Disclaimer: First Chapter
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"Uuuuuuuh, tests are coming up and I haaaaate it."

Koneko had gotten used to Naruto's complaints about school, she really had. When you were friends with a person for three weeks, you could get used to a few of their little quirks. She had to admit, being friends with Naruto wasn't bad. It was certainly different than when she would spend time with Rias. For starters, Naruto didn't seem to view her as some kind of sexual conquest. He wasn't trying to get into her pants, and he had a general respect for others.

Naruto seemed like he was flirting, but he wasn't.

He was just a very casual person at heart, which made him seem rude. Of course, he wasn't being rude, that was just the kind of person he was.

"Not to mention you signed up for both Kendo and Soccer. You have a game on Friday, and a match on Saturday." Koneko mentioned with a sly tone, not changing her face. She was going to go and watch his Soccer game, and his Kendo match. The part about sports clubs, was to gain funding for the club they needed to regularly face similar clubs from other schools. They didn't need to win, though winning got them mre funding.

To get funding, your club needed to be active in what it did. To become a club, you needed a minimum amount of members and an advisor to the club.

You could participate in multiple clubs, but it wasn't suggested.

"Don't remind... thanks for helping me study, I'm-" Naruto didn't get the chance to finish, before she picked up a cookie and pushed it into his mouth.

They had stopped by a backery on the way to his apartment.

"Bribing me with sweets." Koneko stated as she ate one of the chocolate cookies. Naruto was bad at studying, so usually she ended up correcting him a lot. When she saw something that she knew was wrong, she wasn't perfect either, she would point it out to him. He was bad at pretty much all of his subjects.

The only subject he was good at was English.

His Aunt apparently was fluent in English, and had taught him the language when he was very young. Naruto was bilingual in both English and Japanese. The rest of his subjects he was average in. He was only average though because she was helping him out. He had to work a lot harder than other people did to understand the subjects, and he had to try even harder than that to get good at them.

She believed he might be a Kinetic learner, meaning he learned by doing things with his hands.

"I prefer the term offering, because that makes me seem less like a yankee. I'm going to stretch my legs for a... tsssst tsssst tsssssst." Naruto hissed when he was standing up. His ankle swollen and slightly purple around the sides. Naruto sat back down with a forced grin as he laughed off the pain. "Sorry, can you refill this?" Naruto asked as he offered Koneko a refillable ice-pack.

She nodded her head and grabbed it, before she got up and walked towards the fridge. She opened up the freezer and opened the lid to the pack. Scooping up some ice, and popped the lid back on, before tossing it across the room.

"How did you get hurt?" Koneko asked, since she already knew about his ankle hurting him.

She just didn't know how.

"Got kicked in the ankle by accident. The club was practicing, two of the members were going for the ball... got both sides of my ankle instead... Oooooooh." Naruto sighed in relief when he placed the ice on his ankle. He could already feel the swelling going down. It didn't take him long to heal from small things like this.

Apparently, he got that from his Great-Grandfather.

"Baby." Koneko stated as she finished off the last cookie. They were done studying, but she didn't yet feel like leaving. If she asked, she could maybe mooch some food off of Naruto. He was pretty cool about it. "Can I steal you food?" Koneko asked him, and he thought about it for a moment, arms crossed.

"... You can steal one of my cup ramen, if you make me one too! I have miso, pork, chicken, garlic... and super spicy fireball." Naruto listed off the ramen cups that he had. Koneko walked over to the cabinet, and when she opened it up she saw over 40 cups of ramen inside of it. Naruto didn't really buy anything but ramen unless he had to, he had cold drinks in the fridge, but other than that he was an instant ramen man.

"... You like garlic?" Koneko asked with a raised eyebrow.

"Love it, love the smell and taste." Naruto stated as he rubbed his stomach, a lick of his lips. Koneko nodded her head. Koneko looked at his pointed ears... though now that she thought about it, he didn't really have a Vampire smell anymore. All he had was the pointed ears, and nothing else. He was eating garlic, he loved the sun, he lacked the cold aura of a Vampire (he had a super warm and sunny aura), and he slept in a bed, not a coffin. "Though, I'm looking for a stand that makes good ramen... nothing beats a ramen stand." Naruto lamented as he leaned back.

Koneko grabbed two garlic ramen cups, and she went over to the sink to pour the water inside of them. She filled them up to the line, before she walked to the microwave and put them inside of it. She set the time for several minutes, and walked back to Naruto.

"I know how to make ramen noodles, but I don't know how to make the soup. If you know how to make that, we can make ramen... if you pay for the ingredients." Koneko suggested to him. She really did know how to make ramen noodles, or at least udon noodles, but they weren't really that different. She had her own money, but she would rather that Naruto pay for the food if she was going to be cooking it for him.

Naruto grinned.

He was okay with that.

"I'm surprised you are staying this late. Usually you go home by this time. Not doing anything tonight?" Naruto asked her, and she nodded her head. Usually, she would leave before 8 rolled around. Yet it was nearly 11, and she was still at his apartment. "Not that I'm complaining, I like the company." Naruto added on as the microwave went off. Koneko got up and went to get the cup ramens.

When she got back, she sat one in front of Naruto, there were already chopsticks on the table from earlier no doubt. She grabbed a random pair, it was either her pair or Naruto's pair, the only two pairs there could be.

She started to eat in silence, Naruto's louder slurping being the only noise in the room as they just ate. Naruto finished in seconds, and herself shortly after him. The two of them drank the broth, before they put down the cups. Naruto took it from her and stacked it on his own, before he got up and threw it away.

"I'll be going." Koneko stated.

Naruto followed after her when she started moving.

"I'll walk you home. I've heard that some suspicious people have been seen lately." Naruto explained to her.

She rolled her eyes.

"I'll be fine." Her tone suggested that she didn't care. She couldn't exactly explain to Naruto that some human wouldn't really be able to hurt her. The most they could do would be give her a tiny little cut with a knife, or maybe shoot her (that would only barely sting). She would take care of them if they tried anything.

Naruto wasn't having it.

"You're a cute girl. Who knows what kind of pervert is out there waiting." Naruto unknowingly complimented her.

The fact he did it without thinking about it was what made his compliment genuine to her. Koneko appreciated the boost to her ego for sure. She could tell that Naruto was going to be stubborn about this. If there was something she both respected and hated about him, it was his stubborn nature. There was no arguing with him over things like this.

"What's the worst that could happen?" Koneko asked.

Naruto palmed his face.

-20 Minutes Later-

"-This is the worst that could happen." Naruto said as he stood on guard in front of Koneko. The man in front of them was wearing a black hoodie with the hood pulled up. His skin was pale and slightly sunken in. He was shaking and scratching his arm, while the arm he was scratching was pointed at them. In his hand being a gun that was aimed right at them.

"Hand over your money, and I won't do anything... just give it all to me." The man looked around nervously, hoping that no cops would come.

With how strict gun laws were, he would no doubt be questions on how he even had this gun. It wasn't a legal gun for one, and he had had gotten it though shady methods. Of course, they would also do tests on him. He was looking at a long time in jail if he got caught for having this weapon.

"I don't have any money on me." Koneko admit to Naruto with a shrug.

Like she was scared of a normal gun.

"I-"

"Just give me the money already! You're Kuoh students, that is a nice school! Kids like you have got to have a lot of pocket money! Hand it over!" The man shouted impatiently. He could see their uniforms, and that they were from that really nice school.

It was stupid, but Naruto wasn't going to give this man any money.

Instead, Naruto punched him in the face. The man recoiled by the surprise face punch. He yelped and took a step back, holding his bleeding nose. He nearly dropped his gun, but he kept his hold on it. He pointed it at Koneko, and Naruto raised both of his hands in surrender.

"Hey, I punched you, not her. Point that at me, she didn't do anything wrong." Naruto didn't want Koneko getting shot.

"You bunched my fabe." The man spoke with his words messed up. His nose swelling up, with blood pouring out of it. His scratching hand went to hold his nose to stop the bleeding. "This is a gub you libble shibs. I cab nurber you rib here and nowb." The man continued to speak with his messed up speech.

Koneko couldn't help herself.

"Go ahead and shoot me." Koneko deadpanned as she raised both of her arms up, getting ready to take the shot. The shot would barely even hurt her, all she would feel would be a bee sting from it. She would get shot, and then she would knock this man out by punching him in the gut. "... Loser." Koneko added an insult to her words, just to get the point home that she wanted the man to shoot her.

The second he even started to pull the trigger, Naruto used his body as a shield in front of Koneko.

Koneko's eyes widened when she heard the sound of the gun going off multiple times in quick succession. As if the gun was an automatic and released multiple bullets. She heard Naruto give a pained shout as he wrapped an arm around her and became her shield. Naruto tensed his entire body.

The man seemed to regret his actions, because the second he realized he shot a living person, he turned tail and started to run.

"... FUCK!?" Naruto shouted as loudly as he could as he collapsed to his knees. He had two bullet holes in his arm, and 3 of them in his right side. His white shirt quickly staining with blood. Naruto grabbed his arm, covering the spots that were shot. "... How bad does it look?" Naruto asked as he glanced at his side with a wince.

Okay, that looked bad.

'I'm an idiot, I forgot he isn't immune to bullets.' Koneko thought as she took her shoulder cape off and pressed it against Naruto's side to help stop the bleeding. "Are you okay?" Koneko asked Naruto.

...

"... Peachy." Naruto stated with a pained grunt. He looked at his right side, and he could see long scratched going across his ribs.

Okay, so those bullets only grazed his ribs. They didn't hit anything vital, he was bleeding a lot, but he could stop the bleeding. His right arm actually got shot, and still had the bullets inside of his arm.

Koneko stood up and started to go after the man who shot Naruto.

"I'll go get-"

Naruto reached out and grabbed her wrist. His left hand was stained with blood from holding his wound, so he used his right one. He could still move his arm, since the bullets hit him in the biscep.

"Can you help me get to the hospital instead... I'm bleeding, a lot." Naruto pointed out to her, and she nodded her head. Helping Naruto came first, before getting revenge for his bleeding. "... Why the hell did you tell him to shoot you?" Naruto asked her.

She noticed something odd when she heard him say that, and walked closer to him.

Was he mad?

"... Why did you take the bullet... bullets for me?" Koneko responded back to him with a question. She couldn't rightfully answer his own question, so she was going to have to divert his attention. She continued to put pressure on his wound to prevent anymore bleeding, but she was curious.

She didn't expect him to take a bullet for her.

"You're my friend. I would do anything more my friends... you're important to me. HMMMMMM!?" Naruto moaned loudly when Koneko used her fingers and dug into the bullet wounds, and pulled the bullets out of his arm. He would have taken that better if she had warned him before, but he got no warning. Koneko took her tie off, and tied it around his arm to help slow any bleeding.

She was smiling though.

"Please don't do that again..." Koneko stopped when she sensed something nearby.

She could smell a Vampire.

-Nearby-

"You taste nasty." Selene stated as she finished sucking out all of the blood of the man who had shot her family. She spat out the remains of his blood that were in her mouth, just because of his nasty taste. His blood was full of drugs for starters, so that was going to be a joy to experience when it hit her.

Okay, so she would slice the body to pieces, and scatter the remains of it around the city in strategic locations that would go unnoticed. She didn't want Naruto getting blamed for this after all.

She better get home soon, before the drugs in the man's blood started to kick in.

-With Koneko and Naruto-

"... Just... don't put yourself in danger Koneko. You really scared me back there. I would gladly take a bullet for you... but please don't let yourself get hurt." Naruto spoke to her more gently than before. She could hear the sincerity in his tone, and she could tell he really was worried about her.

...

"... You risked your life for me, even though you could have died..." Koneko whispered to herself mostly as she looked down.

Any of her fellow peerage members would have let her take the bullet. They wouldn't have even tried to save her, because they knew she would be able to take it, and they didn't want to risk hurting themselves either. Naruto didn't know about her Defensive power, and he really did think she was going to get hurt. Her life had never been in any danger... but to Naruto her life had been in peril.

"Of course I did, and I would do it again in a heartbeat. So don't you forget it ya know." Naruto told her with a wince as she leaned into his side.

He really would, wouldn't he?

"... Want to try dating?" Koneko asked with a laidback tone. She wasn't saying that she was in love with him or anything, but she wanted to try to date him and see where it went from there. He was a good man, a stupid man, but a good man. He was the type of man that she would like to date. He was also the type of man that she could see herself falling in love with.

Naruto laughed.

She elbowed him.

"Guh... Sorry, the way you said that was funny. You're asking me to be your boyfriend... while on the way to the hospital to treat my gunshot wounds. Not to mention you have like no inflection in your voice..." Naruto looked down at Koneko at his side, and he wrapped an arm around her with a small grin on his face. She was a little neutral in the way she talked, but she was both a nice person, and a nice looking person. "... Sure, dating sounds fun." Naruto answered her, and she nodded her head.

"... You know... this is not how I expected to get a boyfriend." Koneko spoke with a certain amusement in her voice.

It wasn't bad... but it certainly wasn't good for Naruto.

She would buy him a bowl of ramen at a ramen stand when he was better to make it up to him.

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