Episode 1

Boy(s) X Girls

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[Hakureiryo Academy]

It was a normal day in the academy in early April. The students (predominantly female) walked into the academy to the shoe locker to change their loafers and into the school slippers. (Some of the students inadvertently and somewhat unelegantly flaunt their undergarments from their dress-skirts at the audience just to try to get those slippers on their feet.) The students of both educations casually greet each other before the school bell rings and class begins.

-LVSN-

[Inside the Dining Hall]

The head teacher, Mikan (no surname) is supervising the servant-ed how to do proper etiquette while serving the master or mistress. Today's lesson: Tea Time. The servant-ed students are dressed up in the maid's attire (while the butler's garbs were worn by the few men attending the academy) as they line up before the upper-ed students enter the hall as the head teacher gave out her orders for them to do like the actual servitude would do.

"Hai! (Yes, Ma'am!)" the students responded.

Then Mikan gave the upper-ed students a signal for their entrée as she instructed, "Students from the upper-ed, please treat the servant-ed with respect like your own. It's a way to help them become your retainer from now on, so conduct yourselves in your best behavior and dignity appropriately towards them."

The "servants" helped the "employers" into their seats. Some students nearly broke the rules as they inadvertently and informally greeted each other, to which Mikan-sensei gave them the 'evil eye' to make them get back to their routine and resumed their duties.

"Thank you for your patience."

"What would you to order?"

"...then, I would like to have a cup of rosehip tea."

It was a comforting and pleasant time during tea time...that is, until a certain voluptuous blue-eyed young woman with blonde drill-like pigtails is seated by the windows near the veranda, when a Servant-ed maid asked, "What would you like to have today?"

"Let me see... straight Orange Pekoe Tea, biscones, and some Bulgarian (rosehip) marmalade," the blonde placed her order.

"Certainly, milady," the maid obeyed as she takes the menu and pours a glass of water and then excuses herself to prepare the order.

The lone blonde woman sitting in her seat is Selnia Iori Flameheart, hailed from England. Right now, she is slightly bored from the same old, same old routine as she looked outside, facing the lake. She attended the academy since her Junior High years, before the integration into Co-ed.

And while Selnia is busy in her line of thinking, another student came by and seated next to her, ordering Lapsang Souchong milk tea by the same servant. Her name: Tomomi Saikyo - a Japanese-born citizen that is a hazel-eyed brunette with neck-length hair and blue ribbons positioned behind her bangs. She is the constant rival and antagonist to Selnia ever since they first met in Junior High and she still likes to tease her longtime 'friend'.

(To Selnia, with a friend like Tomomi, she definitely won't need an enemy.)

"The weather is nice, isn't it, Flameheart-san?" the Saikyo strikes up a conversation. But Selnia is still lost in thought as she sipped her glass.

"Oh, I'm terribly sorry. Is it alright for me to sit here?"

The Flameheart finished drinking her glass and replied with a bit of gruffness, "Do as you please."

"Oh my," Tomomi pretending to interject, "I thought that it was somebody else sitting at this table, Flameheart-san."

"Just what are you getting at‽" Selnia exclaimed.

"Nothing, really, It's just that you must have something on your mind lately," Tomomi explained as she noticed the signs.

Elsewhere, at a different table, the other upper-ed students were noticing that the Saikyo and Flameheart are in the same table. That's not a good sign, because whenever and wherever they meet, there's always conflict between them for some of their smaller reasons. Just then, a "butler-in-training" named Daichi came by as "he" was serving "his" table bringing the tea and snacks from the clients' orders. "He" was overlooking the tension from the conversation between the two well-known students at the other table...

"Really, Flameheart-san," Tomomi declared to Selnia, "You always turned down my offer to have tea together. I thought that you hated me for what I've done to you after all these years."

"What are you trying to say?" the Flameheart countered, "That's not what I was thinking about. You know that chivalry and harmony are the values of the Flameheart family."

"Oh, really? But that isn't the Flameheart style that I see," Tomomi surmises with a sleepy smile, "No, you just hated to lose and possess irregular feelings of rivalry towards others. It's written all over your face."

Selnia, with the imaginary scribbles of the Japanese word "Raivaru" covering her face, gasped at what her classmate had noticed and just about to stand up, but then she almost accidentally and unelegantly bumped against the maid and her tray behind her. She then regained her composure and then seated back down as the maid-in-training apologized for the wait as she served out the tea and biscones and then excuses herself from the table. Tomomi began to giggle and said, "My, look at you, Flameheart..."

As Selnia looked at her classmate while sipping her teacup, she noticed that Tomomi is giving her a dirty look and doomly stated, "So ungraceful."

This makes the Flameheart very infuriated from her error while her 'rival' is still letting her troubles pass her by with simply a smile. The maid came by to the table and served the Saikyo with the ordered tea, while Selnia started to fidget from her frustration and tries to regain her poise and composure.

-LVSN-

While many other events were happening in the hall (Sanaé Shikikagami clumsily and nervously trying to set the tray down to her client's table and Mikan-sensei briefing with the two servant-ed students), Tomomi asked Selnia what's wrong and why is she feeling out of her rhythm.

"Well, you're right," the Flameheart replied, "I've been getting tired of the mundane and melancholic days."

"Oh, my. But I have lots of fun getting to meet you everyday, Flameheart-san. Am I the only one who feels that?"

"E...even if it's seeing you here, Saikyo-san, it's still downright dull. *sigh...* It's just..." Selnia gazes off into the window at the distance.

"'Just' what?" Tomomi curiously asked.

"It's like an old saying, "Fate lies with God, nobody can change it." But if that's the way it is, we all will be bored to death. I'm not at the age where I just sit all day doing nothing, when there's something better out there."

"So, Flameheart-san, you want something major to happen?"

"No, I don't really want anything that big to happen! I... I just wanted some changes, that's all."

"That's right. To expect that small opportunity and slight changes will definitely brighten up our everyday lives."

The Flameheart scoffed at the Saikyo because she couldn't even dare to admit to her, as Tomomi lets out a light chuckle.

Little do they and the school realize, they are about to get their wish...

-LVSN-

[After School Bell]

Outside the main gate, Naruto, wearing his old school clothes (black shinobi garbs with the old school's colors on his back), the summer silk scarf, and carrying his new schoolcase (he still hasn't gotten his school uniform and current workbooks yet) and a rucksack as he is entering through the side door of the gate into the academy and exploring the layout of the region while trying to get to the main building.

[In the Headmistress's office]

Kaede Tenjoji (the current headmistress) and Mikan are presiding in the office, awaiting for Tomomi to come to the office after greeting herself upon entering. After the double doors are shut, Mikan stated to the student, "Well then, Saikyo-san, we need you to go and fetch our new transfer student." And she passes a dossier of Naruto Uzumaki's profile to Tomomi. When the brunette looks at the picture, she was surprised to see her long-lost rival- - er... friend that she hasn't seen since the end of 2nd Grade. About 8 years and she wondered how the changes did for the Uzumaki. So Tomomi said to the faculty, "I understand."

"During the interview," Mikan-sensei explained, "His looks made us feel a bit unnerved, like he saw right through us. But I hope that you will guide him properly, as one of the upper-ed's top students."

While Headmistress Tenjoji was busy being sidetracked from playing a shonen-ai (boy's love) visual novel on her laptop, Mikan asked her, "Rijichou (headmistress), do you have anything to amend?"

"Hmm... Indeed Fuji-kun and Momoto-kun should be a couple," Tenjoji mumbled whie trying to make a decision on her game, but then Mikan suddenly closes the laptop, making her associate shriek with a squeak as the head teacher scolded her with a mean look in her eyes, "Rijichou, I did NOT expect this. Could it be that you were playing the game this whole time since this morning and NOT be doing your job like you were suppose to?"

"How-how can that be possible?" Tenjoji joked while trying to make an excuse, "Honestly, Mikan-chan..." And she made a nervous laughter from her foolishness.

Then Tomomi excused herself as she left the office and she walked towards the main gate, searching for the familiar transfer student.

-LVSN-

[A few minutes later...]

Tomomi finally found the transfer student doing some sightseeing and jotting some notes onto his notepad while carrying his school gear. (He looks a little bit lost.)

When Naruto noticed a student coming his way, he asked her, "Excuse me, but do you know the way to the headmistress's office? This place is a lot bigger than what my mother had mentioned."

As Tomomi moved closer, she can't help but see her former classmate is now a lot taller and more muscular than she expected, nothing scraggly nor scrawny. The Saikyo remembered years ago that she and Naruto practically pranked each other many times. Sometimes she wins, and sometimes her rival wins as they get along like 'frenemies': one moment, they are on friendly terms and the next, they fight like worthy adversaries like a dog (or rather a b*tch) brawling against a monkey.

Getting back into the subject, Naruto noticed that he hasn't seen an old friend for practically half his life and curiously asked, "Is that you, Tomomi Suzuhashi?"

Tomomi then develops an angry blush as she dragged Naruto into a shaded area in the woods and then kissed him on the lips.

"What'd you do that for?" he calmly questioned his acquaintance with a slight sudden blush.

"8 years. It's been waiting that long since I wanted to have my revenge on you for your clumsiness, Naruto-kun," she answered with a rosy face, "I go by Saikyo, thank-you-very-much! How did you remember my maiden name?"

"You still have that twisted sense of humor ever since kindergarten, Tomomi-chan," he remarked, "I still haven't quite figured out about why did you make me the goat of your tricks. Anyway, how is your family?"

Tomomi explained that after finishing 2nd Grade, her mother took her to a different part of town to have her practice as a dentist (a dental worker to be precise) and she later became a missus to a businessman named Saikyo, hence why Tomomi takes that surname.

"I'm not surprised," Naruto remarked at the picture that Tomomi showed him from her pocket of her dress, with the picture showing her a family of three (including herself).

"And Naruto-kun, what are your reasons for coming into the academy," she curiously asked.

"Well... (He looks around the area.) Can we talk about that part somewhere else? Even the woods have ears," he replied with a whisper.

Tomomi blinked for a moment from the sudden request and then she agreed. She decidedly guided her fellow classmate to the office, after they hugged in a family-like manner as they were reunited with each other. And then, both pranksters began to give off a darkly grin that made the atmosphere feel strangely ominous.

"When we get back to the academy, don't expect me to go easy on you, just because we haven't fought in a long while, Naruto-kun," Tomomi challenged with a sneer.

"That's what you think, because I'll be waiting for your challenge, Tomomi-chan," Naruto replied with a sneer of his own.

And they began to laugh evilly with the images of their younger selves eerily doing the same thing.

Then the dark atmosphere cleared up as Naruto extended his hand and said, "May the best student and prankster win."

"Hai. Let's," Tomomi agreed as they shook hands in earnest and then they walked to the office like they're following the Golden Road to the Emerald City.

The rivalry between two pranksters have been rekindled.

[Back in the office]

Tomomi announces her audience with the headmistress and head teacher as she and Naruto stepped forward into the chambers. Naruto formally introduced himself to the head faculty and they interviewed with the new student's pre-assessment with his social skills, physicality, and mentality. He even has the paperwork from the previous school to prove his credits. Then Mikan-sensei asked a very important question, "Naruto-san, you've come from a long line of the Uzumaki and Senju families. Why, pray tell, are you taking the servant-ed course instead of the upper-ed course? It's not about the income, is it?"

Tomomi and Tenjoji nodded in agreement as they curiously indulged with the Uzumaki's details.

So Naruto lets out a deep breath and explained, "No. Actually, it's because I wanted to know what it's like to be on the other side of the fence as a lowly and humble servant, not just to help with the working people, but to also help me to learn not to be complacent as an upper-class citizen. Also, you have heard about my mother, Kushina Uzumaki? She told me that she was formerly enrolled into this very academy before it went co-ed."

The headmistress and Mikan can't help but remember that woman from many years ago when they were once students. "The Red-Hot Habañero" (as they called her) was assigned to the upper-ed used to bring in some form of innovation into the academy. Boys from outside the academy and some of the girls from the inside are often gave the instigators what for because of the way they teased her for her babyface looks, ill-treating their fellow classmates, and calling her a tomato. She was a real high-wire with raw flames of determination for a lady-in-waiting. During the first year in Senior High, she fell in love with Minato Namikaze from a neighboring academy during weekends and vacations as they constantly wrote each other letters and helped with their homework. She may not be at the top of the class, but she carved her name into the history of Hakureiryo Academy.

Tomomi was also curious about Naruto's family life.

Then Tenjoji whispered to Mikan's ear, "Mikan-chan, I think that this Naruto-kid could be a real game changer."

"For once, Rijichou, I agree with you," the head teacher whispered back. Then she turned to Naruto and said, "Very well, Naruto-san. Starting tomorrow, you'll be introduced to your class as a new servant-ed student. Please, enjoy your stay."

"Thank you very much, Mikan-sensei, Headmistress Tenjoji," Naruto said with a bow.

Mikan gave the Uzumaki the current trimester class schedule that changes regularly. Naruto then requested the teachers and Tomomi to keep his family life a secret until the moment is right, because they don't want to give the other faculty and the students the wrong impression. To which, they solemnly promised.

Then Mikan told Naruto to have a look around the school grounds while they prepare the homework guidebooks for the academy, so he'll have to be dismissed until further notice by the intercom.

After the students left the office, Tomomi give Naruto a guided tour of the buildings, the classrooms, the lodges, and the academy grounds.

-LVSN-

After an hour of exploring the basic area of the academy, Naruto and Tomomi went into the dining hall and veranda, showing the ropes about being the butler and how they treat their "master" or "mistress" with courtesy. The other students that they passed by were rather intimidated by Naruto's ninja attire and his fox-like expression from the birthmarks on his cheeks.

"So, I'm wearing a tuxedo or a tailcoat for the servant-ed?" he asked Tomomi.

"That's right," she answered, "Unfortunately, we currently have only 4 other male students in this academy."

"Seriously‽ Why the lack of male students, even though it's co-ed?"

"I believe that it's because of what happened last year that there have been reports of the male students of both classes are making lewd photos of the girls that are showing up in the 'black market' and there's been news of looting of certain items, mainly the undergarments."

{If this is true, then where are the culprits and the evidence?} Naruto thought to himself, {There's got to be more to this than meets the eye...}

"Oh, by the way," Tomomi added, "I wanted to warn you that some of the Upper-ed students don't exactly treat the servant-ed like they're human beings."

"I'll...keep that in mind, Saikyo-san," Naruto said while trying to keep the relationship between each other a secret to the other witnesses. He is slightly disillusioned to how low the school had gone into. And they, of the Uzumaki and Senju families, don't tolerate and condone such injustice throughout the academy. But for now, he'll have to handle being undercover as a lowly butler.

Just then, a an upper-ed female student with short goldenlock hair came by and is very distressed, "Saikyo-san! It's Shikikagami-san and she got herself into an accident again!"

Tomomi sighed as has her duties to tend to. So she turned to Naruto and apologized, "I'm sorry I wasn't too helpful, Uzumaki-san."

"That's all right, Saikyo-san," the Uzumaki replied with a simple grin, "I'll find my way around."

And they went on their separate ways.

"That Tomomi-chan," Naruto said to himself, "Always know how to put on a mask to keep up with her appearances."

-LVSN-

[Outside in the pathway]

And as he was about to walk to the dormitories to rest his feet, a female voice called out from behind, "Just a minute, you!"

Naruto turned around and sees the familiar drill-haired blonde wearing a ballroom dress getting his attention. Selnia Iori Flameheart is fixated on current 'trouble' that is walking in the halls, "A boorish-looking face, a low-class appearance, and a filthy bookbag you're holding... I think that you must be one of those people out to do naughty things. You look suspicious!" And she pointed her finger at Naruto, thinking that he is one of the roisterers breaking into the Academy.

"• • • • •"

Naruto was perturbed at the accusation, knowing that Tomomi was probably right about these certain upper-ed students, and yet he wondered if there's any redemption and forgiveness with those that are being so cold-hearted. So he obeyed his first impulse to turn around, wanting to ignore the accusation and said, "I have no time for this falsity. See ya," and he walked away a few paces.

But Selnia isn't giving up so easily and declared, "Stop right there! What's with the attitude‽"

"Goldilocks, I don't comprehend that twisted logic of yours and I probably never will," Naruto rebuked as he turn around, facing Selnia, "You should just go back to grade school and read 100 of the mystery novels to reflect on your behavior. Maybe then, I'll accept your apology for your foolishness."

Selnia gasped at what the 'suspect' had said and countered, "How rude of you! Do you know who I am‽"

"Not interested," he declined, "Now if you excuse me, Miss Gold-Driller..."

"What did you call me‽" the Flameheart gasped as the Uzumaki stated, "If you have time to chew the fat, then go dig a hole at a construction site and start drilling. Anyway, "your worshipfulness", let's get one thing straight, I'm a transfer student in the servant-ed that just moved in and not some suspicious-looking thug, 'ttébayo. So good day to you." And he began to walk away from the scene.

Selnia never felt so humiliated in her entire life by the blond...ninja as her hairstyle begin to spin. The uncouth student had called her golden locks of hair a drill, the Flameheart stupefyingly wondered. She has had enough of this nonsense as she began to charge at him like she's holding a pretend knife and yelled, "Death Sentence!" And she tries to hammer him with her fist, but he instinctively catches her wrist, preventing her from doing so. Unfortunately, Selnia's ballroom slippers began to make her lose her balance and she started to tumble to the hard floor. Naruto had no time to like acting a jackass, so he skillfully bends his body to make him take the fall instead and act as a cushion to soften her landing... with much success as he landed on his back. "Ouch..."

However, Selnia's E-cup bust landed on his chest and then she accidentally kissed him upon impact as she went unconscious. Naruto ended up tasting the Flameheart's lips and it has a brandy-like taste in his mouth, far different from Tomomi's black cherry kiss.

(Not that there's anything wrong with it...)

But as he felt Selnia's big chest squeezing him, he is in real "deep water" as he carefully breaks off the kiss and tries to see if the woman is alright, but when he felt her white panties under her skirt started rubbing against his pants, it is starting to get very awkward downstairs as she slowly regained consciousness and began to moan from the unexplained ecstasy.

-LVSN-

Meanwhile, Tomomi chuckled from the anticipation as she walked around the hallways.

-LadyXNinja!-

Naruto is caught in a precarious situation. Selnia began to open her eyes and started looking down at the blond ninja's face and sees herself with her chest being close to his and started to have this 'ramen'-like taste coming from her lips. That's when she realized that she is sitting on top of him in a cowgirl position. That's when the blond Uzumaki asked a favor, "Would you mind getting off of me? This is a bit sudden for us to be falling like that, dattébayo. {And it wasn't even my first date}."

And that's when Selnia began to blush rose-madder and then she screamed in a complete embarrassment as she moved away from Naruto and sobbed, sobbed, sobbed, "I've been touched and kissed by a random guy! Even Daddy wouldn't dare to touch my 'girls'!"

"Now, take it easy, Miss, It was all an accidental misunderstanding, 'ttébayo!" he tried to explain as he got back up, "I didn't mean for that to - -"

"To think that I, Selnia Iori Flameheart, let a stranger like you would actually touch my breasts and have the gall to kiss me!" she interrupted as she continue to tear up in her frustration.

That when Naruto sensed some dark intentions from the voluptuous blonde as she became wild with rage and was planning to do him serious hurt. So he said her, "As much as you wanted to smack me, Goldilocks, I'm afraid I'll have to leave you with a civil adieu." And he shunshins as he escapes the incident that will soon turn into a very big problem.

-LVSN-

[Near the stairways]

An upper-ed student was walking to the main building. She sees Naruto making a sudden reappearing act in front of her and then she started to feel faint as she collapses in his arms. He uses his Shadow Double to take the lightheaded girl to the nearest infirmary to let her rest. Selnia was following him as she began to compound her accusations towards the 'suspect', thinking that he's targeting other students.

"Dammit, dattébayo!" Naruto exclaimed as he kept on running and jumping around, "Don't go around blaming me for this!" And he shunshins to a different location. He passed by another girl and she, too, fainted from his appearance. He caught the fainted student and this time, utilizes more Shadow Doubles and instructed them to spread out and distract the Golden Driller and the other girls. He also said that if any person started to feel faint on the spot, they are to take them to the infirmary to let them cool off, no questions asked.

"Ho! (Yessir!)" the doubles obeyed and they scrambled throughout the schoolgrounds, trying not to start any trouble.

-LVSN-

Meanwhile, Headmistress Tenjoji and Mikan-sensei watched the action through the window and the hi-tech security cameras.

"Mikan-chan, should we let the students stop chasing the poor transfer student?" the headmistress asked.

"Give it about half an hour, then we'll use the intercom to tell them," the head teacher replied as she looked through the district where the old school building once stood.

-LVSN-

[At the old building site]

Mimina Osawa (a 19 year old woman stuck in a 10 year old's body) is sitting near the monolith as she is busy sketching and she's having some uncertain feelings that being stuck on her mind. That's when she sees Naruto (a double, actually) reappearing from the shunshin, surprising the little artist.

"Sorry, sorry," he apologized, "I didn't mean to frighten you like that... Mimina-san? What are you doing here? For a moment, I thought I saw a Junior High student sitting here all by herself."

"Mimina's not a little kid!" she said with a third-person POV, "Mimina's a high school student."

"Forgive my sense of humor, Mimina-san. It's been a few years since we last met," he said as he crouches down to her petit height.

He met the Osawa when he got himself to a bit of an accident, injuring most of his body, temporarily leaving him wheelchair bound (even though he heals fast), and he was next door to the artist when he stopped by to see how she's doing after she's gotten a little better. The nurses decided to let him visit the Osawa to give her some company so she won't be so lonely. (At the time, Naruto was 10 and Mimina was 13 and she was stuck in a body of an 8 year old. At first, he mistook her for a little sister figure, but she became fussy and said to him to address her as a [big sister].) After the kids have settled their differences, they sit and talked about things that he had experienced while the Osawa talked about how she is having trouble keeping up with her own hobby that went a bit too far even for her own good.

Mimina can see that her friend has gotten a lot taller since they last met.

"So, what year are you in now?" he asked.

"2nd Year," Mimina answered.

"Mimina...-sempai, it's good to see you again," he said with a grin as did the Osawa. She knew that she liked him for his honesty. But then, he senses Selnia coming around the area, and he grabbed Mimina, carefully trying not to grope her child-like A-cup bust as he tries to shush her until the coast is clear.

"Where did you go, you molester‽ Stop hiding, you ass, and show yourself!" the Flameheart yelled angrily as she was searching for him.

Unfortunately, Mimina fainted from the excitement from Naruto's "technique" and not from the unintentional lack of air from her mouth being shushed or from the way he hugged her. That's when he quickly took the unconscious Mimina and her belongings and jumped away from the scene, leaving Selnia very incensed that he is now into lolicon. (Which is an absurd observation.)

-LVSN-

Another one of the Naruto's doubles tries to draw the attention away from everybody else, but soon ran into none other than Foh Suiran, in her qipao, as she prepares to fight against the 'culprit' that she heard from Selnia. She lunges at Naruto with her dao blade and he performed a backflip and dodged the thrust. He pulled out his reverse edged Kodachi from its holdster attached to his belt and held it in a reverse grip. Then Suiran does a horizontal slice, but Naruto clashed against it with a vertical stance.

"I see you have gotten better, Suiran-chan," he complimented.

"Who are you, dírén (enemy)!" the Fou questioned as she and her opponent got close into a clash.

"I'm surprised that you've forgotten about me. That really hurts. I was there with my family at your 13th birthday party in Happy Spring Island. We first fought each other when I was exploring the island and I later gave you a big stuffed panda doll."

Suiran started to remember the events after each clashing and then she remembered the boy from the prestigious family that didn't need to give her anything too fancy. And she liked certain things that remind her of her ancestral home in Northern China. She also remembered the brawl coming from a group of party crashers trying to spoil the event, but she and her newfound friend worked together to put a stop to the madness.

"Naruto-kun?" she uttered after fully remembering the long-lost friend, "You've grown taller since we last met."

"And you've grown more beautiful, Suiran-chan," he complimented.

"You're a shameless flatterer, Naruto-kun... but, xiè-xie (thank you)."

And the fighters stopped fighting, withdrew their weapons, and took an honorable bow to each other, with a smile.

But then they heard the Flameheart's screaming and ranting. Naruto said that he has to run until the bedlam has simmered down. And the double disappeared with a *poof*. When Selnia ran to the clearing, she asked Suiran if she's all right and had the 'masher' do her any harm. The Fou lady-in-waiting said that she didn't know about any 'miscreant'; she only met a young man that was an old acquaintance of hers.

Selnia was still infuriated that the 'criminal' is still lurking about and have seemed to be in multiple places at once. "I'll get that no-good 'malefactor' if it's the last thing I do!" she swore as she is beginning to feel fit to be tied from all the running and chasing.

-LVSN-

[Near the Dining Hall/Veranda]

Naruto's doubles were down to 2 as he (the original) planned to sneak back inside the academy. He knows that the Golden Drill can create such a clustercuss of a fuss, for sure. So he and his doubles checked to see if the coast is clear and he opened the glass door and not interrupt a busty dark-verdette upper-ed girl sipping her tea. But then she accidentally spilled some tea on her uniform, catching his attention.

"Sorry about that, but let me get you something," he apologized to the woman.

"No, it's alright," she aloofly said, "Don't worry about it." And she started to strip off her uniform down to her undergarments without a care or a sense of shame in the world, trying to make the poor guy have a bit of a nosebleed. And just she was about to take her lingerie off, he used a "borrowed" bedding sheet from the infirmary to cover her up and said, "You don't really need to, dattébayo! Just not in here."

The clueless woman said with a smile, "My... I don't mind being with forceful guys like you."

{That's not what I have in mind,} he thought to himself. But then, he senses another presence from his right side saying, "Sorry for the wait-!"

A busty verdette maid-in-training was carrying a tray and her clumsiness started to make her tumble and crashed into the anticipated Naruto. Thankfully, he skillfully catches the tray full of desserts without spilling its contents. The maid was on top of Naruto's mouth by her pelvis, almost giving her a case of cunniligus from her womanhood through her panties; the doubles helped pry the precarious and bungling woman off of him before she orgasmed from the ecstasy and caused a bigger mess.

"I screwed up again!" the verdette cried, "Forgive me, I'm a 1st-Year servant-ed, Sanae Shikikagami. The one I'm serving is my twin sister Saori. She's in the upper-ed. But... I really am terribly sorry. *sniffle* I always mess up in everything I do. I'm such a failure! I'm stupid, clumsy, and so useless! *sob!*"

The doubles place the tray on the table and then were dispelled as the original placed his hands on her shoulders and said, "You know, believe it or not, I also have my share of failures, too. It may be the bottom now, but that wouldn't stop you from reaching the top of your goals as you try harder. Just take your time and you'll do better."

Sanae felt encouraged by her soon-to-be classmate's words of wisdom and said to him, "Thank you very much, kind sir... I didn't catch your name...?"

"Oh, forgive my rudeness. My name is Naruto, a First Year Servant-ed. Pleased to meet you fine ladies," he formally introduced himself as he gave the frazzled maid-in-training a seat next to her sister. But just as he was about to leave, he ran into Selnia Iori Flameheart, acting like a wind-up doll in her paranoia, trying let out her words of disbelief.

"I...I think I should ask first..." she mechanically said with a shaky monotone.

Naruto tried to explain that things just happened with the Shikikagami sisters, without the unintentional sexual game involved.

"I see," the Flameheart started to calm herself and started to be reasonable, "So that's how it is."

"That's right," the Uzumaki agreed, "Accidents do happen in this world."

And both students began to laugh with joviality for a few moments, until... Selnia throws a table and collided with Naruto. But as she and the Shikikagami sisters looked closer, Naruto was actually a piece of log that took the brunt of the impact instead. The Flameheart wondered where did her culprit went to and she was caught in a position where the real Naruto came swiftly behind her with his bare hands pretending to be sharp knives and whispered, "If I were an assassin, you'd be dead twice over for that mistake you've just made; one to the liver and the intestines by my left hand and one across the neck and arteries with my right, thusly killing you on the spot."

Selnia was frightened as she never felt threatened by an actual ninja assailant that looked like he's serious.

"But...since I wouldn't dare to harm a beautiful lady like yourself, this will have to do," and he gave her a kiss on the right cheek, closest to her ear, and drew a breath. "Let that be a lesson to you," he whispered and he releases his grip, making Selnia lose her footing and landed on her hips from the sudden smooch. Then he turned to the blushing sisters and said to them with a formal bow, "Goodbye, now." And he shunshins out of the hall.

Selnia is utterly embarrassed by the snake-in-the-grass as she got kissed again as she felt her curvaceous body forced to betray itself. Her nerves were nearly shot and her knees were shaking as she tries to get back up and she started to declare, "I hate that punk! He's positively unforgivable! That rapist is going to be handed over to the police when I get through with him!"

-LVSN-

The chase continued for another 20 minutes. The girls of both caste systems that Naruto came across, have ran into each other in the middle of their pursuit, searching for the 'two-bit crook' that somehow stole their hearts away after helping them. But Selnia isn't the kind to give up so easily as she is cranky. And Naruto is still holding out as he ran passed by Ayse and Hedjeh, Pina Sformklan Estoh, and the two butlers-in-training (Shingo and Mitsuru). However, he has just about enough of the long game of "Ring Around the Rosie" as he came near the main entrance.

-LVSN-

[Outside at the destined spot]

Tomomi was waiting for Naruto as the sun is getting to set. But then, she got her wish...the hard way, as Naruto kept going and crashed into to her, with his hand groping one of her high C-cup bust with his fingers, forced by her hand.

"You know, Naruto-kun, your clumsiness still hasn't changed," the devil woman said with a blush.

"Sorry about that," Naruto apologized as he removed his hand from his friend's forbidden place.

"Apology accepted," Tomomi lets out a cruel chuckle.

The blond Uzumaki then gave off an evil smirk as he got back on his feet and helping his rival back up, "Something tells me that you had a hand on setting up this chance meeting."

"Whatever do you mean, Na-ru-to-kun?" she teasingly questioned with an evil smirk of her own.

"You did that on purpose and I fell for it, didn't you?"

"Oh, my. I guess you found out my little scheme."

"Yeah, and one of these days, those 'schemes' of yours will turn on you and bite you on your pretty little butt."

"And I'm proud of it."

And they laughed at each other cruelly like they are demons. And then Naruto took Tomomi's wrist and kissed it and said, "It's as simple as that, To-mo-mi-chan."

After things have been said and done, the two frenemies then hear the sound of approaching footsteps before they resume in their 'masks'. It's the mob of female students that Selnia gathered and they're rather exhausted from all the running, and the ringleader then declared, "I finally caught up to you, you dastardly, groping, perverted, lolicon molester! Surrender yourself!"

Naruto gave off an angry stern look from the accusation. {Do you have to bring everybody and their "mothers" with you?!}

"What have you been doing?" Tomomi curiously asked.

"Nothing," he replied, "Just been meeting my old friends and some new faces. Everything else is just a case of sheer bad luck."

"Oh, really," the Saikyo murmured before turning to the other girls, "Everybody, please calm yourselves. This guy is Naruto Uzumaki-san and he just transferred into Hakureiryo Academy. He's not familiar to the current layout. Can all of you be proper ladies to have the heart to forgive him?"

{Gosh, Tomomi, I didn't know you cared,} Naruto commented quietly.

"How can you forgive him with such an excuse?!" Selnia objected, "That stupid retard not only violated me, but committed an act of molestation!"

"Objection!" Naruto countered as if he was a lawyer, "It was only just coincidental accidents that just happened. But you, Goldilocks, on the other hand, have treated me with such contempt and have unwarrantingly come after me."

"So that's the reason," Tomomi murmured.

The Flameheart was taken aback from the statement. "Even so, this doesn't change the fact that this guy is a pervert! Besides, I've been harrassed!"

"Goldie," he countered, "I admit that I'm a bit a pervert, but that doesn't mean that I would go so far as to harrass you and the other girls and that would hurt mine and the academy's reputations. And besides, you hardly even know me."

The other girls murmured amongst themselves as they began to agree to the Uzumaki's testimony. But Selnia is still incensed as Tomomi stepped in, "Oh, my. Don't tell me, Flameheart-san, that you want him to take the responsibility and be engaged to you?"

{Double-crosser!} Naruto slightly pouted.

The Flameheart's anger is getting to turn to a fever pitch, "How can that be possible?! What I meant to say was that - -"

"It can't be helped," the Saikyo interrupted, making Selnia's tension soften a little, "There seems to be some form of misunderstanding."

"Wait a minute...my..."

"'Your'?"

Selnia began to blush as she's trying to say something, "It's... um... my breasts..."

"Breasts?" Tomomi curiously pressed with a secret ghastly grin, "What about your breasts?"

The Flameheart and the other girls were blushing with shame from what that little detail was uttered, but Naruto stepped in and said, "I'm afraid that was my fault..." And he told them about the argument that started this one big modern mess. "For that, I'm sorry. Please forgive me."

"So that's how it happened," Tomomi surmised, "After all, you just moved here; it just couldn't be helped."

(Selnia grunted in defeat.)

"Please don't worry yourselves. He may look like a ninja, but I've known him to be an honest boy." She turned to Naruto and said, "That's why you transferred here, right?"

"That's part of it, Saikyo-san," the blond ninja agreed and turned to the crowd, "She used to be my classmate when we were in Grade School before she moved away. I remember that one time when were doing a subject of what are we going to be in the future when we grow up. Apparently, little Miss Suzuhashi," Tomomi slightly jabbed Naruto with her elbow as he pointed to her, "At the time, tried to pull a nasty prank that almost hurt my pride as a man. She wanted me to say that I would grow up to be a "bride". However, I turned the tables on her and said, "...to become a family man and to lead a happy, everyday life..." instead and I gave her what for."

Tomomi blushed in an embarrassing defeat as some of the girls began to snicker and chuckle, and the others were stunned, as they realized that the famous Saikyo has once met her match. Selnia just couldn't believe that the blond ninja fought toe to toe with the Academy's devil woman and managed to get through to her before she could.

Just then, a chiming ringed out through the speakers and Mikan-sensei makes her announcement, »Attention, please. Will Naruto Uzumaki, Tomomi Saikyo, and Selnia Iori Flameheart please come to the main office? All other students are to cease and desist from their pursuit and are to return to your regular routines at once. That is all.«

Then Naruto swept the dust of himself and said the crowd of girls, "It was fun, ladies, what else could I say. But I'm afraid that it's getting late, so I'll see you all in a little bit." He extended his hands to Tomomi and Selnia and asked, "Shall we go, girls?"

While the Flameheart scoffed at the idea, but had to play along, otherwise her mischievous rival will never let her live it down, and Tomomi gladly accepted his offer as the went on their way to the office.

Some of the girls in the mob began to develop a crush, while others develop a bit of jealousy between the two smartest students with the charismatic blond as they broke up the rally and go their separate ways.

-LVSN-

[At the Headmistress's office]

The students formally announced themselves and entered the office. Tenjoji was feeling like she had made a right choice on one of her visual novels as Mikan commented, "I see that you have become very popular, Naruto-san."

"Thank you, sensei," Naruto replied, "All part of the plan... more or less."

"I don't understand," Selnia broke in as she is confused, "Why is he doing here in the first place? He's been harrassing the other girls, making them faint, and had left a mess in the hall!"

[A few explanations later...]

Selnia was stupefied, utterly stupefied, as if she was left in the dark. She was talking to the heir of the Uzumaki and Senju legacies and her father's business associate's son and son of the infamous Habañero of Hakureiryo. Her family wouldn't even dare to cross them if they got on the wrong foot. Not to mention, he has that particular air that rivals that of Tomomi's, especially his smirk. The next thing that the Flameheart thought as if these two would end up getting married together and have little pranking menaces on their knees while she could end up being the nanny and the "old maid". In other words, her goose is going to get cooked.

However, Naruto asked Selnia to keep his family business a secret for the time being and he promised that he won't hurt her...(too much).

After getting a bit of a lecture from Mikan-sensei, the head teacher gave Naruto his schoolbooks and the key to a room in the Servants' quarters, saying that he'll have to share a room with a "gentleman". The Uzumaki knows that it's obviously not Tomomi nor Selnia, since they live in the luxurious dorms, and there are few men living the dorms and that he can't share a room with a maid-in-training. So, he thanked the heads of office and he and the girls left the room to go to the cafeteria to have dinner.

-LVSN-

[At the Servants' quarters]

After they finished their meals, the students decided to call it a night after all the bedlam they've went through. Naruto walked through the halls in the modest building. As he found the room, he unlocked the door and formally said, "Excuse me. I'm Naruto, your new roommate? I'm looking for one Daichi Kaoru-san." And as he stepped forward, he came across a half-dressed Daichi just about to take her pajamas off to take herself an evening shower. She blushed not from being caught in an inopportune time, but for her friend that she hasn't seen since the end of Grade School.

Naruto also blushes and diverted his gaze and said "Whoops! Sorry. I must've walked in at the wrong moment."

But then she hugged her friend's side, knowing that she missed him for 3 years. "It's all right," she said, "It's been too long, Nacchan."

"And I've missed you, too, Dai-chan," he replied with a hug of his own.

Daichi Kaoru and Naruto have been friends since they were infants. Her overly strict father was the head of the family dojo and she lost her mother a little later in life. She and Naruto regularly sparred and practiced with each other and worked up a sweat. At the time, Naruto didn't know that Daichi is actually a girl and he still called her Dai-chan, and vice versa as Nacchan, since they are like siblings that they never had. (They're the "only" children in the families.)

But one day, when the kids are 5, Naruto's family had to leave him in Daichi's house because they won't be picking him up until later, because of an emergency. And the poor kids had been sweating from a sparring session together. And they decided to share a bath, with their backs against each other. But when they were finishing getting soaked and rinsed from the bathwater, both Daichi and Naruto missed the first step out of the tub and they slipped. Naruto landed on his back and Daichi landed on top on him, with her femininity in front of Naruto's face. When he opened his eyes, he caught a glimpse of Daichi's "secret" as she began to tear up and got herself off of him.

Daichi was thinking about running away from the hectic scene, but instead, she sobbed at Naruto's shoulders and said that she really is a girl and her family wanted a boy instead, hence why she was wearing clothing and have toys meant for boys. She's afraid that she's letting her family and their honor down, but Naruto comforted her and said that there's nothing to be ashamed off being who they are. Not to mention that the boy told her of things that his parents have taught him, including gender differences and the acceptance of who they are.

This made Daichi stop crying and began to smile from her best friend's support as they take their towels to dry off.

Back at the present time, Naruto asked, "Is your high-strung father making you try to graduate as a man... again?"

Daichi couldn't hide her problems with her best friend and said, "Yes. He fell into hard times lately and I'm worried that his drinking problem is beginning to get out of hand." But then she almost forgot something important and she cover her A-cup chest and said, "Nacchan, I'm going to take a shower and just call me Kaoru when we are in public. I don't want any unnecessary interference."

"Whatever you say," Naruto replied as Daichi went on with her business.

He unpacked his compact dimensional scrolls and unpacked his belongings, his casual clothing, and his school-required formal butler's clothes and shoes. Tomorrow is going to be crunch time on his physical, mental, and social means. "I hope I don't regret what I'm doing," he murmured to himself, "I'll take a shower after Dai-chan's done with the bathroom..."

-LVSN-

Meanwhile, the other girls were busy taking baths of their own.

Selnia had just finished her session and is wearing a bathrobe and fixed her long blonde hair with a special towel. She is still brooding after the incident earlier and complained, "Sheesh! I'll never understand that man!" But when she noticed her big breasts, the Flameheart can't help but feel like 'falling' for the blond ninja that somehow outsmarted her.

Tomomi has finished cleansing herself and puts on her clean pair of panties and held her nightgown close to her chest and said to herself, "From now on, this could be more fun." And she-devil gives off a dark smirk again, thinking of more deviltry.

Naruto felt a chill after having a shower as he was drying off and he thought to himself, {If that's the way Tomomi-chan wants to play, then let the games begin.} And he gave off a smirk of his own.

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To be continued...==›

A/N: Just to let you know, this story isn't really a part of anyone's else's challenges. It's only the first thing that came out of my mental facilities. It took me all night to straighten everything out, after a minor mishap from the site being temporary unreachable.

Naruto isn't so clueless when it comes to romance, especially when most of his friends and acquaintances turned out to be girls. How he can get along with everybody else will be another chapter for another time, but mainly, he'll be dealing with the shrew (Selnia), the she-devil (Tomomi), and the few butlers, plus one narcissist in the classes.

The heat will be on!

- blukmage19