Chapter 7: Kyoto Trip: Konoka Kidnapped!
"There's mistaking it! This is all the work of that damn Setsuna!" Chamo declared to Negi as they sat down on a bench next to a vending machine. They were somehow able to convince the other teacher's that the drunken students of 3-A were just tired and with Naruto's help, they were able to get them on the bus that took them to the hotel without arousing anyone's suspicion. While Naruto help the others put the girls to bed, Chamo had called Negi away to discuss what had happened.
"But we aren't sure of that yet." Negi responded.
"Hey, Negi." came Asuna's voice, both the young mage and the ermine looking up to see the orange haired girl walking up to them.
"Asuna-san." Negi muttered.
"I've told the teachers that all the drunken students have gone to sleep in their rooms, but…tell me what's going on here?" she told the ten year old teacher.
"T-The truth is that…" Negi stuttered, but was interrupted by Chamo.
"Just tell her Aniki!" Chamo told him, which he did.
"Eh! 3-A is being targeted by some weird magical organization from Kansai!" She shouted, shocked.
"Yes, it's call the Kansai Magic Association." Negi told her.
"I knew there was something odd with those frogs," Asuna said, then let out a sigh, "So it's another disaster involving magic, huh?"
"I'm sorry Asuna-san." Negi apologized.
"I guess you my help again, right? No problem, I'll help you out a bit." Asuna offered, giving the ten year old mage a small smile.
"A-Asuna-san." Negi said, smiling.
"Ah, that's right! Ane-san, that Sakurazaki Setsuna from your class seems to be a spy," Chamo informed her, "Do you know anything about her?" he asked.
"Eh! Sakurazaki-san...a spy," She said in shock, before putting her hand under her chin as she thought about what she knew about Setsuna, "Hmmm...I've heard that she was a childhood friend of Konoka...but come to think of it, I've never seen them talking to each other..." she told them.
Chamo processed this new piece of information, and then realized something, "Hmm...hold on Ane-san, if she's a childhood friend of Konoka-neesan, then that means..." he was about to continue when Negi suddenly interrupted him.
"Hold on a second Chamo-kun, I just remembered something," Negi told him as he began searching for something that was in his pack, then pulled out the class roster, "L-Look, look, there's 'Kyoto' written on the class roster!" he said, pointing at her picture.
Chamo took the roster and studied it, "She's from Kyoto after all!" he declared.
"Eh! Then that means..." Negi couldn't even form the words as he started to tremble throughout his body.
"There's no doubt about it! She's an assassin from the Kansai Magic Association!" Chamo announced loudly and a little bit too dramatically for the situation.
"You really think so?" Asuna asked with a deadpanned look, then she suddenly remembered something, "Wait a minute, I saw Naruto do something really strange on the train when the frogs appeared, you think he could be in league with the Kansai Magic Association?" at that comment, the boys looked at her with shocked looks, and Asuna immediately regretting opening her mouth.
"How could ever think that Asuna-san!" Negi shouted in outrage.
"There's no way in hell that Naruto-nii would ever betray us!" Chamo told her.
"I'm sorry okay, I just saw him kneeling down near a huge group of those frogs, then suddenly they all disappeared," Asuna yelled back, with both the ten year old and the ermine letting out a sigh, which ticked of Asuna even more, "And what are you both sighing about!"
"Ane-san, Naruto-nii was canceling out the summons for the frogs, he wasn't the one that summoned them." Chamo told her, leaving Asuna just staring at him, feeling dumb while she mouthed 'Oh'.
"Someone say my name," came a voice from behind Asuna, causing the three to jump up, turn around and find Naruto smiling at them, "Yo!" he greeted.
"D-Did you hear everything we were talking about?" Asuna asked nervously.
"Hmmm? No, I just heard someone say my name and I saw you three, so I figured it was one of you," he told her innocently, "Why, was there something I wasn't supposed to hear?" he asked curiously.
Before the boys could answer the question, Asuna placed her hands on their mouths, preventing them from talking, "No, It was nothing, nothing at all!" Asuna told him rather quickly.
Naruto opened his mouth to speak, but he was interrupted by Shizuna-sensei suddenly appearing, "Negi-sensei, Naruto-sensei, it's almost time for the staff members to finish their baths."
"O-Ok, Shizuna-sensei!" Negi said, surprised by her sudden appearance.
"It's almost time for group 5 to take a bath, we'll talk about this tonight during free activity time, ok?" Asuna told him.
"Alright." Negi said.
"Ok, Ane-san." Chamo said.
"Talk about what?" Naruto asked, with the three of them remembering that the new blonde teacher hadn't heard what they were talking about. Negi told him he'd explain when they got into the bath and left for the men's bath while Asuna walked back to group 5's room. A few minutes later, Naruto, Negi, and Chamo were relaxing in the large onsen with Negi explaining their idea that Setsuna was a spy to Naruto.
"I dunno you guys, I don't get the same feeling from her that I get when I see Kabuto, you might just be jumping to conclusions." Naruto told them after hearing Negi explain the situation.
"Ah come on Naruto-nii, how can you sit there and tell me that after hearing how she's around whenever trouble happens, that you don't believe she's a spy!" Chamo shouted then took a sip from the cup he was holding.
"It could just be coincidence or bad luck," Naruto countered, "All I'm saying is that I'll wait for more proof before I act."
"Its fine Chamo-kun, even if Setsuna-san is a spy, I doubt she's strong enough to beat Naruto-nii." Negi reassured the ermine, who just huffed at the statement.
"I'm more concerned about you Aniki than I am about Naruto-nii," Chamo told him, with Naruto nodding his head in agreement, "She's always carrying around that sword and she able to control shikigami, she'd kill a mage like you before you could even chant a spell."
"That's right...Swordsmen are natural enemies of mages, it'd be best to avoid fighting her." Negi said sounding worried.
"That's not gonna happen," the two turned their heads towards Naruto, who had a grin on his face, "I won't let anything life-threatening happen to you or the girls." he said confidently.
"...How can you be so sure that you'll be able to do it, Naruto-nii?" Negi asked him.
Naruto's response was to ruffle Negi's hair and chuckle, "Because I have people that are precious to me that I want to protect," Naruto told him, "Let me tell you something Negi, when a person has something important that they want to protect, that's when they can become truly strong...I won't allow any of you to die, I'll protect you all, even if it costs me my life." Naruto said, quoting the words he remembered Kakashi and Haku telling him all those years ago.
Negi and Chamo just looked at him with awe strucked looks as he continued, "Let's protect those girls Negi, alright?" he asked, holding up his fist.
"Right," Negi agreed, bumping his fist with Naruto's. Before they could continue talking, they heard footsteps on the stone floor, Negi turned his head and muttered, "Someone's coming, maybe it's one of the male teachers."
Naruto noticed how his shoulders tensed and looked over his shoulders too see what he was staring at, he could understand why Negi tensed up, in fact, he agreed with him. They saw Setsuna kneeling, completely naked, and was throwing water on herself.
"W-Why is she here? The male and female entrances are separate! Why do they go into the same bath!" Negi whispered to Naruto and Chamo, blushing heavily as he grabbed onto his wand.
Naruto was speechless as he stared wide-eyed at the girl they were watching, a sense of dread welling up inside of him, luckily Chamo was able to answer that question, "It's called a mixed bath, Aniki." he told Negi. They went back to staring at who they thought was a spy, while Naruto was somewhere else in his mind.
"She's short, but she's beautiful, isn't she?" Negi whispered out loud, blushing as he stared at her snow white skin, Naruto unconsciously nodded his head in agreement to what his little brother had said, before quickly snapping out of it.
"Stop staring, you idiots," Naruto whispered as he grabbed Negi's and Chamo's heads and pulled them out of site, "We got to get out of here, if we get caught we could be labeled as perverts," at that, Negi paled considerably but Chamo was fine, he was just grinning very perversely, "Follow me, we're gonna sneak-"
"How troublesome," the heard Setsuna say, causing Naruto, Negi, and Chamo to stop talking and stay completely still as they eavesdropped on her, "I'm not really sure about Naruto-sensei, but if Negi-sensei is indeed a mage, then I should take some action, but..."
As soon as she said the word mage, Naruto's eyes widen as he looked at his little brother, who was looking like he was about to have a heart attack, while he himself was thinking, "This isn't going to be good..." and he was right. Negi's grip on his wand increased and he began to raise it, most likely to begin chanting a spell.
Setsuna seemed to sense that something was about happen and acted first, grabbing a pebble and flicked it into a nearby light, darkening the bath. Setsuna grabbed her sword and shouted, "Who's there!" but she didn't wait to find out as she lunged forward and using a technique Naruto was unfamiliar with, sliced through the large rock they were hiding behind with ease, leaving behind only a cleanly cut stump where the rock was.
Naruto dived underwater before Setsuna could spot him and silently swam over to a spot in the bath where Setsuna couldn't see him and watched as Negi began to cast a spell, "Ras Tel Ma Scir Magister Flans Exarmatio!" he chanted, pointing the wand straight at Setsuna, the spell knocking the sword from her hands.
Naruto was mildly impressed, thinking, "Good move Negi, stripping an enemy of their weapon evens up the playing field more, but if my memory serves me right, all you've done is slowed her down a little" once again, he was right.
Setsuna just smirked as she continued her attack, grabbing Negi by the throat with one her hands and threw him forward, causing Negi to hit his head on another rock which left him pinned, while her other hand went into the water to wrap tightly around his...um...well..uh, pride...or at least she would have if Naruto hadn't acted first. Naruto had silently and swiftly appeared behind Setsuna, one hand holding onto the groin attack and in his other hand was Setsuna's sword, which was resting peacefully against her neck.
"You let your guard down...you're very lucky, if I had been anyone else, you'd most likely lost your head...now let him go…" Naruto told her, causing Setsuna to grit her teeth as she realized she had been beaten.
Setsuna felt ashamed of herself, she hadn't sense the other adversaries' presence at all, she was about to as she had been told when she got a good look at the enemy she was currently choking, her face beginning to blush, "Negi-sensei..." she said letting go of the young mage's neck as she took a step back from her sensei, "I-I'm sorry, Negi-sensei!" she took another step backwards and bump into the other attacker, who had let go of her hand when they made contact.
Quickly turning around, she saw the very well-built and naked body of her newest teacher, and felt her face heat up considerably, and her blush darkening as the two continued to stare at each other's bodies. They quickly adverted their eyes while Naruto sheathed the sword and went to retrieve their towels.
"Now you've done it Sakurazaki Setsuna," he heard Chamo shout at the girl, "I knew it! You're a spy from the Kansai Magic Association!"
"That's not true!" Setsuna denied the accusation as Naruto handed her the sword and her towel.
"Oh don't even try! We're on to you so you'd better fess up right now!" Chamo warned her as she wrapped the towel around herself.
"I-I'm not your enemy! I, No.15, Sakurazaki Setsuna, am your ally!" Setsuna explained.
"I had the feeling you weren't an enemy...dammit Chamo, always jumping to conclusions!" Naruto muttered, crossing his arms as he glared at Chamo, the ermine was always causing trouble.
Negi meanwhile, could only look at Setsuna in shock and ask, "Eh...Um...what do you mean by that?"
"I'm Konoka-ojou-sama's-" Setsuna began, but interrupted before she could explain.
"HYAAAAAAH!" a scream rang out to which Naruto and the other's instantly recognized the voice.
"That scream...Konoka-san!" Negi said as they all look towards the bath's exit.
"Konoka-ojou-sama," Setsuna shouted, "Could it be that they're to capture Konoka-ojou-sama!" Naruto and Negi gave the girl confused looks when she said ojou-sama but before they could ask her to elaborate, she took off towards the scream.
"C'mon Negi!" Naruto told him as he chased after Setsuna with Negi following closely behind.
"Naruto-nii, Aniki, They must be from the Kansai Magic Association!" Chamo said.
"The scream came from the changing rooms, we've got to hurry!" Negi shouted, while Naruto picked up the pace, catching up to Setsuna instantly, Negi casting a spell match their speed.
They reached the changing rooms and slammed the door open, "Are you all right Konoka-san!" Negi shouted as the three entered the room. Naruto instantly face faulted as they came to see the site of numerous small monkeys attempting to strip Asuna and Konoka of their underwear.
"Huh, Negi! What the hell are these things trying to do with our underwear!" Asuna screamed as she soon as she saw Negi. That was when the monkeys successfully stripped the poor girls of their underwear and fell to the ground completely naked, much to Naruto's dismay.
"AAH! Negi-kun, Se-chan, Naruto-kun, don't look!" Konoka yelled as she covered her assists with her hands, her face blushing madly as she saw the three staring at her.
"Ignore it Naruto, just forget what you saw..." Naruto thought to himself as he looked somewhere other than the two naked girls in front of him, desperately hoping that he didn't have a nosebleed, that was then another thought came to his head, "Please tell me this isn't the reason why the old man had monkey summons!" he looked over to his left to Setsuna trembling with barely controlled anger.
"T-These damn monkeys," She said darkly, as if she was spitting out venom, "What the hell do you think you're doing to Konoka-ojou-sama, I'll slice you all to pieces!" she drew her sword out and pointed it at the monkeys, while Naruto and Negi just had shocked looked on their faces.
"Sakurazaki-san, what are you doing! Is that a real sword!" Asuna yelled as Setsuna raised her sword to strike the nearest monkey, but Negi stopped her by grabbing a hold of her, both of them unaware that they were being surrounded by a couple of the monkeys.
"You can't just cut up those poor monkeys!" Negi said as he continued to cling to the struggling swordswoman.
"What are you doing Sensei, these are just low-level shikigami! They'll just turn back to paper if a cut them!" She explained to them. Naruto breathed a sigh of relief from learning that these things weren't alive and grabbed the one that had climbed up onto his shoulder and tore its body in half.
It indeed turned back into paper, so he made his way to his student and little brother to assist them, unfortunately one of the monkeys took this moment to strip Setsuna of her towel and trip Negi and Setsuna into Naruto, causing them all to fall down on top of each other, or rather Negi fell on his stomach first, while Naruto landed on his back with Setsuna straddling his face, with Negi and Asuna staring at the two in complete and utter shock.
When Naruto opened his eyes he was staring at something he knew he shouldn't be staring at until he was older and thought, "Why me..." and his so far successful attempt to prevent him from having a nosebleed had failed in that moment, blood shooting out of his nose in such an amount it forced his head to crash into the floor again. When Setsuna realized her current position, she quickly got off of her sensei. The two locked onto each others' eyes once more before adverting their eyes again, but this time they fought against two very red blushes on their faces, while Naruto cleaned up his bloodied nose.
"Those monkeys have Konoka!" Asuna shouted, pointing to the sight of several monkeys carrying Konoka away.
"What!" Naruto and Negi shouted at the same time, Naruto jumped up and ran after the monkeys, but was swamped by a numerous amount of monkeys, "Dammit!" he roared as he began tear the monkeys to shreds.
"Ojou-sama," Setsuna shouted and sprinted after the monkeys with her sword in her hands. She past Naruto, who had almost gotten rid of the monkeys, and called out, "Shinmeiryuu secret technique: Hyakuretsu Ouka-zan!" a circle with what appeared to be sakura petals suddenly appeared around Setsuna a she slashed the monkeys to pieces and caught Konoka into her arms.
As Negi and Asuna ran over to the two girls, Naruto finished ripping the remaining monkeys up before looking towards the tree that was near the wall of the onsen, he had sensed a presence coming from the tree when the monkeys had took off with Konoka. As two crows took off from the tree he felt the presence vanished and was about to give chase when Setsuna suddenly past him and Konoka calling out to her.
With a sigh, Naruto muttered, "She's lucky I'm not grading her on this, or else she'd be close to failing after running away from her charge..." he then called out to Negi and Asuna, "I'll go after her you guys, but keep your eyes open!" and chased after the fleeing swordswoman.
Okay, maybe chasing after a naked girl from an open-air bath wasn't one Naruto's best ideas, actually if he remembered correctly, that idea had been one of Jiraiya's and was in some of his notes for a new Icha Icha book, while Naruto could only hope it wouldn't turn out in the two ways Jiraiya had written it. Naruto breathed a sigh a relief as he saw that Setsuna had put on her towel and grabbed her clothes as she exited from the changing rooms. She ran through the corridors with Naruto close behind her, until she came to a stop and entered group 5's room.
Naruto waited a few moments so Setsuna could get dressed before he knocked on the door then entered. Naruto's fear was confirmed, it had turned out like Jiraiya had written the scene, with the girl being partly dressed as the male character entered the room. Setsuna had only put on her panties and was still wrapping up her breast when Naruto entered. The blonde shinobi was given the view of her snow white skin and slender figure and to top it all off, he saw her breasts being squeezed together.
"Sorry," He yelled and slammed the door shut with his back against the door, blushing a dark red at what he saw as he nursed his small nosebleed, "Please, please tell me Pervy Sage hasn't cursed me to live out his fantasies..." he begged in his mind.
A few minutes past before Naruto heard Setsuna call him in, "Naruto-sensei." she said with a small bow as she sat next to the table in the room in seiza position.
"Yo Setsuna," Naruto greeted and took notice on how she seemed uncomfortable when her name was addressed so casually, she seemed to be one of those very formal types from the way she was acting and how she was sitting, "Great, I've got to deal with an overly polite person again..." he mentally deadpanned as he sat cross-legged across from her, "I came to ask you about what had happened back there."
"Forgive me Naruto-sensei, but I cannot tell you." Setsuna replied.
"Save it Setsuna, remember what I said my first day, I'm an old friend of Negi's so I already know about magic," Naruto told her, causing the swordswoman to blink in surprise, "What I'm talking about is how you saved Konoka-chan, then suddenly ran away."
"I-I shouldn't be by her side..." she said with a sad look in her eyes.
"Could you be a bit clearer, why can't you be by her side?" He asked, already knowing that this girl was going to say something like 'I can never forgive myself' or 'I'm not strong enough'.
"I don't deserve to stay be side, not after what happened the last time." Setsuna said, her fist clenching her robe tightly
Naruto let out a sigh but smiled a little, "It's ok Setsuna, if you have something to tell me, I'm all ears. Just answer me this, are you Konoka-chan's bodyguard?" he said kindly as he put a reassuring pat on her shoulder, which seemed to make her relax a little.
She looked up at him and nodded her head, "I am Konoka-ojou-sama's bodyguard, it is my duty to protect her, but I failed her once when we were children and she nearly drowned in a river. Ever since then I've dedicated myself to becoming stronger and have resign myself to watch over her from the shadows." she told him, which she felt strange about, she'd normally wouldn't open up like this, but she felt a calm feeling coming from her blonde teacher that just seemed to soothe her.
"I see..." Naruto muttered as he leaned towards her and gently bonked her with the back of his hand, much to her shock, "You're her bodyguard, yet you left her right after her attempted kidnapping...the only good thing you did was not leaving her alone," he said with a smirk at the now slightly ashamed Setsuna, "I'll give you some advice so that way you don't make an amateur mistake like that again. It'll be easier to guard her when your close to her, don't try it from a distance, it's a pain in the ass. Just hanging out with her and being friends is the easiest way."
"But-" Setsuna was about to say, but was interrupted by Naruto.
"No buts, I can tell just from watching what happened earlier that you care about Konoka-chan, besides I pretty sure she'd be more than happy to have you as a friend." he said, giving her a wink and his trademark fox grin.
"…Thank you for the advice Sensei, but may I ask you something?" she asked.
"Sure I don't see why not." Naruto replied.
"Do you have any past experience as a bodyguard?" she asked.
"Hmm, you figured I was speaking from past experiences right," he asked to which Setsuna nodded her head in response, "Yeah, I've had missions where I was a bodyguard, I've guarded bridge builders, priestesses, heck I've even guarded royalty a few times before." he said with a hint of pride in his voice.
Setsuna looked extremely impressed at his statement, but quickly regaining her composure and asking him, "So is that why your here Naruto-sensei, to protect Konoka-ojou-sama?"
In response Naruto stood up and smiled at her, "It's not just Konoka-chan, it's everyone in class 3-A, you included Setsuna," with that he turned around and headed out of the room, but not before turning his head back to her, "If you ever need any help, just give me a call." with that he shut the door.
A little while after that, Negi and Asuna were walking through the inn. They had checked up on the drunken students to make sure that they were all right, with Kaede whispering to Negi to call on her if he ever needed her assistance. As they walked down the stairs into the lobby, they saw Setsuna on a stool, standing on her tip-toes, and was sticking a piece of paper above a door.
"What are you doing, Setsuna-san?" Negi asked as they approached her.
"It's a barrier to repel shikigami." She explained as she got off the stool and placed it near a wall, and then they all went over to the seating area of the lobby.
"Um…Setsuna-san, you can use Japanese magic too?" Negi asked.
"Yes, it's a compliment to my sword techniques." she told him, shuffling her talismans before taking a seat.
"I see, so you're like a magic knight!" Chamo said from atop of Negi's head.
"...But is it alright to discuss this in front of Kagurazaka-san?" Setsuna asked.
"Yes, it's alright." Negi reassured her.
"I'm already knee deep in this anyway." Asuna explained.
"I see, then I'll explain the situation. The enemy is stepping up their attacks, if this continues to escalates, Konoka-ojou-sama will be put into the line of fire too. We must prevent that," she said, then looked at Negi, "Negi-sensei, I heard that you were a brilliant western mage, can you think of anything, because it seems like the enemy is gaining confidence because our countermeasures are not effective." she then let out a sigh.
"S-Sorry, I'm a little inexperienced." Negi said.
"Then you're really on our side!" Chamo asked.
"Yes, that what I've been telling you!" she told him, while none of them noticed a familiar blonde haired boy suddenly appear just to their side, leaning on the couch's with his right arm.
"I told you that you were just jumping to conclusions, Chamo!" Naruto said to the ermine which caused the four of them to jump in surprise and turning their heads to see the blonde shinobi just smiling at them. Setsuna was in shock, again she hadn't noticed his presence even when he was this close to them, it was unbelievable to her and she wondered what else her new sensei could do.
"Stop sneaking up on us!" Asuna shouted at him to which Naruto only laughed in response, before turning his attention to the swordswoman, "So Setsuna, could you tell us more about our enemies?" he asked curiously.
"Yes Naruto-sensei, our enemies are onmyou charm-users, a division of the Kansai Magic Association, which is why they are able to use shikigami," she began, "It it said that long ago in Kyoto, the charm-users were the ones who founded independent magic in Japan with their Onmyoudou. They are vulnerable when they are chanting spells like western mages are, and just like how western mages have their partners, they summon powerful warrior spirits called 'Zenki and 'Goki' to protect themselves.'"
"Z-Zenki and Goki, they sound strong..." Negi muttered, sounding a bit worried.
"Sounds like they'd be fun to fight!" Naruto said excitedly, despite his little brother's worrying.
"Furthermore, the Kansai Magic Association have deep ties with us, the Kyoto Shinmeiryuu," Setsuna continued, "The Shinmeiryuu were originally an organization that protected the capital by destroying demons. The charm-users accompanied the swordsmen of Shinmeiryuu, and they made a strong combination."
"That sounds really bad for us!" Asuna said.
"No, to me that sounds like an awesome fight!" Naruto shouted, now practically trembling with excitement.
"Well, that sort of thing doesn't happen much anymore in this day of age." Setsuna informed them, causing Naruto's head to sink in disappointment.
"But..are the people from Shinmeiryuu are our enemies as well?" Negi asked.
"Yes...I guess they would see me as a traitor because I left the west for the east, but I wanted to protect Konoka-ojou-sama no matter what, so I had no choice...but I'll be satisfied as long as I am able to protect Ojou-sama." Setsuna said, before looking at Naruto and what he had told her earlier echoed in her head.
"Setsuna-san..." Negi muttered.
Suddenly Asuna stood and walked behind Setsuna, "Alright I get it, Sakurazaki-san," she said, delivering a pat on the back, "Knowing you don't hate Konoka is good enough for me. A friend of a friend is a friend, I'll help too!"
"Kagurazaka-san..." Setsuna said, a little embarrassed.
"Alright then, it's decided," Negi said as he dragged Setsuna, Naruto, and Asuna into a circle with their hands into the middle with Chamo being on top of their hands, "The 3-A Guardian Angels are hereby formed, we'll protect class 3-A from the Kansai Magic Association!" he declared.
"...Negi, that's a horrible team name..." Naruto told Negi, who immediately dropped his head in disappointment while placing his two index fingers together.
"But I like the name..." Negi said sadly as he pushed his fingers together in a manner that reminded Naruto of Hinata.
"Fine, we can keep the name if you want to." Naruto said with a sigh, causing Negi to instantly cheer up and start running towards the door..
"The enemies might be back tonight, I'll go patrol outside." Negi told them, but was stopped by Naruto grabbing onto his collar.
"You still got my kunai on you, Negi," Naruto asked, Negi nodded his head and took out the three-pronged kunai Naruto had given him earlier from his robe's pocket, "Good keep it on you, I've got a feeling you might need it tonight." he said, a bit worried about his little brother.
"Ok Naruto-nii!" Negi said, smiling at his older brother as he put the kunai back in his pocket, then went off to patrol the outside of the inn.
"Well I'd better do some patrolling too." Naruto said as he put his hand on his neck and gave it a crack.
"Were are you going to patrol, Naruto-sensei," Setsuna asked, "I was thinking you'd be best suited for paroling half of the corridors around group 5's room while I patrol the other half." she said as she and Asuna started to make their to their room.
"Nah, me being the strongest of the four of us, I'm thinking that I'd be best suited patrolling the outside with Negi, or guard the inside of group 5's room," Naruto stated, causing the two girls to stop, "And seeing that I'd most likely be called a pervert for being in the room, I think I'll go outside, sound good?" he said with a grin.
"...I see your point, alright Naruto-sensei," Setsuna told him.
"I'll report back in twenty minutes, hold the fort until then."Naruto said, then turning his back to them and walked towards the door.
"Let's go protect the groups' rooms Kagurazaka-san." Setsuna told her orange haired classmate, the two heading back to the students' rooms, completely unaware that Naruto had created a clone to silently keep an eye on things.
Naruto let out a sigh as he followed his little brother to a bridge not far from the hotel and listened in on Chamo explaining the functions of the pactio card to Negi. Naruto let out another sigh, he was getting very bored, it had been nearly ten minutes since he finished patrolling the outside of the inn and had left another clone to watch over the area while he went to catch up to Negi.
"Is now really the time to be talk about the card," he thought as he decided to take watch, knowing that Negi would probably be too distracted to keep watch over the area, and that's when the memories of his two clones hit him, giving him a mild headache. He first clone's memories showed that Konoka had been taken from the bathroom, of all places! And his second clone's memories showed him a lady with glasses in...a monkey suit? Jumping from the Inn's rooftop with Konoka in her arms and was heading towards their direction.
Right on cue, Naruto saw the outline of the monkey suit above the moon and watched it land right in front of Negi.
"A Monkey!" Negi said with wide eyes and gapping at the huge monkey, but found out on a closer look that it was a woman in a monkey suit.
"Ara...I ran into you just then, it's the cute little mage." the woman said.
Negi then noticed who was in the monkey lady's arms, "Konoka-san," he shouted then took out his wand, "Hold it right there, Monkey-san," but the woman did the exact opposite of what he said and ran away, "Ras Tel Mas Scir-" he began to chant but was stopped by several monkeys jumping onto him and covering his mouth.
Fortunately, he was saved by Setsuna and Asuna arrive soon after and the three, plus the hidden shinobi, gave chase to the monkey lady. They followed the monkey lady into a train station, with Naruto overhearing Setsuna explain about the charm on the wall that wards of ordinary people and as Setsuna, Negi, and Asuna entered the train as the doors closed, Naruto himself had silently jumped on top of the train and listen in on the what everyone was saying via and opened window.
"Stop!" came Setsuna's shout.
"Heheh, I guess it's time for my second charm," a voice he knew was the culprit's say, "Charm-san, Charm-san, help me to escape," she chanted and suddenly Naruto heard the sound of a lot of rushing water and looked down to see the whole compartment full of water and it was gushing out of the doors and the windows but it didn't seem to drain it at all, "Hoho, you can all drown in this compartment, goodbye!" the monkey lady's voice rang out in laughter, which fueled Naruto's anger.
Using his chakra to stay on the train, Naruto lowered himself so that his face was showing in the nearest window and watched as the others were struggling in the torrent of water. Negi spotted his older brother's head and pleaded with what control of his hands he had left to signal Naruto to help. Naruto nodded put his finger to his mouth, signaling him to keep quiet, then pulled his head up as he punched the two windows he was next too opened and watched as the water spilled out and hurried over to the next set and repeated what he did.
Meanwhile as Naruto did that, Setsuna was beginning to need air while thinking, "I can't swing my sword in this water...I-I guess I'm still unqualified for...Konoka-ojou-sama..." she was suddenly hit with memories of Konoka drowning in the river years ago, strengthening her resolve and used Zankuusen to destroy the door and let the water spill into the next compartment.
However, they had arrived at the next stop and they all come spilling out of the compartment as soon as the doors had opened. The monkey lady ran away soon after and they all chased after her, with Naruto following them by using anything he could land on or just staying far behind them while listening in on Setsuna explaining a few things about Konoka and the Kansai Magic Association.
"The truth is, before this all started, there were some members of the Kansai Magic Association who did not approve of Konoka-ojou-sama leaving for Mahora in the east...it is most likely that they want to use Konoka-ojou-sama's powers to gain complete domination of the Kansai Magic Association." she told them, resulting in everyone to obtain shocked looks.
Naruto tuned out the rest of what they were talking because he was too busy processing this bit of information, "Their planning to use Konoka to take over the Kansai Magic Association, even going so far to abducting her to do it...I not gonna let that happen..." he thought and increased his speed, but still made sure to keep out of site.
A few minutes later they had finally caught up to the monkey woman, who had ditched the monkey suit, "You've done well following me here, but this is as far as you go. I'll let my third charm take care of you." she said, holding up a talisman.
"You won't escape!" Setsuna shouted as she lunged forward, preparing to draw her sword.
"Charm-san, Charm-san, help me to escape," she chanted, throwing the charm in forward as giant walls of fire sprout up in the form of the of five lines spreading out and was one in the center, "Chew on this, the third charm technique: Kyoto 'Dai' Character Burn," the intensity of the flames were enough to force the swordswoman back, "hohoho, those flames will repel any normal person. Well then, this is goodbye."
But she wasn't facing a normal person when it came to Negi, "Ras Tel Mas Scir Magister Flet, Une Vente, Flans Saltatio Pulverea," Negi invoked his spell and blew away the flames with a giant gust of wind, "I won't let you get away, Konoka-san is one of my students and an important friend!" he declared as he took out the pactio card.
Naruto swelled with pride at what his little brother had said, he had really grown in the two years that he hadn't seen him, and hoped that Negi could handle this himself rather than call on him. He quickly made a clone and gave it orders to get behind the monkey lady and to follow her if she manages to escape, then turned his attention back to the battle.
"Sis mea pars per centum octoginta secundas, Minastra Negi, Kagurazaka Asuna!" Negi chanted, activating the contract. Asuna's entire body immediately began to glow with what Naruto guessed was Negi's magic.
"So that's the contract that Nekane-neechan told me about," Naruto mused as he watched the aura that was radiating around Asuna, "Looks impressive, but let's see it in action…"
"Sakurazaki-san, let's go!" Asuna shouted.
"Right!" Setsuna agreed.
"We could have gotten burned back there if we weren't careful! I'm not gonna let you off that easy," Asuna said, three of them now charging the woman, "You damn monkey-woman, give Konoka back!"
"Aniki use it now!" Chamo told Negi.
"Right," Negi agreed, then turned to Asuna, "Asuna-san, I'm going to bring out your personal artifact! It's a weapon only you can use, please take it!" he shouted to his partner.
"A weapon, I get a weapon! Alright Negi give it to me!" Asuna told him.
"Exerceas Potentiam, Kagurazaka Asuna!" Negi chanted, and the card disappeared from his hand, followed by a bright light appearing in Asuna's hands that turned into a deadly...paper fan.
Naruto face faulted as soon as he saw the fan, thinking, "WHAT THE HELL IS THAT," the fan itself reminded him a little of Temari's fan, except for Temari's being bigger and collapsible while Asuna's stood up on its own thanks to what seemed to be a miniature version of a sword's hilt at the bottom of it. Naruto snapped out of his thoughts and turned his attention back to the fight and watched as Asuna and Setsuna close in on the monkey woman and attacked her, only to be stopped by the monkey costume and a giant teddy bear with a bowtie, "Don't tell me those are the Zenki and Goki spirits she told us about..." Naruto muttered as he rubbed the bridged of his nose.
Asuna seemed to have similar thoughts because she voiced the same thing with Setsuna telling her that they where her Zenki and Goki. Asuna went in for another attack and this time the monkey disintegrated into smoke, leaving everyone there in shock. Naruto was impressed to say the least and watched on as Asuna attacked the bear, while Setsuna attacked the monkey lady, but was intercepted by another enemy. They clashed and both were sent backwards, but Setsuna's opponent went tumbling while Setsuna just skidded against the ground.
Naruto moved to a closer position to get a better look at this new enemy, she had blonde hair and glasses, in one hand she had a sword while in the other she had a dagger, and was wearing what looked like what Jiraiya would tell him, Gothic Lolita clothes, whatever the hell that meant, but he focused in on what the two wear saying.
"Y-You're a Shinmeiryuu swordsman?" Setsuna asked, completely shocked that the girl who she saw in front of her was taught in the same swords style as she was.
"Yes, my name is Tsukuyomi," the girl now known as Tsukuyomi introduced herself, "It seems that you're my sempai in Shinmeiryuu, but I've been assigned to protect her, so I've got to take this seriously!"
"To send a bodyguard like you, the Shinmeiryuu must be short on personnel." Setsuna said.
"You'll get hurt if you underestimate her, I'll leave her to you, Tsukuyomi-han." the monkey woman said.
"W-Well then, shall we begin? Please go easy on me." Tsukuyomi told her sempai before lunging at Setsuna, forcing the black haired swordswoman back after each clash between the two.
"She's a lot better than I thought she'd be." Naruto thought as he continued to watch the fight, while also seeing Asuna starting to get stripped again by little monkeys.
"Pay attention Naruto, I've got an uneasy feeling about that blonde girl..." Kyubi told his jinchuriki.
"You too, Kyubi?" Naruto asked his biju as Tsukuyomi continued to press Setsuna back, and saw that his little brother had sent a barrage of magic arrows at the monkey lady, only to divert them when she used Konoka as a shield.
"Yeah, there's more to that girl than meets the eye, be careful around her...Oh, and it's seems to be time for your big entrance.." Kyubi told him, before severing their link. Naruto turned his head to see Negi take out his kunai, and smirked, it was show time!
"Dammit, I've got no choice, if she's going to use Konoka-san as a hostage! We need Naruto-nii's help!" Negi thought as he took out his older brother's three-pronged kunai out.
"Oh, what's this? Is the cute little mage going to fight me with weapons now that his spells won't work?" the monkey lady taunted Negi, causing everyone to pause momentarily and stare at Negi, their faces showing surprise as they saw Chamo and Negi smiling victoriously.
"Sorry, this kunai isn't for me to fight you with," Negi explained as he threw it at her, "It's to summon him!" he announced as the kunai went soaring at her.
Suddenly numerous spiraling leaves swirled around the kunai and in the middle of it was a teenage boy with the kunai in his left hand. Naruto let his trademark fox grin as he turned his head back towards Negi, "You've done a good job Negi, now leave the rest to me." Naruto said, giving Negi a wink before walking up the stairways towards the monkey lady.
"Naruto-nii, we're saved..." Negi said, letting out a relieved sigh.
"I don't know who you are, but you better not interfere!" the monkey woman shouted at Naruto as she summoned a horde of monkeys and another giant bear and monkey, both of whom had the number 2 on their foreheads.
They all charge at the blonde shinobi, who just smirked and stayed where he was. As everyone watched the creatures that were a few feet from the blonde, they suddenly saw him disappear and reappear behind the creatures in an instant with the monkeys torn into pieces. The bear and the monkey turned around to face the newcomer, but not before everyone saw that the monkey had a tag stuck to its head that began to light itself on fire. The monkey barely had time to register the tag before it exploded, sending the bear crashing into a wall while the monkey laid in a small crater, it's body beginning to turn to smoke.
"That it..." Naruto asked, sounding a little disappointed, "Well then, I guess I'll fight you next," he declared, throwing the kunai at Tsukuyomi. The enemy swordswoman deflected the kunai, but showed shock as she and Setsuna saw Naruto appear above them in a yellow flash with the thrown kunai and another one in his hands and held Tsukuyomi down with them, "Setsuna, go get Konoka-chan!" he ordered.
"Right, thank you Naruto-sensei," Setsuna thanked her teacher, then went to rescue Konoka, only to be stopped again by the bear that survived the blast, but it's head was bleeding profusely, "Dammit!" she cursed.
"Great, just great..." Naruto muttered as he and Tsukuyomi clashed. Tsukuyomi made for a stab at his chest but Naruto quickly parried it and counter attacked by slicing downward at her face, but ended up only cutting her shirt opened a bit as she leaned backwards from the hit, the two then went through a series a blows with their blades, but came to a stalemate as none of the blows reached the other.
Tsukuyomi lunged foreword with her sword, smiling as it grew closer to her opponent, only for her smile to disappear as Naruto was suddenly on top of the blade and his right foot connecting to her face, sending her away from him, but she quickly recovered, "Oww! That hurt Onii-san," Tsukuyomi whined, rubbing her bruised cheek before adopting a playful smile, "But your pretty cute Onii-san, and I can tell this isn't your first time fighting a person who uses blades."
"Truthfully, one of my teachers can use eight blades at one time." Naruto said, recalling Killer Bee and his newly repaired blades and Samehada.
"Eight at one time, that's amazing! Aah, it's too bad were not on the same side, we could have some fun!" Tsukuyomi said with a pout, but her voice and face changed into a more lustful one at the word 'fun', making Naruto recoil a bit, before remembering some notes Jiraiya had made about this type of girl, and decided to test it out to see what would happen.
"Maybe I'll take you up on that offer sometime later, we could fun all night long." he said to the girl with equal meaning and saw the results immediately. Tsukuyomi's face began to flush considerably and she seemed to be getting some very wrong thoughts in her head which made eyes glaze over and her body tremble in what he figured Jiraiya would say was pleasure, Naruto resisted the unknown and unwanted urge to grab a notebook and jot down a note that said that Jiraiya was right about this (Surprisingly!).
"What do you plan to do to Konoka!" Asuna shouted at the monkey lady, Naruto guessing he had missed part of the conversation thanks to Tsukuyomi.
"Well, I guess I'll use drugs and spells to control her, she'll be nothing more than a puppet who obeys our every word, it'll be great." the monkey woman said with a chuckle as she began to think about what she said.
"Wha-What did you just say?" Negi and Asuna said, Asuna letting out a growl while Negi wore a face full of anger. Setsuna's anger flared as she stared at her enemy, while the that took it the worst was Naruto, his face was lowered to were you could only see his eyes as the pupils began to turn to slits and he held Tsukuyomi off with one arm.
"Looks like this time we win," she said mockingly, unaware of the danger she just unleashed as she glanced at Konoka's butt, "Konoka-ojou-sama has a cute snow-white butt, doesn't she? See you later, you little green-bottomed little brats, and say goodbye to her ass, too!" she finished her sentence by smacking Konoka's butt.
"What do you think you're doing to Konoka-ojou-sama!/ What the hell are you doing to Konoka/Konoka-chan!" Naruto, Setsuna, and Asuna roared simultaneously, Setsuna and Asuna banishing their respective bear while Naruto ran past Tsukuyomi, knocking of her glasses.
"Flans Exarmatio!" Negi shouted, his spell destroying the woman's protective charms and sending her and Konoka into the air, as well as stripping them of their clothes. Before she was able to recover, Asuna delivered a painful smack to her head, Naruto following by kicking the top of her head and sending her towards Setsuna, who used her Shinmei technique, Hi Ken Hyakuka Ryouran, as a final blow.
Negi quickly cast a spell to let Konoka float gently to the ground while the four of them approached their hated enemy. The woman a just barely got up from those blows and looked up to see four very angry faces from the two girls, the child, and the ermine, but the one that absolutely terrified her was the look the blonde teenager was giving her. It was a look of utmost loathing and she was mesmerized by his blue slitted eyes.
"I-I'll remember this!" she shouted as she summoned a third giant monkey with the number 3 on it and escaped with Tsukuyomi on the tail, the former looking for her glasses.
"After her!" Asuna shouted.
"Don't bother Kagurazaka-san." Setsuna told her.
"Hey, is Konoka-neesan alright!" Chamo asked, everyone turning to see Naruto already kneeling by her side, his robe cover her naked form while he inspected her.
"Konoka-ojou-sama! Ojou-sama, please hold on, we'll get help!" she said as she went to Konoka's side and looked at Naruto for help, only to see her blonde teacher shake his head with a smile.
"Nnn...huh, Se-chan," Konoka muttered as she began to regain consciousness, "Se-chan, I had a dream that I was kidnapped by some strange monkeys...but you, Asuna, Negi-kun, and Naruto-kun came to save me..." she said groggily, still a little sleepy.
"Thank goodness, It all right now...Konoka-ojou-sama." Setsuna said, smiling for the first time that Naruto had seen, which made him happy.
Konoka was surprised for a second, before a big smile and tears welling up in her eyes showed up on her face, "Thank goodness...Se-chan doesn't hate me after all!" she said happily.
Setsuna's faced blushed at that while replying, "That, and I've wanted to talk to Kono-chan as well, and-" she stopped herself from continuing, before backing away and bowing to Konoka, "I-I apologize, I-I am merely thankful that I was able to protect Kono-cha...Ojou-sama, It's best if I," she stopped herself as Naruto's words echoed in her head, 'I can tell just from watching what happened earlier that you care about Konoka-chan, besides I pretty sure she'd be more than happy to have you as a friend.', "I'm sorry!" she shouted and ran away, causing Naruto to face fault.
"Ah, Se-chan!" Konoka called after her.
"Setsuna-san..." Negi muttered.
"I guess it's not easy for her to suddenly get along with Konoka," Asuna said, then shouted to her fleeing classmate "Sakurazaki-san! We'll go take a look at Nara together tomorrow! It's a promise!"
It was Naruto's turn to shout, "For crying out loud Setsuna, I gave you that advice to help you get closer to Konoka, not run away!" he finished with a pout, which Konoka found to be cute.
"I'm sorry Naruto-sensei!" Setsuna shouted back with a bow, then ran away again.
Naruto let out a sigh as he began heading down the stair, only half-listening to Konoka asking Asuna why she was naked, and Asuna hastily making up an excuse. He wondered when his clone would disperse, but figured he was gathering enough information and went to thinking of punishments for Setsuna if she ever pulled a stunt like that again.
The clone Naruto was now observing his enemies, who had landed somewhere maybe ten minutes away from where they originally been, with Tsukuyomi wondering around looking for her glasses and the monkey lady was ranting to a couple of ten year old boys, one with black hair and was wearing a cap and the other had white hair and a stotic look on his face. Both seemed to be wearing his student uniforms, but before he could find out any more, he was pierced in the chest by a stone spear, and noticed the white haired boy looking at him before he poofed out of existence.
Naruto recieved the memories of his clone and smirked, "This might turn out to be a fun field trip after all." he thought as he and the others entered the train station.
Hoped you all liked it, for those who might be wondering, I asked Asha'man of Fire if I could use the scene where Naruto chased after Setsuna and gave her advice on guarding people, and he said yes, so I changed the wording and everything to fit my story. But really, ditching your charge after an attempted kidnapping, that's an amatuer's mistake.
Also, Tsukuyomi's reaction to what Naruto said, well for those who've seen the recent chapters, I'm thinking she's goes both ways and might be a psychosexueal, I'm sorry if you think that's wrong but I've seen mangas where girls act like that and were dubbed that.
Han-the Kansai dailect version of 'san'.
I'll update this as soon as I can, later.