Unwanted Travelling

Chapter Ten: From Kyoto with Love

When Negi Springfield saw that impressive spell that Evangeline-san did, he was simply awestruck! The fact that she so easily destroyed that monster made him fully understand the power of true blooded vampires and that they had near limitless potential. Of course his awe for the vampire was cut short when Naruto-nii-san had unintentionally interrupted Eva's gloating with a combination of a fire, water and wind element spells that not only caused a massive incineration of the presumed demon god, it also created an explosion powerful enough to shatter Ryoumen Sukuna no Kami's body to chunks of what it was, as in ashen remains of the fallen monster that had some parts still smouldering as it floated on the water.

That and coupled about the fact that it was Naruto-nii-san that did it, drove Evangeline-san completely angry for two things: One, Naruto-nii-san took away her kill that she had rightfully subdued when Naruto-nii-san kept coming up with moves to leave it open for him to save Konoka, and two, it was Naruto-nii-san, simple as that. Evangeline, ever since the first day of their class, found Naruto to be irksome, irritating, maddening, or any other word that brought her to a fit of rage that she needed something to eventually cool down. She would often curse at the blonde whenever his back was turned during his class, and scowled at him whenever his attention was on her. There was simply no positive relationship existing between the two! Well, Naruto more often than not, tries to reach out to the vampire who in turn, tries her best to ignore his ideas of getting close to her. Of course, Naruto-nii-san stated once he didn't really like girls with a flat chest, and Eva-san was as flat as they come! Of course, Negi's male instincts would NEVER say that out loud in front of Eva-san for some apparent reason, but Naruto-nii was different, he was so different that it brought a lot more questions about him than there were answers. Evangeline-san said that Naruto reminded her too much of Negi's father, the Thousand Master and that he was as laid back and was a massive goofball like Naruto-nii was.

He didn't know how obfuscating stupidity was so deceitful at their enemies that the said enemies would more often than not; disregard their opponent as nothing to be taken seriously. Well now he knew the effect of what Naruto had with his enemies, at first they would disregard him as nothing more than an idiot that won't survive a fight, but after a few moves and show how brutal he can become, they grew scared of him. That girl Chigusa felt it first hand, it was barely noticeable, but Naruto-nii-san inflicted fear on her far more than he let on. Much to the vampire's begrudging respect at that. There was something to both fear and admire with Naruto that it brought down the chills to Negi's spine as he thought about it.

When it was time to check on his students, Negi saw Konohamaru sitting by the side of the wooden bridge to the altar with his knees dangling as the brunette looked at the now calm waters beneath. Negi looked concerned, just a little earlier, when they fought that weird boy. Konohamaru flinched a little that allowed the boy to intercept them if not for Evangeline. When it was all said and done, Konohamaru dispelled Enma and he began to sweat profusely, he sat down on to the edge of the bridge and began to breath in slowly.

"Konohamaru-nii-san, are you alright?" Negi asked the brunette looked at him with those baggy eyes; signifying his fatigue as the brunette said while looking at Negi, "Worry about yourself more, Negi, look at your hand."

Konohamaru pointed weakly to Negi's right hand as it was turned to stone, Konohamaru slightly grinned at this as he put the sealing accessory back on his forehead, the small headgear tightened and chakra began locking it into place as Konohamaru shakily tied his headband around his forehead.

"Right now, I'm in extreme muscle pain, the fact that I used Senkakusha no Nehan when I'm at low chakra and the pill's effect wearing off says a lot about the pain I'm experiencing right now. It's nothing too serious that I can't recover with at least a full night of rest, but compared to yours, my injury is nothing." Konohamaru said with a grin before laying his back on the wooden bridge.

"Ah man, that was really tiring; I shouldn't have used that technique! Now I'm in a lot of pain." Konohamaru groaned when the blonde had appeared just as to their side in a blur with a grin on his face.

"You deserve it, stupid apprentice. Maybe next time, you'll try to learn HOW to use your jutsu more effectively like yours truly." Naruto gloated at this jokingly when he heard a familiar voice that was uttering curse words at him left and right.

"You spotlight stealing son of a bitch! I was about to end that fight with a spell and look what happened! I could have been in a much better position to gloat over my own powers!" Evangeline mentioned, Naruto only grinned as if all the tirade of insults she sent his way seemed to only enter one ear and pass through the other ear.

"Oh, Eva-chan! I thought you couldn't make it into the trip! I'm so glad you could join us!" Naruto exclaimed as he approached Evangeline in a playful dash as the vampire shouted at him, "DON'T CALL ME EVA-CHAN, DAMN IT! WE ARE NOT FAMILIAR PEOPLE! AND STAY AWAY FROM ME!"

Naruto stopped midway and looked like he was shot down.

"Heartfelt reunions aside, I'm glad this whole thing is finally done." Said Asuna in relief as one of the girls had supplied her with some spare clothing.

Setsuna then successfully made it back to where Naruto and the others were. Setsuna then approached Naruto for this and bowed her head in front.

"I'm very thankful to you, Naruto-sensei, if it wasn't for you, I would have probably never saved Konoka-ojou-sama."

Naruto waved it off, "Don't worry about it. That's what friends are for!"

"LISTEN TO ME, YOU MORON! I AM NOT DONE HARPING ABOUT YOUR IDEA OF STEALING MY SPOTLIGHT WHEN I OWNED THAT PATHETIC MONSTER!"

This time, it was Konohamaru who spoke with a deadpan tone, "Really? As far as I recall, you were too busy gloating and monolouging about how awesome you were when Naruto-nii finished his jutsu."

"You stay out of this, Sarutobi; it is with your master that I am having some beef with!" Evangeline shouted, to this she turned back to Naruto who looked like he wasn't even paying attention, if those half lidded eyes were any indication.

Eva fumed at this, "I was almost there! I was so CLOSE! Yet there you were; doing that magic of yours and you took what was rightfully mine!"

Naruto then defended himself at this as best as he could, "To be fair, I didn't notice you when I used that Jutsu, I was too busy focusing on creating an exploding tag because I ran out of incendiaries. Besides, you were taking too long."

To this, everyone around them had a large bead of sweat at the back of their foreheads, Evangeline stated the obvious; "Did you not see the giant frozen monster that just happened to turn to ice a few seconds before?"

"Well, there was that, but I thought it was just like that, that thing barely moved around! And it was white! How could I know that it turned to an ice sculpture?"

To this, Eva replied, her voice dripping with sarcasm, "Oh I don't know, maybe it was the frozen water AROUND IT that should have told you about the spell!"

Naruto shrugged at this, "Well then, you should have just gloated AFTER you were done with the spell. It's more epic that way."

Eva shouted out her frustrations at this, "ARGH!"

"Um, yeah, look, Eva-chan…"

"STOP CALLING ME THAT!"

"Eva-chan…" Eva had the side of her eyes going red from the anger she was displaying, Naruto seemed unaware of this as he continued, "It's really nice to boast and all, but you just have to do it after you were done, really. Monolouging on how about strong you are is stupid unless you have a pretty badass speech. Which I take it, isn't badass enough for me to stop. You talked about yourself for what, ten seconds?"

"Nine point eighty-three seconds to be exact, Naruto-sensei." Chachamaru helpfully replied as Naruto said, "And I took the same amount of time preparing a jutsu. Now tell me, how should I rub it in her face? When in the middle of casting a spell or AFTER it as she saw the burning chunks of her pet floating on the lake?"

"Actually, Naruto-sensei, your record in doing that technique and Master's monologue was longer by four point fifty-two seconds if the hand gestures were any indication." Chachamaru corrected, Eva growled at this, it was much worse!

"Oh, did it now? Well that just further proves my point." Naruto commented with a grin.

Gah! How frustrating it was! She couldn't just win against this idiot! It was like his idiocy was blocking any insult or that her insults just wasn't understood! Eva began counting backwards from ten and started pinching the bridge of her nose, trying to block out the thoughts of a certain idiotic blonde that had been pissing her off since day one.

Naruto looked around and saw some of the girls from Negi's class had walked in on the wooden pathway that leads to the altar. The pathway was in terrible shape if the fight between that boy and Negi's group were any indication, the wooden bridge's floor in the middle just looked like giant toothpicks that stuck out and had a few of the side to its left was torn off.

"Wow, looks like you people made a party out of this place." Mana commented, looking around with a frown, she had seen that giant talking frog, toad, whatever, move around with a human on its head, at first she thought it was a demon or an ayakashi, monsters of ancient folklore that liked to spread mischief and grief upon different denizens of the country. But then, she found a person actually standing on top of that thing, and it turned out to be Naruto-sensei as well.

From the looks of it, Naruto was clearly having the strength that surpasses even her own. But her initial assessment of the boy did not even indicate his standing in what she considers as people being typically powerful. In her initial observation, she found the blonde to be stupid, reckless, unconcerned and laid back. He was a bad liar, a near ditzy personality that occasionally involves mischief and didn't like doing paperwork, which meant that Naruto was impatient; a common mistake among rookies. But after now, as she witnessed this battle firsthand, she thought for a moment and found out that the blonde was simply obfuscating stupidity. Behind that goofy, stupid looking grin lies a monstrous person, cunning enough to take you by surprise.

She needed to be alert when around him. She couldn't let her guard down for a second. Uzumaki Naruto-sensei is a dangerous person.

"Eh, Mana-chan, is there something on my face?" Naruto asked, pointing it out to accentuate what was wrong with his face.

Mana shook her head, "No, sensei, just curious about those marks on your cheeks." She said in excuse.

"Oh, these?" The blonde touched the said marks with a grin and then added, "These are birthmarks, don't know how I got them, but I did."

Then again, there had always been idiots that were crazy powerful.

Kuu Fei then raised her hand and informed Yue, "Baka leader! I saw a shooting star earlier! Though it was red and had smoke on the tail end! Even so, I made a wish to fight a great opponent, aru!"

"Shooting star?" Negi looked confused at this as he didn't even remember one single star that had made a streak this night. Then again, fighting for your life was terribly distracting.

Yue on the other hand, who had been much closer to the proximity of the battle and saw the results herself, knew better.

'That was no shooting star that was a human female that was sent flying to lower earth orbit by Naruto-sensei of all people.' Yue thought as she eyed the blonde male then to Konohamaru.

'Then again, I've seen worse of what happened. Who knew Konohamaru-sensei had a familiar or that he can turn said creature of his into a weapon?'

Yue looked around and noticed that Negi was staggering while Konohamaru sat on to the side of the docks, heaving.

The girl inwardly scowled at this, did Nodoka know about Negi-sensei's true personality? That he was a mage and that those that are close to him were rather dangerous people? She had her doubts as well, that little show earlier down by cinema town wasn't exactly 'CG' or whatever special effect they had back there. Not only that, but the whole incident from the night before was raising her lots of questions as well. But to her, after that scary boy had entered their room and Asakura telling her to find help, the questions slowly came to life and answered so many but left room for more. Granted, it certainly made sense but not in the sense that magic or that giant talking toads or monkeys for that matter were real, but it sure provided her with a lot of info on certain people like Negi-sensei and Naruto-sensei.

The question was, did the academy know about it?

From Konoka's family's mansion, it was most probably the case. There were mismatches of concern and relief written on Eishun's face. It was barely noticeable, but it was there. She was more perceptive than anybody had thought.

She had an inkling Nodoka already knew, and thus, she wanted to keep quiet about it for certain reasons. She was not one to doubt her friend, no, she wouldn't even consider herself as one if she did.

"Boya, allow me to give you your marks for this battle." Eva said, standing tall (well, as best as she could, anyway) before Negi who looked nervous.

"You were terrible! You're completely vulnerable from behind once that boy managed to get close to you! You failed to see the importance of your own magic power when you saw that boy teleport in the water! You failed to negate more energy being given to Sakurazaki and Kagurazaka! Worst of all…" The vampire pointed to the two extra-terrestrial ninjas.

"You relied too much on those two to help you maintain your place! You've grown dull, boya, maybe next time; those two shouldn't interfere with a fight you got in your hands!"

"Oi, he's still a kid, Eva-chan, give him a break!" Asuna defended, Naruto simply held her left shoulder and shook his head.

"Although harsh, Eva seems to have a point. Negi has been relying too much on others that it completely left him open when opponents get close enough. Case and point, what happened just now, Negi is vulnerable to close range attacks so much, and from what I've seen out of these barriers of yours, it only reduces the damage, not actually deflect them. In our home, long range specialists require that they have last resorts if ever enemies get too close to them. That or at least have an idea about evasion tactics." Naruto mentioned, before looking back at Negi. In truth, he wanted to defend Negi, but he knew that Eva was speaking facts about it. Much like how Jiraiya did it during most of their training, his master reminded him of his shortcomings and always tried to correct them the best way he can. He improved a lot during that training, even the white haired old coot incorporated tactics in using his clones. It was harsh, but to him, it was well worth the weight in it. Though he thought that Eva needed to tone down on the insults at Negi, it just wasn't productive.

"The way things are now, Negi will never grow strong in his own right." Naruto mentioned as the brunette followed suit while watching Eva lecture Negi and give him a scolding or two, "I have a feeling that it's our fault as well, we've been interfering with Negi's battles too much. Pretty soon he'll be lax in his own training and just focus on finding his father."

"This is counter productive, if you haven't noticed." Naruto helpfully added to the fire brand as he then said, "Negi needs to realize that he needs to improve on his weakness rather than specializing more on spells. If I were Negi, I'd train more in hand-to-hand simply because this is the natural first choice of any fighter, but that's just how our people do it; Taijutsu is an art that people tend to cover first instead of techniques since using chakra immediately is wasteful."

"Yeah, but Negi's still ten." Asuna reminded the blonde who only nodded at this while looking at the vampire giving a mouthful to the young mage. Of course, Naruto found the little vampire's tirade tiring as she just couldn't stop talking! If he knew any better, he thought that Eva was nagging her heart out just to put Negi in his place as a low tier magician pitifully.

He was twirling a kunai in his hand and quickly flicked it towards Eva's back who suddenly grew alarmed. When the vampire turned her head to have better view as to why Naruto would suddenly do that, she saw the grey haired boy melding from the water just behind her back and was quickly closing the gap between them.

"Barrier breaking… Lance of stone." Said the boy as he reached out his hand, forming into a stone spike that reached for Eva's stomach intent on piercing it and taking down the powerful mage, the tip was so close, so close that it drew blood, so close that it was to pierce deeper into her skin, when the blonde teacher had appeared in front and punched the said rock with sheer strength alone. When Eva saw Naruto's face, it looked serious for a moment, his eyelids were red, scarlet as blood. His irises weren't majestic blue but yellow while his pupils were dilated to the side forming an oblong like shape.

Naruto then simply held out his hand and leaned forward, intent on punching the mysterious boy that acted like an animated corpse but stopped midway when rocks had suddenly sprouted behind him, the blonde ended his punch past halfway just a few centimetres from his face. Everyone was deathly silent as the water between the two slightly rippled when the boy said, "Such a cowardly response, you intend to take me down but not finish the deed because I would have pierced your heart. Don't think you can stop me with mere trick-…"

The boy stopped as he felt a powerful force pushing his face away with the force of a truck slamming at him at full speed. As the force rippled on his cheeks and felt his entire body electrocuted from the attack, the boy wondered just how Naruto was able to do such a baffling attack that could neither be seen nor felt that sent him skidding on the water.

He was then entrenched on the shoreline that sent him skidding a few more feet before stopping by a large boulder that shattered from the sheer force.

"H-How in the world…" Yue watched as she saw Naruto's immense strength, it was like how she saw the blonde literally kickinga twenty story knife straight at the giant white monster. Yue shook her head, it just wasn't possible!

What was more surprising however, was the boy that Naruto-sensei just decked from the altar to the shorelines was getting up from the said attack. Dirt littered his body due to the results of the skirmish earlier. In Yue's opinion, Naruto could have shattered the boy's skull with that attack.

"I see… A true blood and a person with unknown abilities that equates to at least the strength of one member of Ala Rubra, it would be disastrous if I have to fight either of you right now. I'll be retreating for today."

And with that, the silver haired boy melded once more into the water and vanished from their sight.

"That brat moves like a construct, he's no human, that's for sure." Eva commented, Naruto simply stood there and looked at the area to where the boy vanished. To this, the blonde scowled.

"He's tougher than I thought. I'll give him that, for him to stand just like that from my punch in Sage mode, he's quite a monster."

"That's quite a serious face you're putting, idiot, this is the first time I've seen it in your." Eva commented, Naruto however, simply hadn't turned his gaze yet from the area where that boy left as he said, "Yeah, well, that kid is making me worry. It looks like someone is interested in the academy. Of what, I don't know. But if this keeps up, the campus itself will be in danger. I just hope the old man has enough countermeasures set up by the time we get out of here."

It was then that Negi instantly collapsed, when the girls all noticed, they went over to their teacher who was breathing heavily, finally noticing that the Petrification spell used earlier was slowly affecting Negi, crawling towards his face as he struggled to take in oxygen.

Chachamaru quickly grab hold of their teacher before he collapsed on the wooden floor.

"Negi-sensei's magic resistance is unusually high therefore the Petrification process is very slow. However, this is a double edged sword for Negi-sensei seeing as he'll suffocate if his neck petrifies now." Chachamaru mentioned, the robot girl began examining the child as Negi struggled to breath. To her right, she heard a light thud and looked at the downed form of Konohamaru who had his back turned for the girls to notice his unconscious form. Naruto cursed up a storm as he approached his apprentice in worry.

"Damn apprentice, he just LOVES trying to kill himself every time he gets into a fight." Naruto mentioned as he grabbed an empty fuuda from his pocket as Kaede asked the blonde, "What wrong with Konohamaru-sensei, de gozaru?"

"Chakra depletion, it's a common phenomenon that happens in our world, it happens when one person uses so much chakra that his energy reserves are almost down to nil. It's fatal if chakra reaches zero point since we need chakra to run our system."

Once Naruto had finished that, he began performing a set of seals as words began weaving to the fuuda, creating a set letters that the kunoichi looked on, heavily impressed. Asuna looked over at Evangeline and looked frantic.

"W-What should we do? Can't you do something, Eva-chan?"

"Sorry, I'm not that good in healing magic. I've got no use for it."

Once Naruto was done, he quickly turned Konohamaru flat on his back and removed his shirt; the blonde slapped the fuuda with a new seal on Konohamaru's abdomen as Naruto's hand glowed with an ephemeral blue light. The brunette flinched and gritted his teeth as Naruto reeled his hand back and jabbed his fingers straight to the fuuda.

"What are you doing?" Yue asked, as Naruto merely grinned at this as he said, "This is called a chakra transfusion technique, it's more ritualistic rather than science based as compared to what our medics do at home. This is a pretty basic exercise in Fuinjutsu that lets the user transfuse chakra to any object he desires for a prolonged period of time. My sensei often suffers from chakra depletion due to his low reserves and a technique that is constantly on if he removes a certain object, it was one of the reasons why I used this. The problem in this technique is that it only gives enough chakra to sustain something, in this case, Konohamaru's chakra coils. It doesn't relieve him of his chakra depletion but it would be enough to at least let him breath and be conscious as his body recovers from exhaustion."

Konohamaru grunted in pain as he clenched his teeth from the chakra forcefully entering his system, his heavy breathing slowed, almost as much as the sweat from his forehead was slowly starting to disappear. With a weary look, Konohamaru opened his eyes as he struggled to get up.

"Damn technique… Hurts like a bitch every time you do it." Konohamaru muttered with a hoarse voice, his body sluggishly moving as he tried to turn around, his muscles were rigid and ached a lot.

"Suck it up, brat. Every time you fight you always end up almost killing yourself. I don't even know why you try and imitate me; you aren't exactly a chakra battery like I am." The blonde mentioned as Konohamaru clenched his fists hard. It was unfair to him. Naruto was a jinchuuriki, a super soldier that were used as secret weapons during war and a last resort. They house living embodiments of malevolent chakras that exist within their world that are considered as near infinite in amount. Even with his countless training hours he could never hope to stand in the place where Naruto is, right now, his chakra levels weren't even enough to match half of Naruto's. He needed to get stronger somehow; he needed to show that he wasn't just a member of the Sarutobi household and that he can exceed even his own grandfather. He needed to train better in using Senkakusha no Nehan.

During their conversation, a brilliant flash of light appeared just behind them as the ninjas saw Konoka wearing the same outfit that her father and attendants wore. She looked like a priestess or something close to the Onmyouji that Setsuna always talked about.

Naruto looked at his apprentice who was now being carried on the master's back who was scowling at it. There could only have been one person or rather creature that was responsible for this.

And there would be hell to pay.

Somewhere, Chigusa had gotten up from her painful landing. That blonde halfwit managed to destroy the summoned demon with a fire based spell that was strengthened with a wind based one. Not only did it the flames surged the body of Ryoumen Sukuna no Kami, it also exploded because of the wind spell that fanned the flames and contained it with so much volatile energy that it grew unstable as it reached out. Talk about napalm bombing.

As she trekked painfully from her landing spot, Amagasaki Chigusa limped away from the KMA, it would be too dangerous to go back there now, especially since their best operatives would be coming back tomorrow, she'd be a wanted person right now.

'You… are a bad person, aren't you?'

Chigusa stopped and looked up, listening to some form of disembodied voice that was rather stating the obvious, if she wasn't in pain, she'd be rolling her eyes at this. Instead, she just looked around and let that voice speak.

'But those evil-doers and their pride… Should be prepared to face evil themselves…'

Chigusa felt like jumping when she saw a knife suddenly impaling itself on the ground in front of her.

'Are you prepared?'

It was then that a small, cute and disturbingly homicidal looking puppet appeared in front of her carrying a butcher knife that looked like a giant sword to her.

"If you aren't prepared, then you are nothing more than a third-rate, cowardly little punk, a fool who can't even grasp the idea that to live by the sword is to die by the sword."

Chigusa didn't have any coherent thought at this, as she chose the best possible solution for this kind of situation.

She promptly passed out.

The next day:

"I TOLD YOU, IT WAS MOSTLY CRITICAL, ANIKI! IF IT WEREN'T FOR THAT PACTIO, NEGI-ANIKI WOULD BE DEAD!" Chamo screamed at the top his lungs, bound by thick rope before being slowly dipped closer and closer to a pot of boiling water. Naruto didn't look convinced as he ever so slightly lowered the rope. In truth, Naruto wanted it to be oil, but that would be too cruel, Chamo stared at the look that Naruto gave him and said, "You gotta' believe me, aniki! The situation called for it! Didn't you do it when you were in a bind as well?"

Naruto recalled that lady that took chakra out of his mouth through kissing, low and behold later, she turned into an old prune that gave him shudders. In spite of THAT memory, Naruto lowered the rope once more.

"Oh, come on!" Chamo pleaded, begged and flattered Naruto so that he would change his mind and not let the ensuing punishment take place, so far, he's had no luck.

"Chamo, this is punishment is for using THOSE particular situations on an innocent ten year old that happens to have a very vague view on intimate relationships. I don't know why, but I think his sister would not approve of such actions coming from you."

"He's got to grow up sometime, aniki, why not now?" Chamo asked, Naruto replied that it isn't the time yet for Negi to know such being ten and still have no grasp of what close relationships give off. He wanted the brat to learn this naturally, as in, when Negi became curious about it. He didn't want the kid growing up a sexual deviant that would score with women left and right, he may be a pervert, but he was a chivalrous pervert!

His attention was then placed elsewhere when he saw Setsuna walking away from Negi's room, stopping and looking back, as she talked to Evangeline. Naruto simply tied the rope in his hands to a nearest pole and jumped away.

"Hey, wait! Aniki! Don't leave me here!"

"Aren't you even going to say your farewells?" Evangeline asked, looking at the samurai girl with a small frown, not like she cared anymore than she already has, but to her, it is rather… dismissive that Setsuna would just leave like that.

"It would only be painful to see them face to face like this…" Setsuna replied, before she could talk, Naruto had appeared suddenly to her side and gave her a large bonk on the head for good measure.

"YOU SWORD WIELDING DUMBASS!" The blonde literally screamed in anger at this, he was angry, they talked about this, he smashed some sense into her head just last night and now she was willing to do it again? What the hell is wrong with this woman?

"We talked about this, Setsuna! Do you really want me to literally shove my lesson down your head? You don't HAVE to leave; we've been over this, cripes, woman! What does it take for you to realize that your own Nakama would want you by their side no matter what? We're your friends, Setsuna! We aren't strangers, we've met and talked, you became part of our lives!"

"B-But as the law of our people, once you saw our true form, we would have to abandon the people that…"

"Screw that rule! In fact, screw everything to what your people stand for! If it means I have to leave my friends because of that simple rule, I'd rather be dragged away kicking and screaming! No matter the consequence, being with the people that I care is the only thing that matters!" Naruto declared, Setsuna stopped for a moment as Setsuna stared into the passionate eyes of one Uzumaki Naruto, who trampled the law of her people. If her people could hear to what Naruto just said, he would have been lynched and mobbed on the spot. But Naruto declared it with so full of heart that it literally stopped her from thinking about her tribe.

"It isn't what you want, right? Then why should you have to do it? Why should you have to leave the people that you created your bonds with? That's just plain stupid!" Naruto answered as Setsuna bowed.

"I have already repaid my debt to the Konoe family; I thank them for raising me when the Shinmeiryuu School abandoned me. My duty is done." With that, Setsuna tried to run off, but it should be noted that no one has ever outran Naruto in this world.

"Stop running, goddamn it!" Naruto had suddenly grabbed her hand and pulled her back, she fell down as Naruto dragged her back into the mansion by holding the back of the collar as Setsuna was looking absolutely mortified "You coward, how do you think Konoka would feel if you just leave like that? We've all got skeletons in our closet, so what? Does it make you even less of a person? I don't think so! If you want to have a purpose for staying by her side, then why not continue what you're doing now?"

Naruto then added, "Don't ever try giving up in making bonds, Setsuna. It's the only thing that will keep you sane in this world."

Setsuna looked up at the figure that was dragging her back, Naruto didn't even have to look back at her as he continued, "People change, Setsuna, if they don't see you for you, then you're just going to have to claw your way into their hearts."

"There is no bigger pain than being on the verge of loneliness with nothing but your shadow and reflection as your companions. It doesn't lead to a safe haven, Setsuna, it just leads to emptiness."

Setsuna remained quiet when Naruto quickly picked her up and placed her in a piggy back, slowly, getting back into the mansion. For some reason, Naruto wasn't angry, rather, he was reflecting as to what Setsuna was forcing herself to do.

"That emptiness soon builds up and it gradually turns to something much more sinister. Hatred and bitterness are born when you have no one to support you. It isn't about duty, Setsuna; it's about being there for each other. Friends share something that can never be broken by anybody."

As Naruto looked up, he saw Negi who was dashing towards them, with Konohamaru at the back carrying a wooden crutch, a sign of his chakra exhaustion.

"And that something is something you have to discover and feel on your own..." Naruto ended with a smile as he set down Setsuna when Negi said to the swordswoman, "You aren't really going to run off, are you Setsuna-san? What about Konoka-san? What about the rest of us! If people knew my identity too, I'd be turned into an ermine so please don't go!"

To this, Negi was suddenly stopped when Asuna and Konoka had dashed towards them in a rush.

"This is bad, Setsuna, the Shikigami we used in the hotel have gone crazy!" Asuna declared, she knew something was about to happen there she just didn't know what.

"Set-chan, let's hurry up or Nitta-sensei will punish us again! Those Shikigami will only worsen the situation!"

"Sakurazaki! Your paper dolls just went overboard and decided to do a strip show earlier! We need to get back now!"

Naruto smiled at this, not for the image that Asakura gave him, it was about the fact that they were all grabbing Setsuna as if they were expecting him to go back with them.

"See? Doesn't it make you feel better just being with them? I know I am." Naruto informed. Setsuna had slowly but surely, let out a smile from her lips as she nodded.

Once they got back to the hotel, Naruto waved to his students a little farewell and grabbed Konohamaru; the blonde jumped towards their room and looked forward to a nice warm bath after a full night of fighting.

Once he sloppily set Konohamaru on his Futon and a mutter of insult from the brunette, Naruto quickly grabbed his materials and went straight towards the baths.

Once he was close enough towards the baths, he saw Kazumi dashing away followed by Mana and the rest who were chasing after her with only a towel on. Naruto could care less as he needed a much relaxing bath right now!

Once he made it to the hot springs, he sat down and gave a sigh of content as he felt himself slowly drifting from consciousness. He shook his head for a moment there and relaxed, letting the warm feeling of the hot spring take effect and soothe his slightly weary muscles.

When he was done, he got up and dried himself with his towel and placed it at the back of his neck, fully exposing himself to the obviously empty changing room.

'Hehe…'

CLICK!

On alert, Naruto immediately jumped from his current place and ran back into the baths covering his modesty with the towel on his shoulders.

"Thanks for the photo, sensei!" Asakura smirked as she headed out with a trickle of blood from her nose. If not for the fact that it was him that was the target of her mischief, Naruto would be laughing his ass off at that one.

"Kazumi, give me the camera." Naruto deadpanned, Asakura simply walked out.

"Good luck in catching me first, sensei, remember you're still in your towel and I doubt you running around with it to hide your modesty would be of little commotion."

With that, Asakura gave a simple wave as Naruto frantically went for his clothes and found none.

'Why that snide little… I'll get her for this!' Nitta approached the baths with caution as he saw Naruto chuckling at the corner of the changing room. He didn't know why, but that smile was a sign of something not worth getting involved in. He wanted to prevent it but to him, it was simply not worth the effort anymore. Naruto-sensei can handle himself, he was an adult now.

Oh how petty Naruto can be sometimes, and who says revenge can be a bad thing?

Later on, Naruto and the rest made their way towards a three storey house that Negi mentioned belonged to his father, they looked around and found the place filled with books. Naruto didn't look interested in them as he had his hands on the back of his forehead. He looked at a small picture frame where the image of a person in Negi's likeness (who he deduced as Negi's father) was standing with people who were assumed as Nagi's friends. He had a raised eyebrow at this and asked Eishun who had taken interest in Naruto's intent on seeing the picture. Konohamaru, who had been walking on crutches the whole day, watched his master stare intently on the picture of the red headed man that is assumed as Negi's father.

"Hey, Eishun-san… What's the name that your group was called?" Naruto asked, Negi had yet to reach this place as the boy kept looking around. Eishun looked at the boy and said, "Our group was called, Ala Rubra, or Red Wings in our language. It was a pretty compulsive group with Nagi as the leader of it."

"Red Wings, huh? Pretty flashy name for a group then again, I was named along with Sasuke and Sakura as the Arata Densetsu no Sannin (New Legendary Three). So I guess I can't complain."

Eishun looked impressed at this, the boy was only starting to turn twenty and already he had received such prestige? How come he did not hear any of this?

"My I ask as to why you were christened with that name, Naruto-san?" Asked Eishun, curious as to what the reason was behind the name. Naruto merely grinned at this as he said, "It's because the three of us were the major players of our war, not only that, we came from a lineage of master and students that had a trace back to the original three, which were our masters respectively. I was taught by the Sealing specialist and Toad sage, Jiraiya, Sasuke was taught by the Ninjutsu specialist, Orochimaru and Sakura was taught by the medical specialist, Tsunade. Orochimaru, Tsunade, and Jiraiya; all three of them were the original members of the Sannin that passed their knowledge to us. Not only that, many of our peers already consider us as those who have already surpassed their masters."

"Wow… So you guys were given such amazing titles? How come I didn't know this?" Eva asked, suddenly in their presence, Naruto answered.

"It's because we aren't really from here. Or should I say, we aren't from this world. We accidentally drifted here by a botched time-space Jutsu that I was working on."

To this, Eva gave a snort and then a tiny chuckle, "Oh? Should I be surprised that you were the one responsible?"

Oh, payback was SO going to be sweet! Eva had thought, finally, some dirt for the blonde that she can rub in his face! Then again, manipulating the time space folds with magic was simply too difficult without a proper device, and even then, the machine would be as big as four storey building.

"Eh, it was mostly discovering a lost technique that my father did, but I guess this type of jutsu is harder than it looks. The sealing is too difficult to maintain and the amalgam of what the Fourth Hokage did in his sealing was simply not in my master's notes." Naruto thought as Negi and the others caught up with them and saw the picture. While the girls and Negi looked at the picture, Naruto, Eva and Eishun were discussing. The conversation turned to something much more serious as Konohamaru had intervened in the middle of the conversation suggesting that something or rather someone was investigating Mahora, if that white haired boy was any indication.

"Most likely, they are either after Negi or at least one member of his class. Now that I've been looking into it, these aren't your ordinary class members; one is a ninja while the other is a swordswoman guarding a potentially powerful mage in her class. There's also a gunslinger and a martial artist. Call me stupid, but I think this class has got to be a collection of both the weirdest and the most intriguing members of the whole school. I wonder what that old coot is thinking that he could place this many people in the class… Was it for his granddaughter?" Eva asked, thinking with her hand cusped to her chin.

"It's quite a possibility that we've looked up, Evangeline-san, but I don't think Konoka was present in their radar up until last night, that boy was more interested in Negi-kun than he was with Konoka. Perhaps it was his objective, but then again, I wouldn't put it past that they were interested in someone else entirely." Eishun helpfully added.

Naruto scowled at this, who could be interested in this school other than a pervert? He had already known that the World Tree was a rather large pool of Magical power if what Kaede had told her were true. Then again, something THAT big was already obvious maybe something more subtle and quite considerably, more dangerous than that. He scowled further and further at this it was possible that there was a potential weapon in the academy that could be enough for something like a group of evil-doers would consider worth investigating at. It was just like what happened to him, his status as a jinchuuriki was only present with the older generation but for the younger, it was a secret better left buried. All of that protection, all of that countermeasures that the Third Hokage had implemented, given and spent on Naruto, was no match for the might of an organization that consisted of nine S-class criminals that could wipe out a village or two, all for the sake of capturing him and eight others like him for a plan to manipulate the entire world under one banner, Akatsuki.

"We should stop thinking about this for now; we worry about it when one incompetent agent stumbles on in the school. We can get more information that way, until then, I suggest we keep this tight lipped between the four of us, we don't need for Negi to learn about this until he can rightfully defend himself better." Naruto suggested, Eva seemed curious at this and asked why.

"Well, if you want to know the answer, it's that we don't want to rush Negi's growth, there's a reason why training has to be taken in a painful road and not accelerating it to the point that it leaves Negi as a Jack of all trades and a master of none. You get where I'm going with this, right, Eva-chan?" Naruto asked. The girl only scowled at the nickname but agreed nonetheless.

"More importantly, to prepare Negi for this, he needs to focus." Naruto added before Asakura, who had suddenly had pink hair since this morning (the girl was glaring at Naruto since that incident and held the hair dye upwards with a devilish smirk), gathered their group for a picture.

When it was about to flash, Naruto quickly grabbed Eva's cheeks and contorted it into any way he wished, forcing the said girl to smile underneath furrowing eyebrows with Naruto grinning at her side as if he had done something amusing once more. A second flash occurred and before it happened, Eva decked Naruto on the cheek that forced a once formal picture into a portrait of chaos with Naruto receiving a powerful punch from Eva, with the child teacher going to their side to diffuse the situation, Konohamaru laughing while the rest of the girls watched on in surprise. Only Chachamaru was the one that stood impassive.

"Ow." Naruto said as he rubbed his swollen cheek. Damn that girl could hit hard. He was still reeling from the pain once they got back from the mansion. Now on their way home the day after the sightseeing, Negi, Naruto and Konohamaru sat by the far back of the train compartment, Konohamaru was sleeping as Naruto kept doodling for another seal exercise. Negi watched the scenery on the window of the moving Shinkansen. The orange colour of the setting sun gave off a very relaxing atmosphere around the train as Negi smiled in content, happy that he could visit his father's home.

"Hey, Negi." Naruto called out, the child teacher turned his attention to his older brother figure and curiously asked, "What is it, nii-san?"

Naruto looked thoughtful for a moment there as the blonde looked up for a moment but shrugged it off, "Would you like to learn how to fight?"

Negi sat there silent for a moment. Was this an offer from Naruto-nii-san? Anyway, he needed to ask more about this; didn't Naruto-nii refuse to train him saying that his techniques are far different from Negi's?

"What got you asking, Naruto-nii-san? I thought you said I don't have chakra for me to learn your jutsus." The boy replied, Naruto simply leaned back on his seat as he said, "Old bag of laughs there was pretty harsh on her statements about your performance. And although what she said was mostly true, criticism without correction isn't exactly helpful either. I can tell Eva-chan would be a great master, but even she has flaws in teaching, the same with me. I can't teach you magic but I can teach you how to fight, especially enhancing your physical strength. The problem with your way of fighting is that at close range, you are pretty much toast. I can polish that for you like how I saw it was important for Konohamaru about versatility in using techs."

"But why would you do that Naruto-nii-san? I mean, not that I'm complaining or anything but why train me?" Negi asked, Naruto answered him with a smirk. Inwardly, he was trying to keep the idea of Mahora being in the sights of an enemy that had interest in it.

"Resolve is one thing I look for in people, Negi. If they have resolve, they have strength. Like how I saw you when you faced that albino kid despite your exhaustion, you could say I was surprised, really. So what do you, say?"

Negi needed not to be told twice as he was instantly in on the idea.

Mahora Academy:

Naruto looked around, careful not to be seen anywhere in this forest. As quickly as they arrived, Naruto immediately went straight to a secluded forest, thinking about what Fukasaku wanted with him. With bite of his thumb and five seals later, a little plume of smoke appeared before him, Fukasaku stood in front of Naruto with his hands behind his head and wearing a frown.

"Ah, I'll never get used to that summoning circle; one of these days we'll need an alarm system to set that thing up, takes me up by surprise, anytime!" Complained the old toad, Naruto stared at his sensei with a deadpan look, it looked like even frogs had a hard time in being oriented on what to do.

"Yo, Fukasasku-sensei!" Naruto gave a salute to which the old toad gave a smile.

"Naruto-chan? Ah, good, I was getting worried that you might have forgotten to summon me ever since two nights ago, I heard from Bunta-chan about the battle that ensued. I must say that you have come a long way ever since you've become genin." Fukasaku mused with a smile, thinking that the former master of Naruto would have been proud of his apprentice.

"So what'd you want to talk about? Oyabun said you wanted to discuss something."

"Ah, of course, the seal required for making the anchor back to Konoha. I would advice that you try to redo it. The seal is poorly made and anymore use of it would result in terribly unknown consequences. The last seal that you did caused a ten meter radius crater in a training field, but I believe it would have possibly been more than that if you had applied more chakra than necessary. The reason why we can't use it is because of the fact that the anchor seal you used would require you use more energy the further you were gone. It was a good thing that it was destroyed when it did. If you had used that seal again when in tact, I doubt Konoha would even exist right now."

Naruto paled at this and decided to keep the fact that he tried to use the same technique again just a few minutes after the initial launch. No way in hell would he say anything about this to that old woman! She'll kill him!

"What's the matter, Naruto-chan? You look pale all of a sudden."

"Nothing! I'm completely fine, I'm sure glad I didn't use that technique again, nope, no sirree!"

Fukasaku raised an eyebrow at this but decided to let it slide, "Yes well, after that research, we decided to do a reverse summoning technique, it didn't work."

Naruto's scared expression soon turned to curiosity at this, "Why?" he asked.

"It's going to be difficult to explain, but to put it in simpler terms; the idea of your time-space jutsu is way too different from the Yondaime Hokage's." Fukasaku explained as he hopped on Naruto's shoulder and showed the seal markings on Naruto's shoulders.

"Think of the time and space folds as differing roads that stretch out like networks. From our world, you arrived here using that jutsu of yours because of circumstance and that this was as far as your chakra could allow to take you to. Thus, creating a route that is different from what the rest of us summoned creatures normally take."

The old toad then hopped down from Naruto's shoulders and created a drawing on the ground with sticks, he drew two circles and a straight line in between them. He then drew an arc above the two

"However, once you summon us here, we can have access to the route that you just used, but only in this world. Thus, we have an access to reverse summoning you. But only if the summoner frog is in this world" Fukasaku mentioned, as he drew a line and connected the arc and the straight line.

"Why it doesn't affect your chakra usage of summoning is because of this route you just opened up, because you didn't just jump, Naruto-chan, you ripped a hole in the fabric of Time and Space and created a sort of link from this world and ours. That link connected the realm of humans as the realm of summons did. This dimension and ours connected through you and your apprentice, it was why summoning Gamabunta wasn't as taxing as it was supposed to be on you and your apprentice because of the accessed route."

"The problem lies in the fact that only you two have access to this and most likely it will stay that way. So right now, the only people who have access to high level summons from our world without burdening drawbacks are you two."

"So how do we get back?" Naruto asked, Fukasaku then suggested, "The same way you came in, however, with a different seal. That route access is the only way to get back without being marooned on some other planet since it only has two points to connect in, this world and ours."

"Revise your former seal design then we'll talk. Tsunade-chan has yet to know your status so I must inform her, you're doing well, I suppose?"

Naruto looked at his side and said, "I will be if you don't mention to baa-chan about what would have happened if I used the technique again."

Fukasaku only laughed at this and said, "Don't worry, Naruto-chan, I don't plan on telling her that, we wouldn't want our last summoner be dead prematurely by the hands of his mother figure."

"Somehow I doubt that."

To be continued…

Update! For starters, I couldn't really update a few days ago because of a busy schedule. That and I happen to have a dislike on transition arcs, winding down has never been my strong point. Though this chapter answers the questions about just reverse summoning them to get back.

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