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"Wow... this tea was awesome, thanks Asia... see you later, feel free to come by anytime you want." Naruto spoke as he got up, and picked up his bag. He had successfully escorted Asia to the church, after failing for more than a day, he had fulfilled his promise to her and gotten her to where she wanted to be.

Asia was sad.

He could see it in her eyes that she didn't want to say goodbye to him, the time they spent together had honestly seemed to be the best of her life. Naruto looked into her eyes, and he nodded silently to her. The words he had said out loud didn't mean anything, instead he conveyed his feelings with his eyes.

'My time with you had been the best in my life.'

His eyes spoke that message to her, and her eyes were filled with joy when she saw the conveyed message in them. Her eyes teared up, and she silently wiped away her tears at having to say goodbye to him. They lived in the same city now, she could really go see him whenever she wanted to.

"... Whenever I want?" Asia didn't just want to see it in his eyes.

She wanted to hear it more than she wanted to hear anything in her life. If she was allowed to be selfish, this would be one of the selfish things that she wanted. To make Naruto say the words that she needed to hear.

"Whenever you want, I love talking with you, and being around you. I'll let you get to your people though, since you must have some church stuff to do." Naruto looked around and he could see some women and men waiting for them to finish. The men, for the most part, wore priest clothing while the women were wearing... a goth loli outfit and a trenchcoat, with a man wearing a trenchcoat as well.

"Thank you for taking care of Asia for us, we have a very important ritual to accept her into the church tonight after all."

"... It's not a problem Raynare..." Naruto stated as he looked at the person who had greeted the two of them when they got to the church. She gave him a rather creepy feeling, but then again he got the same feeling from most women. He didn't like the word ritual, and Asia seemed a little surprised about a ritual as well. "You people better take care of Asia, because if you don't... I'll take care of all of you." Naruto laid his not-very-subtle threat down on the table.

With that, Naruto stood up while Raynare smiled at him and put a hand on Asia's shoulder, and Naruto left the church.

-2 Hours Later-

"Hey Naruto... so, I know this is a bit of a surprise-"

"-but you brought some friends with you?" Naruto asked as he arrived at his camp, and saw a group of people sitting there waiting for him. Rias Gremory, Akeno Himejima, Kiba Yuuto, and his classmate Koneko Toujou. Every person was famous at the school for something or another, and he had no interest in getting to know either Rias or Akeno.

Looking at their seductive bodies was enough to make him distrust them, and their eyes didn't hold the same purity that Asia's held. These were women that he felt suspicion towards still, because he knew their type. He wasn't sure what to make of Koneko because she stayed out of the spotlight for the most part, and her face was harder to read.

"It's a pleasure to meet you, Uzumaki Naruto." Rias stood up and greeted him.

Issei showed them where Naruto set his camp up.

"The pleasure must all be yours, because it's not a pleasure for me to meet you." Naruto informed her with a glare at her. She just smiled in response to the glare, and Naruto looked at Issei with narrowed eyes. "... how much about me did you tell them?" Naruto questioned them, since none of them seemed surprised that he lived in the park in a tent. That or they had been at his home for awhile while he was out.

"Just that you killed a bear, nothing else! Buchou wants to ask you something important though, so I brought them here! I don't know what it is!" Issei very quickly defended himself, and kind of threw Rias under the proverbial bus. He didn't mean to, but the way that Naruto's eyes turned to stare into her soul meant that he didn't take her wanting anything from him very well.

The atmosphere was tense.

"Yes, I just want to start by congratulating you on what you did at school today. Your actions were heroic and brave, how is your arm?" Rias asked him, since he had been shot in the arm. That had to hurt, and she could have it healed with a little difficulty. Naruto looked at her, before he rolled his sleeve up and showed his healed arm.

Asia healed it for him on the way to the church after he left the school, so he had no reason to respond to her words on his injury.

"Buchou, maybe a more direct approach would be appropriate." Koneko stated, since from her limited amount of time following Naruto at school and watching him during class, she could tell what kind of guy he was. He was a good man, but he never talked to any of the female classmates if he could help it. When they praised him, he looked annoyed, and when they seemed afraid of him, he was even more annoyed by them. "It might be better for Kiba or Issei to explain." Koneko added as she looked at the two male devils.

"No, as the King it should-"

"You, a King? Don't make me laugh, you clearly lack the capacity of a King." Naruto stated to Rias with a harsh glare into her eyes. Her eyes were quite kind, but kindness was not the only thing that a King required. He didn't need to explain to Rias what she lacked, because if she didn't figure out what she lacked then she would never gain it.

"She lacks the capacity... you haven't ever talked to her, and you're being so disrespectful to her. I think you should say that again after getting to know her." Kiba rejected Naruto's rejection of Rias with some disdain for Naruto's words. Naruto looked at Kiba, and he saw the boy carried himself with the air of a warrior. "... she lacks the capacity of a King, but you're a fine Knight. Ironclad resolve, devotion, drive, a desire for something greater than yourself lies in your eyes. You hold an intense drive for justice, and an equally intense hatred." Naruto complimented Kiba as he sat down across from Kiba and stared into his eyes.

In that moment of anger that Kiba showed Naruto in defense of Rias, he had been able to see quite a bit in his eyes.

"... You're correct, I am a proud Knight of my King, a King I serve with no reservations." Kiba still took Naruto's slight against Rias to heart. He wasn't happy to get complimented by Naruto, but he did have a question. "Wait... you know I'm a Knight?" Kiba asked with surprise.

Naruto blinked in confusion.

"What? Of course not, I just told you the title I thought was fitting for you. Still, if a fine guy like this is defending you so strongly, either you saved his life and he feels eternally grateful to you, or you're truly a King that inspires the loyalty of those who follow you." Naruto turned to face Akeno when she flinched at the same time as Kiba flinched, since it would seem that he nailed the nail on the head with that statement. Even Issei flinched at the statement, since it would seem that his life had been saved as well.

Only Koneko did not flinch, and he took note of that.

"Will you listen to me if I talk, and stop talking that way to my group?" Rias asked Naruto calmly, not liking the way he was talking to her servants. There was a thinly veiled anger in her voice, and Naruto grinned at her eyes.

Naruto liked those eyes more, those were eyes that conveyed the emotions that she was concealing, meaning that they were far more honest.

"Answer this first." Naruto started off, not giving her a chance to refuse before he started to speak again. "Why should I listen to you?" Naruto asked her a rather simple question, he wasn't one for complicated questions after all.

Rias tried to analyze his words.

"Because her tits are awesome-sauce incarnate."

"I'm an ass man Issei, so if I was going to listen to anyone it would be the only girl here that actually has a toned body." Naruto gestured to Koneko, who actually did have muscle tone on her body. Rias and Akeno were both sexy, and had thin waists, but they didn't have the same kind of muscle tone that Koneko had. While the petite girl lacked a size pack, she also lacked the same kind of fats on her body that Rias and Akeno had (not simply talking about boobs and ass). She had a muscle quality that made her body look far healthier than either of the large breasted girls.

"Pervert."

"Oh, don't get me wrong I have no interest in you Koneko, but to me you are far more attractive than either of these two. You clearly train your body, and have a clear goal you're working towards. You're a 9 out of 10, while these two are barely worth a 6 or 7." Naruto explained as he judged them as harshly as he could. He stared right into Rias' eyes when he said that, and he clicked his teeth in annoyance.

He was being honest, but he was purposely being as rude as he could to make them leave him alone. By playing the part of the asshole, he could hopefully prevent them from trying to keep coming by to talk.

"Well, quite rude, isn't it Koneko?" Akeno asked the younger girl, who was just looking at Naruto with confused eyes.

'... He think's I'm hotter than Rias or Akeno... because I train my body, or is it because I have a goal?' Koneko was honestly flattered by the way he spoke of her attractiveness in such a neutral tone. He clearly, clearly, so very clearly, didn't like admitting it and he didn't seem to have any feelings for her either. They had never really spoken in class, and he didn't try to talk to any of the girls when he didn't have to.

She didn't know if he was a pervert or not, and that was confusing.

"So, you will listen?"

"Fine, I'll listen to you!" Naruto stated as he stare down Rias.

"I want you to become a Devil in my Peerage, I want you to become my Rook." Rias stated simply, but she would be more than glad to explain everything to him if he asked. No doubt he would ask after all. She just gave him quite the offer, and most would have questions about it.

"No."

"No... just no? No questions?" Rias asked him. His answer was quite and very clear, he didn't want to join her peerage. It seemed his quickness to answer shocked the rest of her peerage as well.

Naruto nodded his head.

"Explain to me why I would want to be in this peerage of yours, or become your devil?" Naruto asked her in response.

Rias thought on it.

"Well, you lack a family. We of the Gremory clan treat our servants as if they were our family, so by accepting you would have affection and family. You would also have protection, and would get stronger since you attract trouble. Ask everyone here what it is like being in my Peerage." Rias gestured to her peerage that was present. She wanted to explain this the best that she could.

"Rias saved me, and gave me a reason to live. She's extremely kind and loving, like a big sister, and I know I can count on her." Kiba was the first and fastest to step forward. He had a point to prove to Naruto, and he made sure that their blue eyes connected when he spoke.

Akeno went next.

"She loves me dearly, and I love her as well. I might be her servant, but no matter how many times she has called me one, she has never made me feel like a servant before. I've always felt like she was a sister to me." Akeno admitted her true feelings, but instead of looking at Naruto, she looked at Rias instead. She smiled genuinely at the girl, who smiled back at her, before she looked at Naruto.

"She's got GREAT tits... but she's also really kind and understanding, and she supports my dream of being a Harem King... even if she knows it is stupid." Issei admitted as well, and his stupid reason to start with, even he gave quite a heartfelt reason for being happy in her peerage.

Naruto stared at Koneko.

"I'm happy here."

"Now tell me Rias, what do you gain from this? Why do you want me?" Naruto asked her with narrowed eyes, since he had the honest answers from her peerage. He could judge half of her character from this, but he needed to hear her answer to judge the rest of it.

Rias got comfortable.

"I have 3 reasons actually."

"Explain then." Naruto offered her the chance.

"The first, is my own selfish reason. You have a Sacred Gear, and a lot of potential, this is the only reason that can be called a selfish one. You're aware of Asia and Issei's Sacred Gears, and Kiba has one as well... I have experience with helping those with Sacred Gears as well, you would do well with me." Rias flinched when she saw his eyes harden, and he looked at her with stone cold blue eyes filled with nothing but disdain for that answer. "... You're not going to lash out at that answer?" Rias questioned.

She could see how much he wanted to snap at her.

"Continue, you said that is your selfish reason... if that was your only reason, I would punch you right now. Let me hear your other two reasons, the ones that armed selfish." Naruto gripped his fists together as he heard perhaps the very worst answer. It took all his mental strength not to lash out at Rias and remain calm.

Bitch wanted his power, like all the other thots in his life.

"You're aware of the Uzumaki Slaughter... well, while my family had nothing to do with it. It was a rogue faction of devils who slaughtered your family. Even though I can never replace the family you lost, I wish to make ammends for my species-"

*CRUNCH*

Naruto's fist sank into the bark of a tree, and his eyes were filled with anger at her statement.

"Continue... are any of these rogue devils alive?" Naruto asked Rias with narrowed eyes.

"Most were killed, but those who surrendered are having lifetime sentences. I wish to make ammends for what my species did, and give you a loving family." Rias explained, but her words carried more weight than she realized.

Koneko looked at Naruto with understanding in her eyes.

She understood what he might be feeling, she herself was a member of an extremely rare race of yokai. When her sister had gone crazy and murdered people, she had been sentenced to execution for her sister's crimes, to prevent her from following the same path. She hated devils for awhile, but only those who approved her execution.

"... If you didn't do anything wrong, why are you apologizing? The ones who should be apologizing are the ones who did it... the guilt you feel is weak, worthless, and belittles me... do you really think I'm going to hate your entire species for the actions of a few?" Naruto questioned her with more anger in his tone than before. He wasn't angry that her species did something horrible, and he wasn't going to blame her entire species for what some did. That was needless hatred that wouldn't do him any good. "... Do you think that you are so much better than me, that I'm something to be pitied?"

"Dude, I don't think she pities you because she thinks she is better than you-"

"No, but that is always what it means... oh, look at this poor boy, I better show him how much I pity the life he has lived... well guess what, Rias Gremory, I hold no love for my clan. I've never met another Uzumaki in my life, and I have no emotional attachment to them, so you have no reason to pity me!" Naruto couldn't stand being looked down on. "I'm strong, I'm amazing, I'm awesome! My suffering has made me into the man I am today!" Naruto told her loudly, and proudly.

Rias was stunned, but she still nodded calmly on the outside.

"... My third reason is simple, you have a lot of drive, and a powerful goal you're working for. I think I can help you achieve your goal. I believe that you would be happy in my peerage." Rias stated her final reason.

She waited for Naruto to explode in anger.

...

"You're not going to get unreasonably angry at her third reason?" Issei whispered to Naruto, since the first two reasons had been pretty straightforward and decent.

Naruto shook his head.

"No, if anything, that is the only good reason you've give me. It means you recognize my strength, and you see the drive I have towards my dreams. More than anything, that reason is one that shows me the respect I deserve as a person." Naruto would admit when he was wrong or when a valid reason was brought up. He just didn't like the first two reasons that Rias had given him.

Rias raised an eyebrow.

"Well, I'll accept your answer then. The offer will always be open though, and if there is anything you want in exchange for becoming my Rook, I'll pay the price. Lets go everyone, we're done here." Rias would admit when she lost. She wasn't going to try for Naruto anymore now that he had given her answer. She started to walk away, but she paused and looked at Naruto. "I do mean it, this offer will always be open as long as I have my Rook piece. When you are in your darkest hour, just know I can be here to help you." Rias stated to him.

"... She's my King, she is worthy of the title." Kiba was still focused on that, but he showed no hatred for Naruto holding that opinion either.

Akeno was silent, and said nothing to Naruto as she walked off after Rias.

"... See you in class." Koneko stated to him simply.

Issei just kept sitting down and grinned.

"Well, I've got nothing important to do, so I'm down for some camping tonight." Issei just wanted to hang out with Naruto some more on more friendly terms. He was happy to stay and talk with Naruto about the finer things in life. "By the way, I totally disagree, Rias and Akeno are total 10s... and Koneko is an 8 for sure. All of them are high quality babes." Issei whispered to Naruto low enough so that nobody but Naruto would hear, as the others walked away from the area.

Naruto just snorted.

"Sorry, but just one look at them and you can tell they are naturally sexy. Their sex appeal took no effort, while Koneko had to work hard to get her toned body where it is at. That shows inner determination, and it's a lot more impressive than a girl who was born hot." Naruto just had different values than Issei did. Sexy boobs were something granted by genetics and nature, not something that took any real active work.

A toned body and a hot ass were something that you could attain through hard work and determination, and those were traits he valued.

"So... what would you rank Asia then?" Issei asked with more confidence when the others were completely gone.

...

"Hot body or not, I will always rank Asia a 10... she makes my heart beat faster, just by looking into my eyes." Naruto whispered, not to Issei at all, but to himself.

Not even a night away from Asia, and he already missed her.

What was wrong with him?

Chapter End!
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