Chapter 3 A new friend
It's been a few days since Naruto started training with Koneko, during that time he began to notice something. Something had changed since becoming a Devil, not the increase in abilities like what normally happens. No something was wrong with his chakra. More specifically his chakra pool. "Hey Kurama, is it just me or is there something wrong with my chakra pool, it feels..."
"Smaller?" Kurama finished. Naruto mentally nodded still standing by watching Koneko try to run up a tree. She almost got to the top, but fell down, like a cat though she landed on her feet. "I was afraid of this."
"What do you mean Kurama?" Naruto started to worry; his large chakra pool was something that he prided himself on. Something that he was born with thanks to his mom and the Deity sealed within him.
"The poison that was on the sword, it works against chakra in yokai. You know that Yokai use chakra to heal themselves, and that the poison causes it to do the opposite. Well, there seems to be another side effect, any yokai that do somehow beat the poison will have their chakra pool be half, or maybe more than half, gone." If you could see the look on the fox gods face, it was one of remorse. "I'm sorry."
"Fuck." Naruto cursed softly, Koneko still heard it, and it took her by surprise causing her to lose concentration while falling. She landed on her butt. "Koneko-chan are you alright?" Naruto was about to head over to the down girl, but she held up her hand that stopped him. She got up, dusted off her back side and continued with her training. "Guess she's okay." Naruto looked down solemnly, he was visibly upset about his chakra pool. But like always he tried to move past it. "Well fine, then I will just have to up my training, and increase my chakra pool." He had new resolved, and with that he made a hand sign.
This Naruto was just a clone, but he used the shared chakra network to send a message to the original. To which new clones were made and begun to do their own chakra molding training to push his chakra to the limits. He learned this from his grandfather, one of the few times he had visited. The good thing about the training is that it will increase his chakra reserve, however, once he is done for the day, he suffers chakra exhaustion and will pass out. He would be out from anywhere from four to ten days while his reserves filled back up, and even increase as well. It's considered to be a taboo type of training. One that his grandfather learned from his teacher, the one that was the clan leader before his dad was chosen. It's considered forbidden training due to the possibility of death, however so is Naruto's clone training. A type of training his mother had used, it's forbidden for anyone without high chakra reserves. If Naruto wanted to get his chakra back to what it was, before he died, this training would do it. One of the clones made sure to rush off to tell Rias, cause once he passes out all his clones will disperse leaving ones that are training with the clones confused.
XXx
"Are you insane?" Rias asked shocked at what the clone was telling her. "If you do this training you could die, even if you are a Devil now, chakra depletion is deadly to yokai. This is crazy, insane, asinine, ridiculous-"
"Rias," Naruto stopped her before she could finish. "I need this training, if I am going to be taking on another high-class devil and his team, I'll need to be ready."
"But if you pass out, you would be vulnerable than anyone could abduct you, or worse."
"Well, then come watch over me, I'm at my house in the training yard."
"I will, but first I will need to let the others know, just so they don't worry about you as well. I'm going to leave out the death part because I know they will come to stop you. They've really been quite taken with you."
"Thanks, I appreciate that, I do have an effect on people, when they hang around me, we instantly become friends." The clone dispersed.
"That knucklehead." Rias said, even though it was an insult it was said with endearment. She summoned a teleport circle and slowly the world around her distorted. Then almost suddenly, the world was clear again only this time she was in the back yard of the Blond's home.
Last time she was here she didn't really take stock of the place. It was a modest two-level house, too big for one person, with a huge yard in the back. She does remember the front being closer to the street, but the yard in the back seemed to stretch for miles. Really it was only two acres, it seemed to go on for miles because most of the back yard were tall trees. These trees led to the nearby forest of the area. While the forest wasn't exactly owned by anyone in particular, it seemed as if the yard was bigger than it really was.
For a moment she wondered where the blond was, until she heard multiple yells, grunts, and flesh hitting flesh. She followed the noise into the forest, after a minute or so of walking she found the blond, or blonds in this case, in a large clearing. There were multiple groups of clones, each group doing its own thing. One group had what appeared to be rubber balls in their hands, shouting at it with cusses. Another group was standing in, she believes, the horse stance with his hands locked together. They were yelling while blue aura flurried around them. Another group was running up and down trees, then went to run across a pond, then back up and down the trees. The final group was several blonds surrounding another one all trying to, what looked like to kill him. They all had various weapons, from swords, to sais, to kunai knives and even bo staffs. It looked as though they got in some lucky hits, evidence was the tears in his shirt in pants. The shirt, if you could call it that at this point, was nothing more than a torn rag hanging on by a string. Which proved to be the case as the blond tore it off to show his muscular upper body to his new guest.
Rias blushed at first at the sight of his body, but took notice of deep, bloody gashes on his chest and back. They started to heal, but was slow going, from what she knew of yokai, their healing was them using their chakra to speed up the healing process. The blonds healing was slowed, one reason came to mind, he was running low on chakra. "Naruto-kun! Stop!" All the blonds halted at once, they all looked over to see Rias there with a look of both concern and anger.
"Hey Rias." Naruto called out, the one that was fighting and healing slowly. Soon all the clones dispersed, Naruto started to walk over to her, but fell to a knee, he felt dizzy and sluggish. The wounds on his body stopped healing and he was trying not to pass out. He saw two Rias's approaching him, then one, then two again. He heard her shout his name, then darkness.
XXx
When Naruto awoke, he took notice of a couple of things. One, he felt really refresh, signs that his chakra was fully back. Second was that he was naked, but in his bed being naked was the weird part of that. The third and final thing he notice was that he felt a heaviness on both sides of his body, and warm soft flesh.
When he opened his eyes, it took a moment to focus, but soon the clear picture of his bedroom ceiling came into view. He looked down at his arms to see what was on him, what he saw shocked him, but at the same time, felt nostalgic. On his right side was a very naked Rias holding his arm between her breast with her head on his chest every so often she would nuzzle him. On his left was a naked Akeno, he had his arm around her, but his hand was on her breast. He noticed now that his hand kept squeezing the soft fleshy orb. He even tried to will his hand to stop but it wouldn't listen. Akeno didn't seem to mind, as she was grinning in her sleep and laughing perversely. His head fell back, he gave up for now at trying to get up, that's when he noticed that his head was resting, not on his pillow, but something fleshy and boney. He turned to look, he saw a naked Koneko curled up around his head, like a cat, she was even purring contently like one as well.
"What the hell." Naruto whispered aloud, the door opened and he saw that it was Kiba. "If he gets in bed with me, I am so done." That didn't seem like his intent, he had what looked like a body pillow with him. He sat it down by his dresser, waved to him, then left. Naruto caught on to what he was getting at. He did the body replacement technique and was now standing by the dresser. The girls seemed to stir for a moment, but didn't wake up. He let out a sigh of relief and got dress. He put on a white shirt, black track pants over his much-needed orange and blue boxers.
When he walked out of his room, standing near the entry way to the hall by the stairs was Kiba. "Sleep well senpai?" He asked, the amusement was evident in his voice.
"Apparently since I can't remember anything, thanks for that by the way."
Kiba shrugged, "Well it looked like you could use an out." He chuckled, the blond joining him. Naruto walked up to him, soon the two started down stairs together. The blond yokai's stomach growled. "Someone's hungry, luckily I made breakfast, it's nothing fancy just pancakes." They walked into the kitchen and sat at the table, in the middle was a plat piled high with pancakes. Naruto grabbed a large stack, added some syrup, and began to chow down on the light fluffy breakfast griddle.
"These are good, thanks." Naruto said just before shoving more into his mouth. Kiba poured him a glass of orange juice, which he needed, he drank about half of it to wash the food in his mouth down. "Thanks, so how long was I out this time?" He suspected it to be about a week, maybe two with how much chakra he used up.
"Two days."
"Really, only two days?" Kiba thought the other blond would be shocked by the reveal, but he seemed more confused. "I thought it be longer."
"Well, Buchou and the others used several types of healing magic to help you. Koneko was helping with your chakra refuel from what I've gathered. I've been here waiting on whoever was to wake up first. Seeing your predicament, I figured the body pillow would be your best way out." Kiba explained the day's events since Naruto's suicide training. "Gotta be honest though, I'm surprised Buchou let you do something so reckless."
"Well, I didn't give her much choice, I need my chakra back to what it was. Hell, after what happened, happen I need to get much stronger if I am going to survive the next attack."
Kiba nodded, "Buchou did say something about a group of powerful individuals being after you. That explains why you wanted me to train your clone in proper sword play."
Naruto finished his pancakes but went to grab more, "Yeah, aside to some dabbling in kenjutsu I don't know much about sword play. I mostly use kunai knives or my fist to fight." Naruto finished with the explanation just as he finished with the syrup, he began to dig into his next stack of pancakes.
"Well, it helps me out, especially when you and me spar. You make me want to go faster than I ever have before. By the way thanks for the leg weights tip, it's really been helping." Kiba finished his own stack of pancakes, but did not go for more like his friend was doing now.
"That's good." Naruto had to swallow first to say that, "I'm glad it helps, it's something that my uncle told me about, I had asked him for ways to improve speed. That's when he told me about this tortoise Yokai back on my island that he was friends with, according to grandpa he became the fastest Yokai in existence thanks to that type of training."
"I'm not too knowledgeable about yokai, but wouldn't a tortoise be slow but sturdy?"
"You'd think, I really don't know. I'm not even one hundred percent sure that there are other survivors from my island. Other than him and my uncle and his family I don't know anyone else, my grandpa's not around, the last time I talked to him was to show him that I completed the first step of the Rasengan."
"If I may," Kiba started, Naruto kept eating but gave the [Knight] his attention. "If you know someone in Kyoto, why are you not there?"
Naruto swallowed his food and downed the last of his orange juice. "I was, for a while, I stayed with my uncle, but my grandpa said he wanted me in Kuoh and that he got me into the academy. Apparently, he knew someone that knew the dean that pulled some strings to get me in. I was excited to go, but then like my second day in town I die."
"About that, from what Buchou said, the person was faster than you?"
"Faster than my instincts, usually my instincts warn me of an attack, but if it's faster than what I can sense...Well that happens, now because of what that bastard did, my chakra got depleted to more than half of what it was before. That's why I'm doing this training, I know it's dangerous but as I am now, I don't think I could help Rias let alone defeat the SOB that stabbed me." Kiba finally understood why his fellow blond was working so hard. Like him he owes his life to Rias and will do anything to help her, even if it means dying.
"Well, then we both need to get faster, because if you want to take that guy on, there is no way I'm letting you do it alone."
"Thanks, Kiba, you know you're like the first male friend I've had, let's work hard." Naruto held out his fist, Kiba caught on as to what Naruto was getting at. He held up his own fist and bumped Naruto's.
"No problem. Gotta say, you're my first male friend as well, as you see I attract a lot of female attention." He chuckled.
"Yeah I saw that, it must be so hard being you." Naruto said sarcastically, the two laughed and continued to make idle conversation.
XXx
In the underworld...
Within the Underworld, the four Maou's ruled over, with the title of Lucifer ruling over all. The title, that was once a name, was held by Sirzechs Gremory, however he went by Sirzechs Lucifer now. He was powerful in body, mind, and magic. His power of destruction was un matched by any other being. He did not rise to this position with just politics, no he was one of the few that fought and survived the civil war.
Currently the powerful Devil was sitting at his desk in his office looking at a picture of a young red headed girl that was holding on to him smiling. "Ah, Ria-tan, I wonder, do you miss your big brother?" He wondered aloud.
"Am I interrupting something?" Sirzechs was startled and nearly fell out of his large office chair. He looked to the window where the voice came from. Crouching there in the window was a large stocky man with long white spikey hair, long white fox ears and nine white fox tails whipped around with no control. He wore a white polo shirt and beach shorts. He was grinning wildly and chuckling.
"Jiraiya-dono, to what do I owe the pleasure." Sirzechs elected to act as though nothing happened.
The now named Jiraiya, the Jiraiya Uzumaki, the strongest Yokai in existence and the only one to obtain the title sage and master of senjutsu. The breaker of hearts, the expert lover, and the fame author of the very popular adult book series Icha Icha. Of course, this is how he would introduce himself to everyone that he meets for the first time. But no need since he knew Sirzechs before the civil war. "Just checking in on my Grandson, how is he?"
"You do know you can check yourself." Sirzechs was still a little miffed that the man snuck up on him. He is the only being that can do such a thing.
"And you know why I can't." He retorted.
"Right," Sirzechs sighed out, since when was he, the lord of the underworld, reduced to being a babysitter? "From what I've gathered he started some risky training and has since been out cold."
"That stupid brat." Jiraiya chuckled, he leaned, almost sitting, on Sirzechs desk. The demon lord was a bit miffed, but didn't say anything. This man is the only Yokai in existence that has reached the level that of the gods, like Lord Kyubi. He knew that if it came to blows he wouldn't stand a chance against him. Which would explain why Jiraiya acts the way he does, that and he's known Sirzechs since the lord was in diapers. "He's raising his chakra level, must be because of what happened."
"Speaking of that, is there any word on their next moves?"
"With Naruto, nothing like another attack or anything, it seems they are hell bent on finding me and the key."
"Let's pray that never happens."
"Thought prayer was reserved for Angels?" Jiraiya joked.
"Well, it certain times, even a Devil needs to pray to someone."
"Anyway, I need to get going, I stay here any longer they could find me. Keep an eye on Naruto for me, he's an idiot compared to his father, so he's bound to get into more trouble."
"You know I'm not a babysitter, and I-" When he turned to explain further to the older man, he was gone, without a trace. "I hate it when he does that." He swiveled in his chair and thought back to the last time the man came in unannounced.
It had been an exchanged of a favor for a favor. It was no secret that Sirzechs was looking at any avenue to save his sister from the arrange marriage. The deal had been that Naruto be kept within the Gremory territory for safety, and to go to Kuoh as well to be close to two powerful devil heirs that would be able to deter anyone from making a move on him. In exchange, Jiraiya would help with his sister's arrange marriage. He had a lot of pull in all sorts of places, so if anyone could undo the contract, it would be him. But then, unforeseen by any of them, Naruto was attacked and killed. Luckily Sirzechs sister was able to save him, and converted him into a Devil within her peerage. The lord was sure the older man would have been upset by the news, but to his surprise he wasn't. He had said 'Great, leave your sister to him and you won't need me.' Sirzechs still doesn't know what he meant by that. Maybe the man's grandson could help his sister? He would have to wait and see, as well as keep an eye on Naruto.
"Jeez I guess I am his babysitter." He leaned back into his chair, defeated.
XXx
Days turned into weeks, and just about every other morning Naruto woke up the same he did when he first started his training. Gone was the embarrassment, instead he expected it. He even kept a body pillow by his dresser for when he woke up first. Every day was pretty much the same, Naruto would spend hours training all at once, from chakra control, to chakra expansion, to strength, and of course the Rasengan. He had finally gotten the second step done, but he no longer considered that to be the hardest step. No, the final step was indeed the hardest, containment. He had to not only rotate the chakra in different directions, rotate with power and force, but now he had to contain it in a form of a ball. The size varied really, but his practice was with a small inflated balloon. The goal now was not to pop it, this had proven difficult and messy. His training ground was littered with shards of colorful rubber. It was like a water balloon fight had broken out.
He had about a hundred clones focused on the last step, his other endeavors were going along much better. With Akeno he had learned more about magic other than just the teleportation spell, which came in extremely handy when he was running late. Him and Kiba set aside a day for the two to train together in increasing their base speed without any supernatural enhancements. Koneko finally managed to get the tree walking down, she was even getting to the point where it was like breathing. She liked this because it made her punches hit harder.
Currently the real Naruto was with Koneko, opting to take a break from his training to oversee her training personally. The only problem Koneko had though...
"Senpai, why did I need my swimsuit?" She asked walking out into the school pool. They had made a deal with the swim club to use the pool once they were done with practice. Naruto wasn't in his normal school swim suit, instead he had on black beach shorts with orange flame design on them. He was waiting by the pool.
"Simple I didn't want you to get your clothes wet." She was confused, she tilted her head to show it. "You mastered the leaf exercise, and even the tree walking, now it is time for the next step in chakra control training. Water walking." Naruto demonstrated by walking out onto the water of the pool. Instead of falling into the water, he continued to walk. He walked all the way to the end then back again. "Take this one slow, it's the hardest of the chakra control exercises to get down. But like the tree walking, once you get it mastered it will be as natural as breathing."
"Okay." She got to the edge of the pool, and focused chakra into her feet, just like with the tree walking. She took a step onto the water, it was steady...at first. She didn't adjust and fell into the water. She took a gasp of air when she resurfaced. "C-C-Cold."
"Yeah, I requested fresh cold water to be put in, I say it was quite the shock huh?" The small girl glared at him as she got out of the pool. She shook off the water and stared at the pool wondering what she did wrong. "You had the right amount to stay afloat. But this is not a hard surface, it's constantly changing and shifting, and like the water you have to do the same with the chakra output. It's the hardest because you have to use different strengths of chakra output to match the shifting of the water." He handed her a towel, she used it to dry her hair. "Now, try again."
She let out a sigh, she took a step onto the water, trying to use different amounts of chakra output. Her first step stayed afloat, when she took a second step it dipped into the pool. This surprised her and caused her to lose focus and fall in, again she was shivering. She crawled out of the pool, used the towel to dry herself again, then glared at the blond. He was relaxing in one of the chairs, sunglasses on with his hands behind his head. He had an amused smile. "Why are you looking at me? I told you what to do, you have to use different output, even another foot isn't going need the exact same output as the other. Keep trying."
She huffed and glared at her senpai; he was enjoying this she knew it. She hated the water and hated getting wet, even when it came to baths, she rarely took them. But she could sense that her control was improving thanks to the other training styles. So, she reluctantly tried again, all while trying to ignore the snickering of the blond every time she fell in.
XxX
A clone was currently doing what all new Devels had to do, he was handing out flyers, with promises of wishes being granted, chores being done, babysitting, just about anything he could think of that would get him contracts with people. While handing out flyers he noticed something odd. A nun was walking around squinting at signs and giving them confused looks. All the while she was trying to ask people for help, but most of them were busy, or too self-absorbed with something else to lend her a hand. It didn't help she looked like a tourist; most people avoided tourists because they were at times hard to deal with.
Naruto kept watching her, finding it odd that a nun was in Devil territory. Unless she was so lost, she couldn't find her church that could be in like the next town. One of two boys that were playing on the sidewalk suddenly tripped and scraped his knee. Naruto ran to the boy immediately wanting to help. It wasn't until he got there that he noticed the nun had done the same thing. "Are you alright?" They both said at the same time. They shared a look, she blushed, but recovered quickly.
"Let me see it." She knelt down to look at the boys knee.
"Luckily it's not too bad, some spray and a band aid would help that out in no time." However, the blonde nun decided to put her hands over the scrap. Silver rings appeared on both of her ring fingers; a green glow emitted from her hands. In no time the scrap was gone, almost as if it wasn't there.
"Gee, thanks big sis." The boy said. He got up and stretched his leg out. "It's good as new, thanks big sis, and big bro." He bowed to the two, he and his friend took off to continue playing, but in the grass this time.
"That was amazing, that's quite a gift you have there. My names Namikaze Naruto, pleasure to meet you." He held out his hand for a hand shake.
"Oh, uh thank you Namikaze-san, my name is Asia Argento."
"I'm going to hazard a guess and say that you aren't from Japan."
"How could you tell?"
"Well, I noticed you looking at the signs with confusion, plus you gave your first name first. Something only people from Europe or America do. Giving your attire, and name I'm guessing, Italy?"
"Monte Bueno, uhm I mean yes I am from Italy, the Vatican sent me here. I'm trying to find this church, but I can't read the signs."
"Well, your Japanese is excellent, but speaking it is different from reading it. Here let me help you." He took a look at her map and at the address she was given. "Oh, you're in luck, it's only a couple of blocks from here. I can show you the way."
"Oh, I wouldn't want to impose."
"Nonsense, it's what friends are for."
"Friends?" Asia asked with surprise and hope in her voice. "I never had a friend before..."
"I'm sorry, but I'll be your first one then."
"Really? Thank you Namikaze-san."
"Hey, we're friends Asia, call me Naruto."
"Okay, Naruto." The two talked while walking to the church. When they got there, the blonde girl seemed sad. Even though she had been looking for this church for a while now, she didn't want her time with her first friend to end so suddenly. "That was fast..."
"Well, it seemed that way because we were talking the whole time, time flies you know."
"Yeah...Do you think we could see each other again?"
"Sure, I have nothing planned for tomorrow, let's get lunch. I can show you around town. I'll meet you by that park at three, sound good?"
The nun brightens up, a huge smile was on her face. "That would be great, I can't wait. See you tomorrow Naruto."
"Yep, see ya." When she left behind the doors, Naruto had gotten a weird feeling. Like something within him was churning and making him sick. He looked up to see a cross above the door. "That could be it." The clone chose to disperse.
XxX
Naruto was shocked to see that Asia was already at the meeting place, he expected that she would be a while since she is new. However, he chose to ignore it and walked up to greet her. "Asia, hey." Naruto called out to her. She had been looking around until she heard her name being called. When she caught sight of him her face brightens up.
Asia went to meet him halfway, at a quicken pace. "Naruto, I'm so glad you made it."
"Yeah, no problem, have you been waiting long?"
"No, not at all." He highly doubted that. "So, what are we going to do?"
"I was thinking about that, there's this great place to eat near here. After that, I was thinking we go to the arcade that's also nearby, should be fun."
"Sounds lovely, but uhm what is an 'Arcade'?"
"An arcade? You don't know what an arcade is? Where have you been under a rock?"
Asia looked upset; she had a sadden face as she looked down. "I'm sorry."
"Whoa, hey don't be upset I was just joking, you know pulling your leg?" She seemed confused. "Wow, you have lived a sheltered life. Well, joking is something friends do with each other, it may sound mean but it's really all in good fun. Usually, a joke is to make someone laugh, like why did the Chicken cross the road-"
"Why?"
"What?"
"Why did the chicken cross the road?"
"I don't know why?"
She looked more confused. "That's what I was wondering."
"Oh, I thought you were-never mind. It wasn't a question it was an example of a joke. See some jokes have a punchline. The punch line, if well delivered, causes someone to laugh."
"Oh, I think I get it. So, what is the punchline to why did the chicken cross the road?"
"To get to the other side." Naruto waited for a laugh, but all he got in return was a confused stare. "To...to get to the other side, get it?" She shook her head no. "Well, that was probably a bad example. Wait, pranks are funny. Okay so this one time I put a whoopie cushion in a teachers chair when he wasn't looking. When he sat on it, it made a loud," He gave an example of a fart. "The whole class started laughing." He was smiling and chuckling, but the girl seemed shocked.
"Why would you do something like that to your teacher?" She asked with a serious and stern look.
"Well, it's a prank, pranks are where you trick someone and it causes a laugh from you and others, sometimes even the one that is tricked will laugh."
"I'm not getting it, sorry, I'm still stuck on the chicken."
"Oh, well..." They had been walking this whole time, that's when Naruto noticed that they were at the restaurant. "Oh, we're here, come on let's get a table." The place wasn't busy so finding a table for the two friends was not a hard task. Once they were sat down, and drink orders put in they picked up the conversation again. "So, when you were at the Vatican, what did you use to do for fun?"
"I would often read the bible, I find the word of God to be comforting, are you alright?" She noticed that he winced in pain.
"No, I'm fine, just head hurting a bit from school is all. Go on,"
"Oh, well, the other nuns would often have me help out in the infirmary. The gift I received from God was often used, are you sure you're, alright?" Naruto nodded trying not to let the pain get to him. He motioned for her to continue. "Well, it was often used to help the sick and injured, I loved dearly helping people. And the sisters were really nice to me, well up until a few days ago."
"What happened a few days ago?"
"Well, someone was hurt really bad, and I healed them. But the sisters and priests said that he was a Devil. I thought I was going to get excommunicated, but I didn't, I'm glad I didn't, instead they sent me here to help with the church."
"I'm so sorry that happened, well it seems things turned out alright, we got to meet after all."
Her face brightens up even more than before, "That's right, it truly was a blessing from God that we-Naruto are you sure you're okay?"
"Me? Yeah I'm fine, you know what it might be, it might be that I'm hungry. Now where is that server?" He tried to play it off, and the girl seemed to believe it. They both took a moment to look at the menu, making light conversation. He had to make sure that she didn't say the name.
XxX
Naruto and Asia had a lot of fun together, after lunch they went to the arcade. Asia was amazed at all the different type of games that were beeping and buzzing. She got to see how great at DDR Naruto was, she had a hard time. Near the end she had seen a cute fox plush inside a crane machine. Naruto boasted that he could win it for her, and he did, after about ten tries and her saying after each time it was okay. He still got that weird feeling in his gut when he took her to the church. This time the Cross wasn't above the door, so he was at a loss as to what it was. The church when she went in just gave him a bad feeling.
When Naruto came home, he went to his fridge to grab some juice before bed. After closing it, "Why are you in my house Rias?"
"Where were you tonight?" She asked from the chair in the living room.
"I told you earlier that I was out with a new friend."
"And that new friend just happens to be a nun."
"Were you spying on me?"
"No..." She saw the skeptical look on his face. "Okay, yes I was spying, but it was just because I was worried about you."
"Rias I can take care of myself."
"I know you can, but after what happened and what Kurama told us. You can't be too careful."
"I'm careful Rias, especially after what happened. But Asia is not like that, nor is she planning anything."
"She's still a nun."
"So what?"
"So what? Naruto do you remember nothing from our conversations, the church is our enemy. We're currently under a ceasefire and a shaky peace treaty, any negative movement from either side will start off another war."
"I understand that, but what does that have to do with my friendship with Asia?"
"She's a nun, nuns are the church, churches are with the angles, and the angles are one of the three factions that is a part of the peace treaty. Regardless of what you think, if the angels get word of a nun being friends with a Devil, it could lead them to think we were planning an attack."
"That's a big what if though, there's no guarantee that it will happen like that."
"I'm sorry Naruto, I can't take that chance. I have to forbid you from seeing her anymore."
"Forbid me? What happened to 'the Gremory are different, we allow freedom' huh?"
"We do, but I just can't risk starting a war. Please understand, this is for the good of not just us, but every Devil, and Angel." She could tell he was upset, and angry with her. But as an heir, she had a duty to uphold, plus she didn't want to cause a war.
"I think you overstayed your welcome." Naruto said lowly.
Rias got up, she didn't want to end things this way. "It's not just the safety of the Devils and Angels, but her as well. Being friends with you will not sit right with the church." She left the house after that.
Naruto slammed his fist on the table busting it to pieces. "Naruto, she has a point, Asia-chan is already in hot water with the church for healing a Devil. Being friends with one won't help her chances either." Kurama tried to be the voice of reason.
"So what? I should tell Asia that we can't be friends anymore?" He received no answer. Probably because he wouldn't like the answer. "Screw this, I'm going to go train." He threw the glass of juice down on the floor busting it and causing a mess. He ignored it though, instead he went to train and try to put this whole mess out of his mind.