Disclaimer: First Chapter
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10 days left.
Koneko, the last two days in a row, had gone at her training with far more of a renewed vigor. Knowing that she could learn Senjutsu safely, and gain the power to protect Rias and help the woman in the future, had lit a fire in her belly. Given proof that Senjutsu wasn't dangerous when properly used had taken a massive weight off of the girl's shoulders, as if a deep seated fear that she had held for so long was gone now.
Without her fear, she no longer hid her true emotions nearly as much.
She smiled more times during those two days than he had seen from her in the 8 days before. She was just generally a far happier person, and that made him happy that he could show her a way to a happier life.
"Come on now, lets get you to bed Shirone." Naruto muttered as he lifted the passed out girl into his arms.
Sparring.
Right now, instead of starting her on the more advanced techniques, he wanted just for her to get used to her more powerful body. He wanted to improve her use of her Touki-enhanced form, and get her used to actually using Senjutsu in battle. That meant that he would spar with her while she was in that form, and allow her to attack him. As she attacked him, and he defended or countered her, she would naturally just grow to understand her own limits with her touki and senjutsu better.
Her training wasn't as harsh as before.
It didn't need to be now that she had risen to the challenge and come to understand that there was nothing to be afraid of.
"Nya."
Koneko's tail wrapped around his wrist as he held her thigh, with Koneko's head resting on his chest. He kept his hand on her back, carrying Koneko as if she were a child instead of the budding young woman she was becoming. She was completely exhausted, since unlike before he wasn't restoring her stamina with his chakra. When she ran out of stamina was when she was expected to stop using Senjutsu, but she was still learning her limits. She had pushed herself too far and passed by from simple exhaustion.
"Papa, you just don't know when to stop, do you?"
"Ssshhhh, she's tired out Hima." Naruto looked over and saw his daughter, who was standing behind a tree and looking at him with. She was sending him a smile that said that she was a little annoyed, but was still rather proud.
"You're too kind, you know that right."
"There is no such thing as too kind, only foolish kindness. I'm kind to those who need my kindness." Naruto grinned as he walked, and Himawari came out of her hiding place and walked beside him.
She palmed her face.
"You're an unrealistic standard for girls. Tall, handsome, and strong with a heart of gold. You're kind, quick to understand people, and because of your suffering you are willing to take all of their problems and help them. You're patient with people, and would go to the ends of the Earth for them... didn't you go to the Moon once to save Aunt Hanabi?" Himawari asked him with a knowing look.
He blushed at the compliments.
"Well... it... you might have a point."
"You're right that I'm right." Himawari puffed her chest out in confidence. She knew her Papa the best out of anyone, and she knew the outcome of him having female students. It was always the same, and it always ended the same as well.
Broken hearts.
Kuroka had been sent on a journey to get life experience, and was the first girl who loved her father who had not gotten her heart broken through failing her training. Kuroka was the only girl who believed that she still had a chance, and because of that her broken heart was all but something that would be assured.
"I'm their Master, of course I'm going to be there for them."
"You're an unrealistic standard for them. Fujimai wasn't the only student who failed at romance. There isn't a man who can compete with you... when you were married to Mama, nobody ever hoped to compete with her for your heart. You present to girls the image of the perfect future husband... and there isn't a man in this world who has all of your traits."
"Sssssh, you're speaking too loud." Naruto corrected Himawari when she raised her voice a bit more.
She could lecture him, but not too loudly.
"You're youthful and handsome, few men can compete with your looks. You're strong, stronger than anyone else... only the Otsutsuki or Uncle Sasuke could compete with you. You carry the weight of the world on your shoulders, but you can still carry everyone's problems as well. No man can compete with your inner strength. You're kind to even those who hate you, and you willing to listen and understand everyone's problems and help them. You are overflowing with love, to the point that nobody holds more love in their heart than you. Before you were Hokage, you were a Father who was always there, and even after becoming Hokage you did the best you could... you're the perfect man." Himawari poked her father in the arm as she made each point.
She needed to tell him this to prevent more heart break, this was something that needed to be said. She didn't care before when Naruto's students got their hearts broken, because she herself didn't care about his students all that much. When she wanted to die more, all she cared about was making her father happier with life and being there for him.
"... I did break a lot of hearts when I married your mother." Naruto whispered to himself when he remembered all the teenage girls across the Elemental Nations who had been heart broken and cried upon hearing his engagement.
On the day of the Rinne Festival, women from all across the world had travelled to Konoha just to give him presents and confess their feelings to him. He had a hoard of fan-girls of all ages that would scream when he appeared.
Even when he had been a Taijutsu Teacher at the Academy, the female students would usually go nuts when he was around.
"I'm far from perfect."
"That makes you more perfect to women. If you were truly perfect, they would never love you because nobodu would ever feel they deserve you. You're not perfect, and you're the first person to admit that. When you do something wrong, you're not ashamed to throw your pride away and bow your head... even to people weaker than you. You make mistakes, admit when you're wrong, and learn from them. To women, you not being absolutely perfect is what makes you absolutely perfect." Himawari sighed when she saw a little recognition in his eyes.
Naruto's nose turned a little red, and she clapped her hands together softly when she saw that he understood a lot more than what he had been. She was glad she pointed this out to him, but at the same time she saw his sheepish smile.
"Well, I need to be the best teacher for my students... I've just got to teach them that there are better men for them out there."
"There aren't."
"Of course there are." Naruto argued with his daughter.
"No, there really aren't better men than you. There isn't a man out there who has all your traits... and then we get into your sexual-"
"Himawari Uzumaki, you alone I refuse to talk about anything sexual too. You are my daughter, and you will not tell me about my sex life." Naruto was stern with Himawari, and she saw his nose was bright red now. She giggled to herself when she realized that no matter how old he got, he still had lines he refused to cross. It was cute that her father didn't want to talk about sexual stuff with her.
She sighed after laughing.
"Just... learn from Fujimai's example?" Himawari put her hands together again and asked.
She asked for the sake of the young girls who fell in love with him.
Fujimai fell in love with a horrible man, because she tried to find a man as perfect as her master. Girls easily fall in love with her father, and those crushes and love never fade away. When Naruto rejects them, they still love him because he accepts their feelings. He explained to them that he appreciates their love, but that there are people out there for them that aren't him.
They never find those men.
He father is the unrealistic standard for a man, and once you have come to know perfection, there isn't anything that compares.
"I won't change, I can't change those things about me. I don't want to become a worse person... I'll just have to teach my students that there are people people to love in the world." Naruto told his daughter kindly as he gently rubbed the back of Koneko's head. The girl purred in his arms, and he smiled gently at her.
Himawari put her face in her hands.
There it was.
More of what makes him an unattainable goal for people to strive for. His willingness to get people to see his flaws, and help them find somebody perfect for them. He doesn't understand that by showing a girl his flaws, all she would do is see the flaw of a diamond. A diamond with a flaw is always better than a pebble without one after all.
"You're a menace to females... the worst part is that you aren't hurting them. They're just doomed to lower than standards to rock bottom, because they know no man will ever compete. They hurt themselves... hmmm?" Himawari paused when she saw 3 people standing at the edge of the forest.
They were waiting.
"Ah... Azazel... you look like Rias so you must be her brother, Sirzechs... and... Michael of the Angels?" Naruto asked when he saw the three biggest leaders of the Christian faith's factions. Sirzechs Lucifer, leader of the 4 Satans and the overall leader of the underworld. Azazel, leader of heads of Grigori and overall commander of the Fallen Angels. Michael, Archangel of Heaven and their current leader.
Naruto now had access to the Internet, so he was learning more about this stuff now when compared to before.
The Internet was always helpful to him.
"Lord Seventh, first I would like to thank you for helping my sister's-"
"Sssssssh, you are talking too loudly." Naruto told Sirzechs, and he was taken aback.
He saw the sleeping Koneko in Naruto's arms.
"... Lord Seventh, Naruto Uzumaki..." Michael dropped to his knees, and in an instant her had his forehead on the ground. The tears in his eyes started to gracefully fall to the grass, and his fingers gripped the grass tight enough to pull it from the roots. "... Thank you... thank you for keeping Father alive."
"Ah... so that is what this is about. You can raise your head Michael, your Father helped to build the barrier around my island. I couldn't allow a good man like him to die. After I put Koneko to bed, I'll be happy to explain everything to all of you." Naruto watched as Michael refused to raise his head.
He was unable to find the strength to lift himself off the ground, and the tears were so happily falling down his face that he needed to get this cry out. Naruto continued to walk, before he reached down and rubbed the man's back.
He would put Koneko to bed, and then he would explain everything.
Chapter End!
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