Hello everybody! I just found out that this fic is much more famous than my other one! But as long as there are people reading my fics, I'm a happy guy. So after 10 days of the 1st chapter's launch, here's the second chapter of The Kitsune Emperor and The Zero! Enjoy!

CHAPTER 1: The Zero's Training, a Spar for Honour!

-CHAPTER START-

That night, Naruto in his tiny (comparatively) demon form, who was being used as a hugging pillow by Louise was busy laughing his ass off in his head. The turn of events that led to him ending up in Halkeginia is really a humour story for the ages.

"Hahahaa! I bet that Kurumi would be pissed that I'm here, not doing anything, just being hugged by some other women other than her! She's a jealous vixen when she wants to be, though sometimes she likes seeing me being surrounded by other women. Freaking bipolar vixen. But that's why I loved her. And besides, I want to take a break a bit from ruling. I mean, I've been doing it for 300 years, and still gets assassins sent after me every couple of years. Kurumi can handle it."

Naruto continues to snicker, unknowing of the current happenings within the Elemental Nations right now.

-IN THE IMPERIAL CITY-

Kurumi is sighing for the god-knows-how-many-timeth today. Since her announcement, the Nations' population has been in a minor state of chaos due to the fact that their Emperor, one whom they thought was invulnerable and immortal, was kidnapped by a somewhat unexplained supernatural phenomenon that didn't use any chakra at all. At least there have not been any uprisings or assassination attempts from anyone. Which really doesn't bring too much peace of mind to her right now.

As she was pondering on how to retrieve Naruto back from wherever he is, one of the palace's attendants came at her, saying "Milady, Lord Gaara is on the line right now, and wishes to speak to you."

The system of seals used for the nationwide PA systems is also linked to each country's leader though the channel is both private and has a two way connection, but based on the same seal arrays. So, the lords can communicate with each other in real time without any interruption.

Kurumi then lifts a piece of metal filled with seals on top, about half meter long and 1 cm thick from beside the simple throne, just a simple carved wooden chair with seals all over, showing Naruto's humbleness and humility, keyed only to the current Emperor and his Empress' chakra signature, before channelling some chakra to activate it. From the sealing arrays, a thin strip of light shines upwards, before Gaara's face appeared on it. Looking as emotionless as usual, Gaara's red hair, pale skin, the tattoo of the kanji for 'Love' on his forehead and tanuki-like eyes are unchanged since 300 years ago, after he was chosen by Shukaku as her mate. Now, he is a three tailed tanuki hanyou with the ability to control sand, so much so that after the Fourth Shinobi World War, he was unequivocally picked as the new Lord of Wind Country during the Great Overthrowing. He protected his entire army without even so much a scratch, and managed to gain control over the lands. He ruled over them ever since, and nothing escapes his notice in the sands throughout the whole country. As long as something has even a single grain of Wind's sand on them, he'll know about them immediately.

"Hey Gaara. So, what's up? How's Shukaku-chan and your kids?"

"They're fine, Kurumi-san. So what's this about Naruto being kidnapped?"

"Straight to the point as ever. So this is what happens..." And Kurumi starts to narrate the story of how a weird green oval managed to kidnap Naruto. After a while, the story ends, and Gaara sighed.

"Well, can't say that it is unexpected. He attracts a lot of weird stuff along his life. But since you're alive, that means that he is too, and the only thing we need to do is to call him back."

"Yeah, but somehow, the Hiraishin seal placed on him was barely detectable by Kushina. It's like he is so damn far away. We know that the Hiraishin seal's detection strength was extremely strong even as far as the moon when we checked the Juubi's sealed body a couple years ago, so I doubt that he is somewhere close. He's either in an entirely different world, or dimension or a very far away planet. My clone and Kushina is currently working on some ideas on how to call him back, but so far, we didn't manage to advance. It needs some research after all, and it just happened yesterday."

"I wish you luck. For now, we need to calm the citizens down. They're shocked when their Immortal Emperor disappears, and now people are becoming restless."

"I know. Though the situation is still fine at the Imperial City, so I just need to calm the ones more distant. Though I'm sure they'll be fine later on."

"I hope so. Since you said that the situation is still under control, I'm leaving you for now, and try to calm my people. Good day, Kurumi-san." And with that, their connection disengaged, and Kurumi placed the metal piece back on its special spot beside the throne.

"Naruto, wherever you are, I hope you are not in too much trouble. You tend to attract trouble like flies to shit..."

-BACK IN HALKEGINIA-

Naruto suddenly sneezed in his fox form. "Somebody must be talking about me. I never sneezed and was never sick, so that would be the only reason why I would sneeze. Whatever. It's time to start Louise's training. Hehehehe." And with that, Naruto unsealed a bottle of ink from his body, and started using his mastery of water chakra to create seals all over Louise's sleeping body. The combination of seal arrays is what he calls the training seals, a combination of chakra draining and storage, gravity, resistance and a chakra converter seal that converts stored chakra to medical chakra for quick healing, nature chakra absorber and converter to convert nature chakra before changing it into a form useable by humans before forcefully feeding the person's chakra circulatory system with it, forcing it to grow. It'll hurt, but that's what you get when training with Naruto.

Louise, who was sleeping without a care in the world, was suddenly awakened by Naruto, back in his human form, shaking her up at 4 am. She tried to resist, but Naruto ignored her futile resistance and lifted her up and places her legs on the cold floor, still wearing her PJs. She was about to scream towards Naruto about disturbing her sleep, and the fact that she somehow felt like she gained 5 times her body weight that night without doing anything when a huge burst of Killing Intent (KI) from Naruto causes her to shut her mouth, and did her best to not lose control of her bowels.

"Louise." Naruto said with a voice that somehow was both gentle and promises a huge amount of pain if she as so much breathed wrong.

"Y-y-y-y-yes?" Louise squeaked out, Naruto's sheer KI forces her brain to work overtime just to respond.

"You asked me to train you did you not?"

"Y-y-y-y-yes."

"And so your training starts now." And with that, Naruto grabs Louise before disappearing in a shunshin to an area outside the academy. Before being hugged by Louise last night, he actually created multiple of his special bug clones (AN: For those that didn't read my other story, it's a Shadow Clone with a purified youki core that Henges into bugs which allows it to recover chakra itself like a living being, useful for recon) that spreads around and has already given him information about the layout of the academy. He appears outside the academy's walls with Louise in his hand. Louise, still shaken over the massive amount of KI aimed towards her, can only follow when Naruto gave one command: "Run."

Louise, who by now knows better than to argue, immediately ran as fast as her legs can carry her, which, admittedly is not a long distance, considering her lack of physical training, the gravity and resistance seals and the fact that her chakra is being restrained, which equates to extremely low stamina. After just 5 minutes of running, she felt as if her legs would break apart to a million pieces, but before she can fall down and rest, a demonic sound appeared from behind her.

"Louise, look at me, and run as fast as you possibly can, or I will REALLY show you my demonic side."

Hearing the weird voice from behind her, Louise turned back, before her eyes widened in fear of what she saw at her back. A huge golden furred fox as tall as the academy's walls with twelve tails was behind her, ready to pounce and crush her body between his fangs, each as long as half her body length, and they are bared and the demonic being was growling at her, a voice that just causes her to shiver uncontrollably. But before she can do anything, this demonic being raised his head to the skies before roaring, a roar so powerful it causes all the familiars within the academy and a huge area around it to basically turn into an ant and hide anywhere that they can, waking people up, especially the powerful ones like Old Osmond and Colbert and one Matilda. Some animals even died outright due to the sheer power contained within the roar.

Louise, right at ground zero of the roar, just did what long-hidden instincts told her to – she ran. Ran like her life depended on it, which it does (Naruto was laughing his ass out in his head at this time), running as fast as her already tired legs can carry her, not caring if they are burning in pain, with her entire body screaming in massive pain, her lungs on fire due to lack of air and her heart almost exploded within her chest, beating wildly without restraint, her entire body trying its utter best to flee from the demonic being who just scared the shit out of her just now even with all the seals on her.

But after only about 20 minutes of non-stop running, Louise's battered body, unable to do anything anymore, just promptly shut down, and she crashed ungracefully onto the ground, her losing consciousness even before she fell down, her body running only on instinct at that moment. Seeing that his master has knocked herself out, Naruto turned back into his human form before shunshining towards her location, his height from before allowing him to see just where she fell down. He then laid her down before activating the seal's healing capability, before Louise's entire body glowed with a pale green light.

Suddenly, before Louise had finished healing, the old man – whom Naruto fails to identify as Colbert – came in front of him running in his PJs as well, panting and out of breath, but his staff held at the ready to cast a fire spell. The sight that he was greeted with, which is the sight of Lady Vallière on the ground with a pale green glow covering her. Feeling anger building within him at the sight of her own familiar right beside her prone figure, he screams towards Naruto, despite the warnings that his long dormant battle instincts kept screaming at him. "You monster! I should have known when you appeared like that yesterday! Scaring everyone and everything, now you tried to harm Lady Vallière, your own master! None of my students will be harmed as long as I draw breath! Prepare yourself monster!"

And with that, a massive snake made out of red-hot flames shot out from his staff and rushed towards Naruto with amazing speeds. Seeing the way the flame snake is rushing at him, Naruto sighed inwardly. "This is going to be a bitch to explain later," he thought before using his mastery in elemental chakra to draw all available water from around him to create a sealless Suiton: Water Wall to intercept the living flames. Living 300 plus years with daily, nonstop training and practices allows Naruto to both use most jutsus without handseals and control all 5 elements to levels that would surprise even an undead Kage, capable of using the Nidaime Hokage's own waters to attack him by overpowering it with his own bijuu-level chakra.

Colbert who was still guiding his flame snake towards his target was shocked when a massive wall of water appeared out of freaking nowhere to block his signature spell from hitting his target. The flaming snake hits the water, creating a massive eruption of steam from the point of impact. "Impossible! My attack is a square level fire spell, and he blocks it without even a hint of spellcasting, without even a wand! Truly a monster with extreme powers! If I were to die today, then I will die standing! I will save Lady Vallière if it's the last thing I do!" his spirit, emboldened with his own conviction held strong his self even against such a powerful monster. He then continues to pour magical power into a new spell, creating a massive three-headed flaming snake that threatens to crash and burn the enemy to ashes.

Seeing this, the first thing that ran into Naruto's mind was "Shit, he had a flaming version of Orochimaru's snake. What's up with that?" And with that, Naruto said to Colbert, "Impressive skills from a skinny old guy who just woke up. But I'll show you REAL flames! Katon: Fire Dragon Flame Bomb!" and with that, a sealless fire jutsu erupted from Naruto's mouth, the name calling is just for show, the flames so hot the dragon turned white, and rushed towards Colbert, who was standing there, stupefied.

The three-headed snake is one of Colbert's most powerful spell within his arsenal, a huge mass of serpentine shaped living flames that can strike an enemy from all directions, causing him to get trapped within a huge dome of flames which will burn him in a short time. Yet, the flames of this... this... BEAST in front of him completely dwarfed his own, in fact, it even absorbed his own attack before turning it towards him, though the power of the attack was completely unaffected by the absorption, such is the difference of power between him and this beast in front of him. Slowly, Colbert closed his eyes, already accepting the fact that he'll die in front of this beast wearing a human form. The heat that washed away from the draconic spell washed over him, and for a second he thought that he was being roasted alive, before he felt the heat go away and a massive explosion occurred far away, yet he can still hear the sound of it. Slowly opening his eyes, what he saw shocked him beyond anything else he had ever seen. A huge trench was created by the path of the monster's attack in front of him, with the grass around it still burning, yet the trench bent away from him before its end, which he looked at, which is a massive crater on the ground in what he previously knew as a small forest.

Naruto sighed loudly. "Damn, I misjudged the power of that Fire Dragon Flame Bomb. And killing a teacher here will not make a good impression towards anyone here. At least I changed its trajectory. Though I still pity that forest. Well, I can probably rebuild it later using the Mokuton chakra changer seal. Now for some explanation." And with that, Naruto stepped aside, showing the still stupefied Colbert the sight of a now-stirring Louise.

"Y-y-you monster! Demon! What did you do towards her?!"

"*sighs* Hey old man, I get it. I'm a demon, yes. You can call me anything you like. A demon, a monster, a murderer, a hero, I've been called all of that and then some. But," Naruto immediately disappeared before appearing in the face of Colbert and grabbed his robes before snarling in his face, "Do NOT accuse me of harming my own student. I never did harm my students, and I will be sure to push them to their utmost to turn them into the best that they can be. So shut up old man, and let me do my work!"

"Then where did that earth shaking roar came from? No way was that training! And why is Lady Vallière on the ground? You must have done something to her!"

"*sighs* I've been doing that a bit too much since I got here." Naruto muttered. "Well, as I said, in a way, I AM a demon, though I am not sure whether or not you would consider me an abomination as well. But since you've been accusing me wrongly, let me show you how much of a demon I am, and what I have Louise doing."

And without further warning, Naruto immediately engaged the full size of his demon form, with Louise already woken up and heard the argument before the two. But before she could say anything, a HUGE eruption of power came from Naruto, who then promptly turned into his full demon form at full size, taller than the academy's smaller towers, all twelve tails flailing wildly, though they didn't hit anything.

Colbert and Louise was in too much awe at the sight of this demonic being, his powers washing over them like sea water on a beach, causing them to stand (or lie down in Louise's case) in awe at Naruto's mere aura. But suddenly, Naruto flared his powers, his body flickering with golden flames which erupted around his demonic body, causing multiple weird markings to appear on his body in the shape of lines and spirals originating from his stomach and followed the general shape of his skeletal structure. The sheer power causes Louise to pass out instantly, her mouth drooling and foaming while Colbert just stood there, his eyes bulging, threatening to break out of his skull, his whole body was bathing in his nervous sweat.

Naruto looked down between his legs to see Colbert standing and Louise passed out, though Colbert looked like he saw a demon from hell in front of him. "Oh wait, he did." Naruto thought.

In Colbert's mind, he realises that this demon, which he just fought against, was beyond him or anyone that he can think of. Hell, even the Elves aren't this powerful! The sheer presence of this being almost made him soil himself in fear! Him, the once-feared flame Snake, a square class mage, student of Karin the Heavy Wind, and one of the best mages in service of Tristain at one time! Yet he can't deny this being's power. He bet within his mind that he can even destroy the entire Tristain Army without breaking a sweat before proceeding to destroy the other countries as well! What a mistake he did picking a fight with him! And suddenly, the head turned towards him and it inches closer towards his position, still rooted on the ground, his life flashing in front of his eyes.

But suddenly, the being turned back into his human form, before he laughed so hard he was rolling on the ground clutching his stomach. "Hahahahahaha! You should've seen your face! Hahahaha!" He then stood, before continuing "But really, you should. Did you know that that was one of the most seen expressions of my enemies when I transformed into my full demonic form? It's really funny watching them stand there almost dying from my sheer presence."

But Naruto's face and tone suddenly turned serious. "But let's get back to our original argument. You said that I harmed Louise? And that roar? Yes, that was all me. But how else can you give a person who considers herself a noble a good run? It's for her physical training, you know. Give them a major scare, and they'll run away like everyone else. Though that part just now was just to show you how overpowered I am against you. Anyway, I will also train her in the usage of my skills later, like that Fire Dragon Flame Bomb you saw before, so don't worry." And then, he let Colbert go.

Colbert was still shocked at his emission that he is a demonic being, but what surprises him the most is the fact that he was able to speak Halkeginian when he wasn't able to the last time he saw him, and decided to voice his thoughts. "How are you able to learn Halkeginian so fast? You just arrived here this evening! There are no possible ways for you to learn Halkeginian that fast!"

"Well, there actually am, and I did not use it. You people would be too horrified of it. The reason why I can speak your language is that Louise casted a spell that was supposed to silence me, but instead, the spell botches up and causes me to understand all of you. So now, before you resume hostilities, I will reintroduce myself, since I failed to do so before this evening. I am Uzumaki-Namikaze Naruto, 325 years old, First Emperor of the Elemental Nations, First Kitsune Lord, twelve tailed kitsune hanyou, Hero of the Fourth Shinobi War, the Destroyer of Enemies, the Caretaker of Nations and the Immortal Emperor. And who are you, old man?"

Hearing this for the umpteenth time, Colbert bristles and shouts out, "I am not old! I am just 40 years old! Hell, you are older than I am by a long shot!" Colbert then clears his throat, before clearing his throat and continues. "I am Mr. Jean Colbert, the History teacher in Tristain's Academy of Magic and a square-class mage. You said that you are an immortal emperor, and from your terms, I deduced that you are not from this world, and thus you will not be able to understand some of my terms, as does some of yours. So, care to explain those to me?"

"Well, it's going to be a long explanation. You better sit down here in front of me." Naruto then sat cross legged on the ground, with Colbert doing the same in front of him. "Well, it's like this..." and once again, Naruto ended up explaining to someone else about what shinobi is, his world, his life, and a lot of other stuff. "I'm better off recording this on a seal. People are going to ask me that a lot, and this might be the only way to stop me from wasting my breath and time talking about the Elemental Nations." By the end of that one hour long explanation, Colbert's mind was reeling from all the information that Naruto just dumped to him. All this while, they have forgotten about Louise, who was still frothing at her mouth, and still knocked out.

"No wonder that you are so different. And the fact that you are an immortal demonic being really takes the spotlight here. But one thing puzzles me. You said that you are an emperor. Why did you so easily agreed to become Miss Vallière's familiar?"

"A good question old man. (Colbert was barely holding his anger by this point.) The thing is, I have been ruling for more than 300 years. Life is fine for me, with the Nations achieving peace between them without any wars, and the only war that seems to come before my disappearance is an attack from over the sea, from another continent. But eventually, I got tired. Tired of my life as a ruler, as an emperor that everyone looks up to and adores. Wandering the lands that I control on my own, maybe with my wife and kids will not help both my reputation and my country for long and life is moving at a pretty slow pace for me. I saw my friends, my comrade-in-arms, my people, my wives, gave birth to the next generation, before the next generation gave birth to the next, and the next to another. Watched them die, both in my arms and beside me, whether in battle or in bed, and their children die, and their grandchildren, and for some, even their great-grandchildren. It is also the reason why I'm called the Immortal Emperor, for I am there during their grandfather's birth, ruling over them, and their father's, and themselves, so much so that they know of no higher ruling being than me. Heck, some even revered me as a god, even if they know my own demonic side. In fact, they embraced it, and there are even cults out there who was said to sacrifice themselves to 'gain the Emperor's blessing', even though I rejected such things." At this, Naruto's face turned sombre, and Colbert just sat there, saying nothing.

"But thankfully, I have my wife and kids, all of them immortal by age, though still very hard to kill even if they can die. They are my only eternal companions in the world, staying by my side without any questions, loyally supporting all my decisions while helping me to make new ones or to rule over others better. They kept me grounded, and kept me from losing my mind. But eventually, I got bored of ruling. I am already more than 300 years old, and my people are now living steadily. So, I spend most of my time now training for a war that will or will not arrive. Even though I loved the peace that my Nation managed to achieve, I gained more excitement during wars, wars which I can sometimes end with just one attack. Even so, I managed to hold my battle cravings back with vicious spars with my children, sometimes lasting for days. After a while, I managed to completely control it, and now, it's buried so deeply that it's hard for me to even call it back. But with Louise summoning me, I can gain something new. A newer, more novel experience. Do you know that when you are immortal you get bored of newer things easily? You have an eternity to master them, so much so that by the time something new came in, you are already an expert in all the fields related to them. By summoning me, Louise can give me the outlet for that massive feeling of boredom that I have. That is why I accepted her summoning without so much as a fight or an argument. It's something new for me, this different dimension stuff." Naruto just chuckled weakly afterwards, though this is a chuckle of a world weary man, a man who has seen everything, yet will stay on to see more, and more, watching all the atrocities and all the good things that man can, and will perform.

Colbert, not being able to understand the feelings of an immortal, just nodded and agrees with Naruto's thought. Naruto then stood up and created a couple sealless Shadow Clones to fix the damages that their brief battle creates, while he himself went to Louise and activated the healing function of the training seal once more. While Louise was covered with the greenish hue of medical chakra, Colbert called out to Naruto. "Wait! I still did not understand what you are doing just now! Why did you roar like that?!"

"Well, as I said, I'm going to train Louise in my world's arts, due to her orders and her own inability to cast spells which reminds me of Hina-hime and maybe have her teach me this world's magic, though I think my jutsus are better. And one of the main requirements to become extremely good at my arts is to have a strong physical body. I started by having her run, though she ran for only 5 minutes. So, I gave some... extra motivation. Just like that. Next will be physical exercises! She'll probably drop dead by the time her classes start, so just take it as it is. Now go away! I got someone to train, and I never do things halfway." And with that, Naruto chases Colbert away, intending to train Louise further. Colbert, understanding, walked away silently, all the while digesting the information that he was given just now.

-BREAK-

Louise woke up suddenly, her body feeling more refreshed than ever, though she still felt like she was swimming in mud. Opening her eyes, the first sight that she sees is the sight of her demonic familiar crouching beside her. She immediately sprang up and skittered backwards, screaming "DON'T EAT ME! PLEASE! SPARE ME!" Seeing and hearing this, Naruto just laughs, and he laughed so hard that tears fell from his eyes, while Louise still looked at him, scared.

Naruto then stops laughing and wipes the tears from his eyes, still laughing. "Seriously, that was the funniest reaction I have ever seen, and I've seen a lot!" But then, Naruto's eyes hardened, before he said, "But sadly, Louise, your training is not yet done for the morning. There is still a lot more for you to do, and I won't have you stop here. I have already warned you of the toughness of the training, and let's just say, if not for the seals I placed on you last night, you would've died. Anyway, physical training! Now! GET UP!" Naruto roared out, which causes Louise to instinctively jump up and stand in a parade ready state. Naruto looked at Louise appreciatively while walking around her, all the while Louise's eyes are darting towards him, sweat still beading out of her.

"Alright! Your morning run has finished, and now you must perform exercises to strengthen your body! My world's arts do not run on a weak body, and yours are one of the worst that I've seen! So get down and give me 500 push ups!"

"Wait! One thing, fami-" Louise was interrupted by Naruto saying, "When I am training you, call me Naruto! Understand?! In fact, it would be easier if we call each other by our name. Besides, you're scared of me, aren't you?"

Louise tried her hardest to deny that, she sure did, but the sight of her familiar – no, Naruto now – causes her to remember the sheer helplessness that she felt when he turned to his demon form, so she did the only thing she can – nodding, while whispering out a slow "...yes." Unfortunately, Naruto's Lyman's Ears picked up her whisper, which causes him to grin before saying "Excellent! That'll give you extra motivation to go through with my training! So drop and give me 500 push ups!"

"But my body felt like I'm walking in mud! Why is that?"

"That's because I placed seals on you that restricts your movements to train your underdeveloped muscles so that they are much stronger than they are. Now, I already said to you that my training will be harsh and will probably kill you if I can't help it. Will you still go through with it, or will you surrender?"

Louise just grumbles before dropping down and started performing push-ups, though by the time she reaches her 3rd time, she felt like someone placed the entirety of Halkeginia on her back! And Naruto is still staring at her, so she knows that she'll go through even worse than this...

-BREAK-

At breakfast, all the noble students of the academy was eating at the grand dining hall within the academy, where the commoner servants of the academy are serving the students a huge breakfast, befitting their status as nobles. Everywhere around the hall, the scene of students gorging themselves on their breakfast meals is abound, with the sound of chatting by the students about various topics buzzing around the hall. Suddenly, the door to the hall opened, and in walked a giant, one who was 7' 1" tall with an extremely tired, frail and thin looking Louise following beside him. The sight of the giant silenced everyone who remembered what happened during the summoning yesterday, yet the sight of a half-dead Louise walking within the hall, with the giant beside her grinning like a loon at her condition stirs a feeling of curiosity in everyone, but nobody dares to ask. She then had her breakfast, a nice toast with a piece of ham, scrambled eggs, an apple and tea, though the speed at which she eats her breakfast causes everyone to stare at her in surprise.

Ignoring any standards of nobility, Louise gorged her breakfast like never before, like she never had any of the meal, and within seconds, the meal is finished. She then drank her tea, before calling a servant, screaming "Seconds!" And with that, a servant brought another serving, and another, and another. Food pieces are flying everywhere around her, yet she didn't give a damn. After that hellish training her familiar gave her this morning, she cared not of her reputation. The only thing that she cared is to gain enough energy so that she won't fall down dead during this evening's training session. This evening! And she thought that this morning's was crazy!

Naruto is looking at his master with an irremovable grin on his face. Training her is awesome! She tried to whine and bitch, but just by flaring a bit of his power, she was scared out of her wits! She ran through her exercises, though he needs to activate the heal function for her every 10 minutes – who knows that she was so physically weak, Naruto mused – and a bit later, shows a sort of determination that he rarely saw on going through the exercises. She is used to the resistance seals by now, but then, Naruto warned her of something.

-FLASHBACK-

Louise was on her last legs in performing the exercises, and she finally finished the last repetition of crunches that Naruto told her to do. This time, he didn't even need to flare his powers! At least, thanks to Naruto constantly healing her body using the weird seal that he placed on her and also a certain power of his from what he explains. That strange glowing flame healed her and causes her to heat up and also recover her energy as well. But suddenly, Naruto said to her.

"Louise, you may think that I am healing you so much. The truth is, I am using your body's fat that you didn't have much of and speeding up the digestion of your food and the food that remains within your intestines to repair your body's muscles. It may not sound too much, but without these resources, you will be extremely tired and your body will be unable to heal, even with my seals. If left as usual, your muscles will never be repaired and you will be in so much pain all the time you cannot even think straight."

Before Louise could start making a horrified expression, Naruto continues. "But there's a very simple way to solve this problem. You must eat a lot. Ignore everything that people will say, and eat. Eat until you can't eat no more. It may make you seem like a glutton, but if you didn't do this, you WILL feel it later. So please, eat. You'll need it. Remember, you're the one who asked for the training. I am just doing it the way I know best: push you to your edge and beyond, but grab you right after you fall, lift you back up before repeating it again and again and again until you fly."

At this, Louise just nodded, not having the strength to say anything. But now that he said it, she felt that she is hungrier than ever! And this will continue in the evening as well... She is starting to regret this choice...

-END FLASHBACK-

Now, she was gorging the food that the academy provides like there's no tomorrow! And no one else but Naruto and herself knows that she'll need it. And he knows that she'll be a great warrior later. But for now, she needs to continue her healing, not being completely healed after the last exercise. He even turned the resistance and gravity seals off to prevent her from burning out.

"Master, I'm going out for a while to see the sights, so meet me later at your room before your classes. You haven't finished healing yet, so please do so." Seeing Louise nod, Naruto rises from his seat before getting out of the hall, his leave seen by tens of eyes within the hall.

Louise ignored everything around her and continued to eat her breakfast at a fast pace, not noticing that she was approached by Kirche and her constant companion, Tabitha. Watching Louise eat like a glutton, Kirche made a disgusted face before saying "I never knew that a Vallière can eat like a pig. Guess that you have an extremely low standard of eating, even among you Vallières."

Hearing this, Louise stopped eating and glared at Kirche for a while, before saying "Get off Zerbst. I need all this food to survive. Stop bothering me and let me eat in peace." before continuing her binge eating.

Kirche was shocked! It seems that her favourite people to mess with had grown a backbone! Or something. She didn't know just what grew within her since yesterday, but she knew that whatever it is, it might not be something that can be good. Or whatever. And thus, she left Louise with her eating, before leaving.

-BREAK-

Naruto was walking outside the dining hall when a black-haired servant came crashing into him, the plates of foodstuff that she was carrying within a silver tray sent flying every which way. Using his extreme reflexes and speed, Naruto caught everything and places them back on the tray before handing it back towards her, not a drop of water or a piece of food spilled. The servant was staring at him with awe, completely ignoring the tray that he hands to her, before Naruto asks "Uh, miss...? Are you okay?"

This innocent question snapped the servant out of her trance, and she looked at the face of her saviour, and what she saw almost caused her to go into another episode of trance, but this time, for an entirely risqué line of thinking. That shiny blonde hair, that handsome face with blue eyes that she can stare all day long, those exotic looking whisker marks on his cheeks and his sexy voice, she almost creamed on the spot right then and there! But she quickly shook her head, clearing her mind of her naughty thoughts, before replying "Uh... Y-yes, I'm fine! Thank you for asking! I need to deliver this food to the nobles fast! Good day!" and running away, a huge blush on her face. Watching this, Naruto had a confused look on his face, before muttering "Weird maid." And continuing his exploration of the academy's complex.

Meanwhile, the black haired maid named Siesta was having a field day with her imagination. "That man... He's so... so... handsome! And he's HUGE! And he has that feeling of power around him! Oh, how I would like to have him in my bed, or in his. Doesn't matter! He's going to ravage me like a beast! I'll MAKE him ravage me! Like what the prince did to that poor slave in The Prince and The Slave! Oh! I think I've been reading too much novels. Hehehe." As her mind was wandering, a very perverted grin appeared on her face, combined with a giggle and some drool that fell from her mouth that causes everyone around her to avoid her like she's crazy. And suddenly, she snapped from her hallucinations before punching the air all of a sudden. "That's it! I must get him as my man! Father's going to be happy that someone like him could be my husband!" And with that, she firmly set her mind to get Naruto as her husband, by hook or by crook.

Meanwhile, Naruto suddenly felt a shiver on his back. "Seems like someone's targeting me. And not in a deadly way too. Crap." Feeling such a target painted on his back, he ignored it as best as he can as he was walking to another part of the academy, where he saw the walking figure of Colbert, now within his usual garment of blue robes with a white line in the middle at the front side. Colbert, who was greeting the students that he met beside the cobbled path suddenly felt the presence of his enemy from this morning, and shooed the students away, much to their confusion. He then walked and faced Naruto, though his eyes still betrayed the sheer feeling of fear that he was feeling in front of this demon – no, half demon – in front of him.

"How can I help you today, Mr. Naruto?" He said the last part with scorn evident. Naruto just rolled his eyes, and grabbed Colbert's shoulder before saying "Walk with me." Not able to find any ulterior motive behind his invitation, Colbert walked beside him and went together to the park in between the buildings.

"Okay. I know that you are pissed at me. I even know that you are also scared at me. But know this. I will not harm someone unless they harmed me or my student cum master first. I am also a scholar, not unlike you, and I would like to learn more of this world, its culture, its people and it's magic. And I sure as hell can't do that if you're angry yet afraid at me all the damn time. So? What do you say? Peace?"

Colbert is shocked at this. This half demon being was saying that he's a scholar? Impossible! Yet he knows that one cannot live 300 years without any knowledge and overcame any adversary with nothing but superior firepower. Thinking back, it is foolish of him to engage someone whose strength he doesn't know. And now, he wants to make peace with him. After some deliberation, he then said his choice.

"Alright. Though it is against our religion to befriend demons, I'd have to say that not many can do anything about it. Besides, you are, like it or not, Miss Vallière's familiar, and is supposed to be unable to harm her. And so, I apologize for the attack this morning, and I will accept your offer, as long as you do not harm anyone in this country. Peace." And with that, Colbert offered his hand to Naruto, who smiles and shook it instantly.

"Thanks. I think that's all that I want to speak to you, and you'll find that I am not a bad person, half demon, whatever, as long as someone didn't harm what I cared about. Good day, and see you in classes later, if Louise has any with you." And with that, Naruto left the professor and heads towards the dormitories, Colbert watching his back. "I hope I didn't make the wrong choice just now."

-BREAK-

Naruto is heading towards Louise's room when he heard Louise's voice shouting from afar. Not feeling too worried yet still curious, Naruto shunshined towards where he heard Louise's voice came from. He appeared right beside Louise, shocking everyone there including Louise, who jumped upwards in shock. "Naruto! Where did you come from?! How do you know I'm here?!"

"In order, yes I am, from the path after talking to Colbert and I heard your screaming. So why are you screaming?"

And so Louise explained. She was walking towards her room when she saw Guiche (while pointing towards a tall, blonde haired boy with a rose in his mouth) who was flirting with Katie (points towards a gentle looking girl with brown hair) and walked beside them, ignoring them when Louise's ears, always ready to pick up any insults towards her, heard him saying "That, my dear Katie, is Louise Françoise le Blanc de La Vallière, also known as the Zero, but now, also as the Glutton. She ate like a pig, completely ill-fitting her noble disposition!" then, they both laughed as one. Louise, who was angrier by this point, screamed towards them, and threw a massive tantrum over that statement which was stopped when Naruto appeared out of nowhere.

At this, Naruto thought of some way for him to gain the student's knowledge while redeeming her honour at the same time. And suddenly, a light bulb appeared beside his head before lighting brightly, blinding everyone there. "Where the hell did that came from!?" Louise thought. After a while, the light bulb, together with the light that it emits, disappears as fast as it appears. "So, you want him to take back that statement about you?" Louise nodded. "Then, what about this? Louise and... Guiche, was it? Both of you will spar, use everything that you can, and if Louise wins, Guiche will have to apologize to her, and if Guiche wins, then you'll have to admit that you're a glutton. I'll be the judge and to make sure that nobody dies. You can use anything you want: spells, swords, whatever. How is that?"

At this, Louise is horrified, her face turning as pale as a sheet of paper. Guiche however, was laughing. "Do you honestly expect the Zero to go up against me, Guiche the Bronze, a dot rank earth mage? She better be prepared to be called Louise the Glutton after this, for I will definitely win! Hahahaha!"

Overconfidence always leads to defeat, Naruto mused. "Very well. How about next week, when you're free? Name a place with an open area and we'll be there. I'll handle the academy's side, don't worry."

"The Vestri Court. It is open enough for us to spar, and I'm sure that everyone would like to see her humiliating defeat. Having a Vallière's daughter losing a magical spar is going to be a huge news! Hahaha!" and with that, Guiche went away, Katie hot on his heels. Naruto then walked away while lifting Louise in his hands before Hiraishining to her room. Once there, Naruto laid Louise, who was still catatonic, on her bed, and prepared to activate the seals' healing function. But before he could do that, Louise jumped from the bed, points a finger towards Naruto, and starts to scream. "What the hell are you thinking you stupid familiar?! No way will I be able to win! I can't even cast spells! His valkyries will tear me apart! And how will you be able to get the academy to approve?! And-"

"Louise." Naruto said slowly, yet with a commanding tone befitting an emperor, which causes Louise to stand up straight as a rod while slowly turning her head towards Naruto, not saying anything.

"Do you think that you will lose?" Louise just nodded. "Then you're better off not training with me." Louise was about to jump and shout otherwise, but one look at Naruto's glare stopped her.

"I do not train losers. Are you a loser?" Louise shook her head rapidly. "How do you know you will lose?" she said nothing, just looking at the floor. "Then you better win. Do you think I trained you for nothing? Just so that I can laugh at your own defeat? So that I can show the rest of your world how much of a loser a student of mine is?" Naruto then stood.

"I do not train losers, Louise. I train winners! Warriors! Those who would kill and die at my command! Those who would charge into battle without fear, knowing that their emperor shall walk beside them, in death or in life! Those who fought with honour and mercy! Killing enemies left, right, above and below, yet not harming their people or their towns! Those who are strong! Those who are willing to do anything to their enemies to win! I DO NOT TRAIN LOSERS, LOUISE!" Naruto screamed out in the end, causing the people around to gain a huge dose of fear from whatever that was behind the Vallière's room. Louise is already shaking in her boots by now, gripping her hands so tightly they almost bleed.

"I WILL TRAIN YOU TO WIN! I WILL TRAIN YOU TO FIGHT! I WILL TRAIN YOU TO BE STRONG! NOT A WEAK, WHINY BITCH! Although we just started the sessions, do you really think I will leave you floating without any help? Do you really think so low of me? By the time comes, I will make sure that Guiche will eat the dirt on your shoes. I will make sure that he regrets messing with you. I will make sure that he knows that ONLY THE WEAK PICKS ON OTHERS! THE STRONG DEFENDS THEM! DO YOU HEAR ME LOUISE?! WILL YOU FOLLOW?!"

All fired up, the flames of her spirit stoked till they're white hot, she screams with an unholy fervour, her eyes almost burning with the flames of her youth (AN: I have no idea what to place XD), "YES! TRAIN ME NARUTO! I WILL BE STRONG! I WILL FIGHT! AND I WILL WIN!"

"Good!" and with that, Naruto lifts her up and places her on the bed before activating the healing seals. "But it will all fail if you started to say that you'll lose before it even started. And if you are not healed completely. It seems that you took my advice on the eating part from what Guiche says. So, the seals can help heal you better, but you'll need to eat as much still as long as you are training under me. Don't worry of becoming fat, the training will cause you to lose all those food extremely quickly. But now, some changes on the seals are needed." Naruto then unseals his sealing set, before using his control to manipulate the ink towards Louise's body. Seeing her confusion, Naruto said. "Relax. These seals will help you train even more. Also, I applied the seals before during your sleep." Ignoring her horrified face, Naruto continued. "Anyway, these new seals will force your body to continuously heal after damaging itself using the resistance seals and the gravity seals. This means that you'll be in immense pain all the time, since your muscles are continuously torn and healed. But it also means that you'll gain muscle strength faster, something that you'll severely need to win without training in a week. It will also force your body to enhance your movement using chakra due to the resistance seals, automatically improving both your chakra amount and your muscle strength. The resistance and gravity seals are auto adjusting, so that means that you will feel like you have the world on your back at every moment, no matter how good or strong you are. But once the seals are disabled, your true power will shine. You will be much faster, much stronger due to unconscious chakra enhancement, and you can definitely win against Guiche. Also, the special chakra training seals will force your chakra coils to grow by forcefully injecting you with converted nature chakra, causing you immense pain from your insides, but at the same time increases the amount of chakra you have, enabling you to fight longer. The thing about the seals is that just likethe resistance seals, they auto adjusts, so that when you no longer feel the effects, it will inject even more chakra into your coils. You will basically be in constant pain at every second of your life while you're training with me. But never surrender. Never let anyone tell you that you'll lose, for that means that you have lost before the battle even started."

Hearing the use of all those seals, Louise was horrified, but understanding his intentions, Louise then decides to hold it in and let him do what he needs to do for her victory. A couple minutes later, she finished healing, and the seals are finished. She then sees Naruto making a weird hand gesture, before he shouts something that will change her life forever.

"SEAL!"

-BREAK-

Right now, Louise is in a class on transmutation with Naruto sitting beside her and herself being covered by a weak green glow, and she is not doing anything. In fact, she ignored everything and everyone around her, focusing completely on holding back the shout of pain that she knows she will make if someone so much as touches her. When Naruto said that it will be painful, she didn't expect it to be this much! She felt like her insides are turning to mush and her blood changed to hot oil! Her entire body is burning with pain due to the torn muscles that just WALKING caused her and the injection of chakra into her body. She can't even speak without her jaws feeling like they'll fall off! And the healing causes people to avoid her since she walks around with a weird green glow covering her. Also, she cannot help but feel hungry; all the food this morning has already been digested to continuously heal her.

Naruto, seeing her like this, just smirks, knowing the effects that the seals cause. She'll definitely not be able to sleep this night. But he also knows that the seals are a very efficient way to train someone in a short time, at least in his land. But he's sure that it will work as well, especially the chakra seals. He realised that for some reason, the air is beyond saturated with nature chakra, and that Louise will have no problem improving her chakra amount. Though she'll be in a huge amount of pain. He then went to Louise's ears, before whispering, "Louise, this evening, I will teach you how to fight, how to throw a proper punch and hit a target properly. You'll be in even more pain, so prepare yourself." Louise didn't even let a whimper out, knowing that it is a futile endeavour. Then, the mage teacher entered, and everyone sat down in their seats.

"Alright everyone, sit at your seats, and – Miss Louise, what is wrong with you? What's that?" she asks, referring to the pale green glow covering Louise.

"Oh, don't worry about her Madam Chevreuse, she's fine." (AN: Don't forget that he already gained intel on the academy, which includes their staff) Louise felt like she should kick Naruto in principal as she heard this, but held back her anger.

"Well then, if you say so, mister familiar." Naruto was already known in a short time among the teaching staff as the only human familiar ever summoned. She then starts her lecture with Naruto listening intently, trying to learn the ways of magic that Halkeginia uses. After a while, she produces a couple of pebbles out of her purple robes before placing it on the lecture podium and transmutes them to bronze. Naruto was intrigued by this, and decided to try his hands at it. He lifted his hand up, before saying. "Madam Chevreuse, I would like to try that same spell you did on the pebbles. Is that possible?"

"Well, I don't see why not, though one question. Have you ever had any training in magic?"

"No. Does it affects anything?"

"I'm afraid so. Only someone with noble blood can become mages, for only they have the unique magical power to be used in magecraft."

"A bit like a magic enabling bloodline then.""I understand. But what's the harm in trying right?"

"I suppose you're right. Here, try it." Naruto then walked to the podium and took the relatively tiny wand offered by Chevreuse into his hand and points it towards a new set of pebbles that Chevreuse took out. He then thought hard on transforming the pebbles to gold, and suddenly, the pebbles starts to glow. Fearing the worse, all the students (minus Louise) took cover behind the tables, their friends, anything they can to cover themselves from the incoming explosion. But much to their surprise, no explosion occurred. Peeking from their cover, they only saw the astonished face of Madam Chevreuse, not the results of the transmutation. Naruto then went back to his seat, his face scrunched up in his thinking. The pebbles are now glowing with a golden hue. He transmutated it to gold without prior training in magic. Chevreuse promptly faints.

-BREAK-

That evening at a small forest close by, Louise who had a VERY large lunch and has already gotten mostly used to the pain thanks to the constant healing, asked Naruto of the event. "You said that you have no prior training in magic! But somehow, you can transmute that pebble into gold! Something only square class mages are able to perform! Did you lie to me?"

"No Louise, I did not. I followed what she said, to imagine the transmutation in my head, to focus it with all my heart, and it turns to gold, as I imagined! I have no idea how!"

Louise just huffs."So what will we do now?"

"You will punch this tree as hard as you can 500 times." Naruto said while knocking a tree behind him with his knuckles. "You will not be learning jutsus yet, since your basics and chakra amount are extremely horrible, and we need to fix that first. Anyway, this will be the first step in doing so. Now start."

Louise spent the evening punching and kicking a tree, screaming in pain with the first punches due to the resistance seals that tore her muscles when combined with the forced chakra reinforcements of her body. But in the end, she managed to complete the repetitions for the day, before going back to their dining hall for dinner, where both Naruto and Louise ate like a pig, causing mass laughter and some giggles to erupt from the students, which Naruto and Louise promptly ignored. That night, she slept soundly, while being covered by a greenish glow with Naruto in chibi demon form being hugged by her after she asked for him to do so with a blush.

This continued for a couple of days with running and physical exercises in the morning and fighting style training in the evening, until Naruto managed to meet Colbert again and gained the approval of the staff for a nonlethal spar between Louise and Guiche, observed by Naruto. Colbert only agreed due to experiencing firsthand Naruto's power, and knows that he'll be able to both heal and stop them if they were to go overboard. Colbert was also trying to hide the fact that Naruto is the Founder's familiar, if the runes on his hand were to be believed, though Naruto already knows thanks to his bug-shaped clones.

And one day, the weekend arrived, and today, Naruto has a special session in store for Louise. Meanwhile, Louise who has gotten used to the pain and a 3 hour sleep everyday was staring at Naruto's grinning face with a mixture of apprehension and fear. Then, Naruto speaks. "Louise, it's the weekend, and you've had the seals on you for a while now. Remember that the seals limit your strength, speed and chakra. Now, I will teach you how to disable the seals so that you can train for the speed and strength when they are disabled. Also, we will do this once a week so that you can get used to the speed that the training gives you. So this is what you should do. This," Naruto then made a handseal with both his palms together and the fingers crossing each other except for the index and middle finger that was pointing upwards or better known as the Tiger seal. "and say 'release!' that will disable the seals, though I can activate or deactivate them remotely so that I can confirm that you are not slacking in your training."

And so, Louise then made said handseal before shouting "Release!" All of a sudden, she felt stronger! Much stronger! She felt like she can take the world on and win! More importantly, the constant pain is gone! And she felt as light as a feather! Then, she faced Naruto, a grin on her face. "Good. Now, attack me with everything that I taught you." Louise then rushed ahead, going faster than she ever can due to the seal. She then punches Naruto straight at his abdomen with a strength that she never knew she had. Unfortunately, it does nothing to Naruto except to make him grin evilly. Louise, seeing Naruto's evil grin, immediately feared for her life, before Naruto said: "My turn."

That night, Louise knew that some of her bones are cracked, though she also knew that it makes her stronger. Even cracking bones didn't bother her too much nowadays; having felt like someone poured molten steel into her blood vessels. The next morning, she woke up to her morning run with the seals activated again, and that unholy pain started again. And so their days continue until the day where the duel was set.

-BREAK-

The day of the duel arrives, and Louise and Guiche stood against each other with Naruto between them, Colbert close by and other students around them.

Naruto then said "Alright you two, remember that everything's allowed as long as no one is dead, though I can still heal injuries, even if someone were to get stabbed by a sword. So spar to your heart's content!"

Suddenly, Louise did something totally unexpected. She unclasped her pendant that held her cloak before tossing it aside, leaving her in her regular white uniform with green skirt. Watching everyone's surprise, she said, "This is so that it won't bother me fighting." Watching this, Naruto then lifted his hand into the air, before saying "Begin!" and jumps back, while Louise made the Tiger handseal and silently disables her seals.

"You are a fool Louise! Even your familiar is able to do magic, yet you can't! This will over quickly! Come to me, my valkyrie!" and with that, he took out a stem of rose from his pocket, waved it in the air to let a petal drop to the ground before the petal became a greenish blue metallic golem that holds a halberd in its hands.

"This is my valkyrie, a metallic being that I can control that I create! This is the reason why I gained my runic name, Guiche the Bronze! Attack her, valkyrie!" and with that, the metallic being came at her at high speeds and prepared to smack her with the butt of the halberd and knock her out, not wanting to kill her. Everyone gasped at the brutality that Guiche shows and thinks that the spar will be over soon. But what happens next is a shock to everyone except Naruto.

Having sparred with Naruto, Louise knows that the valkyrie isn't fast. Heck, she's faster! Watching the halberd's butt came at her head, Louise exploded into action. She dodged the halberd before rushing forward and smashes her fist into the valkyrie's torso, unconsciously enhancing her strength with chakra. The torso of the valkyrie was crushed by her one single punch, entirely disabling it.

Everyone except Naruto but including Louise had their jaws on the ground by now. The sheer sight of someone as small as Louise punching a magically made metal being into scrap metal with just a punch shocked the crap out of everyone. Louise recovered first, and rushed towards Guiche, intending to finish the fight in an instant. Guiche broke out of his trance and backpedalled, shouting "Get away! Get away you brute!" while waving his rose wand over and over again, creating more and more valkyries to attack Louise. Yet, all of them fell the same way, their bodies crushed by a fist, before being finished by a chakra enhanced stomp, completely destroying them.

After destroying a couple more golems, Louise rushed towards Guiche, who was on the ground pissing himself by now watching Louise systematically destroying his valkyries, his pride! Yet he is unable to do anything to stop her as she came at him at speeds he never knew someone can have and cocked her fist back, ready to either knock him out or smash any other valkyries that he might create. She then said "Yield?"

"Yield! Yield! I apologize! Please don't kill me! I'm sorry for that insult!" Guiche shouted, his piss covered pants shown for all to see. Louise then stood up, dusted herself before going back towards Naruto, the rest of the students' jaw on the ground due to the sheer brutality that Louise shows.

"Spar ends, and the victor is Louise Françoise le Blanc de La Vallière! A huge applause for her!" Naruto announced, while everyone there just clapped in a trance, still not believing the sight that met their eyes.

Meanwhile, Louise was feeling the sweet taste of victory. Having won her first spar and the sheer euphoria of winning, with the claps of everyone (even if they are in a trance) around her, the acknowledgement and the feelings in her heart, she knew, that she can never go back. This is the path for her, the one way, the road to victory! And with that, she steeled her resolution to further the training with Naruto even more, and knows that it will bring her nothing but excellence. And maybe honour, but that sheer euphoria of winning is what she wants.

That day, Guiche was humiliated, Louise is later known as the Brute Mage, a name that she is proud of though it stings, and she continues her extreme training in Naruto's hands.

-BACK IN THE IMPERIAL CITY-

Kurumi and Kushina had been working on the strengthened Hiraishin array nicknamed the Dimension Gate within the Imperial Palace's seal experimentation lab, and the best that they can get is that I only strengthens a little bit the signal from the seal's counterpart on Naruto. The situation has stabilized within the week, though the people still miss their friendly emperor, and rumours of another war is in the horizon. Although she can still lead their army to victory and had more than enough firepower in her to crush anyone that opposes them, she knows that the sight of her husband, her mate, their people's emperor would further raise the spirit of her people and improves morale and also increases the stability of the people. So, here she is with Kushina, toiling over the massive seal's design to call Naruto back here or at least to send a message or something to improve the spirit of their people.

"Kushi-chan, I think that reverse summon parts need to be changed into a summoning part, since we are calling him here, those limiters on chakra amount can be removed. He's too far away to be called normally, and we'll need some of those chakra sensor arrays moved elsewhere in the array to improve the seal's power..."

"Just wait Naru-koi! We'll get you back here, I promise!"

-CHAPTER ENDS-

Holy shit that's a long one compared to the intro! I hope you enjoyed this! Please read and review!

PS: It looks like NaruHina is Kishi's OTP in Canon Naruto. ALL HAIL NARUHINA!