CHAPTER SEVEN: ESCAPE FROM LIBRARY ISLAND
Prince: Wow. So many people liked that last chapter. Just shows how awesome of a writer I'm becoming (conceited laughter). Moving on, Naruto became the holder of the nine Tailed Beasts after the defeat of Madara Uchiha because that's how the manga seems to be pointing towards. However, since he hasn't properly bonded with the other eight yet, Naruto is still only able to access Kurama's chakra. However, he is training to be able to use all nine and will probably be able to do it at the tournament if not in Kyoto. And about his wardrobe in his mind, think about Madara's form when he accessed the Ten-Tails' chakra only more complete and with a complete monk staff or whatever you call it (meaning that both horns are on it and that the staff is exactly like Obito's was when he took the incomplete form). Naruto will also be able to use the Rinnegan and its abilities, so in all honesty this will be a Madara-like Naruto only less . . . evil. As you can probably tell, this story is following canon Negima with Naruto taking Negi's place. And I'm going to start answering your reviews in this story.
TheInnerWolf – I only caught 'keep the version one and two cloaks'. I'm sorry, please reiterate in a way that I can read. I'm a bit old-fashioned and can only understand basic text lingo. That's what you get for being a shut-in in a house of only older women for the first fourteen years of my life.
lou2003us – Thanks. I can't guarantee something awesome is going to happen this chapter, but I will try my best. If I can't make you see the awesome here, then you should wait for either the Kyoto arc or the tournament arc.
Alex2909 – Naruto always has been dependable . . . He just never had a chance to show it until he was made a ninja. And I had planned that before writing this chapter that Naruto would seal the nine Tailed Beasts inside him because that was how the series seemed to be going towards what with him now on his deathbed. What happened in the main story just happened unexpectedly.
Markus-Antonius – Thanks. I was really going over and over in my head about what Naruto should do in this story. I try my best to keep the members of the KoPs in their original personalities because they seem to fit. I mean, who wants to see a moody Naruto or an extremely perverted Ichigo? I know I don't.
Jose19 – Naruto is not related to the Thousand Master. I was just pointing out that Naruto noticed the red in Negi's hair and thought that an Uzumaki had somehow crossed the barrier keeping his world from theirs before him. It is a possibility. And about your other review, I based this fan fiction off another one where Naruto was the teacher before Negi. And I know how you felt about how Akamatsu just dumped every girl from Negi and didn't even let him keep one because I felt that, and the fact that the twins (who look like the youngest people in the class bar Evangeline) were the first ones to have children, was just horrible planning.
Yukicrewger2 – Believe it!
Joe (Guest) – I plan on it. Nobody's going to stop me from writing about my characters, OC or not.
DarkPirateKing69 – No one wants to read about an emotion-dead Naruto. Naruto isn't supposed to be serious, he's supposed to be a lovable knucklehead that hates when people talk shit about his friends. He's not supposed to be some guy that wants to destroy everything? Why would Kishimoto create Naruto, who wants to protect those dear to him, so that he could just create chaos? That's like making Godzilla a gigantic purple dinosaur that spreads hugs, kisses, and candies. The reason why everyone writes Naruto where he has his original personality is because it works. If it worked for Kishimoto, it works for every other person that writes about Naruto.
Prince: For everyone who says Kiactu is a "lame overpowered OC", look at Madara Uchiha. The guy took on an army, two of the people who defeated him, and his super-powered relative and still kicks ass. If you guys can get off your high horses and read some of the stuff on this site that would make you want to gouge out your eyes due to horrible grammar and/or plot development, then be my guest. I even challenge some of you to write something better than mine and see how many people say it's lame. Because that's mostly who you are. People who can talk shit and can't back it up and those that are too scared to take their verbal ass whippings like human beings. That's why I put that Anonymous blocker up on my account, because I got tired of listening to people bitching to me about how bad my stories were when they didn't even have stories of their own or accounts to take that shit when I replied back. Then FanFiction just puts up that Guest thing and has the Anonymous blocker become null and void. WTG FanFiction WTG (Way To Go).
CHAPTER START
The following week found the trio of three roommates running once more to the schoolyard. "It doesn't take long to get warm running like this," Konoka said as she rollerbladed beside Naruto and Asuna. The former had to agree, though Asuna yelled at them that it wasn't the time to keep talking and to run faster. "Yahoo! Naruto-kun!" Makie yelled behind them. Naruto glanced back and waved at both Ako and Makie. "Good morning, you two," he said.
"That dodgeball game the other week sure was fun," Makie said. "Let's do it again sometime." Naruto silently scoffed before thinking to himself that it was a battle over him, so next time he hoped it was just a friendly match against two groups of fellow schoolmates. "It was so refreshing," Ako added in.
All through the morning the girls greeted their newly respected teacher. 'It finally feels like everyone's taking me seriously as a teacher,' he thought to himself. 'This feels greater than that time I took Konohamaru as my apprentice.'
"Now then, who shall I get to do the translation for today?" Naruto asked, looking over the entire class. Picking Makie, Naruto watched as the girl riled up for being the first one to greet him this morning. "I'm joking," he smiled. "Who else wants to?"
Ayaka raised her hand, only for someone to shout out that it wasn't fair because she was half-Japanese. "Wha- I'm not half Japanese!" she yelled in retort. Out of the corner of his eye, Naruto could see Shizuna standing in the doorway.
"I see . . ." the headmaster said as he listened to Shizuna's story of what happened. "Naruto-kun is doing well . . ."
"Yes, Dai-sensei, he gets along well with his students and he does his best with the course," Shizuna explained. 'You wouldn't think he was Japanese.' "As the guidance counselor, I'd have to pass him as a teacher." The old man laughed as he said that was good. "Well then, I think we should get him to be an official teacher from April onwards. Good work then, Shizuna." He then found his face buried into his subordinate's chest. "Where did you go?"
"I'm up here, Dai-sensei," Shizuna said. The old man took his head out, somehow having a steady line of blood coming from underneath a bandage on his head. "There is only one condition, however."
"Let us set one more task for him to clear, one fitting for a mage-in-training."
Naruto walked through the hallways with both Yuna Akashi and Sakurako Shiina (one of the cheerleaders) by his side when he noticed that the other kids looked to be studying or something. When he voiced this, Yuna explained that it was for end of term exams for all the middle schoolers. "It's next Monday, sensei," Sakurako added in.
"Oh, well I guess that's f . . . WAIT! NEXT MONDAY? SHOULDN'T YOU GUYS BE STUDYING OR SOMETHING?" Oh the irony of who said that. Naruto had never picked up a book in his life before he got in this dimension. Maybe it was for the best since most of the books he had ever seen were Icha Icha.
"Ahaha, our school is an escalator school, so don't worry about it," Yuna put off. Naruto grimaced. "Escalator school or not, that just means that if you put off like it doesn't matter then university's going to be hard for you," he said.
"Don't worry, sensei," Sakurako said, patting him on the back. "Our class is always the worst one and we turn out okay." Naruto sweatdropped before noticing a big trophy in a case somewhere close. "What's that for?"
"Well, that goes for the class that does the best on the test," Yuna explained. Naruto said nothing as he noticed Shizuna come towards him with an envelope. "Here you go, sensei," she said, handing it to the young man.
"'Final task'?" Naruto asked, looking at it deeply. He scratched the back of his head and stared at it while moving his hand out of the line of sight of the girls to create a half-seal. "Byakugan!" He dropped his head. 'Yeah, like I have that. Maybe I have to do something like fight a dragon, or rescue a princess, or fight an army of dragons while rescuing an extremely sexy princess!' With each situation that came to mind, Naruto thought of him doing each of those before the last thought came to mind of him using Kurama's Tailed Beast Mode to take down the dragons. What could he say? Ladies love massive chaotic ethereal forms in the form of vulpine creatures.
Naruto's dreams were interrupted when he finally opened the letter. 'Uzumaki Naruto, if you can make Class 2-A no longer the worst class, then I'll recognize you as an official teacher,' it read. Naruto stared at it for a moment before thinking that he could break his cover and torch the parchment using Goukyaku (Translation: Great Fireball Technique). 'Damn thing . . . Taking my dreams and dashing them like that.'
"Well, it turned out to be an easy task," Naruto said, though his smile didn't reach his eyes. 'Dammit! I wanted this to be something extraordinary – ttebayo!"
"Eeeh!" Sakurako shouted. "What's this? What's going on, Naruto-kun?"
"It's nothing."
"Did you finally become an official teacher?" The two tried to jump on him. "Oi! Don't look! It's a secret!" 'Maybe this won't be so bad.'
"Today we're going to go over what we've learned in class just in time for the End of Term exams," Naruto told the class. "I'm going to leave it to you guys what games we should play as I go over what areas each of you need help in."
"That's a wonderful suggestion, sensei!" Ayaka said. Naruto grunted to show that he had heard even as Sakurako suggested that they played a game. "What was that about baseball?" he asked himself after agreeing, much to Asuna's immediate horror.
He stared hard at the chart of the class before turning his head a bit. 'Hey Kurama, do you understand what this thing says?' Naruto asked. The fox stayed quiet for a bit before scoffing. "Of course, what about you?"
"I . . . do," he said. It was silent for a while before Naruto watched as the chart began to change itself into something he could understand. "You'd better thank me later." It was as he thought: the Baka Rangers were in the back of the class.
Something drifted onto his head and as Naruto examined it, he realized that it was a bra. Turning towards the scene of where it came from, Naruto's eyes almost bugged out. The five girls in question were stripped down to one or two articles of underwear in a circle. Makie and Asuna were holding their arms across their chest. Naruto blinked as the images were burned into his eye. 'How risqué, Yue,' he thought. Ku Fei was a bit surprising as the girl (along with Kaede) still had on a skirt and a bra, so either she took off her panties first or she was actually smarter than she let on.
"Um . . . What the heck are you guys doing?!" Naruto yelled.
"If you can't answer, you have to strip!" Sakurako explained. "It's Yakyuken!" Naruto blinked. 'I have to start thinking things through,' he thought to himself as Asuna lost yet another round. "I have nothing else to take off!" she yelled.
'These girls . . . are a lot different from the ones back home,' Naruto thought to himself. 'And kunoichi are supposed to learn seduction.' Naruto rolled his eyes before palming his face. 'Maybe there's a spell that can help.'
"Huh, I was right," Naruto said as he read a scroll of the magic he had learned at the Academy. "There's a spell I can use. The only difference is that it makes the targets stupid after a month, but for only a short while." A fist impacted against the back of his head. "I don't want to be stupid for about a month!" Asuna yelled. "Besides, I'm doing a lot better on some of our school work."
"Yeah, but not by much," Naruto said, reading the numbers on the top of each page. "The weirdest thing is, you're doing better than I did in about half the time too." Naruto was feeling rather proud that his methods were getting through to the girl, but that feeling was then met with depression. 'That just means that I was stupid back then." But then again, he was a few years younger than she was so . . .
"So then, I'm going to seal away my chakra for a bit," he said in a clearing away from the main campus. Producing a small sheet of paper, Naruto wrote the kanji "Seal" on it before surrounding it with small runes. 'Now I can only use just enough to take us out of a pinch, and I can always gain chakra from nature using Sage Mode.' Not to mention the nine chakra masses inside his body.
Naruto moved around, clenching and unclenching his hands. "So this is what it feels like to be a regular jonin," he said. "It feels . . . kind of sucky." How did people in the Hidden Nations fight like this? It felt to him like he was wading through rubber cement and molasses.
It put a serious hamper on some of his jutsu. Naruto's magic abilities were on par with a novice really. The only thing he could do was create Pactios for both himself and his partner, along with some defensive wind spells to counterbalance his destructive jutsu of any nature and supplementary spells. Yeah, having the nine components to the original chakra maker kind of make mastering the five elements (six/seven if you count Yin-Yang, or the two separated) pretty easy.
In the bath, the self-proclaimed Baka Rangers were taking baths when they were joined by Konoka and the rest of the Library Expedition group. However, Fuka could be seen playing around in front of Ku. "Asuna!" Konoka yelled out for her friend. "Big news!"
"What is it, Konoka?"
"Oh, looks like the Baka Rangers have assembled!" Konoka stopped before getting serious. "There's a rumor floating around that the class with the lowest scores in the next exam will be . . ." Asuna and Makie finished the sentence for her. "EH? BROKEN UP?!"
"B . . . But that's crazy!"
"Our school doesn't break up classes!"
"I think Sakurako and the others were told not to say anything about it . . . I don't really know all the details, but grandf – I mean the headmaster," Konoka caught herself, "seemed really mad!" It was hard to think of a mad face on that old man. "It's because our class always comes last." In all actuality, it was a test for Naruto to make sure that they weren't the last anymore.
". . . And even worse, the 'really' dumb people get held back! Or maybe they have to do all the grades from Kindergarten all over again." That one was a bit of an exaggeration, but it did the trick. Everyone was freaking out over the thought of having to go back to school like that.
'Didn't Naruto say something like that this afternoon?' Asuna thought. 'Could . . . Could that really be the bad thing he was referring to?'
"The class we have now is fun, Asuna!" Konoka said. "I don't want it to be broken up!" Kaede grunted in agreement as Makie voiced that they were the ones dragging the whole class down. "Even if we study ourselves to death we won't make it by Monday-aru," Ku said, dipping her head in the water. Asuna knew that she was the one dragging the whole class down by herself, not the Baka Rangers. 'And I had to go lecture Naruto! Maybe it won't be so bad to ask him for help . . . But I don't want to go "PA!" for one month. Sounds nasty.'
"If it's come to this," Yue said. "Then maybe we'll have to go look for 'that thing' after all." Everyone's attention turned towards the stoic. "What? What is it? Do you have a solution?" Asuna asked.
"You guys know about Library Island, right?" Yue answered. "It's where our Expedition club goes."
"Yeah! That giant floating building that floats in the middle of the lake, right?"
"The truth is, deep within Library Island is apparently a "magic book" that makes the reader more intelligent." The girls' faces showed shock at the "magic" part of the story. "Well, I've always just thought it was a really good textbook or something but still, it'd be a pretty useful thing to have."
"Oh, Yue!" Haruna laughed. "It's just an urban legend."
"There's a lot of weird people in our class, but there's no such thing as magic, is there?" When asked by Konoka if there was such a thing as magic and if she believed in it, Asuna just brushed off the question. Her mind, however, was going over the possibility that it was correct. 'I mean, if Naruto is real . . . and he's some kind of holder for creatures about as tall and wider than skyscrapers, then it probably is true.'
"Let's go to Library Island!" she yelled, much to the surprise of everyone in the bath. Later that night, the group (plus Naruto and Konoka, the latter still dressed in blue pinstriped pajama bottoms and a black t-shirt with a goofy looking gopher cap on). "Any reason why you guys dragged me out of bed?" he asked with a yawn.
"Yeah," Asuna whispered. "We're going to need you to protect us using your magic."
"Chakra," Naruto told her. "I suck at using magic, remember?"
"Chakra, magic, they're both the same thing, right?" Naruto tried to open his mouth to severely bite into the girl about how the two were different, but held his tongue. The truth was, even he didn't necessarily understand the differences either. "Anyway, I don't want to use my chakra if it means that you guys are going to fall back on it constantly."
"You mean to tell me that we're going into a dangerous spot without any backup whatsoever because of your stupid pride?!" This was kind of her fault, not that she'd admit it. Why couldn't she just have gone with the idea to get smart through magic? Oh yeah: PA!
"Library Island was established during the Meiji era (1868-1912) along with the academy. It's the largest library in the world. During WWII, rare and important books from around the world were placed here for safekeeping. Because the collection just kept growing, the plans were redrawn for expansion underground. Nowadays, there's not a single person living who is familiar with the entire complex." Naruto listened to Yue's story. It kind of made sense to him. The safest way to keep knowledge is to keep it out of the war zone.
"And so, for the purpose of exploring this area, Mahora University inaugurated the Library Expedition club." Naruto glanced around at the multitude of books before grimacing. The only book he had touched in a long time was Tales of a Gutsy Ninja by his godfather. If he was to start reading these, Naruto would probably have to hang himself.
"This is Basement Level 3 of Library Island," Yue explained. "It's said that us middle-schoolers are forbidden from going any further than this." Naruto then blinked. In front of him was a book about magic that he had to look at. Once his back was turned, an arrow shot out of bookshelf at his back, intending on stabbing him from behind. Naruto raised his hand as if to catch it himself before the feel that someone else did stopped him. "Oh, thank you, Kaede-san," he said with a smile.
"No problem, sensei – de gozaru."
Naruto had never heard her talk, so it was kind of surprising to him that the language she used was that of older ninja. "Ah, sensei, in order to stop thieves from stealing these rare books, we have traps, so please be careful," Yue told him. Naruto smiled sheepishly before rubbing the back of his neck. "Sorry."
"YOU COULD SERIOUSLY DIE FROM SOMETHING LIKE THIS?" Asuna yelled.
After relaying their location to Haruna and Nodoka who had stayed up top just in case something happened, they decided to go further into the library. "So, why are we down here again?" Naruto asked. "I mean, it won't happen if we're not the best class." After learning it was because of a magic book that made the reader smarter, Naruto was then approached by Konoka. "That's about the size of it!" she said.
"Please help us, sensei!" Makie pleaded. Naruto couldn't say no to a beautiful girl, no matter how much his conscience was telling him how wrong this was. "I thought you said you didn't want to depend on otherworldly powers," he said, turning to Asuna.
"Come on," she said bashfully. "It's just an emergency this time, so just let me off the hook just this once. You see, if our grades stay this bad, the something really bad is about to happen." Naruto might've been stupid, but he wasn't gullible enough to believe that this was somehow related to his final trial (like a certain ten-year-old who shall not be named). However, his honor allowed him never to turn back on his word.
"Hey Yue-chan, how much further do we have to walk?" Makie asked. The stoic looked down at her map. "I secretly took this from the club room," she answered. "It's supposed to be a treasure map."
Naruto observed it over her shoulder. "Looks like we'll be down here for about four hours, and it's near seven now, so . . ."
"We'll be back before bed."
"Okay! If this all works out, we can stop them from breaking up the class!" Asuna yelled in excitement. "We're coming to get you, Magic Book!" Makie was still a bit unassured that they were going to get out, though Konoka was trying her best to keep her sane. "It's like we're going on a picnic-aru!" Ku yelled as Kaede walked beside her.
'Something about this feels off,' Naruto thought to himself. 'Why would a western book of magic be in a Japanese school?'
The trip had them walking on top of a book case. Naruto casually stepped on a chasm that nearly dropped Makie once he got off. He nearly watched the girl fall if it wasn't for her trusty ribbon. The bookshelf above them nearly caved but Ku kicked it back in place before it could do so as Kaede grabbed the books that almost hit him.
'Their club activities keep them from getting hurt,' Naruto thought to himself. 'It's actually pretty handy.'
"We may be bad at studying, but we're good at PE," Ku said with a smile as both she and Kaede stood side by side. "We'll be alright – de gozaru."
'Kaede's verbal tic kind of reminds me of Mifune," Naruto thought to himself. Another question was coming to mind of him asking exactly who these people were, but he just shrugged it off. It wouldn't do to pry in others' business when he himself withheld secrets too. After eating lunch at a rest stop that the above-ground team suggested, it was time to move on for the seven. "This is weird," Naruto said in a voice that only Asuna could hear. The girl hung back a bit to converse with him. "What is?"
"This place . . . I feel magic energy from around us." And it wasn't from him. It's like . . . This place produced magic like the earth produced chakra. However, no one could access it because they weren't equipped to like he was. "Wait a minute!" she whispered. "What do you mean by that?"
"It's just that. I can sense it surrounding us but it might not just be the book."
"Is something going on between Naruto-sensei and Asuna?" Makie asked after noticing the two had slowed down. Naruto laughed nervously at the girl's suggestions. "It's nothing," he said. "Let's move forward!" The situation was getting a little awkward. Somehow along the way, the group found themselves wallowing in a lake. "Ueeeh," Makie groaned. "My panties are soaked."
Eventually they rappelled up the side of a bookcase and crawling in a tight space. Naruto was upfront because if he was behind, he'd probably lie and say he got stuck just to see up their skirts. He probably would be stuck too if a certain part of his anatomy reacted.
"Y-Yue-chan, are we there yet?" Asuna asked, getting the girl to respond that they had to get just a bit farther. Once they got to the spot where the girl finally gave them the okay to get up, Naruto punched the hatch getting it to open up quickly. "You know . . . I've seen a lot of things in my life," he said. "But for some reason this is rather familiar." The two stone golems stared each other in the face as their hands held weapons: on the right was a mace of some kind and on the left a sword. Naruto spotted the book what they came for on the other side of chasm.
"Wow!" Asuna yelled. "This is amazing! Like something out of a game!" Naruto was on guard though, a kunai slipping from the sleeve of his pajama top. "And just like a game this is probably booby-trapped," he said. "Everyone, at least take precautions when trying to get the book." There was no guarantee that something wasn't going to happen if they weren't careful.
Unfortunately, Naruto's caution was well deserved. As they were trying to get across the chasm, the walkway dropped, revealing what looked to be a game board. "If you want this book, you'll have to answer my questions first . . . Hohoho!" Naruto had flashbacks of the time Onoki tried his best to teach him how to deal with golems by fighting his own construct after the war. Of course his was a lot bigger than the ones before them, but the horror of fighting a golem was imprinted on his brain.
Studying the board, Naruto noticed that the letters were in Japanese. This seemed to be like that game he saw on TV the other night. What was it? Oh yeah! "Twister," he voiced. "It seems that you girls have to recreate each word that he says and then we can get the book."
The first question was Difficult. Somewhere out there was a kami that thought it was funny to play with irony. "Sensei, what's Difficult?" Makie asked.
"The situation what we're in," Naruto voiced. "It's difficult to just get this book and leave." Thankfully the girls got it. The next few turns had given Naruto so many pantyshots that he had to sit down for a while. Another round in had him closing his eyes before turning towards the golem in an attempt to keep them occupied. Of course, they drifted back to the girls before he realized that he was staring. How did he get past this?
He was the reincarnation of the Rikudo Sennin's youngest son! The person who along with Sasuke Uchiha, the reincarnation of the eldest son, defeated one of the co-creators of the Hidden Leaf with the rest of his village, who he might add was a beast on the battlefield! He couldn't be bothered being attracted to girls who knew nothing of combat! Well, maybe Ku Fei and Kaede, but still . . .
The girls' final challenge was the word "Dish". As both Makie and Asuna tried to grab for the tile, they slipped, placing their hands on the wrong tile. "You have failed!" the golem yelled as it raised its hammer before slamming it on the ground. The entire floor broke from the force. The group fell along with it, Ku Fei calling Asuna a monkey.
As they fell, Naruto turned towards the light and withdrew a series of kunai from his pajamas. Each kunai had a ninja wire line through each of their rings that Naruto tested to see if they would break. "Hang on!" he yelled, getting the girls to grab onto him as he through the kunai. They stuck to the wall, breaking the fall as Naruto grunted. One hand held the girls in a group as the other tried to stop their fall. It only slowed it down however and Naruto's hand began to bleed from having the wire dig into them.
They cut really deep, causing the line to get extremely bloody and slippery. Naruto could no longer hold on to the line before looking down and judging the fall. There was also a light at the bottom, and his hand was really starting to hurt. He let go, falling towards the light in a free fall before swiping his uninjured hand across his injured one with his thumb.
Going through a series of hand seals, Naruto ended on Ram before holding it out in front of him. A cluster of runes appeared in the air as he fell before a plume of smoke appeared underneath. The girls felt the rush of falling stop as they fell on something wet and slimy. "Yo, Naruto," a new voice called out. The smell of cigarette smoke filled each girl's nose as they realized that they were on something big. Whatever it was, the thing was also sentient, able to understand what was happening around them. "Where are we? It feels . . . wrong."
"Hey Kichi," Naruto said with a smile. Though he was feeling pretty weak from the loss of blood. "Funny story. I'm a teacher now." There was nothing but silence before the girls felt their makeshift landing spot shake as laughter filled the air. "You . . . a teacher?" the voice said between chuckles. "Pops has got to listen to this! The only thing you can teach are new ninjutsu and taijutsu that you created."
". . . Just dispel yourself. I hear running water underneath us and I'm pretty sure I'm bleeding out here."
The giant toad did as he was ordered and the girls fell into the lake. "Naruto-sensei, what was that thing we were on?" one of the girls asked. Naruto said nothing and just placed his hands on the ground as he did once before, when he tried to make Asuna lose her memory. For some reason it worked perfectly for the rest of the girls, though Asuna wasn't anywhere near the seal as it activated.
"So, we're not going to ask why it worked for them and not for me?" she asked.
"Nope. If I did, I'm going to burn out my mind." All he wanted to do was escape and he was pretty sure that was impossible. "Can you tell me what that was we landed on?"
"A toad."
"You summoned a toad? Of that size?"
"It's actually pretty normal for people with my talents," Naruto answered. "My ex-crush and her master could summon slugs, my best friend and his . . . master could summon snakes, and me and my master got toads." Asuna thought about it. "Oh, you mean like that legend, Jiraiya Goketsu Monogatari (The Tale of the Gallant Jiraiya)?" Naruto almost tripped. "What?" he asked. There was no way Jiraiya got his influence in this place!
"It's an old tale I used to read when I was little." Asuna said before noticing Naruto's horror-stricken look. "What? You're acting like I can't read. It was a children's book." Well that explained it. Somehow, watching Naruto's features slowly relax made her feel mad.
"Well you don't have to be so relieved about it!"
"I'm sorry," Naruto said. "It's just the thought of you reading. I thought I was in some kind of Twilight Zone." Asuna glared at him before shaking her head. "Anyway, the story is about a guy that can shapeshift into a toad that falls in love with a beautiful maiden that controlled slugs named Tsunade. He woos her and fights this guy named Orochimaru, who used to be a comrade or something."
That was the clincher. "Did their names have the word Sannin in it?" She shook her head. "I don't know their last names, I just know it was a story about a man named Jiraiya." Naruto closed his eyes as the thought of Jiraiya and the rest of the Sannin leaving the Elemental Nations was beyond his comprehension. Maybe it really was coincidence that a story here had characters with the same names as the three legendary Sannin.
Meanwhile above ground (early next morning), most of the girls had shown up for class for a teacher that was no longer there. Come to think about it, the class' group of dumbest students weren't there either. "What did you say?" the class president yelled as she listened to what Sakurako said about what would happen should they fail their exams. "Naruto-sensei will no longer be the teacher of 2A? Why didn't you tell me something as important as this?"
"But sensei told me not to tell anyone," the cheerleader answered. "He said that you would flip out like you're doing right now." Ayaka turned towards the people who barely passed. "At any rate, we're going to study properly until the exam, and pull this class out of the lowest ranking." She soon took up a thinking pose, thinking out loud that the five currently absent would be the toughest to deal with.
"Everyone, we have a problem! Naruto-sensei and the Baka Rangers have fallen in Library Island and we can't get them!" It was eerily calm for a bit before the gravity of the situation hit. "EH?!" 'We may be screwed after all.'
Naruto sat underneath the shade of a tree that was planted down below . . . In this area where no sunlight shown through. He may not have been someone who studies plants, but he was sure no one here knew Wood Release, and that trees needed sunshine to grow. A clone helped the girls study for their exam on the other side of the lake. Naruto looked around to see how their progress was going and nodded at the thumbs-up his clone gave him out of their line of sight.
After class had ended, Naruto's clone tried its best to get away from the girls before dispelling near the restrooms, where Naruto was. After dealing with his . . . bodily functions, Naruto mindlessly walked towards the sounds of talking. He soon stopped in front of the group of girls he was teaching . . . all three taking a bath and playing in the water.
"Ah -" He wish he had a camera. "Naruto-sensei so ecchi!" the girls screamed out with smiles on their faces. Naruto blushed before looking away. "No! I was just . . . following a fox that came by here! Yeah . . . That's it. I was chasing a fox." It was his story and he was sticking to it no matter what. Though why a tanuki, a cat, a turtle, a monkey, a slug, a rhinoceros beetle, or an ox/octopus wasn't see was beyond his thoughts (AN: If you don't get the reference, you're no Naruto fan).
He moved away before sighing to himself before hearing splashing close to where he was. Learning from what happened just a few seconds before, Naruto jumped up before sticking to the underside of a tree branch. In the water was a nude Asuna who was swimming face up in the water. He had seen it earlier during an accident but now it was like . . . wow. Maybe it was the appeal that she didn't know he was there, or the fact that the face on her now was not the one of a psychopath after his blood.
Naruto said nothing as he watched her walk off the bank before dropping from the tree. "Enjoy the show?" he heard someone speak behind him. He jumped high into the sky before hanging upside down and facing the culprit. In front of him was a towel-clad Asuna, who looked a little peeved that he saw her in the nude.
"Sorry," he said as he let go. Unfortunately, gravity wasn't his friend for this. Naruto busted his head on the ground.
Holding down the bump, Naruto faced the girl before noticing that she wasn't really mad at him. When he asked why, she answered, "I don't care that you've seen me. You're so dumb that you'll forget what I look like."
"I'm . . . going to say . . . I might be an idiot, but I'm also a pervert." Though not a Super Pervert like his godfather, Naruto will admit (sometimes) that he is a pervert. "You just exposed yourself to the student of a self-proclaimed super pervert that also helped said person edit his books. I know so many sexual positions that a normal person's head would explode from their intensity."
Asuna didn't know whether to slap him for staring and not saying anything or acting like he was bored with her body type.
"You and Shotacon have so much in common that I wouldn't care if you got married."
"Then why did you point it out?" Two knots sprouted from Naruto's cranium as Asuna stood off to the side with a smoking fist. 'At least she doesn't have Sakura's inane strength,' he thought to himself. While the girl hit hard, she was no Sakura, or her master for that instance. If it was either of them, Naruto's head would be punted through the floor or buried in the next street over.
A scream was heard somewhere near the area Naruto knew that Ku, Kaede, and Makie were. "We'll finish this later," he said as he crouched down and jumped. As he did so, Naruto vanished from sight, startling Asuna.
He arrived on the scene to see Makie in the clutches of the golem from earlier. Naruto gnashed his teeth in anger before calming down and thinking almost immediately. 'This presence . . .' he thought as he recognized that the golem was not emitting an air of danger. In fact, Naruto could feel that the creature was emitting an aura of . . . wisdom. There was no ill intent, so there was no need to bust out his magic nor his chakra attacks. In fact, if Naruto had to guess, he'd say it felt like Old Man Konoe.
"Makie, hold on!" he yelled before looking around for something to throw. Naruto settled on something before lifting a boulder at least twice his size at the golem. It hit, causing the golem to let go of Makie. Naruto allowed Kaede to grab Makie before running towards the golem himself. He then ran up its arm using chakra to keep steady even as the creature tried shaking him off. Naruto jumped from arm to arm before looking at a familiar shape.
"The book is on his shoulder!" he yelled as a finally dressed Asuna made her way onto the scene. "And I see you sure did take your time, Asuna!"
"Yeah well," the girl yelled back. "I'm still getting over the fact that you saw my naked body and stood there for about five minutes." Everyone's eyes were on him, even the golem's. Naruto blushed before coughing into his fist. "Yeah, sorry about that." To get their minds off what happened, he grabbed the book off the golem's neck before tossing it elsewhere. Makie's ribbon brought it towards the rest of the group as Naruto told them that he had noticed a way out during his . . . trip.
"I'll hold it off while you guys go, alright?"
"What about you, sensei-aru?" Ku asked.
"I'll be fine." 'I've dealt with bigger threats, and I don't just mean size.' Naruto would compare this to a Tailed Beast powered he against a crippled genin. Once the girls were out of sight he'd deal with this. "You know, Old Man, a simple review would've sufficed." Naruto's voice left no room for jokes. "Ah, Naruto-kun," the old man tried to reason. "You won't do anything to hurt your employer, would you?"
Naruto wasn't going to hurt him . . . badly. "Don't worry. This won't hurt with all that armor you're wearing. It'll just feel a little uncomfortable." With that said, Naruto burst into golden flames, which took the form of his infamous jumpsuit. One massive clawed hand grabbed the head before Naruto flipped off the back of the golem.
He threw it onto the ground before running after the girls.
"What was that?" Konoka asked as she turned back towards the door. "Is sensei alright?" Yue asked.
"I'm sure he is," Asuna assured everyone, though it was lost on the fact that her hands trembled in fists as she ran. "This isn't the time to be devastated that your dashingly heroic and handsome teacher may have been horribly paralyzed or worse," Naruto's voice rang out. "It's a time to be running for your life and not looking back . . . literally."
"SENSEI?"
"What? I just got the golem to trip and ran as fast as I could. Big body equals less mobility and mostly man-power." And as if it was summoned by the words Naruto spoke, the golem broke through the doorway before noticing where the group was located. "Hold it!" it said. The group stopped at a wall in front as it began climbing up the stairs right behind.
While holding the book as they climbed up each set of staircase to the next set, the girls correctly answered the problems, which ranged from Basic English and Japanese to mathematics. In fact if Naruto really thought about it, it seemed like this was sort of planned from the beginning.
They made it to the top of the stairs where they noticed a service elevator. Naruto ran up to the door before pressing the up button rapidly to see if it would get here faster. Of course it didn't, but once it did, he ushered the girls in. He fell in behind them.
"We won't move!" Makie said. A sign on the monitor above the buttons said that there was too much weight. After a very awkward moment with each of the girls asking each other what their weight was, someone devised the plan that they would strip. Naruto could only watch as clothing after clothing was shed in front of him until the only thing that remained on the girls were panties and a bra.
"Come on, sensei," Makie yelled, grabbing the tail of his shirt. "Sensei, you too." Naruto tried to fight against the girl, not wanting anything to do with stripping. "NO!" he yelled. "I don't want anybody looking at me!"
"Come on, you big baby," Asuna said. "There's no reason for you to get all hung up on how you look."
"It's not that," Naruto said. "It's just that I don't feel comfortable around a group of girls that steadily try to undress me with their eyes while I have my back turned. And it didn't hurt that they got to see things when we went to the baths." All of the girls (except maybe Konoka and Yue) turned away from Naruto with a blush on their faces. It was true, somewhat. They did try to observe what their sensei was packing underneath his jeans on more than one occasion.
"Now you're just being paranoid," Asuna said, grabbing Naruto's shirt as the boy tried to fight her. "No one really cares about what you look like naked!" Speak for yourself. Naruto was a ripe eighteen-year-old (twenty-two if you went by mental years) who steadily trained and exercised using gravity seals. In a classroom filled to the brim with hormonally-charged girls who would want to strip him in a snap of a finger, Naruto was just side of beef sent to a dog kennel.
"If you don't do this then I'll just throw you out to the golem and see what happens then!" Asuna ordered. Naruto wanted to beat the everloving snot out of the headmaster some more, so he smiled before saying, "Okay." As he walked outside, Asuna panicked, as she was bluffing about throwing him out. She thought the only reason Naruto survived earlier was because he got lucky.
So, grabbing the book, the girl threw it past Naruto's head, where it collided with the golem and sent him toppling into the chasm below. The bell dinged that it was okay after the girls grabbed Naruto (some lamenting over the loss of the book) and rode to the top level where they rushed out. "How much time do we have left?" Asuna asked Naruto, who looked up at the sun.
"Judging by the sun's position, I'd say five or six hours. It's enough to get a catnap and some last minute studying for you guys before we go to take the exams." Six hours later, it was finally time for the test at the middle school (or junior high, whatever the hell their school is). The girls still wondered what became of their teacher and the group.
They all looked on in joy as one of the students caught sight of Naruto leading the group into the school beside Asuna. However, they were halted by a teacher (one of which Naruto kept his jaw closed about named Nitta. If there was anything Naruto hated about an older man, he was the top contender). Despite his rather . . . limited affection for Naruto, he allowed the girls to follow him to the school, though they would have to take the test in another room to be fair to the other girls.
Naruto patiently waited outside their door before looking left and right. Allowing a small amount of chakra manifest itself in his hand, he watched as a yellow circle appeared in his hand before closing it in a fist. 'I can only hope this helps you girls relax and think clearly,' he thought to himself. It really wasn't too much to ask that he could.
If Naruto could stop someone dying from a suicidal technique (AN: However you want to interpret that; Naruto did stop Guy from dying after Guy used the Eighth Gate, which usually would kill someone) and regenerate someone's eye, what was to say he couldn't use the Sage's chakra to create something that helped stimulate the mind? After watching his mission accomplish itself, Naruto could do nothing now but watch and make sure that the girls passed. If not he was going to raise hell.
Principal Konoe appeared not long after the tests had finished, telling the teacher watching over them that he would grade their papers himself. "Dai-sensei, what happened to your head?" Nitta asked, a bit concerned with the bump on his head. "Don't worry," the older man assured him. "I just fell over."
The grades had been tallied a few days later. The girls waited in the commons area for the results, some even betting on who would win the Class of the Year award. Naruto waited patiently with his class, not even paying attention to the looks he got from some of the students. He spared a glance at one of his students, smiled, and looked back up at the screen for a few minutes after the tallies had come in.
"The average for the second year classes was 73.4!" the announcer said into the microphone. "Now here are the class averages for each second year class. First place goes to . . ." Naruto listened carefully for his class to come up.
He waited and waited for them to name their class and was sure that they would place somewhere on the list even if they weren't first. However, that hope was short-lived after watching as the twenty-second class was named, crushing all hopes for the girls of 2-A. Naruto said nothing, letting his hair shadow his eyes as he left, the girls not even noticing from the shock of being in last place, despite trying to do their best to keep their sensei from getting fired.
'There's always next year, Naruto-kun,' Naruto heard Matatabi say. He smiled a bit as the rest of the Tailed Beasts agreed with the Nibi. However, the smile was rather empty, as he still felt a bit down that he couldn't bring his class up.
Asuna then noticed her teacher had left before going to look for him. She checked everywhere: back at the dorms, in the classroom, in some of the shops. However, she couldn't find him. 'Is . . . he gone?' she thought to herself, wandering the train station. 'Baka. Without even saying goodbye.'
"Asuna, what are you doing here?" Naruto asked, bags in hand.
"What are you doing?" she asked, noticing the bags. "I won't let you leave." She clung to him, cutting off his movements by locking his joints with her legs and arms. "Leaving? Who's leaving?"
"You are, baka! Why do you have those bags in your hands?"
"These aren't my bags," Naruto told her. "These are just bags for an old lady I saw moving out of her shop. It wasn't doing so well so she decided to pack up and leave to find somewhere to sell her baked goods."
"Are you lying? You're a horrible, horrible liar." Naruto could feel the girl start to cry on his back. "Hey, hey, hey, don't cry," he tried to reassure her.
"I'm not crying!" she yelled, out of sight so that Naruto doesn't see her crying.
'She's totally crying/she really is crying,' Naruto and the Bijuu thought. He began to move with the girl locking his joints. It was really difficult though, so Naruto tried to do something else. 'Saiken, give me some of your chakra.' As the slug did so, Naruto's skin soon became slippery, sliding the girl off as if he was covered to his feet in slime.
"Ew! What is this?" Asuna asked, forgetting about crying before watching as Naruto's skin dried back up.
"Hiruma (Leech Gap)," Naruto answered. "You're lucky I asked Saiken to make it so that the liquid I used wasn't acidic. Now if you'll excuse me, the woman is waiting on her bags and I feel that I have to help her pack." At the end of the walkway was a woman about the age of sixty who waited on the young man.
Thanking Naruto for his time, she got on the train after whispering something in his ear causing the jinchūriki to blush. "What an odd old woman," Naruto said, the blush highlighting his whiskers.
"What did she say?"
"Nothing." 'Stay here with your girlfriend.' By the time Naruto could tell her that she was his student, not his girlfriend, the woman had already left. "So you really weren't going to leave?"
"The headmaster said nothing about firing me," Naruto said. "If there's anything, my old teacher told me to look underneath the underneath, so if he was going to fire me then he would've said so. Instead the letter said that he wouldn't recognize me as a teacher, so what good would it have been to leave?"
The rest of the girls who had something to do with the little escapade into Library Island soon piled up as well, telling Naruto that they would do better on the next test. "I hope you guys do. I'm going to make sure of it," he joked. "Even if I'm no longer your teacher, I may still watch over you guys if to stop you from stripping so many times in a day." The girls looked downtrodden, thinking he was still getting fired and completely missing the last part.
Coughing into his hand to get their attention, Naruto turned his attention to the newest addition to the group: Old Man Konoe. "So, what brings you here?" he asked. He still remembered that whole thing with the golem and was feeling a little apprehensive around the man. "Naruto-kun, can I speak with you for a second?" Naruto perked up after listening to the Headmaster's request. "So, the group's grades really aren't fully tallied and you remembered at the last second that you had to add them together with the rest of 2-A." 'That means that Class 2-A still has a chance to be in the competition.'
Naruto watched as the Headmaster announced the grades: Makie had a 66, Ku had a 67 and Kaede had a 63, and Yue also had the same grade as Kaede (which kind of surprised Naruto as Ku Fei was a transfer student, which explained her low grade; it didn't explain why Yue and Kaede made lower than her). What wasn't surprising was the three that helped with the mission still passed with high eighties and nineties, but what was surprising was the next grade. "Asuna Kagurazaka, you made a 71. Good job."
Asuna was stunned at the grade. She didn't think she would get a grade that good ever. But she did.
"The total mark for 2-A would be . . . 0.1 over 81 percent. Congratulations, girls." Naruto blinked in surprise. There was no way his devil luck in gambling extended past just that. He wasn't meant to be this lucky except in combat and gambling. This was all a big trip for him. Like if someone told you that you won some contest where you can spend the rest of your life married to a super model.
"So the purpose of the test was to see how dependable I was as a teacher, am I right?" Naruto asked, getting a nod from the Headmaster. "It was to test how you could protect your students. You proved that you were able to. You're qualified, Naruto-kun, and I hope to see you do an even better job than before." Naruto stayed quiet for a bit before a smile appeared on his face.
"So, I guess I'm the new permanent teacher of class 2-A," Naruto told Asuna. "You sure you're going to be okay without Takamichi being your teacher next year." Asuna grimaced as she thought about it. 'Having Naruto as our teacher or Takahata-sensei,' she thought. 'Naruto or Takahata-sensei?' She contemplated on her thoughts before sighing. "I guess I'm going to have to get used to having you as our sensei," she said. "I look forward to having you as our teacher."
"And I look forward to being your teacher. Now, I know these guys have some sort of party planned so I guess I should attend as the guest of honor."
"Who said you were the guest of honor?" Naruto looked offended before fiddling with his fingers. "I thought I was. You know, since I helped the class with their class average." Asuna rolled her eyes before sighing. "It's hard to believe you're nineteen." Naruto opened his mouth before remembering he was supposed to be how he looked, instead of how he actually was. "Fine."
CHAPTER END
Prince: Finally. After a few months, the seventh chapter of Mahora no Kitsune-sensei has finally been completed. I can't promise that I'm going to update my story just like that because I just found a flaw when I bought the PS4: my TV is Standard Definition. So I either need to find a HDMI to RCA (those colored plugs) converter and/or adaptor, or I'm going to have to buy a TV that plays HDMI. I don't want to spend that much money on a TV when I could just buy a converter for less than twenty bucks. Some people can't waste money like that. Some people have bills to pay as well as food they want to eat and places they want to go to.
Kiactu: I thought the main point of the post-story Author's Note was to tell what you were thinking of next and the results of the polls.
Prince: Oh, right. The results of the poll I had on my profile before this current one (which after I take Raven off will be down to the remaining contestants) was that Naruto in The Path I Walk would have a massive harem pairing, unsurprisingly. That FanFiction will introduce all Square Enix characters to the Naruto-verse, including some of the more obscure works.