4 Date at Ichiraku Ramen

[you can skip to chap 12 to avoid re-reading the parts of summoner of the league, it deviates starting from there.]

After letting the room calm down from praying to the god's to have Sasuke on their teams, Iruka-sensei started calling out teams. "Ahem, Team One, Judai…Seto…Yubel," Iruka said. Naruto frowned before he rummaged through his pack that he bought with him and pulled out a book full of tricks and tips for a beginning shinobi. Naruto pulled out a small pencil to underline with. "Team Seven, Uzumaki Naruto…Haruno Sakura…Uchiha Sasuke," Iruka said which seemed to be the queue for Sakura to jump into the air and squeal before throwing a peace sign to Ino…much to the blonde girl's chagrin. Though Sakura was a little miffed at having the dead last on their team, she quickly knew that the pro's outweighed the cons.

Naruto narrowed his eyes at this team. On function, this team was actually a rather weak one. It would have been better to put the top two male students together with the top female while giving the lowest ones the same with all those in the middle of the class average the varying teams. Though Naruto could see the underlying strategy here since he had seen the anime. Naruto, the dead last, would be inspired to not lose to Uchiha Sasuke, the rookie of the year, and Sasuke wouldn't stand for Naruto being better than him thus a sense of competition was made. It wasn't necessarily a bad strategy. It might have worked, had Naruto actually cared about competition with the Uchiha. He actually didn't care about competition with anyone. Now Naruto wasn't ever to be considered lazy in his past life, but he saw no benefits in making attempts to prove his ego to someone else. That wasn't his aim. Still, these two were his teammates now, he would make due.

"Team eight, Inuzuka Kiba…Hyuga Hinata…and Aburame Shino," Iruka said. Kiba gave a smirk while a shy Hyuga girl sighed before looking at Naruto for a moment and Naruto just smiled at her and told her good luck. The boy in a trench coat with dark glasses merely nodded. Iruka then moved on. "Team nine is still in circulation so I will move on. Team Ten, Nara Shikamaru…Yamanaka Ino…and Akimichi Chouji," Iruka said. Ino resisted the urge to cry as she not only got the laziest boy in class but the fattest boy in the class as well. Her luck had to have hit a new low. Even Naruto would have been better than Chouji! Aside from her, Shikamaru sighed. Just what he needed, a troublesome woman on his team.

"May you all grow strong and continue to support each other," Iruka said before he left the room. Slowly students started to file out of the room. Naruto quickly took this time to pack his things and make his way for the door. "Hey Naruto, hold up! What work did you do for the Hokage that allowed you to pass?" Naruto turned his head and noticed Chouji was the one to ask. Naruto really wished no one had sought to go into the issue any further. Looking around the room, he noticed most of the clan heirs looking at him for an answer. Even Uchiha Sasuke had a single eye on him. Naruto closed his eyes and released a breath.

"Pest elimination," Naruto said before he walked out of the door which left most of the clan in suspense. Some began to murmur to themselves about what that could have meant. However, no one was able to come up with any definitive results to Naruto's response. The only one who seemed to be thinking it over deeper than anyone else was the Nara heir as he watched Naruto leave.

Naruto decided to indulge himself for once and made his way towards Ichiraku Ramen. Almost the entire way he had been debating in his mind as he looked at the formula on his right hand. Doing it in the middle of the street was probably too bold for his taste, however, whatever Naruto was summoning it wasn't in him to be ungrateful and plus who could give up talking with two champions from his favorite game. Naruto glanced to his left and then to his right before he moved into an alleyway. "Perhaps I merely have to think about them and the formula will summon them naturally. Naruto took a still breath. He held his hand into the air before he slammed it into the ground.

"Kuchiyose no Jutsu," Naruto said releasing a puff of smoke. It hadn't taken long for the smoke to dispel at all for Naruto stand face to face with the same two girls who had helped him four previous nights ago. His blue eyes met the blue eyes of Ashe. He then shifted his gaze to look at the young girl, Annie. She gave him a wide smile while her teddy bear, Tibbers, laid in her arms. "You asked for us, Summoner?" Ashe asked. Naruto turned to her for a moment before lightly bowing his head which seemed to confuse Annie and Ashe a tad.

"I wished to express my gratitude to you both for your help in my fight a few days ago by treating you both to some lunch. Is this a bad time?" Naruto asked. The female frost archer raised an eyebrow while Annie quickly grabbed Naruto's arm. "Lunch! Lunch! Lunch!" Annie said with a wide smile. Naruto gave a defeated look before turning to Ashe.

"We didn't do anything special. We only did as our summoner commanded of us. There is no need to treat us to a meal," Ashe replied rather humbly Naruto had noticed. The blond frowned before turning back to the open streets. "I insist," Naruto replied before walking from the hallway. Ashe barely had the time to say anything else before she blinked. She watched Annie skip with Naruto into the street. Ashe slowly removed her hood and holstered her bow. She walked into the street. A hand helped her block out the sun. It was hot. A lot hotter here than Runeterra. Still, for a woman who grew up in the icy hills of the Freljord, this was indeed a welcome change. Still, when she looked at what the people wore, she had to admit that they wouldn't have lasted long in the Freljord, but Ashe figured she was probably the most out of sorts here. Annie didn't seem to mind, but what else could the frost archer expect from the Dark Child?

Ashe quickly moved to catch up to Naruto. To be honest, Ashe and Annie had been surprised to be summoned by the blonde. As far as Ashe knew, she had been having bow practice before something called out to her. It was a good half a second, but her mind was filled with how Naruto lived his life and the situation he was in. Ashe, being a queen, never thought she would let herself before ordered around so easily, but his eyes. Ashe didn't mean to sound like…someone not…her, but his eyes captivated her in about one second when she stared into him. Any doubt she might have had about his capability in giving orders had vanished as soon as she landed on the tree branch. She didn't understand how getting summoned to a different world worked but she decided not to question it, seeing as he was so interesting. It would do well to watch him in the future. She supposed being treated to lunch wasn't a big deal as she was making it.

Naruto quickly guided Ashe and Annie to Ichiraku Ramen. Not the best place to treat someone, he admitted, but any other place and there would be hassles that he didn't wish to deal with. So, Naruto opened the curtain and guided the two inside. "I apologize for accommodations, but it's all I can truly afford at the moment," Naruto said. Annie quickly climbed up to the seat while Ashe just nodded. She truly didn't mind. Her summoner was paying. It was needless to say that she felt a little obligated. She quickly seated herself alongside Naruto. Naruto wasn't entirely sure he was comfortable with Annie in his lap, but he figured that it could have been a lot worse, knowing the girl's power.

"Welcome to Ichiraku Rame…oh Naruto-kun, you didn't tell me that you were on a date!" Naruto looked up and noticed Ayame giggling at him. Naruto raised an eyebrow before he sighed at what she was getting at. "These are friends of mine. They helped me so time ago so I am treating them to lunch," Naruto replied. Ayame pouted at Naruto's non-humor and Ashe looked surprised at being called his friend before a blush tinted her face, who else had called her friend besides Anivia?

She just nodded before looking down to see Annie in Naruto's lap. She then looked over and noticed Ashe sitting rather peacefully, but with a blush that she chose to ignore it. Ayame then turned back to the smallest of the group. "And what would the young lady have?" Ayame asked. Annie glanced up to Naruto for a moment before grinning. "Everything!" she shouted. Naruto's eyebrow twitched while Ayame nearly dropped her notepad. Ashe shook her head with a hard sigh.

"She'll have a small vegetable ramen," Naruto said. Ayame glanced to Naruto before nodding and jotting down the notepad. Annie made a pouting face at him. She then made a face showing just how much she appreciate vegetables.

"And what would you have missed?" Ayame asked turning to Ashe. The archer blinked before giving a glance to Naruto. "I will take whatever he has," Ashe said. Ayame turned to see Naruto pinching the bridge of his nose. "Two miso ramen please Ayame-san," Naruto said. The waitress just nodded and quickly went away to give the order to her father who was in the back leaving Naruto and his two apparent female summons alone.

"Will this continue on?" Naruto asked. Annie and Ashe looked at him. "My summoning the both of you like this. I know the two of you live your own lives and I certainly know what lives I'm disrupting, but, I might have to call on you both sometimes," Naruto said. The silence of the area was only matched by the sounds of footsteps outside. "Well I can't speak for Annie, but this summoning is a definite one. I will admit that I had not known that summoning could take place from outside of Runeterra, or that there was somewhere else besides Runeterra, however, I will assist you if I am able. You are the bow to my arrow. Point me in a direction and fire me," Ashe said. Naruto had to admit that was a little old-fashioned loyalty servitude if he had ever heard one, but he just nodded and offered his gratitude.

"I wanna play here more! I wanna play lots!" Annie said. Naruto blinked, but he just gave a nod to her as well. "Uzumaki Naruto," Naruto introduced holding out his hand. Ashe looked at the offer for a moment before giving his hand a firm shake. "Ashe," she introduced. Naruto nodded. He looked down as Annie gave her name as well before smacking Naruto's hand with her own. About ten more minutes passed by as Ayame delivered their food. The food was eaten in relative silence, but a sudden common ground had been made with the three, no matter how small it was.

Ashe had to admit that this food was an absolute delicacy. The way it warmed her body reminded her of warthog noodles back in the Freljord. However, this dish had a lot more flavor to it. Ashe could even see Annie eating her foot without a hint of complaint despite it having vegetables in it. She glanced back to Naruto for but a moment and noticed him calmly eating. Ashe quickly turned back to her own food. This could be interesting.

With lunch finished, Naruto, Ashe and Annie exited the ramen shop. "I will be sure to summon you if I require assistance," Naruto replied to her. Ashe merely nodded before she vanished away. Annie gave him one more hug with a wink of her eye before she vanished away as well. Naruto released a small sigh before he looked at the time on a clock in a shop. He should be getting back now.