Disclaimer: First Chapter
Story Start!
"So... this is what you two do?"
Koneko expected something more perverted when Issei was the one who wanted to hang out with somebody. Issei had almost nothing but perverted thoughts, and he expressed them out loud to the point that he didn't seem to have the ability to keep his thoughts to himself. It was both an admirable and disgusting trait of his.
Both Naruto and Issei had rolled their pants up, and had tossed their shoes to the side of a riverbed, underneath a bridge.
"Well, usually I use a fishing pole... but I wanted to try to do it Naruto's way."
"Catching fish like this is cool." Naruto stated as he grabbed a fish right out of the water and punched it in the head. The fish flopped only once more, because it died and he threw it to the side of the river. Naruto had a glint in his eye, while Koneko just watched Issei try to imitate him, and fail at it when all he managed to do was splash Naruto. "Issei, wait for the fish to come close to your feet." Naruto told Issei as he reached down into the water and grabbed another fish, one that was right by Issei's feet.
Issei threw his hands up.
"How are you so good at this, you learned it like 3 days ago!?" Issei was surprised by how quickly Naruto picked this up, and mastered this hard to master skill.
Naruto shrugged.
He had always been like that, he sucked at things like studying and learning things from books. He wasn't smart, simply because he had trouble reading, and studying wasn't very engaging for him. When it was something he liked, and something he could learn with his body, then he would keep at it and try his hardest and train even harder than his hardest in order to master the skill. Usually, he could master new skills in as little as a week, and as quickly as a few hours if he put enough effort into his work.
"He must have learned it from a book, Total Package Uzumaki can learn anything just by reading it." Koneko teased Naruto.
Naruto didn't react to that one.
"Actually, I'm not a book learner, I have a ton of trouble remembering things I read." Naruto had both an excellent and a very poor memory. Give him a book, he would read it fast and remember nothing from him. Tell him something in simple words, and he would remember it perfectly, but teachers never explained things in simple words to him. They always liked to make long winded lectures, so his education just wasn't suited towards his learning style.
The Japanese school system just didn't work well with his physically oriented learning abilities, and how he needed to use his body to remember anything important.
"Hah, got one!" Issei shouted as he reached into the water, and yanked Naruto's foot out of the water. Naruto went stumbling, before his entire body other than his foot went under. Issei paled when he saw that Naruto, even from under the water, was staring up at him with disdain for that little move he pulled. He gently lowered Naruto's foot into the water, and Naruto sat up and glared at him. "... sorry?" Issei apologized weakly.
He didn't want to get hurt.
Naruto sighed.
"It's fine, you didn't mean to do it. Anyway, so... I've got a Sacred Gear." Naruto stated as he smoothed out his clothes. Naruto waded through the water, until he got to the side and stepped up onto dry land where Koneko was waiting with a bucket full of catfish. Issei waded through the water after him and joined them.
It was a statement, and Naruto locked eyes with Issei.
"Yeah, that makes us Sacred Gear-"
"I don't know how to activate it, or what I'm suppose to do to activate it." Naruto stated to Issei, when he wanted to make it abundantly clear that he had zero clue what he needed to make it appear. Issei had a gauntlet, but he didn't even know what his Sacred Gear was, or how he was suppose to summon it. It was completely out of his reach to do something with absolutely no information at all.
There was a pause.
"Oh... OH, yeah... Sacred Gear!" Issei shouted as he summoned his Sacred Gear.
"Boosted Gear." Koneko gave Issei the correct name for his Sacred Gear, with a dull look to her eyes. She had already seen Issei summon it, but she wanted to know what Naruto was going to summon. The most ironic thing for him to summon would be the Divine Dividing, but from smell alone she could tell that his Sacred Gear was not related to dragons.
He had a Sacred Gear, but it just smelled like woman to her.
"How?" Naruto asked, gesturing to Issei's arm, since that was what he needed to know for himself. He needed to know just how Issei was able to do that. He knew it was emotionally based, since Issei had confirmed as much for him. It was based on desires, but he didn't know which desires.
"I just think about titties and how much I want to suck on them." Issei rubbed the back of his head with a grin.
"Gross Pervert."
"Koneko, you do realize that humanity was born with attraction to the opposite sex for the purpose of continuing the species? There is nothing gross about liking boobs." Naruto lectured Koneko for her statement against Issei. It was annoying that she called him gross for Issei liking breasts, even if he liked them way too much. "He is a pervert though." Naruto deadpanned before Issei could cheer for him taking his side.
...
"... Yeah, I am that... and a big one." Issei relented that the title was very fitting for him.
"I bet you would eat dirt for a chance to touch my boobs." Koneko stated to him with a dull tone.
"Of course I would! Eating dirt is a SMALL price to pay, because even SMALL boobs are worth that much suffering!" Issei boldly declared, and Koneko pointed to him and stared Naruto directly in the eyes. Naruto just palmed his face, and let out a large exhale, perhaps the largest exhale of his entire life.
Really?
"See, gross."
"Yeah, that is a little gross." Naruto relented even further, since Koneko now had an extremely valid point. There was being a pervert, a super pervert, and then just being a gross pervert with low standards of pride. "No girl is going to want to... you know what, I can't even say that either. I'm sure there are some girls out there who would drop their standards, because they like something about you." Naruto knew that there were females that had no standards, or would overlook Issei's more disturbing character flaws in exchange for getting something they wanted from him.
"... so... if I eat dirt, can I touch your boobs?" Issei asked Koneko, trying to be sly.
She glared.
"I have standards, other than opponents I'm fighting, only somebody I really like can touch my stuff." Koneko didn't say what that stuff was, but it was heavily implied what she meant. Naruto actually clapped his hands a little.
"Want to spar?"
"So... any suggestions on how to activate my Sacred Gear, any tips?" Naruto asked Issei, as the only person he was friends with that had one. Issei just looked down at his hand, and thought about it with a deep frown.
He wanted to help Naruto.
"Sacred Gears respond to desires... but you are Total Package Uzumaki, I'm sure your desires are strong enough to summon your gear on the first try. Just desire your Sacred Gear to appear to fulfill your goal." Koneko explained.
She didn't have a Sacred Gear, but not having one didn't mean not having knowledge and experience with them. She knew several people with them, to the point that she was quite knowledgable about their usage and how to summon them. She even knew small tidbits about the most powerful Sacred Gears around.
"Don't call me Total Package Uzumaki!" Naruto snapped at her.
She smirked.
"... I mean, she's not wrong." Issei muttered jealously, since even though he was taller than Naruto, everything else Naruto beat him at. Naruto's body was toned and muscled perfectly for his frame and figure, his looks were exotic and royalty at the same time. He had a strong sense of honor and justice, while also being willing to do any underhanded trick needed to win if that was what was required.
-Play Music: Fate/Apocrypha Ost - Affection-
Naruto extended his hand and thought about his desires.
He took a deep breath and prepared to try and summon his Sacred Gear.
"I want to-"
"-A girl?" Koneko interrupted Naruto when she noticed something golden and flowing in the water. She tilted her head in confusion for a moment, when she saw a girl in a white dress, floating upside down in the water. Her hair was flowing around her, but with how she was in the water, her face wasn't visible. Still, her body was pale and looked like it would be cold to the touch. "A body." Koneko corrected herself.
Not her first time seeing a dead body.
"Holy crap, it's a dead body!" Issei shouted out in shock and horror when he realized that the girl must have been floating down the river for awhile now. This was the only river than ran through Kuoh, so somebody must have dumped a body up the river. "Holy crap, she had some curves on her!" Issei exclaimed when he realized it was a girl with a great figure that was killed. That made it even worse in his eyes.
A beautiful girl had been killed.
Naruto turned his head to look.
'She's been dead for several hours...' Koneko could tell by smell that the girl had been killed awhile ago. She hadn't started to stink yet, which was the biggest clue to the fact she was recently deceased. She lacked the scent of somebody who had been dead for days, but a body didn't look that pale after being dead for only minutes either.
That was stone cold dead.
"No."
"Naruto?" Issei asked when Naruto walked into the river with his eyes widened in shock.
Naruto looked scared.
"No... no, it's not you." Naruto's words were always strong and powerful. Every time he spoke, his words carried with them the weight of his feelings. That was the way that Naruto spoke, that Issei knew at least. When facing a bear, when fighting a devil, Naruto had never looked scared. Even facing an entire gang or the Yakuza, Naruto had never looked scared. Facing down the barrel of a gun didn't frighten Naruto, and getting actually shot didn't fill him with fear.
Issei didn't realize it, but even in the short amount of time he had known Naruto, he had been under the impression that Naruto just didn't have the ability to feel fear.
Naruto hesitated to touch the dead body.
"Her Sacred Gear was pulled out of her soul." Koneko stated the cause of death. She recognized the girl from her body as the one that Naruto had brought to school when facing down the Yakuza. The girl had Twilight Healing, and Sacred Gears stayed in the user's body for some time after they died. The process was not instant in which the Sacred Gear left the dead body, and her body had no Sacred Gear inside of it.
Naruto was exceedingly gentle when he turned Asia over.
"Oh shit... Naruto, man, are you okay?" Issei jumped into the water and went towards Naruto, since now he could see Asia's face.
"She's dead."
'Oh shit... oh shit.' Koneko's eyes widened when her danger senses went off. Everything inside of her body was screaming at her to run away. She saw droplets of tears drop down onto Asia's face, and even though Asia was dead and unable to cry, Naruto's own tears fell down onto her face and gave the dead Asia the appearing of a crying maiden.
"Naruto, you're crying."
"I don't deserve to cry." Naruto's face was not visible as he looked away from them, and he wiped his tears away. "Toujou, who killed her?" Naruto's voice was low and dangerous.
"I don't know."
Koneko couldn't smell any scents on Asia other than her own, the water washed the scent away quite awhile ago no doubt. She watched as Naruto gently lifted Asia out of the water and passed her body towards Issei.
"Issei, watch over Asia for me."
"Du-dude?" Issei was scared of that tone of voice. He was the first to be able to see Naruto's face, and a wet stain started to appear on the front of his pants as sheer terror overcame him.
Naruto extended his hand.
"Sacred Gear! I COMMAND you to show yourself, and achieve my desire right this instant! Give me the power to find Asia's killer! Give me the power to send their souls to the bottomless pits of hell!" Naruto shouted as he commanded his own soul to fork over his Sacred Gear.
A small golden book with red writing on the front appeared in his hand, and the book opened itself up to a page.
"Saber, Berserker, Archer, Lancer, Rider, Ruler, Caster, and Assassin... Sacred Gear, show me which power will best allow me to bring justice to Asia's murderer!" Naruto ordered the book, and it flipped through it's own pages without him needing to do any searching. It stopped when it landed on the best suited power to the job.
The book glowed as words appeared underneath it.
'... The scents just got even stronger... through sheer murderous rage over her death, he summoned his Sacred Gear and commanded it.' Koneko was awed by the resolve, but she still backed away since she lacked the knowledge of what was about to happen.
Issei copied her.
I summon thee-
"I Summon Thee ASSASSIN!"
Chapter End!
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Note: I just want to point this out, it is not luck that Asia's body floated down the river and Naruto found it.
Lets just say, that there is a person who knew Asia was going to die, and knew how it would hurt Naruto. So they made sure her body would find it's way to Naruto.
