admire and respect color. Only Naruto that remains unchanged...

"President this is..."

"Xue Lin, I demand retribution!"

The charming man snapped his head back then pointed his finger at Naruto, "This man responsible for destroying my flowers and beating up my men, I want you to fire him!"

The frilly blouse woman wrinkled her brow, her face s.h.i.+fted at Naruto, "he's not my employee, I don't have any authority over him."

"What?" the charming man startled, his eyes regained their focus on Naruto, "then who the h.e.l.l is he?"

"He is representation from other company to establish a partners.h.i.+p with us."

The charming man laughed, "then this is should be easier, I don't want you to agree with the partners.h.i.+p!"

"Young Master Chen," her voice packed with icy tone, "I respect you due to our a.s.sociation, but this is my company, and you have no say in this."

Young Master Chen sneered, "are you sure about that? Our project is your only way out you know?"

Xue Lin expression remained fixed, "I know but are you sure is not yours too?"

His face darkened, with a grim tone he said: "what do you mean?"

"Don't think I'm a fool, despite our reputation, there is still a lot more company far superior than us, why would a supreme corporation of a big family like you insist on making business with us?"

"Xue Lin..."

"Please call me Ms. Xue"

"Fine, Ms. Xue, I'm doing this to help your circ.u.mstance ok? I truly care about you..."

"I appreciate your concern," she nodded, "but please stay out from our affairs."

He gritted his teeth and glared at Naruto who ignoring him and chatted merrily with anxious Wanqiu Xia.

"Young master, I have a proposition," the bald man beside him suddenly opened his mouth.

"Speak!"

"This man had bullied and injured my brothers, ruined your arrangement which cost you a lot of money, such action impossible to pa.s.s without any punishment, so how about this, let him receive my five moves, if he capable to take them all without losing his ground then we let this slide and forget all about it, but if he failed, not only Ice Snow corp must cut off their relations.h.i.+p with him but they have to give up 10 percent of their share from the project."

Young Master Chen eyes lighted up, he laughed out loud, "great idea! let's do that."

Wanqiu Xia's face changed, her skin drained from any color, "that's unfair! besides he's got nothing to do with the flowers outside."

"Shut up!" He growled at her, "what proof can you bring to prove his innocent?!"

"I...I..." Her hand s.h.i.+vered as she unable to come up with anything.

"Um... pardon me.." One of the people from the crowds rose his hand, "but the treading of flowers on the outside still happening."

"Huh?!" Everyone failed to hold their surprised face, even Naruto.

"What did you say?" Young Master Chen frowned, this whole situation hurt his brain.

The person cowered, his finger pointed at the entrance direction, "I just come from outside, there are... two people who step on your flower, and they still doing it..."

"Motherf.u.c.ker!" With all of the blood rushed into his head, he ran toward the entrance and pa.s.sed through the gate. Xue Lin frowned, she glanced at Naruto before she tagged along to the entrance. The crowd also left the room to watch the show held in another area. In a matter of seconds, few people stayed behind including Naruto, Wanqiu Xia, the goons, and the bald man.

Naruto actually wanted to watch too but the bald man blocked his path, his eyes glared dagger at him and his hands clenched.

"Even though you, not the one who destroy young master flowers, you still have to answer for my brothers," his hands crackling with bone sound.

Wanqiu Xia lips trembled, her hands held Naruto left arm, "Naruto..."

Naruto sighed, he raised his free hand and placed it on her head, he grinned, "trust me."

Her heart shook as her eyes widened, she's somehow not exasperated with the hand on the top of her head despite the uncommon gesture that only allowed between people who shared a special connection, for example; a parent to their child, sibling, a close friend, and... lover.

Well, of course, it also held a lot of meaning, for example; to mock your height, to show who's older, to show dominance.

But one, one meaning that she hope he tried to convey through this act, an affection.

She declined her head, try to hide the redness on her face, she let go of his arm, "Un..."

His white teeth displayed more, he ruffled her head, earning a cute pout from the mature lady, he took his hand, and moved his feet several inches from her.

"You know who I am?" The baldy twisted his shoulder and wiggled his neck.

"Should I?" Naruto in the other hand showed lack of preparation by just stood there with slowed expression.

"I'm a student under one of the martial art school called Baguba clan, that means I'm a martial artist," The baldy rose his chin and pushed out his chest.

"Is that so?"

The baldy frowned, then he pursed his lips, "it seems you lack the understanding of the martial artist." He moved one leg and placed it in front of another. He hooked his arms, forming a fist with both of his hands; right hand placed in vertical position and close to his face, while left hand placed beside his left rib.

"Let me show you..." his narrowed his eyes, "our strength."

*Boom!*

He dashed forward, leaving a mark of his foot on the ground, he launched his left knee as he floated in midair and aimed for Naruto's face. Naruto brought up his arms, he crossed it and blocked the attack but his feet slid few inches backward. The baldy sneered, using Naruto's hands as knee-hold, he turned around and lashed out his right leg toward Naruto's head. Naruto twisted his arms and grabbed the baldy pants then hopped him backward. The baldy somersaulted in mid-air and land safely.

"No wonder you dare to bully them, turn out you indeed have a fighting skill,"

"You also not bad, not a lot of people can make a combo in the mid-air."

The baldy squinted his eyes, "that's just a warm-up."

Naruto grinned, "well then come on, let's dance."

They strode and advanced close into each other, the baldy delivered series of three straight punches which Naruto parried with his forearms, he caught the last right punch, turned and smacked his left elbow to his enemy's face, stunning him and pushed him backward. The baldy chuckled before striding forward and whipped Naruto's right leg with his own left. Naruto raised his and bent them to block the incoming attack but the baldy sneered, his leg hit Naruto but immediately rebound as he descended and proceed to sweep Naruto's last standing leg.

'Oh s.h.i.+t!' Naruto stumbled, the baldy joined his hands and formed claws with his finger, he pushed them out while yelled, "Baguba fist!"

*Bang!*

The force attacking his chest propelled him backward, it threw him a few meters away before he rotated and slid his body on the floor. His expression looked fine as if nothing happens. The baldy frowned, the technique he just uses was one of the strongest technique from his clan, it exerted power within both hands and lashed it on the enemy's chest, it served a purpose to injure their heart and lung, if not destroying them.

But this blondie looked fine, he not even coughing a blood.

'it seems I underestimate him a lot.'

Naruto took a deep breath then he rose, he smiled lightly, "that attacked was amazing, it gave my chest a numb."

Numb? Just a numb?

The baldy brows tensed, it took a hard body structure or at least body hardening technique to receive that kind of impact with only numb feeling.

"Are you also a martial artist?"

"Nope."

"Then who the h.e.l.l are you?"

"I answer if you can defeat me."

"Then I will," The baldy stomped his right foot and the loud sound reverberated in the room, his hands joined again and forming a claw but this time he pulled them till they beside his waist, he took a deep breath then roared: "Baguba Cannon!"

He launched forward, the wind around him blazed as he flew in a straight line and arrived in front of Naruto, he struck his hands and aimed at Naruto chest, the force from his attack blew the surrounding air.

Naruto suit fluttered as the hands getting closer, an impact from the strike comparable to a pair of hand cannon failed to daunt the serene expression he wore, a reminiscent smile adorning his lips, 'let me borrow your skill.'

He retreated his left feet and stopped it within an arms-length distance, he rose his right palm and clashed it with his opponent strike.

*Bang!*

Both party clothes as if tried to escape from their body, the wave of their clash affecting their surrounding, even Wanqiu Xia in the distance had to hold her dress down. The baldy widened his eyes in disbelieve, even though his attack not completely stopped but the fact that his opponent only used one palm to block it felt surreal. He moved his foot and increased the strength on his arm, luckily the T-s.h.i.+rt had short length arm so it avoids from being shred, unlike the blonde's sleeve.

Naruto eyes remained the same, it's calm and steady like a still water, he took a deep breath and raised his left palm above his head, in a matter of a second, he swung his left palm and hit the baldy's arm from below.

"Pa!"

The baldy's arms flew over his head, without waited for his reaction, Naruto bent his right leg and moved his left feet ahead then stretching it, his left palm hovered on his left feet and he moved his right palm in the opposite direction, making a perfect diagonal line with the left palm.

"Gentle Fist- Eight trigrams 64 palms."

"Two palms!" Naruto slammed the upper part of his enemy body

"Four palms!" He moved his aim downward

"Eight palms!" His. .h.i.t spreading on his enemy body

"Sixteen palms!" His feet danced on the floor

"Thirty-Two palms!" His hands moved in blurred

He slid his right leg, his palm never cease to hit their target, "Sixty-three palms!" The baldy T-s.h.i.+rt tore apart, blood streamed from his mouth, his eyes lost their brightness, Naruto smirked as he ceased to move, he regained his careless appearance, strolled forward, and he patted The Baldy's shoulder, "Sixty-four palms..."

*Thud!* His body crumbled to the ground, pa.s.sed out on the spot.

Naruto chuckled, he said as he walked away: "you're lucky this is the imitation version, the real one and its user would have been killed you."