Just another day at the school.
As next head of the house of Gremory, Rias Gremory had always been considered to be of nobility in the underworld. While in the school everyone knew her as one of the princesses of Kuoh academy, the other princess being her queen, Akeno Himejima. Everyone thought so highly of them that they kept their distance. On one hand it was good, because it kept anyone from discovering she was actually a devil - she would so hate to mess with their memories – while on the other hand it made it rather hard to socialise
Currently she was sitting on a bench outside the gym and enjoying the nice weather. Sure, she was a devil and they were weakened during the day, but that doesn't mean she can't enjoy the weather.
The teacher had gotten ill earlier today and had left, leaving her to enjoy her free class.
"ahh, it's good to be enjoying the day while everyone else is suffering." she said smugly to herself, not noticing her close friend had managed to sneak up on her.
"My, my, are you turning into an S like me now, Pres?" startled by Akeno's voice she nearly flinched off the bench.
"No! I'm not turning into that, but I am a devil so I do have my moments." Rias replied, pretending she had not been surprised.
"Alright class!" someone called and throwing op the door next to them startling the two devils attention "The weather is beautiful, so we are going to take the gym class outside." The substitute teacher yelled at the class. The teacher was known for being a loud mouth and it always made any devil flinch due to their sensitive hearing. Then he turned his attention to the class following him, which was when he noticed Akeno and Rias sitting on the bench behind the class. "What are you two doing here, should you not be in class?" he asked them.
"The teacher was sick so we have free class." The crimson haired devil answered. She knew the real reason for him asking, was not because he thought they were skipping class, but because so that his class knew they were watching, meaning they were going to put more effort into the class ,meaning he could make the workout even harder than usual. Which was hard enough to begin with.
He may speak with his fists but he got brain.
"Where is the new guy?" the teacher asked noticing the lack of yellow among the heads, catching the attention of Rias again. She knew some new students had joined the school, but she had only seen the blond girl so far.
"He is still in the changing room, sir." someone piped up.
"Probably fallen asleep." The man muttered before calling out "HEY, NARUTO! YOU DONE YET?"
"Sorry, Gaho sensei," a male voice called back. The gym teacher raised an eyebrow, having never been called sensei before. "But the school gym t-shirt is too small, I can't get into it." Gaho yelled back, thinking he was trying to snake himself out of class.
"You get out here NOW, and I will personally put it on." This Naruto character cursed something before calling out that he got it. The moment he stepped out, everyone stopped what they were doing to look at him. And Rias herself gaped and had to take a second look just to make sure at what she saw correct.
For a split second she thought he was of the Phoenix clan. He had both the blue eyes and blond hair, but when she looked closer, she noticed his hair was sun kissed, putting the phoenix blond hair to shame. Another thing that was that he had whisker birthmarks, making her think he was a yukai, but a quick sweep with her senses told her he was completely human.
But it was not his face that made her and the entire class gape, no, was of how well the new student was built. The shirt was several sizes to small and clung to his chest which in turn made every muscle on his body visible under the shirt, and as if that wasn't enough, his muscles were perfectly shaped, just the kind any woman would want their boyfriend to have. Rias had actually only seen these muscles on people participating in the Olympic Games, never on high school student.
"Look! It's too small." Naruto howled at the teacher; he was right. The t-shirt looked puny compared to the person himself. Gaho shook himself out of his surprise and looked at the t-shirt and realised the new kid was right.
"Do you have anything you can use instead of that one?" The loud-mouthed teacher asked, and was answered with a shake of the head. "-then I'm afraid there is nothing more I can do. I can ask for a new t-shirt but it would first arrive tomorrow." Naruto gave a huff.
"Fine. Then I will just be a part of class like this." The answer he got was a shrug which clearly said that is your decision.
"Well, let's begin shall we?" Gaho broke everyone out of their daze. The reaction Naruto got from the class was mixed; some girls were openly salivating, others just blushed while other almost seemed to want to right out ravage him right there. But the guys were another story entirely; they showed mostly pure hate, and fear, and here and there was a bit of wonder and envy.
"Alright, class let's begin." Gaho yelled and all the students started to run around the yard, that is, all except one. Naruto just stood there eyeing them for a bit. Then, as if he could sense Rias' eyes on him, he just turned towards her giving her a good view of his well-built body. Then to her surprise, he gave her a big smile that reminded her of a fox, the whiskers only helping in the manner and then proceeded to wave at her. Rias only waved back because of pure manners; she was used to people almost seeing her as a higher being because of her beauty, and therefor would have kept their distance, but this one right out greeted her before he ran out to join the class.
"My, seeing something you like?" Akeno asked, breaking Rias out of her thoughts. Rias realised that she had been staring and that she had been caught staring, and nearly turned as red as her hair.
"Shut up." Rias shot back, taking on last look at Naruto she turned her attention to Akeno. "Anything you can tell me about him?"
"fufufufufu, fishing for a new member?" Akeno teased. Rias only gave her a look that said just tell me "- you are no fun. Alright, his name is Naruto Uzumaki Namikaze, he is in class 2-B. He was born in a small village and moved here with three other students and a man named Yamato. They live in a house outside the village. He has no sacred gear, but he seems to have a high reserve." By reserve she meant magic, but if people had heard her they would a presumed muscle or stamina. When she noticed that Rias was about to ask something, she cut her off and answered the yet unspoken question. "I have checked, he is not a youkai in any sense or form; those just natural birthmarks, though the chance of them looking like whiskers are so small, that it is a miracle in itself that it does.
Rias said nothing as she rose to her feet and left, followed closely by her friend. Unknowingly to either of them, Sakura had been lying on the gym roof and had heard their entire conversation.
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Sakura was now sitting and thinking over what she had heard the two Great Ladies talk about.
"It is clear that they are the ones not part of the student council, so I have found the last of the special people. But what is a youkai, and what did she mean by "fishing for new members"? Are they recruiting other people, and what for?"
"Hey, Sakura?" the pink haired kunouchi was pulled out of her thoughts by her class mate.
"What is it?" she asked, looking at who had asked and saw Imai Wako, one of the girls in her class and one who was seen as the most beautiful, but everyone called her Ima. Sakura noticed five girls flocking around Ima, most of them not from her class.
"You have known Naruto for a while, right?" Ima asked. She seemed to be careful about what she was saying, making Sakura to wonder what she was going to ask.
"Yeah, I have known him since we were kids. So has Shikamaru." She gestured to the half-asleep boy behind her.
"I was hoping you could tell us about him." Sakura was getting a few ideas what she was going to ask about. What she got was the last thing she expected.
"Does he have a boyfriend?" one of the girls behind Ima asked.
Sakura halted and took a moment to process what she heard. Shikamaru had heard the question and was now hard pressed trying not to burst out into laughter.
"Wait." the undercover medic finally said in shock, gesturing to every single girl in front of her "You guys have the hots for Naruto?"
"We are sorry, we didn't know you were together." Ima said coming up with the wrong conclusion from Sakuras outburst. This in turn was too much for Shikamaru who finally burst into laughter and they could barely understand the words in between the laughter.
"Those… two… together…? (gasp) The… chance… for… that… (gasp)is… no… to… zero..." Sakura decided to help all the surprised girls with an explanation.
"No, the reason I'm surprised is because… how do I put this?" she asked herself before she just decided to be blunt. "He has never really been seen as the attractive guy, not in his early days at least." This was when Shikamaru decided to take over.
"Naruto was a knucklehead back in the day, don't get me wrong he still is, just less of a one. While on the other hand, Naruto is one of the most pure souls you can find, and he would set heaven on fire and besiege Hell itself if it meant he could save his friends." Shikamaru explained. "So if you are deciding to make him your boyfriend some way or another, then you should know he is so dense with women that he will not realise that you love him until you say it outright." Everyone in class had been listening to this small speech Shikamaru had been giving.
"I think you are underestimating his intelligence." One of the girls said, clearly angry that Naruto was looked down upon by his lazy friend.
"I'm not underestimating anything. In fact, he can be a genius when the situation calls for it. But he has no understanding - what so ever - of women." Shikamaru defended himself.
"But no matter. If you intend to become his friend, then I suggest you just start a conversation."
"That's it?" Shikamaru answered this indignant question by a grin that clearly said "I know more then you."
"Naruto has a remarkable gift. He doesn't need much time, nor many words to become friends with nearly everyone he meets." The audience just blinked, and started whispering.
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"You guys ready?" Shikamaru asked over the radio.
"Ready when you are."
"Affirmative."
"Are we going to start yet?" Shikamaru ignored the last remark with a rolled of his eyes before starting the count down.
"3"
"2"
"1"
"Go"
Everyone was surprised when air-condition suddenly started blowing at full power. It only took a moment to realize why; the room started getting filled with pink coloured smoke, and it STINKED.
While Naruto was sitting on the roof laughing his ass off, people were fleeing out of the school building. As planned, he had dropped a massive of amount of self-made smoke bombs - harmless of course –along with a few stink bomb into the ventilation shafts.
He noticed Sona and the Student Council fleeing the building and radioed to his team "They have left the building, now it is you turn. Over." Receiving a positive response he decided to fall into meditation, just for a moment, not listening to what they said over the radio.
"Ino, you keep guard. Sakura go to the Student Council's room and see if you find anything. I am heading to the headmasters office." Receiving an affirmative from his team they split up, Ino going to an advantages position to keep an eye on what was going on down in the yard.
"For fuck's sake, Naruto. You just had to go overboard. That smells!"
Meanwhile in the yard, the Council were looking over on which students were accounted for. In between these students were four shadow clones, three of them under a transformation jutsu.
-000-
"All students are accounted for, Pres." Tsubaki told Sona who was talking to the headmaster.
"Okay, then we just need to fide out who caused this mess." Sona said to the headmaster. She already had a pretty good idea on who did this, but first she needed solid evidence. They started walking towards the fire escape stairs on the far side of the building, though there was no way in hell she would go into that building while pink smoke was oozing out of every open window and door in the building.
She kept her face blank of expressions, trying to ignore Rias' laughter in the background at her luck about having to return to the building.
"I just know this is your work, Naruto. I should have kept my eyes on you from the start."
-000-
Naruto was meditating and frustrated. Ever since the seal had been placed on him, he had problems with his senses. It was like looking through a frost covered window. It was only when he focused his senses on a certain point it would became clear for 5 meters radius from the point of concentration. So, for now he used Kurama as a radar.
He let out a deep sigh. "Well, that is what you get from using something experimental."
"9 o'clock, 3 flours down." Kurama suddenly cut in. Naruto immediately followed his instructions and found Sona and two of her council members following her. They were currently making their way up the fire stairs.
"Time to go." Naruto muttered to himself, jumping to his feet and running towards the edge of the building which was in a blind angle from both the yard and the people making their way up the stairs.
He jumped.
The moment his feet left the roof, he did a 180 degree turn in the air and grabbed the open window 2 flours down and flung himself in and landed right in the middle of his classroom.
"How are you?" Naruto asked his furry companion as he raced down the hall towards the meeting spot.
"A bit bitter; at this rate I'm going to be alright by the end of the next week." Kurama responded, half-asleep.
"Good to hear that, but I'm still need your senses sometimes until the seal is fixed." The knucklehead told his friend as he arrived at the meeting spot, finding everyone else already waiting. Sakura had the folder with files on the the people they wanted info on.
"Let's get going, fast." Ino said as Sakura handed Naruto the folder. They snuck through the exit, and managed to sneak around the back of all the students and met with Naruto's clones, then proceeded to switch places. One of the clones took the files and started racing for the base back home.
"By the way, where did the clones come from?" Ino asked Naruto, but Shikamaru answered.
"I asked him to make them beforehand, back home, just in case."
"Smart thinking, Shikamaru."
The school day ended early because everyone refused to return back inside, but the Student Council had to stay behind to clean up.
-000-
Akeno was eyeing the four new students; for some unknown reason they had somehow exactly the same magic amount and all of them gave of the same feeling. Sure, it was possible but rare for people to have precisely same amount of magical energy, but there were four, in the same school. Call it a gut feeling, but something was off.
She didn't think too deeply about it when all four students seem to have spotted something and left at the same time, but when they returned, she immediately noticed the difference. Now they had different reserves compared to before.
"Now that is interesting. I'd better tell Rias about this."
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"What the hell is up with this?" Naruto yelled out as he threw some of the files across the room, only for them to get caught in mid-flight by Yamato.
"The troublesome blond is right. There is little to no background information on any them, except these." Shikamaru handed the files of four people to Yamato, who took a look at it.
"The only abnormal thing about them is this." Yamato held up the file of a girl named Tomoe Meguri "Apparently her family travelled a lot compered to anyone else, but that's it."
Ino just leaned back in her chair and sighed in frustration.
Knock, knock.
Upon hearing someone knocking, it only took them a split-second to pack the information they had and hide it away before Yamato opened the door and found the mailman standing outside with a big package.
"What can I do for you?" the Jounin asked, never letting his guard down.
"Leaves from home." The man said, and Yamato immediately let the undercover ninja into the house with the package.
"I'm here with the package for Naruto Uzumaki." The man said as he placed the package on the table. Naruto instantly brightened when he heard that.
"Finally, the last of my stuff." Naruto said enthusiastically as he ripped the box open to check if everything was there. Satisfied with what he found, he thanked the chunin who only gave a nod, before he said goodbye and left.
"All right everyone, that is all for now. I need to go and write a report to lady Tsunade." Yamato said and dismissed the meeting, with everyone leaving the room.
"Hey, captain Yamato?" Naruto asked in a serious tone, while he was looking down into the box.
"Hmm?"
"I have an idea." Naruto said as he reached down in the box.
"What?" Yamato was now curios about what Naruto was planning.
"I pretty much have the rights to these back home." The blond said as he pulled out a book to show the captain. "Could I not just republish them here in this world?"
"…"
"…"
"Naruto, you do know you would need to continue writhing from where he left off, right?
"I could try." Naruto responded with his trademark grin.
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It took longer than expected, but it is here.
The next chapter is not so far behind, but expect the one after that to be a bit late because of… reasons.
p.s. if you have any good ideas, please do share them.
This is Shadow signing out.