Sky Dimension chp 02
Beta'd by Satsujinki Nanaya
It had been a few days since Uni decided to join both Nepgear and Naruto at breakfast and ever since then she joined them for breakfast, lunch dinner and even supper if Nepgear was feeling a sudden craving for pudding.
During that intervening time Uni introduced both Nepgear and Naruto to her older sister Noire. Noire was certainly very different from Neptune and she also apparently knew Neptune.
Neptune acted rather childish most of the time but Noire was a rather serious no nonsense type of person and both Naruto and Nepgear could see where Uni got her serious streak from.
But right now they were in one of IF-sensei's crazy practice exercise which would involve them playing a game of dodge-ball...or rather one team was throwing balls at another team who had to try to dodge while wearing weights on their legs, and all of this was to understand the principles behind dodging in an IS unit.
"Huff huff I thought the legs weights were alright but this is ridiculous!" Complained Naruto as he had to carry not just the weights but also a backpack full of weights since the Lancelot was fully armoured.
Nepgear dove under as a ball flew past her hitting the wall behind. "Don't worry Naruto-kun just think of it as training." Replied Nepgear with a little smile.
Another ball flew at Nepgear and it would have it her if Uni hadn't tackled Nepgear to the ground. "Hey come on now we have to focus."
"Ah right thanks Uni-chan." A blush came across Uni's face.
"Well you're my team-mate and it's not like I really wanted to save you I just want the perfect score." Both Nepgear and Naruto could see the streak that she got from Noire coming through in that moment.
[Later]
Class was finally over and they were all sweaty from the game so they decided to meet later on for dinner when they were all cleaned up.
Not wanting to wait for Nepgear to finish Naruto decided to take the long trek to the boys shower room in the other building.
When he stepped into the bathroom he could hear the faint clicking of fingers against a keyboard and turning the corner he saw a brown haired girl, Blanc was her name, and she was seated on the ground typing away on a keyboard.
Stepping outside he checked and saw that it was indeed the boys shower room.
"Um Blanc-san I don't know how to say this but you're not allowed to be here." Blanc looked up with her emotionless face and tilted her head.
"I'm sorry Namikaze-san it's just that this place is quiet and I prefer to do all my writing in silence." Blanc picked herself up bowed to Naruto and left the boys bathroom.
Naruto shrugged and thought. 'Wouldn't the library have been a better place to do writing?'
[The next day]
Naruto along Nepgear and Uni were running to class, they had taken a little bit more time when it came to breakfast as Noire was showing them pictures of her cosplaying.
When they stumbled into the class party poppers went off showering the three of them in confetti. "Congratulations!"
"Huh what's going on?" Asked Naruto as he, Nepgear and Uni picked themselves up.
IF-sensei and Compa-sensei stepped out from the corner. "Well the entire class had a discussion and by a majority rule all of your classmates have decided to nominate you Naruto as their class representative."
"Me? Really I mean wouldn't Uni be a better choice of maybe even Nepgear."
"Namikaze-san all of us have agreed and we think that you would have the class best interest." One of his class mates said though in most of their minds they had other thoughts.
[In the girls mind they were thinking of the time in the arena, in a way too dramatic fashion]
Naruto was on his knees and he was holding Uni close to his body as tears streamed down his face, she had just taken the full brunt of her rifle explosion and Naruto was just barely able to catch her. "Uni please come back to me...I-I need you..."
Slowly Uni's hand reached up and brushed against Naruto's face clearing away his tears. "Don't worry Naruto I'm here and I won't leave you so soon."
The two of them closed the distance between themselves and their lips were about to touch when suddenly Nepgear tore through all the girls romantic fantasy with her gun-sword "Hey don't do that this story is only in its second chapter and a kiss is too soon...oops I broke the fourth wall didn't I?"
Quickly grabbing bricks and mortar Nepgear rebuilt the fourth wall and even slapped on a new coat of paint for it. "There all better."
[Back to the students]
The students were snapped out of their daydream and both Uni and Naruto had chills going down their spines.
"Anyways now that you have become the class representative you will need these." IF-sensei took out a huge stack of books and placed them on the main table with a loud 'thump'.
"These books and files are all you will need to fully understand what it means to be a class representative." Fires burned in IF-sensei's eyes making her students back off a little.
"Or you could take this folder which has all the basic information that you'll need." Compa-sensei placed a much smaller folder on the table next to the stack that IF-sensei prepared.
"Um thanks IF-sensei but I think I'll take this folder." Naruto was about to return to his seat when IF-sensei told him that there would be a student council meeting later this afternoon so he should read up on his role as a class representative since this would be an important event.
So quickly studying the duties of the class rep he finished just in time to dash off to the room where they were having the meeting but not before hearing that they were going to have a party on the town to celebrate him becoming the class rep, Compa-sensei's treat.
The speaker there was the student council president Tatenashi Sarashiki and she talked about how they were all very fortunate to earn the role of class rep but now they were about to face a big hurdle as they would have to prepare for the extracurricular recruitment fair.
Tatenashi went through in rather great detail about the fair, which stands would go where and what they would have at the fair.
In the end jobs were handed out and class 1-2 ended up with the task of managing the snack stand as well as providing the entertainment for the fair and she hoped that everyone would do their best and if possible they should also join a club.
On the way out Naruto saw Ichika and the two of them worked up a little bit of chit-chat and they were quite surprised that they both made class rep position though in rather different ways and they were both going to be celebrating tonight though at different venues.
[That evening with class 1-2]
"Kanpai!" Glasses clinked together as a bit of liquid splashed out and dirtied the table cloth before the students drank up and called for a refill.
"Alright then dig in everyone." Plates were passed around and ingredients were emptied into the hot pots of stock.
While the food cooked Naruto announced to everyone what they were going to be doing during the festival. The girls cheered when they heard the job that they received and began to make a list of the snacks that they were going to serve while at the same time they also discussed what entertainment they wanted.
Naruto looked around and he noticed that Blanc was not at the table and the food was just about ready to be served.
"What's wrong Naruto-kun?" Nepgear asked her chopsticks stuck in between her teeth.
"Um nothing I've just got to go check on something." Naruto excused himself and headed outside there he saw a little café where Blanc was seated at her laptop open and a cup of coffee on her table with a slice of half eaten cake.
Entering the café he got behind Blanc and heard her singing a song and he noticed that there were lyrics on her screen.
"You've got a nice voice Blanc-san." Blanc turned around and saw Naruto standing behind her.
"Um ah yes well thank you Namikaze-san...why are you here?" She asked, inviting Naruto to sit with her.
"Well one duty of the class rep is to know where everyone is, anyways I wanted to ask why you weren't with everyone else at the hot pot?"
"I don't really like to be around people."
"Well I heard you humming and it was really good so I was wondering could you possibly be the final act for the fair?" Blanc blushed and shook her head.
"I can't do it I'm just really shy."Naruto thought about it for a moment and saw that the sun was close to setting.
So grabbing Blanc's hand he paid for her meal and rented a bike where he rode to the old cliff.
"Namikaze-san where are we going?"
"I want to show you something that could help you overcome your shyness." He replied as he took the corner and stopped. "Come on follow me."
Naruto grabbed her hand and led Blanc up the hill to show her the setting sun and crashing waves. "Look here. There is absolutely nothing beyond the horizon but the sea and the sun. If you perform just imagine yourself here and all you are seeing is the sea and the sun don't imagine yourself singing to the people in the audience imagine that you're singing to the sun, clouds and everything beyond."
Blanc took a few steps forward and opened her laptop, music soon started to play and Blanc sang along with it. Naruto stood behind her and listened intently, her singing was perfect it had the right amount of emotion when it needed it and the tune was just where it needed to be.
When she was done she closed her laptop and turned to Naruto. "I-I think I will sing but I want you to be there with me."
Naruto nodded. "If that's what it'll take then I'll be there every step of the way with you."
Blanc smiled and the two of them made their way back to the hot pot place where they were just in time for the second round of food that would be going in, but before they entered the room Blanc asked that he kept her appearance from the finale as a secret.
Naruto zipped his mouth and ensured that he would keep it as his most valuable secret before they dug into the food and had a rather good time, so much so that Blanc had a smile on her face when she returned to her room for bed that night.
[A couple of days later]
The next few days were a flurry of activity as Naruto had to attend another council meeting to present his plan to Tatenashi about the snacks as well as the entertainment.
When it came to the subject of the entertainment he kept quiet about Blanc and instead used the name 5pb for their concert star. The concert would also have fireworks to go along with it to end the night and he also presented the list of snacks that they would be selling.
In the end he was given a budget to work with which would be including the purchasing of snacks and what they needed to prepare for the concert.
After that meeting he was dragged to the supermarket by a bunch of his classmates who were eager to get out of the island and see the mainland thankfully they were given time off from class to prepare for the event.
The rest of the time that he had was spent with Blanc who was preparing a brand new song to sing, and while Naruto wasn't any kind of design artist for costumes he fortunately came across a rather unique individual who agreed to help.
[With Naruto]
Nepgear was busy with the same project that she had been working on for a while now and she said that it was going to be completed soon.
Naruto was just coming out of the shower drying his hair when he noticed something rather strange in his room, it was a strange trash can that he swore was not there before.
Getting close he suddenly lifted the entire thing to reveal a little girl wearing a rather large bunny cap. "Oops it looks like Gust got caught after all."
"Yeah so why don't you come out of there and tell me what you're doing in there." Gust stepped out of the trash can and looked sheepishly at Naruto.
"Gust is sorry for spying on you but pictures of Naruto go for high price especially if they are taken with Ichika by your side."
"Right..." Naruto nodded his head which had a raised eyebrow.
"Anyways please don't report Gust for entering your room without permission. Tell you what Gust will do one favour for you in exchange for you not telling on Gust, Gust has many skills so just ask and Gust will do it."
"Well now that you say it I do have one problem to be taken care of but you have to keep it a secret." Gust readily agreed to it and followed Naruto to meet Blanc and while Blanc she had her reservations about the situation she relented as neither of them had any or much experience with make-up.
"There Gust is finished." Gust tossed open the curtain looking fairly proud of herself and out stepped Blanc.
She was wearing a blue wig with black headphones that had a small silver antennae, pink rings on the ear pieces, and a small microphone attached to the left ear a beauty mark below her left one.
She also has black painted nails and a black music note with a heart piece tattoo on the left side of her stomach.
Her outfit consisted of a black bikini top with very thin silvery vertical lines, black ruffled lining and button pieces on the straps that have small silver spots along them. The ruffled skirt matches the top with white straps and black and pink buckles, a pink belt with a pink bow on the back and black lining of the skirt, and two smaller frilled layers of it, one being pink while the other is black.
Her black boots have white strappy stripes and white and black stripes underneath, along with a frontal pink design. One boot is almost covers the entire leg with tears in the material, while the other boot is short with fishnet stocking material, resembling a garter belt.
She also wore multiple accessories, such as small below the shoulder bands with pink frills and silver music notes going around the centre, a black and pink bracelet on each wrist, a black frilled choker with studs and a heart piece with her icon on it.
All in all she looked like an idol with that get-up.
"Wow you look great Blanc-san." Commented Naruto, Blanc looked away shyly as her outfit was rather revealing and she wasn't used to wearing such clothing.
"Um Gust do I have to wear such revealing clothes?" Gust tilted her head and looked at Blanc.
"Does Blanc-san have problem with Gust's choice of outfit. Gust was sure that all current idols dress like this so if you dress like that then you look just like them."
Naruto's words rung in Blanc's head. 'There is absolutely nothing beyond the horizon but the sea and the sun. If you perform just imagine yourself here and all you are seeing is the sea and the sun don't imagine yourself singing to the people in the audience imagine that you're singing to the sun, clouds and everything beyond.'
Blanc straightened herself and confidence flared in her eyes. 'I can do this.'
Naruto couldn't see the fire but from Blanc's body posture he could tell that something woke up inside her.
"There now that Gust is done Gust will take her leave call Gust when performance time so that she will be able to make Blanc pretty again." Gust bowed and left.
"Yeah look at the time want to go and grab dinner?" Blanc nodded.
"Yes just give me a moment to change back into my uniform." Naruto walked and waited outside while Blanc changed.
When she was done the two of them made their way down to the cafeteria where they met up with both Uni and Nepgear for dinner.
[The day of the event]
Naruto was busy doing some final checks so he just told Nepgear to sign him up for whatever club she felt like doing.
So now Nepgear was going through various stands searching for one that she liked, she already visited Neptune who was stuck manning the stall for the snack club and she told her that she would think about it.
She was right now observing the stand which was when one caught her eye and it was being manned by a fairly well endowed blonde haired lady.
"Ah hello there you seem interested in my club. I am Vert and I am part of the cosplay club but I also represent a special research club." Vert introduced herself and passed Nepgear a simple introduction pamphlet.
"So Vert-san what do you research?" A tinkle appeared in Vert's eyes.
"I think it will be better if I showed you what you're about to see is secret and technically isn't part of the main club." Vert led Nepgear to the back where there was a tent, Nepgear followed Vert into the tent wondering what she researched.
A few minutes later Nepgear stepped out slightly dazed a little drool coming out of her mouth. "Wow I-I never imagined such a thing could exist...and it was wonderful!"
Vert was rather happy and passed Nepgear a signup sheet. "So will you join the cosplaying club and me to an extent Nepgear?"
Nepgear happily nodded her head and signed her name on the joining sheet then she remembered that Naruto also asked her to sign up for him too so still in her daze she also put Naruto's name down before happily skipping away humming. "Naked nudie dangly lalala~"
[With Naruto]
Naruto was doing checks on the sound system when he suddenly felt a chill run down his spine and it affected him so much that he fell to his knees. 'Wh-what is this feeling? I feel as though I'm going to be dragged into many compromising situations.'
Shaking the feeling away he finished his check on the sound system and found that the installation of the sound system was faulty and the sound test wasn't working something was wrong with the speakers and they wouldn't play Blanc's track.
No matter what he did it just seemed as though the speakers wouldn't play Blanc's song.
He didn't know what to do so he went in search of new speakers leaving Gust in charge of things.
[Later on]
The crowd was getting impatient while Blanc was getting skittish about going on stage, but with Gust taking charge of things due to Naruto's disappearance and left with no choice she had to get Blanc to go on stage.
There Blanc stood all of her fears started to rise and soon she was about to buckle from the stage fright, nothing came to her...she couldn't remember what Naruto told her and most of all she couldn't remember her lyrics.
Just as she was about to fall to her knees she heard something come in on her headset. "Blanc don't you dare give up when I heard you sing at the cliff side and it was beautiful so don't give up!"
Suddenly from above there was a roaring noise as the Lancelot came swooping in and landed next to Blanc there were speakers attached to the wings of the float system that the Lancelot used to fly.
"I told you I'd be here for you now I believe there is a song for you to sing." Blanc nodded so the Lancelot took off into the air and played Blanc's song.
[Play Macross Frontier Seikan Hikou]
"Alright everyone whose ready for some music!" Screamed Blanc while the music played in the background.
The crowd cheered as Blanc began singing her song.
Up above the Lancelot circled the concert area many times letting everyone take in the music while Blanc sang to her hearts content.
"Wow Blanc is really different when she is in front of a crowd!" Noted Naruto as he took video footage of the entire concert.
Finally Blanc was at the final part of the song and so Naruto released the fireworks which captivated the audience and further enhanced the beauty of everything.
[End song]
The Lancelot landed and returned to its standby mode and when Naruto finally made it backstage Blanc was already out of costume thanks to Gust.
"Namikaze-san thank you for everything." Blanc had already switched back she was certainly different from the Blanc that took the stage not that long ago.
"Heh don't mention it." Suddenly two little girls one dressed in pink while the other was dressed in blue ran up and hugged a surprised looking Blanc.
"Onee-chan!" They cried out.
"Rom! Ram! What are the two of you doing here?" Asked Blanc.
"We wanted to see you Onee-chan..." Pipped up Rom who was dressed in blue and hid her head in her sisters clothing.
"Yeah Onee-chan! Who is this guy? Is he your boyfriend?" Teased Ram who was dressed in pink and proudly standing in front of her older sister.
Behind Blanc went, "Gurk!"
Suddenly in a snap Blanc's personality turned rather loud and hostile. "What did you little twerp say!"
Both Rom and Ram terrified by their sisters sudden change in personality ran and hid behind Naruto. "Now Blanc just calm down alright their kids so I'm sure their just teasing you."
Both Rom and Ram nodded their heads but Ram nodded stronger and more fiercely.
"Fine but I'm calling Mina to come pick you two up now and you're not to come off premise again understand?" Both girls sadly nodded but before they left for the entrance they got some treats from class 1-2's stall.
When they finally left Ram decided to tease Blanc one more time, this time however Blanc got so furious that she nearly transformed and went after the girls screaming every dirty word that came to her mind and even some that Naruto did not know of.
[The next day]
"What 2 weeks of detention!?" Complained Naruto. "What is that for?"
"Maybe it has something to do with the unauthorized IS launch last night Naruto." Naruto nervously laughed, he didn't think that he would be in that much trouble over this incident.
"So next time maybe you should think before you act, report to the garden for todays punishment."
"Hai sensei..."
[After class]
Naruto was at the garden cleaning it up and planting plant life to make it more beautiful. But now he was tired, dirty and thirsty, he was about to go and get one when one was offered to him.
Looking up he saw Blanc offering one to him. "Here Namikaze-san."
"Ah thanks." Naruto accepted the drink and took long gulps before finally talking to Blanc.
"So what brings you here huh?"
"I told you before I liked to be alone and I like the fauna that is here."
"But I'm here so technically you're not alone." Joked Naruto, and Blanc she smiled.
"You're an exception." Naruto returned her smile with one of his own before he returned to work while she typed away on her laptop.
Eventually both Nepgear and Uni made their way to the garden with drinks for Naruto though Uni said and there they saw Naruto taking another break with Blanc by his side.
Nepgear leaped and landed on Naruto's shoulder, Naruto was both surprised and happy to see them. They even brought snacks from the cafeteria to enjoy.
Blanc was about to leave but Naruto, Nepgear and even Uni stopped her and invited her over Blanc didn't want to join them but everyone's smile changed her mind and she ended up enjoyed herself.
End of chapter 2
So that's it for this time.
Some may have noticed that Blanc is maybe a little OOC for her character but I like to think of it as her character having some additional traits from 5pb, also the idol thing is probably just a onetime thing.
Then there is also the tech side of things and various problems with the explanations from the 1st chapter have been identified, in the future I'll try to clean it up but let me just say outright when we reach the Golem fight expect the tech to kinda take it deep but in a somewhat logical yet awesome way.
Then one person asked for a harem list and I'm sorry to say but I don't want to put it up yet mostly cause it may spoil certain story elements later on and also because certain parts of the story may change so I do apologize to people that may want one.
Anyways I want to thank people who reviewed the first chapter and I was really scared that people wouldn't like it because Naruto wasn't in class 1-1 but I was wrong and the chapter did fairly well.
I hope you readers who liked it continue to review the story and for those who are new if you liked it now then favorite it or follow. Once again thanks for reading the story and I'll see you all in the next chapter.
Next time Chap 3: Club activity and Lancelot VS Shenlong!