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"Shut up... don't say a word."
"I didn't say anything." Naruto was choking down the urge to laugh his ass off at Koneko as he held her hands through the water. While she was more than capable of riding rides that involved water, she had forgot to inform him of the fact that she was unable to swim. So, before they were going to ride any rides, Naruto decided that he would teach her the important lesson. He had never had trouble swimming, so he didn't understand how a person couldn't understand the basic idea of keeping your head above the water. "Might want to smile though, I could let go at any moment." Naruto let go of her hands, and the second that he did, she lashed out and grabbed right back onto them.
She glared at him with red cheeks.
He raised his eyebrows.
"... You're a sick man." Koneko put a smile on her face, a smile filled with all of her urge to kill. "Was that a laugh you bastard?" Koneko's eyes narrowed dangerously when she heard what sounded like a short laugh escape him. His face was red with the effort it was taking for him not to just die laughing, and while she would normally attack him, at the moment she was in water deep enough to drown her. She was no in the position to be doing any of that, not while Naruto was her only support as he taught her the swimming skill.
Koneko blinked the water from her eyes, and she felt the small urge to leave the water park... before she completely shook the urge. She wasn't the only one, because Koneko could see a few dozen humans already leaving the park, going into the changing rooms. She didn't pay it any mind though, since she wanted to have fun today, even if it was with Naruto.
"I'm really trying not to... if I'm going to laugh at you, it will be for something I did... not for something you can't do." Naruto wasn't going to laugh at somebody who was trying their hardest to improve, which she was doing. He wanted to laugh, the urge was there and rising, but it was wrong to mock those who were giving it their best shot. He hated it when people did it to him, and he always attacked those who did, so he wasn't going to make Koneko suffer through his laughing. Was he going to tease her, fuck yeah he was, she was his rival at this point. He wouldn't laugh, but teasing was a powerful motivator as well.
Koneko just nodded.
'He is still helping me.' Koneko sighed and kicked her legs. She was starting to get the hang of it, but she was never going to be a pro swimmer for sure. Sad, because with her petite, stream-lined body she was perfectly suited for it. '... I hate myself for thinking that...' Koneko realized that she had just found something her underdeveloped body was suited for.
Something she wasn't good at.
"Now we just have to get you-" Naruto was stopped when he seemed to get pulled underwater quickly, by something strong enough to make a splash. Koneko's eyes widened in shock, and she splashed wildly, until she grabbed the edge of the pool. Breathing deeply, her brief moment of panic over, she looked and saw Naruto struggling against the water, under the water.
That bastard was messing with her, making her think he was drowning.
Bubbles stopped coming to the surface, and Koneko went under the water. She put her feet on the side of the pool, and kicked off hard enough to put cracks in the pool wall. Shooting at Naruto with high underwater speed, thanks to her powerful kick boost, she smashed into his chest and knocked him away from the pool's drain. For a second, she could have sworn there part of the water was thicker, and shaped like a hand that had been around his ankle.
'What was... just my imagination... oh no... I'm too far underwater... I'm not good at going back up.' Koneko started to think as she flailed around in the water, panic starting to set in again.
Naruto returned the favor.
Grabbing the back of her swimsuit, Naruto started to swim towards the edge of the pool while dragging her. Reaching the surface with ease, though Koneko took a deep satisfying breath the second they breached, she looked at Naruto as he leaned over the edge and started to hack the water from his lungs.
"... saved... life..." Naruto gasped out as he was talking, still coughing up a lot of water, his skin pale from partially drowning. "You saved... my life... thought you were going to let me die there... this hurts..." Naruto had never thought water would hurt this much, but inside the lungs was a very painful sensation.
Koneko didn't say anything.
He saved her life too, considering when she saved his life, she had put her own life into danger. Unable to swim up, and unable to swim down to touch the bottom, she had been completely stuck where she couldn't do anything. Once panic had set in, everything had gone kind of horrible.
"... Don't think on it... buy me something to eat..." Koneko didn't want to think about it. She didn't choose to save him, her body had just sort of moved on it's own when she realized that he was in genuine danger. "Why did you save me?" Koneko realized that Naruto, even when he was still underwater and drowning, had come back to save her.
Naruto hacked up the rest of the water, and he turned to look at her, a grin on his face.
"Duh, my body just moved on it's own... anyway, I like fighting you. I invited you here, and I'm not about to let you die." Naruto told her as he got out of the pool, and grabbed her hand to help her out. "Man, they need warnings when they are going to turn the drain on." Naruto looked into the pool, and saw that he had been pulled down by the drain turning on, or something like that.
That was some really powerful suction.
"... Lets just go... no more swimming..." Koneko put her hands on his back, and pushed him away from the pool. She looked back at it as she walked, her eyes narrowed, since despite Naruto giving a simple explanation for why he nearly drowned, she was sure that she had felt something off.
"Oh, they have caramel apples and chocolate bananas!" Naruto shouted in excitement, something Koneko didn't know he would do, as he grabbed one of her hands and rushed at the snack store.
Koneko could see an entire menu of sweets.
Naruto seemed really excited, like the near-death experience didn't happen, and life was completely normal.
'... I can't smell anything but chlorine... guess I was just imagining things.' Koneko put it out of her mind. She noticed a few more families packing up and going to the changing rooms to leave the park, but didn't pay it any mind.
A lot of kids had school tomorrow, made sense to leave a little early.
"Oh, they have taiyaki... I'll have a taiyaki with red bean paste in it, oh make it three... and a large, extra large I mean, orange soda." Naruto placed it order with an excited grin when a couple of his favored treats were placed in front of him. Naruto looked at her as his food was quickly placed in front of him. "Order anything you want, my treat... waterproof wallet." Naruto mentioned as he pulled his wallet from his trunks.
Koneko nodded and gazed at the menu.
"Chocolate banana and small ginger ale." With her order spoken, it was passed to her moments later. With snacks in hand, the two of them started to walk around the park to see what they were going to ride next. Koneko noticed Naruto really enjoying the sweet treat, since when she broke into his apartment he seemed like a ramen addict, she was surprised. "... I thought ramen was your favorite... you seem really excited for taiyaki." Koneko had trouble believing the hard and ruff delinquent seemed so giddy for sweets.
Naruto froze mid-step when he realized that Koneko had seen everything he had just done.
Damn his lack of impulse control!
"I love ramen... but saying it alone is my favorite isn't right. I actually really love red bean soup, and anything with red bean paste in it... can you please keep it a secret that I love sweets? It really isn't manly." Naruto put his hands together, quickly shoving the last taiyaki in his mouth. Koneko looked at him with dull eyes, before she nodded her head very slowly.
So, the big bad souban was secretly a sweets lover, and had a soft spot for red bean soup/paste. She could find a lot of uses for this information, but clearly... clearly she should keep this a secret so that she had something to hold over his head.
She was so going to use this against him.
"This chocolate... it's milk chocolate..." Koneko pointed out as she licked the chocolate from the very tip of the banana, and only the head of it was chocolate dipped. She only lightly nibbled and licked though, wanting to savor the sweet treat, seeing as this was a snack she didn't get to eat often enough. "So... what is your opinion of Buchou... Rias." Koneko could see that he didn't know who she was talking about at first, so she clarified.
Rias did ask her to get some information out of Naruto today, starting with his opinion of her, seeing as apparently he had shown some strange ability that Rias was unaware of.
"Oh, you mean the red haired tit monster... she seems like a nice girl, but whenever I'm near her, I just get this feeling that I shouldn't trust her... like every time she looks at me, she is thinking about how she can manipulate me... she reminds me a lot of the people that run my parent's company... she doesn't see me as Naruto Uzumaki... just a means to an end... I hate people like that." Naruto's voice started off confidence, but as he talked, Koneko could hear him get progressively more bitter as time went on.
Right, his parents were dead, Rias did... wow, Naruto was absolutely right on the money. Rias had done a ton of research into Naruto when he proved to be an interesting person, only to push him to the side when she believed he was too much effort with little pay out. Now, she was interested in him again since he showed a special ability.
Koneko realized something, Naruto was good at reading people, even if he wasn't good at making friends.
"Okay... she... hey... jerk." Koneko stopped when a grown man bumped into her rudely, on his way to the park exit. She forgot what she was saying to Naruto, and now she was starting to notice that a lot of people were missing from the park. The park had been bustling at the start of the day, but in such a short time, it had gone from hyped to a practical ghost town.
Something was wrong, really wrong.
She really wished that she could smell anything but chlorine right now, the smell of the water in the park was just too overpowering for her to try and sniff out any enemies. Finishing off her banana, Koneko tossed the stick away, and decided to keep her guard up just to be on the safe side.
"Where is everyone leaving to in such a damn hurry?" Naruto asked when he finally noticed everyone in the park, even the employees, were starting to run for the exits.
No alarms were going off to indicate danger.
"Demon Slayer, forget everything, never use your powers, and you won't have to die today ya know."
Naruto looked as a small girl came out of the water.
"I'm pretty sure I can beat the shit out of a little girl, demon or not! I might have just learned I was a Demon Slayer last night, but I can do this!" Naruto shouted as he pushed his hand at the loli threatening him, and he concentrated as hard as he could. He blew her hair out of her face for a brief moment, and Naruto turned red in embarrassment. "Okay, that was suppose to knock you away so I could take Koneko and run... I just learned I have powers ya know!" Naruto shouted in humiliation.
The girl raised an eyebrow.
"... ya know?"
"So what, I have a verbal tic, it comes out when I'm excited or embarrassed... by the way Koneko, I'm a Demon Slayer... but we better start running... we're in a water park... and looks like she controls water." Naruto realized very quickly that this wasn't a very good situation.
Koneko was just surprised at everything happening.
"I am Shizuku... I gave you the chance to forget, so you'll have to die ya know." Shizuku spoke calmly as she rose her hands, and the water behind her started to rise with them. "This isn't personal, you're just a dangerous existence to ayakashi." Shizuku didn't want him to think this was person.
She had no personal vendetta against the Hiiragi, she just didn't trust any Demon Slayers, so the only good Demon Slayer was a dead one.
"... Hey look, my big sister is here, and she's going to kick your ass!" Naruto pointed behind Shizuku.
Shizuku looked, and her eyes narrowed when she saw nothing there, quickly turning around, she saw that Naruto and Koneko were out of sight. Having quickly run away and hid, in the few seconds that she had looked away, and realized what happened.
She could not believe she fell for that.
Chapter End!
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