A Generous Gesture

The ramen chef, Teuchi, turned and glared at the person who dared call him old only to blink when he saw it was just a young boy. The ramen chef also took note of the disbelieving look on the server's face.

"Ayame-chan...what's wrong?"

"He ate...He ate the ramen so fast" she replied, "Tou-chan, it was gone so fast" Teuchi chuckled before grabbing on his prepared bowls of ramen and laid it in front of the blonde dragonslayer who stared at it with a wild look in his sapphire orbs.

"Ayame, people eat ramen quickly, but I think you're..."

"Done, can I have more?" the old man and his daughter turned and their eyes nearly bugged out of their heads when they saw the empty bowl. A single noodle strand was all that remained of the bowl's contents only to be snatched up in the Namikaze's fingers and suffer the same fate as its brethren.

Teuchi adjusted his hat as he suddenly felt as if he were being challenged. The other members of the restaurant were also getting a bit curious as to what Teuchi was doing as they saw him suddenly bring three of his extra large bowls and laid them out in a straight line before the six year old.

"Eat" Teuchi said as he took out a stopwatch. With the click of the watch, Naruto dug in and within a matter of thirty seconds, he had completely engulfed the contents of the first bowl. The people around the ramen shop were shock at Naruto's speed and immediately got up and began to gather around him and urging him on.

"EAT! EAT! EAT! EAT! EAT! EAT!" they chanted and Naruto smiled as he finished his second bowl in twenty seconds. Teuchi seemed to pale. This boy was a ramen beast, a juggernaut who couldn't be stopped. Naruto then finished the contents of his third bowl and grinned widely, exposing his sharper than normal canines to the world before gesturing to the bowls.

"That all you got, Ji-chan?" Naruto taunted.

"Ooooooo" the chorus of bystander watched as Teuchi suddenly began making bowls of ramen and delivering them to Naruto as fast as he could and each time, the blonde would engulf the food he had deemed the 'food of the gods'. After a total of twelve bowls, Teuchi had surrendered to his newest customer.

"You win" the ramen chef said with a bowed head. The crowd around him cheered and patted the six year old boy on the head causing the boy to grin widely and he had somehow gotten a kiss on the cheek from Ayame. Naruto chuckled and scratched the back of his head in embarrassment.

The crowd then dispersed and the majority of them had left the shop as those ones had gotten a bit sick at seeing the dragonslayer down so much ramen in such little time. However, while Naruto was basking in the afterglow of his triumph...

"Here's your bill, gaki" Naruto nodded and took the bill. He had been taught a little bit about currency and in Magnolia, the currency was referred to as Jewels. His total on the bill added up to the price of fourteen bowls of ramen. Two regular sized and twelve extra large and came up to a whopping price of 16,000 Jewels.

(A/N: 1000J is approximately $10 US. This note is mainly to satisfy anyone's curiosity for the conversion rate)

Naruto nodded to himself and reached into his pocket and pulled out one of his gold coins he had taken from Acnologia.

"Will this cover it?" he asked. Teuchi and Ayame stared at the round piece of the precious metal. Teuchi took the coin and bit it, it didn't bend and when he scraped at it with one his knifes, there were no scratches revealing metal beneath to indicate electroplating. Teuchi gaped and shook his head.

"Ummm, yeah. This will definitely cover it and arigato, gaki"

"Call me Naruto, not gaki" the blonde said to the man, "By the way...keep the change because I don't think there's enough of a comparison from Jewels to the value of gold in your cash register"

Teuchi and Ayame laughed a little at his joke before Teuchi pocketed the gold coin and then walked over to the register and pulled a decent amount of money.

"Ayame, why don't you buy our new, number one customer some clothes and get him out of those rags, neh?" Ayame happily agreed. She took off her apron and exited from behind the counter before grabbing the blonde and leaving the shop.

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