HEY GUYS!

Guess who's back?...No, not Ken. Which one of you said that? How dare you!

Anyway terrible joke aside welcome to chapter 7, the next chapter to have a lower word count than the one before it XD

Sorry this chapter took a little bit longer, more family has come over and have been working. Its school holidays! I shouldn't be this busy! DX

I'm glad so many of you enjoyed the last chapter, even with the few VERY heated replies I got. Those replies actually made me think that chapter 6 flubbed but when I was reading over the reviews again I realized that only 3-4 of the replies were negative, for some reason I had thought that the number was much higher XD

I'm so glad that people enjoyed and answered my question from last time, I got some pretty interesting replies and it was fun to see the diversity!

Anyway, ONTO REVIEW REPLIES!

Apedreitor: I do see where you are coming from, and while Naruto may become slightly more free spirited as time goes on, the real connections will be some of the techniques he creates, and some other things that appear later in the story.

YuukiAsuna-Chan: My feelings ;-; But I'm glad that even with the criticism's you keep coming back to read the chapters The name was so the Demon's wouldn't know about (at least for now) peerages and while I have explained his reasoning in this chapter, to me it feels like a shitty retcon at best but I did want to explain his reasoning so I've left it in. Also Naruto no has PoD.

AcausalTrilby: I'm glad you enjoyed chapter 3, I think that'll be the most successful chapter of any fanfic I ever write XD I do thank you for the criticism, and in future chapters I will try to flesh out the bonds between Naruto and his peerage, though I'm not too sure about the going slow bit XD

Moonlight Slayer: Man, people did not enjoy Naruto's decisions last chapter, though I completely agree, looking back the way I handled that was stupid. Though it is my first fanfic I've ever realized so I'm still learning, hopefully things get better in later chaps. Also I am trying to give him character development, though I honestly have no clue how well that's going considering half of the readers agree with your view of him and the other half adore my Naruto.

Naga(Guest): Bye! Sorry it wasn't to your liking.

narutoDkurosaki: Looking back Konan would have been a good choice instead of Olivia, but I like the way the story is going, and its too late to change it anyways XD

UchihaNekoto: I'm glad you like the Angel/Devil roles and as for the romance: Harem, and I will keep it generally low numbers

AnimeIsLife0407: Hi again! I'm glad that the story flow doesn't seem janky to you, that's something I'm very glad for. Also, yes Angels, like Devils, have very low birthrates. And yes, the Brave Saint system will still appear in my fic.

AZant: Michael and Gabriel do know about the collars but not the extent they're being used to. Also I'm happy to know you're interested in the mechanics of my Heaven~

Otaku6023: I'd like to take an extra moment for your comment. Seeing your comment genuinely made me smile and made me very happy, I have two friends with depression and while its not as bad now as it first was its still very prevalent so I sort of have second hand knowledge about how hard it is to get over it. I don't know what about my story helped you, I can't fathom how my story helped you but from the bottom of my heart I'm so happy to hear that it DID help you and I am glad that I could help~

Dearick77: A sin might appear~ Just have to wait~

KingRyu: oh, um. Kay

And with that the review replies are finished. I'm ecstatic that so many of you enjoyed it.

ONTO THE CHAPTER!

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"Is he still working on it?" Sayuri asked the blonde kitsune girl next to her who was watching their King messing around with magic circle formulae.

"Yes. Naruto-sama says that the teleportation formula that the Demon used won't leave his head, he's been having dreams around it. I don't think he's going to be able to properly rest until he figures out the part of the formula that he wasn't able to memorize" Natsumi said in worry, gently biting her finger as she stared at her King.

"Well we just got a message from Lord Gremory's familiar. Do you want to hand it to So-Taichou?" Sayuri asked the fox girl teasingly, said girl blushing and nodding quickly, snatching the letter out of the half-wolf spirits hand.

As she walked over she smiled fondly as she saw Naruto chew on a pencil idly in thought as he looked at the magic circle on the computer screen in front of him, using a specially made program he created him which allows him to artificially create magic circles to test. As she reached him her fond smile lessoned slightly at the annoyed twinkle in his eye but she pushed that aside for the moment.

"Naruto-sama" She began respectfully, snapping him out of his frustration induced focused as he looked up at her curiously, attempting his best to try and look at her without his frustration showing "Lord Gremory has sent this letter for you" She said handing him the letter.

Grabbing the letter curiously he broke the wax seal and opened it. Reading through the letter quickly he scowled minutely, barely enough for someone not trained or with supernatural eyesight to see.

"Father is holding a family dinner tonight" He explained to Natsumi who nodded thoughtfully "Which means I have to either deal with Father, who rarely speaks to me, Mother, Who hasn't spoken to me since the Phenex Ball three years ago, and Rias, who just like mother holds a grudge because of…..Ken" He spat angrily at the mention of the boy before trying to control himself "Or stay here and slowly go insane trying to figure out the last component of this formula" He said slightly humorously, Natsumi letting out a quiet giggle at her King's attempt at humor.

"I think that you should go Naruto-sama. Maybe try to bridge relations with your family?" She suggested optimistically with a smile while grabbing the pencil out of his hand gently and placing it on the table.

Naruto opened his mouth to speak before closing it slightly and looking downwards.

"I don't want to go….I don't like it there, Rias and Mother always stare at me nastily, Father and Lucifer-sa…..Sirzechs never speak to me. I feel uncomfortable, it doesn't feel nice…." He trailed off, internally wincing at how pathetic he must have sounded.

The thirteen year old boy tensed in shock as he felt to soft, feminine arms wrap around his neck and pull his head gently against her chest as she climbed up and sat on his leg while hugging his head to her chest softly. Her fingers idly running through his blood red hair as she began to speak.

"It's okay Naruto-sama. I don't blame you, but I still think you should go, at least to try and bond a little bit more with Sirzechs-sama. I heard that he spent some time with you while I trained with Grayfia-sensei" She murmured into his ear, gently stroking his head as she hugged him.

"Come with me?" He murmured vulnerably, looking up at his Queen, letting her see a side of him that he hadn't shown since the 'Ken incident'.

Natsumi smiled gently at him and closed her eyes as he smile grew, so happy that he trusted her enough to not only show this side of him again but also to ask her to come with him and support him at a dinner with his blood family.

"Of course Naruto-sama~" She chirped happily.

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Of course, Natsumi knew that the dinner would be awkward, there was no way that her King would have that sort of reaction otherwise. Though even her worst expectations only just seemed to meet the reality of the situation. She had to forcibly stop herself from nervously shuffling on the spot behind her King who though he was hiding it incredibly well, the only reason she could tell was because she knew him so well, looked like he wanted the ground to swallow him up and grind him into paste just so he wouldn't have to deal with the stares anymore. At one head of the table was Zeoticus who though he didn't keep a consistent gaze on his son, flicked his eyes in the boys direction far too often and far too long for either of the teens comfort. Likewise was Sirzechs who they could tell was genuinely trying to keep the families attention off of the boy and his Queen and not look at either of them too much, and even though Naruto didn't voice it he was very thankful for his attempts. The real issue though came from the two females of the family. Rias sat to Naruto's right, on the same side of the table as him, and kept her narrowed eyes on the boy at all times unless directly addressed by one of her family members, the 13 year old boy could have sworn he saw flickers of her Power of Destruction manifest around the closest to him far more than once. Finally at the other head of the table was his mother, Venelana Gremory, who like Rias was glaring at him, thankfully not as much or as intensely. Of course Naruto and Natsumi knew why they (mostly Naruto though) were getting these looks, things had been like this ever since he had killed Ken, Rias and to a slightly lesser extent Venelana never agreed with his decision and Naruto had often heard his mother speaking to his father about other choices he could have taken. He wouldn't lie to himself, the lack of support from the two girls on what had to this point in his life been the hardest decision he had ever made hurt on a level that surprised him, the betrayal he felt like a dagger constantly pinned in his back, over the last three years the pain had lessened but whenever he was around them he was always reminded of it.

"So…Naruto" Zeoticus began with a polite smile "How are your research projects?" He asked, trying to strike up conversation with his youngest son.

"Progressing at an exceptional rate" He answered quickly, unused to having an ordinary conversation with his family, any of them.

"….Ah" Zeoticus replied, not sure how to respond to the short reply "Wonderful.."

Natsumi decided to let Naruto take a breather and spoke up.

"Though the power system Naruto-sama started designing 5 months ago has seemed to reach a plateau, he hasn't been able to find a suitable stabilizer for the energy core. Rossweisse-san has suggested Devil Tungsten on multiple occasions in the last few days" Natsumi supplied helpfully to his father, said man seeming to perk up at the news.

"And as I've told her every time" Naruto began evenly as he turned to look back at his Queen "For the small scale prototype's I've created so far, Devil Tungsten would work to an acceptable level but for a larger model, which I plan to create, it cannot keep up with the increase in output from the larger energy core" He replied, not noticing the surprised looks from his family, even if Rias' was hidden under a thick layer of anger.

"Maybe Human Diamond?" She suggested helpfully, now caught up in the conversation with her King.

"It wouldn't work. I need something which can conduct electricity" He shot back quickly, now just as absorbed in the conversation as Natsumi, completely forgetting about his family.

The four Devils watched in fascination/disgust (Rias) as Natsumi would suggest materials that Naruto would shoot down for various reasons. Sirzechs smiled gently, unseen to everyone, at seeing how comfortable his brother was around Natsumi. Zeoticus meanwhile smiled slightly and coughed to catch the teens attention, nearly letting a small chuckle escape when he noticed the two freeze in embarrassment at the conversation they had gotten sucked into. Taking the information that he had gathered the patriarch of the Gremory family spoke once again, now slightly more confident that he had found a more comfortable topic for his socially stunted son.

"So Naruto. I assume that with such an interest in inventions and research that you would aspire for the Beelzebub title?" He asked, genuinely curious at his sons future goals.

Naruto shrunk into himself ever so minutely at the attention and question before answering in a soft tone.

"I'm not really sure what my end goal is right now. But if I was to become a Maou I'd go for the Leviathan or Beelzebub position….I can't decide" He added on quickly as he noticed the confused looks the four sent him.

"Beelzebub would be better. After all, who would agree to ally themselves with a Maou that kills his own peerage in cold blood?" Rias spat venomously in a low tone so that only her twin brother and Natsumi could hear.

Naruto felt his eyes hardening as he narrowed his eyes back at his sister, already knowing that behind him, Natsumi was doing the same, probably to a greater extent though.

"Why the Leviathan position?" Sirzechs asked, genuinely curious.

"I….like to meet people from other religions and factions" He answered slowly "I..enjoy learning about our differences?..." He finished lamely, trying to finish talking as quickly as possible now.

"Interesting…I honestly thought you would go for the Lucifer position" Sirzechs laughed.

"How about you Rias dear? Are you interested in any Maou position?" Venelana asked her daughter pleasantly.

"I'd definitely go for the Lucifer position" Rias said enthusiastically, her attitude doing a complete 180 when not focusing on Naruto "I mean being Lucifer is so cool! Being the leader of all of the Devils sounds like so much fun!"

'You poor innocent, naïve fool' Sirzechs thought spitefully while laughing at his sisters enthusiasm 'The paperwork you do as a Lucifer knows no bounds. But go ahead Rias-tan~ Take my position from me. Suffer as I have suffered while I enjoy endless, paperwork free relaxation time~' He thought sinisterly before snapping out of it and enjoying his sisters happiness and energy.

As the conversation moved to a different topic, Naruto and Natsumi quickly drifted into the background due to a lack of things to say. Turning to Natsumi the thirteen year old boy decided to pass time by talking to his Queen.

"So Natsumi. What are the rest of the girls up to?" He asked the girl curiously, knowing that she regularly made sure to know what the girls were working on.

"Well, Esdeath-san and Saeko-san are both working on their sword skills by battling each other. I believe Tsunade-san has buried herself in books in her room trying to memorize the anatomy of a Devil" Natsumi giggled slightly after she said that, having seen the girl earlier that day sitting in the middle of her room surrounded by piles of medical books "Sayuri-chan is working on her hand-to-hand skills with Rossweisse-san as well" The kitsune girl answered.

Naruto nodded and leant back into his chair as he thought for a moment before tilting his head to look at Natsumi.

"Natsumi….What do you think about those Demon's?" He asked curiously, unfortunately a bit loudly as his older brother managed to hear the words and quickly started paying attention to the conversation.

"I think that right now they aren't much of a problem, but there could be much stronger ones…Naruto-sama, can I ask you a question?" She mumbled, getting a raised eyebrow from him as he hesitantly nodded, quickly making sure that none of his family was listening in, unfortunately not realizing that his brother was "That Demon last week….Why did you give it your name? and give it a name for your peerage?" She asked curiously.

"I…I don't know. I wasn't thinking" He admitted, embarrassed "I was hurt and I wasn't thinking properly and all I thought was that maybe if I give them a name they would focus on us instead of Devil's as a whole and I didn't want them finding out about peerages so I named us like a group and…" He trailed off after his mumbled admission and looked at his Queen shyly "I just…..wasn't…thinking…." He finished off lamely.

Natsumi couldn't help it and giggled as her King finished his explanation.

"It's fine Naruto-sama. I'm just glad you aren't hurt" She said and snickered internally at the slight blush she got out of him before a mischievous glint befitting a kitsune twinkled in her eyes "So, if we are a group…do we get a uniform?" She asked as Naruto slowly just placed his face in his palm while exhaling, his brother internally laughing, even while planning on doing some backgrounds checks using his own peerage on what he heard from their conversation.

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In the center of a bustling city sat a massive bonfire, easily five hundred meters (1640ft roughly) in diameter, despite its size and the fact that it was white hot in its intensity everything around it was perfectly intact and 'people' walked next to it without harm. From the middle of the fire a large pillar of red hot air rose into the sky before turning into an enormous dome that made up the sky as far as the eye could see. At the epicenter of the massive bonfire sat a vaguely humanoid figure on a throne.

Curled horns on its head that looked sharper than spears and its massive body-builder type frame sitting at 10m (Roughly 33ft) gave it an intimidating look, even without the help of its eternally glowing eyes, Blood red skin and the flames that licked at its body constantly.

Atop the roof of a large tower close to the bonfire stood a humanoid figure with folded wings on his back made of pure dirt and rock. Over the mans 1.8m (Roughly 5'11) frame rested a coat not too different from the colour of the figure inside the fire, on the back a gold embroidery of General 5 could be seen. Turning his head slightly as a grotesque black creature that had 3 heads, 12 limbs and 6 wings landed behind him.

"Sir, the Demon sent to patrol the Underworld returned. He has already been executed for not achieving any of his objectives but-" The creature was cut off as an extreme amount of force suddenly weighed down on it, the muscular creature instantly falling to its knees as the man narrowed his eyes at the creature.

"That is a waste of resources, that Demon could have one day risen to Captain level, if he was lucky he could rise to Colonel. Surely you must know how I….abhor, such a waste" His gentle baritone voice came out calmly, even with it holding no detectable malice whatsoever the creature still felt as if his life hung on his next few sentences.

"O-Of course General….But the Demon discovered that the Devils have claimed our spot as the rulers of the Underworld. He also claims to have found why he has been the only scout so far to return, a group of Devils apparently. Named.. 'Akatsuki'" One of the three heads hurriedly spoke in an attempt to stay alive.

Slowly the pressure lifted until it was completely gone, allowing the creature to stand again as the General returned his gaze to the bonfire that had allowed the Demon race to survive the absolute cold of Cocytus for the 600 years since their sealing.

"Despite the hole broken in the barrier, it will still be some time before even a Captain class Demon can go through, for now I want the strongest 'Frozens' sent through the portal. There is a possibility that sending the strongest through continually could 'widen' the hole made in the barrier faster" He ordered, partially speaking to himself as he talked "And I want information on this…Akatsuki. A group of Devils such has them could be hazardous to our escape" He added on as the creature nodded hurriedly and quickly flew away.

The man continued to stare at the fire calmly and let the white flames entrance him almost as they flickered back and forth in a massive roiling mess of flames. Calmly inhaling the man disappeared, no evidence being left that he had ever been there.

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That night Naruto found himself calmly holding a wooden katana in his right hand which he pointed at his two Knights who did the same.

"Ready Naruto-sama?" Saeko asked respectfully as she stood in a picture perfect kendo stance.

"I hope you do well Naruto-sama. It has been a while since you last did sword training with us" Esdeath commented with a grin at the thought of experiencing her Kings power once again.

Naruto merely nodded in response to both of the girls words and shot forward, the two swordswomen doing the same. Meeting about halfway the young teen hopped upwards the avoid the low slice of Esdeath's wooden katana and with a single hand blocked Saeko's blow, said blow sending him flying backwards thanks to having no solid purchase to hold his ground having jumped in the air. Allowing his body to roll backwards along the ground instead of flipping and landing on his feet he smiled as a preemptive joint attack from the two girls missed and as he rolled he placed a single palm on the ground and with a grunt pushed himself off of the ground and into the air as his body continued to flip backwards.

Appearing on either side of him were the two girls, both showing their skill and teamwork as two horizontal strikes were aimed at him. Reaching out with his sword and leg he hooked his sword under Saeko's and flicked hers up while pushing Esdeath's down with his foot and kicking off of Esdeath's sword ever so slightly so that the two girls collided beneath him which allowed him to flip and land on his feet, stumbling slightly as he landed from the complex maneuver. Staring at the two girls who untangled themselves and stood up he was very glad that they were only using blunt wooden swords as a sharp metal one likely would have ended up with him missing a foot if he tried that move.

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From the sidelines Natsumi occasionally watched with a smile while writing something down in a notebook her three tails idly waving behind her as she wrote. Smiling as she heard quiet footsteps behind her she turned around to see Rossweisse staring at her with a pleasant smile.

"Hello Natsumi-san" She greeted as she walked up next to the kitsune girl while trying to subtly read what was in the notebook.

"Hello Rossweisse-san. If you wanted to see what is in my notebook you could always ask" She responded with a faintest ghost of a smirk playing across her lips.

Blushing in embarrassment the Valkyrie chuckled nervously and shuffled on the spot while clasping her hands in front of her.

"May I be allowed to see what's in your notebook?" She asked respectfully with a slight bow.

The fox Devil couldn't help it and a small giggle escaped her lips as she tried to suppress the laughter while holding the notebook out to her.

"Rossweisse-san, while I do want Naruto-sama's peerage members to be respectful in public, in private you can be a little more relaxed, I don't mind" She explained to the Valkyrie who nodded with an embarrassed laugh and carefully took the notebook.

Flicking through the pages the Valkyrie raised an eyebrow at the sketches of various chess pieces with arrows which she guessed was meant to mean movements, possibly team/peerage formations? As she continued flicking through she smiled at how thorough the Queen of her Master's peerage was when it came to helping organize his peerage. Reaching the last few pages she was a bunch of names with species and chess pieces written next to them.

"Natsumi-san?" She asked politely, continuing when the girl turned her attention to the Valkyrie "These last few pages, are they possible members for Naruto-sama's peerage?"

Natsumi nodded enthusiastically as she looked at the book that Rossweisse was holding.

"Yep. Of course Naruto-sama has the last say but I, and occasionally Sayuri-chan, try to help find potential members from all races, you never know where a diamond-in-the-rough might appear" She said knowledgably, something she may or may not have picked up from Grayfia during their lessons.

"It's very extensive, for some of them you've really done your research" She praised the girl who subtly preened under the compliments "Though….why are all of them female?..." The Valkyrie trailed off in confusion.

Natsumi's preening attitude quickly vanished and her posture straightened a little, even with the straightened posture the Valkyrie could have sworn that the girl looked like she had a large weight on her shoulders.

"When Naruto-sama, I and Sayuri-chan were all ten, there was a fourth member of our peerage. A fairly ordinary looking boy named Ken, he had a sacred gear that allowed him to channel lightning through nearly any substance he could touch. He never agreed with Naruto-sama resurrecting him and eventually it got to the point where he tried to kill Naruto-sama" Natsumi desperately used her lessons from Grayfia to control her emotions so that she wouldn't start crying "Naruto-sama and I fought him as he turned into a stray and Naruto-sama managed to kill him. Ever since then I've never even considered a single male peerage member. We let one into our peerage, and he tried to kill my King. I won't allow that to happen ever again" She said resolutely, a determined fire burning in her eyes which surprised the Valkyrie in its intensity.

"Oh…" Rossweisse said simply, not having known about Ken until now "I guess I can see your point of view.." She said uncertainly.

"I know that my point of view isn't easy to empathize with but it hasn't lead me wrong so far" Natsumi replied with a grin.

Rossweisse couldn't help but giggle at the comment and continued to go back and forth between the pages of the notebook.

"Natsumi-san" She begun while flicking through the pages "Why do you care so much for Naruto-sama? I'm just curious about where such loyalty and devotion came from." She asked before explaining her reasons for asking.

Natsumi simply just smiled fondly as she tilted her head up and watched her King fight two of her 'sisters', the boy now covered in very small amounts of blood and bruises from the fight against the tag-team.

"When Lucifer-sama first brought me to Naruto-sama I was scared, nervous and confused. An amazing Maou like him had personally chosen me to be a piece for his younger brothers peerage. It felt like a dream from the life I had before. When I first saw Naruto-sama he was wearing such casual clothes, his shirt even had a large ink stain on the collar, that I didn't know how to react, so I went for polite. Even if it came out more terrified than polite" Natsumi recalled with a small giggle "Imagine my surprise when Naruto-sama pulls out a Queen piece to resurrect me with, me, a single tailed kitsune with clothes that could nearly be considered rags and dirt and mud covering me. I decided that even for that action alone I would try to be the very best Queen possible, to try and prove that he was correct in using such a piece on me. As time went on I slowly started developing feelings that went above gratitude, it was after the incident that those feelings really blossomed and began to grow into what you see today" She explained warmly before turning to Rossweisse.

The kitsune didn't know whether to be touched or slightly disturbed at the glassy eyed Valkyrie who looked ready to start bawling her eyes out at any moment.

"That was so sweet Natsumi-san! Just like two characters from my favourite books" She compared as she hugged the notebook to her chest.

"I'm glad you think so~" Natsumi replied in a sing-song voice with a large smile.

A loud explosion of dust drew their attention back to the spar and Natsumi clicked her tongue.

"Oh dear, it appears magic is now being used…"

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Moving around a series of ice spikes the young Devil boy had to quickly bend backwards to dodge the lightning covered wooden katana which flew past where his neck had previously been before turning his backwards bend into a backflip as the ground underneath him turned into a large ice spike with a thankfully dulled, but still painful, edge. Flipping in the air quickly he created a magic circle which spat out a geyser of water at the incoming Saeko who much like Esdeath was grinning widely with wide eyes and pupils the size of pin-pricks. After making sure the water did hit the purple haired Knight he stopped the spell as his water started turning to ice and hit the ground on his feet, sliding to a stop as the final dredges of his midair geyser turned to pure ice.

Icy blue eyes stared into violet purple eyes with a bloodlust which Naruto had long grown accustomed to, flicking his eyes momentarily to the left he saw another set of blue eyes, though darker than Esdeath's, staring at him with an equal if not greater amount of bloodlust. Naruto sighed while keeping his eyes trained on Saeko and Esdeath, far to used to them taking pot shots whenever he did so.

Naruto stood up straight, deciding to try something out as he stared at the two girls who crouched slightly lower in preparation. Of course the boy had known about the principles of this 'technique' since he was younger but he had never seen or felt it in action until his meeting with Odin. Allowing his dense magic freedom he pushed it out of his body and allowed it to expand over to Saeko and Esdeath as he continued to try and strengthen the pulsing of his magic, trying to figure out how to exert 'pressure' over others by releasing his magic.

For the two young girls they had both crouched slightly lower in preparation as their King stood straighter but the sudden release of magic surprised them. Initially brushing it off as him preparing for a larger scale spell Esdeath began to subtly do the same before the two began to feel a slight pressure weighing down on them (What they didn't realize is that after experiencing Odin's 'pressure' that even experiencing enough magical pressure to kill lesser supernatural beings would feel like an average 'pressure'). Surprised by the action the now quarter yuki-onna lost control of her spell and it fizzled away as the pressure began to slowly but surely grow till the point that it felt like simply moving felt like they were in a pit of thick oil. Saeko was the first to give out as her wooden sword fell from her fingers and she fell to her knees while panting and staring at Naruto, meanwhile Esdeath, even while panting, still managed to keep her sword in her hand and continued standing. The blue haired swordswoman felt Naruto's narrowed purple eyes bore into her, almost as if looking through her and into her soul, the action making her finally break as she did the same as her fellow Knight and fell to her knees while dropping her sword.

"You win Naruto-sama" Esdeath breathlessly said between pants, hers and Saeko's gaze filled with intense adoration and needing, both of which were fairly alien in this setting to the young boy.

Letting his magic die down he gasped and one leg buckled as his breathing deepened as a sudden wave of exhaustion washed over him. Standing up straight he managed to walk over to each girl and help them up, both shuddering and letting out very similar exhales as they held his hand while he pulled them up to their feet.

"That was a good match. I need to work on my sword techniques, are either of you free to help me learn in a few days?" He asked both girls.

"I am" Both girls said, two sets of blue eyes meeting in a heated exchange for the briefest of moments.

"Good, now I need a rest, that move used a lot of magic" He said as he began walking out of the warehouse.

Chuckling as he felt Natsumi catch up and walk besides and slightly behind him he walked from the far right warehouse to the left one and began to somewhat tiredly climb the stairs, his Queen dutifully following him up to the very top floor which despite all being his room very little was actually put to use.

Turning around to ask why his Queen had followed him he gasped in surprise as his leg buckled again and if it weren't for Natsumi he would have hit the ground.

"You knew that was going to happen" He said plainly as with her help he stood back up.

"I didn't know" She corrected politely "But I had a feeling something similar would happen, you're good at hiding your exhaustion but I can tell~" She finished somewhat teasingly while leading him over to his bed.

Sighing in exhaustion the young teen sat on his bed and held his hand out.

"Can you pass me my notebook please?" He asked his Queen who gladly did so.

Grabbing the notebook he deftly flicked through the pages before reaching the latest page and patting the bed next to him. Natsumi blushed lightly before pushing it away and sitting next to him while he opened the notebook further to show her a rough drawing.

"A cloak….with clouds on it?" She asked in mild confusion.

"What you said at dinner got stuck in my head, this could be a possible idea for a uniform" He answered while letting her hold the notebook.

"Well at least it doesn't look bad" She said thoughtfully as she looks at the rough design "What material are you thinking of?" She asked curiously.

"I was thinking Cuben Fiber, the tensile strength is good and without magic should protect against most bladed weapons easily" He said, explaining his choice while grabbing his laptop that was on his bedside table.

"I haven't heard of Cuben Fiber before" She replied, interest in the material he had named.

"Fairly new actually. Its about 15 times stronger than steel, very light as well" He replied as he turned the laptop on and began typing down some things for the uniforms.

"That's actually really good. Do you mind if I helped design and make them?" She asked shyly and got a smirk in reply.

"Of course you can. I gave you the notebook for a reason after all" He replied, said reply getting a large smile from the three tailed girl who began listing off possible options for their 'uniforms'.

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AAAAND DONE!

Sorry that this chapter is also on the shorter side guys. I just couldn't find anything else to make the chapter longer and still keep it interesting.

Anyway I hope you guys have enjoyed this chapter and as always I look forward to your reviews (Well, most of them :P)

This chapters question. Favourite Highschool DxD character? And reasons for them?

Mine is Irina Shidou, I love the character design (*wink wink nudge nudge*) and while her personality is a bit naïve I still enjoy it

Anyway, I hope you all have a good day/night!

Adios!