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Naru sat on the edge of the cliff, mesmerized by the specks of buildings decorating the snowy ground. As far as she knew, she had always lived with her surrogate father in the imposing mountains. Never once going to see the small town, which lay, beneath her father's domain. She remembers the uneventful day where she asked her father to observe the humans.
Let's just say things didn't go well.
One does not simply piss a demon and get away with it.
Truth be told, she feared a very cross Kurama more than the end of the world.
His anger would be the cause of an apocalypse.
When she is older, she looks back and realizes with sadness that her father's anger wasn't the worst thing but she is six years old and had just asked her father the one topic that he hated. But she is only six and she doesn't know better. Walking back to their cave, the young girl sighed before she rubbed her bruise hands.
The demon tapped her on the shoulder, giving her a raise eyebrow. He gave her the bear she had hunted before shaking his head. "I see no reason for you to stare at those disgusting humans. I'm more interesting then them, brat. Any demon is more interesting then those disgusting humans! There is nothing to learn about them besides the fact that they don't care about the environment and have disgusting customs."
"But I know so much about you and demon's customs but I know very little about human's customs. I don't know anything about these disgusting humans." Naru said.
The demon rolled his eyes. "There's nothing for you to know about them, brat. They're disgusting and that's all you need to know about them."
Naru glanced at the village and than to her father. "But why're they disgusting, father? You never told me, your reasons for saying these things! I mean…they can't be all that bad, can they?"
"They can't be all that bad, huh? Well, Naru, they're that bad! Did you know one of the mages murdered my parents! A mage tried to recreate us and have tried his hardest to control us!" Her father growled and slammed his fist against one of the larger rocks, causing the mountain to tremble. "It's because of that disgusting human, they imagine us to be some kind of hideous monster, who have no regards of people's live! They tried to kill many of our kids because of their foolish fear! Yes, they're that disgusting!"
Kurama took several calming breaths and stared down at his quivering adopted daughter. He looked at his lair and then to the blond-haired girl, before gesturing for her to follow him to his lair. She hesitated before following her father while trying her hardest to conceal her curiosity and excitement. Not once did he ever allow her to come here.
Gems, necklaces and other valuable items decorated the dark lair, a reminder of the things the demon has done in his long life. All of them were impressive, each one of these things belonged to a lord, a king, a duchess and a lady. However, only one stood out in her mind. It was a sliver necklace with a red whirlpool sigma. Something about this necklace seemed so familiar. She shuffled closer to the necklace, longing to hold it, to have it…
"…Naru!" Her father snapped, stopping her from her tracks. "Don't touch that necklace!"
The blonde blinked her eyes and slowly draws her hands away from the necklace, walking towards her father, who stood in front of a pit. He shook and motioned for her to look down at the pit. Sapphire eyes widen at the sight of the many skulls and fangs lying on the ground.
She knows without a doubt those are demon's remains.
"W-What happened here?" she stuttered. "W-Who remains are these and how did this happened?"
"I wasn't always the King of all Demons, Naru." She shivered at the coldness in her father's tone. "Before I was King, I was just a little kit just like you. I had a family whom I loved more then anything in the world. I had siblings and a mother and father as well as a couple of servants. My family was a very happy family. Our family was filled with so much love and joy." He sighed. "However, that all changed when I met that disgusting human!"
"Father, what happened?"
Her adopted father stared down at the fangs before looking at her. For the first time in her life, Naru could see the emotions her father was currently feeling. Tears were streaming down her father's face and his jaw was set, reminding her of the time he had threatened to burn her because she didn't take a bath. The demon brought her closer to him, stroking her long blond hair with his claw-like fingers.
"I was a fool, Naru, that's what happened." He whispered. "I trusted a disgusting mortal. I told that disgusting mortal everything about my family, thinking that my parents were wrong about mortals. I should have listened to my parents about trusting mortals!" He growled. "Thanks to my idiocy, my parents paid the price. I came home from my usual hunt and found him murdering my mother. That disgusting mortal not only murders my parents but also tried to murder my siblings. Do you know why he murdered my parents?"
She shook her head.
"He murdered them because he believed, by murdering as well as drinking their blood, he will get immortality." He spat, throwing one of his precious jewels towards the pit. "Well in the end he did get his wish, he did become immortal but I'll show him the price of destroying my family." He grinned manically. "You, my dear child, will be someone who will be strong enough to defeat him…that is if you prove to me that you aren't going to end up like him."
Naru clenched her hands into a fist and gave a curt nod to her adopted father, holding back her biting comments. Is this the reason why he hates those disgusting human? Is this why he didn't have the same beliefs as her? All because of one disgusting human. Did he really think she would betray him? She loves her father and will do anything for him. If he asks her to hurt herself, she will do it. And if he truly wishes her to revenge his parents then she will.
"Now, let's go get lunch." Her father said, telling her that this matter is closed. "I've still got some of the bear you caught. Perhaps, it's time you learned to cook."
"I don't want to eat bear." She said, looking at her father. "I don't want to learn to cook, Tou-san. All I want is to learn more about those disgusting humans."
"You still want to learn more about those disgusting humans, after all I told you? Knowing more about them will be your downfall. You will end up as weak as them because your curiosity got the better of you." Her father growled. "No student of mine will be weak! And this certainly means, you aren't going there!"
"How do I become strong if I don't know anything about my own species?" she crossed her arms and slammed her foot on the ground. "How can I know how disgusting they are, if I don't know anything about them? And you are always telling me to go experience the outside world but how can I do that, if you won't let me!"
She flushed deep red and put her hands on her face, waiting for the ground to swallow her. Never did she yell at him about this. Yelling at her father was basically asking for a death sentence because no one shouts at the king of all demons. She glanced at her father, who still had the same monotone expression. There was no twitching, lips curling or any subtle clue about how he felt, there was absolutely nothing. This is bad! Now she has no way to decipher her father's plans.
"How can you know how disgusting they are if you don't know anything about them, huh? I can see your point, brat." He chuckled darkly and looked at her with his stilted eyes. "Very well, you may visit this vile village but, come back before dinner time. Consider this your reward for doing so well in all of your lessons."
Naru blinked and bowed at her father, who simply turned away from her and took the hint to be quiet. Kurama took a couple of jewels before displaying them in front of Naru. The blonde got the hint and took three gold coins and one sliver coin. Kurama nodded approvingly and placed the jewels back in the sides. Naru placed the coins in her pocket and walked out of the hole. Kurama followed her, looking perplexed at the sight of Naru gazing down at the village with a thoughtful look.
"Father, would it be possible if you could accompany me to the edge of the forest? I've…no idea where it is." She admitted. Kurama chuckled before swinging the girl onto his shoulder. Naru giggled at this action, eyes gleaming with mirth and confusion. "Father, why did you do that? I thought you said it's unbefitting for a demon to give piggyback rides."
"We're going in my demon form, brat." He growled. "And I'm not having you climb onto my shoulder in my human form ever again. I still haven't fully recovered from when you kicked me in the eye. Now close your eyes!"
She shut her eyes and waited in baited breath, waiting for her father to tell her that it's safe to open her eyes. Light radiating during a demon transformation is harmful. Not harmful in the physical sense, where you can feel the pain and wait for it to fade. No, it's harmful in the sense that it can make even the sanest person, the maddest person alive as her father always warned her. It's for this reason only that Naru had never seen her father's transformation.
"Can I open my eyes now, father?"
"Yes." He said. "Now, I will carry you to the edge of the forest, there's a trail leading to the mountain's base there. Honestly, you would you would have learn how to travel in this mountain."
"Well not all of us have lived as long as you, Dad." Naru huffed. Kurama smirked widely at the blonde's annoyance before jumping down to the forest. Naru clung to her father's fur, screaming as he stomped down some trees. Must this brat scream? Then again, it wouldn't be so fun to terrify his adopted daughter. Kurama reached the edge of the forest, laying down on the crush trees and rolled his shoulders to get his daughter off his shoulder.
Kurama watched from the edge of the cliff as Naru walked along the path leading from her home in the mountains. She had never left the safety of their home due to the fact she was too young to be able to take care of herself and would be easily misled. Kurama didn't like the idea of her becoming like the blasted mage who had murdered his family. These humans may make her like him and he certainly doesn't want to regret teaching her. Just the mere thought of her becoming like him made his blood boil. However, Naru proved a point. He's always telling her to experience the outside world but he wasn't allowing her by cooping her in this place. Besides, the girl would also gain some experience in learning about her species, eat some human food rather than the fruits and herbs she always bring from the forest in the summer and the bears in the winter.
Naru was currently dressed in a pair of blue shorts and an orange shirt that Kurama took from a travelling hiker's daughter after scaring both the hiker and the daughter, both of whom had fainted. Luckily for Naru, he gave his daughter the girl's red sandals, keeping her safe from the hard ground. Kurama chuckled at his demonslayer as the girl stared at the frozen river, not looking at least one bit cold. She will never get cold because he trained her in his form of magic however, it may look weird to those disgusting humans. He shrugged. Naru is just proving how superior his magic is compared to their magic. The girl was the first demonslayer…demonslayers are not weak. The demonslayer of Kurama, especially.
The red-fur canine growled in thought as he looked in direction of where he had buried his own parents.
"I wonder how she would have turned out if my brother haven't destroyed her village and killed her parents." He sighed. "She probably would have become foolish and greedy like the other humans. Through I wonder if it was a good idea to give her this opportunity?"
After the trek down the mountains as well a half an hour walk along the path through the forest at the base of the mountains coupled with following the path towards the town, Naru was feeling rather bored. When will she reach…? Never mind, it seemed like she reached the place. She stopped in front of a sign before her and looked up at the wooden sign.
"Brina Town." The girl read. She observed the scene before her. Brina was a large town filled with so much snow covering large houses, not that Naru had ever seen a house but she was taught about things below the mountain.
Houses are the disgusting human's homes just like your home is the mountain, Naru thought, remembering her foster father's definition. Well, he had went into a rant while explaining, saying things about how they were destroying the environment and all that type of thing but, she had been too tired to remember the whole rant and definition so she just summarized it as their home. Naru observed the town and saw the houses were made of the same design. Big wooden houses with large, glass windows and brown tile roofs.
I wonder how they are able to do build something like that. Tou-san never really explained it to me. Naru thought before entering the town. The blonde walked along the road, ignoring the odd looks the adults were giving her due to her choice of clothes. What was wrong with the way, she dresses, she doesn't know! She sighed. Humans were just too problematic, as her father will always tell her and she finds herself agreeing with him.
As Naru thought about this, she found herself hitting something hard. She rubbed her cheek and looked up to see she had hit a boy around her age with a slightly tan complexion. He had dark blue eyes and spikey black hair that had a bandanna wrapped around his forehead. He wore a dark sleeved long shirt and black trousers.
"Watch where you're going!" The boy growled, looking at her with irritation.
"I would if someone hadn't been in a hurry." She roared, putting her hands on her hips and glaring at him. "How am I suppose to watch myself if there are so many people here!"
The boy arched his eyebrows at this and retorted. "I think that will be pretty easy to do! I mean I can easily do it!"
"If that's the case then why did you bump into me then!" She countered causing the boy to scowl at the blonde, flushing deep red at this remark. "See! You've no comment, meaning I win this argument about how it isn't easy to watch yourself in a place with a lot of people!"
"Yeah, at least I wear clothing suitable for the winter!" The boy frowned noticing the furrowed eyebrows of the girl. "Come on, you had to have notice how your clothing doesn't suit the weather? Don't you feel cold?"
"No, I feel warm actually," she put her hands into her pockets and stared at the boy. "Why should I feel cold? The weather isn't cold!"
"You're weird."
Naru scowled, turning her body around to start walking away from the boy. The Demonslayer of Kurama isn't weird! They are just more superior then the disgusting humans in this village! Who needs long sleeved clothing when the weather was perfect the way it was! Only these vile humans need such clothing! Besides, demonslayers are much more politer than the humans in this village.
"Wait! Would you like to play with me?" The boy asked stopping her in her tracks. Naru turned around facing the boy who stood there in embarrassment and raised her eyebrows at him, causing him to look down at his feet. "It's just that most of the kids here aren't really friends with me because…they only want to be in my good books because of who my father is."
"So?" She crossed her arms, looking at him with annoyance. "You called me an idiot! And a weirdo."
"So? I think you're not feeling the cold is kind of weird but it is also so cool." He grinned. "I've never seen anyone, who could walk in the middle of the snow in a pair of shorts! I bet your parents didn't have to yell at you to put on a jacket or a sweater!"
"No, they didn't." She admitted, smiling fondly as she remembered her father ranting about how humans are weak for wearing such a long sleeved clothes in winter. "Tou-san thinks it's stupid for me to wear a jacket or sweater when the weather isn't cold."
"I wish my mother is like that." The boy quickly made a high-pitch tone, imitating a woman, whom Naru presumed is his mother. "Gray, you must wear long-sleeved shirt at this weather! If you don't wear it then you're going to get sick!" he snorted. "I love her but I hate wearing long sleeved clothes!"
"So about the game?" She asked returning the topic about the game at hand. The boy, Gray grinned, taking her hand onto his and promptly ignored her as she yelled at him to stop pulling her. She is the demonslayer of Kurama! Not some kind of doll for him to order around! When he lets go of her hand, she was so going to murder him for not listening to her orders! When she orders something, they must do it!
Okay that isn't true but when she says something they must at least hear it.
"WE'RE HERE!" The boy crackled in delight. "Now, we can play tag for as long as we can!"
"Tag?" Naru frowned, tilting her head at him. "What the hell is tag?"
He gawked; looking at her like she was some kind of crazy person and she huffed, crossing her arms at him before shaking her head and smiling apologetically at him. Kurama always told her to be in her best behaviour, meaning don't ever act like a little kid in front of these people as it doesn't show you're the best person and Naru knew she must never forget her demon father's words. She looked at him expectantly, shifting from one foot to another.
"So what is this game of Tag, huh?"
"Oh right, well tag is basically a game where you have to run away from the person, who is it." The boy explained, smiling widely at her. "Then if the person, who is it, catches you and says tag then you're it. Got it?"
"I think it is easy understand."
"Do you understand or not?" He tapped his feet impatiently, looking at the snowing playground with longing. "Because I can explain it again if you want."
"I understand!" She growled. "Of course, I understand what the game is about!"
"Good! Because you're it!" The boy yelled, tapping his hand gently on her shoulder before running away from her. She grinned impishly, finding herself chasing the dark-haired boy all over the town. Kurama was wrong about human children. They weren't as disgusting or ill behave as he thinks they are…if anything they are completely free. Unlike her. They don't have responsibilities to be the perfect daughter or demonslayer, which she has. These human kids aren't caged with these responsibilities. She shook her head at her thoughts and increased her speed, intending to catch up with the black-haired boy.
She grinned at the sight of the familiar dark-sleeved shirt and spiky black hair. Crouching, the blonde got ready to pouch on the boy and jumped on him when he had stopped to turn to look at her. He yelped, falling down to the cold ground with Naru straddling his hips. Everyone stopped walking staring at the two young kids and giggled at the pair of them, muttering to each other about how children can be a handful.
"You cheated!" He accused, looking up at the twinkling eyes of the blonde. "I want a rematch!"
"The only way you can do a rematch is if you catch me!" Naru said jumping off from the boy's stomach before helping him to stand up. "And catching me won't be that easy! I'm faster than you!"
With those words, she giggles and runs away from him, never turning her head to see if he was chasing after her. Later when she is older, she will miss these times but for now the feel of the wind blowing against her face and the overwhelming scents of the vile humans around her made her giddy and made her feel like she is the most powerful person in the whole wide world. For a brief moment, she wants to capture how happy she was.
"OW!" The boy yelled. She stopped running, turning around to look at the boy only to find him giving her a cat-like grin and before she realizes he tags her, saying she is it. She pouts, calling him a cheater but only to have him smiling at her and saying how she had also cheated on the game as well.
She opens her mouth to protest but only to have her stomach rumbled in protest causing her to flush deep red, wishing for the ground to swallow her up. She hears laughter and looking up, she sees the black-haired boy laughing at her. She scowls, ready to yell at him for being inconsiderate but closes her mouth when she sees the teasing glint in his eyes. He offers his hand and she takes it, smiling at him.
"It seems like you're hungry."
"Yeah like my stomach didn't give you a damn hint that I was hungry." She retorted, looking at her stomach with loathing. "Now it just means I have to go home to my Tou-san."
"…Or you could come and have lunch with me and my Kaa-san," he shifted his eyes away from her startled look. "It just seems like you're really hungry and my house is nearby."
"I don't know." She says, looking at the mountain with worry. Her foster father will be furious if she doesn't come back home before dinnertime, which will be as soon as the moon was up. If she makes him furious then this poor village will be the one to pay the price and she doesn't want that to happen. However she couldn't argue when she saw the pleading in his eyes and reluctantly she agrees to it.
"You'll love my mother's cooking! She makes the best food around here!" He takes her hand and proceeded to drag her to his house, grinning as he speaks about his mother while she rolls her eyes at his fondness of his mother.
Gray's house was small and cozy, having a roaring fire near the living room, which made the room, feel a little bit hotter than the outside. The walls around her were painted a beautiful shade of red and the furniture were all white reminding her of the snow outside of this house. Pictures filled the shelves; many of them were of Gray and two young people, whom she presumes are his parents.
"KAA-SAN I'M BACK!" The boy roared, taking off his shoes as he shook his hair to get rid of the snow in his hair. Naru hesitated debating whether to follow the boy's lead in taking off her shoes before deciding it will be best to follow his lead.
"How many times have I told you, Gray not to shout inside the house!" A young woman said, coming from the kitchen. She looked similar to Gray, having the same eyes and hair colour as the young boy beside her. Shaking her head, she waved her spatula at him. "Honestly! I haven't raised you to be some kind of caveman! And why were you so late? I nearly called the police because of how late you were!"
"Kaa-san…"
"Don't Kaa-san me!" The young woman looked down at her hands. "I was worried sick for you! You're never this late from coming home! I thought that you might have been kidnapped or worse!"
"I was spending time with a new friend." Gray admitted, pushing her forward for his mother to see. Naru wanted to slap the boy on the head for putting her in this situation but kept her temper in check. If her father hadn't told her once but a thousand times, it was that she must never let her emotions take control of her judgment. He always told her how it was a human's weakness to let their emotions control and not a demon's one. This is why he told her to keep her emotion in check and think things through because it was the way of a demon and she is the adopted child of a demon.
"A new friend?" The young woman stared at her, smiling widely at the pair of them. "It's nice to meet you! I'm Gray's mother but of course, you must know that, seeing as my son had just called me Kaa-san or Misaki!" she babbled, causing Naru to inch away from the young woman. "And it is so good to actually meet a friend of Gray! He rarely brings his friends around! Especially girls! And you're just so adorable! What's your name?"
"My name is Naru Uzumaki, Misaki-san and it is very nice to meet you." Naru said, giving a small polite bow at the young woman in front of her. She wanted to tell the young woman, she isn't friends with Gray because she just met him but, she kept her mouth shut. But only for one reason. Her father. Kurama always told her, no matter what the species is, you must always be polite, especially if they are older than you. No child of his won't be without manners and won't be outshone in manners by those beneath him as he always says. In this case, it was the young woman in front of her and she knows if her father was here, he would say she had proven to him that she isn't as rude as he thought.
"Cute and polite!" Misaki said, beaming at her. "I wish Gray can be like that to everyone else! Could you give my son a few pointers in being polite? Goodness knows, it'll be useful for the guest that comes to our house."
"KAA-SAN!"
"What!" She holds her hand up defensively. "I'm only stating the truth!"
Naru bit her lips, hoping it would stop her from laughing at Gray's pouting expression but found it hard not to laugh at his expression. The same can't be said for his mother, who is giggling and teasing at her son for pouting at the pair of them. She watches in discomfort as the woman hugged her son, tickling him till the point the boy is laughing. For a brief moment, she wonders if this is what it is like to have a mother. Is a mother someone who teases and worries about you constantly, who makes you your food and cuddles you? Because if that's is truly is the case, then she is missing someone great. Her father makes her food but only because she is too young to cook however that will change tomorrow as he is planning to teach her how to cook. He doesn't cuddle her because he sees it as too soft and a weakness. He teases her but doesn't worry about her because he knows she is his child and will not do anything stupid.
"Now, before the three of us have lunch, there is something very important for the two of you to do." Misaki said, grinning at the two of them. Naru arched her eyebrows while Gray turned pale and was inching away from them. "The two of you are going to have a bath!"
"B…But Kaa-san, I already took a bath yesterday!" His mother crossed her arms at him. "Please! I don't want to take another bath!"
"Gray Fullbuster, you'll take a bath or else!" He opened his mouth to protest but closed it at the sight of the sharp look from his mother. "Good! Now, Naru-chan here will take a bath first while you help me set up the table!"
Gray frowned and nodded at her before walking towards the kitchen to start setting up the table, which left the two females alone in the room. Misaki turned towards her, smiling and grasping her hand leading her towards the bathroom, ignoring her complaints about letting go of her hand. It seemed like Gray inherited his skill of not listening to anyone from his mother and it must be something she had to get used to if she ever plans to visit them again. If she is allowed anyways.
I wonder if human baths are as strange as Tou-san says it is, Naru thought as the woman babbled about where the soap and shampoo is. Yes it must be if it had strange words such as soap and shampoo.
Twenty minutes later, Naruto came to the conclusion that human's baths were strange as well as fun. She got to splash around in something called a bathtub. They had a strange liquid, which was able to clean her hair and this strange liquid made her body smell so good. Although it smelled good, she could tell by the scent that it wouldn't be a good thing to eat.
"I've never smell this good before." She had said when she sniffed herself after she washed herself from the soap. She was given a strange tool, which Misaki call a toothbrush and learned the toothbrush could clean her teeth with this minty thing called toothpaste.
"Naru-chan, I've brought you a new pair of clothes to wear!" Misaki said, coming inside the bathroom with some clothes. The young woman gave her a fluffy piece of cloth. "You just have to wear them until I wash and dry your clothes, which might take a few hours but I hope you don't mind."
"Thank you, Misaki-san." Naru said. The young woman smiles warmly, closing the door and leaving her alone in the bathroom. Standing up, she started to toy around with the fluffy cloth, musing over what happened over the past day. Humans aren't as disgusting or selfish as her father says they are. These two people were offering her things that they didn't have to do like a bath, if it had been anyone else then it would be different scenario. Yet, she just got to know them so it might be them deceiving her. Her father always tells her about how appearances were deceiving and this might be no different.
She looked down at the clothes Misaki gave her, picking up one of them. Her lips twisted into a scowl at the sight of a long flowing shirt. Was this one of those dresses her father spoke horribly about? It must be because it fits his description about how girls can never run freely in those dresses and how inappropriate it is for one to run in it. Could she tear the dress to make it suit her needs? She shook her head, remembering her father's words.
Demons will not destroy the things that aren't theirs, we may steal and lie, do horrible things but if we are borrowing something then we must treat it as if it is like our own, Naru. Failure to do that makes us even worse than the other species.
With that thought, she reluctantly puts on the dress and puts her hair into a braid, knowing how her father will be furious if she doesn't come back home without her hair being done properly.
The last thing she wants is her father's fury on her.
"So Naru-chan, where do you live?" Misaki asked, taking a small bite of her chicken while Naru clumsily took a bite of her chicken. The blonde looked up, frowning at her. "…It's just that I have never seen you around here before. Have you just moved here?"
"No," the demonslayer answered, looking at the mountains lay outside the window. "I live in the mountains with my Tou-san. We lived there for as long as I could remember."
Gray's eyes widen at her words and spluttered. "Y-You live i-in t-that c-cursed m-mountain!" he jerked his finger towards the mountain that stood promptly in front of the window. "Is your father crazy? The mountain has a demon living there! Everyone in the town says the demon living there hates humans and will burn any human in its path! No one who goes to that mountain comes back here alive!"
"Gray-kun, manners! You shouldn't say these things to her!" His mother said angrily. "The mountain isn't cursed! Your father and I told you that so many times!"
"But Ji-chan says there is a demon living there!" He said childishly.
"Your grandfather hasn't been the same since your grandmother's death." She sighed. "Honestly, I shouldn't let you spend so much time with him if he tells you such stories."
"But Kaa-san." He whined.
"If you believe in demons so much, why don't you ask Naru-chan if she has seen a demon." His mother shook her head and muttered to herself. "I should talk to Tou-san about keeping his ridiculous stories to himself."
"Hey Naru, have you seen a demon in the mountains that you live in?"
The blonde frowned and immediately shook her head, causing the boy to pout and his mother to smile in triumph. Lying to them was easy. It makes her feel slightly guilty yes, but it was easy and it was for her father's own good. If these people knew that her father is the demon, who lives in the mountain than there is a good chance they will try to hurt him. She doesn't want that to happen. He may often insult her, deny at times she is his daughter but he cared for her, treated her like his own and to babble her mouth away is not the honorable thing to do.
"So Naru, is there anyone else who lives in those mountains beside your father and you?" Misaki asked, leaning forward.
"No, it is just Tou-san and me." She answers, taking a small sip of the apple juice that Misaki had poured for her earlier. "If there was anyone living there then Tou-san would have left the mountain." She looked wearily at the mountains. "Tou-san despises crowds, and to him if there is three people in the mountain than it is already crowded so he would leave."
"How about school? You do go to school, don't you?" Gray asked, frowning at her.
Naru snorted at the absurdity of the question. "School? I've never been to school and will never go to school. My Dad sees no point for me going to school when he's perfectly capable of teaching me."
"Is he a good teacher, your Tou-san?" Misaki asked, picking up her plate to put into the kitchen.
She frowned and remembered all the lessons her father given her. He taught her great many things such as Math, History, Science and other boring subjects as well as teaches her magic. He tries to make them fun because he knows that the both of them don't have a great attention span and can easily forget things. To fix that problem he tries to make it memorable to her. He makes History like a story and does fun things with her in Science. In Math, he tries to make it suit their situation; through he often gives her test in it.
In the end, she loves the way he teaches her.
"Yes, he's a wonderful teacher to me." Naru smiled softly, looking down at her hands. "I've never had any other teacher but him, so I won't know the difference but to me, the way he teaches is memorable."
Misaki nodded happily and started humming a tune as she starts putting the rest of the dishes away. Naru couldn't help but smile at the hum, tapping her foot at just the mere sound of it. It felt nice to talk to people, who didn't always mock her. She loves her father, don't get her wrong but he just takes it too far at times.
"If you don't go to school then how do you make friends?" The black-haired boy questioned, snapping her out of her thoughts.
"Make friends?" She shook her head at the notion. "I don't need friends."
"Everybody needs a friend that's what my Dad says. He says the most lonely people are the people without friends." Naru frowned causing Gray to shake his head. "You must have one friend right?"
Naru shook her head, looking bewildered at the idea of having a friend. A friend means that you trust them not to betray you and that's a silly notion as her father always lectures. Everyone will betray you, be it your brother or your husband as he always says in a grave tone. The only person you can trust is yourself is what he rants to her. Don't trust demons, dragons or humans. Especially humans. Her father always stresses about the human part. She frowned when Gray gave her a determined look.
"You know what? I've decided you're my friend!" He said, grinning triumphantly at her. "And nothing you're going to say is going to change my mind!"
Naruto blinked. "You're crazy, you know that right?" she shook her head at him. "You can't randomly decide that I'm going to become your friend. Have you ever thought that I don't want to be your friend?"
"Then do you want to be my friend?" He asked, giving her a boyish smile.
Naru hesitated. Does she want to be his friend? Her father told her time and time again that she should never trust someone. She stared at his hopeful dark blue eyes and gulped. Trusting him, wouldn't be so bad? And having a friend…it won't be so wrong, right? Just as long as she doesn't trust him, full-heartedly then it will be all right. She nodded her head and gave the boy a grin.
"I guess, it won't be so bad having you as a friend." Naruto said nonchalantly. The black-haired boy smirked, causing her to chuckle.
It was the start of a beautiful friendship.
Naru stood in front of her beast of a father and the demon narrowed his eyes, observing the blonde. She shifted under his knowing gaze, trying her hardest to show no emotions to him. Kurama sighed and ruffled his daughter's hair, giving her a barely noticeable smile but a smile nonetheless. The blonde tided her hair before staring at her red-furred father.
"How was your trip?"
"It's fine." Naruto answered curtly. "I've learned a lot of things about those disgusting humans."
"Oh? What have you learned? Tell me, brat." The demon ordered. Naru nodded her head at her father.
"I learned that their food are quite delicious and their baths are very strange. Did you know that the water comes out of a huge bowl thing? Also, do you know human mother's babble too much? Or those humans believe silly things? And that human kids likes to play a lot of games? Or that some of them asks too much questions?" Naru said blankly, crossing her legs as she sat down in the ground.
"Humans are generally quite curious beings, who ask too many questions." Her father's eyes glinted in amusement. "Is there anything else?"
"I…might have made a friend with a human! It just happened Tou-san, I swear. I really didn't mean to make friends but…he was so nice to me and so was his mother." She looked down at her hands in horror. "I couldn't really see them as disgusting humans. I'm sorry Tou-san for this."
Kurama sighed. "I shouldn't expect that much from a human, really." He said tiredly, lying down on the floor. "Humans are always disguising their true nature, brat, don't forget that. Also a word of advice, you shouldn't always think humans are always nice-"
"I know Tou-san and I'm sorry for thin-"
"But, it doesn't always mean that all humans are disgusting." Kurama admitted grudgingly, glaring at his adopted daughter for interrupting him. "Every species has its good sides and bad sides. Even the demon has it bad sides. It's just that humans show their bad sides more often then not."
Naru beamed at his words and run over to hug the demon. Kurama stiffened at this contact before slowly relaxing into a hug. He looked down at his adopted daughter, laughing inwardly at the irony at his situation. If any of his siblings sees him like this, they will say that he was growing soft.
"Maybe, I'm growing soft for my age." Kurama said darkly.
"What did you say, Dad?" Naru asked, looking up to stare at her father. He smiled widely at her. The blonde immediately stopped hugging him and step away from him. She knows very well that smile meant that she's going through hell.
"Tomorrow, you're going to have a full day committed to your hand-to-hand combat."
"Damn you, Tou-san!"
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