Naruto You can't buy love with money!

Moshulel · Jul 17, 2006

You canÆt buy love with money!

ôSeven ramen packs, one milk bottle and two breads, Is there anything else you would like to buy sir?ö the vendor addressed to one Uzumaki Naruto. You might wonder: why such a behavior when it was obvious that she was eyeing him like he was some sort of plague?

Well the answer could be the Hokage, who was currently browsing a particular section of the book store or maybe Kakashi, who was waiting in line to pay for his latest Icha Icha book.

Well it didnÆt matter to our young ninja since he was already familiar with that look. He just wanted his groceries and then he would get out of the shop as usual, following his 8 year old routine, however what happened next was definitely something nobody expected: As he prepared to exit the store two men intercepted him:

ôGood sir! Have you bought Kotta Ramen from this shop?ö one of them asked.

ôYes! But IÆm not sharing!ö Naruto replied, curios as to why they wanted to know about his ramen.

The men looked at each other and then with obvious regret they spat the next words:

ôCongratulations! As the number 1 million consumer of our ramen we are glad to award you with this check of 1 million ryou!ö

They handed Naruto the check and quickly left the building leaving a few dumb stroked shinobi and a confused Naruto behind. Looking around at the weird stares he was now receiving Naruto tucked the check carelessly in his pocket and exited the shop; more money meant more food didnÆt it? There was nothing special with it after allàà oh how wrong he was.

Behind him in the store he just left several women hasty changed their opinion on the Kyuubi-Gaki after all men with money couldnÆt be that bad could they? While the men just had to ask themselves; was the brat even aware of the value of the check?
As he headed towards home, Naruto was intercepted by the Hokage, who somehow managed to get in front of him even if the boy was sure that he left him in the shop.

ôNaruto-kun; the old man addressed to the boy, ôYou might want to put that money in a bank, itÆs safer that way even if you are a shinobi.ö

ôHuh? The boy replied questionably ôWhat money?ö

At this reply the old man face faulted, was this boy even aware of the value of that check? Apparently not. Realizing that others might want to scam the poor boy Sandaime decided to aid him to place it to a bank.

No sooner that they entered the bank and Naruto signed the papers to open his new account an alarm went ofà
ôCongratulations! You are the number 10.000 deponent with over 500.000 ryou, as a token of our gratitude you shall receive 10 mil ryou in your account young customer!ö The clerk in charge of his account announced, normally he would have ignored Naruto and picked the next client but under the scrutiny of the hokage itÆs hard to do such a thing and not lose at least your job.

Naruto just shrugged his shoulders and happily exclaimed:

ôHey from now itÆs only extra large ramen for me!ö

For the second time that day the hokage face faultedà others werenÆt as lucky as numerous tables around the bank were viciously hurled around by the ones that missed the grand prize only by an inch. Many of the married women couldnÆt help a sigh æSo much moneyÆ but then like a sudden revelation a thought occurred to them: they werenÆt available but the financial future of the daughters had to be secured somehow!

So as Naruto left the bank confused for the second time that day at the behavior of his fellow villagers he was watched with predatory eyes by the womenÆs that heard about his recently earned fortune. Inside the bank plans were already concocted as to the future marital status of an unsuspecting blond.

As he was heading home Naruto had just about enough of those looks when he noticed with at the corner of his eyes a strange looking bush on the stone paved roads of Konoha:

ôKonohomaru! ThatÆs not even close.ö He addressed the bush wich revealed to be hiding three young children:

ôAs expected from my rival! We heard that you won some money boss, could you buy us some sweets?ö

It didnÆt take much to convince Naruto to buy them the sweets seeing as the genin had a sweet tooth himself and as they were waiting at the counter for the change the sales woman talked:

ôIÆm sorry but I donÆt have any change, can you accept this lottery ticket instead?ö he told the waiting Naruto while already placing the ticket in his bag. The boy didnÆt complain; he was used to being forced to buy useless stuff and from what he heard nobody won at that damn lottery in a long while now. On the other side of the table the sales woman smirked as she already knew that the brat spend his money on a worthless ticket. Her smirk faded however when she heard the next words from the mouth of the hokageÆs grandson:

ôYatta Boss you just won 100 milion ryou, you can buy us all the candy we want now!ö
The reactions around the kid were varied: Naruto had his goofy grin while thinking about all the ramen he could buy with this money (Never mind the fact that he could now probably buy all the ramen shops in the Elemental Countries). The Konohomaru corps had happy expressions while they imagined all the candy they were going to eat from now on while the sales woman had a shocked expression at the fact that she had just lost the big jackpot to the Kyuubi brat.

After another trip to the bank at the insistence of a rather excited Konohomaru who really wanted to see how deposing money worked like Naruto tiredly headed towards his apartment, he needed his rest in order to prepare for another day of hard training.

Meanwhile the news about NarutoÆs fortune was spreading like wildfire around the village and several women and a horde of girls were plotting their future together with the new millionaire, So what if the village hated him, he could build a hole new village with his money nowà.

NarutoÆs dreams that night were messy, he kept dreaming of a woman with nine tails chasing after him and yelling:

ôMust have MONEY!ö Who would have guessed that the Kyuubi digged rich guysà

Across the village however several women dreamed of their life surrounded by servants and with a bag full of money. If Naruto would have known of this he would have surely considered his nightmare as a sweet dream.

Author's notes:

:hail: to BlackSun for prereading this.
:yay: to GH for showing me the light regarding my rich Naruto idea.
:mmm: To any of the guys that offered advice to me regarding this fic.

Now i must confess that i feel that something is lacking here, if any of you know what it is or has suggestions for me to make it better.... please do so. :help:

nuclear death frog · Jul 17, 2006

This. Is. BRILLIANT. :yay:

Now then. You are missing...

Gold-digging false relatives!

That's right! You need a wide variety of charlatans claiming a relation that doesn't exist just so they can extort money away from a kid who probably isn't of legal age to control that fortune!

:yay:

SimmyC · Jul 17, 2006

What, not me? :unsure:

Kidding. Admittingly, I only pretty much gave moral support for this story. And from the looks of it, another great story in the making. :snigger:

armedlord · Jul 17, 2006

Oh by the load that's just crazy. I can just image Tsunade practically handcuffing him to her as a friggin good luck charm if you still have Naruto gaining money like nobodys business.

Makes me wonder about what could happen if Naruto unwittingly gave a million or so ryou to Wave Country and ends up basically as the landlord of the entire place. He may not get much money out of it until maybe a few months later something like one of the Waves citizens (like Inari) finds a valuable mineral or resource that makes Wave Country filthy stinking rich...and Naruto gets a huge share because it's his money that led to the find somehow.

Makes me wonder if Sakura and the rest of the girls jump out of the Sasuke Fanclub and create a Naruto Fanclub...which then could lead to something called "Fathers Unite against Child Kyuubi" who don't want their dauthers to date Naruto (although their wives easily handle that problem with various reasons and methodsto keep them in line)

Then watch as Sasuke get angry and jealous that the supposed 'dead last' stole his spotlight with the money that he has and goes into angst mode level five...which of course is ignored as Naruto seems more important with how rich he is.

Come to think of it, if one were to have Sakura and a few others stay as die-hard Gaspuke fans, then she could have an arguement about the differences between the two with people from the Naruto fanclub.

Oh I can just see a possible way for Naruto to have better relations with Konoha Village and one of the things that would come up in the arguement. As Naruto is thinking that the Hokage is a great person that helps people in need, basically have him giving money to the poor and truely needy like those who can't pay for their medical bills, the homeless and charities and whatnot.

Course Rashpoot (yes, I'm trying to see if I can make up something that nearly sounds like his name or rhymes a bit...kind of hard for me to think them up on the fly) hears the arguement of Naruto giving away money, he goes into super angst level E(mo) where his penis shrinks to the size of a penny, his balls grow the size of bowling balls (which makes it so very easy to kick at and later cause him to go sterile) and declares that if Naruto's giving away money, then so does he!

Which then later on we could find out that Sasuke's checks bounce because he only has Ryou in the tens of thousands against Naruto's millions and that he can only access them when he becomes 18 years old and that the money that he has now was mainly for him to buy food and pay rent. (thus making him homeless and living in a cardboard box)

...you know what? I'm just giving off probable ideas that I would never write and would probably not be used in this story anyways so I'll stop for now....

...that and my head is hurting like hell from all this thinking so I'll just cool off a bit here.

...just checking, was there a exploding head type smilie around here?

Edit: Total Ryou so far I see Naruto gained in this fic is 111 million Ryou.

Israfel · Jul 17, 2006

What exactly is the US dollar equivalent of a 'ryou' anyway?

Deathwings · Jul 17, 2006

Seriously, who care ? It's not like the current change has any importance in the Narutoverse...

Fatuous One · Jul 17, 2006

Semantics, yes, but you never know when such information can come in handy. Not to mention that if you're American, you can get a better grasp of how much things should cost, if need be.

On topic, it looks fairly good Mosh. There are a few problems though. One being that almost too much seems to be crammed into each paragraph; you're liable to confuse your readers if you don't spread it out a bit more. Brevity is all well and good, but with story telling, you need to lead the reader with a 'carrot-on-a-stick' shtick. Another is that you're not giving, or not extrapolating on some important clues here. When's the timeline (Naruto knows Konohamaru and the others but...), is there a specific reason why Naruto suddenly has a lucky streak, why is Kyuubi suddenly shown as a girl, etc. etc. I understand that this is just the prologue (and that some things are to be shown later) but... the point of a prologue is to give the reader an outline of what the fic is heading towards, and that should usually include some information on what and why things are happening, if only very basic info.

Israfel · Jul 17, 2006

I was asking for the latter reason, I just wanted to get a better grasp of just exactly how much money we're talking about here.

TheEcchiSessha · Jul 17, 2006

I can tell its just a very rough draft but still a very good idea. The "main character gets rich" idea isn't something seen all that often. I've never seen it in Naruto.... or really any other fic i've read now that I think about it. :sweat: Israfel and Fatuous One have pretty much asked all the question I was gonna ask. Well, i actually have a few. Don't really have to answer. My curiosity just gets the better of me.

#1: Will the older kunoichi gonna be after Naruto? (i.e. Anko, Kurenai)
#2: Will the "normal" village girls be after him? (i.e. Ayame)
#3: Will news of Naruto's new fortune spread beyond the walls of Konoha?

Other than that nothing else. Looking forward to the chaos and mayhem in store for the blond dobe.

~The Ecchi Sessha

Deathwings · Jul 17, 2006

From the few informations disponible, that can be anywhere in the timeline between the first apparition of Konohamaru and the last part of the chunin exam.

For the lucky streak, Naruto already have it in cannon. He did make a hight number of jackpot with only one coin during the "Tsunade search" after all...

Kyuubi being a girl is fun, so why not ? And on top of that (here goes the mythologie maniac...), kitsune of great power, the nine tailled kind for example, are in 70% female...after all, Inari is female godness (or at last it's the better explanation I have found to explain the hight number of female kyuubi no kitsune compare to the male in the Japanese folklore...)

Fatuous One · Jul 17, 2006

Uhm...? Yessss...? I realize that, but I was saying that those are things that might need extrapolation on. It's hardly a good idea to confuse your reader's when it's not necessary.

That's not a good explanation. If it's for comedy purposes, that's fine. However, I was asking if there was actually a logical explanation for the sudden winning streak (i.e., magic, etc.). Saying it like that, as a logical explanation for it, makes it look like the author is saying that it's canon for Naruto to be insanely lucky.

All well and good, and not to derail your mythological spree, but I do believe that Kyuubi's been mentioned as male a few times. I can't remember any sources though. *shrug*

And I wasn't saying that Kyuubi as a female wasn't a good idea, I'm just saying that it should with some sort of backing... not sure as to what, but the way its introduced seems off.

Moshulel · Jul 17, 2006

:hail:

*Seems i'm bowing to a lot of people today.

*

Thanks for the help guys!

Any more suggestions?

Deathwings · Jul 17, 2006

Moshulel said:

You're not only doing the bowing thing a lot today, but are also always asking the same question as well...

Now for a sugestion...huuuuum...I was thiking...Jiraya seem to very like taking Naruto's money, ne ? You can try to use that as well...the fact than the whole female population is after Naruto only add to the reason for the pervert to being present, he ? :lol:

armedlord · Jul 24, 2006

I just had this somewhat disturbing thought...and yes, I'm sharing it because I want someone else to suffer and such.

Since I'm quite sure that the body that Orochimaru has taken is a woman shown during the exams..that or it was Michael Jackson, but whatever...wouldn't Orochimaru try to...ah...seduce Naruto for his money with the body he's currently taken over? (since is is a gay asshole and all that)

On a somewhat similar, but less disturbing line of thought, Do you think that since Naruto is now filthy stinking rich, would other countries/hidden villages try to capture him...or try to set up marriages to him with girls? Like Temari for example.

I can see different Kages or those of the 'noble houses' trying to get Naruto because of the money would support their countries and such.

Oh hell, that could seriously change on how the storyline goes...you attack the Leaf, you'd get no chance of Naruto and his money because he's loyal to the Leaf...thus it's likely no Sound/Sand invasion and just a Sound invasion.

A possible route I see is that even the Hyuuga isn't immune to the lure of money when Hyuuga Hiashi decides to engage Naruto to his daughter. At first Hinata would be extremely...happy...about all this, but then later finds out that her father meant Hanabi to be engaged since he's likely still in the "hinata is useless" stage and that giving Naruto the one that's likely going to be the heir would make him accept it and stroke his ego or something...well we can expect Hinata to go all out possibly.

I nearly forgot about one thought...Since Naruto is now rich, that means that people could and would try to steal Naruto and attempt to get his money by any means possible. (yes, I mean any means possible so sex is certainly included in there)

With that thought, the Third would have to assign ANBU or those not tempted by money (at least not easily) and rank it as some constant S-class mission to protect Naruto. (Un)fortunately for him, he has a group of female ninjas willing to 'protect' Naruto.

Somehow I'm seeing a club saying "Naruto Protection Club" or something like that and all the members of the club are women...to make it more nutty, women from different countries and ninja villages are also members as well...followed by the "Make Sure Naruto Doesn't Become Gay" club along with the "Make Sure Naruto Doesn't Die" club.

My head's hurting so I'll shut up again...but not before getting a thought of saying that Shinobi will start calling Naruto the "Money Ninja" or something.

Moshulel · Jul 24, 2006

Short answer? Yes... they will try and try and try, again and again. At first it will be luck that keeps him safe, later on? Well you just have read to find out.

Oh my! It's not like the Sand Village has money trouble and someone like Naruto can fix it.

toraneko · Jul 24, 2006

Well, I'm sure Hiashi would dismiss Hanabi as a good choice to engage to Naruto. After all, Hanabi is his precious heiress. She'd be expected to marry within the family to keep the bloodine pure. Hinata, on the other hand... well, Hiashi obviously doesn't think very highly of her abilities, and after the fight against Neji, I think he'd probably have enough (grudging) respect for Naruto to seriously consider engaging him to his "weak daughter".

I can easily see Teuchi (the guy who runs Ichiraku) trying to marry off Ayame (the waitress; I think she's his daughter) to Naruto. He might actually have a decent chance of success there.

Here's an interesting idea for the considering: First, Naruto is engaged to some girl or other. Second, another group who wants Naruto's money, decides that they'd be most likely to get what they want if they kidnap Naruto's girl and hold her for ransom. Cue rescue mission and/or wackiness.

Either way, I think you struck gold with that "Make Sure Naruto Doesn't Turn Gay" Club idea. That'd be a hit over in the Lemon board. :yay:

Fatuous One · Jul 24, 2006

Heh, I can see it now. The Protecting Uzumaki Naruto's Integrity and Sexuality from the Homosexually-inclined Enemies of the Righteous, or P.U.N.I.S.H.E.R. (Gotta have those acronyms, ya' know.

)

"Remember girls, no matter how hawt the thought of Naruto-sama and Sasuke-kun making out is... SAY NO TO YAOI! 'cause if he's gay, WE can't get any!"

toraneko · Jul 24, 2006

Fatuous One said:

True. Nice job on the acronym, by the way.

:snigger:

:lol: :rofl:

GOLD!

armedlord · Jul 24, 2006

toraneko said:

Figures that most of the rubbish that I tend to think up that at least one idea that people would like.

Hope a guy I know doesn't mind...

Much better than what I can dish out in my mind.

SimmyC · Jul 24, 2006

Woohoo! Anything that will help join the fight against Yaoi Naruto fics is fine by me! ^_^ I mean, there is NO reason why it should THE number 1 pairing there! Just because Sasgay is ghey, doesn't mean Naruto has to be! :angry:

Fatuous One · Jul 24, 2006

Yeah, but I realized that it needs an addition.

P.U.N.I.S.H.E.R.S. The Protecting Uzumaki Naruto's Integrity and Sexuality from the Homosexually-inclined Enemies of the Righteous Society.

You always need some sort of association, society or something similar tacked on when making these things.

GenocideHeart · Jul 24, 2006

I could also see SASUKE trying to go after Naruto.

Why?

Simple. More money = easier to rebuild the Uchiha clan. :snigger:

Of course, that'd totally creep Naruto out and make him even MORE sure that Sasuke is, in fact, gay. :rofl:

SimmyC · Jul 24, 2006

That is evil! :rofl: Sasuke wanting Naruto for cash. ^_^ Too bad, he also wants the other thing... <_<

Moshulel · Jul 24, 2006

SimmyC said:

Oh well! No well in hell yaoi is going to see the light of day from me.

F1 i hope you son't mind if i use P.U.N.I.S.H.E.R.S in the fic.

I really like the way you guys think.

Ke ke ke... have to take into account though that engaging a girl to him isn't going to be an easy feat. More than one clan can play the game.

GenocideHeart · Jul 24, 2006

Moshulel said:

I don't expect you to write yaoi. I expect you to put my suggestion in to MOCK the countless SasuNaru yaoi pairings. IE, Sasuke needs to come across as very gay and Naruto is creeped out by it (as he should if there was a God), thus the pairing just isn't gonna happen, but you're keeping his useless attempts there to thoroughly mock Sasgay. ^_^

Ah, sweet revenge. I can already see teh angry fangirls flaming you. :snigger: Worth it just to get them worked up...

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