Reading Devil Ninja
Chapter 8.a
By SandewrPally
Original Work by TheEngulfingSilence
Konoha
The glare of the morning light caused Anko to grumble in annoyance as she snuggled further into the chest of her favorite blonde and lover. She didn't know what had happened last night but she smiled as the pleasant soreness between her legs became apparent. While sex with Naruto was always pleasurable last night he had done all out, making sure her pleasure was above all else. Stretching her arms as they draped across Naruto's chest she shifted herself to lay her chest on his. Before she could get Naruto ready for some great wake-up sex she noticed something that was definitely not there when both she and Naruto had passed out from their love-making.
A head of crimson red hair was resting on Naruto's other side, gentle breaths leaving a rather kissable mouth if Anko had ever seen one. Reaching to uncover the mystery girl, Anko was starting to get a little pissed that this girl had gotten into bed with her man. For starters she was completely naked, rubbing the swell of her breasts against the part of Naruto's chest that Anko herself had not commandeered after they had gone to sleep. She was pretty sure that no one had joined them while they were doing the deed, so the girl must have somehow snuck in on two, while admittedly exhausted, trained Shinobi.
To say she was more than a little pissed would be like saying Kakashi doesn't like his porn. Laying back down and resting her head in the crook of Naruto's neck she started to rub the whiskers on his cheek. Naruto had started to wake up, groggily at first before purring (though he would never admit it) at the ministrations being done to him by Anko. Opening his eyes he looked down to Anko, only to adopt a confused look at the angry expression on her face.
"Um, is there something wrong Anko-chan?"
The sweet smile that she gave him in response only made the feeling of impending doom worse. "Oh Nothing. Just wondering how another girl landed in our bed when I distinctly remember there not being one."
Naruto started to rise, confusion causing him to rise "What are you tal-"
"Mou, Naruto-kun. Come back to bed." A voice Naruto had not expected to hear this morning piped up. Turning his head to the other side Naruto's eyes widened as Rias rose up, trying to drape an arm around him to being him back to the bed. The killing intent coming from Anko woke Rias up rather quickly, as it was directed straight at her. Opening her eyes she was met with an equally naked Anko, who was sporting a rather murderous glare.
"Naruto, who is this?" Anko asked, her eyes never leaving Rias'.
"It's a long story?"
"Mmm, I see." Anko responded as she brought her hands into together and was going to start going through seals for a jutsu. Before she could get more than two seals finished Naruto had grabbed her hands, preventing her from dispelling justice on the bitch that apparently knew Naruto. Rias had completely woken up by this point, wondering who the hell Naruto was sleeping with before she had slipped into his bed. After several minutes of talking Anko down, promises of several nights of pleasure added for good measure, both Shinobi turned towards Rias. Naruto had a questioning yet welcome look while Anko was still glaring daggers at the Gremory heir.
"So, I guess the questions I want to ask is why you are here and more importantly how?"
"Yes, how did you get in here?" Anko said, sweet venom in her tone.
Making a point to not look in Anko's direction Rias scooted closer to Naruto, placing a hand on his chest. By this point Naruto was sweating, feeling the killing intent coming from his lover.
"I wanted to see what why my counterpart stayed in your bed almost the entire time she had met you. And I have to say I can see why you make an excellent bed partner."
'Counterpart?' Anko thought, her anger giving way to confusion. She had never seen this girl around Konoha, Shinobi or civilian alike. The conversation continued to confuse her even more.
"I see. And how exactly did you get here?"
"I went through our friends in the velvet room, then transported to the seal I had placed in your pocket."
"One of your summoning seals?
"Yep."
"Okay hold on a moment!" Anko shouted, pointing at both Naruto and Rias. "Who the heck are you and what does she mean by counterpart?"
"Ah, I guess introductions are needed. Anko-chan, this is Rias Gremory, a devil. Rias this is Mitarashi Anko, snake mistress of Konoha and one of my closest friends."
"And lovers."
"And lovers." Naruto added before sweating under the gaze of one Rias Gremory. Hinata had always warned him about the fact that since he was technically the last living member of the Uzumaki clan and the lesser Namikaze, he was expected to marry multiple times to father a new generation of scions. The conversations that had proceeded that little discussion of clan bylaws had almost gotten him killed form the sheer intensity of the feminine fury of Sakura, and to a lesser extent Tsunade. Hinata had explained that even if there had been no law about having multiple partners she would have allowed him to be with Anko, as the snake mistress had been there for the blonde Uzumaki during his academy days.
"Lovers?" Rias said with a little bit of shock and confusion "That means more than one?"
"Yep." Anko responded for him, while draping herself over him. Naruto had to mentally restrain himself from reacting to Anko's breasts pushing into his back as he sent the snake mistress a playful glare.
"Maybe we should get dressed before we have this discussion." Naruto responded as he switched himself with a pillow on the bed. Ignoring the pout from Anko Naruto grabbed some clothes before heading to the living room. "If you need any clothes Hinata's should be able to fit you." Naruto said before fully leaving. He was positive nothing extremely bad would happen leaving Anko and Rias in the same room for a minute or two. Creating several clones he set about preparing breakfast, mentally going over what Rias would likely ask in response to him having multiple partners. Naruto let out a sigh as he heard an embarrassed shout coming from his bedroom, having a good idea as to who was culprit of said shout was. He didn't know who was worse, Anko or Akeno.
On second thought that might not be a good thought to dwell on.
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Several minutes later a blushing Rias and satisfied Anko sat at the kitchen table, Pancakes and eggs set out for everyone. Setting their drinks down Naruto took his seat before looking between Anko and Rias.
"So do I want to know?"
"N-no!" Rias sputtered, ignoring Anko's sadistically familiar look. She didn't want to admit it but the purple haired Kunoichi reminded her of Akeno a little too much. "Anyways what did she mean by lovers?"
"Swallowing his food Naruto started to explain "Besides Anko there is one other, Hinata Hyuuga. She had a crush on me ever since our academy days, and we started to go out after the war had ended. But I'm guessing your wondering why I have multiple partners?"
Rias nodded as Naruto continued. "Sometime during the reign of the second Hokage Senju Tobimaru there was a fear of clan's dying out because of the war before his reign and during it. In order to ensure that the clans of Konoha would never die off the CRA, or Clan Restoration Act, was made into law. The law states that if the male heir of a clan is the only one left they are expected to have multiple partners to begin the restoration process of that clan."
"I assume the females have to give birth at a certain period of time." Rias said, hesitating a little bit as well.
"Yes." Anko responded a scowl on her face. "Female heirs are expected to give birth when they are healthy and bodily able to, and are not supposed to be allowed to leave the village for missions before giving birth to a certain number of children. Luckily the act has never had to go into effect except with Naruto-kun."
Rias clenched her hand, getting visions of what her life could be like married to Riser. It was one of the arguments the pompous bastard would use when they would meet to discuss the arranged marriage. While it was true that purebloods of the remaining pillars were getting scarce, and the fact that reincarnated devils that were more powerful than some of the pillars had started to appear, had gotten arranged marriages like Rias' to appear even more appealing.
"Rias." As if noticing her thoughts Naruto had reached over and taken her hand, unclenching it before she started to draw blood "Are you…angry at me?"
Rias looked up into the worried blue eyes of the blonde that had promised to help her in her marriage against Riser. A young man that saw her as Rias, not the Heir of the Gremory clan or one of the great ladies of Kuoh.
Sighing as she shifted her hand to grasp his she gave Naruto an understanding smile. "No, I'm not. While polygamy isn't really hat well talked about, it is more of a grey area in devil society. It can be a good thing because of the low birth rates among the pure-blooded devils, but it has been used to attempt to restore some of the noble pillars from extinction.
"Attempt?" Anko asked, putting the revelation that the girl was a devil to the back burner. Rias took another bite of her food before continuing.
"Because the birthrates of pure-blooded devils is low, even with having multiple partners to try with, some clans that had only a few left quickly fell apart, to be absorbed by other clans through marriage or just disappear throughout the years." Noticing the confused look on Anko's face Rias realized that Anko might not know that Rias was, in fact, a devil.
"You do know that I am a devil, right?"
"You don't look like a devil." Before any more could be said Rias sprouted her devil wings, getting a chuckle out of Naruto at the shocked expression on Anko's face. "Okay I stand corrected. So how exactly did you two meet?"
"Would you believe me if I said that there was a scroll that transported whoever was around it to Another dimension, where we read and watch a story about me landing in Rias' universe and the effects I have on it?"
Both Naruto and Rias laughed at the expression on Anko's face, ranging between confused and shock. After several minutes of laughing at Anko's expense they continued to explain what exactly the Velvet room and the story was about. After finishing their explanation to the current events Anko had a frown on her face. Taking Naruto's hand she took a deep breath before talking.
"It's hard to imagine a world where you aren't here." Anko said with a little bit of sadness. Naruto smiled as he leaned in to give his second lover a small kiss.
"Well that's what the story is for." Naruto replied, chuckling along with Anko and Rias at that leap of logic. "Anyways I believe I have the training program for Koneko and Issei pretty well planned out. I assume the others are already in the process of training?"
"Oh? What's this about training some of these devils?"
Both Naruto and Rias would forever remember that moment, as one they would come to regret for the immediate future.
In the Velvet training Room
Issei was trying to breath as quietly as possible, fear wafting off him as he glanced over the rock he had taken as cover for the moment. He had no idea where the sexy snake lady had come form, but the moment she had glanced in his direction he had been running for his life, snakes the size of horses and above on his trail. He had been bitten, squeezed and hit in ways that were not sexy like the lady that apparently controlled these snakes. Seeing that the coast was clear for the moment he sat down as he attempted to regain some of the lost strength from the various snake bites. From What Naruto had shouted as he started to run off the poisons had been diluted to only cause pain and fatigue, instead of suffering and death.
It really isn't make it any better in Issei's opinion.
"Ara ara, I must say Anko-san, your methods of torture sound very…" a deep and appreciative breath sounded before the voice continued "effective."
"Heh." Issei shivered in abject fear as the voices passed him "that's tame compared to what happens during interrogations." The steps of the two beautiful women grew closer, as Issei's breathing got quieter and quieter. He didn't dare draw their attention while he was still recovering. "But I think we have some other fish, or should I say dragon, to find."
The slithering of another large snake got Issei's attention, more so because it was staring him right into the eyes with a head about the same size as his own. "And speaking of dragons…" Issei mechanically turned his head, only to be greeted by a smirking Anko, a similar smirking Akeno right beside her.
"Pervert, say hello to Fluffy!"
"F-fluffy!?" Issei squeaked out. The hiss that he had become familiar with in the last few hours. Not wasting a moment the boy had ducked and ran, Fluffy on his tail not moments later. The laughter of one snake mistress and thunder priestess followed the screams of a in-training pawn.
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On another level of the training ground both Naruto and Koneko had taken a break to watch the show, erm training, that Anko was putting Issei through. Naruto chuckled as Fluffy, one of Anko's personal favorites of her snake summons, had cornered the boy, who was gasping for air right about now. While he knew that it was necessarily to improve the boy's stamina he did fell somewhat bad as Fluffy blocked of any escape by whipping him with his body. If Issei was going to get out anytime soon, he was going to have to fight his way out. Turning his attention away from Issei and Anko he refocused his attention on Koneko, who had adjusted enough to the sealed weights were they could begin training.
"Ready Koneko-chan?" Naruto said as he took his combat stance, a variation of his fathers that he had learned from Kakashi and Jiriaya. Koneko had also adopted a stance, as Naruto had started her on a simple style that would benefit from her already considerable strength. In reality it was the beginnings of the same style that Tsunade and later Sakura had developed and mastered themselves, simplified so they could get the maximum training in for such short notice.
After a nod of acknowledgement both fighters moved towards each other, as Koneko displaced the ground around her with a single punch. It was scarily similar to the tactics his teammate and grandmother figure would use. While Naruto was steadying himself with chakra Koneko had made to get closer to him, feinting a haymaker so she could get in a blow to his stomach. Naruto wasn't a hero of the Fourth Shinobi War and skilled Shinobi for nothing.
Seeing the feint Naruto blocked and shifted the neko girl's punch, a swish of air ruffling his clothes as he redirected the power before responding. Hooking his leg at her knee joint Naruto pulled while aiming an open palm towards her chest. Instead of trying to block the blow Koneko had chosen to roll with her bent knee, rolling away while attempting to sweep Naruto's legs with a well-executed spin kick. Back flipping away Naruto steadied himself as Koneko rolled to her beginning stance, a little displaced hair the only indication that they had just fought for a few seconds.
Both Naruto and Koneko grinned, proud of the progress that Koneko had been making in the few hours since they had started. The girl was a natural at unarmed combat, even without the speed of a regular shinobi. But like his counterpart Naruto knew that playing to her rook strength was the best bet in training her. With his familiar fox-like grin Naruto motioned for them to continue, getting a small grin form the girl across form him.
Despite having met him all but a few days ago Koneko could say that the blond man across from her was one of the most important people in her life, even if he already had multiple lovers.
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Rias was sitting across from Kushina, her expression wary for the moment. It was perfectly understandable as no less than half an hour ago the woman across from her had gone on a rampage of epic proportions. The sulfur yellow eyes, oddly enhanced by the waving tendrils of hair as boulder after boulder was decimated with golden chains had caused Naruto and his father to quickly run away, leaving Rias and the pale-eyed Hinata to see the devastation of a fully enraged Uzumaki Kushina.
Rias took a sip of her tea, the blend relaxing her as she regarded the girl sitting next to her instead of the still fuming mother. The girl held herself with an air of elegance, one that Rias instantly recognized as being one of noble birth. The girl had peculiar pupil-less lavender eyes, a doujutsu if she remembered, that only added to her beauty. While the soft and caring features did catch her eye, her physical attributes mad the impressive Rias more than a little wary. She already had competition from the busty snake mistress Anko, who not only oozed mature confidence but used that in her sexiness appeal as well. Rias had an inkling that Hinata was more of the silent sex kitten type, as some of the noble women she had met tended to be. Her own sister-in-law was a great example of deceiving appearances.
"So, you must be Hitomi's daughter. I'm sorry about her loss, though I know she loved you as much as I love Naruto."
"Thank you Uzuma-"
"Kushina dear. After all you are in relations with my son. Maybe with cute little grandchildren on the way?"
Rias had never seen a blush so bright on a person before. The inherit paleness of the Hyuuga heiress only made the blood that had rushed to her face more noticeable. Rias also noticed the stray hand that landed on Hinata's stomach, as if contemplating the idea.
"The same goes for you dear. Even if you aren't with my son yet."
Rias groaned as she felt the blood rush to her cheeks this time as the Uzumaki matriarch giggled. "But now that I've worked out some…frustrations" Kushina ignored the dull look from the younger women as she continued "I wanted to thank you for being there for my son."
Hinata gave Naruto's mother a soft smile before speaking. "In truth Naruto has saved me more times than I care to admit. If it wasn't for him I wouldn't be anywhere near the level of strength that I would be to support him. He saves me every day, even if he is a little dense."
All three women giggled at the trait they seemed to agree on. "While I haven't known him as long." Rias said as the two other women turned their attention towards her "He brings me a sense of peace, especially concerning a certain noble."
Hinata had a strained smile on her face, remembering the explanation as to why Naruto and Anko had disappeared right before she had gotten back from her mission. The situation with Rias reminded her of her own before she had literally fought for the right to choose the suitor of her choice, though her choice was rather easy in that regards. After discussing the training plan that Naruto had developed for Koneko Hinata had helped him to acquire the proper weights that he could apply seals to. After discovering that Naruto's parents were in this Velvet Room she made time to come in and spend time with them, only to be kidnapped by Kushina wondering what Rias was talking about her son having lovers.
After explaining and watching the show of skillful destruction, they had all sat down at the table that had been provided to watch the two devil's undergo their own training, with the addition of Anko 'helping' in Issei's training. While the devil pawn probably didn't deserve the current treatment that was aptly named 'survival training' she didn't have much pity after being ogled by the now identified pervert.
Her assets were only for Naruto after all.
Bringing her attention back to the two other women at the table the talk had descended into the different fashion of their world and Rias', a simple discussion that Hinata took great pleasure in getting involved in. It was great to unwind once in a while form being, in Naruto and Anko's own words, a stuck up noble.
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After several days of training Naruto had decided that a break was needed, which led to them heading to a hot spring in the training ground. The water was not only the perfect temperature, but helped soothed some of the aches that still came from his transplanted arm now and then. He was joined by Issei, who melted into the water as the injuries from both Anko and her snake summons, combined with whatever traps Naruto had managed to set up, had taken its toll on the recently turned devil. After his injuries were more or less healed the two sat in the water, basking in the peaceful silence. Naruto could feel the confusion coming off the devil in the water across from him, but decided to let him open up on his own time. It didn't take long, as several minutes passed before Issei spoke up.
"Hey sensei?"
"Hm?"
"Where does strength come from?"
Naruto opened one of his eyes as he looked to see Issei staring at his hands, as if contemplating the same question he had just asked. The similarities to when Naruto was just starting out as a genin were uncanny, though he easily had an answer to the boy's question.
"Well that depends on who you ask. Some say strength comes from how hard you work yourself, others will say that strength belongs only with a gifted few individuals." Memories of a certain ice wielder filled his head, making the older blonde smile as he turned fully towards Issei. "True strength, at least in my opinion, comes from fighting for those precious to you."
At the inquiring look from the pawn Naruto continued. While fighting for things like power and revenge can possible motivators, it is when you are fighting for people that are close to you, brothers, sisters, dear friends and the like that our true strength comes out. You can only get true strength for fighting against those that would threaten your precious people. So I have to ask." At this Naruto paused and turned to look at Issei fully "Who are the people you would lay down your all for, the people that are precious to you?"
Naruto smiled as the teenager gained a contemplative look. He had a feeling the kid already had a few people in mind. Especially one very cute former nun. Naruto himself had gained a few more precious people in the last few days. One very cute neko girl and a sexy redhead. The smile on his face was one of peace, knowing that whatever the future held it would be nice,
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Naruto smiled at the progress that Issei had made after their little chat in the hot springs. Instead of outright running from the snake summons he would fight back, even if it was just to run away to a better area to fight in. His awareness had also gone up, as the traps that Naruto would set out would have to be better hidden and more elaborate, though he did laugh when a pain bomb covered the dragon pawn in complete orange for the day.
Another boom from the training field below him also signaled another thing that the perverted pawn had managed to unlock. During one of the spars he had with Naruto the boy had surprised him by unleashing wave of power after a set amount of time. While it didn't hit the trained shinobi Naruto could only smile as the implications of what the technique could do to the unsuspecting opponent. Though he had upped Issei's stamina training after falling unconscious from one dragon shot. His current limit was three, and by the sound of it Anko was upping her own version of Issei's training.
"Hah!" Anko's voice shouted out from the cloud of dust Issei's dragon shout had spurned up. "You'll have to faster if you want to hit me with that gaki!"
A heavy smack sounded out, following stumbling Issei as he held his family jewels. "Really Anko?" Naruto muttered. Naruto knew that she was a little peeved that 'Fluffy' had been almost killed by a dragon shot, and the snake mistress took it somewhat personally. Nodding Naruto moved back to the arena he had inadvertently created with Koneko, the neko girl herself meditating as she tried to acsees more of her chakra.
One of the things that Naruto, and by extension his mother and father had noticed was that while her chakra coils were fairly large, they were somewhat withered due to her not using them as extensively as her natural strength and devil powers. The solution had come form his own experience in learning Senjutsu; meditation.
As he stretched his senses out he smiled as the familiar swirl of chakra ran through Koneko, who had revealed her ears and tail as more chakra came to the surface. The next step that she was going into was molding it through a series of control exercises that Tsunade had developed. By molding chakra to different parts of her body and reinforcing them Koneko had begun the first steps of not only leaning to control her chakra, but to also upping her own considerable strength.
As she opened her eyes Naruto noticed that they had become more catlike, something he figured had to do with her accessing more of her natural power source than her devil powers. The cat-like eyes were far more expressive than her regular amber eyes, and even more warmth shone in them when she directed her gaze at him.
"Ready for another round Koneko-chan?"
The Neko girl nodded as she rose into her combat stance, before launching herself towards a grinning Naruto. Naruto launched himself at the same time, engaging in another intense spar.
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Elsewhere Kiba was panting as he used a sword to stabilize himself, otherwise he would have collapsed by now. While he considered himself a decent swordsman, he was quickly reminded that there were masters out there who would defeat him in a heartbeat. He was just happy that the woman across from his was just sparing, as he was sure if they were truly enemies he would have already been dead.
Hm, I can see the flaws in your technique. While speed you hav3ein spades, a decently skilled opponent will be able to defend against speed alone." Kushina stated as she sheathed her katana. Kiba finally collapsed, his sword disappearing back into his sacred gear. "Still though I'm impressed with one of your age."
"Thanks Kushina-san." Kiba responded, slowly raising himself from the dirt of the training area. While getting his butt handed to him was never fun, the knight could easily tell he had gained a new perspective in how to fight against opponents from the mother of Naruto. He was initially shocked when his King had dragged him in front of the red-haired Uzumaki and informed that the woman was a master of Kenjutsu. Kiba smiled and had asked for a spar, thinking that it would be a good warm-up for his practice today.
He had quickly regretted not taking her completely serious within the first few seconds.
Instead of being on the offensive, which was his primary method of attack, he had to quickly adjust to defensive maneuvers. He was a little ashamed to say that he had neglected the defensive side of his swordsmanship, something that Kushina had quickly taken advantage of. It had gotten worse when he had pulled out a fire-enchanted sword, only for it to be cut in half by her chakra enhanced blade not a moment later.
It was at that point that Kiba knew he had gotten himself into some trouble.
IT was now, thirty minutes later, that he was picking himself up as Kushina sat down in a chair that had apparently appeared from nowhere. "Now, let's go over what you need to improve upon, then well start sparing again."
Kiba couldn't help but let out a groan at the prospect of another beat down.
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Naruto stared down at the prototype seal he had just finished, with Minato looking it over as well. The challenge of creating a seal to negate the regenerative powers of Riser was a challenge, but both father and son were confident that they could provide Rias a suitable one for her fight against the Phenex.
"I can see where you are going with this." Minato said, laying the prototype down "By sealing his powers, you manage to seal the source of his regeneration."
"Yep." Naruto said he finished cleaning his sealing supplies, and getting a new batch ready. "However that only seals his powers, and not the inherit strengths he gets from being a devil. From what Rias had told me devils are naturally stronger and faster than humans, and the higher their rank the more powerful they tend to be."
So you need a seal that not only seals his powers from the clan he is a part of, but the other strengths of a devil…" Minato muttered as he considered some of the seals that he had worked on in the past. As Naruto got a new scroll ready to start Minato stilled, before grinning as he sat next to his son.
"I think we can work on it this way, while also retaining the suppression seal." Minato started, showing the before and after parts of the seal in the making. The moment of bonding for father and son was one that Naruto was so happy for, even as a single joyful tear rolled down his eye as he launched into the discussion about various parts they would need to tweak.
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By the end of the training period Naruto was all smiles. Looking at Issei now the boy had more confidence than ever, having found his reason for getting stronger. One need only look to his fellow peerage members, no friends, to see the inspiration of putting his all into training. While he had not unlocked any more powers other than the dragon shot, he had improved his stamina and strength to be able to fire it seven times before exhausting himself. Due to the constant need to dodge rather dangerous weapons and snakes the boy was also decent at avoiding unnecessary movements. Nowhere near shinobi standards, but still impressive for the allotted time frame.
Koneko was another story altogether. It seems that accessing her chakra had allowed her to naturally start to develop some of the more miniscule Nekomata powers, as she had started to use illusions in the spars they had during the last day. The training area they had used was now craters and more craters, as her natural strength was supercharged with both devil and chakra infused hits. That strength, along with some serious chakra control, was even more dangerous with the style that Koneko had managed to pick up. Along with using the starting style given to her by Tsunade, the neko girl had added grapples and counters, having remembered that aspect of her counterparts training. The first time she had gotten Naruto she playfully poked him, though said poke still left a bruise.
Kiba was a pleasant surprise for everyone. In training with Kushina he had realized that holding himself within the bounds of his already established swordsmanship was more of a detriment at the moment. At his mother's request Naruto had gotten several simple styles of Shinobi swordsmanship form the local files. While simple and easy to learn they would give Kiba a chance to get his opponent off-balance, especially if they got used to how he normally fought.
Akeno on the other hand had seemed to mellow out for lack of a better term. Whatever she had done with Anko, and Kami rest their soul if they did find out, but the queen of Rias' peerage had become calmer, and her power over lightening had become fiercer as a result. When Naruto had asked Anko about it she merely told him that Akeno had as harsh a childhood as him, so similar it was frightening. He was deterred from poking his nose into it further, especially when Anko had declared Akeno as her unofficial 'sister of sadism'.
Naruto finally swept his gaze to Rias, who had surprised him when she asked about ideas to possibly make her power of destruction more controllable. While initially confused Rias had told him that since her power was highly volatile, training it was a huge risk if not within the confines of special barriers. Since the training ground of the velvet room was more like a separate dimension she was easily able to train it, but was having problems in what ways she could. After getting a brief course on the capabilities of her powers Naruto had drawn inspiration form his own training for this father's signature jutsu, the rasengan.
While the blonde Uzumaki knew she wouldn't necessarily be able to replicate the technique, the steps to it had given him ample inspiration for Rias' own version of his training. He had to change the steps, as her power would have just outright destroyed the rubber ball and balloon he used, so he had gone a different route altogether. He had challenged her to compress her power enough were only the water balloon would be hit, followed by the rubber ball. Frustration soon gave way to realization, and finally success.
Rias had developed her power of destruction to be effective with more speed and distance, making her already impressive power even more dangerous ranged enemies. Being smaller didn't mean it was any less dangerous, as the several pounds of tattered rubber balls was testament too.
They had all retired to the sitting room, along with Hinata and Anko. The two kunoichi had gotten along well with Rias and Kushina, though they were slightly embarrassed when Kushina had commented on what lovely grandchildren she would have in the future. Koneko had wormed her way into their hearts as well, through sheer adorableness and the fact that she could punch people through boulders and walls. Naruto had also gotten to better know the two devils personally, even having them come over to his dimension for a little bit.
Something had apparently happened, as Hinata had apparently corene4rd both devils. Naruto had a good idea of what, but he trusted Hinata, and his feelings towards the two devils.
"So, who gonna read?" Naruto asked as he settled in-between Hinata and Anko.
Hey everyone sorry for the late update. I am trying to finish another chapter of Shinobi among thieves, which has turned into a whopper of over 10,000 words. Anyways this is the true first interlude chapter, and i hope oyu find it to your satisfaction.
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