Talking, Thinking, Biju Talking, Technique
Different Locations, lines mean switching between scenes or people.
Chapter 8: Enemy's Assault Begins!
(Naruto's & Negi's Room)
It was 9:10 in the morning, Naruto was quietly and comfortably asleep in his futon mattress, that was until he decided to get up. After getting into a sitting position the blond tried to look for the clock to see the time. "Mhm...? What time is it...?"
As he made eye contact with the clock and was able to see more clearly, his eyes widen and he went slightly paler. "Wait...! What!? I thought I was supposed to be up at eight!"
"You were, however you decided that you'd rather sleep." Kurama tiredly told his jinchuriki as he brought him into his mindscape, while he stayed in a resting position with his arms crossed.
The shinobi turned around to face his bijuu with a dumbfounded look. "What do you mean, I swear I got up at eight..."
"So, you don't remember, huh?" The red-orange fox asked as he closed one of his eyes.
Naruto became even more confused by what his partner was saying to him. "Remember what...?"
(Earlier that morning)
"Naruto-nii, wake up! We have to leave soon!" Negi yelled as was frantically shaking Naruto to get up.
All that the boy got in response was a loud snore from the blond, Chamo soon decided to get near the head of the sleeping blond. "Hey, Anuie! Get up! We need to leav-"
The ermine didn't get to finish as he was thrown into a wall by the unconscious blond. Negi went pale at what he just witnessed, he looked at his smaller friend with some sweat dropping down his neck.
"A-Ah... Chamo-kun, are you... Okay...?"
The ermine tried to lift up his head, just to ultimately fail. He then decided to try and raise his paw instead. "Y-Yeah... I'll be fine, Aniki..."
The red-haired boy had an awkward smile as he nodded before some more sweat fell down his neck, he turned around to face the sleeping body of the blond and began to lightly hit it.
"Naruto-nii! Please get up!"
The hitting from the young boy had some sort of effect, since the older boy began to wave him off, ultimately pushing him back slightly.
"Mhm... Five more minutes... Dattebayo..." Naruto groggily spoke as he turned to his right side and began to hug a sleeping Mini-tabi.
'Jeez... When Naruto-nii is like this, it's almost impossible to get him up...' Negi inwardly told himself as he released a weak sigh and looked down at the ground.
The red-haired boy walked over to Chamo to picked him up, and put him lightly on his shoulders. He turned around to face the blond one more time with a weak smile. "Okay, just make sure you get up in time..."
(End of Time Skip)
"O-Oh yeah. T-That did happen, didn't it...?" Naruto stuttered as some sweat dropped down his forehead while he looked at the ground.
"Yeah, that did happen." Kurama told him while he got into a sitting position to stretch his body and tails.
The jinchuriki looked up to face his bijuu with a confused look on his face. "So, what do I do now?"
After stretching his body and cracking his neck the fox looked down at his partner a bit tiredly and confused. "I don't know, you figure it out yourself. I've helped you enough in the last two days."
(Outside of Mindscape)
"Huh...? Wait... C'mon, Kurama!" Naruto shouted as he held his head in disbelief that his partner would actually kick him out of his mindscape.
'Hmm... What do I do now...?' The shinobi mentally asked himself as he crossed his arms.
Several seconds passed since the blond stopped his shouting and began to think of a way to find Negi, after one minute he finally thought of a solution. He quickly went into his bag and started to file through it.
"No, not this... Or this..." The shinobi whispered to himself as he threw some scrolls over himself.
After a few seconds of going through his bag he gained a hopeful look on his face.
"Here it is! I knew that the bushy eyebrow Jiji would come through!" Naruto shouted happily as he brought out a white cell phone in his hand.
However, as happy as he was, he quickly gained a confused look on his face. "Uh... So, how do I work this thing?"
(Time Skip)
"Alright, I have a decent understanding on how this works now, this is a lot harder to work with then a sending a letter..." Naruto mumbled as he began to scroll down the contact list until he found the contact he was searching for, he began to call the person.
After a few seconds the person picked up. "Hello, who is this?"
"Hey, Se-chan!" The blond exclaimed as a look of happiness made its way on his face.
Setsuna was shocked to hear the blond through the phone. "W-Wha! Naruto! How did you get my number!?"
"Oh that? Bushy eyebrow Jiji gave me this before we left, and he was nice enough to put down some of your guy's information down for me." The shinobi stated as he scratched his cheek.
"Hm? 'Bush eyebrow Jiji'... You mean the dean?" The brunette inquired since to her that sounded somewhat rude and was surprised to hear how easily the blond could say it.
"Yup!" The shinobi gushed.
"Okay then... What do you need?" The swordswoman weakly sighed.
"Where are you guys right now?" Naruto asked as he began to put away the scrolls that he threw all over the room before.
"We're just about to enter an arcade with Negi-sensei."
"Okay, can you tell my where the arcade is at?" The shinobi asked as he finished up putting his scrolls away.
"Sure, the arcade is just three or so blocks south from the inn."
The blond nodded to the information he was given. "Alright, thanks for the information. I'll be there soon, dattebayo."
"Okay, see you soon." Setsuna then hanged up on the call.
Naruto put the cell to the side as he began to smile before jumped up into a standing position to stretch his body out. "All right, I guess I have to start getting ready!"
However, as soon as the smile came, it was switched with a frightened look and the blond going slightly paler. He brought the phone back up to call the brunette again.
In a few seconds the phone picked up. "Hello, what do you need now, Naruto?"
"Um... What's an 'arcade'...?" The blond sheepishly asked while some sweat fell down his cheek.
"Are you serious...?" The brunette couldn't tell if he was being serious or just joking with her.
The blond began to look down at the ground in shame. "Yeah..."
This made the swordswoman just let out a tired sigh to find out that the shinobi was serious. "Hmm... I'll send you a map of where it's located, please don't get lost..."
The shinobi began to smile brightly. "Don't worry I won't! Thanks for doing this, dattebayo!"
He hung up the phone once more and went to put more than half of the cat food for Mini-tabi in a bowl and did the same for the water since he thought he would be away from a while.
'Hopefully your nothing like Choji when it comes to food...' Naruto inwardly chuckled to himself as he looked at the sleeping kitten.
(Time Skip)
"Alright, I made it. Hopefully they're here." Naruto told himself as he entered the arcade. He was currently wearing a white shirt, underneath an orange hoodie with black sleeves, with black cargo pants, and white slip on shoes.
'Hmm... I think if I go where the most noise is, I should probably find them.' The blond inwardly told himself as he walked inside the arcade.
"Sensei! You and me next!" A voice called out.
The shinobi glanced to where he heard the voice and nodded. "That way."
Naruto began to walk down to where he was hearing the voice's come from and soon enough, he came to the sight of seeing the entirety of group five along with Negi, accompanied by Chamo.
"Hey, guy's!" The shinobi shouted as he ran to them while waving his hand.
Everyone, besides Setsuna, was surprised to see the blond teacher running towards them. The blond stopped running and began to walk up to the group with a smile plaster on his face.
As he got closer Negi looked up to him with a smile. "Hey, where have you been Naruto-nii?"
"I was asleep until a few minutes ago." The shinobi chuckled as some sweat fell down his head while he scratched the back of his head.
The red-haired boy looked slightly down to the ground as an awkward smile formed itself on his face. "Of course..."
Naruto began to chuckle a bit more before looking towards Haruna with a heart-warming smile, which was enough to make the girls' heart skip a beat. "Hey, Haruna-chan, what are you guy's doing?"
Haruna who had a slight blush smiled and pointed towards the photo booth behind her "We were just taking some photos; would you like to take some with us?"
The blond began to smile brightly at the thought of taking some pictures with his students. "Yeah sure, that will be awesome!"
Konoka suddenly came out of the photo booth with Asuna as she walked out, she noticed that Naruto was standing there and soon enough she had a bright smile on her face. "Ah, Naruto-kun!"
"Oh, hey there Naruto." Asuna greeted with a smile.
"Hey there Konoka-chan, Asuna-chan!" The blond waved towards the two girls.
The black-haired girl got an idea as she saw Setsuna leaning against a wall, she quickly left the orange-haired girl and ran to the brunette. Everyone in the group looked at the girl run with slight confusion.
"Se-chan! Come here!" The young girl as she grabbed the hand of her best friend, before running towards the blond.
"W-Wha!? O-Ojou-sama!?" The brunette flustered while she was being dragged by her childhood friend.
As soon as they reached the blond, who had a confused look on his face, the black-haired girl had a very happy look on her face. "Naruto-kun, could I take a photo with both you and Se-chan as a souvenir?"
What Konoka said shocked Naruto, and Setsuna a bit. Naruto then made a warm and happy smile. "Sure! I would like to take some with all you guy's as souvenirs as well, dattebayo!"
The brunette didn't say anything as she was blushing slightly from the fact that the black-haired girl was still holding her hand tightly. Negi and Haruna then walked up to the blond. "Naruto-nii, I want to take a picture with you as well!"
"Me too, Naruto!" Haruna exclaimed as she raised her fist into the air.
"Yeah don't worry, I promise that I will have at least one photo with each of you!" Naruto told the entirety of group 5 with a smile on his face before entering the photo booth with Konoka and Setsuna.
As soon as he got inside the photo booth, the blond began to take some glances inside the room. The black-haired girl saw on how he was acting and looked at him funny. "Naruto-kun, is something wrong?"
The query made the brunette also glance at the blond.
After releasing that the two girls were looking at him, he had some sweat fall down his neck as he an awkward smile formed on his face. "N-No, nothing's wrong. It's just that..."
"Just what?" Konoka asked as she began to lean closer to the blond with some confusion in her eyes, Setsuna also became confused by what he was saying.
The blond began to scratch the back of his head with his awkward smile still in place. "It's just that I've never been to a place like this, since where I'm from they really don't have advance technology as this..."
Both of the girl's looked at him more confused and now a bit curious by what he said. The blond noticed this before forming a kinder smile on his face, replacing his awkward one. "W-Well now, how about we take the photo, dattebayo?"
"Okay~!" Konoka happily exclaimed as she clapped her hands before pressing a button and getting to Naruto's right side, while Setsuna went to his left.
The machine started to do a count down from ten to one, Naruto had what he thought a funny idea. As it reached two, he put his hands around both Konoka and Setsuna waist, which shocked the two girls.
"W-Wha...? N-Naruto, what are you doing!?" The swordswoman blurted as a very bright red blush now accompanied her face.
"N... N-Naruto-kun?" The young girl to his right stuttered as a redder blush then her friend made its way on her face.
"Say cheese!" The shinobi happily exclaimed as he brought the two girls in closer to himself while having a bright smile on his face. The two girls blush increased several folds as they were now able to feel his muscles underneath his clothes.
After the photo was taken, the two girls left the booth still blushing but nothing like before, Setsuna walked near Asuna looking exhausted. The bell-wearing girl noticed this and looked at her friend with some worry in her eyes.
"Are you okay? You look very tired, Sakurazaki-san."
The swords woman got beside the other girl and began to rub her head. "Y-Yeah, I'm fine... It's just... Such a firm grip..."
The orange-haired girl looked at her friend a bit confused by what she was talking about.
The next photo was of Naruto, Negi, Haruna, and Yue, who had an unamused look on her face unlike the other three who had very cheerful and happy smiles.
After the photo had been taken Negi and Yue left the photo booth as Asuna walked in to have a photo with both Naruto, and Haruna.
"Do I really have too?" The bell-wearing girl questioned with one of her hands' resting against her hip.
The shinobi started to nod his head with a smile on his face. "Just one, I want to have a photo with all of you before we head back to Tokyo."
"Yeah, c'mon Asuna! Just one!" The mangaka gushed as she peeked over the shinobi's' right shoulder.
The orange-haired girl shook her head before smiling and walking over to stand to the left of the blond. "Okay then, I understand, just one."
The three of them started to smile at the camera as it started to count down, however like the last time Naruto would grab both girls, but this time from their shoulders.
Asuna immediately turned her head to face the blond with an almost angry look, while a light pink hue spread across her face. "What are you doing, Whisker!?"
The shinobi looked down to see his student in the eyes with a bit of confusion in his own. "Hm? What's wrong? This is how my master told me to take pictures when I'm with girls."
The bell-wearing girl got a somewhat-stunned face by what she was just told.
"Aw~ C'mon Asuna, it's not that bad~" Haruna laughed while she was hugging Naruto's right arm with her body which made her breast squeeze against his arm, causing the latter to slightly blush.
After the picture was taken both Asuna and Haruna left the booth, in place of Negi and Chamo going in to take one last photo with Naruto. As the young boy took one step inside the booth, he had gained a very excited look on his face.
"I forgot the last time we had a photo together of us three!" The red-haired boy gushed as he got to the blonds' left side.
"Yeah, I know. It's been a really long time!" The shinobi exclaimed while he pressed the button to take the picture.
The ermine nodded his head happily to what the blond was saying as he recalled memoirs of when the shinobi and Jiraiya were teaching the young mage on how to swim. "It really has been a long time."
After reminiscing about the past, they took the photo which was of Naruto placing his left hand on Negi's head as both of them held piece signs with their hand's, Chamo was sitting on the blonds left shoulder. All of them had very bright and happy smiles.
After the photo was taken, they all left the photo booth to be meet with Asuna walking up to them with an awkward smile. "We came all the way to Kyoto and they just want to play at an arcade?"
"C'mon Asuna-chan, don't be like that. Let them have their fun." Naruto chuckled as he, Negi, and Asuna began to walk around.
The young mage nodded his head in agreement with the blond. "Yeah, just let them enjoy their time when they can when we're here."
"But Aniki, you can't just waste your time. You still have to hand in the letter to the boss of the Kansai Magic Association!" Chamo stated as he hopped on to the bell-wearing girls' shoulder.
The young mage started to scratch his head sheepishly as a small smile formed on his face while some sweat fell down his cheek. "Y... Yeah, I know..."
"Hey Naruto, do you think you can help us leave without the others realising it?" The bell-wearing girl asked the shinobi with a puzzled look.
The shinobi did a slight head nod with his arms resting behind his head. "Sure, I can I just need the right momen-"
"Naruto-kun! Negi-kun! Asuna! Come over here where everyone else is." Konoka shouted as she walked in a different direction with Setsuna following behind her.
The blond looked over to where the young girl had shouted and waved his arm in the air. "Okay! We're coming!"
The shinobi then returned his gaze to the others behind him and released a slight chuckle. "I think we will need to wait a bit... Hehehe..."
Negi, Asuna, and Chamo all released a weak sigh. Chamo then suddenly got an idea that they could use.
"Aniki! Anuie! Ane-san!"
The three turned to face the white ermine with a perplexed look.
"We could use this as our chance to escape! Just play some of what ever game their playing, and when they don't notice we can escape, while Anuie keeps them preoccupied with something!"
Naruto had formed a smile on his face due to the ermines' quick wits. "That sounds like an awesome plan, Chamo!"
"Yeah!" Negi agreed upon while smiling.
"I guess that's the only option we have now..." Asuna whispered to herself with a smile.
After finishing their talk, they walked over to where the rest of the group was, they were brought to a sight of seeing Yue and Haruna play a game. Interested by what they were playing Negi and Naruto walked up to them.
"Hey Haruna-chan. Yue-chan. What games are you two playing?" Naruto asked his two students as they played the game they were playing.
"It's a game about mages." Yue told her two teachers as she turned away from the screen.
The young boy as well as the older boy were a bit shocked to hear their student say it was a game about mages, more the former than the latter. Haruna then turned away from her screen to face her teachers with a smile.
"Remember the game we were playing on the bullet train? This is a special edition where we could win a limited Kansai rare card!"
"A game about mages, huh? I think we should give it a try, Naruto-nii!" The young mage babble to his older brother figure.
"Yeah sure! It seems like a lot of fun anyway, dattebayo!" The shinobi beamed a smile to the younger boy.
"All right! I've been waiting for this!" The mangaka shouted while she excitedly pumped her fist into the air.
"Here, you two can use my starter deck. I brought along an extra one if someone else wanted to play." The book reading girl told her two teachers as she handed them two different decks.
"All right let's duel, Negi!" Naruto declared as he grabbed a deck out of Yue's hand and had his game face on.
"Yes!" Negi proclaimed as he grabbed another deck out of Yue's hand with a smirk on his face.
(Time skip)
"Ah! Nice play, Naruto-kun!" Konoka cheered Naruto as he just used a card to counter Negi's card effect.
"Thanks!" The shinobi laughed as he thanked the girl with a grin plastered on his face.
Negi then turned away from the game to face the green-haired girl. "How are we doing, Haruna-san?"
"How are you two doing!? You guys are too good at this! Are you really telling me that you two really aren't beginners!?" Haruna happily exclaimed with a bit of confusion added in.
"Yup, first time I've ever played a game like this before!" The shinobi blatantly told the mangaka as he looked at his cards in hand.
The young mage turned his head to face his student. "Same for me!" He then turned back to face his older brother figure with a smirk. "Alright, Naruto-nii. Time to finish this, I attack with Magician of Black Chaos!"
The shinobi gained a scared look at the declaration of what the young mage said, he looked at the cards in his hand before dropping them on the game bored. "That's it, I lost. It's your win, Negi."
Negi got a very excited and happy look on his face as he raised his fist into the air. "Yes! I won!"
"Nice job, Negi-sensei!" Haruna congratulated, along with Yue, and Konoka.
The young boy started to rub the back of his head in somewhat embarrassment. "Hehe... It wasn't that much..."
Naruto had a smile on his face as he got out of his seat and walked near Asuna. She looked at him with slight confused as he got closer to her. "You're not made that you lost?"
"Nope, not at all." The blond told her with a peaceful smile as he leaned against a machine.
The bell-wearing girl was a bit shocked by what he said before she returned her gaze to the rest of the group. "Hm. That's strange, you seem like the type of guy who would be mad at losing..."
"I do, don't I? It's that he's still just a kid, and right now he should be having fun like a kid his age should be." The blond chuckled as he looked at the boy.
The young girl had a look of somewhat surprise on her face as she looked towards her group members. 'So, he really just wants to look out for Negi, huh?'
Asuna soon started to break into a giggle. Naruto noticed that the girl had found out something amusing but didn't know from what. "W-What's so funny, Asuna-chan?"
The girl wiped a tear eye from one eye while she continued to giggle before turning to face the boy. "I-It's just that, you sometimes really can act like an older brother to Negi."
The blond gained a very light pink hue on his cheeks before turning away from his student and closing his eyes. "W-Well of course, dattebayo!"
The girl continued to giggle at how embarrassed the boy was, before stopping and pointing towards something. "Hey, who's that boy besides Negi?"
The query made Naruto open his eyes and look to where Asuna had been pointing to find a black-haired boy there playing a game with Negi, at sight of the boy, he was immediately put on edge.
'Who's that? And why do I feel some strange power from him...?'
"You should probably check it out to make sure nothing happens." Kurama mentally told to him.
The jinchuriki did a slight head nod in agreement to what his bijuu recommended. "Right..."
The shinobi decided to walk up to where they had been playing, and as he got closer, he saw that the young mage had lost and that the boy was about to leave.
"See you 'round, Negi Springfield." The black-haired boy said with a smile.
When the boy called Negi by his full name, the shinobi was put even more on edge, while the young mage was in a state of confusion and shock. "H-How did you know my name!?"
"You entered it into the machine yourself when you started playing." The black-haired boy pointed towards the machine as he told the red-haired boy.
"Ah, I see." The young mage voiced as he looked at the screen, however even with that said and done, it did not bring down the blonds' uneasiness.
"Any way, see ya!" The unnamed boy shouted when he started to run off into the front of the arcade to only bump into Nodoka and apologize to her for seeing her panties before completely leaving the arcade.
"There's something mysterious about that boy... He feels sort of like Naruto-kun, and Negi-kun..." Konoka whispered to herself as she saw the boy leave the arcade.
"Hm? Is something wrong, Konoka-chan?" Naruto asked as he walked over to the young girl.
The girl turned around to face the blond and soon started to blush remembering how he held her a few minutes earlier, she then formed. "N-No, nothing's wrong..."
"That's good, how about you go play some games with Haruna-chan, and Yue-chan?" The blond questioned while giving her a kind reassuring smile.
"Okay~!" Konoka happily agreed with before running off to play with her friends.
Naruto made a grin seeing how happy the girl was being today, compared to the other night a few days ago. He then noticed Negi, Asuna, and Setsuna talking with each other, and decided to walk over to them.
Negi noticed that the older boy was getting closer and called out to him. "Naruto-nii, me and Asuna-san are leaving now!"
"Alright, you can leave without the others knowing a thing!" The shinobi told the young mage as he gave him smirk and thumbs up.
The young boy nodded, he then turned around ready to leave but was stopped by Asuna grabbing his collar, which surprised him. "Mhm? What's wrong Asuna-san?"
The bell-wearing girl turned to face the shinobi, which made him gain a confused look on his face. "Why don't you come along, Naruto? I'm sure you could help us with this."
Setsuna who was to the left of the blond looked at him with some worry since she didn't want the two others to go by themselves. "Yes, I think you should go along with them as well, Naruto."
Naruto shook his head in disagreement with the two girls. "No, I think it would be better if I stay here with Se-chan to look after Konoka-chan."
Negi would have liked if he had someone like Naruto to support him, but he knew that Naruto should stay and protect Konoka. However, Asuna didn't completely agree with him.
"I understand that, but Sakurazaki-san is already here to protect her. Don't you think that would be over need of protection?"
"Yes, I think I'm more then capable of protecting Ojou-sama by myself, I have been doing this for many years now." The swordswoman added to what the bell-wearing girl said.
Again, the blond shook his head in disagreement with them and looked to where the other members of group five where. "No, not just Konoka-chan I need to protect everyone here."
Everyone who was near him got slightly shocked by what he was saying, Chamo who was on Negi's shoulder was the first to speak. "Jeez, Anuie. You talk as if they would be attacked or put in danger..."
The shinobi then returned his gaze from the members of group five to the everyone around him. "Because that might happen... Think about how the enemy acted the other night." Everyone began to recall the night that Konoka had almost been captured.
The blond continued. "To me it seems like they would go to any means of getting what they want, meaning that they would endanger others who have nothing to do with this, and if I'm not here to protect them they could be in more danger then we know."
"I-I see..." Asuna stuttered as she let go of Negi's collar.
'So, it seems like that protecting Ojou-sama isn't his only priority right now...It's true that the others might be put in danger, and I rather have him here to help in case anything happens... But still, I feel uneasy not having him go with Negi-sensei...' Setsuna thought to herself as she had her gaze on the older boy.
Negi then looked to the to the people around him with a confident look in his eyes. "Don't worry about it, Asuna-san, Setsuna-san."
The two girls looked at the young boy a bit puzzled by what he said, Asuna then took note of his eyes, remembering that it was the same look that he had when he was sure that Naruto would be there in time to save Konoka.
She shook her head and released a sigh before quickly walking off to the exit of the arcade. "Ah, fine I get it! Let's go, we don't want to come back late!"
The young mage had a big smile on his face and began to run after her, while he and the ermine waved goodbye to the blond and the brunette. "See you soon, Naruto-nii! Setsuna-san!"
"See ya!" Naruto waved back with a grin on his face.
"Goodbye, Negi-sensei." Setsuna also made her farewell with the child teacher.
After they left the blond started to walk to where the washroom was located. "Hey, Se-chan I'll be back. I need to go use the toilet."
"Okay, I think well be over there playing the card game for a while." The brunette told him as she pointed towards where everyone one else was.
The shinobi nodded in understanding to what she said before quickly walking off to the washroom. It took him around several seconds to reach it, as he got in, he made sure that no one was inside.
After making sure his coast was clear he nodded his head. "Alright, seems like we were lucky enough for no one to be using this place right now..."
He then formed his most iconic hand sign. "Kage Bunshin No Jutsu"
In a second there was a puff of smoke beside him which dispersed to reveal his Bunshin standing there, the two nodded too each other before the Bunshin left threw the arcade through an open window in the back.
'Hopefully one Bunshin should be enough to help Negi and Asuna-chan...' Naruto inwardly told himself with a bit of worry.
(Some Alleyway Near the Arcade)
The same boy who had played against Negi had just ran into an alleyway with some people there waiting for him. The people who had been waiting for him was the monkey woman, and the shinmeiryuu girl who had tried to capture Konoka the other night, and a white-haired boy who had dull eyes to go along with his emotionless face.
As he got closer to the other's he began to speak up. "I knew it. His last name was 'Springfield'."
The monkey woman seemed very pleased with the information that was given to her. "Heh... So then, he really is the son of the Thousand Master... And, what about that 'Naruto' boy?"
The black-haired boy raised his hands and shook his head. "Sorry, I got nothing from him. Even if I did, he doesn't seem like anything to special me."
Tsk!" The woman grunted as she bit into her nail due to the lack of information.
"Who is this 'Naruto' you speak of?" The white-haired boy asked with his emotionless like voice.
The woman was surprised to hear the boy speak up, it was a very rare occurrence for her to see. "He's the assistant teacher who's been helping that Negi brat."
This alone peeked the white-haired boys' curiosity even a tiny bit further. "Do you have anything else on him?"
She nodded. "Yeah, all that I really remember of him was that he had blond hair, his last name, 'Uzumaki', and that he has, what I think is his attack being some sort of blue sphere that he holds in the palm of his hand."
For the first time it seemed that the boys' eyes actually had life in them, as they slightly widen from the small information, he had just been given. "I, see..."
Tsukuyomi started to blush as she recalled some more info from him. "Also, he was incredibly strong and very attractive. I wouldn't mind to go for a few 'rounds' with him myself~" She finished off with a more seductive tone.
"Is there something wrong?" The monkey woman questioned the dull eye boy, to which he simply shook his head.
She got slightly curious to the way that he was behaving but rubbed if off as she grabbed some of her talisman and made an evil smirk. "Huhu... Those little brats... I'm going to pay you back good for what you did before."
As the monkey lady was doing her tiny monologue, the emotionless boy began to ponder about something. 'Blond, blue sphere, and his last name was 'Uzuamki', huh...? There's no way he can be related to him...'
(Arcade)
Setsuna was currently leaning on a wall besides Naruto, the watching Konoka having fun as she and the others play the card game from before. The brunette gained an almost bitter-sweet smile.
'Such a nice smile... She has made a lot of friends and become a lot more cheerful since she started attending Mahora Academy. This is the best way after all... Living peacefully together with Ojou-sama not knowing a thing...' She thought to herself sadden that when they return it would also mean that she would protect her from the shadows once more.
"Wouldn't you want to be over there instead?" Naruto asked Setsuna as he kept looking the direction where everyone else was.
The query made the swordswoman break out of her thoughts and made her release a weak sigh. "No, I rather stay here and just watch."
'Really going to be lying to yourself huh? Dealing with people like you, is something I would consider my specialty.' He thought to himself in some sort of amusement.
"She looks happy, doesn't she?" Naruto asked with a smile as he continued to watch how much fun Konoka was having.
"Yeah, she really does..." Setsuna agreed with him with her smile looking ever so more bitter-sweet then before from the fact that she wouldn't be able to see it anymore.
Naruto turned his head around to face Setsuna with a large bright smile. "Ya know, she looks the same... No, even happier when she's around you then with anyone else."
This fact made her eyes widen, he turned back to face the other the girls who were playing their game, with a smile still on his face he spoke. "You know something, Se-chan?"
"No, what is it?" The young girl asked as she turned her head and looked up to see the blond in the eyes.
"I won't allow you, nor Konoka-chan, nor everyone here, to get hurt. I will protect you all no matter what..."
"W-What do you mean? I-I understand Ojou-sama and our classmates, but why me...?" Setsuna stuttered as her cheeks gained a red hue to them from the sudden confession.
Naruto looked down to face his student with a confused look. "What do you mean by 'why me'?"
She became even more confused than from before as her blush became even redder now, as he was looking down towards her. "W... W-Well, what I mean is why would you protect someone like me..."
"What kind of question is that? Did you hit your head or something, Se-chan?" The shinobi blatantly asked as he leaned near her.
"Wha!? No, I haven't!" The swordswoman retorted a bit angrily which helped her slightly subdue her blush.
The blond went back up into a standing position and shook his head. "Jeez, Se-chan... Do I really have to point it out for you?"
The girl nodded, this made the boy sigh before he crossed his own arm. "Okay then, if you say so..."
He brought up a single hand in the form of a fist, then he raised a finger. "First off, you're my student, meaning I already have an obligation to keep you out of harm."
The girl nodded, he raised a second finger and continued. "Second reason, you're a part of the '3-A Elite Guard', meaning that you are my comrade, and I, no matter the reason will keep my comrades safe."
This time she did a small nodded mixed with a bit of surprise, he then raised a third finger and concluded. "And most importantly, you are my friend. You are someone I find precious to me."
Setsuna was stunned from what she had just heard from her teacher. Naruto made a bright, kind, reassuring smile. "You know what? I feel the exact same way for everyone in the class, all of you guys are precious to me!"
'T-To say such things, to sound so selfless... I've never seen someone act like this to someone they just meet a few days ago...' Setsuna thought to herself as she unconsciously began to look deep into Naruto's deep blue ocean eyes.
The shinobi began to blush from how his student was looking, he gained an awkward smile on his face with some sweat dropping down his neck. "Ah, Se-chan...? Is something the matter...?"
The query helped the swordswoman snap out of her thought and caused her to go beat red, she quickly turned away from the shinobi and looked towards the ground. "N-N-No, nothing's wrong!"
The blond did a slight head nod with his awkward smile still in place. "Uh... Okay then..."
Soon a few minutes had passed by after the small talk between Naruto and Setsuna, giving her enough time to lose the blush.
'I wonder how their doing right now?' The girl mentally asked herself before taking out one of her substitution stencils that she had landed Negi last night.
Naruto had noticed that she had taken out one of her substitution stencils that she had given Negi last night. "Hey, what are you doing, Se-chan?"
After writing her name down she turned to face the shinobi. "I'll be sending a small clone of myself to try and assist Negi-sensei."
"Hmm? What do you mean?" The blond asked with a puzzled look on his face.
His question would soon be answered as there was a mini Setsuna floating right in front of him, Naruto looked at the little thing in awe. "Wow... That is awesome, dattebayo..."
Setsuna made a small smile at how childish the older teacher could be, almost as childish as the kid teacher, she looked back to face the smaller her. "Could you please go after and meet up with Negi-sensei?"
The clone nodded its head before popping out of existence, the brunette then looked up to her blond teacher. "Naruto, could you keep a watch out for my body? I will be using the clone as a way for me to communicate with both Negi-sensei and Kagurazaka-san, which takes a lot of concentration to do."
Understanding the gist of what she had said, Naruto nodded with a reassuring smile. "Yeah sure, that won't be a problem."
"Okay, thank you." Setuna thanked him before closing her eyes to concentrate on the Chibi-Setsuna.
After a few seconds something had struck the shinobi.
'Wait a minute... The technique that Se-chan just used basically allows her to control talk, and remember through anything the mini one went through, right...? Meaning if she finds out about my bunshin I might be screwed!' He mentally shouted to himself in worry as a lot of sweat started to drip from his neck on to his spin.
The blond started to hold his head in a head ache like manner as he recalled the night from when Negi tried to attack Setsuna. 'Normally it wouldn't a problem if it was just Negi or Asuna-chan, but Se-chan's intuition and sensing abilities are pretty good compared to them...'
"I hope nothing goes wrong, dattebayo..." Naruto tiredly sighed to himself as he looked at the ground.
(Naruto/Bunshin Mindscape)
"So Kurama, can you tell me why there a mini Se-chan down there besides Negi and Asuna-chan?" Naruto questioned his partner as he had just landed on a tree near where Negi and Asuna had just been.
Kurama got into a thinking position to what he thought the technique could be. "Hm... From the way she had worded it, kind of sounds like a much smaller and by extension, weaker summoning of herself. Almost like your Kage Bunshin no Jutsu, but you know, without it becoming super small." The bijuu finished off as he got out of his thinking position.
The shinobi got slightly pale and dropped his head of what his partner had told him. "Alright then, this might be a little harder than I thought it would be..."
As he was contemplating his bijuu noticed something. "Hey, check it out... Isn't that the Hinata look-a-like down there?" The fox asked his contemplating jinchuriki as he looked at a different direction.
The query caused Naruto to snap out of his thoughts and look to where Kurama was looking. "Oh yeah, that's Nodoka-chan..."
After a few seconds realization struck him. "Oh wait! Why is Nodoka-chan down there!? And what's that weird book she's holding!?"
"Seems like that Negi brat can always bring trouble to himself, kind of reminds me of you." The red-orange fox laughed at his jinchuriki misfortune.
"It's not that funny Kurama, now I have to make sure that nothing happens to her as well..." The shinobi sighed as he shrugged his shoulders down.
"Look, I think she's walking in." Kurama notified the blond.
Naruto went back to standing straight and started to walk off as he gestured goodbye to his friend. "Alright, I have to go now. See ya."
The fox made a smirk. "Later."
(Time skip/Arcade)
'I knew they'd come! Sensei, Kagurazaka-san! Be careful!' Setsuna thought to herself in worry as someone had engaged Negi and Asuna in combat on the other end, who happened to be the same black-haired boy from before.
"Chan... Se-chan... Se-chan!" A voice shouted.
The sudden shout caused the swordswoman to open her eyes in shock, she was met with both Naruto and Konoka looking at her. The young girl leaned in closer to the brunette with a confused look on her face.
"Why were you all spaced out like that, Se-chan?"
"Ah... N-no real reason..." The swordswoman stuttered as a light blush developed on her face.
Naruto placed his hand on the black-haired girls' shoulder, causing her to look up to him a bit confused as he looked down at her with a smile. "I think Se-chan feels a bit bored and wants to play some games, but I don't think she has any ideas on how to play them, could you teach her, Konoka-chan?"
The two girls looked at him surprised, more the swordswoman than the other. Konoka happily clapped her hands together as a bright smile formed its way on her face. "Se-chan, is that it? All you got to do is ask and I would help you!"
Setsuna looked at her in shock and began to wave her hands in front of her. "W... Wait n-no... T-That's not it... Ojou-sama..."
"I also don't really know how play any of these games either, dattebayo. So, could teach me as well?" Naruto asked with a kind yet perplexed smile.
Konoka got a bright and happy smile as she nodded her head. "Yeah, that would be fine Naruto-kun!"
The happy young girl grabbed both the swordswoman hand, causing her to blush slightly, and the shinobis' hand, and started to drag them to a game machine. "What game should we play first!?"
"Naruto, what are you doing...?" The brunette whispered to the blond with confusion in her eyes as they were getting dragged.
"You should spend some more time with Konoka-chan, and not just act as her body guard. Plus, I could tell that you really wanted to play some games with her, lying to yourself won't work when I'm around, dattebayo." He whispered back to the girl with a grin on his face.
'He's even more stubborn and persistent then Ojou-sama...' Setsuna thought to herself in disblief as some sweat dropped down her cheek before releasing a sigh in defeat.
"Fine..." She whispered as she dropped her head down slightly.
Naruto smiled at his student as they continued to walk. After a few more seconds of being dragged he took a sharp glance over to a corner.
"Hey, Kurama, did you feel that too?" He mentally asked his bijuu.
"Yeah, I've been feeling this presence for a while now. I was about to tell you if you hadn't brought it up just now." Kurama informed his jinchuriki.
"Hm... Is this anything to worry about?" The shinobi asked with a puzzled look on his face.
The fox gained a perplexed look as he tried to think of an answer. "No, it doesn't seem like anything you need to worry about, but the others, that's a different story... You can stay here for a little longer, but make sure to leave soon."
"Alright." The shinobi agreed with his partners plan.
"Also, that Nodoka girl is near where that Negi brat is." Kurama added.
Naruto gained a more puzzled look from the information he had heard and had gained a look of dread. "Of course she would be there..."
"I think it should be okay, as long as my bunshin is there, he should be more than enough to keep her from harm." The shinobi prayed that nothing would happen to his student.
"Okay then, I just thought you should know." The red-orange fox informed him.
"Thanks, dattebayo." The blond thanked his friend with a grin before cancelling the link between the two.
(Behind an Arcade Machine)
"Huhu... There's Naruto-han, and Setsuna-han... Just one round with either of them would be a dream come true~" Tsukuyomi said with a seductive tone as she had her gaze on Naruto, Setsuna, and Konoka play a game together.
She tightly held one of her swords in her hand as she continued to glance at the three with an affectionate and lusted look in her eyes. "I think I should act soon, I feel like Naruto-han has already figured out that I'm near..."
Chapter 8 End.
Author Notes: Hey guys sorry for the late upload, I had gotten sick a few days ago so I couldn't really work on this. I know that this chapter isn't as long as the last two have been, but don't worry next chapter things are going to go down.
Nothing more to tell you guys besides the harem, which I think all of you have been waiting before. (Besides a new chapter XD)
(NOTE) If a character you voted for is not on this list it's either that I decided them on being in the harem or they are not going to be in the harem. If a character is voted enough times, they have a higher chance at going into the harem. Just so you know now, I'm making the harem limited to around 10 or so people just for simplicity sake.
Sayo (2)
Yuuna (4)
Akira (8)
Haruna (6)
Shiina (1)
Fuka (2)
Zazie (8)
Hinata (5)
Updated Naruto Harem:
Konoka
Setsuna
Kaede
Kazumi
Chizuru
Asuna
Evangeline
Mana
Negi Harem:
Nodoka
Chisame
Ku Fei
Yue
Chachamaru
Yue
Ako (With 'Nagi')
Ayaka
Makie
P.s Okay, I gotta ask you guys something, have any of you watched My Hero Academia: Two Hero's movie yet? I watched it last week with my friend and holy did I enjoy it, I was geeking out the entire time like, "Yo! Deku is popping off!", or something like "That's 30% of what he could do in the future, ahhh!", Or then "Yo bro! Is that the Double Detroit Smash, with "You Say Run!? Ah, that's epic!" Yeah, I wasn't geeking... I was full blown weebing XD...
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