*Here we go again. And before you read this chapter I would just like to say Merry Christmas. I don't care who you are or what you have done, but this is the one time of year when everyone is supposed to forget all the bad things that's going around in this little blue planet of ours and just enjoy life. So, just one more time, with a little more feeling. Merry Christmas to all,
Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto or Negima.
Jinchuuriki at Mahora
Chapter 4: A Bumpy Start
Inside a small cottage, within the perimeter of Mahora Academy resides a creature, that has killed hundreds, slaughtered armies and terrorized thousands all for the sake of her own amusement. This creature at her prime was an immortal vampire, a creature that couldn't be killed by traditional methods or even supernatural. She has been living ever since the Middle Ages, acquiring knowledge of all kinds. It did not matter if they were trivial or ancient tomes, to her, knowledge was power.
That and she had nothing but time.
She has learned nearly every martial art that has graced god's blue world. She was a monster, a demon, an abomination and the worst was she was unloved. She never knew what it was like to be loved or to give it. She had endured centuries of mobs telling her she was a monster that would eventually burn in the eternal hellfire alongside her ilk. During the height of her power, she was once again bisected upon by torch wielding, pitchfork holding villagers. She was saved by a man unlike any she had ever encountered. A man who saved her, who helped her despite her, less than stellar attitude towards him, it was then at that very moment, she began to feel something she never experienced before.
Hope.
He told her who he was and with great hesitation she did as well. She was shocked by his casual dismissal of who she was, stating 'We have all done some pretty bad things here and there, who am I to judge you.' From then on, she had admired him, he wasn't like the others, and he never called her a monster. They shared stories together, eat together and hell they even partied together. He accepted every part of her, except the part she wanted to give him.
They started off as strangers, she felt hope. He accepted her even after all the horrible things she had done, she admired him. They spent months together, they became friends, but to Eva, that kindness he had showed her, it was special to her and she wanted to give him something special in return. That was the part he would not accept.
She offered him her heart, the very heart that stopped beating ever since that nightmare of a night. Now, that same heart was beating rapidly, pumping blood from her heart to her body, her dead body. They say love is one of the most powerful forces in the universe and it is the most powerful of all the emotions. For it did the impossible, it caused the still beating heart of an undead creature to feel something she thought was nothing more than an illusion.
Love.
She reached for his hand.
He did not take it.
Her heart stopped beating.
'Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens your heart and it means that someone can get inside and mess you up.'
"Chachamaru," The ancient vampire spoke slowly, already holding her hand to her forehead to fight off the oncoming headache she knew that would be arriving before this conversation ended. "What is this?" She waved her free arm at the spectacle that was happening in front of her. She was of course referring to the dogs that were being held on leaches, which was held by her servant who still looked stoic, even when the dogs were going between her legs and rubbing themselves up against her ankles.
She was a cat person, not really fond of the canine family.
"The organisms you see before your eyes mistress are the dogs that will eat Naruto-sensei's bones after you finish torturing him." The organisms she was speaking about were Bichon Fries. They were about twelve inches big and they weighed about eleven pounds, so even if you had several of them, it would still take quite a long time for them to eat the blond hair man's bones.
"I'm a McDowell, Chachamaru and McDowell's have manly dogs. These dogs couldn't be any more effeminate, even if they had twenty vaginas, and then they would be nothing more than freakish mutants. Or a beautiful symbol of fertility." She mused softly to herself looking at the dogs that were now rolling excitedly around her carpeted floor.
God help them if she found a single hair on it.
"Chachazero," She called for eldest servant, her diminutive doll skipped into the room from the closet with giggle and a twirl. It was at times like this Eva wondered who taught her most sadistic doll how to do a perfect pirouette. "Take care of the dogs." The blond hair Loli commanded the doll. After which she walked out of the room with Chachamaru in tow.
"Of course master." The psychotic doll giggled, leering at the now whimpering dogs with a look of murderous glee.
"Now tell me, what did your investigation reveal about Naruto Uzumaki?" She questioned, while she sat at the kitchen table drumming her fingers on the wooden surface.
"Very well mistress, with the aid of my mothers, Satomi Hakase and Chao Lingshen we were able to find nothing." The young android spoke in her usual monotone voice.
When her most loyal doll told her, that she had involved those two it made her pleased. She knew Chachamaru valued their lives just like she with hers, the fact that she called them her mother's didn't even make Eva bat an eyelash, what did make the true ancestor react, was the fact that not even those two geniuses didn't find anything.
"Your mothers didn't find anything?" She spoke quietly with a touch of curiosity in her tone.
"My mother Chao, she did not help, which was unexpected," Eva sensed the tone in her androids voice, it was also one of the times, Eva saw the stoic face of the girl change, and she looked so confused. "She seemed withdrawn, reclusive, mistress" After saying that, she looked at her mistress with eyes filled with recognition. "I have seen that type of behaviour before in someone else."
"Oh, who was it?" The blond Loli said curiously, the android rarely spoke to others.
"You, mistress." That declaration certainly got the attention of the blond vampire. "Whenever the Dean or Takahata-sensei brings up that man, that person, Nagi Springfield you act the same way." Instead of lashing out on her doll or getting angry with the mention of that name, she took a sip of her tea with her pinkie extended just like her mother told her to do so many centuries ago.
She pondered the green hair girl's statement, Chao Lingshen, popular student, genius girl, a Jill of all trades in her own words, overall she was a perfect student and Eva had not seen that type of behaviour from that girl. Chao Lingshen confused Eva for ever since she first arrived here. The girl had a determined glint in her eyes, someone who was that young should not have that look in their eyes. At first she was reclusive; she didn't want friends or even acquaintances and she proclaimed at first meeting with the girls who tries to befriend her. Even so, Eva was several centuries old and she knew human behaviour better than Sigmund Freud himself.
The problem she found with Chao, it wasn't because she was smart or she was a trained fighter or even that she and that Hakase girl managed to create an android. No, what annoyed Eva more than anything else was the fact that not only did she have a determined glint in her eyes, but she also had an all knowing look too.
It was like she knew everything that was going to happen and that pissed of the ancient vampire off like there was no tomorrow.
Now mention the name Naruto Uzumaki in front of the girl and she would turn back into her antisocial reclusive self, like all those years ago. With that annoying all-knowing look in her eye, not to mention her recent behaviour, she obviously knew who this pretender, this faker actually was.
She was suddenly overcome with this sense of anxiety and for the life of her she didn't know why. She walked out of the kitchen, knowing Chachamaru was behind, opening the door to the living room where her eldest doll was as well as those dogs she took in the sight that was out in the open before her eyes.
She closed the door with a sigh, shaking her head incredulously, because there was no way the sight she saw was actually real.
She opened the door once more, taking a thorough look around she nodded her head in acceptance. While she did that her voice took control and she yelled.
"Oh Christ, there's dog guts everywhere! It's just like my twelfth birthday party."
"Chachazero what were you thinking?" She demanded her eldest servant to tell her or they would be consequences.
"You told me to take of them." The giggling doll replied. Eva knew why she made her doll so cute and innocent, so that her enemies would never take her seriously and during that time she would stab them through the back, giggling all the while. She hated it though when Chachazero gave her that innocent look.
"I meant take care of them in a Julie Andrews sort of way, not in a bloody Al Pacino type of way." The blue eyed woman screeched at the innocent looking doll that was covered in blood and guts. Spotting her youngest servant at the corner of her eye, she turned to see the green hair girl was staring impassively at the remains of the dogs she purchased less than an hour ago.
"Chachamaru, where are you going?" She questioned, after seeing Chachamaru pull on the leashes that were tied to the dogs.
"With your permission, I shall return to the pet store and ask for a refund." Chachamaru commented with the same dull voice she regarded everything, except cats.
"Okay, but why are you bringing the corpse's with you?" There was a slight tic mark above her right eye when she said that.
"I was told if you are displeased with an item you must bring the item you purchased and also the receipt." There was some decisiveness within her words.
"You have my permission Chachamaru, please take all the time you need." There it was the headache she knew that was coming at the start of this conversation.
Although, it is a waste of perfectly good, blood. "Tell you what, you may return the dogs after Chachazero and I am done with them. I'm not wasting a perfectly good supply of blood just because their dogs. Blood is blood after all."
"Chachamaru before you leave clean this place up."
"Of course mistress, I shall endeavour to live by your standards. but I get to hang my motivational posters on the wall in my room. Hang in there kitty." There was a small curve of her lips when she pictured having that poster in her room.
"Fine but I'm telling you that cat will never make it to Friday." She resolutely spoke, already knowing that cat hanging on the clothesline would be dead.
"Now, give me your blood, blood for the blood god." Evangeline cackled maniacally, it was one of her trademark cackles.
"Mistress you are not a god."
"I know that, but I came up with that saying first. I knew I should have copyrighted that thing, but no, I can't copyright anything when I'm stuck in the body of prepubescent girl." Looking at her body specifically her breasts, she held both of them in her hands and realizing once again that she hated her body she came to one conclusion, she screamed.
"When will that bloody full moon finally arrive so I can be free of this hell?"
XxX
The teacher's lounge, a region filled with well-read individuals. A little slices of heaven, especially, during the times when teachers are having dark thoughts about their students. It was a place to relax and unwind after a stressful day of hard work.
"Ah you must be the new assistant teacher." A passably handsome man with black hair, wearing glasses spoke with a friendly tone. "Isn't it a little strange, that someone of your age and skill, being an assistant to a ten year old boy?" Using his senses, Naruto immediately knew who this man was; he was one of the mages he met during his visit the first time he came here.
"Aren't you one of the mages I kicked the crap out of when I first came here?" Naruto casually said, the younger man's smile seemed to be forced and Naruto knew he hit a sensitive spot.
"Yes." The man spoke through clenched teeth.
"That ten year old boy is my son. The only reason I'm his assistant is because the Dean wanted me close by."
"You could stay anywhere on Maharo Academy, why did the Dean make you an assistant." The pleasant smile was back on the young man's face, he seemed as confused as the semi-immortal was.
"Who knows, he's an old man. I don't trust old people; they're always up to something." Naruto said, completely aware of how hypocritical he was being, but at least he was always honest. He never lied to anyone since he came to this world and he had no intention of doing otherwise.
"Maybe, he just wanted you and your son to have a better rapport." Akashi-san spoke with curiosity filling his tone of voice.
"We have a good rapport already. I didn't need to be Negi's bloody, assistant." The glasses wearing man seemed to understand Naruto's hostility and turned the conversation in a different direction.
"Well how about the girls?"
"What?"
"Your students, the girls of 2/A. I mean some of them have magical potential they just don't know about it. There is even this one girl who knows about magic."
"Oh, who?" That actually made sense to Naruto, there are several girls in his classroom that were a little strange. Bell-chan also had some secrets that only Takamichi and the Dean knew about, maybe that's the reason the Dean wanted him in the class not because of Negi, but one of the girls.
"Seat number 19 Chao Lingshen. She's a very smart girl; actually she's the smartest girl in the entire campus. It's because of her that 2/A remained as high as it is. She is also very popular, everyone likes her and she created her own business with the help of another student, Satsuki Yotsuba. I believe it's called Chao Bao Zi. The black hair man spoke, while stroking his chin in contemplation.
"My daughter is one of your students, I hope she's not causing you trouble." The teacher said with a soft smile, no doubt remembering his daughter.
"That depends, who is your daughter?" Naruto spoke not even bothering to get to know his students, eventually they were all going to die. Just like everybody else.
"Yuna Akashi." The other father in the room gave him a small picture of his daughter. 'Oh, this is the girl who commented on Bell-chan's preferences.' Noticing the man was still talking to him, he turned his attention from the picture and handed it back to the dad.
"I'm sorry, what was that?" Naruto paused, after several seconds he blinked in realization that he used one of his sensei's famous lines.
"I said your son is here with Shizuna-chan." The father of one of his students nodded in the direction of his son and left after waving at Shizuna-chan.
"Hello Naruto-kun. I have the 2/A after class list from Takahata-sensei here for you." She said pleasantly at him with a fond smile on her face.
"The after class list?" Naruto questioned, seeing the familiar looking students on the piece of paper.
"Yes Takahata-sensei used to give out minor test's, afterwards he would give an after class lesson to the students who scored low marks. Here are the faces of the students." She sided up against him, nearly leaning on him while she pointed at the sheets.
"Oh, Bell-chan is on it. What a surprise." He spoke with a grin on his face, noticing how Shizuna-chan held his remaining hand with hers; he turned towards and ran his thumb over her hand, earning a giggle out of the other teacher.
"Yes, it seems like Asuna-san enjoys taking those after class lessons."
"Couldn't imagine why?" Naruto dryly commented.
"It's already the third semester, so those who get low marks maybe in trouble." Releasing her grip on Naruto, she turned towards Negi and bent over to speak with him face to face. Which Naruto had no problem of her doing so, especially when he was now staring at her ass.
"Dad, we have to help them." Negi declared, eliciting a very pleasant, sounding giggle from Naruto's fan, which was very aware, that he was staring at her ass.
"I know I know." Naruto moaned, throwing his hands in the air, getting a snicker out of his son and a coy smile from the very top heavy woman.
XxX
The class stood up at the sound of the bell and began moving towards the door. "For those who have after class lessons, please remain seated. I will be taking over Takamichi's spot as your teacher." Watching all the young women leave he sighed before feeling something very cold in the air, it felt lonely, Naruto felt the depressing emotion leave the room and started moving on the campus grounds. Realizing that he would have to leave his son with the nicknamed idiot rangers, knowing his son would be alright on his own he stood up and started walking towards the door.
"Negi, I let you handle this I have something that I need to look at." Naruto said, getting a nod and an okay from his son, he left the building and proceeded to locate the source of this negativity.
XxX
"Now class let us begin, what are you doing?" Negi stuttered falling back on his chair in shock at the sight before him, it was Yue Ayase, Kaede Nagase, Makie Sasaki and Ku Fei in some sort of ridiculous pose, and poor Asuna looked like she had swallowed a bad onion.
"We are striking you are Idiot Rangers pose sensei." Makie told Negi enthusiastically, doing a little twirl with a giggle.
"Poses?" Negi questioned dumbly, feeling very much unlike a genius at the moment.
"Yes sensei, now girls one more time from the top." Each girl stroke a pose except the grouchy redhead and after finishing smoke bombs in the back of the classroom went of signifying each rangers colour Black, Red, Pink, Blue and Yellow "2/A Idiot Rangers have assembled!" Negi wondered did he have to clean the classroom after the smoke bombs went off and realized Asuna was yelling at the other girls.
"Who's an idiot ranger, just because I can't study, so what, this school is an elevator school anyway."
"Ah, ah, ah Asuna-san," Negi wagged his index finger at her and giving her a cheeky grin. "What would Takamichi-san or my dad think if they heard you say that?" Asuna scowled at him but sat down with the rest of the girls and they all started their tests. One by one they all finished, leaving Asuna with her sensei, normally if this happened she would have been ecstatic, because she would be alone with Takamichi, but now.
"Don't worry Asuna-san just because you failed this time doesn't mean it's the end of the world," Negi said reassuringly patting her on the shoulder, he gave her a second test and she snatched from him grumpily. After several minutes she handed it to him with a look of anticipation mixed with anxiety. Looking over the test and noticing the amount of mistakes on it, he shook his head and replied.
"Or the second time." Handing her a third test he went back to his chair and looked over mistakes and see what was her main problem with the subject. After a considerable amount of time she got up again with such force the chair she was sitting on fell back, she marched up to his desk and slammed the test on his desk with a look of nervousness mixed with the tiniest bit of hope. The look on her face pierced his heart with such coldness considering what he was about to do.
"Or the third time." Now the look she was giving him was even worse than the one he just saw, someone like Asuna should never look that defeated and humiliated.
"That's it I can't take this anymore, I give up I'm just an idiot anyway. I can't do this, I'm leaving." She shouted with unshed tears building around her eyes, she ran to the door to rip it open, only to find she was unable to do so. If she looked behind herself, she would have seen Negi using magic to keep the door locked.
"You're not going anyway Asuna-san." Negi's voice was like a steel blade, cutting its way through Asuna's defences; all she could do was stand still on wobbly legs, while her sensei walked towards her in a calm pace. "This is not the Asuna-san I know, this is not the Bell-chan my dad knows, and this is most certainly not the big sister that myself and my dad want looking out for me."
"Negi?" She questioned with her throat dry with emotion, tears of humiliation were rolling down her cheeks and her knees gave out, she leaned back against the door and kept her miscoloured eyes on her sensei. Unable to believe the conviction in his voice especially with the way he called her sister.
"Yes, you failed. You failed several times, so what? That doesn't make you any less of who you are. You're Asuna-san, the only person besides my dad in this whole country that I actually like," That caused her to jerk in surprise and under normal circumstances she would have looked away in embarrassment, she just couldn't take her eyes off him. "Who, I want to be around." Negi's voice became a soft whisper and Asuna was certain her face was red right now but she didn't care, all she cared about was the young man in front of her.
"My dad told me there were two types of failures in this world, a real failure and a proud failure. A real failure is a person who tries to do something, he realizes it's too hard and just gives up and never attempts it again. Then there is a proud failure, that's a person who fails constantly over and over again, sometimes they are mocked or belittled because they can't do things or grasp the situation as easy as the others can, but they never gave up, never gave in, they won't stop believing because they know they can win." Walking right up to the stunned girl, he knelt down and put his around her to give a comforting hug, just like all the times his own father would give to him.
"That's who you are Asuna-san. I know you can do this if you keep trying, you are better than you think you are."
XxX
Naruto was in a bit of trouble, after leaving the classroom he kept following the source of loneliness but was unable to find anything. He knew the source wasn't invisible because if it was, Naruto with his ability to feel the air and presences of those around him with his mastery over the wind element he would be to feel them.
This wasn't the case though he kept following it around for several minutes, every time he got near it, it would go under him, or through him, or sometimes right through a building. It was bloody annoying for the semi-immortal being. Seeing one of his students, one that he actually recognized he walked over to her noticing she was kicking a football. He did admire her legs in such a short skirt.
"Hey Ako-chan." Naruto called out jovially, causing her to kick the ball and missing the goal, instead it actually hit one student in the face knocking him down on top of his girlfriend.
"Ah, Naruto-sensei. How are you?" Ako replied with a stutter in her voice, unable to meet his gaze she looked at the now red face girlfriend and her drooling boyfriend. Her shyness reminded him of Hinata.
"I'm fine, thank you for asking." He smiled at the young woman, he decided to take a few minutes off his little source of loneliness, and maybe he could help this shy girl.
"I didn't know you played football." He commented on her activity, that she was participating in just a few minutes ago. Ako though looked apprehensive, after a few seconds she decided to correct him.
"The game is actually called soccer, sensei." She responded to him and hoping that she didn't upset him, instead he chuckled.
"I've been living in Britain for the last six years Ako-chan, trust me when I tell you this, if you ever go over there, you will refer soccer as football okay." Ako blushed and looked away in shame. He was her sensei and she went correcting him when she thought he was wrong, but in reality she was the one who was wrong.
"Okay sensei, but why." She said curiously while looking at her shoes.
"They're pretty fixated on football. It's their favourite past time, the second is grey hound racing, but I'm certain that's only because of the betting." He pondered while rubbing his chin. Looking at her now, he realized just how small this girl was. The poor thing didn't seem to have any confidence In herself or maybe she was intimated by him.
"Still I didn't know you played." He said, hoping the rest of this conversation might lift the girl's sprit.
"I'm also the manager." She said, waiting for a few seconds to find her voice.
"Really, that's pretty impressive." Ako looked at him through her eyelashes after that comment, judging his voice for fake sincerity and finding none, she seemed to find the confidence to talk more animatedly.
"I also help Shizuna-sensei with medical situations."
"Oh, are you training to be a nurse?" He seemed so genuinely curious.
"I'm trying but I scare easily at the sight of blood. I just want to help as many people as I can." She shuddered at the mention of the word blood and Naruto just had a weird moment of Déjà vu.
"That's a nice sentiment, but I can give you advice on how to get rid of your fear of blood."
"Really, that would be wonderful." She seemed even more active and looked at him with wide amaranth coloured eyes.
"I had a friend who had the exact same problem you had, she wanted to be a doctor but every time she saw blood she would freeze up and do nothing." Noticing the girl stepped closer to him, Naruto continued talking like he didn't notice it all. "In theory she knew what do and how to do it, she trained every day and she was always phenomenal, but she couldn't get rid of her fear. She tried a dozens of different tactics to get rid of her fear but nothing worked."
"What did she do?"
"She had a son she loved more than life itself, she had faith in her son, and she knew he would be something special, something amazing. One day she found him in a field covered in blood, he was cut, beaten and unconscious."
"How awful, I couldn't imagine what she went through."
"Well, she was the toughest woman he ever met. She ran over to her son and she seemed to have an inner battle with herself. She was afraid of the blood, but she was absolutely, fucking terrified of losing her son. She spent the next few hours healing him well aware she was now covered in her son's blood, but that didn't even faze her. What terrified her most was losing her son."
"Did the son survive?"
"Of course he did, he then went on to be a great man, just like his mother said he would be. She went on to be one of the greatest doctors the world has ever known and he refused to die until his mother passed on first. He kept that promise." Naruto's tone became a little melancholy and he turned towards with serious but kind eyes. "Ako-chan, one day a situation like the one I just told you will happen to you, and you will have to decide, what's worse, being afraid of blood or losing someone you love, but don't worry I know you will make the right choice." He patted her on her shoulder giving her a comforting squeeze and a compassioned smile that made her weak in the knees.
Naruto nearly lost his track of the time as well as his surrounding, because he nearly fell into the pool, well falling into the pool might have a been a stretch considering he could simply walk on top of it, but he didn't want to give Ako-chan a seizure, and he especially did not want her to start calling him he who shall not be named because it's too bloody obvious.
He noticed two young women in the pool, a woman who seemed to be relaxing in one of those floating device in the shape of a turtle, while the other girl was racing against the timer her friend brought.
'Oh that's Ahashi-san's daughter, Yuna-chan, and the other girl is Akira Okouchi.' Naruto thought, while on the outside he voiced his opinion. "Wow, Akira-chan is a very good swimmer."
"She is, isn't she, the other girl who's lounging like a pack of lazy bones is Yuna, she is the best basketball player we have, simply put those two are the alethic girls of 2/A." Ako seemed rather proud of that.
Noticing a presence instead of the feeling of loneliness, he decided to depart from Ako-chan and the two other girls, and confront the girl who had been following him for quite some time. Looking at the rooftop that was right next him, he gave a sharp whistle that caused several birds to fly off.
Kaede Nagase was a self-taught ninja; being born in the wrong generation she to teach herself everything she knew about Ninjutsu. She never considered herself prideful but she wasn't modest either, just ask her rival Mana Tatsumiya. The idea that this new sensei could catch her off guard was greatly unsettling to her. She knew she saw him somewhere before, it wasn't his appearance though, it was how he moved. He just seemed too casual and too loose to be a real ninja. Either she wasn't as good at reading people as she thought she was, or he was so good that he just appeared to be a normal person. She wanted to know who he was.
She was going to get her answers; she then heard a whistle that caused her ears to ring and looked down to see his smiling face. Disappearing from the rooftop, she appeared right in front of him with an annoyed expression on her face.
"It's nice to see you too Kunoichi-chan." Naruto casually greeted the young woman, the Kunoichi that tried to kill him just a few days ago.
"You already know I'm a ninja, so I'm just going to come out and ask you directly." She was leaning into him with one eye opened to study him. "Who are you?" She whispered with steel in her voice. Naruto merely shrugged.
"I suppose you don't want a sarcastic response such as, I'm your sensei, do you." Seeing her eye get a few degrees colder he answered. "Fine, you're Kaede Nagase, from the Koga clan, right." A surprise and slightly hesitant nod was all that Naruto needed. "Well, I was traveling the country under a different face. I transformed into my best friend and I found your clan. They didn't like me at the get-go; they said I was too undisciplined, too emotional, basically I was too human for their standards." Peering at her with an unusual stare that seemed to unnerve her, Naruto was trying to locate her signature, the unique signature that every living creature on the planet had.
"That was a few years ago, did we run into each other when you were a little girl?" Naruto said, still lost in memory.
"Did you take the appearance of a man with black eyes and black hair?" Kaede spoke up glad that he wasn't looking at her with those eyes.
"Yeah, that was what my friend looked like, It is fortunate that I can be at two places at once. I looked after Negi while my clone was scouting the country." Naruto said, seeing him start to walk away Kaede began walking beside him.
"My sensei's told me if I ever ran into you I should run away immediately." Kaede said, smiling at the memory of her masters with red faces.
"Well that's what they get for being stuck up assholes and besides, I wasn't that bad, I only played hide and seek with them." Naruto defended himself knowing that he was right. Kaede had a difference in opinion.
"You humiliated them, you painted them, you sprayed them with sprinkles and glitter, and then you did some crazy illusion, they can't even look at a sunset or a sunrise because of you." Naruto had to chuckle at her, poor bastards didn't have a sense of humour at all, so what if he used Gai and Lee's hugging technique. It worked a little too well.
"Well that was good day for me, but you don't seem to care do you?" Naruto said catching Kaede off-guard.
"What makes you say that?" Kaede questioned with a mischievous smile playing on her lips.
"Well for one, if you followed the rules you wouldn't be talking to me right now would you." Naruto said with his hands in his pockets.
"That's a good point, besides I don't want to be an emotionless tool like them."
"I know right, my second point is that I'm an Empath. I can feel people's emotions, no matter who they are I can tell what they're feeling and what I'm getting from you is joy, why is that?" Naruto questioned the Kunoichi who stood still. Naruto is capable of reading emotions and body language but he wasn't mind reader.
"If you were registered what rank would you be?" Kaede said quietly still not looking at him. Naruto just blinked, shrugged his shoulders and simply answered.
"Kage." Her body language changed drastically as well as her emotions. "Now you're feeling nervous. You have no reason to be scared, I'm the nicest most compassionate man on the planet, honest."
"Well you're certainly not the most modest." Kunoichi-Chan muttered softly unable to believe a Kage was right beside her, her thoughts were all running into one thought pool, what would it be liked to be trained by a Kage.
"Modesty is for lesser mortals." Striking a pose that his inner child demanded him to do, it fortunately caused the tension to be lifted from Kaede shoulders. "If you want me to train you I will," Seeing her about to jump from joy he finished his sentence. "But Negi will have to agree to it." Training with his son was very important to the both of them, but Kaede was training to be a ninja and her emotions were full of hope, he briefly wondered did his godfather feel that same way right now.
"You're teaching Negi-sensei to be a ninja?"
"Aren't you teaching the twins to be ones as well? Considering the fact that there following us and trying to prank me as we speak." The blond hair immortal spoke loudly causing one girl to let a gasp and the other a squeal.
"They're just having a bit of fun, that's all." Kunoichi-Chan spoke, her voice filled with amusement.
"Hmm, sure, whatever you say. This is when we part ways Kunoichi-chan, I wish you the best." Naruto disappeared into a gust of wind, causing Kaede to blink nonplussed of what just transpired, no doubt understanding that he was a Kage.
Watching Kaede from the alleyway he ducked into, avoiding the twin's pranks and causing them to pout when they couldn't find their new sensei. Kaede walked away from the twins after saying they would never be able to prank Naruto, but she would help them.
Kaede sat down on a bench; nothing happened for several seconds until two girls walking side by side greeted her one with a scowl and the other with stoicism. The three looked part of a conspiracy, Naruto knew each girl Kaede Nagase Aka Kunoichi-Chan. Mana Tatsumiya Aka Gunslinger-Chan and last but not least Setsuna Sakurazaki Aka Sword bearer-Chan.
"What have you learned?" Gunslinger-Chan demanded rather harshly from Naruto's point of view. Instead of looking upset or angry from the treatment she was receiving from one of her schoolmates, all Kaede did was let loose a chuckle.
"That's it, no hey Kaede-sama, how are you doing, oh did you do something with your hair you look fabulous." Kaede teased the young woman who had a bust size of eighty-eight point nine cm.
"The day I call you Kaede-sama is the day when its starts raining money." Mana said scowling at the amused ninja, slowly reaching into her back pocket inching closer to her pistols. Kaede noticed the action and instead of being bothered by it her smile just got wider.
"Oh, don't tell me your in debt again, you poor girl. If you need the money you only have to ask, all I want in return is for you to admit I'm better than you in every way." Kaede responded the same way Mana did, she reached for her kunai which she kept close to her person at all times.
"That is never going to happen."
"You're right. I already know I'm better than you in every way, I don't need you to say it, I already know it." Both of them were holding their own respective weapons glaring at each other.
"As thrilling as this conversation is, I am going to have to return this conference back to its original point. Kaede-san what have you determined?" Setsuna questioned between both girls in case a useless fight would break out.
"Well we already know he can kick our asses." Kaede drawled, her index finger relaxing on her chin. Her two conspirators glared at her in unison.
"Yesss, we already knew that." Both Mana and Setsuna hissed at the same time.
"He can make copies of himself; he can transform them into any shape he wants. He knew where I was which determines he has unbelievable good senses." Kaede spoke with an air of authority around her; it seemed that she had respect for Naruto.
"Go on." Strangely it was Mana that urged her to continue.
"He's also an Empath. He can sense our emotions." That piece of information got the two girls to stop and blink at Kaede. That was a rather informative technique to possess; it also worried the two girls. They knew now that if Naruto wanted to he could sense what they were feeling.
"Can he be trusted?" Setsuna questioned the ninja, remembering how weak she was in fighting this man. She still wasn't strong enough to defend her only friend, her best friend.
"Right now all I can say is he cares more about his son, I got the feeling he's indifferent to the rest of us."
"Except Asuna-san, he seems to trust her." Mana spoke up, eyes narrowed in thought remembering just how much faith he had in Asuna.
"Yes, that's true. Why is that?" Setsuna replied, not liking the fact that Naruto seemed to want to spend time with Asuna. She was after all roommates with Konoka, which meant Naruto was too close to Konoka for Setsuna's liking.
"Beats me, he's also a Kage level ninja and with his son's permission I will be training with both of them." Smiling at the way both of them glared for consorting with the enemy, she then gave Mana a superior look. "Not that I need his training to beat you."
"You want to go a few rounds now bitch, well bring it on." Pulling two desert eagles out of their holsters, she aimed them right at the Kunoichi's chest. Before the fight could escalate any further Setsuna stepped in between the both of them.
"Stop it the both of you. We have more pressing matters to attend to." Setsuna argued causing both girls to lower their weapons, but it did not stop them from glaring at each other. Mana let out an undignified snort and started walking away.
"The next time you want me for something, you're going to have to pay for my services." Mana declared causing Setsuna to let out a breath of frustration and causing Kaede to grin.
"Yeah, yeah, we all know the routine." Just like that all three females left the park under the impression that their conversation was secret. The sound of their talk carried itself all the way to Naruto.
"I love my element it's just so efficient. " Naruto smiled all the while listening to the conversation with his mastery over the wind element.
XxX
While Naruto was looking for the source of despair, Negi was having tea with Asuna just outside of the classroom. "Instead of being stuck in that stuffy old classroom we will instead study outside," Taking a sip of his tea he let out a sigh of content observing the nature around him, "it's such a nice day. This will definitely help you Asuna-san." Negi declared confidently. Asuna herself did not look as confident as her ten year old sensei did.
"Negi, why do you care so much about me?" Asuna said quietly, unable to believe that her new, weird teacher liked being around her, considering ever since he got here she had been quite rude to him.
"I already told you Asuna-san, I like you." Negi replied with a shrug of his shoulders, not finding Asuna's distress to be that important. Asuna's face on the other hand became as red as a tomato and she sputtered indignantly.
"Don't say things like that out loud, someone might hear you." Bell-Chan hissed looking over her shoulder to see if anyone heard his sentence. Negi just shook his head with a small amount of pity for the girl who was older than himself.
"You mean the truth, Asuna-san I don't know why you're acting so strange about the fact that I like you. It's true and I'm not ashamed to admit it. I have confidence in myself, maybe you need some to." Putting his tea sown he leaned forward, towards Asuna who was now scowling at him.
"I have confidence you little twerp." She growled while clenching her fists. Negi could see the white of her knuckles. He leaned back on his chair getting comfortable and took a bite out of his sandwich. He waited until he swallowed the piece of food, him being a gentleman and all.
"When it comes to your studies you don't. I observed you while you were doing your tests. You were biting the top of the pencil and chewing your lip. You kept second guessing yourself." Negi pointed out each of Asuna's nervous tendencies while he pointed his thumb at his chest. "That's why I'm here, I am here to help you and not only that, I want to help you. Seeing his sincere smile directed at her, Asuna did what all Tsundere's did when there were embarrassed, she turned her head to hide her blush and scowled.
"Don't get so cocky brat, where's your modesty?"
"Modesty is for lesser mortals."
"That's something I expected your dad to say." Asuna snorted at the smug look Negi had on his face. After a few seconds of peace she pondered Negi's last statement and who it sounded like. "Negi?"
"Yes Asuna-san."
"Why does Naruto trust me so much?" Asuna questioned, sure Naruto was a good person, weird yeah, but still a good person. She just couldn't comprehend why he had so much faith in her.
"You don't know?" Negi asked with a confused look on his face, a few seconds pasted until Negi lost control of himself, he couldn't stop the snickers from leaving his mouth. "Well I'm not going to tell you."
"What? Why the hell not?"
"Dad said it's something you have to figure out for yourself." Negi pleasantry said while shrugging. Seeing the peaceful look on face Asuna couldn't help but smile. She did have a thing for older men but seeing Negi looking this content, she had to admit he was cute. Feeling better about herself especially since the day had been terrible for her self-esteem so far she stretched both her arms above her head and let out a sigh of content.
"This is good, isn't it?"
"Yeah." Negi agreed, both of them leaning back on their chairs with little smiles on their faces, it lasted for several minutes until Asuna got a frown of hesitance.
"Listen Negi, I should apologize for how I treated you show far." Negi just waved his hand not caring about the apology. It was unneeded.
"You don't have to, besides it's because you cared so much." Negi said such, without a care in the world, causing Bell-Chan to disagree with his opinion.
"What? I didn't care about you when I first met you."
"The opposite of caring about someone is indifference Asuna-san. The reason you were so angry with me was because you wanted Takamichi-san to be your teacher, instead you got me a complete stranger, who commented on that you will never find love. Negi spoke with firm conviction in his voice until the last sentence when all you could hear was a quite while of self-loathing.
"I wonder how true that statement actually is." Asuna muttered quietly, hesitatingly believing that she herself might not find love. Negi sensing her train of thought did his best to cheer his student up.
"Besides, dad says what I said was full of shit. We don't find love, love finds us. Love is an awesome force and when it grabs you, you are powerless against it. That's how you feel about Takamichi-san isn't it? So I forgive you Asuna-san, because I know you're a good person who sometimes cares too much, and as faults go, that's not a bad one to have." Negi placed his hand on Asuna's, causing the girl to look down on their adjoined hands with a smile on her face. She gave him a soft squeeze.
"You are really smart, aren't you?"
"Well yeah, I am your sensei after all." The moment was quiet peaceful, the sun was shining on the beginning of a new friendship between sensei and student. There were both holding hands while looking at each other with warm smiles on their faces.
So naturally the universe decided to intervene.
"What is the meaning of this? What is an uncouth girl like you drinking tea with our amazing sensei you orange hair monkey."
The meddler and the instrument of the universe was of course the resident Shotacon, Akaya Yukihiro.
XxX
Chachamaru was a simple girl, or better yet she had a simple look on life. She was built to serve, her mother's and her mistress. She never questioned because she had no soul and her programing didn't give her a refuse option. Her existence itself was a front to all life everywhere. This is what she thought of herself.
No self-esteem.
Then as time went on she became more than an android girl with no feelings. One night she walked by a peculiar sight, there in the alleyway as clear as day through her built in night vision visor a mother cat feeding her kittens with the scraps of food she could provide. Something within her circuitry sparked and she fed the felines with food she had in her bag. She continued this activity every day; it brought her things she never felt before, pity, anger, fear, sorrow and the scariest joy. She was built to serve, not to enjoy life and its experiences but her mother's and her mistress gave her permission to feel these emptions, they wanted her live and there was even more joy when they told her that.
She was beginning to feel more emotions but never understanding what they were or where they came from, after all she was soulless and she did not possess a heart. Walking the streets of Mahora Academy she began to notice the looks she was receiving, unlike her mistress she did not understand human beings or how they operated, so she was notable confused and feeling a little self-conscious as to why so many people were staring at her and her now skinned alive dogs that looked like skeletons.
"Monotone-Chan, why are dragging a bunch of skeletons?" Ignoring the voice of her new sensei, he couldn't possible be calling her because her name was Chachamaru, not Monotone-chan. "Hey Monotone-Chan can you hear me, hello." Appearing over her head, he landed right in front of her with a perturbed look on his face.
"Naruto-sensei, Is there something troubling you?"
"Yeah I was calling for you and you didn't say anything, is everything alright?" Naruto seemed to be concerned for her. That was strange; her systems were working at full strength. This must have been another human concept that she did not understand. Either way it was best that she would answer his question.
"Yes sensei, I am feeling perfectly content, why do you ask" She continued walking dragging the skeletons of the dogs behind her.
"Well you did ignore me just now." Naruto was over two hundred years old, but he even still liked to indulge into a little bit of whining every now and again.
"Did I? I don't see how I did that. You were calling someone Monotone-Chan that is not my name, so why should I offer you a response when you do not use my name."
'It's like dealing with Sai all over again.' Naruto thought shaking his head in amusement reminiscing of his artistic friend. "I apologize I was being rude, let's try this again, Chachamaru-Chan why are you dragging a bunch of skeletons around on leash?"
"I am returning them to the store I had gotten them from; my mistress was most displeased with them."
"She's not a dog person I take it."
"She told me she required manly dogs so she could begin the torture of you sensei." Chachamaru said with her usual monotone voice. Naruto just shook his head in confusing wondering why Chachamaru's mistress would want to torture him. He remembered her clearly in his head, the little blond girl who had one hell of a backstory. Naruto honestly thought that he would never encounter another being as old as him, let alone older. He felt giddy knowing that there was someone else on this planet he could walk with after his family passes away. He never like thinking of his family dying, but he knew it was inevitable, all good things come to an end and no matter how powerful Naruto was, even he could not stop time.
"The little blond girl with the vials of ice wants to torture me?" Naruto wondered did he wound the other semi-immortals pride.
"Yes, she even made a list and she checked it twice. Would you like me to tell you what she desires to do to you Naruto-sensei?"
"No its fine, plenty of people wanted to torture me but there all dead now. You know Chachamaru you will not get your refund with the condition those dogs are in now."
"Why is that sensei?" Chachamaru questioned him, and for the first time Naruto saw confusion on the girl's face.
"Because pet stores don't buy dead animals, nobody wants dead animals Chachamaru-Chan it's bad for business." Naruto told her calmly with patience; before the android could rebut his claims they heard the voice of a crying child.
"Mommy, my balloon is flying away." A small boy no less than seven years of age was pulling on his mother's hand, hoping that she would be able to do anything for his red balloon.
"Excuse me, sensei." Naruto nodded his head at the green hair wondering what the android could do. He was quite shocked and pleased to see that she had boosters to help her defy gravity, giving her the ability to fly and get the red balloon for the now smiling child.
After getting thanked by the mother and getting a hug from the giggling child they continued on their way to the pet store. The man who was an abomination in the eyes of reality and a creature that was an affront to life itself walked into the pet store with the recently killed dogs, causing several animals to whimper and others to growl and screech at them. As Naruto predicted the owner did not want the dogs back, however he did not believe the skeletons were the dogs, but instead Halloween decorations because he knew Chachamaru was too gentle of a girl to ever kill an animal let alone several dogs.
"You are a strange man Naruto Uzumaki." The green hair android said while watching Naruto seal the skeletons of the dogs into his portable dimension.
"Oh, why is that?"
"My mistress wants to torture you and yet you remain by my side are you that confident in your abilities or is this what you humans call arrogance." Still watching him with inhuman eyes she focused on him until he answered.
"It's neither; I wasn't thinking of your mistress at all Chachamaru-Chan I was simply enjoying our walk together." He answered because the fact that she was not blinking unnerved him slightly.
"I do not understand. How can you feel joy from such a simple thing such as walking?"
"Well it certainly helps if the person you are walking with is a sight to behold." Naruto said cheerfully like it was the simplest thing in the world.
"Excuse me?" Chachamaru questioned, because she had just heard this man complement her, he was an enemy to her mistress and he just complements her like they were not enemies.
"Chachamaru-Chan I am over two hundred years old and in all my years I have never seen a girl like you before. I mean you are an android. This world is so amazing it's filled with such secrets that it makes me feel like a child once more." No matter how old he got Naruto never lost his humanity, it was the one thing that kept him sane all these years because he knew that he wasn't going to die and be at peace for a very long time.
"As Arthur C Clarke once said, 'any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.'" Naruto whistled at that quote hearing it from his travelling companion. Hearing the bell at the clock tower chime Chachamaru started walking in a different direction; Naruto immediately followed her, causing Chachamaru to turn her head back at him. The rest of the walk was in silence until Naruto heard the faint sounds of cat's cries. Pulling a bowl out of her backpack she kneeled down and filled the container with tuna, causing several stray cats to come out of hiding.
"Sensei I do not require assistance."
"I know but I'm still going to help." Naruto said while unsealing several bowls from his deminsion and stared to fill each of them with the different types of food he had locked up. Several cats who were eyeing him with suspicion immediately stopped and ran over to his containers and chowed down on the food that was supplied by the strange but generous man.
"Why?"
"Do I need a reason?" After several seconds of watching cats eating from the containers Naruto sat down in a meditate stance. One cat who finished his food walked over to the android and started rubbing itself up against her causing the cat to purr with delight. "You really are a good person." Naruto said after seeing the smile on the girl's face.
"Sensei I am a heartless, soulless creature built for servitude, not out of love like you humans do."
"Chachamaru-Chan," Naruto spoke slowly recognizing her thoughts and not liking them one bit. "You just fed a bunch of stray kittens, and you felt an overabundance of joy from such a small act, you are good person."
"You cannot know that for certain."
"I'm an Empath. I can feel people emotions therefore I do know." Naruto had no idea just how much that sentence effected Chachamaru, because androids, machines like her did not feel, they did not experience emotion like humans do. So if Naruto was right and telling the truth what did that mean for her, before she could question him her mistress opened the door to the cottage that she lived in.
"Chachamaru, good, you have returned and I see you have brought a guest." Her mistress didn't seem angry or full of rage, she instead looked happy especially with that wide grin on her face. Naruto on the other hand being an Emapth felt the emotions under the vampire's skin, the amount of hate and rage she felt for him was staggering. Naruto had absolutely no idea why she hated him this much; he never even met her before.
"I regret to inform you mistress they did not have any manly dogs like you requested." Eva did not look upset she instead dismissed the comment with a wave of her hand.
"Pish Posh, it is quite alright my dear. Now please show Uzumaki-san to the living room, I shall be with you in a moment's notice."
"Very well mistress," Chachamaru inclines her head at her mistress's command and began guiding Naruto towards the living room. "Come Naruto-sensei, this is the living room." The green hair android announced with no enthusiasm at all, Naruto did not mind her apathetic tendencies, his nose however was greeted by a foul all too familiar smile.
"Why does it smell like blood, way don't tell me I don't want to know." Naruto muttered when he saw the servant open her mouth to explain. Relaxing on the couch that was in the room, he waited patiently until the owner of cottage showed herself. After a few moments of tranquillity she walked back into the room carrying a silver tray with two cups on top it.
"Here you go a nice cup of tea." Naruto instantly knew how this conversation was going to play out. The smile on her face was so, fake that Naruto felt insulted. Did she honestly believe that smile would work on him. She was older than him surely she was not this foolish.
"Thank you." Naruto accepted the cup of tea, and he immediately put it down on the coaster that was on the table, his lips curved into satisfaction when Naruto felt a sudden spike of anger within her emotions. It didn't take a genius to know that the older woman sitting in front of him wanted him dead, but by poisoning his tea. Oh, if Negi ever heard about this he would never forgive Eva for incrementing his tea like that.
"So you already know me I mean we have met before." Naruto said remembering the night he first came here.
"Yes I remember, you are quite powerful, Uzumaki-san." Sipping her tea, or what Naruto thought was her tea. She did not take her eyes off him ever since she first came back into the living room. It was a pleasant conversation, there were smiles and chuckles but they both knew the conversation was fake, Naruto knew she was pretending and Evangeline knew that he knew that she was faking. This woman was no fool, she was just playing him. It had been some time since someone tried to play Naruto like a fiddle, but this ancient being wanted to play and control him.
"Thank you for the complement; it is rarity these days for me to receive praise, so I do appreciate it."
"Oh don't be so modest, you are a good man and you still haven't had a sip of tea." A creature that has killed hundreds if not thousands should never smile like that of a ten year old girl. Naruto briefly wondered for a moment did she appear in this form so she could trick and manipulate people easier, or did she like that form because it reminded her of her childhood. Naruto never fathom that Eva was stuck to look like a ten year old girl forever.
"We have only met once before."
"Oh but what a meeting it was, now drink your tea." Once more she gave him a disarming smile and moved the cup of tea further in his direction.
"You realized so much about my character after battling me once?" Naruto questioned the blong girl with a raised eyebrow. He was well aware of that meaning and how true it was for his life, he could tell a person's true self just by fighting that person for less than minute.
"Of course, you can learn so much from a person after fighting them, please drink the tea." Once more she urged him, though this time there was no smile and her voice was much firmer. Instead of answering her demand, he whistled in awe at the interior of the cottage.
"You have such a nice home here, why is that you don't room with other girls?"
"I like my privacy, Uzumaki-san please drink the tea." Throughout the entire conversation she refused to take her eyes off of him, her lips were thinned, her eyes narrowed, and if he had to guess she was one step away from picking up the cup and throwing it at him.
"Ah, I see, you're a shy girl. There is no reason to be intimated by them. I'm sure they would greet you with open arms." There were as opposite as night and day now, the blond hair semi-immortal Shinobi was openly smiling, completely relaxed while the other blond hair semi-immortal was scowling and her body was stiff as a tree.
"Drink the tea." It looked like the fun and games were over, but Naruto, as annoying as he ever was decided to play the game a little longer.
"I'm waiting for it to cool down."
"But Uzumaki-san, you don't want it to get too cold. I would have to refill it then."
"What a shame but I'm not feeling thirsty right now." That cheeky reply is what broke the camel's back. Instead of jumping to her feet as most emotionally angry people would do, she instead sat calmly on her chair that looked more like a throne, and gave him a look that would even make death flinch and turn away.
"I do not like Uzumaki-san, in fact I detest you, I loathe you. In terms that even a man as idiotic as you would understand. I hate you. There is but one man whom I hate more and that is foul creature who turned me into this."
"I was wondering when you would drop the polite act and just be honest with me." Naruto was unconcerned by the sheer coldness and hate that gave him, he was used to it. "I'm an Empath, therefore I can feel your emotions and from you I'm getting hate, anger and such rage I am surprised you haven't jumped out of your throne to attack me, and you have just a little bit of sorrow, but it's not directed at me. I wonder who."
Eva did not widen her eyes, because a creature that was as old as her did not so weakness and surprise to an enemy. She did however store that bit of information into her brain, dealing with Empaths were always difficult.
"You are nothing but a faker, an imitation of what Negi needs." That comment got Naruto's eye to twitch a little. "You are not Nagi Springfield…"
"You know who he is."
"Of course I do you idiot he imprisoned me here."
"Why did he do that?" Naruto questioned her, he knew she wasn't going to give him a straight answer but he definitely did not expect her to blush and look away in embarrassment.
"Are you stupid? Actually, don't answer that I already know. He imprisoned me here because I am monster that even hell didn't want." Naruto knew that was the worst lie he ever heard. The strange thing though he wondered, why did she lie, he knew she wasn't going to tell him the truth but there was something else there.
"Are you drinking blood?" He enquired her after realizing that the same source of odour that was covering the room was also in her cup.
"I am a vampire you idiot. It is my most recent supply." That sentence got Naruto to raise an eyebrow in bafflement.
"You didn't kill any of the students did you? I'm pretty sure that's frowned upon." He didn't look too upset even if it turned out to be true; sniffing the room once more he scratched the bridge of his nose in frustration. "This room stinks of blood. What the hell happened here?" After finishing his sentence he realized where Chachamaru got the skeletons from. "Oh my god is that why Chachamaru-chan had those dogs on a lease."
"Of course I didn't kill them. Who do you take me for?"
"A several century year old vampire, who's killed hundreds and terrorized thousands,"
"Well yeah, I did do that. But I didn't kill these creatures. My oldest servant did that."
"Hi, you're cute." A little green hair girl with a steak knife, that had blood dripping from its blade sat on his shoulder looking at him with adorable childlike eyes, cheerfully said. "Master can I rip out his heart." She said this without ever straying her eyes from him.
"Perhaps later you can Chachazero."
"Ahh no fair." The poor doll pouted, and Naruto wondered if he tore out his own heart and give it to her, would it have made her happy.
"You are cute maniacal doll aren't you" Placing his hand on the maniacal doll's head, he started caressing her hair causing the doll to look at him in confusion. "So, you really are older than me, and you know magic that would make me tremble in fear, isn't that right." Naruto asked rhetorically.
"Of course, but I highly doubt that I would ever have to use that much power to defeat an insect like you." Instead of getting insulted by her comment he stood up and bowed to the three unique women in the room.
"Chachamaru, I enjoyed our time together today, and if you ever want help to feed your cats just say my name. Chachazero, I am positive you meant your threat, so just like everything else in this world the things you really want won't come that easy, if you want my heart you're going to have to earn it." He got a bow of acknowledgement from Chachamaru and an insane giggle from the little doll. He turned towards the creature that was older than him.
"The mistress of the night, a creature with such control over darkness that she is capable of casting shadows over darkness itself. I say to you, your opinion of me doesn't matter. I do not care how you feel about me. It's Negi's choice, my son's choice. It's not yours, it's not even Nagi's choice anymore, he gave up his right to be called father when he left his son in the dark of night freezing to death." There was no smile on Naruto's face, no joy or carefree attitude in his body language, Eva noticed this, but did not care, she was far too upset by this human's speech.
"You listen to me you arrogant swine I will not tolerate this ruse any further, you will leave Negi Springfield right now and never darken on his door again." That was the command of a creature that got what they wanted, even if they had to slaughter an entire army to get it. Her reaction didn't make Naruto fear instead he started walking towards the door and gave her a shrug.
"You see, there you go again giving me your opinion when I clearly didn't ask for it." Noticing her anger physically and emotionally, Naruto just bent down at eye level. "Oh, what are you going to Loli-chan? Tear off my arms and I will grow new ones. Cut off all my appendages and I will grow new ones. Tear of my head and I'll regenerate it. Rip out my organs and I'll make new ones, I'm a walking donor factory. Burn me until I'm nothing but ash and my body will grow once more." Their foreheads were not touching but their noses were. "Are you getting it yet Eva, you are not the only immortal creature around here anymore." Finishing his sentence, his entire demeanour changed, his face was not set in stone anymore, instead it was soft, and his cold eyes were once again warm with a hint of compassion and understanding within them.
"I know how lonely it is being by yourself, you can try to fool me with the tough girl act saying the only reason that you have these two is because you wanted servant's, beings that would do your bidding, but the real reason for their creation is because you were afraid of being alone." Looking at the surprised vampire, even if she did not show it, he extended his hand out to her with a face filled with warmth. "You and I are going to be on this blue ball for a lot longer than anybody else, and I would like to have a companion after my son dies."
"What do you say?" Eva listened to every word the blond hair man had to say, she understood what he was saying and what he subconsciously telling her. She had no reason to be alone anymore there was someone just like her now. He wasn't a vampire but they both had lived for centuries and most likely they would live for even longer. Seeing his hand extended like that though, she remembered her own hand extended, begging for the man she loved to take it. He never did and now looking at this man, a person she hated, and she knew only for a few days. She did the one thing her confused and bitter mind allowed her to do.
She slammed the door on his face.
"I don't need you or your company. All I want is to be free, and if I have to kill you and Negi to do it, then I will. Now leave and never darken my door again." She declared, and with every fibre of her being she refused to cry just like she did when Nagi refuse her hand.
Naruto, despite having a door slammed in his face remained hopeful, as he always has.
"Everyone says that to me Loli-Chan; eventually though I will get under your skin and inside your heart, and when I'm there, I will pull out the light that you have hidden away, so you would never feel pain again." With that declaration of a promise he intended to keep, he left the scowling and deeply confused vampire behind.
"Now, let's find this source of sorrow and see if I can do something for it."
Author's Notes: And to all a goodnight. Thank you all for your reviews, I'm nearly at One Hundred now. Who knows, maybe before I finish I might get One Thousand. Now that's a real milestone. Not much to say on current Manga events, other than. They are so fucked right now it's not even funny.
My Final Note, Have a Happy Christmas and a Happy New Year, or whatever you celebrate, just try to find a little happiness.
This is Grayfox1991 hoping to have a good Christmas.