祖たるもの –The Progenitor–

Chapter Ten: Love is in the Air「恋が空にいる」

Rias Gremory giggled as she held onto Naruto's arms tightly. The blonde grunted a bit, trying to hide the pain in his arm- oh wait, he just lost the feeling on said-arm. Maybe a little too tightly.

Well, one cannot blame the redhead. It's been weeks, maybe even months, since the two went out on a date like this.

It was only a normal date, nothing special about it. The two bought a pair of ice cream cones as Rias giggled at Naruto not noticing a stray drop on his nose. They then visited the local Anim Mania (an all-purpose anime and manga store) as Rias looked as if she was in heaven (pun not intended). Naruto merely chuckles at the girl as he catches up to the recent chapter of one of his favorite manga.

They then sat at a nearby café as they shared a drink. The waitresses around them cooed at the sight of the lovebirds.

Finishing off their drinks, Naruto offered to walk Rias home. As Rias rested her head on her lover's shoulder, she sighed. To her, it was perfect. Nothing can get any better than this. It was just her and Naruto at the glorious city, taking in the sites and foods and entertainment, enjoying their lives to the fullest.

It just made her think about how she fell in love with the blonde man walking next to her.

She supposed it all started when Naruto was suddenly taken away from her when they were younger. When Naruto was suddenly adopted by that strange blue haired lady who smelled like a cat on fire (literally). When Naruto was suddenly taken out from her life for a short while.

With Naruto temporarily out of the picture, Rias felt… lonely.

For a lack of better sentences, Rias missed Naruto. She missed that brightly sun-kissed hair. She missed those shiny blue eyes that she could just sink into. She missed that even brighter smile that just grinned at her face. The warmth she felt when the two cuddled in bed. The feeling of his soft hair. The sense that everything will be better just by being near him. Rias missed Naruto.

It wasn't until her 15th birthday when Naruto had one of his regular monthly visits that it clicked in.

She was in love with Ōtsutsuki Naruto.

That bright grin of his that just spoke how happy he was to see her every single damn time he visited or the other way around, it brightened not only the room, but also her face. Rias smiled, giving her lover a look.

Yep.

She definitely was, and is, in love with him.

"Neh, Naruto?"

"Hmm?"

"Remember my 16th birthday?"

There was a slight pause as Naruto narrowly closed his eyes so he was squinting. Deadpanning at the girl holding off of his arm, he hummed. "Your 16th birthday? If I remember, that was when you actually didn't want that present I got you for that year."

Rias pouted, "Don't be such a jerk, Naruto! Of course I wanted that present! I just… wanted something more…!"

"Yeah yeah. Just cause you're the heir of the Gremory family, means you're allowed to have a bit more stuffs for your famous sixteenth birthday, am I right?"

Naruto hissed as Rias slapped him on the arm playfully. "Jerk! You know how I hate being sounded like a proper stuck-up high-class ojōsama type!"

Naruto slicks a tongue out playfully, knowing exactly the reason why Rias hated being referred to like that. It just made it even funnier to call her that. Sticking her tongue back at Naruto, Rias glared at her lover as Naruto raspberries her back. The two continue to do this before Naruto bit his tongue. The two stare at the slightly swollen tongue before beginning to laugh.

Wiping the tears from his eyes, Naruto says, "Tahahaha, to answer your, haha, question, Rias."

The blonde calms down, grinning as he does, "Yeah, I do remember that time. How could I not?"

Rias smiles brightly as Naruto grins back. He lowers his head so that their foreheads touched. "It was when we confessed to each other, after all."

(Later…)

"Mmph… slurp, haaa, mmmaah oom…"

"Aahh, sssshlll, puhaah, hmmmn…"

The sound of love making (not really) can be heard as slick feminine hands massaged themselves into a forest of yellow mane as rough masculine hands likewise brushed themselves against a meadow of red hair. The two lovers fought with their tongues and saliva, trying to get the upper hand. At the moment, it was a standoff as Rias straddled Naruto, the two hugging each other that it was impossible to get in between them. The red devil's breasts barely had any room to bounce around as Naruto ferociously grabbed one part of her buttocks with a growl.

Drips of saliva fell from their mouths onto their chins, not caring in the world as they wetted the bed with nothing but liquidized version of DNA.

In between the kisses, the two continuously showered each other with their love, whispering "I love you" over and over and over. The kiss goes on for several more minutes before Naruto begins to growl in dissatisfaction.

With a yelp, Rias was overwhelmed onto the bed, her arms high above her as Naruto gives another of his predatory smirks. Thinking of Akeno for less than half a second, Rias lets out an "eep" before being forced into another kiss. Squirming underneath her lover, Rias tries to get out of the rather erotic hold she was in, but alas, without showing her real powers, it turned out to be nigh possible.

Naruto then began to shove his mouth somewhere other than Rias'. The redhead's eyes snapping open as Naruto begins to rub his mouth and tongue over her sensitive spot just at the bottom of her earlobes. In less than half-a-second, Rias became nothing but pudding underneath Naruto.

"N-Naruto!? Nooo! Not theeeeheheheereee…"

Her face flushed with all the blood rising, Rias could do nothing but moan with her mouth hung open as Naruto continued to tease her with his tongue. All her efforts to escape disappeared as Naruto bit into her earlobe. Squirming, but not as hard as before, Rias was fighting a losing battle.

Gnawing his teeth against the soft flesh of Rias' earlobe, Naruto took joy in feeling his lover try to push him off her body. Being the healthy young man he is, his libido was fully erected, but he knew it was dangerous to go any further than this. Less he wants the whole engagement thing to blow up on the two of them and they both get crucified by fire next to each other.

…

Yeah, he has a real crazy imagination.

However, Naruto knew that even if they don't go all the way (they haven't even went to second base yet), it was still enough to get rid of all that sexual frustration the two had to deal with over the years. Akeno often teases the two of them over it too, always calling Rias a masochist or Naruto an uke; she never really made sense to him.

However, seeing Rias squirm under him as she continuously rubbed her thighs together, a healthy red blush covering her cheeks and nose, Naruto couldn't help but muse that Akeno was right about his lover being a masochist, if ever so slightly.

Feeling something wet against his knee, Naruto simply smiles, knowing that Rias was getting pretty close to releasing. Smirking as he continues to kiss Rias all over the place, he moves down to her neck. Satisfied with hearing a soft moan and gasp emitting from Rias, Naruto stops and looms over her.

Seeing tears threatening to leave her eyes as she tried to control her breathing, Naruto grinned as Rias tried to give him a death glare. Settling with furrowed eyes, Rias tried to be angry, truly she was, however failing. Pouting as she tried o catch her breath, her chest rising higher and lowering, Rias mutters, "Meanie…"

Grinning mischievously, Naruto brushes his lips against Rias', making her giggle at the touch. Glad to see the redhead losing her small anger, Naruto replies, "But I'm your meanie…"

The girl flushes again with a smile on her face. Bringing her face closer to Naruto, Rias gave another loving kiss to Naruto.

Smiling in the kiss, Naruto kisses back, letting Rias' arms go as he wraps his arms around her. The redhead responds by wrapping her own arms around Naruto's neck. The two continue to kiss as they hugged one another, the blonde falling to the redhead's side.

Separating, Rias nuzzled in Naruto's embrace as he continuously whispered in her ear. As they fell asleep, he gave one last statement.

"I'm never letting you go… ever…"

(Days later…)

Naruto was humming to himself as he walked over to the local market to buy ingredients for dinner. Nodding to himself as he exit the market, Naruto muses to himself, remembering a few days ago when he found out that Issei has finally managed to attain a girlfriend. The blonde remembers him saying how he was joking about the boy not getting any dates. The joke play over and done with, he celebrated with the brunette for as long as the boy wanted. Though, the girl was glaring at him for some reason.

Weird.

Chuckling at the memory, Naruto notices a short haired brunette passing out flyers. Noticing that the person, a female, was wearing a bat-themed cosplay, he mused himself by imagining Rias in such a costume, remembering her otaku hobbies. Chuckling to himself, Naruto walks up to the girl to ask for one of her flyers, wondering if he could attend to whatever convention she represented.

"Yo, mind if I have one-…?"

He flinches, however, when the girl, as she was about to pass the flyer to him with a smile, suddenly sees the young blonde.

Undeniably recognizing the boy as her master's lover, whom her master has told again and again to never, never, NEVER give the flyer to said boy, the girl began to shiver a bit as she greatly hesitated in giving Naruto the flyer.

Raising a brow at her odd reaction, Naruto took hold of the flyer and tried to take it, only to see the girl gripping the flyer as if her life depended on it. Naruto began to rain down bullets of sweat as he sees the girl shivering harder the more he tries to take the flyer. Her grip was pretty strong too, and are those tears threatening to fall from her eyes?

Trying not to think about that, he asks nicely, "Umm… you mind letting go…?"

The girl only shook her head with great desperation as Naruto tugged harder.

"Uhh… please…?"

The magic word never cease to work-

Naruto shocks as the girl simply tugs the flyer back in her direction. Getting irritated in this play of events, Naruto tugs even harder. It was now a game of tug-of-war as the two tried to grab the flyer from each other's hands, each with different reasons. The flyer threatening to rip into two, Naruto suddenly gained a look of recognition, looking behind the girl.

Flinching at the sudden change of attention, the girl immediately looked behind her to see-

… Nothing?

Seeing no one but the crowd bustling about, the girl turned back only to see Naruto walking away, a smug smile on his face while waving the flyer back and forth.

"Thanks for the flyer, Kōmori-chan!"

Watching with newfound horrors as the blonde lover of her master walked away, the girl looked to the left. To the right. Before rushing off to a nearby alleyway. Closing her eyes, a puff of smoke appeared before in a brilliant crimson light, the girl was gone. In its place was a small bat-like creature who, with horror-filled eyes, quickly flew away. Heading to her master to share the bad news.

The day has just ended. The sun was setting and a majority of the clubs at Kuō Academy have ended.

Watching the students leave the campus, Rias frowned to herself, ignoring the amassing pile of paperwork that Akeno had collected for her, she thought about the recent events that have irked her irritably.

"Buchō?" Akeno asked as she walked in with a tray of tea, worried about her childhood friend. Looking at the top of Rias' favorite chair was the redhead's familiar, the bat that Rias has affectionately named Nori. Noticing that Nori was holding a very ashamed and saddened face worried the Yamato Nadeshiko young lady. Frowning, Akeno paid as much attention as possible to Rias as the redhead turned around, a strong frown on her face.

"Akeno? Sorry, Nori-chan just arrived a few minutes ago with terrible news."

Terrible news? That took Akeno's curiosity, wondering what could be terrible news even for Rias aside from the arranged marriage between her and Riser. However…

"Judging by your face, it seems you understand what has happened," Rias stated with a matter of fact tone. Lightly glaring at her familiar − who cowered under her master's gaze − Rias sighed in frustration. "Naruto has somehow managed to obtain one of my family's summoning papers. I won't blame it entirely on Nori−chan, of course, Naruto can be rather stubborn and sly when he wants to be."

Smiling softly as she petted Nori, the bat nuzzled into her master's hand before dismissing herself back into the Familiar's forest. Watching her familiar leave, Rias frowned. Hugging herself, the girl leaned onto Akeno, who walked up to her knowing her King's mental stability at the moment. Hearing Rias groan in frustration and worry, Akeno lightly patted the red hair.

"I hope nothing happens to him…" Rias was so close to crying, but she held strong, "I promised that nothing bad will happen to him…"

"Me too, Buchō," Akeno replied, "Me too…"

A/N:

So it now begins.

I have to say, I had trouble deciding if I want to post this up or change it. Largely because of the beginning part, it didn't fit as a beginning to me... Meh.

So rather than saying that this is a proper chapter, I'll just say that this is more of a foreboding of future chapters. How's that? Yes? ... No? Ok...

Going to the story... Umm, yeah, we now see how far the lovebirds went with their not-so-secret relationship. Granted, it's kind of obvious, but we also see how much they feel for each other. Especially that one part *wiggles eyebrows*

In the chapter, midway through, we also see Naruto meeting with a certain somebody's Familiar! And as you have noticed, I've named the Familiar "Nori", as she continues to be unnamed in the HSDxD canon! If she is ever named, then I shall change her name, but until then, her name shall be "Nori"! Cause, well, "nori" translates to dried edible seaweed that Asians use to make sushi and toppings. It can also be used as topping for ramen, hence why Nori's been named "Nori".

Oh, and before anyone asks, "kōmori" roughly translates to "bat".

Anyway, things starting to heat up with Naruto now obtaining one of Rias' summoning papers... What's gonna happen next!?

To find out, Keep Reading!