Naruto's backyard
'It has gotten more-lively around here. Everyone is enjoying the peace and quiet minus the occasional explosion.' Naruto thought as he was sitting on the porch while drinking his glass of wine.
At least that's what he told Yoshino to avoid telling her it was Zest's blood. Naruto still was not ready for her reactions to seeing him drinking blood so casually. Especially since she is just use to seeing him feeding from time to time and thinking they are having adult fun, not too far enough but he was not going there yet.
Next to him at the table was Seliah who while wearing some glasses was going over a couple of papers. Seliah was grading the papers and making some small adjustments here and there or making note to explain this in better detail.
Yoshino and Zest were standing off to the side of the yard with his daughter working on summoning her magic and controlling it into a small ball with Zest explaining the procedure to her.
In front of him in the midst of his vision was Issei who after finding out that he was something beyond a normal human is training vigorously. Not in the sense, that he wasn't crying in fear of having magical spells fired at him at high speeds. Elmenhilde seemed to be enjoying the process as she was just casting basic spells and sending the blasts at Issei while Muzan was hanging in the background watching.
"You must move faster Issei and use less muscle movement in your dodges!"
"Sorry Muzan-sama!"
"STOP TALKING AND WORK!"
Issei gulped and got back to dodging the blasts in fear of Elmenhilde either of hitting him or Muzan punishing him for failing to dodge.
'Why am I doing this?' Issei thought.
Flashback…
"Issei, you need to improve your power and skills." Naruto stated as he did some assigned reading.
"I am willing." Issei stated.
"But you need to train with a higher ranked being. One several steps ahead of you." Naruto continued.
Naruto looked to his left, seeing Muzan pouring him water.
"Muzan will be your trainer, Issei." Naruto stated before he turned a page in his book.
Issei looked at Muzan, and froze.
Muzan did not look happy at all.
'I think he hates me.' Issei thought as he pissed himself. 'But, isn't he just a servant?'
"Oh, and Elmenhilde will train you too." Naruto stated, the vampire perking up at hearing her name.
"Of course, Na… My lord." Elmenhilde caught herself.
End Flashback…
'That's right. Elm is teaching me dodging and how to sense magic while Muzan is driving me into the dirt to build my endurance and physical strength.' Issei thought as he got back up from being hit.
Naruto took a deep drink of his blood and sighed; the last few days had been a hassle in a half.
More so, dealing with people from the Underworld that came to see his family and inspect Issei.
Flashback
"Naruto, one of the Satan's sent a member to investigate Issei." Seliah stated as she bowed to Naruto, who was showering.
"It makes sense." Naruto replied as he washed his hair.
"But she intended to get close to Yoshino to get to Issei." Seliah continued.
Seliah could feel the water stop in place as she said that.
"Did you kill them?" Naruto asked in annoyance.
"No, she did not do anything. She heeded my warning and returned back to the Underworld, most likely informing the Satan's of our station here." Seliah replied worriedly.
"As long as Yoshino isn't hurt, I don't mind them observing us or Issei." Naruto replied as he continued showering.
End Flashback
'And then there is Issei's family.' Naruto thought.
Issei was also told that he would have to move out of his parents' home for a while or at least until he was strong enough on his own to protect them in case something came up.
More so, he was reluctant but after explaining that he would be staying at their home and he would be allowed to enjoy his own room without consequences he was on board.
But he would have to talk to his parents tomorrow during the first day of the school week and tell them the news. The cover story is that they were tutoring him privately and thought it be better that he stays with his friend and the teachers to hopefully bring his grades up.
*DING*
Naruto stopped what he was thinking and saw Elmenhilde helping Issei up.
"That was much better, Issei." Elmenhilde stated with a smile. "You are getting better by the day. Just need to keep at it and you will be able to sense magic. After you finish your next set of training, we can start your hand to hand."
"What training?" Issei asked.
A dark and malicious feeling hit Issei's back, turning his head and paled at the sight Muzan glaring down at him.
Before Issei knew he found a lump on his head and him having to sit on his knees before the pissed off vampire.
"You will work harder, that was barely worth any form of praise and something that will not represent young master is that clear!?"
"YES MUZAN-SAMA!" Issei was shaking and sweating from the terrifying him man begging he learned from this to avoid him getting more pissed at him.
"Good now we begin your cardio for the day. I think 10 miles shall suffice."
"10! I've barely done-," He glared darker at Issei while closing the distance between them,
"Did you dare to question me BOY!"
"No," squeaked out Issei while Elm was shivering in fear of Muzan and his rage. Everyone else either continued on with their own things or just ignored the pissed off vampire.
"Let's get started." His body shifted around and soon took the form of a giant black dog with dark red eyes, large fangs, and a black aura surrounding it.
Issei said nothing after seeing the dog, knowing what this was supposed to do and he was sure as hell it,
Motivated to outrun the dark hell hound from hell!
Naruto laughed and just looked at Seliah,
"Doesn't this bring back memories?"
Seliah looked up and sighed, "You mean of the times that the others joined and he did the same thing?"
"Yes."
Seliah smiled slightly,
"Yeah I remember." She sighed and put her pen down, "Well I'm done grading all the papers."
"And how did they do?" Naruto looking down at the paperwork and seeing that Yoshino and Issei's stuff had stuff written on it or just changed.
"For Yoshino she passed all her homework and her essay on family was excellent for someone her age." She turned to Issei's work and sighed, "I hate to say it but the perverted brat has improved. His school work barely needs corrections and his study notes for his test are better than when he started."
Naruto smiled, "Meaning?"
"Yes," Seliah leaned back and pulled out her cell phone from somewhere, seriously Naruto never knew where she kept it on her flimsy dress but he was not about to ask. "I'll give her a call and see if she would be willing to do that blind date like I promised."
Naruto laughed lightly; you see there was a bet. Issei wanted to improve in his school work but was lacking certain motivation, so Naruto decided to appeal to his pervert side. In doing this he told him that Seliah has a girl that he would like to meet and would fit into his desires.
But he could only get a date with her if he promised to bring his work up and that it was to the level that Seliah deemed worthy of said date. Knowing that he could possibly get a new date with a pretty demon, Issei doubled his efforts in the last few days and started to really buckle down on his school work.
Now she would have to call her friend and get her to agree to the date and it annoyed Seliah as she thought her friend would either feed into his lust or just break the poor kid.
"Well who knows? Maybe she is soul mate?"
Seliah scoffed, "I doubt it very much Naruto-kun."
When Muzan wasn't around Zest and Seliah referred to Naruto as kun instead of sama.
"Maybe but life moves in mysterious ways no?"
Turning his head, he saw Yoshino creating a small ball of water and ice in her hand before it popped. The poor kid was so flustered by her failed attempts she dropped to the ground in sadness.
"I'm sorry Zest-kaa-chan I can't get it." Yoshino was having tears well in her eyes that tugged at Zest's heart strings and quickly comforted the child.
"Yoshino you have to stop being so hard on yourself," Yoshinon popping up on her hand. It pats her head but she was still upset, leaving Zest to comfort the poor frustrated child.
"It is alright Yoshino; I know what you're going through."
"You do Kaa-chan?"
Zest smiled down at Yoshino,
"Of course, after all your father, Seliah-kaa-chan, and myself all went through it when we were younger."
Yoshino and Yoshinon looked up in shock and then at their father, Naruto had struggled with control at her age? Imagining a younger child like Naruto was hard but to think he was struggling with things made it even harder. More so that everything she had seen him do or try, he mastered or showed such great control that it was mind boggling.
"It's true." Naruto took the last drink of his blood while standing up from the table walking up to her, "I struggled controlling my immense power when I was a child Yoshino. Don't be so hard on yourself and just keep trying and eventually you'll get it. We all progress at different rates and you just have to find your rate." He smiled and pat her head before walking back into the house noticing he ignited a new fire in his daughter who quickly went back to work on controlling her power with Zest giving some pointers here and there and Elm jumping in to help her while waiting for Issei and Muzan to return.
Naruto on the other hand reached into his pants pocket and rolled his fingers around a familiar circular,
"It is coming close, I best prepare."
Park
Issei having ran like a mad man, managed to somehow avoid getting his head bitten off by Muzan. But he was not sure how if he was being completely honest, he figured the vampire was not trying to kill him yet just making sure he understands how serious he should be taking this.
"Here." Muzan held out a bottle of water and he took a hold of it and started taking sips. He looked seeing the vampire staring unflinching and unmoving. The man, he was not sure what to make of him or his whole relationship with the group-
"You should know," Issei focused on Muzan, "That I hate you per say."
"Why?" The vampire growled,
"Because young master seems to have his focus on you and I don't understand why." Turning his head, "You are nothing but a pest in my eyes just like the rest of them. People that were just barely worth getting noticed by Naruto-sama and people that should be grateful to even be in his presence."
Issei flinched, Muzan never struck him as someone that just hated everyone around him, just seemed more annoyed than anything.
"However," He sighed, "There are always exceptions and that would be young Yoshino master's chosen child and those two women he keeps around."
"So, you don't mind them?" He growled,
"There are few I don't mind but if I must stomach someone being with my master it is them. At least they serve a purpose greater than just his 'friend'" he said the word friend as if it was acid.
Issei flinched,
"They act as his feeding source, family, and companions if he ever gets around to actually mating with them."
"WAIT! Your saying he has never had sex with them?"
Muzan glares making him shut up and shrink under his gaze,
"Yes, if you must know, he has never laid with them due to reasons."
Issei got quiet, he was not sure what to make of this information, one hand his friend has two very exotic looking women at his beck and call and not tapping them. But another part of him knew that his friend must have reasons for not doing it but he was not sure what they were. But seeing Muzan's pupil's shaking he knew
better than to ask him as he was not sure how far he would go to restrain himself from killing him.
"Hurry up we must head home and start preparing for the afternoon, you must continue your studies if you are to ace next week's test."
"Right!" Issei got to his feet and started walking quickly behind Muzan, he looked at the ancient vampire,
"Muzan-,"
"It is Muzan-sama when it is just us is that clear?"
"Yes, but I had a question more about you." The vampire turned his head, "Well I was wondering, how did you come to serve under Naruto?"
Muzan sighed looking up at the sky ignoring some of the nearby women swooning over him. It truly disgusted him that so many lowly creatures would seek to be with him just for his looks and not knowing him.
"I was created by Naruto-sama's ancestor and founder Alucard. In the time of old I was his oldest and closest confidant when he was out in the world conquering all that he encountered. However, over time I noticed my master breeding with lesser vampire clans and wanting to expand his bloodline. He told me that it was to ensure that one day I would have another master worthy of serving. After he told me this, he ordered me to stay behind and he disappeared, never to be seen again." He growled at the sight of a human abusing a female woman with a vicious backhand. Muzan walked up to the man and without warning he sent a straight up axe kick to his chin sending him flying into the sky. The woman screamed in shock until Muzan tapped her head and she passed out and the man came falling down to the earth.
Or he would have if Issei didn't see something come out of his back and quickly devour the man on the spot leaving nothing behind of the once mentioned human.
"In time," he continued his story unperturbed, "I met many of my master's ancestors and deemed none of them worthy of serving. While some were powerful, ambitious, or cunning the truth is that none of them were all these things and more. I soon grew to fear that I let my master fade away from my life without a reason, but then," He smiled brightly at the memory and Issei saw his eyes lighten in joy, "That is when I met him. My little master and the one that I would one day serve with the same conviction as Alucard."
Flash Back
Muzan looked at the child in front of him. He was staring at him and it was annoying him more than anything. More so, that none of his family have ever given off this feeling as if they were looking into him and judging him for something.
The child in question was no older than 7 but he carried himself as someone twice his age with great grace and poise.
"You are Muzan-sama no?" Muzan heard his question is shocked by the formal greeting.
"Yes, and you are child?" The black hair teen smiled at him slightly,
"My name is Naruto I'm the child of Mariticus and Slyvia."
"Ah yes the current heads of the Ancient Families I remember." He looked at the child trying to gauge him but nothing was jumping out at the same time everything seemed to be.
"I was wanting to meet the vampire that is rumored to have served Alucard-sama." He smiled, "I'm grateful for the chance to finally stare into your eyes and see the truth of your person."
"Oh? Does this mean you think your worthy of me serving you?"
"No." Muzan is shocked by the answer finding this to be an insult, "I don't think I'm worthy of having you serve me because you are too good for me." Now this surprised him, no one in his family's history ever believed they were beneath him or would at least admit it.
"How did you come to this conclusion?"
"Simple," Naruto rubbed the back of his head, "I'm nothing more than a child compared to all around him and while I'm strong I fear that I'm not worthy of praise that is given. I question if this is the life I wish to live or if there is more to see in this world than simply gaudy pleasure you know?"
Muzan's eyes widen slightly, he swore he saw his master standing before him. As he told him the same thing after traveling for so long, he developed the same opinion of the world.
"I see." Muzan smiled watching the child turn from him and away from him. He continued to hold his smile and if one was to see it before he went back to his duties, they would see tears developing in his eyes.
Later that day, he is invited to the main throne room and asked the same question all the other times.
"Is there anyone here you believe worthy?" Muzan turned to the lower blood crowd and saw Naruto standing there off to the side with his parents while ignoring the room as a whole. He looked at the sky outside the window and saw he sought adventure and dreamed of being free to see everything he wanted.
"Yes, there is only one." Walking up to Naruto, who stared at him in shock, he took a knee and bowed his head to him with his arm across his chest. "I serve you now and for all eternity Naruto-sama."
Flash Back Ends
"Since then I have served faithfully alongside my master and saw him not only become a powerful vampire but someone that is quite cunning and able to shield those that he loves while killing those that dare to threaten him."
"Woah," Issei was enraptured in the tale of how they met that he didn't realize that they were back at the house. "I think I get it," looking at the house, "I think it is the reason I wanted to become his ally."
"Oh? I doubt it insect but we shall see."
Time Skip
Time progressed slowly, more so that Naruto was lounging around his home preparing for the upcoming venture while others were taking time to leave the house for short periods of time. Issei on the other hand, he was talking to Seliah and he swore he felt death hanging over him right now.
"Now listen you little shit, while I frown on the idea of setting you up with my friend I have agreed as Naruto-kun ordered me to do so." Seliah had a blush thinking about what it be like to go on a real date with Naruto and how it would end. Soon the blush intensified but she shook her head clean of those thoughts before focusing back on the boy who was paling at the sight of her growing darker. "You are to treat my friend with respect, don't try anything frisky, and most importantly you are to take care of her for the evening with the money Naruto-kun gave you. If she tells me you did something on the date that unsettled her then I will personally show you how I like to torture people for my own joy."
"Yes Ma'am!" He saluted her and she just glared before waving him away. The teen took off leaving the house in a mad dash to get to the school and be ready for his date that afternoon. But she was more annoyed now she had to wait for Naruto-kun to wake up as he was supposed to be leaving afterwards for a week. It was a routine of his and it is something that has grown less frequent over the years.
Zest appeared back at the house but instead of her usual outfit she is wearing a black and white dress that hugged her figure and showed off her breasts to everyone that could see them. She was wearing black and white heels to match but had taken them off after coming back to the house and sending them back to her shared closet.
"How was it?" Zest smiled sadly,
"Just as it usually is." Turning her head, she saw Naruto moaning in his sleep before putting her hand on his head, "I'm glad he is not going as often but it still hurts him when he has to."
Seliah sighed, "I've never been there but I can tell that this is something that weighs heavily on him and probably will for the rest of his life."
"Yes, it will." Muzan appearing from the kitchen he sighed sitting down some sake for the two women and himself as this was a stressful day and something none of them wanted to deal with sober.
A few minutes passed and soon the three saw Naruto stir awake and snap his fingers changing into a nice back and red tux with a black bow-tie.
"See you all in a week."
"See you Naruto-kun please come home sooner if you want." Naruto smiled and gathered his magic summoning a pre-made basic into his hand and enveloped himself in darkness before disappearing from the room.
At the school Issei was relaxing with his kendo buddies in the dojo with Mugen walking up to him and seeing his change of clothes,
"Yo, you got another date?" He put his arm around Issei's shoulder who smiled,
"Yeah I do. Honestly this is a date that Naruto set up for me so I'm kinda nervous you know?" He hid the fact that it was really Seliah to avoid rumors flying about the relationship of teacher and student.
"Really?" Mugen smiled, "Well if the girl you are going to meet today has a sweet tooth, I heard of this cool new little sweet shop in the market district that just opened up. Apparently, it has a variety of sweets for anyone that would want some."
"Great that is a big help as I didn't know where to take but that should help at least." Mugen laughed,
"Yeah plus they serve other stuff like sandwiches and stuff so there is more to work with if nothing else."
"True."
"Also," one of the random kendo guys said, "There is this place my brother works at called Dragon Imperial if you want, I can call him and ask if he can reserve you a table."
"SERIOUSLY THAT IS LIKE THE BEST RESTURANT IN TOWN!" Issei went up to the man and bowed his head, "Please see if your brother can I really want to show this girl a good time and show a better side of me you know?"
"Sure, thing buddy." He pulled out his phone and pulled up his brother's number, "Get ready man, I'll have the table thing situated." He walked away while talking to his brother and Issei quickly doubled his efforts and changed into his nicer clothes. A nice button up white shirt and black slacks along with a pair of black shoes that were slip on.
"Okay how do I look?" Mugen looked him over while Jin smiles,
"You look better than what Mugen would put on at least." The teen gained a tick mark and thrusted a kick at Jin's head,
"Want to go asshole?" Jin smiled,
"Sure, I love putting dumbasses in their places."
Within seconds the entire room was watching Mugen and Jin fighting in a free for all kendo match while Issei sweat dropped,
"I thought the people I'm running with are nuts." He sighed and walked outside and to the front of the school where he felt his heart beat intensify. He was not sure how things were going to go I mean would she like him? What if he didn't take her places she likes?
"Hello there you must be Issei." Turning his head, he saw a beautiful girl.
While this girl would be more of a lolicon he could tell there was a sense of beauty to her in her long silver hair, purple eyes, and her black gothic Lolita dress. The girl had a bright smile on her face and just stared at the teen with enthusiasm. All Issei could do was blush and mutter,
"Beautiful."
"Oh you," She slapped his shoulder making him grunt, she was freaking strong. "I know I'm beautiful but thanks for the compliment and I must say," She walked around Issei inspecting him, "When Seliah told me you were some no good perverted scum," Issei felt a hit to his chest, "Worthless sack of shit, "Another hit, "Someone that was unworthy of breathing the same air as normal beings or even lowly dogs," That one made him fall to the ground in shock from another shot to his heart. "I thought of meeting someone that was more perverse and not as cleaned up but I have to say," She smiled brightly and with a small blush on her face, "This is even better than I was hoping for."
"Really?" She took his hand and nodded her head,
"My name is Maria and you should know that I don't mind perverts, as long as it is with me." She smiled brightly and whispered in his ear, "After all I'm a succubus."
Issei's nose bled and he quickly tried cleaning himself up before it dripped on his shirt with her laughing,
"Now that was a good reaction Issei-kun, now come on," She gripped his wrist and started dragging, "We got a date so let's get it started!"
"Uh," Issei smiled brightly, "Yeah lets!"
Scene Break
In another plain, there is a large hill and at the top of the hill was a single tombstone with something written on it in ancient language long forgotten. But standing there Naruto smile sadly,
"Sorry it's been so long Alice." He touched the tombstone and tears came down his face, "Happy Anniversary."
