Chapter four is complete! Please enjoy the read and I'll be back as soon as the next chapter is ready.
(Marshalanime does not own Naruto or Kampfer)
"Get down Naruto!" Akane ordered as she herself dived for cover while firing off a few shoots in the direction the attack came from. Without needing to be told Naruto had jumped back between the bookshelves. Reaching for her sleeve it clicked in the blond's head that her uniform changed with her.
"What do ya think you're doin'!?" Akane berated the teen as she slid in beside her with her gun held up to her chest. They were under attack and this idiot was feeling herself up!
"My kunai! I'm looking for my kunai!" Naruto told the girl. Regardless of weather it was out of habit, paranoia, or what have you she always left her house with at least one weapon hidden somewhere on herself. Running out of ideas she frantically shoved her hand down her shirt. There between her breast she felt the handle of her blade and a sense of relieve washed over her. She'll have to remember to fix this later but for now at least she wasn't unarmed.
"Is your head full of baby star ramen or something!?" Akane growled out as she grabbed the top of Naruto's head and brought both of them to their stomachs.
"Well sorry for not having a gun in my hands when I transform" Naruto retorted as she sent a sidelong glare at the redhead.
"Shut it!" Akane told her with a jab to the side with her pistol. After getting only a stern look in response this time she told the blond "We're bein' attacked by a schwert kampfer".
'Well duh' Naruto thought to herself as her sight returned to the destroyed table. Though it was true that despite her use of a bladed weapon there opponent seemed fully capable of hitting them from a distance. Between them Akane fight better as a long range fighter. So assuming they find where the attack came from she should be able to put their opponent on the defensive while Naruto moved in.
"How good are you with that gun?" Naruto asked, her eyes scanning the library as best they could.
"Huh? Tha hell you question' that for?" Akane asked. She almost put another how in this guy's head how many times? If anyone should know how good she was it's blondie here.
"Because" Naruto started as she got onto her hands and knees. "I'm expecting you to have my back" the blond told the girl before running out into the open with her weapon in hand. If they stayed there then chances are they'd be found long before they found the enemy. Like this it should be easier to pinpoint where the attacks are coming from.
"Oi dumbass! Don't just go doin' shit without telling me!" Akane yelled as she got to her knees and readied her gun. If this bitch doesn't kill him then she'll finish him off herself when this is over.
Just as expected Naruto was to great a target to be passed up and another blade speed toward her. 'That's it. Tell me everything I need to know' Naruto thought with a grin as she spun around and blocked the strike with her knife. 'A chain?', with the blade halted she was able to get a good look at it while it fell back. It was a dagger like weapon with long thin guards and a chain attached to the hilt.
As she took in the design an unsettling feeling hit her and she instinctively jumped back. As she was moving back a cutting sound hit her ears as fabric went flying. Naruto cursed to herself as the secondary attack came from the side and slashed through the front of her uniform.
To launch an attack like that from two different directions, was their opponent moving position? Not good. She had to fall back into cover at this rate.
Turning to head back to Akane Naruto's heart rate was rising. How long had it been since she'd been put on edge like this? Stretching her senses to their limits Naruto was having trouble douching and deflecting the repeated strikes with just one kunai. Though what really concerned her was when they suddenly stopped.
"Did they figure it out?" Akane thought aloud as they waited for the next move. Though when they made their next move it wasn't aimed at Naruto as the bookshelf Akane was hiding behind was attacked and sent tumbling over.
"Move!" Naruto shouted as she jumped at the redhead. Pulling Akane into her arms Naruto ignored her flustered protests as she moved them both out of harms way.
Coming to a stop Naruto turned to take in the damage though what she saw surprised her. "Kaede?" Naruto asked with wide eyes as she put Akane on her feet. For what ever reason the girl had been behind the now fallen bookshelf.
"I-I just came here to check something out" the trembling girl said after seeing the stunned look on Naruto's face. First it was that gun toting girl and now the library was being torn up, just what was happening today?
"This is yer doin' ain't it?!" Akane yelled as she pointed her gun at the girl.
"Don't!" Naruto shouted as she tried to talk the girl to the ground before she pulled the trigger. Fortunately she wasn't the only one trying to avoid unnecessary bloodshed as another one of those daggers whizzed between Akane and Kaede to deflect any bullets as Naruto brought the redhead to the ground.
It seemed the situation was to much for Kaede to handle as she past out and slumped down against one of the bookshelves. "Kaede?!" Naruto cried out in concern as she got off a now thoroughly pissed Akane and moved over to her unconscious friend. She was breathing and there weren't any visible injuries. Despite her being grateful that Kaede hadn't gotten hurt she couldn't shake the sudden feeling of dread that washed over them.
Before anything could come from that feeling the bell signally the next class run and was shortly accompanied by the sound of chains dragging along the ground fading into the distance. After a moment, "Did they... leave?" Naruto asked ash her and Akane stood around.
Along the catwalk on the upper level a girl with long black hair was checking the time on her watch. "I'll have to splurge on the library budget" the girl said to herself as she exited the room.
After everything had calmed down Akane had left the task of carrying Kaede to the infirmary to Naruto. Missing class wasn't to bad for her, so long as she could make a good excuse for her mother, so it wasn't to much of a hassle for her. The nurse for the girl's side was even lax enough to let her crash there for a while. Though eventually she had to head back to class, that and she didn't want to be there when Kaede woke up.
Walking through the Halls Naruto took the time to look around while most students were still in class. It's not that she'd never been on the girl's side, having her skills it was simple to slip in undetected, but aside from needing to see her mother a hand full of times she'd never had a reason to come over here. While visually similar this part of the school held a very different feel to the boy's section she was so use too.
As she was going she passed by a shorter girl with long purple hair and similarly colored eyes. It wasn't something she hadn't expected but she was surprised when she heard the same girl call out to her after she'd past. "Yes? Did you need something?" Naruto asked after coming to a halt and turning to look at the girl, it wouldn't do well for her if she acted like she didn't belong here.
"Senpai! Do you know where the student council room is? I have something to drop off there but I don't know where because I'm not very familiar with this place! So I thought I'd get a senpai to tell me and I'd really be happy if someone cool like you could show me the way!" the girl requested with an energetic and quick voice. It was a little much to take in from someone she'd just met.
Normally she wouldn't have a problem helping out but she didn't know where it was either, at east not specifically. The student council room had always been on the girl's side so he'd never just walked past it during a normal school day. Though he did know that it was close to where the two halves of Seitetsu met so that it wouldn't be too much of a hassle for a boy to get there should the need arise.
"And senpai..." the girl started again as Naruto was trying to pinpoint where the room was. "Please tell me your name!" the girl excitedly requested.
"Eh, my name?" the words came out of her mouth before she'd even full registered what the girl asked. It shouldn't be too much of a problem, right? She'd already given Kaede a fake name, but what if this girl tries to find her later and gets suspicious when there's no Naruko in the student registry.
"Yep! Your name, class, height, and weight", okay now she was starting to cross over into personal information. Why does she want to know her height and weight anyway?
"Eh? Naruto?" a familiar voice came from behind and sure enough Akane was there when Naruto looked over her shoulder. "What's wrong?" Akane asked the blond finding it a tad weird that she was still on the girl's side. Maybe she was wrong when she assumed she could control her transformation.
"Akane!" Naruto cheered at not only seeing a friendly face but also a possible way out of this.
"How do you know Akane?!" the purple haired girl quickly asked after witnessing the pairs little interaction. While it seemed like Akane and this girl knew each other the shy girl ended up becoming embarrassed from stumbling onto this conversation and hid most of herself behind Naruto.
"So you know each other?" Naruto asked, still looking over her shoulder at Akane.
"Y-Yes. She's a year younger than me, but we've been friends for a long time" the girl explained as she held onto Naruto's sleeve. "Your body... so it hasn't changed back yet... Are you still okay with going shopping for clothes after school?" Akane asked and received an instant response from her younger friend rather than Naruto.
"Shopping!?" the girl gleefully asked before staring at the pair expectantly and ultimately inviting herself to their shopping trip.
After school Naruto, Akane, and who Naruto learned was Masumi Nishino went together to the local shopping mall. Kushina had to stay a bit late after school so she didn't invite herself like Masumi when Naruto told her about going clothes shopping. Though she did give Naruto a bit of extra spending money under the caveat that the two of them would have their own shopping trip. Kushina was getting use to this a bit faster than Naruto was comfortable with.
"Naruko!" Masumi called out as the blond was shifting through one of he shirt racks. Fortunately it was easy enough to convince the girl that it was a slip of the tongue when Akane called her Naruto. "How about this one?" the girl asked as she presented the blond with a black shirt with 'KillTeacher KillCop' written in a blood like font with two chainsaws crossed over each other under the text.
"I think it'll look perfect on you!" Masumi told the blond, either ignoring or being oblivious to the look of disbelieve on Naruto's face. The two of them clearly had different tastes in clothes. Maybe if it didn't have that text she could see herself wearing it? "Of course, you can check the three sizes on your own" Masumi told her with a smirk and raised eyebrows while cupping and lifting up her breasts.
Well, putting that aside how was she going to decline without being rude? "How about this?" Akane asked, drawing Naruto's attention over to her. For a split second she expected to be met with something frilly and overly girly, and then she saw the black dress with a skull and crossbones pattern running over it that Akane was holding up.
"It's so adult, I think it would look good on you" Akane told the blond after handing her the dress and picturing how she'd look in it. Taking another look at the dress in her arms Naruto tried to picture herself in it. Admittedly she'd probably look good in it but she didn't really want to wear a dress, and maybe something with a bit more color would suit her better.
"I'll think about it" Naruto told Akane as she put the dress to the side.
"Hey, hey, aren't you from Seitetsu?" a voice Naruto recognized instantly asked them. "I'm Higashida from year two, class four in the same school! You're super cute!" Higashida told Naruto straight forward and bluntly with a camera in his hands. "You see, my hobby is photography" the teen happily said as she placed a hand on the blond's shoulder. "I'm making a photo collection of Seitetsu's beautiful girls right now. How'd you like to be in it?" Higashida asked her.
"Not going to happen" Naruto told him, sending her own bluntness at him. Though it didn't seem to deter him in the slightest and he simply brushed off the remark while attempting to butter her up with a compliment. This is why she didn't go out into public with Higashida very often.
While trying to hide her disappointment a new annoyance reached Naruto's ears. "Hey hey how about it?!" "Yeah, let's go do karaoke!" two out of a trio of men trying to score with Akane said to the uncomfortable girl.
"I won't!" Akane told them before slipping past and rushing over to Naruto.
"You okay?" Naruto asked the girl as she hid behind her. In response she gave a quick nod as she clutched onto Naruto's sleeve.
"Oh! Your friends cute too, why not come along with us?!" one of the guys said after seeing Naruto. Meanwhile Higashida was still trying to get a picture of her. Couldn't she just pick out a few outfits in piece?
Lifting a hand up to her temple Naruto figured now would be a good chance to relieve some of today's stress. "You're not impressing anyone with that lame ass approach, no one wants to hear you sing, and you look like a bunch of creeps when you gang up on a girl like that. Get lost before I fuck you up" Naruto coldly told them with a piercing glare.
Normally this guy would've had more bravado and would've made another plea, but this girl just spooked him for some reason. Gathering their losses the group turned and left without another word. As for Naruto, that wasn't nearly as satisfying as she had hoped. It's kind of disappointing that they hadn't tried to start something.
"Those guys are famous around here but you actually scarred them off! You really are the best!" Higashida gushed over what he just witnessed before trying to ask for her photo again.
Before he got his question out Naruto had already intercepted and coldly asked why he was still there. It didn't drive him away but at least he wasn't talking right now. Though that look he was giving her was really creeping her out.
"Naruko, your wrist is glowing!" Masumi, who had enjoyed the show Naruto put on, told the blond as she pointed at the bracelet she wore.
Lifting her hand up to look at it Naruto figured she was changing back. Oh fuck she was changing back! Saying she needed to use the restroom Naruto quickly took off before she inadvertently made a huge scene. If she could just get to the bathroom before her bracelet went off then she could transform back the old fashioned way and maybe she could actually get some shopping down. All the while she was praying that everyday as a kampfer wouldn't be this stress inducing.