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Naruto/ Boku wa Tomodachi ga Sukunai
Uzumaki Naruto looked down at the piece of paper in his bandaged hand before twisting his head around for another look. The sprawling grounds and accompanying mansion was the only place around on the outskirts of the nearby Tooya City, and the gilded numbers on the high gate beside the Private Property sign matched the ones written in Jiraiya's messy scrawl, so the blond guessed that there was a good chance he was in the right place. The letter had been written a few years ago and found among the deceased Toad Sage's meager belongings he kept sequestered away back within the walls of Konohagakure no Sato. Even after Pein destroyed it all the Hokage's reinforced vault where it had been stored kept everything within from turning to rubble. It, and the rest of the note outlining the plan involving the man's blond-haired pupil, had been a place housing someone Jiraiya had apparently wanted to introduce Naruto to when they finally had the time. He'd written it all down just in case the coming years made him forget some of the info.
But with the whole Akatsuki and biju/war fiasco, alongside the older man's death sort of put a damper on those endeavors.
Still, if Jiraiya had wanted to introduce his protégé to whoever lived here then the shinobi saw no reason to not honor the request. Seeing a button for a buzzer the blue-eyed male pressed it and waited. Before long the speaker built into the tall brick fence crackled whenthe sound of a woman's voice filtered through, polite but firm in a tone that was monotonous in nature.
"I'm sorry but Kashiwazaki-sama does not entertain solicitors."
"Uh, I ain't a solicitor lady. I'm-"
"Then I must ask that you vacate the premises."
"Now hold on a minute! Ero-sennin wanted to bring me here one day for some reason so here I am! I didn't come all this way for nothing!"
The spokeswoman remained completely quiet for a moment before her voice returned, more quizzical than before but still maintaining a dull tone. "And who is this 'Ero-sennin' you speak of?"
"Ero-sennin. Y'know...the pervy sage. Always yelling out he's a super pervert?...uh, Jiraiya of the Sannin?" Naruto gestured with his arms despite no one else being there with him to see.
More silence followed, for a longer period of time. When the gate guardian finally returned she sounded slightly out of breath. "And what is your name?"
"Naruto."
"Naruto what?" a new voice cut in. It was deeper and definitively a man. The jinchuriki's head tilted slightly as squinted eyes peered curiously at the electronic amplifier.
"Uzumaki Naruto. Anyways can I just talk to...the..."
He stopped talking as the thick gate started humming before the electric gears in its hinges dragged it inward in one smooth oiled motion, allowing the blond access to its inner core filled with perfectly trimmed grass and lush vegetation. Looking around Naruto figured that was a sign to enter; the speakers weren't talking anymore and he was pretty sure if he wasn't wanted they would have told him so.
Staring at the long, steep, winding road leading up to the house the Uzumaki teen scoffed and completely disregarded the cement path laid out for vehicles and foot traffic. Using a few normal jumps he was up the sheer landscape with ease, setting foot on the wide front lawn complete with large water fountains and a spacious driveway before walking up to the tall wooden doors and crossing his arms over his chest. There was no doorbell anywhere and the entrance towered over him reaching at least twice his height. Shrugging he simply reached forward and banged his fist against the solid barrier.
He only got off one heavy knock before someone or something pulled them open. In the late afternoon sun, the shadows stretched long and bathed the foyer in a cool blanket of shade that slightly darkened the person standing there with their arms outstretched. Stepping off to the side, the person bowed their head slightly and gestured with a thin arm for him to venture further inside.
"Please come in Naruto-sama."
Wide-eyed at the unexpected title of respect Naruto gave a short nod, idly recognizing the voice as the female who originally replied to him at the gate. Walking in the blond couldn't help but give a low whistle of sheer appreciation at the size of the interior and how the furnishings expressed nothing but high-class wealth. The property and outer adornments should have given him an idea at just how well-off this person was but seeing the rich oak furniture and oil paintings lining the walls really put it in perspective.
Jiraiya knew this guy? How?
"So you're Naruto...well, you're taller than what I've been told."
Spinning around the ninja couldn't help but jump to defend against the crack at his height. "Of course I am! What the hell did you expect?!" Just because he was short when he was younger, the person who brought it up acted as if his former stature was as big as he was ever going to get!
Then Naruto blinked as his irritation dried up, spying the woman with a small smile on her lips standing next to a man who he realized made the teasing jab about a former sore subject. Based on the tone it was also the same guy who asked over the speaker what his full name was. Tall but thin, trimly muscled and dressed in nothing more than a brown casual kimono tied at the waist but still faintly loose enough to expose a bit of his chest. His hair was black and slicked back along the scalp save for a few strands that couldn't remain contained; the length of the 'do was tied in a short ponytail that currently hung over his shoulder. And compared to the woman his features were impassive, watching the un-tensing blond with analytical chocolate irises peering out from a mature face.
Slightly tilting his head to the left the male crossed his thin limbs over his chest and raised an eyebrow in question. "So you're Uzumaki Naruto eh? May I ask what your reason is for coming here?"
Matching the guy's stare Naruto's reopened the crumpled piece of paper in his hands. "Like I said before, Ero-sennin apparently wanted to bring me here but I only just recently learned about it. I guess it was to introduce me to..." Blue orbs quickly scanned the characters again. "To some guy with a weird name. Pegasus."
The male flinched sharply, face taking on the look of someone who had swallowed a whole lemon with angry veins popping out all along his skin as the calm woman coughed quietly into her fist. "That's...that's me. Kashiwazaki Tenma at your service." the man introduced through harshly gritted teeth before sucking in a breath to do a complete one-eighty. Extending his slightly twitching arm for a handshake he slapped on a fragile grin of his own. "Just because the characters are written as 'sky' and 'horse'...anyways it's finally nice to meet you Naruto-kun."
Taking the clearly weaker hand into his own the blond sage took care not to overpower it and injured the other's grip. "Ah...yeah. You too, I think."
"And since we're on the subject of meeting new people allow me to introduce to you the steward of the house, Stella." With a small wave he motioned to the silent third of their group, dressed like a male butler in her black dress pants, tailcoat with golden buttons, white undershirt, and a small dark ribbon pinned and looped around her collar. She was just a bit shorter compared to the two men though she had to be older than the teen, with bright blue eyes and shiny yellow hair which fell down to her neck and framed her face in slightly wavy curls. Both were a few shades off from Naruto's own and it wouldn't have been a surprise if someone asked if the two were related.
Stella was also startlingly pretty; the only makeup she seemed to use was shiny pink lipstick and maybe something along her long eyelashes.
Bowing deferentially, the blonde woman then straightened up. "A pleasure to make you acquaintance, Fishcake-sama."
This time it was Naruto's turn to glare as Stella acted as though she did nothing wrong. Tenma, however, burst into laughter at the double meaning of the jinchuriki's own name since the employee clearly did so on purpose. Reduced to chuckling the adult's grin came more naturally due in part to the common problem both faced.
"Aaaah...it's nice to see somebody else be the target of Stella's teasing. People just don't understand that our names have only one meaning we like and another we could care less about. Jiraiya-kun used to zing me all the time as well, that long-haired sonofa-...*ahem*. How is the old pervert anyways? I haven't heard from him in some time and honestly I'm surprised he isn't here with you. You mentioned he wanted to bring you along. Did his work get in the way again?"
Had he been less inclined to the hardships of life, the shinobi would have flinched. Or even found his eyes watering at remembering the goofy older warrior. Yet acceptance and the passage of time allowed Naruto to feel the sadness over his teacher's murder but acknowledge he was gone, without devolving into a pity party after already grieving for the loss. In fact the jinchuriki was proud to know the man cared about him enough to use his full power protecting his godson from those who would do him harm. "No. He died a little while back. Or killed would be the more proper term."
Tenma's face fell instantly as the blond's words rang in his ears. Glancing sideways at his maid, the Kashiwazaki flicked his chin towards a nearby hallway. "...is the East Wing sitting room currently available?"
"Of course. It's now spring so I've been taking to air out all the rooms."
"That's good enough."
Soon after the ninja found himself sitting at a small table across from Pegasus, recounting what he knew of Jiraiya's battle against Pein in Amegakure. The man knew of the secretive world hidden away from modern civilization in due part to his shinobi contact, but naturally there was much the taller black-haired man was unaware of. Just that they were ninja really, and that life was lot more...frantic, as it were. Death could come at any moment when you lived in the Elemental Nations. Not to say a person couldn't just die out of the blue in Japan or the rest of the world, but life spans were relatively shorter over there.
Tenma was truly saddened to hear about the Konoha sage's passing as the powerful genin explained how his sensei had infiltrated the rain-slick streets of the isolated and industrialized village, only to wind up battling and ultimately dying against former students of his who he had taught to survive the violent battlegrounds of their country. Ironically enough...they were also high ranking members of the group that wanted Naruto's biju for themselves. At some point a bottle of wine was brought in by Stella, and she honestly seemed surprised that her boss was only sipping at the ruby red liquid instead of draining it down like usual.
Around an hour and a half after the senjutsu-wielder first arrived, the blonde matron returned to announce that dinner was prepared. Tenma drunkenly told Naruto he was staying for dinner despite only having (surprisingly) one glass of alcohol; Stella seemed to have known this would happen as she'd already notified the live-in cook to prepare food for three.
As messing with people seemed to be one of the butler's personality quirks, Naruto was forced to help Pegasus stagger to the dining room after she looked him straight in the eyes with her own impassive ones, announced dinner, and then gave the blond boy directions to where they were eating before promptly slipping back out the door.
Dropping the lush into one of the chairs he then took the single placing across the way. He figured Stella would be sitting next to her employer, and most likely help him get the utensils to his lips, so it was a bit of a surprise when she reappeared and stood courteously off to the side with a towel hanging off her arm instead of joining the pair of men.
"Aren't you gonna eat?" Naruto asked in spite of the ire he felt for getting stiffed with the Kashiwazaki's somewhat stinky breath. His golden-haired counterpart merely shook her head, sending the shiny locks swaying about her face.
"Those utensils are not for me." she intoned just as the sound of hurried footsteps picked up outside the large open door. A bundle of energy burst in with an arm outstretched in greeting, popping over with a slight wave to the stoic help before slipping into the last open spot at the table.
"Hi! Sorry I'm late! Ah, I wasn't expecting you to be here today Daddy!"
With a goofy smile, the drunk Pegasus pointed his fork in Naruto's general area. "Tha's because I wuz meetin' somebody..."
The bright newcomer, who turned out to be another girl, twisted her head to look in the same direction and the surprised smile on her face instantly disappeared as happiness turned into suspicion. She possessed the exact same tint to her eyes and hair as Stella did although unlike the working matron...this one was quite physically developed even with her average height, aptly noticeable through the school uniform draped over her full figure. Shorter but stacked, her bust line was at least twice the size of Stella's own slightly less-than-modest chest. Her hair was longer too, reaching down to brush against her back and shoulder blades with a distinguishable hairclip attached to the left of her skull. Shaped like a butterfly its outline was black with transparent blue in the wings and, to Naruto's eyes, looked to be crafted from glass.
Glossy lips immediately turned into a frown as the young woman regarded the only male with similarly yellow tresses. If there was one thing she could say for certain...he looked like a complete idiot. Those dumb marks on his cheeks made him look like a wannabe thug. Who wears bright orange, especially matched with black as though they were all geared up for Halloween? Her own choices in clothing might have been predetermined every morning but at least they didn't make her like the embodiment of a holiday.
"Sena-sama, my apologies. This young man is Uzumaki Naruto, the apprentice of the late Jiraiya, your father's friend and business associate." Stella announced languidly as the pair of blonds stared each other down. Only at her voice did they both finally break free, with the newly named Sena straightening in her seat as Naruto pulled out the trusty instructions penned sometime back before the toad summoners left for the three year training trip. The shinobi powerhouse quickly reread some lines before snorting and returning the page to his pocket.
"And what are you laughing at?" Kashiwazaki Sena asked pompously, merely seeing the boy as someone else who'd be drooling over her in a few minutes once the full effect over her beauty overtook him.
Instead he just picked up a spoon and began shoveling the soup into his mouth as well-mannered as he could. Wow...it actually tasted incredible. Taking a few more spoonfuls Naruto just flicked his eyes up to look at her again.
"It's just that, Ero-sennin might've been a super pervert and it was pretty shameful hearing him go on about it all the time, but I guess he did have good foresight."
Stella gently plucked the paper from between the jinchuriki's fingers after he retrieved it, passing it to her young mistress who immediately scanned over the Sannin's words before pausing to reread a certain section. One about her.
"Pegasus' daughter doesn't have much going for her now but in a few years my reliable senses are telling me she's going to have one heck of a figure!? What the hell is this!?"
"She gets it from her papa!" Tenma added before laughing uproariously, causing the eldest blonde in tow to constantly wipe at his chin lest he spill the finely made food everywhere.
Sena seemed like she couldn't decide whether or not to be disgusted by the old man's frighteningly accurate observations on her development so long ago, or pleased that her dad complimented her. Instead she took to ripping the notes into pieces and let them drift through her fingers; now Naruto was the one to overreact, jumping up and slapping his hands on the polished wood with enough force to jostle the fine china.
"Why'd you do that!? I don't have much left to remember him by!" At least in the way of possessions. There were always memories, and the man's stories, but the way she so callously tore it up grated at his nerves. At least Sena had the decency to appear sheepish over her irritated action.
Now that she thought about it, in the few times Jiraiya had been mentioned since she arrived the others were using terms that described he was no longer among the living. And if the male in bright colors was his student...
"Oh...I guess that was a bit rude." Releasing her anger through an explosive breath the busty teen eventually leaned forward to prop her cheek against her small fist with a knowing smirk. "Well, for my apology I'll let you be my footstool."
Naruto blanched as a vein jumped in his forehead, partly winding its way out from underneath the black hitai-ate wrapped around the skin. Stella covered her mouth with a hand in shock, releasing a soft 'oh my' despite clearly not being stunned by her charge's strange apology. Tenma just snored as the parent had finally fallen asleep mid-meal. Which was probably why Sena said her distinctly odd request for forgiveness without fear of retribution from her father.
Naruto was actually rendered mute before his brain rebooted and he fought the urge to shake the girl. "Are you kidding me!?"
"What, do you want me to sit on you instead?" she asked, genuinely curious.
"NO!"
"Sheesh, no one else is ever this disobedient."
With blue eyes growing dim from her legitimate belief he was some kind of masochist the ninja couldn't find the words to tell her off, lest of all without getting thrown off the property and ultimately destroying the link between himself and one of his teacher's old friends. So with a glare in her direction he quickly drained the rest of his soup gained from years of slurping down ramen broth. The genin sage then wiped his mouth with the back of his hand and turned towards somebody who he could at least speak to properly. "Uh Stella, I think I'm just gonna go before I get too annoyed."
"Have you anywhere to go? It is growing late."
Looking out the nearby large window Naruto shrugged his shoulders. "Not really. I'm kinda in between jobs right now." Which was true since the rest of Team Seven was locked in recovery since they overused and abused their powers. Sai would be in a lot of casts for a month or so, Sakura nearly killed herself through chakra exhaustion and was bedridden under the care of her parents and the occasional medic though lately she'd been taking walks outside, Kakashi's eyes were overtly stressed after possessing Obito's Sharingan and he just stayed asleep as much as he could since walking around with both orbs covered was ridiculous, and Sasuke...well, he was just as stubborn as Naruto and left on his 'journey' the moment he gained use of his arm again.
So there wasn't much a front-line fighter could do in the meantime as his teammates recovered from their aches and pains. Despite proving how much of a leader he truly was, the entire continent was trying to recoup their losses and up their strength even though the villages were now all on friendly terms forged through the hardships of war. He himself had been tired alongside everybody else, and nearly kicking the bucket was a huge downer, but the blond always healed up quickly and got his energy back faster than anybody else living in Konoha. Which was why the buxom Senju allowed her faux grandson to travel without any fear of danger. Who was going to present Naruto with trouble? Akatsuki? Bandits? Rogue nin? Good luck trying to take down one of the main heroes against Kaguya's revolution.
"Jobs? You have to work?"
"Yes," Naruto snarked at Sena's inquiring but still superior tone, "Some of us don't have rich parents to let us coast through life without having to do anything."
Sena's squawk made him grin triumphantly, even as her blue eyes narrowed and she bit her lip angrily as the irritation returned in full force, fists clenching against the table's lacy covering. Only Stella's soft hand at the Uzumaki's arm stopped the coming storm as the more mature woman (age wise) began routing him out the door after bowing her head towards her unconscious boss and his daughter. "Then come with me Fishcake-sama, I already know you would be presented with a bed to stay the night, if Tenma-sama had not fallen asleep because of his pathetic tolerance. I am sure Jiraiya-sama's old room will suffice."
Feeling eyes on him he turned just to see the gorgeous teen stick her tongue out at him in a last act of defiance, which he returned in full force before the hallway swallowed Naruto up. Scoffing angrily, the young Kashiwazaki finally picked up her eating utensil and spooned the now cooler meal into her mouth, muttering scornfully about their 'guest'. "Stupid idiot poop jerk asshole..."
Naruto was feeling the exact same way. His eyes bored a hole in the back of his guide's head as he followed along through the expansive mansion, doing his best to ignore her odd and disturbing barbs involving making her pregnant should he stare any harder. Was this whole household insane? If he wasn't so fixated on how this woman could work under that one, he probably would have been reduced to a stuttering, confused mess over such a random perverted comment.
Instead he simply asked, "How the hell do you work for such a weirdo?"
"Sena-sama has her...quirks. As do we all."
Tenma was an easy drunk, Stella liked to make things awkward, and Sena apparently had a thing for being some sort of sadist. Yeah. He could agree to that.
"So...are you related to her somehow? You really look alike."
"My family has served the Kashiwazaki family for years," she said simply before opening a door and ushering him inside. Like everything else he'd seen, the bedroom looked positively luxurious and someone had already made the bed for him. Probably Stella. The woman moved over to close the large window for night before turning and giving him a polite bow. "The bathroom is through there. Have a pleasant evening, Naruto-sama."
"Um, yeah. Night."
The emotionless steward proceeded to leave as Naruto was left alone. This had been a...interesting visit one could say, but the ninja could see how Jiraiya and Tenma got along. They both looked super stern but at the flip of a coin the two turned into complete idiots. Business partner he said? Good grief, Ero-sennin must have peddled his smut out here too.
And yet that wasn't so surprising.
Stripping out of his clothes until he was left in his boxers, the Uzumaki quickly went to the bathroom and prepared for bed before slipping underneath the far too soft sheets on the overly comfortable mattress. Having traveled for so long, and the heavily cozy atmosphere, allowed Naruto to quickly drift off to sleep. He wasn't the only one though; Pegasus was still out like a light and even by now Stella and the live-in chef had turned in for the evening.
The only person still awake was Sena, who sat atop her large cozy bed stewing over the fact a man besides her father had brushed off her saintly compassion and feminine charm like it was nothing. That had never happened before. All men at St. Chronica Academy fell to their knees in her presence...so the jerk blond friend of a friend of her dad's was an anomaly.
Bah. What was one male in the face of the entire populace of her school?
And yet Kashiwazaki Sena angrily couldn't get his stupid whiskered face out of her head for the rest of the night.
"Eh hehehe...uh, sorry about that."
"You're not the first drunk I've had to deal with."
Early the next morning, years of routine caused Naruto to wake in an effort to reach Kakashi (and then later Jiraiya's) ridiculous meet up times. He laid around though, since there wasn't actually a pressing need for him to move his ass. By the time the sun peeked through the window and he had redressed, a soft knock came to the door to serve as his alarm clock. Stella guided him back to the dining room where he was then served breakfast. Joining him was Pegasus who naturally looked a bit hung over, and his pretty daughter completely ignored their guest despite constantly looking at him out of the corner of her eye like it wasn't noticeable.
The meal passed in relative silence before Sena finally finished, hugged her dad, glared at Naruto, received her schoolbag from Stella, and left with a cheery wave to those she actually liked.
The moment the female butler departed to drive Tenma's child to her destination, he changed gears again and stood only to drop back into the seat across from the blond where he apologized for his...lightweight nature. The black-haired man twitched ever so slightly at the crack but surprisingly the adult suddenly dropped into a business-like manner. Inhaling, he began to speak again.
"I see you're getting along with my daughter."
Naruto's eyes involuntarily narrowed. "Oh yeah. Really well."
Tenma sighed and crossed his arms before simply speaking his mind. "I really love her, but honestly I worry about her while she's at school. Since you just met Sena you're unaware of this but she just seems to have no...friends. She never goes anywhere in a group, or invites anyone over, and I just...I worry about her personal life. It's not exactly normal when a teenager doesn't have any close, non-familial relationships to foster."
Having known the exact same problem at one point in his life, the shinobi nodded along slowly. "Well that sucks...and sorry for saying, but I have no idea why you brought it up."
"I may have drank myself silly last night but I still remember bits and pieces of the conversation over dinner." Never mind he'd only had one glass of wine to put him in that state. That was convenient for Sena and her weird sadism though, unless the father already knew about his kid's oddity. Probably not...since any normal parent would have put a stop to it the moment the quirk was discovered. Then again they were all weird. Ugh. "I believe I recall overhearing you were on some sort of standby from your profession, which I find odd considering Jiraiya-kun mentioned how anyone could simply ask for a new mission."
"At the moment there isn't much for me to do. Hell, I don't even know how long I'll be kept in reserve after all the work I recently did." Saving the world and stopping a few crazies automatically meant others believed he needed to rest. It just wasn't the shinobi's style though to laze around while others continued to work. So if anything, traveling out here at least got Naruto doing something.
"I see. Then wait here a moment." The other man got to his feet and strode away leaving Naruto by himself at the table. He returned soon enough, with pen and paper in hand. Pegasus scribbled a few paragraphs he couldn't read upside-down from his chair before signing his name with a flourish, folded it up, and sealed it in a very professional manner. "Are you able to call forth an animal like Jiraiya-kun could?"
Why yes he could. And with orders to take the letter and its enclosed message to Konoha's leader, the pair were forced to wait for an answer to Pegasus' mysterious memo once the toad knew what it had been called for. The reply came around an hour later, of which the twosome spent sharing stories about the lone person who brought them together, and the small amphibian handed the letter back to the elder Kashiwazaki with an accompanied croak.
Breaking the Hokage's wax seal, the man scanned over a smaller piece of paper with some lazy sentences scratched along its width before he smirked and pulled forth a very recognizable piece of paperwork. The kind Naruto saw all the time in the mission room of the Hokage's Tower he was vastly familiar with.
Tenma signed his name on a blank line before nodding once and placing a a small stack of large-denominated bills in the envelope along with the document. He handed it all back to the toad who abruptly disappeared once again with a small salute. Handy little buggers, those things.
"Did you just-?"
"I did," the man responded cheerfully as Stella finally stepped into the room, a few bags of groceries in her arms marking what had taken up her time, "This Senju Tsunade person was all for the idea."
"What did you do now, sir?" The pretty older blonde was rather confused. Given she had missed the last hour or so after taking Sena to the academy, it seemed like once again her boss had done something without her supervision. He would have done it anyway regardless but her presence would have allowed the woman to tell him if it was stupid.
As he turned to the steward, the dark-haired male was starting to showcase a grin. "Me? Just creating a new business opportunity for my departed friend's godson and the village he hails from." He then turned to the blue-eyed boy and his smile became calmer as he leaned forward and crossed his arms. "As I mentioned before, I worry for my daughter. Not just because she seems to have a lack of peers to call upon, but because we're rich. I might only be the chairman of a school but as you can clearly see, my family is well off. Luckily the Kashiwazaki's have never really had any problems with kidnapping or ransoms, stuff like that, but that's not to say it couldn't happen. So...to answer your question Stella...Naruto-kun here is now on the payroll as Sena's bodyguard until further notice."
"...and I get no say in this?"
"Well, I did put forth a solo mission request to your Hokage detailing the outlines of the job. She approved it and you work under her, regardless of personal opinion on the matter. Isn't that how these things work?"
Naruto scratched his head. "Ah...yeah." It's not that he was angry over having something to do now...but Sena was annoying, and that was something he learned from just from one encounter. BUT it was merely a guardian thing; he'd filled that role before with targets that irritated him. As long as he grinned, bore it, and then got even in some way it wouldn't be too bad. "Well if that's what has to be done then I'm not going to turn it down."
Pegasus clapped his hands together in triumph at finally finding another way to help his little girl. "Thank you. This means a lot. Stella, would you be so kind as to retrieve fresh enrollment forms for me?" The stoic employee nodded before leaving to fulfill the request, her superior running a hand along his scalp before looking back towards the jinchuriki. "Due to my daughter's current placement, you will need a means of remaining close to her and thankfully I have such a way. Congratulations Naruto-kun. You now have the chairman of Tooya City's first and foremost Catholic high school backing your enrollment into the academy. I hope you do your best in the future."
Ugh...school? That made it even worse. But it was a job. And he was a ninja. There'd been enough excitement to last a lifetime already, so maybe something dull and boring could even it all out. He did have one question though, raising a hand like the student he was about to become:
"Real quick though? What the hell is 'Catholic' and what does that have to do with anything?"
Tenma stared blankly before sighing. Perhaps there was going to be more to this anyone than first thought.
I mentioned in the fifth chapter of Skill Set about whether or not I should create one of those story things like I've seen others do, where they put down plot ideas that they've created but won't make into stories. I wasn't sure, but then again I've got a couple documents with random story lines I wouldn't mind sharing.
So as you can see, I did it anyways.
I like this series. It gets a bit...okay, really crazy sometimes, but it's still a nice little thing to read. Haganai is what it's called here in the West and, for those who don't know, is a series about a bunch of teens who have trouble making friends forming a club to learn exactly how to do that. Except they're all insane in some way, except perhaps the main character, which only detracts from any social life they try to make. There's a harem aspect too but for one thing, Kodaka the MC only seems to act oblivious instead of actually being dense like most other series. I guess he likes hanging out with everyone and doesn't want to fuck it all up. Or at least that's what it seems like.
Aaaaaaaanywho...Naruto becomes Sena's bodyguard in this. He enrolls in the school despite the fact he's not one for schoolwork, to guard a person whose ego matches Madara's on the 'I'm so awesome' scale. It would essentially become Sena forcing the ninja to join the group when she does despite the fact he already has a whole slew of friends himself, and from there...I'm not too sure yet. But it wouldn't be a serious story since I don't count on any big shonen fights breaking out.