アタシは女子校に学生じゃねってばね! – I'm Not a Student at an All-Girls' School!–
Episode 29: You and I「ユー&アイ」
A jaw dropped from Naruto's face as he looked at the place Negi and Kotarō both showed to him when they arrived to where appeared to be Evangeline's house.
"What the…
HELL IS THIS!?"
Naruto roared in confusion and shock. Who could blame him? I mean, how many times will you find yourself within a large monumental structure within a small glass sphere. Answer? Nearly none existent. It was nearly incomprehensible to the point where Naruto was feeling not only skeptical of the whole situation, but also excited of how awesome it would be to learn Magic, if it is able to do this kind of stuff.
"Pretty cool, huh?" Kotarō agreed as Naruto looked over the bridge. Being the student of a Sannin, the blonde was already used to heights, but dang just look at that height! The sheer overwhelming height of the bridge nearly made him swallow his own spit.
"Come on, Naruto-san!" Negi called to the blonde. Turning his attention back to the two ten-year-olds, Naruto stood up straight and followed the two into what appeared to be a villa. Or was it a resort?
"You're late!"
Naruto blinked when Evangeline suddenly came flying in, her frilled dress flapping through the wind. The blonde did flush a bit, seeing the young (?) girl's mature panties showing itself. It was then that the vampire found the ninja in hiding staring at her.
"Oh… it's you…"
"Hey, sup …" Naruto waved.
"Goodbye," Evangeline greeted back, turning her attention back to the quivering redhead. "Now then, let us hurry and get back into training!"
"Ha-h-hai, Master!" Negi replied, before screaming when several black energy orbs rushed towards him. Quickly grabbing onto his father's staff, something that Naruto found out after a few days with the boy, Negi jumped off the bridge and equipped his staff in between his legs. Quietly chanting a small spell in a jiffy, the boy flew off, the loli vampire flying after him.
"Too slow, Bōya! TOO SLOW! By the time I've casted Sagitta Magica, you should have already be flying! Need I have to put you against Chachazero again!? Or do I have to do it myself!?"
"HIIIIIIE!"
"Man, and I thought my master was eccentric…" Naruto mumbled as he and Kotarō watched the two mages bout. Several seconds went by as the two ninjas continued to watch the spar between two mages before Naruto questions, "Wanna bet how long Negi'll last? I'm betting on less than an hour for a thousand yen."
"You're on!" Kotarō declared, pointing at the blonde.
It has been at least an hour since Negi's training with Evangeline ended, and the poor boy was resting as he rested his fatigue away. Based on Chachamaru's records, the redhead lasted for exactly 59 minutes, 59 seconds and 9999999999999- the gynoid would have continued, but after nearly shorting out, Chachamaru simply responded with Naruto barely winning with about an attosecond leftover. Needless to say, Naruto's streak of betting still held its luster. Meanwhile, Naruto listened with absolute interest when Konoka, who entered the scene with Asuna and Setsuna just as Negi was swallowed up by Evangeline's black colored spell, explained just how the resort worked. To think, that there was such a thing where you could cram a whole day into just an hour… that is so AWESOME!
However, nothing will be more awesome then the Shadow Clone training that Kakashi made just for him. Being able to cram all those days and weeks into a single hour within a span of approximately a thousand clones. Now that was pure awesomeness. Even if he himself didn't understand the theory behind it. Something about the clones' hours being added along with the rest and then adding the total time with his… yeah, he still doesn't understand how that works.
Getting back on track, it was now Naruto's turn to spar with Evangeline. "To measure up just how good or how poorly the Nations have been since I've last been there" has been the girl's reasoning and excuse. It made absolutely no sense to the blonde ninja, but he'll take what he got to get a good spar.
"You think Naruto-kun'll be ok?" Konoka asks as Setsuna, still a bit miffed about how Naruto's now calling her mistress with the affectionate "-chan" suffix, frowned.
"Given with how much we know about Uzumaki, there isn't much we can say. On one hand, Uzumaki has the element of surprise, as Evangeline-san knows next to nothing about his list of techniques," The swordswoman explained, "On the other hand, Evangeline-san has experience under her belt. Given that she has apparently traveled to Uzumaki's homeland before gives her the advantage."
"In other words, Whiskers' smoked," Asuna summed it up as Kotarō "ooh"d at the summary.
"But still," Konoka started, gazing at the two fighters. "Don't Naruto-kun and Eva-chan look so cool in those outfits!?"
Away from the four, and onto the water, Naruto stood, his chakra helping stand on water, wearing his usual outfit. To the spectators, it was a lot of orange, his pants and jacket. However, his jacket held the color black as the sleeves and upper chest as well. His feet, besides being those comfortable sneakers that he would always call "uncomfortable", were now a pair of high-ankle open-toed sandals. Around his forehead was a stereotypical ninja headband with a metal plate stitched onto it. On the metal plate was a stylish leaf in a swirl pattern. Belted around his waist is a scroll attachment, carrying a larger-than-average sized red-colored scroll sideways.
Across from him, using her own chakra to stand on water, stood Evangeline. While not wearing her dress, the girl wore what Naruto found to be traditionally familiar, if not something he's hasn't not seen before. The girl wore a black turtle neck shirt with sleeves passing her hands, similar to Shizune-nēchan's uniform, with familiar red swirls stitched onto the shoulders. Over the shirt was a violet kimono-like sleeveless outfit with decorative swirls on the collar. She wore a yellow obi around her waist and a navy blue skirt with spandexes underneath. Evangeline wore female-type open-toed sandals as well. To top it off, she even wore her hair in a low ponytail while wrapping a familiar headband underneath her bangs. Oddly enough, the symbol was a glorified swirl, rather than Naruto's leaf, the blonde male mused himself with that little fact. The girl was amused, watching Naruto stretching himself to get rid of any kinks while grinning.
"Do you find something amusing, Uzumaki-bōya?" The girl asked.
"Well, seeing how you and Negi flew around fighting with those shiny bullets and stuff, not to mention this awesome place, kinda made me excited about asking ya to teach me Magic!"
Evangeline raised an eye brow, wondering why the blonde didn't already know that he asked her this morning. Chalking up with him being an idiot, as he is, the girl smirked.
"I gotta say though… what's with the outfit?" Naruto asked.
"I received it as a gift from an old friend of mines," Evangeline answered, reminiscing in the memories. "If you pass, I might tell you about her. The both of you were from the same clan, after all."
Hearing about him having a clan surely brought attention to Naruto. The blonde furrowed his brows. Him? A clan member? Impossible. As far as he knew, the Yondaime Hokage was never part of a clan. In fact, it was rumored that he was an orphan, his parents lost during the Second War. The blonde shrugged, despite him admiring his own father, Naruto knew next to nothing 'bout him besides stupid rumors. It sounded wrong in so many ways, but that was how it was, and Naruto isn't one to bitch over it.
"So! Let's get this started, dattebayo!"
"He even has her verbal tick…" Evangeline mused.
"Ooh ooh! They're about to start!"
"Get 'em, Kinpatsunī!" Kotarō cheered on, eager to see what the blonde had to show.
Setsuna frowned, her thumb lifting her nodachi from its sheathe and back repeatedly. The anxious feeling she had was starting to intensify, watching what appeared to be two powerhouses (because one was obviously an above-Aegis-level powerhouse while the other is a one-man-army-level powerhouse, if what she heard from Evangeline was correct) stare at each other with anticipated eyes.
Asuna, on the other hand, felt nothing but anxiety. Despite meeting Naruto only weeks prior, it felt as if she knew him since forever. Thinking back, she remembers dreaming about a raggedy group of idiots who also had a similar looking blonde kid with them. The girl shook her head. Impossible. Naruto came from a different world than theirs', it's incomprehensible to think that he'll be at the same place as she was.
Floating in the middle of the two blondes, Chachazero raised her wooden arm. The puppet scared Naruto for a bit while, before he realized that without magic, the little girl wouldn't be able to move.
"Alright, blondies!"
The two blondies frowned at the chosen nicknames.
"Let's keep the fights neat, clean, and bloody, ok!?"
"Isn't that a bit contradicting…?" Naruto thought to himself.
"Let the sparring, and hopefully a bloody one, START!" Chachazero continued. With a shout, the puppet through a spare knife into the air. Naruto tensed, readying himself to fire himself to the shorter blonde across from him. Now that Evangeline was utilizing Chakra to keep herself afloat, the blonde was able to tune into how powerful the girl was. While not as large as his, it was comparable to Jiraiya's humongous reserves. That spoke of how powerful she was.
As the knife slowly fell, Naruto grinned. As it was about to sink, Evangeline smirked. And the knife fell with a *kaplunk* into the water as-
A large explosion occurred as Naruto shot himself at Evangeline, crossing the waters within seconds, his fist reared back. The vampire herself simply smirked as the blonde's fist neared closer and closer.
The fight was ON!
A/N: Double Feature... AGAIN!
So the previous chapter was but a sneak preview of what i have in mind for the Mahora War chapters...
Yes, it'll be like a movie.
No, it won't all be in a single chapter (cause that'll take be too long...)
and No, it won't be the finale of this story (I've got something special for you guys after that, after all...)
Now the waiting begins!
Getting back to the chapter!
So now, Naruto's witnessed the sheer awesomeness of Evangeline's villa. Course, to him, nothing beats the Kage Bunshin training that Kakashi made for him. I mean, 1000 x 24 hrs is pretty much WAY better than 1 day within an hour...
And now... the fight between the Ninja himself and the Vampiress herself will now begin in the next chapter! Hope y'all look forward to it!
