"Oh please, I got a lot things to do, just have enough time to call you now..." the voice on the other side was sluggish, as if the person was just awake from something.

"What do you want?" he went to the window in the room and whisked the curtain, gazing upon the empty street with yellowish illumination.

"Straight to the point, that's why I like you..." the voice chuckled.

"And I don't like you, so we even..." there was no ripple in his eyes.

"Haha, you are a humorous person, I almost die laughing..." it only a bland laughter that rang at the other end of the line.

"OK, I turn off my phone," Naruto put his phone down and prepared his finger to press the red sign.

"Wait, wait, alright, I'll speak..."

Naruto halted his motion and glued the display back to his ear.

"So, Mr. Naruto, the situation is like this, I have been making a deal with particular interested party and the meeting time is two hours from now. The problem was, it's Hairy Ball and his friend that usually handled this, but now they are gone, thanks to somebody, I don't have the appropriate delegation to take over the business, so I want you to go in my stead.." the voice casually said despite the serious topic he discussed.

"Why don't you go?" Naruto wrinkled his eyebrows.

"Duh, it's for hiding my ident.i.ty of course, I cannot be seen mingled with people like them..."

People like them?

Naruto knitted his forehead, there were already several guess inside his mind regarding this interested party ident.i.ty.

"So, please... do it for me, I even use 'please'..." the voice chuckled.

"Nope, not my business, and I don't care, goodbye..." Naruto moved his finger to close the call.

"Ck, ck, Mr. Naruto, did you forget that we are a partner, you sincerely don't want those... 'achievement' to be published, right?" a mocking laughter decorated the other side tone.

Naruto twitched his eyebrows, then he put on his own sneering lips.

"Sure, I remember, but do you forget that I have something on my side to? Are you sure it's a plausible idea to make a threat with me like this?"

"You don't have any proof..."

"Is that so?"

There was a pregnant silent between the two person, it was as if they are on a battle of the mind and waited for opposite party to give up first.

Eventually Naruto sighed, then honked his mouth in displeasure.

"Fine, you win, where is the location?" he lazily said.

"That's it, that's my boy, go to the construction site nearby Chéng shāng district at West side, keep your phone on when you got there, we will communicate through email while the transaction is on going."

"After you have collected the item, immediately delivered it into my house, don't worry, my door open for you tonight, haha!" then the voice cut off the line.

"This guy creep the h.e.l.l out of me, are he sure not have any h.o.m.os.e.xual tendency?" Naruto looked at his phone with wrinkled eyebrows. He pressed the virtual key pad number 4 for a couple of seconds, then it made a call toward someone.

"This is your booty call, ready to service at anytime~" the voice on the other line giggled while let out an amorous vibe.

"What booty call... stop messing around," Naruto chuckled, his voice filled with tender affection.

"Are you sure want me to stop? You seems liking it alright~"

"No... I don't want you to stop, in fact, I want you to be more seductive than ever..." he playfully said and received a chortle from the other side.

"OK hon, what sup?" she ceased her ticklish feeling and spoke appropriately.

"You busy tonight?"

"I just return from an operation."

"Oh, is everyone alright?" his tone smeared with a genuine concern.

"Well, three of my people receive injuries but not fatal, the rest are fine..."

"I am sorry, please sent my regard to them," Naruto walked toward Mingyu's refrigerator, he opened it and took out a fresh mineral water.

"OK, anyway, what is the nature of your call?" the person at the other side lifted the corner her lips, feeling warm at Naruto's care for her subordinate welfare.

"I actually want to ask you out, but you should just get some rest if you are tired..."

"Is it another date?"

"More like... fetching quest," Naruto stared at the ceiling on the room.

"Fetching quest? Sounds boring, and since when you become someone's errand boy?"

"I am not anyone errand boy, I am playing as one, you know, like James bond..." he curled his lips.

"Yeah, sure, James bond..." even he couldn't see it, by the intonation she cued, he knew she had just rolled her eyes.

"Anyway, it doesn't matter, get some rest, I'll be fine on my own..." he chuckled.

"Since when I ever worried?"

"And I love you too, bye Rose..."

"Un, bye..."

Naruto put down his phone, he glanced to the view outside of the window, sighing for a brief then put on his attire back. He brewed a tea then delivering it to the exhausted lady on the room, he placed it on the night's lamp table beside her bed, he sat on the empty s.p.a.ce on her bed and caressed her hair.

"Um..." Mingyu smiled at his gentleness and fluttered her sleepy eyes open, she startled at his figure already wrapped in a suit, a slight loss appeared in her eyes.

"Are you going home?" albeit her voice sounds normal, but Naruto could hear an anomaly vibration among her frequency. He knew she somehow must have been feel bitter. Unlike Jiang Wei who were fine if he left in the middle of the night after they had coitus, Mingyu was different, perhaps she agreed on being his third woman, but it doesn't mean she will be happy if he treat her like some common side dish lover who he casually abandoned after s.e.x.

Naruto had taken Rose's advice to not carelessly treat a lady, or be more careful when he interact with them, that is the reason why he decided to leave in the morning instead at this hour.

Also, Mingyu is his fiancee, he should give her treatment that at least match her status.

"No, I have something to attend... I come back here after it is concluded..." Naruto leaned down and kissed her forehead. The purple-orange streak haired woman lit up her tired eyes.

Despite her unwillingness, she couldn't do anything to prevent him if he wanted to go home right now, after all, he had a wife to worry about, if Naruto decided to prioritize his wife above her, then Mingyu was impossible to restrict him.

That's why she felt so happy when hearing him will return here, but also guilty toward his wife. This mysterious wife of his had accepted her to be part of Naruto's life, although it still on the lover status, she shouldn't behave out than in boundary of what she was granted.

"Naruto, go home... you don't have to come back here..." after a long time of contemplating, Mingyu decided it will be best for the blonde to go home instead.

He was surprised at her response, he wrinkled his eyebrows then guessing that her reason for saying that probably because she was being considerate for Ruoxi's sake. Naruto sighed then he shook his head while pinching her cheek.

"Shut up, be obedient and cleverly wait for my return..." Naruto said with a harsh tone, which make her both s.h.i.+ver and sweet at same time. Mingyu pouted as if she was like a child being berated, then Naruto laughed while ruffled her hair before he stood from the bed, grabbed the tea and gave it to her. She hummed in delight at the taste of the warm and mild sweet tea.

Despite Naruto's forbiddance, she insisted on sending him off from her compartment's front door, she don't want to embarra.s.s herself by not act like both the host of the place and proper woman sent off her man.

They bit farewell with a kiss then Naruto took off, he soon left her building.

(***)

Among the pretty and well built construction at the west side of the city, there were a couple of them that is still only lay in cement and sand. With a rough thin sheet of metal acted as the fence, these place depicted an image of the arrival of a magnificent building in the future. In day, there will be a crowd of people in the location with helmet and vest, while in night, it's pretty devoid from any faces you may recognized or not.

But apparently the common rule don't apply at one of those location as currently there were several people inside with three vehicle waited on the sand ground at the outside, these people wore both tuxedos and black tight s.h.i.+rts.

Cigarette could be seen from many lips and scent of heavy smokes that quickly covered the entire area clear environment.

"Who do you think will appear?" One of them in tuxedo spoke while discarded his smoke.

"He said the person he'll send is his partner," the one who answer also clad in tuxedo but in his hand, there was a briefcase.

"Hmph, I heard he has rough days since his subordinate was sent to jail after ma.s.sacring his own friends," he took out another cigarette and quickly put it in his mouth.

"Is it right though? Don't the police couldn't declare him as the suspect since the man himself had an awful mind breakdown?"

"But his fingers print matched on the weapon he used to kill."

"If I am right, is it a scissor?"

"Yeah."

"Scary..." the person with briefcase had his body trembled.

"Speaking of scary... do you hear about the black dragon gangs?" he puffed out a trail of steam while picking the steamboat from his mouth.

"No, what happen to them?"

"They got annihilated," he leaned against the cemented pillar behind and eyes glanced to the grey ceiling.

"Seriously?! Wasn't their leader a dropout martial artist?" the man's jaw dropped as fast as an apple had fallen from its tree. Even the other people around got their heart filled with coldness.

"Hm, apparently that isn't enough to sustain his a.s.sociation."

"Who did it?"

"Situ Jiang Wei, from the Red Thorn Society."

Red Thorn Society, first appeared three years ago at the North side of Zhong Hai city, a group of amateur people led by an amateur youngster tried to play the dark side of the world. Several month after their debut, the leader of the society is said to be a.s.sa.s.sinated and replaced by his subordinate which is a young female. Since then the society's progress rapidly advanced and their influence spread through many district in North, it's not because that young female is actually fierce but her father is one of the big mobs in the city, his prestige quickly made many small powerless gangs cowered and easily defeated by the girl's society.

Then after sometime, the girl had a fall out with her father and escaped to the West, the place where her father hailed and had his influence already deep rooted. Many gangs didn't dare to bother the girl's society out of fear and respect toward her father, thus she still alive until now, even had her society a chance to grow.

They all thought it was because of her father's influence, but they'll finally knew how wrong they are.

Several weeks ago, she played the police to handle Chen Dahai's bases of operation and destroyed all of his business. Chen Dahai was her father biggest subordinate in the west and she thoroughly destroyed him, making him ran away from the city and now are in a deep hiding within some isolated village. Many a.s.sa.s.sination placed on her head, but none whatsoever till now success on killing her. Whoever accept the mark, they just disappear until they were found three or four days later, no longer breathing and their body had rot.

The last one tried to a.s.sa.s.sinate her just had been found in the sewer, with all fingers gone and teeth plucked out.

She clearly sent a message to anyone who dared to step into her territory to kill her, she won't show any kindness and they will have a cruel death.

"How come she is that powerful now?" the man with the case frowned, even the black dragon is not a society, but it was one of the biggest gang in the West and they were not the one that easily to be trifle with.

"I heard she was single-handedly defeat the leader and executed him in front of their subordinate," the man honked his mouth and produced rings like steam from inside.

"I see, strong and ruthless, like father like daughter, I guess..." the man sighed.

"Hey, someone's coming!" one person with tight s.h.i.+rt suddenly roared, the rest of people in the room heightened their sense of awareness and went silent, soon they heard a lonely footsteps reverberated in the barely completed building.

North from their direction, a person, with black hair and black eyes entered the room in leisure, his hair was slacked to the back and two bang trimmed to either side. His clothes were nothing special, white b.u.t.toned s.h.i.+rt that was inserted to his long black pants.

"State your name and business!" one person with tight s.h.i.+rt said, his hand readied on the handgun inside his belt line.

The person stopped, his eyes swept the entire people in the room then letting a smirk.

"Sasuke Uchiha, I am here for the deal."