Bits and Pieces: Naruto
Good Boy (Horror)
Title: Good Dog
Fandom: Naruto
Characters: Naruto, Asuma, Sakura, Ino
Story collection: Bits and Pieces: Horror Edition
Word count: 845
Warnings: talks of: bitten off fingers
Urban Legend: The Choking Dog
AN: I seem to like this world.
Don’t forget I am taking requests because I lost my list (again. Why? Always why? I’m going to tape this bitch to the wall and work on them the moment I get them).
Enjoy!
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Groaning as he closed the door behind him, Naruto brushed his hair out of his face and dropped the keys onto the counter next to his door. Smiling, he locked the door behind him and looked over his living room. After dealing with the Crying Baby killer, he had moved along with Kurenai and Asuma, choosing a suburb that was closer to the city center and their work.
He had also picked up a beautiful Doberman who was just to sweet to be much of a guard dog like his mother had been. While Dobermans were sweet dogs when trained right, a guard dog who greeted an intruder wasn’t the best kind of dog and he had fallen in love with the beautiful male.
That had been close to six months ago and he loved his days off. During those days, he would get up earlier than normal and go for a slow bike ride to the nearby dog park and let Maru socialize. Kurenai would often join him on the bike rides. And for jogs before work and the walks afterwork. He had even put in a doggy door that was electronically opened for Maru.
And usually Maru would be happily barking and greeting him at the door, which made Naruto frown when the dog wasn’t there. “Maru?” Naruto called, heading for the living room where Maru usually laid out in his bed. He found him on the floor, not so much choking as hacking on something caught in his throat. “Maru!” he cried out, running over and falling to his knees. He ignored the fact that the floor was hard wood, and he had most likely bruised them, intent on forcing his dog’s mouth open. Looking into Maru’s mouth and down his throat, he saw something stuck, but it was to far down for him to grab.
Grunting, he swept Maru up into his arms and ran for the door, stopping on to grab his keys and wallet before he ran out to the door. Putting his dog into the front passenger side seat, he started the car and pulled out, pulling his seat belt on as he drove, heading for the vet that he had found when looking for one.
Parking in the first space that he could, he rushed in with Maru in his arms, uncaring that his car wasn’t locked and just needing to get his dog in. “Hey! I need some help! Maru is choking on something that I can’t get to!” he called. A nurse looked out from the back room, took one look at the choking dog, cursed and ran out to collect him.
“Sakura, take his information! We got Maru,” the blond called out, a pink haired woman coming out with a wane smile.
“Hey, Naruto. What happened?” Sakura asked as she sat down at the computer, logging in to take information.
“No idea,” Naruto admitted, shrugging as he watched Ino rush to the back rooms. “I came home and he was choking on something. I pried his mouth open and saw that there was something suck in his throat and I couldn’t get to it,” he admitted. Sakura nodded and took down the rest of his information, smiling when he realized that he had forgotten Maru’s cards. “Let me go back home real fast to get that. Then I’ll come pay for the emergency bill,” he said. “Since it’s likely they’re having to put him lightly under.”
“Most likely he’ll be spending a night with us,” Sakura admitted, smiling softly. Naruto hummed and left with a promise to be back in a few minutes. As his car pulled out of the parking lot and headed to the house, Ino came running out, holding a specimen jar in one gloved hand, pulling down her mask.
“Where’s Naruto?” she asked, eyes wide. Sakura, staring at the jar, pointed out the door. Ino cursed and lunged for the phone, picking it up and dialing by memory. “Naruto? Shit! Don’t go in there! That thing that you saw? It was human fingers. Three of them we think, but one got fully swallowed. There’s an intruder! We all know how sweet Maru is,” she nearly yelled into the phone. She pulled the headset away from her ear and frowned at it. “He said he had to call a cop and to take care of Maru…”
Sakura whimpered. “Can you take that and put it somewhere else?” she whined. An hour later, Naruto was returning, complaining about how he seemed to attract idiot killers and intruders, escorted by a slightly amused Asuma. Sakura just pointed them to the back for the fingers, the vet office learning that the intruder was the brother of the last owners, intent on raiding their house for anything that he could sell on the way out.
Apparently his motives had also included hurting whoever was there since he had had an aluminum bat, and that had set off Maru’s protective instincts. Naruto called him a good boy and promised him a brand new tooth brush bone.