On the back of this strange quick shadow, a beautiful figure curled her curvaceous body and pasted it on the firm surface beneath her body. The blazing wind sc.r.a.pped against her jade-like face and forced the woman to squint her eyes, but the crystal black eyes showed no sign of pain, instead excitement and enthusiasm.

She had ridden a super jet once but the experience it's not comparable to the current transportation in a human meat suit.

The night air tended to be cold, sometimes it reached several degrees below zero, but the woman felt nothing but warm.

It was as if a heat transmitter unceasingly stayed close to her.

She knew the man below her can do a lot of amazing things, perhaps more than she thought he could, but not in her single mind ever pictured he capable of doing such a feat.

A human required a device or vehicle to let them ever able to just float in the air, much less flying around. Thousands upon thousands airs.h.i.+p model had been invented, from the rudder small one into the gigantic jet that could carry more than fifty pa.s.sengers at one time.

But this man only needed his feet and whatever thing he had in store to allow him rus.h.i.+ng in the air like a sparrow glided with its colorful wing spread out.

Of course, he's not technically flying per se, but still close enough to reach that achievement.

Ruoxi circled her hands around him, breathing upon the back of his neck and inhaled his male aura to her satisfaction.

This blonde man before her just kept getting mystical and mystical each time, making her surprised in awe again and again. She wouldn't find it strange if this man perhaps even can make a double body or transform into someone else. She had watched many movies and read novels with characters who had mysterious powers and such, but never thought such a thing actually could happen in real life. She remembered when he wrote a strange blue flame thing in the air and spoke his oath to her.

At that moment, her heart s.h.i.+vered in strong waves that she never had before, it's like gazing upon miracle that cannot be explained through many kinds of literature and thesis.

She realized at that very seconds, the man before her could accomplish anything that is an outreach of any common man, singling out every one impossible deed that people claimed it couldn't possibly be done.

The scene of high structure buildings and other city's monumental objects kept flas.h.i.+ng before her eyes but she didn't bother with it too much. Nothing sort of interesting to look anymore for someone who had live here since childhood.

They soon left the group of concrete exterior and approached a bridge, the man still not ceasing his speed, making her wondered where their destination rested.

Zhong Hai was a huge city, consisted of main five part of the area; West, East, North, South, and Central. Most of the offices and other business prospects mainly focused on the central but not closing the possibility that the other areas also had few of them, the reason is varied but mainly because of the expenditure for the building and land is cheaper than the central. The southern district is the focus of the gambling establishment, it's the brightest and most dazzling place at night, even when you just arrived at the border, you could see a from afar, a glittering neon and l.u.s.ter atmosphere, s.h.i.+ning the whole district as if its a daylight time at the area. Some casino even opened for 24 hours non-stop and not once closed their gate, even in holidays. The east side held no memorable characteristic, but it was rumored that the biggest Zhong Hai underworld gangster built their base there, thus the east side had the weakest law enforcement and the crime rate is quite bigger there. The west side was famous for their best red light district prospect which takes the whole area called wine street.

Well, don't get her wrong, she knew this not because she frequently go there, or had any sort of interest with such an attraction. When you had a lot of coworker and work relation, rumored sometimes will reach into your ear whether you want it or not.

As for the north side, it's the largest area of the five and had the most crowded population, not just the local, even immigrant and tourist lived there, thus north side actually the most hetero culturalistic place in the metropolis acclaimed city.

But don't say they all lived in harmony, the racist problem would nevertheless always raise in that district, most of the time just a normal squabble between certain individuals or a small family but there were times that it reach into a deadly confrontation which led to a public fight.

Several minutes later, they pa.s.sed the bridge and not long after that, they arrived at the sort of cliff.

Naruto ceased his steps and stood before the guardrail, without putting his hands from her thighs, he stared at the dark horizon which separated by the line of blue ocean that swayed with gentle waves. The salty scent invaded both person's nose and the ocean wind breezed their attire.

Ruoxi blinked her eyes several times, she's not unfamiliar with this place, h.e.l.l, most the people in Zhong Hai city also knew this area, it wasn't because this place is special or sort, they all knew because this place It's a small beach beside the main road, the road that most people went through in the morning to go to work or went into somewhere else. At certain times, the place also tended to have a traffic jam, mostly in the evening, thus they are not feeling any special from this road.

The beach and the main road was separated by a high and sharp cliff, 30 feet or more from the beach ground. There was no way to travel down unless you brought a rope or special ladder, no place to park your car either as it there is no s.p.a.ce that accommodates it. Unless you willing to drop your car several kilometers far away just to watch the sea without had any mean to the beach then be her guest.

Ruoxi doubtfully asked him, "Is this the special place you mean?"

Naruto chuckled, "What? Disappointed?"

She startled then quickly shook her head, "No, no! It just... weird..."

Naruto heaved, "It's nothing special because people never try to explore it, they are too lazy to enter a hard and untraceable area, especially when no one provides them with a.s.sistance."

"It's understandable, after all, with such a tall and straight cliff, no one had the mean to go down..." Ruoxi frowned, "why people have to trouble themselves with such predicament when there are more accessible places?"

"True..." Naruto looked at the yellowish moon in the sky, its l.u.s.ter akin to a small bulb that flickered in the desolate dim room, "but whoever dares to enter a brand-new place, they might claim it all for themselves."

"Did you?" Ruoxi put her chin on his right shoulder and huffed in a chuckling manner.

Naruto smirked, tilting his face toward her, letting the corner of his head patted Ruoxi forehead, "You know me, I like somewhere tranquil and peaceful, it's like retiring from the crowded and chaotic world."

"But you also love being in public, together with a lot of people embracing the world madness and difficulty in life..." Ruoxi closed her eyes and enjoyed their closeness.

"Haha, I am a complicated person!"

"You not just complicated, you are a weirdo..."

Naruto raised his leg and stepped onto the stainless guardrail, tightening his grasp on her thigh, he said in cheerful words, "Well, you better hold tight, because we are going to jump in!"

"Ah?! You not being serious, right?!" Ruoxi widened her eyes and dropped her jaw.

"My lady, I always serious..." he raised another leg and now he completely stood on the rail, along with the beautiful charming Ruoxi on his back, "here we go!"

Then he jumped.

"Aaaaah!" Ruoxi closed her eyes and hugged Naruto's neck quite strong, she could feel their falling speed gradually increased, her heart as if still hung in the air while her body plunged downward.

It's like when she tried to suicide from the coffeehouse second floor but now with an unwilling heart.

She was expecting to hear a crash as they landed on the bed of sands but turned out after they had reach few meters left from the ground, their body decelerate, they are resembling a fluttering leaf that made its way toward the brownish soil and tapped softly as it landed.

She peeked through the gap between her eyelids, looking as nothing out of ordinary happened toward them, she opened wide her eyes and breathed out a relieved breath. She angrily snapped her face toward Naruto and pinched his cheek with her utmost strength, "Don't you dare do such a thing anymore! Do you want to kill me with a heart attack?!"

The skin of his face stretched out but Naruto didn't reveal any painful expression, he only grinned sheepishly and he strolled toward the sh.o.r.e.

"Put me down, I also want to walk on the sands..." Ruoxi released the poor guy's skin and honked her mouth.

"Oh, but you are so soft... I hate to part you from my back..." Naruto shook his head in unwillingness.

"Put me down, you pervert!" she playfully hit his body.

He sighed and eventually his hands left Ruoxi's slender thighs, the lost of soft feeling somehow groomed a sadness inside his heart. Ruoxi still clung into his neck as her feet touched the sands, she tried to balance herself after for sometimes being held by him, her legs were quite numb for several seconds then she brought down her hands from the man. She looked at Naruto such expressed a lost as if someone who just got conned for money, she giggled almost broke out a burst of laughter, she approached him, tiptoed and pecked his cheek. The moisture lips flourished his tanned skin, a trace of warm lingered and her fragrant blossomed on his face.

"Thank you for taking me out..." the kiss only last for a moment and she retreated, putting both her hands behind her back and shyly smiled at Naruto.

Ruoxi wore a white mantle and silver jeans, despite the multilayer clothes she put one, it didn't hide her graceful appearance and curve on her body, especially that jeans which emphasize her slender legs and plentiful bottom. She put on some makeup that increased the beauty on her already otherworldly gorgeous face, the gloss red lips on her small mouth ignited the desire for him to taste it and the slight reddish hue on her cheek invited him to savor her l.u.s.ter skin.

But Naruto didn't yield against his desire, he raised up one hand and offered it for her to grasp, a slight honest smile on his face held no dirty thought, resembling a knight who invited his queen into a dance.

No knights are allowed to blaspheme their majesty.

His expression polluted and infected Ruoxi, with a graceful motion, the delicate hand accepted the man's calloused one and they strolled together toward the sh.o.r.e.

Their feet sank into the ground, the sound of the wave encored their presence, and thousands of stars greeted their figure.

They walked along the sh.o.r.eline, sharing their experience from the past and wis.h.i.+ng their hope for the future.

She giggled at Naruto's dream to share Ramen into the entire world, becoming the world-cla.s.s chief that could serve the best taste Ramen dish.

He chuckled at her ambition to build her enterprise even to the most corner of the world, not only became number one fas.h.i.+on and cosmetic but also conquer other market business.

Both people strolled until they arrived at the end of the line that blocked by a giant stone.

Ruoxi thought they will turn around and retraced their steps back, but Naruto instead bent his body and forcefully grasped her legs as he held her in bridal style.

She yelped in alarm and almost struggled, but to her amazement, Naruto retreated backward, toward the vast ocean behind him that brew with a gentle wave.

After several seconds of moonwalked, she noticed that their alt.i.tude not even slightly decreased, as if they just still on the same level of the ground which she found it impossible.

She turned her head to glance downward and soon let out an alarm voice.

Naruto's feet were floating on the water, no, not floating, he stepped on the water!

He kept walking on it as if the surface of the water is made by something solid, nothing obstruct his movement from traversing the land of the ocean. She noticed there was a blue like a light came out from his sole, perhaps that's the reason why he could traverse without sort of difficulty on something aquatic.

She marveled at his ability and blurred her eyes in a magical moment, he once again managed to impress her with his mystical ability, but along with the impression, a lot of question rose in her mind, for example: What is his true ident.i.ty? Why he went into China? How come he sell ramen on the small stall at the side market if he could just build a proper shop somewhere?

But she decided to just hold onto the thought, there will be the day when things get unravel, for now, she wanted to enjoy his magmatism and lived this world like dream.

They soon arrived at another sh.o.r.e several meters away from the side road one, it's far smaller, like just a bank of sands that stuck to the cliff beside it. At the end of the side road, there was a long tunnel that led into another part of the city, this bunk of sands exactly at the side of the tunnel outer wall thus no one will notice its existence.

Naruto put down Ruoxi, she glanced around with confusion since nothing out of ordinary is happening here, then she felt a big hand tapped her head, she turned around and saw Naruto smiled at her, "Wait for several minutes, it will happen soon..."

Ruoxi pondered for a while of his intention but found unable think of anything, she nodded her head and they sat together in the sandbank, she leaned her back into his chest and he caressed her hair while humming a soothing tune.

"Hey..." Ruoxi said in a low tone.

"Hm?" he responded lightly.

"Will you hate me... if I do something bad?" she spoke in hesitation, a hint of doubt filled her tone.

"That depend..." his tone was soft, sneaked past into her small ears.

"On what?" she stared at the horizon line far ahead.

"On the outcome of your action..."

"Such as?"

"For example, you took over the remote of the TV and making me unable to watch anime and cartoon in the weekend, that I might hate you, you know~"

"Jerk! I am serious here!" she pouted while a peep of laughter breeze from her s.e.xy lips, "beside you already grown up like this but still watching cartoon..."

"Hey, it's art, OK? It's the only art that I ever got interested," Naruto snorted.

"A macho man usually watched hot blooded tv series or movies you know~" she curled her lips, "gun blazing and sword clas.h.i.+ng... with a real actor!"

Naruto sighed, he cuddled her tightly, "I can't bear watch such a thing because how fake and an overdramatic situation they made." He pasted his lips on her temple, causing her to squint one eye, "For a men like who had been in numerous war, such a scene already branded into our brain as something gruesome and b.l.o.o.d.y, it's not something we can enjoy anymore, and definitely not in our top list of time wasting moment."

"Sorry, I don't know you are that sensitive..." Ruoxi huffed, she traced his cheek, "I also don't know that you had been in war, are you previously in the army or something?"

"I am several times part of the army..." Naruto faintly smiled and enjoyed her caress, "I had been a soldier, a commander, and a leader."

"Eh? How come you are a commander and a leader in such a young age?" Ruoxi raised her eyebrows, she found the man before her is getting mysterious.

"Ruoxi, I want to share my secret with you, all of them, but not now, not at the moment, you are not ready yet to know everything about me," Naruto lifted her hand and groomed her back palm with his thick lips, "but I promise you, one day, everything will be revealed just like my oath to never make you feel alone."

Ruoxi heaved, she honestly feels sad that Naruto didn't want to entrust her yet with his secret but nevertheless she wouldn't force him either, everyone had their secret to keep to themselves, a secret that no other person than themselves who knew about it, he had one, she had one.

She only nodded her head, didn't want to press the man she held dear much further, then she declined her face, stared at her own bosom, "Back to the first question, will you hate me if do something bad?"

"You need to give me the example first..."

"For example..." she set her eyes upward, then faced him again, "what if... I cause a lot of people suffer in hunger or force them to leave their house and became a hobo on the street..."

"Oh..." Naruto frowned, he seemed to ponder seriously, "then I guess I should hate you..."

*Badump!*

Ruoxi's heart as if struck by lighting and dragged down into the dark abyss under the deep gloomiest ocean that offers no way out till infinite time. Her mood instantly depressed, the dim lights filled her jade-like face and turned the l.u.s.ter skin into a pale bloodless one. Her power seeped out from every spore of her skin, abandoning the corrupted body that no longer worthy of its power.

He hates me... because I am a bad person...

He no longer wants to be around me, because I am evil.

Perhaps... that's the punishment I deserve.

Naruto noticed her desperate visage, he quickly grabbed her chin, turning her face toward him and he leaned in for a kiss.

"Wu?!"

Ruoxi widened her moist eyes at his sudden aggressiveness, her breath no longer could sway freely as they had been stuffed inside her mouth, her body pulled dominantly toward his as if intending to melt it into one. Naruto closed his eyes, his lips overlapped hers while his hands one on her chin and another behind her waist. Ruoxi's heart s.h.i.+vered, her sadness slowly expelled from inside her fragile body, replaced by the sweet and amorous that heated her skin and ignited the flame inside her guts. She closed her eyes, reciprocating his action with her own pa.s.sionate way, she grasped his hair and made a mess of it, pressing his face toward her much further.

Their tongue tangled up and Naruto went backward, bringing Ruoxi's body to lay on the top of him and they engaged in intensive makeout. Her face flushed red, not only from the lack of air but also from the overwhelmed feeling she currently bore, it wasn't Naruto that actively prolongs this endeavor, but herself who as if want to erase something inside of her by las.h.i.+ng it out on the kiss. She bit on his lips, didn't care whether it will create a bruise or swollen it soon, she pressed deeply her tongue and slurped on his liquid as greedy as she can.

Perhaps this was her way to implore her frustration against his last remark, Yes, I have done a bad thing! Yes, I have wrong people! Yes, I have caused a misery!

But who are you to hate me, I am just a human, you have no right to judge me, you have no position to blame me, you can't, you can't hate me!

I won't accept you hate me!

Tears slowly made out from her eyes, drenched the handsome face below her lips, she desperate for air but she didn't want to separate their lips, feared she will break out the moment it happens. She's suffocating, from her own mistake and fault, from her error and dirtiness, if she could return back in time, she wishes to change it all, she didn't want to build her enterprise under any other people scream of pain and shout of ache. That dark history that will taint everything her grandmother ever built, corrupting her baby and slowly dragged it to its ruin.

At this moment, Ruoxi hates herself more than anyone, even more than Xu Zhihong.

*Eeek!*

Suddenly, out of nowhere, a high pitch tone resounded from around them, it distracted Ruoxi from her delusion of pain, she opened wide her eyes and glanced to her left, her innermost feeling startled, she couldn't believe what she just way.

On the surface of the water, not far from the edge of the sandbank, a grey creature with a long mouth and small eyes popped out. It's size merely as big as her waist and it shrieked joyfully at them.

It's a dolphin! A baby dolphin!

Ruoxi absentmindedly stared at the animal, she unable to believe that in such small portion of a beach, there will a cute and beautiful creature waiting undersea. Without her realizing, Naruto already sat up, tracing her jade face and kissing her lingering tears.

She closed her eyes at his intimate action and she got off from him, she watched Naruto stood up and strolled toward the baby dolphin.

"Hey, how have you been?" Naruto spoke softly toward the animal. Its small frame resembling it like a stuffy doll.

*Eeek!*

The baby dolphin whirled around the water, responding toward Naruto with a cheerful tone.

"Yeah, I am sorry for not visiting last week, something comes up and I unable to meet you..."

*Eeek!*

The baby dolphin clapped its fin. The rest of event turned quite strange, Naruto kept talking with the animal as if he talked to a person, but what strange is, as if he understood what the dolphin said and so did the dolphin toward what he said. Needed to be reminded that the dolphin is still in a small age, even if they are an intelligent creature, they shouldn't capable understand human words yet, even the adult dolphin needed a proper training to understand human language.

*Eeek?* the baby dolphin t.i.tled its head and stared at Ruoxi.

"Oooh, she? She is my wife, eh... like your father and mother..." Naruto chuckled, he stood up from his crouching position and strolled toward the dazed Ruoxi.

He placed his hand on the top of her head, brushed it gently, "Hey, why don't I introduce you to my friend?"

"Eh?" Ruoxi stared at Naruto and faced back at the baby dolphin.

"Come on," Naruto pulled her hand and they arrived in front of the animal, crouching their body, Naruto hugged Ruoxi from behind and moved her hand toward the fish.

"Hey, her name is Lin Ruoxi, isn't she beautiful?"

Ruoxi felt strange at Naruto's action, why the h.e.l.l you make such an introduction toward the animal, did they even understand shaking hand?

To her amazement, albeit it's not a handshake, but the baby dolphin pushed out its long mouth and patted Ruoxi's palm with it.

It's cool and wet, but she had no hate against it, instead, she felt something inside her trig.

*Eeek!* the baby dolphin parched out its mouth several times as if trying to talk with her.

Naruto chuckled, he leaned into her ears and spoke lovingly, "The dolphin said, you are so beautiful like a mermaid, are you possibly a descendant of G.o.ds? Perhaps Neptune or Poseidon?"

Ruoxi startled and faced Naruto with an unbelievable expression, "You can talk with an animal?"

"I do, come on, say something to her, I relay your words," Naruto nodded.

"Her?" Ruoxi blinked her eyes.

"The dolphin, it's a female."

"I..." Ruoxi seemed lost for any words, after a while, she exhaled a mouthful of breath and braved a smile toward the baby dolphin, "thank you for the compliment, but I am not any G.o.ds descendant, just the same as him, by the way, you are so cute..."

Naruto spoke the same words as she did, strangely he didn't speak in any different language, Ruoxi could even listen to his speech but the dolphin as if understand his words but not hers.

*Eeek!* the baby dolphin jumped out from the air and clapping its fin as if happy being praise by Ruoxi. The corner of Ruoxi lips turned upward, the dolphin action dispersed her gloomy thought and distressed over the previous scene a few minutes ago.

Then she felt a warm body pasted her back, strong arms hugged her waist and hot breath smogged her ears, "What I said before it's not complete, I might hate you for what you did if only you ever regret it and wish for it to change...

Ruoxi, life is strange, the future is bleak, we did our best in every turn but a mistake for another mistake will always raise.

We can't make everyone happy, there will be a sacrifice to be made, and you have to be ready to accept the consequence.

I am the same as you, perhaps my mistake is a lot worse than you, but I know I can't change them, I can't change what I have done, but I promise I won't repeat the same mistake.

The past isn't made to hold our back, instead to push us forward.

And you need to know, at the end of your journey, I will be there waiting.

Even if you fall into the h.e.l.l, I will be there with you together.

Because you're me and I am you, our feeling is connected."

The whisper of the winds, carried his voice to dance into her heart, ignited the candle to lit in the dark, setting her path toward the end of the blurry tunnel and arrived in the room of light. Ruoxi sank into his body, wis.h.i.+ng she could be truly one with him, the man who accepts her for what she is, he didn't demand a lot of things, h.e.l.l, perhaps he didn't have anything to demand from her. She was content, her inner feeling is peaceful, tranquil seized her sense, the cheerful baby dolphin shriek didn't affect her at all. She hoped for this moment to last for eternity, she hated to be awake from this, the moment when time wors.h.i.+ped them both, ceasing its every second to move the serenity away.

Alas, the world needed to rotate, to restore the balance of the universe, making the whole mysterious systematic once again rolled.

She fluttered open her eyelids, staring at the baby dolphin who swam with its back while clapping its fin and shrieking as if demanding attention from both of them.

She chuckled and glanced toward the man behind her, her pair of crystal black eyes stared deeply into the man, memorizing his every feature, from his thick lips to the couple of cerulean eyes. At this moment and seconds, she promised herself that she will no longer gloat on her past, will not killing herself from torturous guilt, she wanted to be happy, and it didn't lay on anyone else, not even him, it lay in herself.

It's not their effort that makes you happy, but your feeling who accept that happiness.

She glanced back at the dolphin and they are chatted together with the help from Naruto.

Exactly an hour after, the baby dolphin waved its fin toward them as it swam back into the sea, Ruoxi and Naruto returned the courtesy before they dashed back to the sh.o.r.e beside the side road. Several minutes later, they both arrived there and prepared to climb the cliff, thought Ruoxi didn't how he would do that, but she trusted him completely, she looked to her left, but soon she wrinkled her eyebrows, squinting her eyes deeply before let out an alarmed tone.

"What, what happens?" Naruto startled and looked her over his shoulder.

"Naruto..." Ruoxi stretched out her finger, it slightly trembled, "there is a body on the sh.o.r.e..."