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'I hate being reminded how much like my mother I'm like.'

Naruto's thoughts were nothing but bitterness as they took their boats away from the Uzumaki Island. To think that all of the dead were still very active, and that his mother's brother had the nerve to keep reminding him of how alike he was to his parents.

"He seems in a really bad mood, what happened?"

'Them questioning it is even more annoying.' Naruto thought with a vein of annoyance on his forehead. The cute and adorable Koneko, as much as he was fond of her being on the same boat as him, was actually getting on his nerves. The girl was, for starters, confused as to why Rias was knocked out cold, and nobody who had seen what happened was talking about it.

Naruto glanced to his shoulder when a hand touched it.

"Are you okay? You seem really... not okay."

"I'm fine Issei." Naruto's answer was short and not so sweet.

'Dick.' Issei thought.

"But... thanks for asking." Naruto decided that Issei hadn't done anything to really deserve his annoyance. So, which red cheeks (he was not used to giving thanks to anyone), he gave Issei a short thanks for the sentiment. "Oh wipe that dumb smile off your face." Naruto glanced at Issei and saw the boy was grinning like a fool.

Sona raised her voice up.

"With your personality, I didn't think you would ever be the one to suggest retreating from a fight." Sona mentioned, since just by spending any amount of time with Naruto, she understood that he was the first to battle impossible odds with a smile. He overcame challenges, he proved his strength, and he was a cocky son of a bitch that didn't know when to die.

Naruto scoffed.

"Like I said, I can't protect all of you, and fight 6 Akatsuki members at the same time, not without being able to use my full power. You all need to get stronger so you don't hold me back in the future." Naruto raised his nose high in fake arrogance. He did understand that they didn't have the lifetime of training and effort that he did, nor did they have the same background of training to be the best as him, but if they were to be his friends they were going to be in danger. Danger, that in the future, would no doubt come for all of them in an attempt to get to him.

Naruto frowned.

He had experience with the Akatsuki targetting people he loved, and he would rather there never be a repeat of that incident.

"What is this group's goal anyway?" Koneko asked Naruto, still not getting what was going on.

"I don't know what they are doing, my teacher is looking into them. Akatsuki's been around for a long time now, but it's only been recently that they've started to become active." Naruto mentioned that he knew only a little more than them. Naruto looked down at Rias whose head was in his lap, and he started to stroke her hair gently. "You all need to get stronger. Akatsuki doesn't hesitate to do horrible things to people." Naruto's words had anger in them.

Everyone could hear that he resented the group.

"I makes sense that you would have a grudge against them." Sona started, before Naruto glanced at her.

"They killed the girl I asked to marry me."

His words were told with no true emotion to them, but they could see on his face that Naruto had an unbelievable amount of rage inside of him. But overtaking that rage, was a deep sadness.

"You, in love, I find that-"

"Shut up Koneko." Naruto stated to the rather rude cutie. '... I'm never going to get my answer... she never did tell me what her answer was before she was killed.' Naruto thought, unwilling to share that piece of information with them.

Arms wrapped around him.

"I'm soooo soooorryyyyy!"

"Get off of me you crying lunatic!" Naruto shouted as he started to push Issei off of him with an injured arm. Issei had snot and tears coming from his nose and eyes, and was just emotional at hearing that. Sona and Koneko didn't know what to say, though Koneko's silence was because he snapped at her when he did.

'So he wants revenge against the Akatsuki... In the end, he's the same as Yuuto.' Sona could see the anger in his eyes.

He had reason for revenge.

"I can see your eyes, and what is in them. No, I don't care about revenge. It isn't going to bring her back to me. I'm going to destroy the Akatsuki, but not for revenge. It's an insult to her memory. I'm going to stop them from hurting others like they hurt me." Naruto spoke with a glare directed at Sona, knowing that by telling them of who he lost, that they would assume that he was driven by revenge. "When you've known love, and you've lost that love, you learn more about yourself than you could possibly imagine. Revenge is a selfish thing, nobody benefits from it. It doesn't avenge or bring back the dead, and it doesn't make the living feel better." Naruto had wanted revenge, but when he thought about how sad she would have been, he gave up on his desire for revenge.

He would kill her killer, but he would not do it out of rage and anger, he would do it because it was the best way to stop anymore people from suffering.

"You really are the man I wish to be engaged with." Sona pointed out, correcting her slightly broken glasses. When she had been knocked out, they had taken a little damage, just enough so that she needed new glasses.

Naruto snorted.

"Lucky bastard, you're already getting a harem before me!" Issei screamed, and he tried to punch Naruto.

...

Issei rolled around the boat holding his bruised hand, having punched Naruto in the back and hurt his own fist in the process.

"You're the worst." Koneko told Issei as she looked down at the older student in annoyance.

"Now my hand and my heart hurts."

"I think Issei being the worst might just make him that much better. After all, I think it's about time that the Red Dragon Emperor not be obsessed with gaining power. This generation might just end the feud between the Dragon Emperors." Naruto would like to see that, the end of the legacy that ended his parents. Issei being an unredeemable pervert could just be the thing needed to finally end the rivalry between the dragons.

Sona didn't comment.

She could understand that Naruto held personal interest in the Dragon Emperors.

"You-"

"Then again, I might just kill the Dragon Emperor's myself, so you better keep training Issei, because one day I might be your enemy!" Naruto laughed, not even slightly serious about going after Issei. He found the boy too funny to kill him, though he might seriously kill the White Dragon.

He wasn't going to kill his friend.

"Eeeep!"

"... I was joking dumbass." Naruto deadpanned to the younger boy.

"Well it doesn't sound like that coming from you!" Issei pitifully shouted out. He nearly shit his pants from that declaration, and the seeds of doubt had been planted in his mind for it. He was going to be having Naruto-related nightmares for years. "You scary bastard!" Issei added just for added insult.

Sona paused.

"On the island... I sensed a very powerful, very dark... aura... It was so dark, that it could even make a Devil's aura feel like an Angel... Do you have any clue who it belonged to?" Sona asked Naruto, she wasn't sure, but she had the feeling that he would. After all, he seemed to have the answer to many questions.

Naruto looked confused.

"I'm not exactly great at sensing. Unless somebody has a Dragon Aura, or I'm fighting them, I don't really bother sensing my surroundings." Naruto didn't have the answer she was looking for.

Everyone face planted.

'Alpha logic.' Koneko sighed as she looked at Naruto.

The logic of those at the top of the food chain. When you reach the apex of strength, then you never have a reason to be on the lookout for dangers. The feeling of needing to be aware of your surroundings was something needed by the weak after all. The strong took all challenges head on and without fear, so there was never a need to be aware of your surroundings unless actually in a real fight. Naruto had overpowering strength and skill, so it made sense that he didn't feel the need to be aware of what was happening around him.

He had no need to sense things, so he didn't.

"Well, you're helpful." Sona gave him a look of annoyance.

Her desire to marry him aside, he was not a helpful person when curiousity was involved.

Naruto gave her a confused look.

'Dark aura huh? Sounds like it could be Sasuke... but Sasuke went to train under that transexual pedophile of a snake freak Orochimaru.' Naruto thought as he remembered his old friend. Naruto shivered when he remembered the hairy legged man wearing a school girl's uniform, with his pale skin and his disturbingly cute way of talking with a fake girl's voice. "Oh wait... I killed him." Naruto reminded himself.

He did kill the snake freak awhile back.

"Killed who?"

"What?" Naruto asked Koneko, not knowing why she asked that. "I said that out loud... Don't worry about it. You know, you really do remind me of another girl I met awhile back." Naruto mentioned to Koneko as he got a good look at her face.

She reminded him of a slutty black cat he met awhile back.

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This is the end of the Uzumaki Island Part 1, onto the next Arc.
The Homeless Maiden Arc.