*This chapter is part two of whatever number this ends with, I'm going to take a guess and say three. So this will be a triple header. Have fun and if you don't, I will kill your whole family and if you don't have one I'll resurrect them and then kill them in front of you. Although I am a procrastinator so I'll probably never get around to actually doing that.
Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto or Negima.
Jinchuuriki at Mahora
Chapter 7: A Teacher's Creed II
The sun had finally risen over the skies of Mahora academy bringing a sense of tranquillity to all those who inhabited inside its walls. To many people they did not notice the intense battle that took place several hours ago where they stood now. Four girls who were enjoying the sun above their heads were playing a short game of volleyball with each other to relax and unwind.
"There you go." Akira said passing the ball to her energetic friend Makie Sasaki, the resident gymnast.
"Got it," Makie said cheerfully bouncing the ball on her head, then again that was her default mode considering this girl had no worries in life therefore she had no reason to be afraid. "Hey it's been a few days since Negi-Kun and Naruto-sensei arrived. What does everyone think of them so far?" Makie asked the group of girls in front of her who suddenly look startled at the turn of conversation.
"Hmm," Akira mused softly rubbing her chin with her index finger. "He's not bad, being cute and all certainly helps, but Naruto-sensei well?" Akira drawled giving her friend Ako a sly look that the other girl returned with a look of indignation.
"Yeah," Yuna the resident daddy's girl cheered raising her fist to the sky. "There really giving it their best at this whole teaching idea aren't they." Yuna finished looking at her friends wondering did they feel the same way.
"But still," Akira hesitantly said bringing up a subject that she thought was difficult. "Is it okay for us to rely on those two when next year is an exam year?" Akira questioned her friends. She herself was curious whether Negi or Naruto was actually capable of helping the girls of 2/A pass the exams.
"So what, this is an escalator school, we'll be fine." Yuna reassured her friend with a two finger salute; passing the volleyball to her long haired friend she herself wondered what the exams were going to be like. She wasn't worried; she had no reason to be she wasn't one of the idiot rangers. Looking at Makie though increased her worries; she was worried for her pink hair enthusiastic friend. Makie was a good person with an almost painstakingly cheerful outlook in life, if she failed it would crush her and Yuna did not want to see her friend with that look of despair on her face. Makie was an innocent idealistic person who always believed the good in people, humans like her were always mocked but truth be told the world needed more people like her.
"In the end though Negi-Kun is still only a kid and they are certain things a ten year old does not know." Makie slyly pointed out. The enthusiastic gymnast like many girls of 2/A found Negi to be of the adorable variety, he was very intelligent and mature for his age but it was difficult for the girls of 2/A to take him seriously. Makie just wanted to cuddle him and dress him up in costumes so she could play with him. He was also a ten year old boy and quite frankly they did not know the appropriate information regarding teenage girls.
"What about Naruto-sensei? He seems reliable." Ako said coming to the defence of her crush, which she would not admit. It's not like Naruto would ever return her feelings, he was handsome, strong, determined, caring, and he was father to boot. What was so great about her, she was shy, weak, meek, and self-conscious. She also had an ugly scar on her back that she was ashamed of, something that Naruto also had except he wasn't disturbed by it at all.
"Of course you would come to his defence; you totally have a crush on him." Yuna supplied with a hint of teasing in her voice. Teasing her friends was such an amusing pastime especially their reactions and Ako was no different.
"I don't have a crush on him." Ako countered her friend's statement with steam coming out of her ears and red rosy cheeks. It was this precise reaction that which caused Yuna to giggle uncontrollably.
"Ooh," Akira drawled with a grin on her face no doubt enjoying watching her friend squirm. "Do you have a crush on Naruto-sensei?" Akira the resident swimmer questioned her friend knowing full what her answer was going to be. She liked her friend, dearly she did but good ole fashion friendly teasing was an amusing past time. Just as long they knew when they draw the line.
"Never mind that," Makie butted in with her usual bubbly self completely ignoring the glares she was receiving. "Maybe we should help Negi-kun? I mean he is just a little kid so he will need our help." Makie said passing the ball to Ako, she always did like helping people.
"Oh, you mean like responsible, dependable older sisters?" Ako questioned her pink hair friend, failing to catch the ball because she was still recovering from having being mercilessly teased by her friends she ran to pick up the ball not noticing how her friends became stiff as trees, she looked up see a taller female student looking down at her with a cruel smile and condescending eyes.
"Responsible, dependable, don't make us laugh." The taller student mocked the four girls of 2/A while picking up the volleyball and preparing it so that she could hit the girls.
"Y-you guys are…" That was all Makie could get out before being viciously attacked by the older students.
XxX
Negi Uzumaki was looking over the results from Asuna's last test with a calculating eye; the girl was improving slowly but surely. Negi had yet to find a sanctuary for the poor girl to stop stressing over her tests and begin relaxing. Negi of course was looking over these tests in a cold, desolate room that was filled with sorrow and despair, in other words the teacher's lounge.
The idiot rangers were going to be his biggest problem academically, yet from what his father told him after meeting Sayo-San there was one other problem student that he had to deal with. If this vampire was every bit as powerful as the legends made her out to be Negi would have to be prepared. He was aware that every legend liked to be fabricated to an extent but he knew the truth about vampires and that, they only grew stronger with time. His student was active during the time of the middle ages which meant she was over six hundred years old and counting, who knew what level of power she amassed during that time.
From what he could gather she was defeated by Nagi Springfield several years ago and forced to be a student of Mahora academy. With the amount of hate she had for his father he suspected her powers were sealed away into the barrier that surrounded the academy, in other words she was powerless. That meant his father was no doubt researching the seal and the barrier like a child getting a Christmas present.
Negi wondered briefly did she have a way to regain her power once more. He knew vampire's gained monstrous strength during the darkest of nights with a full moon hanging overhead. Negi made sure to check his calendar every night before he went to bed looking at the section on the bottom that detailed what type of moon it would be in the upcoming days.
Negi knew he was strong and he knew his father was even stronger but he was concerned, not for himself but for his students. She had been in Mahora academy for several years but there were on files suggesting that she did any harm to other students across the academy. The dean might have been old and they do say that the mind is the first thing to go but he must have this vampire situation under wraps right?
Takamichi must have known who this vampire was as well. He was friends with Nagi years ago so surely he must have encountered the little Loli vampire some time in his past. She also had a servant, Chachamaru the girl with the green hair and antennas for ears. Strange girl but also kind, she did not seem the type to be a killer but if she was an android built only for servitude then that meant she would do anything her mistress told her to do.
Just his luck, he's only been here for a few days and his own students are already trying to kill him. Just this once he hoped he didn't inherit this particular trait from his father's unluckier traits.
A pleasant, soft voice interrupted his depressing thoughts. He turned to see the face of one of his father's more enthusiastic fans, Shizuna Minamoto. Negi considered the top heavy woman to be very kind and always willing to lend an ear in need. It was no surprise to him to hear that she was the guidance councillor. She was always kind to Negi never once belittling him or even raising an eyebrow in incredulity after seeing him for the first time.
She was willing to give him the benefit of the doubt and because of that, Negi wanted her to have her faith in him succeed.
"Negi-Sensei, where is your father?" Shizuna asked the ten year old mage in training that she respected. The very idea that a ten year old boy could ever become a teacher was downright maddening and lubricous, yet here he was, teaching a classroom filled girls who were several years his senior. Curiosity overriding her politeness she peeked over his shoulders, which was not difficult giving the fact that she was much taller than he was. She smiled when she saw the improvement that Asuna was making with her new teacher.
"Well," Negi scratched his cheek wondering what she wanted his father for. "He said he's doing some researching to help me with a project." Negi told her wondering would she continue with what he said or just drop it.
"Hmm," Giving him a soft almost maternal smile, she bent down to his eye level. "How is your training coming along? Have you got the feel for teaching yet?" She questioned looking quite worried that the ten year old boy might have too much of a burden on his shoulders.
"N-no not yet," Negi stuttered feeling embarrassed that his students still treated him as a child. "But I do enjoy helping Asuna-san." He said looking quite satisfied. He didn't know why he enjoyed being with Asuna, but what the hell, if it felt good and it wasn't hurting anyone why stop.
"I'm younger than everyone else in my class so I tend to get treated as a kid. No one ever comes to see me for advice and dad doesn't honestly seem to care about teaching any of the girls." Negi groaned burying his face in his hands. Truly he loved his father and wanted the man's respect more than anything else in this world but it was at times like these that he wondered if Naruto was trying to teach him responsibility or if he was just being a lazy bastard.
Why was his father trying to avoid making friends with his class, Negi knew he had problems with his extra free time but Naruto was already friends with Nekane, Anya, Takamich and several of the girls already, so why was he not actually taking an interest in his students life.
"Well that can't be helped." Shizuna said, instead of looking mortified that Naruto wasn't getting acquainted with the girls of 2/A she just giggled.
Negi was about to suggest would Shizuna like some tea before he went back to his results and making new points that would help Asuna in the future before two screams of panic alerted his senses. Both his students looked like an absolute mess, there were tear tracks running down their cheeks and their clothes were in disarray.
Ako and Makie ran towards him with frightening speed that would make speedsters look on in jealousy, all the while crying and calling his name. They ran up to him and nearly barrelled into him, taking deep breaths both girls latched onto to him hoping that he would help them.
"S-sensei!" Makie shouted desperately all the while clinging onto his arm like a life preserver.
"N-negi-Sensei." Ako stuttered still looking afraid and pulling on his arm to get his attention. "There's a fight in the school grounds."
"Take a look at this wound Negi-Sensei; it hurts so much, please help us." Makie yelled hysterically shoving her wounded hand in his face.
Taking a measured step backwards to correct his posture, Negi took hold of Makie's injured hand within his own and scrutinized it closely to see the extent of the wound. If was not a gentleman trained by Nekane to be prim and proper he would have snorted at the level of ridiculousness that his student just told him. He did not do that because it would be insensitive to the poor girl that obviously thought the mark on her hand was a great terrible wound that needed proper medical attention. Poor girl was just overreacting, but that did not stop Negi from standing up from his desk with an unbelievable calm expression that might have been labelled as emotionally detached from reality.
"What?" Negi's voice was so innocently curious that it made Shizuna's back stiffen and caused the hair on the back of her neck to stand up straight. Looking at the mature older woman with a virtuous smile on his face that caused shivers to run down her already stiffened back. "Shizuna-san, please look after my students while I deal with this mishap." Shizuna did so, looking at the retreating form of the ten year old boy she realized something very important about his character.
'I just got intimidated by a ten year old boy.' The guidance councillor thought wondering what type of social interaction did he, have with his father. The two hysterical girls were automatically calmed by the posture and aura that their sensei just excluded. They too were looking at their sensei amble out of the teacher's lounge with a look of awe and surprise on their faces, no doubt recalling their pervious thoughts that Negi was too young to be teaching a class of female students.
Leaving three women in his wake that were no doubt showing signs of awe, shock and respect, those were the emotions coming from the women that he just left. Negi was not an empath like his father but he somehow knew that was the emotions the girls were feeling. He on the other hand was feeling one particularly emotion.
Anger
Who the hell were these girls that were attacking his students and causing two of which to burst into tears and hysterics, Negi was usually a gentleman but his father once told him that a gentleman was nothing more than a patient wolf. Right now, Negi was a patient wolf ready to tear into whoever was attacking his students. He knew he couldn't attack the students responsible so he would have to use his superior linguistic skills to convince them to stop.
Looking at the scene right now that was appearing in front of him, A saying popped into his head that brought much clarity to him, when kind me grow angry, things are about to change. Negi was a kind man and he was steadily getting angrier by the second, but he would not show it instead he flash stepped into the incoming ball that was about to hit his student, Akira.
"Take this little girl, Senior Student Attack." The annoying girl that Negi had just dubbed called out her attack as if they lived in a Shonen world.
Faster than any ten year old should be unless you were the son of Naruto Uzumaki then it was to be expected of you he appeared right in front of his student Akira catching the ball in one hand.
Akira being a student of Mahora Academy was well aware of the strange and downright weird things that happened in this academy but seeing her ten year old sensei appear right in front of her was definitely in the top three. "Negi-Sensei, how did you, w-what did you…" She was cut off when her sensei turned towards her with a soft smile on his face expressing relief that his two other students were not harmed.
"Are you okay Akira-san?" Negi asked stepping towards her helping his student Yuna onto her feet while scrutinizing his two students to make sure they were not wounded.
"Y-yeah," Akira stuttered not quite believing her eyes, but not disbelieving enough to disregard it. "I'm fine, a little shaken but fine." She told her sensei who was looking even more relieved by her statement.
"That's good, wait here and let me take of this." Negi said turning around to walk up to the senior students who were frozen in shock at this unexpected turn of events.
After several tenths of a second of thoughts, Akira rushed to her sensei's side trying to stop him but was unable to do so. "S-sensei wait, what are you going to do?" She hesitantly asked, her sensei was a nice caring boy she didn't believe for a second that Negi could convince these girls (Bitches) to leave the premises.
Smiling reassuringly at his student, he patted her on the shoulder and continued to make his way to the senior students that were getting over there shock. "Don't worry Akira-san, trust me, I've got this." He told her with an air of complete confidence that many would call arrogance; he would simply call it, copying his father.
"You're the ones responsible for this?" Negi questioned rhetorically already knowing the answer; the sight of an entire class of senior girls picking on four girls irked Negi. He never liked bullies because of what they stood for. Bullies might have had their own Freudian excuses and reasons for picking on those who they didn't like but that didn't justify their actions.
He couldn't very well attack them could he, no of course not he was a teacher and they were students, he had a certain image to uphold, an image that did not exist just yet but he was taking steps towards it, this being one of the major steps. They could also file a complaint against him and get him fired, that wouldn't do at all.
So instead he would convince them to leave, his father taught him many things about body language and that people truly desired subjugation even they did not know it themselves. People wanted to be ruled, some citizens were ruled by tyrants and they rebelled, others were ruled by kings and they prospered. Those people had a natural charisma that others did not have, Naruto had it and he had at. His father said so himself, so it was about time he used it on these girls.
The senior students had other ideas.
"Look at him he's so cute." One girl giggled pointing at him while jumping up and down excitedly.
"Oh my god I just want to hug him and squeeze him." Another girl made some pretty disturbing hand gestures towards him.
"This is the ten year old teacher we've been hearing rumours about." One more girl whispered to her friend aloud blushing while she did show shooting him not so discrete glances.
"Let's get him." The annoying girl that Negi dubbed earlier on declared, moving as one ungodly being that only seemed to have one purpose, which did not bode well for Negi.
Taking a confident step forward and into a stance that would make Negi look more dominating; he began speaking with an air of authority that stopped the senior students in their tracks. "There will be none of that nonsense happening right now." Negi declared looking all the while calm in the face of danger. Negi faced truly dangerous opponents when he and his father travelled the world taking several jobs for people who needed things done.
"Ah, what" The ungodly being spoke as one cementing their status as a whole rather than separate people. Disbelief and shock was in its tone unable to believe that the cute little sensei stopped them so easily.
"Let me make one thing perfectly clear here, I don't like bullies because of their beliefs. In fact I despise people with those beliefs. You girls are of a higher education; you are supposed to be an example to the classes that are younger than you, which includes my class that you are bullying right now." Negi spoke with steel in his voice and eyes as cold as the ice that was the ninth circle of hell that Dante depicted it to be. All those in earshot shivered at his tone unable to believe that such a cute little boy had this much force inside of him.
The first step of Negi's plan was to shock the girls into a stupor were they didn't know what was going on and then he would capitalize on that moment. The second was to use his charisma and his natural charm that his father said he had. His eyes were no longer cold but filled with warmth and his stance was now disarming, to finalize his look and to increase his chances of getting the girls to leave was to have a charming smile with the tiniest bit of approval within it. "I'm not going to yell at you or even give you detention because I know mature and beautiful girls like you can truly be an inspiration to the rest of this school." Negi praised the senior girls who were now looking happy and slightly embarrassed that such a strong young man thought very highly of them.
The senior girls were looking down at their toes red faced or looking at the sky with such intensity that many people would have been worried. The leader of the pack or the annoying girl that Negi dubbed just twiddled her fingers together and looked to the side with just a little pink on her cheeks. "Let's go girls; we don't want to upset our new teacher who thinks so highly of us." She said gathering the rest of the girls and leaving not before giving Negi a wink and blowing him a kiss though.
Negi smiled; satisfied that he was able to convince the bullies without resorting to violence but instead using aggressive negotiations turned around to help his students only to stop in shock when he saw the girls giving him a look full of worship. Though that was nothing compared to the look the class president was sending him though, really a young woman shouldn't be that red in the face or drooling or having a nose bleed. Strange, his father never told him that women could spontaneously have nose bleeds.
Asuna's look was quite easy to read, she was looking at him with measuring eyes and a tiny bit of pink on her cheeks. Walking up to him still red faced Asuna twirled a lock of her orange hair with her index finger; still not looking at him she questioned him.
"Negi, how did you do that?" Asuna asked him while looking at a tree that he was standing nearby. Before he could answer her though he was besought on all sides by his very enthusiastically students who were smothering him with affection, literally.
"Negi-sensei that was amazing." The class president was the most cheerful out of the girls who were in his vicinity, even to go as far as clasping his arm and putting it between, the valley of her breasts. Being a ten year old and not used to this sort of treatment he ignored it and answered Asuna.
"It's called lying Asuna-san, girls like that have huge egos but in truth have low self-esteem because in reality nobody likes people like her, they just pretend to. A lie here a complement there and something to do with body language." The girls just looked at him in shock, hastening to finish his point. "My dad said if you show a dominant body language people will subconsciously do what you want them to do." Negi shrugged his shoulders believing his father was right, there was a reason why people still wanted leaders because they wanted to be told what to do. Some were lucky because they got the leaders they wanted others though, well they were not so lucky, it's the whole reason why there were rebellions.
Asuna finally stopped looking at the tree and turned towards him crossing her arms over her chest and huffing. "Well, what about when you glared at them with that look of yours, are you sure that wasn't the reason it was so easy to convince those old bats to listen to you." Asuna grinned remembering the look he gave those girls (Bitches). It was the same look he gave her in class; at least it wasn't directed at her this time. His father would be proud.
Ayaka stumbled backwards as if struck with a physical object and glared at her rival with a scathing look. "Asuna-san, are you suggesting that our dear sensei used fear and intimidation to get what he wanted." The class president asked Asuna with venom in her tone.
"Yes Asuna-san, are you suggesting that I would use such shameful methods to achieve what I wanted." Negi winked at the orange hair, pigtailed bell wearing girl with a grin on his face that looked like it should be on his father.
Instead of getting angry at his teasing and sly response she just slapped him on his back and giggled, "Why you cheeky little brat." She said fondly going with the rest of the girls to the changing room.
"Sensei!" Hearing his title he turned and nearly fell back with the weight of his students, he looked down and realised it was both Makie and Ako looking at him with awe on their faces. "That was so amazing; I knew we could count on you." Makie giggled causing the others to laugh by her cheerful nature.
Takamich who was standing behind the tree let loose a breath of smoke, pursing his lips with the cigarette still in his mouth he let a chuckle. 'Your father would be so proud of you Negi-kun.'
XxX
Many people thought that being an Uzumaki was enough for Naruto to learn one of the hardest ninja arts, if not the hardest art of being a Ninja. The art of sealing was the most complex technique any ninja could perform; it was the whole reason why they were so little practitioners in the first place. Kakashi-sensei barely qualified and Pervy Sage was just overrated. His father was such a master because his sealing instructor was also a master; Naruto's mother was a genius when it came to sealing but not much in anything else. Naruto did not master the arts of sealing the first time he saw a seal, in fact it hurt his head because he could never wrap his mind around the mechanics of sealing.
The words instant expert, were not synonymous with Naruto Uzumaki.
Naruto was a failure through and through, but he was a proud failure. When he screwed up, he worked at it until he mastered it, if he tripped and fell; he would get up dust himself off and continue running until he was too tired to run anymore. In times like that he would crawl or drag himself to his destination. But by god he would never give up or go back on his word, because that was his ninja way.
Even if sealing was in his blood it did not make him a genius when it came to the art, he spent weeks and over a significant number of clones to get it right. Many times his seals would blow up in his face and it was at times like that he loved his healing ability. Having a specific type of blood running through your veins didn't make you any better of person if you didn't get your lazy ass of the couch and put in the leg work.
Now on the other hand, he was two hundred and nine years old. He was the master when it came to the sealing arts, and looking at the seal that was inscribed into the school's barrier he simply chuckled. It was a fine piece of work but to Naruto he could simply add his own energy into the mix, make a few tangents and he would have control over the barrier and what it entailed.
"Well," Naruto mused aloud looking at the barrier with a critical eye. "I think the Loli vampire and I need to have a little chat." Naruto said cheerfully knowing full well what he wanted from her and knew he was going to get it. It was at times like this that Naruto enjoyed being a cocky bastard.
Letting loose a chuckle he decided it was time to check on his son. "So Negi, what kind of shenanigans have you found yourself in this time."
XxX
The girls of 2/A plus their sensei Negi walked in a calm pace up the stairs leading to the roof so they could indulge in a bit of playtime, Their sensei was sporting a small smile on his face from hearing the loud giggles and delightful laughter behind him. He knew that he had gotten quite a bit of respect from several of his students who were climbing the stairs after him, reaching the door handle he turned it only to feel a cold shiver run down his spine from the predatory looks he was receiving. His class on the other hand had no objections of staying quiet after seeing this dreadful sight.
"What do you old hags want?" Asuna said so eloquently, several of her classmates agreed with her statement but too afraid to be as blunt as the red, idiot ranger.
"We want your sensei," The annoying girl announced taking Asuna's snide comment in stride. "Why else would we want to converse with little girls like you." She finished with a sneer on her face that Negi thought was visually repulsive.
"What! Why?" Several of his students shouted coming to his front as if shielding him from a fighter. For a brief moment Negi felt his heart beat faster from the appreciation he was feeling for his class.
"Someone as cute and strong as Negi-Kun should not be with little babies like you," She told them with a haughty expression that he disliked even more, all the while praising Negi and insulting his class. When the class president acted haughty in front of Asuna he knew she was just teasing her and he liked that about her, but this girl, her haughty expression rubbed him the wrong way. "Instead he should be with more mature beautiful ladies like us, isn't that right girls." The senior gestured to her friends who bobbed their heads in perfect synch with each other.
"Definitely." One girl said waving cheerfully at a pale looking Negi.
"Come over here Negi sensei." Several girls called out grinning at him with an almost hungry expression on their faces.
"We'll show you just how much you mean to us." The annoying senior purred winking at Negi-sensei, which caused one blond hair shotacon to seethe in fury.
"You shameless women, stay away from Negi-sensei." Ayaka yelled with rage, her face red and her hair swinging side to side.
The senior just grinned. "Oh, and what are you going to do about it." She drawled checking her fingernails with a look of pure boredom on her face.
"We are going to settle this once and for all, like real women." Ayaka proudly said clenching her fist and raising it to the sky.
"Woo ooh, mud wrestling contest." Haruna cheered hoping her dream was about to come true.
"No not that." Ayaka said not even bothering to correct the ridiculousness of Haruna's suggestion or noticing her friend's downtrodden expression.
Haruna was pale at her idea being shot down so quickly, but her face became rosy once more when another great idea popped into her head. "Naked pillow fights." She cheered once more with even greater enthusiasm.
"No!" The class president shouted at her friend who looked even more upset, she was about to scold her for suggesting indecent ideas like that in front of their young sensei before another voice popped up causing her to look at Natsumi in shock.
"Embroidery contest." Natsumi said aloud only to shrink behind her top heavy friend who was just giggling in amusement. The class of 2/A and the senior girls just looked at her like she grew a second head.
"What?" Natsumi quietly said not understanding why nobody liked her idea. It looked like the class president was about to chastise her for saying something funny only to freeze in her tracks when she saw the peaceful smile on Chizuru's face.
"No," Ayaka said not being able to meet the mature woman of class 2/A, once she turned back to the seniors she pointed her finger at them. "We challenge you to a game of dodge ball and if we win you leave and never return." She posed the challenge, as quick as a school student could go the senior accepted.
"And if we win we get your sensei," It was at that moment her eyes got an unusual gleam to them and her voice became honey sweet. "And because we're so generous we will even give you girls a handicap. You can use your entire class while we only use the minimum amount, sound fair." Before Ayaka could contemplate the actions of the other girl, Asuna butted in and made the decision for everyone.
"Deal"
XxX
That was the sight Naruto came upon. Standing on top of the building looking down with an amused yet baffled expression he dropped down beside Zazie who did not look shocked with his presence at all. He gave her a nod that she reciprocated. The trio of cheerleaders were doing what all cheerleaders were born to do, cheer, skip and jump in very short skirts making Naruto feel like a dirty old man. He might be over two hundred years old but if the women were over legal age it was all the same to Naruto, these girls on the other hand were not and that caused him to shiver. Although, it did give him a few ideas with Shizuna being in a cheerleader's uniform. Monotone-Chan was letting loose fireworks with the same expression on her face while her mistress sat beside with a scowl on her face. Kunoichi-Chan, Gunslinger-Chan and Sword bearing-Chan were grouped together in a small cluster clearly not interested in what was happening in front of them.
A young woman that Naruto already disliked giving how annoying she seemed to be was striking each of his students with great force, including his favourite. "Ah ha I have you." She laughed a mocking tone accompanying it. Jumping in the air with the ball in her hand she was going to strike Bell-Chan.
"Asuna!" Negi shouted at seeing his student being hit with the dodge ball.
"Asuna-san!" Several of his students screamed in distress at seeing their friend being attacked, unnoticed to them the ball came back to the senior girl's hand. With a cruel smirk she jumped into the air once more preparing to strike at the orange hair, bell wearing girl.
"One more time." She called down focusing on Asuna with a malicious smirk, she propped her arm back and threw the dodge ball at the heterochromia girl who flinched and closed her eyes preparing for the pain.
It didn't come.
Opening her eyes at the shock of not being hit she blinked at the sight before her, the ball that was about to hit her seemed to be in slow motion. "What happened?" She questioned aloud, unfortunately no answers came to her because everyone else was stunned into a silence. Her eyes widened in joy and a smile came to her face when she heard the voice of her oldest sensei.
"Can someone please explain to me what's going on?" Naruto asked with amusement in his voice, he was standing beside Zazie and petting her bird that was resting on his finger.
"Dad?!" Negi shouted overjoyed to see his father and relieved that Asuna wasn't hurt. If he was an empath like his father he would have felt the rage from a little blond hair girl when he uttered that word with such joy. Seeing as he was not his father he did not notice, Naruto on the other hand did and just offered the vampire a smile which she returned with a glare and a hiss.
"Naruto-sensei?" Several students called out after seeing him, one ghost floated up beside him and smiled at him which he returned.
Ignoring everyone else and their questions he walked up to his favourite student and helped her onto her feet. "Are you alright Bell-Chan?" The concern in his voice was palpable as was his eyes as he searched for injuries.
"Y-yeah I'm fine," She stuttered, noticing his look she showed him her arm and smiled, "really, it's just a scratch." Asuna did appreciate his concern for her but it was unneeded, she was a strong young woman not a glass vase.
"Those girls, they did that on purpose." Negi seethed with fury, the air surrounding him started forming around him and began picking up speed causing whistles to be heard by everyone.
"Negi," Naruto said gravelly getting his son's attention. "They were drunk on power. This is one of the negative aspects of having power, without any self-restraint or control you could become someone like her." Naruto gestured to the annoying woman who was staring at Naruto with lust in her eyes; the strange thing was she couldn't look him in the eye directly. "Although, she is just a teenager and you're… well, you're something else entirely." Naruto chuckled which his son joined in.
"Right, I understand." Naruto nodded his head pleased that his son took another lesson to heart. Turning towards a confused Asuna he held out his hand which she hesitantly accepted.
"Good, come on Bell-Chan you got eliminated, it's time for us to get off the court."
"Thanks." Asuna said squeezing his hand after apologizing to the rest of her class feeling ashamed that she wasn't able to help them anymore.
"You're welcome." Naruto squeezed back walking over to the group of girls that did not participate at all. "Hello girls," Naruto cheerfully said waving at them, after several seconds of tense silence he tried again. "It's nice to see you all in such high spirits." The silence continued which just caused Naruto to huff and pout like a child; he took a seat between Kunoichi-Chan and Gunslinger-Chan.
"Did I just catch you cheating?" Mana asked him, giving her a questioning look she pointed at the dodge ball with a raised eyebrow.
"Winning." Naruto said nodding his head with a mischievous grin on his face which just caused Mana to look away from him. Looking to his right he saw Kaede shoot him several nervous glances, which was just confusing she was usually a lot more confident than this.
"Are you alright Kunoichi-Chan, you seem restless." Naruto asked her looking quite worried, even her rival took her eyes off the game to give her a questioning look.
After several moments of internal debate she made up her mind. "Naruto-Sama, I want to train with you after this match." It was not a suggestion she was asking. Mana raised an eyebrow at her rival's tone.
Naruto just stood up offering her a hand.
"Oh," Naruto smiled with his hand on his chin searching for her resolve, he grinned at finding what he was looking for. "We can go now if you want; I know my son is going to win anyway."
They turned to walk away ignoring a scowling Gunslinger-Chan and an inquisitive looking Setsuna. "See you later girls, have fun watching your classmates win." Right before he started walking away he turned towards the being that was older than he and offered her a warm smile, "Oh and Loli-Chan, don't think I've forgotten my promise to you, I will make it come true." Naruto said with the upmost sincerity he had and began walking with a ninja and a ghost.
"In your dreams you twofaced rat bastard" The ancient vampire replied with a scowl on her cute face. The only thing she wanted was the blood of Negi Springfield and the tortured corpse of the man who just left.
Naruto's words were beginning to become true; Negi and their classmates were beating the seniors with each of their own unique characteristics skills. The shy bookworm Nodoka used the five second rule to her teammate's advantage; she learned it from the rulebook which she carried for no adequately explored reason. The medic in training Ako with her amazing football skills kicked the dodge ball at the opposing team. The resident daddy's girl Yuna and her mad basketball skills defeated several senior students. The innocent idealistic Makie used her ribbon and the skills she acquired over years of training caught the ball and took out many students with it, to the amusement of her own teammates and the ire of her opposition. With all of them working together, class 2/A won.
Being a sore loser and only capable of forming one coherent thought at that moment, the annoying girl launched one final attack at Asuna from behind. Negi seeing the ball coming right at Asuna's face moved with such speed that it tore a part of the bottom of his shoes off, lousy friction. Negi caught the ball with one hand while his other hand moved the surprised Asuna behind him. The temperature of the rooftop seemed to lower dramatically when Negi, sweet, innocent, childlike Negi levelled a glare at the senior which such cold fury that it caused her and her teammates to still in fear.
"Negi you…" Asuna said, the surprise in her voice was as clear as day. She was one of the few girls not affected by the glare he was giving because she was one of the lucky ones, she was standing behind him.
"This sort of behaviour is prohibited." Negi hissed, his eyes becoming near slits like his father. From over his shoulder darkness appeared and the howl of the wind echoed, appearing from the darkness an image began presenting itself to everyone. A twisted demonic face appeared over his shoulder, blood freely pouring from its eyes and its tongue moved like a dagger.
The senior girls who were still in shock from Negi's glare seemed to lose all will to simply stand up; a shiver went up and down every one of their backs. Breathing became too difficult them; it felt like the very air around them began constricting them and binding their movements. Something deep inside each of them realized that they were in danger but unable to react accordingly. Their own survival instincts were so scared that none of them knew that their eyes began rolling to the back of their heads; they were also unaware of the froth beginning to pool around their mouths.
With that, each senior girl began fainting and dropping to the ground with a collective thud.
The girls of 2/A were looking on in shock at what just transpired, first their friend Asuna was about to be hit with a dodge ball right after the match was finished, then their adorable sensei came to her defence stopping the ball with one hand and moving Asuna behind with the other. Then he hissed like an angry serpent with slit eyes and then he did something that none of them saw except a select few which caused to girls to faint all at once. The silence was palpable and no one knew when it was going to be shattered, so obviously it would be broken by someone who was always positive.
"We won!" Makie cheered pumping her fist to the skies causing several girls to fall over at her exuberant tone. "That was so awesome Negi-Kun." She skipped over to the boy and hugged him for all he was worth.
Just like that realization set in, everyone turned to everyone else and blinked in recognition. "Makie's right we won." The girls cheered.
"Yes, we won and we get to keep Negi-Sensei."
"What kind of technique was that?"
"Then let's make it official, this is a victory for class 2/A!" With that declaration the girls hugged their friends and started laughing.
XxX
"You're getting better; it's been so long since I trained a kunoichi." Naruto cheerfully said looking down at the pile of bruised flesh. 'The last one I trained was my little Tsunade.' the semi-immortal thought while thinking of his first child. Naruto wasn't focused enough to train her properly so instead he suggested a spar, minutes into the fight Naruto started thinking about his daughter and when he trained her in the art of being a Ninja. After several seconds of deep thinking about his eldest child he kicked the pain ridden Kaede Nagase into her stomach and sent her sprawling further into the park.
Doubled over from the sudden departure of breath from her body, Kaede managed to wheeze out a pained gasp before Naruto appeared in front of her vision, planning on delivering an axe kick to her chest the Kunoichi, who with great difficulty rolled to the side to avoid being crush by the her sensei's powerful kick. Kaede's entire body shivered from remembering the pain her teachers and fellow students were in.
After recovering from her roll, the ninja lashed out with her long leg in a wide, sweeping motion, aiming for her sensei's outstretched leg. It was a frighteningly fast strike, and to her astonishment it was faster than her usual strikes, she was getting faster and better reflexes the more time this fight carried on, from the smile she got from Naruto she knew he knew that too. Her attack would have landed against any opponent she had crossed paths with before, but Naruto simply coated his leg with a strange golden energy that shielded him from her attack, to Kaede's trained eyes she saw the golden energy lash out against her like an angry serpent. Then her brain registered what she was feeling and she gave out a blood curdling scream. The golden energy had wrapped itself around her leg like a tendril and snapped several bones in her leg.
"That has been your seventh bone I broke since our fight started." Naruto told her unfazed by the sight of seeing his student holding her broken leg with tears running down her cheeks. Say what you want about Naruto but he took his training and the training of his pupils very seriously.
In one fluid movement that caused Kaede to gasp and let out a slight moan the golden tendril that snapped her leg like a twig began healing her immediately, Kaede found it oddly disturbing that the attack the caused her to scream in agony was now healing her. The pain was still there of course but now she could at least stand on her two feet once more. Jumping back several feet Kaede threw many kunai at her sensei only to curse when a shield made purely out of golden energy appeared right in front of Naruto stopping her attack immediately.
Feeling disheartened once again, Kaede's resolve increased once more, this exact event happened several times during this light session and Kaede couldn't help but marvel at herself for getting back up every time. The golden shield that was in front of Naruto, seemed to sink into the surface of the ground and slither itself behind her sensei. From behind Naruto the golden energy morphed itself into a wall, and from the surface of the wall it shaped into several golden projectiles, arrows, swords and even lances, all golden shaped. To her horror the blades seemed to be focusing on her.
The pupil in training hurled herself backwards groaning and cursing while the projectiles launched themselves at her with lighting speed. The long hours she had spent training under her hellish master's tutelage had nothing on the man in front of her, she was certain this was the real reason why her former sensei' did not want her to come into contact. On the plus side her former sensei's trained her to the bone and because of that training it had done much to improve her reflexes, but still it was not enough. The hundreds of projectiles that were coming at her were impossibly fast. The tip of a golden shaped katana caught the right side of her face, drawing a thin red line up her cheek. When the golden katana hit her the energy that came with the sword lashed out like a coiled snake and caused even greater damage to her.
She hissed in agony, pain was nothing new to her but no matter how old you got or how tough you were you would always feel pain. There was a raw, burning sensation, and Kaede had to bite the inside of her cheeks to keep herself from crying out. The woman staggered back, her hand automatically moving to clutch at her wound.
"You're getting stronger but it is no were near the level I want you to be. Right now my son is stronger than you." Naruto said dispersing the golden wall of weapons that was behind him.
Kaede glared at him, her eyes were still closed but Naruto could feel the killing intent from her rise. "Negi-sensei, you put your own son through this kind of training?" Kaede demanded an answer, she couldn't even fathom the idea of the sweet, innocent little boy who she was learning from to survive, let alone excel in this type of environment.
"Yes," the mortality challenged man replied.
"Bastard," the kunoichi hissed out unable to believe a father would do this to their own child. She knew there were several parents that put their own children through assiduous training, but at this level. She herself could barely keep up and this man in front of her expected the same level of commitment from a ten year old boy.
Preposterous
"I heard that," the semi immortal responded with a small smile, Naruto found it amusing that the kunoich in front of him was angry at him for doing a parent's duty, keeping their son strong was worth it at the end. "Mind what you say Kunoichi-Chan, my son is strong for his age. I know for a fact that he could kick the crap out of my ten year old self."
"Oh really how amusing," she quipped still sounding angry, "How can I feel good knowing that you would do that to your own son, let alone the fact what you could to me." She said sounding bitter, she then gestured to herself. "I mean look at me, I'm covered in cuts, bruises, and I'm pretty sure I'm feeling pain on my body that I'm not supposed to have, and trust me when I say this I know were pains are and are not supposed to be on the body." Kaede being a woman was well aware of pains that suddenly appeared without a warning.
"The wit of your tongue needs work, just like your abilities," Naruto replied cheekily getting Kaede to grit her teeth, when the target of her anger seemed utterly amused she threw a kunai prompting him to catch it and return it to her with greater speed slicing her cheek once more., "Come now Kunoichi-Chan, even you must admit this little session of ours has been effective, you could even call this method of instruction, training from hell. You will gain many things during our sessions, you will be faster, stronger, more agile and you reflexes will be sharper. But of course you will lose several things as well, blood being the main one. You will shed tears, sweat, which of course just means that weakness, is leaving your body.
The young woman said nothing because she knew he was right. The blond words rang true. Instead of saying anything she just traced the thin gash along her cheek with her finger getting her to flinch flinching at the wetness that stained her fingertips. Naruto standing there several feet away from her noticed this and chuckled.
"It's amazing how our bodies works, isn't it?" Naruto said looking at his own body. "Every inch of our skin, every centimetre of muscle all contain the same nerve fibres." Normally Naruto wouldn't even know what a nerve fibre was let alone how it worked but after the fourth shinobi was he had a lot of free time and so his friend Sakura decided to teach him about the human body and how it worked. Naruto being his usual pig headed, self, decided it was boring. Then Sakura explained just how effective, it could be for a wind user like himself. Naruto disagreed but relented knowing he could never win an argument with her. Naruto after realizing just how the human body worked loved his element even more than he already did. Fire was always recognised as the most powerful element but in the right hands wind could be the most terrifying and Naruto's hands were perfect.
"They will tell you what is hot and what is, cold. What is soft and what is hard, and more importantly they let you feel pain and all its negative glory. They say misery builds character; mind you they never specified what type of character you will become only that you will have it." Naruto said pacing back and forth right in front of Kaede. Naruto then pointed his index finger to his temple. "Emotions, be thy good or bad will always motivate the mind," Naruto's small smile became a wide grin, "then pain motivates the body. Your body will obviously start to develop differently when you're constantly under threat. All your senses will alert you faster once they taste true physical pain. Your limbs will do their utmost to avoid it. Your body will fight harder, react sooner, and move faster. All because it does not wish to feel pain," Naruto replaced his wide grin for a hearty chuckle. "It's amazing isn't it, how our bodies were made and yet we never live it up to its truest potential, instead we sit at our computers and do knowing but type a way."
"I still don't believe you; you did the same thing to Negi-Sensei? He endured this type of training, hell from the way you're speaking of it, it sounds like he adapted to it?"
"He did adapt to it and even more he strives because of it." Naruto replied feeling proud for his son, all of Naruto's children when through the same exercise. Tsunade, Haku and Nagato all became stronger because of it. He also made them happy so they would never feel the same loneliness he did. "You must have purpose, you must strive for something even greater than yourself, or otherwise this session would have been pointless. You need many tools to survive like Negi did, resolve, strength of will, courage and even the ability to feel the pain and work through it." Naruto said taking a step towards her then started to run at her with lighting speed.
"Now Kunoichi-Chan, I am going to bring the pain, let's see whether or not you can take it."
XxX
An hour has passed since 2/A emerged victorious from the intensive dodge ball game that they had with their rivals. The festivities were going all out, they were fireworks, banners and cake provided by Satsuki. Negi Uzumaki of course was surrounded on all sides by his enthusiastically students, being praised for all he was worth.
"That was amazing so Negi-sensei, I mean the way you just made them faint like that, it was so cool." Makie cheered hugging his arm to her developing chest, with a smile so radiant that it could put the sun out of business.
"Ah," Negi scratched the back of his head; no matter how many times he got praised he would always be embarrassed. "Thank you Makie-san." Negi said, with red cheeks.
It looked like more girls were going to praise their sensei until a gasp filled the room. Negi looked over Makie's shoulder to see what the fuss was all about, they had company, the dodge ball girls were right in front of them and silence radiated from the room. Negi saw the glares and heard the mutterings from his own class being directed at the girls.
"What do you old bats want?" The class president asked, looking quite like what authority wielding figure should look like.
"We want to apologize." The annoying girl said, looking quite uncomfortably at the attention she was getting so she focused her attention on the youngest person in the room.
"What?" Asuna questioned hotly, looking quite close to picking up the nearest chair and hurling it at the girl who tried to cheap shot her. "After the stunt you just pulled what makes you think we want anything to do with you." Asuna yelled getting affirmatives nods from the rest of her class; the annoying girl just looked more uncomfortably. Seeing this, Negi voiced his opinion.
"Asuna-san please calm down, let them say their peace." Negi said reasonably looking at Asuna dead in the eyes. The dodge ball girl looked quite relived at Negi's interference and shot him a grateful look that he returned with a flat stare.
"Fine." Asuna and Ayaka pouted simultaneously causing both of them to glare at each other.
"Thank you Negi-sensei," The senior girl praised the boy for his kindness, realizing the entire room was looking at her expectantly she blushed and scratched her very red cheek. "Well this is awkward; I'm not used to apologizing for my mistakes." She told them sounding quite confused.
"No why would you, you spoil…" Yuna piped up glaring at the girl who hurt her friends; said friends flinched at the painful reminder. The strange thing was that the annoying girl flinched as well, only Negi saw it though.
"Yuna-san, please be quiet I want to hear this." Negi told her, rendering her silence without even looking at her.
The alpha bitch of the seniors bowed. "I am deeply sorry for being inconvenient to all of you, especially you Negi-sensei." She finished looking quite miserably at the cute little teacher that defeated them. She along with her rest of her team completely forgot about what happened at the end of the game, the part where Negi caused them to faint.
"Oh, what about the rest of you." Negi spoke without an emotion in his voice. All at once the dodge ball team bowed looking quite pained at their, own foolishness.
"We're very sorry sensei for all the trouble we have caused you." Each girl said at once.
"Very well, I accept your apologizes but I can't speak for my students." Negi told them with a smile which they returned until they realized what he said at the end. Looking at the class of 2/A, and only getting glares, it made them feel more uncomfortable.
The class of 2/A just looked at each other, Negi wondered for a small moment did his class have a telepathic conversation. A minute of cold silence passed and Negi wondered would any of the girls come forth, and with great pride Negi saw one particular student step up a foot away from the senior captain. "Fine we forgive you, but don't think for a second we're going to be friendly with each other." Asuna said holding her right hand out, a tenth of a second passed and the senior girl shook Asuna's hand.
Naruto would be proud of his Bell-Chan.
"We wouldn't have it any other way." Eiko replied with the smallest of smirks, though it didn't have any arrogance or maliciousness in it like it used to be. It was friendly and challenging. The class of 2/A and the dodge ball team decided to switch the party name from class 2/A victory to the best of Frenemies. After several minutes into the continuation of the party Eiko asked Negi. "So, do you think you could play for our dodge ball team sometime, Negi-sensei?"
There was dead silence in the room once more.
Negi wondered how his father and fellow pupil were doing.
XxX
Kaede Nagase fell to her knees once more, taking deep breaths that hurt every inch of her body to do so. Every time she fell she would stand once more because of her resolve, but right now she didn't have the heart anymore to do so. No matter what she did she couldn't land a single hit on him, he had played with her during the entire confrontation and that had a serious impact on her psyche. She had never felt pain such as this. Her entire body was covered in cuts, not deep enough to be harmful, but certainly enough to bleed. The speed of his golden projectiles dwarfed hers every time. Her sensei's that lived in the Koga clan always managed to hurt, but never to the, extent she felt right now.
Naruto over classed her in every department, he had defeated her in their first bout, without even trying, she knew that his mind was on something else. It irked her that he wasn't even being serious with her, but what made her truly angry was that she still couldn't land a hit on him. Was she really this weak or was he really that strong. The wound on her cheek still bled.
Kaede had hoped with all her being that the pain she was feeling would pass, but it never did. She could see the pool of blood forming under her and for a fleeting moment she wished she could pass out on top of it. After witnessing the amount of blood under her, her body gave out unable to handle the pain. It was all she could take, and so Kaede fell, face first onto her own blood with a loud thud and squelching sound.
"Now Kunoichi-Chan I can't have you giving up so soon." Naruto spoke mildly not too concerned of the body of a teenage girl lying in a pool of her own blood, after several seconds of waiting he spoke once more. "I said get up," the mortality challenged man spoke. "We're not even close to being finished yet."
"I am bleeding," she moaned out, and swiped blood that was on the ground and lifted her hand to show the blood to the blond.
"So, you're still alive aren't you, now stop with this nonsense and get up. You're embarrassing yourself."
Kaede lifted her head from the ground, showing her blood-stained face to Naruto and gawked at him unable to believe the friendly caring father would be like this on a training course.
"Please tell me your joking; I'll be dead at this rate."
"Joking, now why would I be joking about something so serious? If you dislike my training so much I could pick you up right now and throw you off a cliff." Naruto said offhandedly raising an eyebrow at the girl. The girl in question just gawked even more at hearing that comment, what kind of idiot or monster does that to someone. Who tires someone so much that they can't even stand up anymore and then throw them off a cliff?
The pain was too much to endure and her body was hurt, it hurt a lot. Naruto pushed her to her limits, no, he pushed her beyond her limits and she couldn't take it anymore. She was exhausted and completely drained, her body has already given up and now her will was following shorty behind it.
"Stand up now." Naruto said once more. "You want to be a kunoichi, a strong ninja capable of protecting what you feel needs protecting, then get up. Every wound I inflict on you is one that your friends won't have to feel in the future by your enemies. Now get up."
Kaede struggled briefly seeing an image of her friends getting hurt in her mind, before she fell again. She still couldn't get up, feeling angry at her own failure and frustrated at knowing if this was happening right now she wouldn't be able to protect her friends. So she just glared at Naruto.
"Hurry up and attack me." Naruto yelled at her, the first time he ever raised his voice at her.
"No!" Kaede screamed with tears of anger running down her cheeks, she couldn't do this anymore, she was too weak, her body wasn't her anymore it did not listen to her and her will was getting weaker by every passing second. All she could was glare at the man in front of her for making her feel this way. He demanded too much of her, there was no way a ten year old boy could this. He had to be lying to her, what, did he know it was not like he ever went through this kind of training before. "You are a liar! You expect me to believe your son could do what I have not! There is no way that a ten year old could survive this kind of hell! You are teaching me nothing, all you're doing is attacking me over and over again."
Naruto snorted looking at her with humour dancing in his eyes. Then he stopped and Kaede feared the silence that came with it. He appeared in front of her surrounded by a razing storm of golden fire that didn't burn her. He picked her up from her hair and held her out in front of him like a ragdoll. She hissed at the feeling of her hair being pulled from her scalp. Holding her up with his left hand he delivered a punch to her face, the crackling sound of bones be broken alerted her that yes, he did just break her nose. Then he dropped her in front of him, her on her knees cradling her broken nose to her hands.
"You are weak, what did I tell you earlier this morning about weakness. You said I was a liar, that my son could never have endured this kind of hell, you saw it this morning with your own eyes, and you have the gall to call me a liar after seeing something happen right in front of you." The master of shape transformation snarled menacingly down at her, the joyful carefree attitude that Naruto had shown for this entire trip had vanished, and all that remained was the man who defeated the Jubbi.
Kaede wheezed out and coughed, unable to stop the tears from falling she looked up at the imposing figure in front of her and realized just how he was able to defeat and humiliate her entire clan with ease. Her sensei, the cute and innocent boy managed to behead his own father with pure skill, something she was not able to do.
"All my students could handle my training, and the funny thing is that they were all younger than you. You are letting children, albeit my own children beat you when it comes to training." Kaede winced at that comment and wondered what kind of childlike monsters he raised. His warms blue eyes were now a slit ice cold and leering at her tauntingly.
"You are a wasted source of potential." Naruto hissed at her, he then backhanded her and sent her flying through the air.
"Why are you like this, what the hell did I do to receive this kind of beating.
"It's not what you did it's what you're not doing."
"What the hell those that mean," Kaede spat holding her nose and winched.
"You're wasting your potential, trust me when I say this, everything I'm putting you through is for your own benefit. You have to feel intense pain now so you can best it in the future. Out of three pains in life, physical is the easiest to deal with. It's right in front of you the whole time so obviously it's the easiest to heal. Then there is mental and emotional pain, those are the worst types of pain anyone can experience. I am helping you grow stronger, you don't magically get stronger by doing nothing you actually have to get your lazy ass of the couch and put the leg work in."
"You put your own children through this when they were younger?" Kaede growled out, her hand still holding her nose. Her voice was wheezy and hard to understand but Naruto had been with people that broken noses before so he knew what she was saying.
"Yes, but only the ones who want to be trained." Naruto revealed easily shrugging his shoulders. "I can create clones like you do except I can make a considerate amount more. I am an empath Kunoichi-Chan I can sense and feel true despair around this world. So I created an army of clones, made sure that none of them looked the same and sent them out to the worst places in the world and start fixing it." Naruto told her, it was amazing to Kaede to hear that. One second he could be an inhuman monster while he trained her and now he told her that he helped the people who had truly given up hope.
"How," she whispered, "How could you be like this and then help so many people?"
"Simple, there is no such thing as good people or evil people. There is nothing more than a person who those good things and then bad things, it as simple as that." Naruto told her, stretching his arms above his head. "We're getting off track right now, it's time to stand up and attack me Kunoichi-Chan"
"I can't." Kaede whimpered out.
"Stubborn children, they always want the easy way out of something." Naruto wagged his finger back and forth in front of her. "You know you're weak and pathetic, you know what will happen to those you care about and you still want to give up, how utterly selfish. Children are always ready to give in the towel when they see something in front of them that they think they can't handle. We humans never truly realize our potential, some of us do but it's such a small amount. They are over six billion people on this planet and they think the only way to gain power is through a firearm. We could be so much more, and all it would take is a bit of tears, blood, sweat and time.
Kaede stopped holding her nose and got on one knee, still a bit unsteadily. Naruto kicked her knee and she cried out falling to the ground once more.
"No, they won't do it though, it hurts too much and they give up. Just like what you're doing."
He kicked her once more, sending her soaring through the park. "It's a hard lesson to understand I know, I had doubts myself, but I realised too late that physical pain is nothing compared to what emotional and mental pain is like."
Kaede clawed the ground with her fingers leaving ugly marks on it. She once more rose from the ground and stood on her knee, and just like before Naruto kicked her again.
"If you want to be strong you have to be weak, and be honest right now, at this moment this is the weakest you have ever felt, right." Naruto asked her getting a cough in return that he took as a yes.
"This is a rule Kaede Nagase; it is one of those unwritten rules. It's unwritten because it's so obvious that any idiot should know it." Naruto told her all the while narrowing his eyes at her, while she rose once more. "The humans that have accepted this rule to their lives have suffered greatly but at the end shined bright like a star. I'll sum up that rule in one go, imagine your crawling through a tunnel of shit, not literal shit mind you. I'm using it as a metaphor for all the pain you will endure. Every step you take, you feel more pain, it starts to hurt you in ways that you never thought were possible and a part of you tells you to give up, just to let go of your dignity and who you are and rest, and stay were you are, and not to go any further."
"But you yell no, because you know there is a light at the end of the tunnel. You don't know it for a fact and you can't know it but you still claw your way through the shit in front of you because you refuse to let that tunnel make you feel inferior and powerless. You refuse to change who you really are, even if it forces you too, you won't submit. It doesn't matter the amount of pain that tunnel throws at you, you refuse to give in. You continue to believe that you are stronger than this and the tunnel knows that you are stronger than it, that's why it continues to try and dominate your life. If you believe in yourself, in your goal, and never give up and never give in, eventually you will win and you will walk out of that tunnel and embrace the light you believed existed but never knew it did."
"The moral of this story, the reason these people shine all the brighter? Will! It is will! The strength of your conviction! It is the strength of your resolve!" Naruto shouted at her, pleading and hope was in his voice. He wanted her to stand up.
She rose painfully to one knee, then another, and then she stood tall.
Naruto smiled.
"Believe me when I say these words, you can defeat me, Kaede Nagase, if you will it!" Naruto shouted at her, encouraging her to fight once more.
Kaede Nagase fell into her fighting stance.
"All I want to know right now is, do you will it? Are you ready to go through that tunnel?"
Kaede produced a single kunai from her pouch and then charged at him, willing to take everything he could dish out.
Naruto let out a sigh of contentment.
"I thought so."
And then he charged.
XxX
The next morning had come bringing new opportunities for teachers and students alike, the Dean and Guidance councillor were two examples of this. They were conversing with one another about the young teacher Negi Uzumaki.
"I see I see, so Negi-Kun is doing quite well." The Dean asked the top heavy guidance councillor Shizuna.
"Yes Mr Principal, he gets along quite well with his students, but undoubtedly his favourite student is Asuna-san." Shizuna said with a small smile remembering the notes he was looking at in the morning.
"No surprise there." The Dean muttered loudly while rubbing his beard.
"For a ten year old his is incredibly mature. As the guidance councillor I would pass him as a teacher." Shizuna told him feeling quite impressed at the young boy and the father who raised him.
"Hoho I see, that's quite good, unsurprising considering who his mother is. I think we should get him to be an official teacher from April onwards on one condition though." The Dean told her looking quite serious.
"Oh, and that would be?" She questioned.
"Let us set one more task for him to clear. One fitting for a, child genius and mage in training." He cryptically said, all the while looking at the map of Library Island and wondering would a peaceful place like that, be able to help the girls of 2/A get motivated for the test that will decide the future of their two sensei's.
The sound of the door being opened caught the two unbalanced and looked at who came in, it revealed the mortality challenged man known as Naruto Uzumaki, without any shame or compunction walked into the room and sat down on one of the chairs looking the Dean in the eyes.
"We need to talk young man."
Author's Notes: Part Two finished obviously, hope you enjoyed it and if not, go out and buy a big bag of crack it will cheer you right up. And if that's not your style stay home and read some crack fan fiction, it's very funny. Actually I recommend the latter because obviously who wants to take a drug named after a part of your own ass.
This is me leaving Part Two and beginning Part Three.
