Chapter 4
The class was bustling with excitement, well, not really. It was just that the atmosphere seemed really thick.
He felt the glares of all of the male population minus Kiba glaring at him while he just smiled trying to diffuse the situation. But his smile only served to make the situation worse.
All of the girls let out a dreamy sigh and then that just pissed off the male population even more. So, that just led to more and more anger and resentment growing between the male population and Naruto.
He really didn't understand why the female population was fawning over him. In Konoha, he wouldn't get one look from the female population, yet here, all he got was attention from the female population. What a pain in the ass. To think that he was actually jealous of Sasuke at one point. Shudders.
The rest of the school day just went on like that. People fawning over him, and then other people just giving him glares and trying to intimidate him.
Actually, there was one interesting part of the school day. During lunch, Matsuda, Motohama, and Issei tried to gang up on him on school grounds. In front of everyone.
Needless to say, the fight was finished really quickly with three piled up and beaten up perverts, and one unscathed Naruto Uzumaki.
3 to 0.
Now it was the end of the school day. All the girls were crowded with Kiba instead of him for once. Finally, he had some freedom.
"You're looking really nice today ladies." Kiba said.
"No, you look better!" a girl replied.
Another girl muttered, "Sorry the room isn't cleaner."
"No no, it's fine."
Naruto saw Issei grit his teeth and just laughed on the inside. But then the laughter subsided when he heard Kiba say,
"Issei-kun?"
Naruto was wondering what the blond little pretty boy was doing now.
"I need you to come with me."
Naruto perked his ears up, and payed attention to the conversation. But unfortunately, there was none. He just heard the girls yell,
"No Kiba-kun don't do it! You'll catch pervert! You'll lose all your friends!
Issei replied irritatedly, "Everyone just simmer down. I promise I won't drain his pimp juice."
Then the two left, and the girls started to swarm around Naruto, but he stood up, and politely told the girls that he had to leave, then left to follow the two.
Leaving the main school building, he found the two walking towards the old schoolhouse.
He caught up and asked,
"Yo. What's up Kiba, and, Issei-san I guess."
The two whirled around and Issei yelled, "WHAT DO YOU MEAN I GUESS HUH?"
Ignoring Issei, Naruto asked, "So, you going to another Occult Research Club meeting Kiba? With this, perv?"
"Yeah, president told me to bring this pervert. She asked me to do so urgently, so I must leave. See you Naruto." Kiba replied.
Then they made a move to leave Naruto, but Naruto quickly asked, "Hey, I asked about the Occult Research Club yesterday. Do you think I could tag along? Just to see what it's about. Maybe I'll join the club if you guys let me."
Kiba sighed. "Sorry Naruto. As much as I would let you join, you need special requirements to join. So-"
"You mean you need people like you don't you?"
Kiba froze. "...precisely. Fine. Come along Naruto."
Issei protested, "Really?! You're letting this douche-"
"Shut up." Kiba said coldly and Issei retreated.
Whoa, he had never seen Kiba this cold before.
Then the three just continued walking to the old school house building without a word passing between the three of them.
Entering the school house building, they went upstairs and through double doors and went to what seemed like a gigantic lounge. There were candles, and the place had a really dark feeling to it. Fits the name Occult Research Club.
There was only one single person occupying the room. They were sitting on the couch munching on a bar of chocolate.
"I know her.." Issei muttered, and Kiba said,
"Oh do you? Koneko-chan here, is one of the members of the ORC. Hey Koneko-chan, Issei-kun here says that he might know you."
Munch. The girl named Koneko didn't reply.
Meanwhile, going through Issei's mind was, 'Man, way to go Kiba. Who doesn't know her? Her body is like-'
Then Naruto just smacked Issei across the head making him fall to the ground.
Kiba asked, "What was that for?"
Naruto merely replied, "No perverted thoughts Issei."
Sweatdropping, Kiba just sighed and then leaned against the doors that they had come through.
That was when Naruto and Issei first heard it. Running water.
They looked for the source of running water, and found a shower connected right to the room.
Issei looked like he was going to blow from excitement, and it took Naruto's stomping him face onto the floor for him to lose that look. It was most likely because he went unconscious, but, oh well. Hopefully the president didn't care.
Then another person stepped into the room, and then, she said, "President, your clothes are ready for you when you're done."
"Thank you," came the reply from inside the shower.
Then the newcomer turned her head to Naruto and Kiba, and her face lightened up.
The newcomer was another beauty that could compare to the red haired one that was currently in the shower.
Naruto smiled. He just realized who the president of this club was. It had to have been the girl that he saw in the abandoned school building yesterday.
She had jet black hair that reached down to her legs, and a magnificent figure overall.
"Oh hello there…" she started but then she trailed off.
She continued saying, "Kiba-kun, I thought you were only supposed to bring Issei, who's this?"
Naruto responded. "The name's Naruto Uzumaki. You could say that I just followed along because I was wondering what the ORC was all about. You see, I'm into occult things as well, so I was just wondering out of curiosity."
Naruto could see the the newcomer was just looking at Kiba with a disbelieving face and Kiba was just looking away.
But she responded, "Nice to meet you. My name's Akeno Himejima"
"What a lovely name. Nice to meet you Akeno-san."
Then everyone went silent as the shower went off and someone stepped out. Naruto was right. It was the red haired beauty that he had seen just yesterday.
Wearing a smile with her eyes closed, she said, "Sorry it took so long. I didn't get to wash off before I left-" then just like Akeno she trailed off when she saw Naruto standing in the room besides an unconscious Issei.
Then everyone went silent. Naruto was the one to break the silence. "If you're wondering at all, my name's Naruto Uzumaki. And before this ero-baka comes back to consciousness, I'd like to talk to you all about the strange energy radiating from all of you including this baka down here." he said pointing down to the unconscious Issei.
The red haired girl look surprised, but smiled nonetheless. "How blunt of you to point this out. That's fine. But we'll have to talk about it after Issei leaves. Is that alright with you Naruto-san?"
"Yes. That's fine."
"That's good. By the way, My name is Rias Gremory. It's nice to meet you Naruto-san."
"It's nice to meet you as well."
Rias sighed. "Now that we've got the introductions out of the way, can we please wake up Issei?"
"How are we going to do that without killing him?" all the people present minus Naruto asked.
"Bring some water," Rias ordered sighing.
"I've got it." Naruto replied.
With one handsign Naruto muttered, "Suiton: Suidan no Jutsu" and one small bullet of water came out and hit Issei in the face.
Issei woke up with a gasp.
"What? No! Don't hit me! I'm not a perv!"
"Yes you are." Naruto replied bringing sweatdrops from everyone.
Then everyone took their place. Issei sat by Koneko, and Akeno sat with Kiba. Rias sat at the desk facing the two couches. There were no more seats.
Kiba offered his, and Naruto just waved his hand.
Masking his Rinne-Sharingan under Genjutsu Naruto activated it and lifted himself off the ground and just laid down, on thin air, three feet off the ground.
Everyone just looked at Naruto dumbfounded.
Naruto just questioningly said, "What? Never seen a person levitate off the ground before?"
Rias just muttered, "Not even going to ask…" then turned her focus to Issei.
"I'd like to welcome you formally to the ORC. But you know that name's only a front. It's supposed to look like this is a hobby."
"Okay, then what is it really?"
"I'll be frank with you Issei. I'm not the only devil here."
Issei looked dumbfounded. "Is that what all of you are?" he asked looking at everyone.
Naruto spoke in saying, "Hey, this is my first time hearing this too, so nah. Well, at least not yet."
"Yes, Naruto, is an interesting case. This is my first time meeting him." Rias replied.
"Okay, so now what?"
"You know that man we met in the morning Issei? The one that tried to kill you?"
"Yeah. What about him? He was freaky and wanted to kill me!"
Rias chuckled lightly. "He's something different. He's a fallen angel."
Everyone remained silent as Issei and Naruto was taking in the new information.
Rias continued speaking. "Many think of us the same, but that's not necessarily true. Fallen angels want to serve god, but it's too late for them. Their dark emotions have forced them into the underworld.
"The confusion is understandable since they too walk the Earth misguiding humans. But they still wish to please god which is why their goal is to wipe us devils out.
"Then they're the obvious angels that are sent down from God that are trying to defeat us as well, so we're constantly trying to defend ourselves from both sides."
Issei just looked like he was a lost child while Naruto was thinking.
'Kurama, do you think this is the conflict that we are meant to resolve?'
'Most likely. They're devils, fallen angels, and regular angels in a battle royale. Seems like our conflict to me.' Kurama replied.
'Yay! I always wanted to fight. You think I'll get any good ones?'
'Highly doubtful. None of these signatures here are any strong. They're miles and miles behind you. They can't even start to compare to you.'
'So I won't get any good fights?'
"Yeah, probably."
Naruto started to stream tears. Everyone that was looking at Naruto just sweatdropped as they saw tears just randomly streaming down the blonde's face.
Naruto opened his eyes and wiped his tears away. "Oh no, don't mind me, finish your conversation."
"We're done." Rias said, and Naruto looked.
The four original ORC members were standing at the front of the room with their bat-like wings stretched out, and Issei was staring at them with a shocked expression while having his own set of wings sprouting from his back.
"Nice wings," Naruto said smiling.
Issei just whipped around and looked at Naruto sharply. "How are you not surprised by this Naruto?"
"I've seen weirder crap in my lifetime," was all Naruto said.
Everyone looked at him in curiosity, but didn't say anything in reply.
Rias called Issei to her desk. "Here's your first assignment as my servant."
Issei left the room leaving four original ORC members and Naruto in the room.
The mood got very serious. "Who are you?" Rias asked.
"My name's Naruto Uzumaki. What else?"
"I mean, what are you? Are you a fallen angel, devil, angel?"
"I am neither of those things. For now, I'm human."
No one seemed to believe it.
"Look, if you're that doubtful, search me for any sort of devil or holy energy ." Naruto said.
Everyone seemed to be concentrating. Then they widened their eyes in surprise.
Rias was the only to speak. "You're right. You don't have any holy, or devil energy within you.. But you do have this different energy source. And, it's massive… almost as much as a high class devil."
Naruto scoffed on the inside. 'You're right Kurama. If they think five percent of my chakra supply is about the level of a high class in their civilization, they're weak. But yay! I'm strong so I can defeat any opponent!'
'Dumbass'
Naruto sweatdropped.
Then Rias just put a finger to her chin and muttered, "I see, Naruto-san, I have an offer for you."
"What is it?" Naruto asked interested.
"I want you to become a part of my peerage."
Naruto was dumbfounded, and confused.
"What's.. A peerage?"
"You weren't listening when I was talking were you?" Rias asked.
"No.. I lost you after the war thing."
Rias sighed. "Basically, all mature devils have a peerage which is basically their own group of servants. They're based off of chess pieces like these." Rias took out something from her desk.
It was a small chess piece. It was a pawn.
"So, what about these?"
"What happens is one person is assigned to each one. However if the person contains too much power for one piece, you need to use more of the same to enter the chess pieces into them. In some cases, the pieces mutate and turn red which then signifies that the person you are trying to get into your peerage, is really, really powerful. But that's very rare and doesn't happen much." Rias explained.
"I see, so, what does being in a peerage mean?"
"Well, basically it means that you are my servant. You gain devil wings, and devil powers."
"So you want me as something like a slave?"
"No. You're terribly mistaken. I treat all of the people in my peerage like family."
Naruto perked up when he heard the family, but then sighed.
"As much as I would love to join your peerage, I'm afraid that I must decline."
Rias sighed. "May I know the reasoning for this?"
"While the offer is interesting and I would love to have people that would consider me as family, I'm afraid that it wouldn't work. If the chess pieces are meant to work based on the power that I contain currently, it wouldn't work. How many pieces do you have left?"
"Three. A rook, knight, and a bishop."
Naruto sighed. "Yeah, it wouldn't be enough. But I thank you for the offer."
Rias sighed. "Oh, well, I guess I tried."
"Yes, but I wouldn't mind if you explained the current situation between the three factions."
"I guess it couldn't hurt to tell you some more stuff."
Naruto mentally just said, 'Okay….'
"So after the war of the three factions, we're still at each other's necks. Fallen angels are trying to kill any stray devil they might find, and the angels are doing just the same. Some of the crazier exorcists make it a job to purge the land of any kind of devil whatsoever."
"So basically you're having the normal aftermath of a war."
"Basically."
Naruto looked in curiosity. "So I don't understand. You said that you had sort of a situation, but I don't understand what situation you have. From what you're saying it just sounds like you're dealing with a basic aftermath of war."
"You're right, but the devils are near extinction. Our race does not have that many pure-blooded devils left which is why the evil pieces were created."
Naruto sweatdropped. "I still don't see the point."
"I suppose there isn't really a point to this, but I guess I just wanted to explain what has happened in history and what is happening now."
"That seems fair enough. Well, then is there anything else that you would like to tell me?"
Rias entered a thinking pose. "No, there isn't anything else. But, I would like to know if we have your support for the things that we do."
Naruto thought. Maybe-
'We can't.'
'What do you mean that we can't Kurama.'
'If you say that we're going to bring peace to this world, we can't be allied to one faction. We have to be neutral. So we can help, but we really can't get involved with them too much. Which is another reason not to join her peerage. Also, why would you want to work under someone? You have enough power to crush every single one of these people with just a flare of your full chakra.'
'I guess that's true. Fine then.'
"I'll be working from within the shadows. That's all I can tell you."
Sighing, Rias ran a hand through her hair. "I see, then, I suppose we're done here."
"I suppose we are."
Rias pointed towards the door. "Akeno, take Naruto-san and escort him outside."
Naruto stood up. "It'll be fine. I'll see myself out."
Then standing up, Naruto walked out of the room.
When he stepped outside the room, he heard them talking once again.
"I wish I could've had him in my peerage. It would've helped so much…" Rias muttered.
Akeno's voice replied, "I suppose you can't have everything now can you?"
"I suppose not."
Naruto sighed. Everything is so complicated these days. Why couldn't he just live a normal life?
'Because you were sent here to save the world and NOT live a normal life? That's probably why.'
'You don't say?'
'Whatever. I'm going back to sleep.'
'Go ahead furball, but, I feel like things are going to get interesting from now on.'
Naruto didn't hear a response and just smiled.
PUtting up a familiar cross sign, he muttered, "Shadow Clone Jutsu" and a shadow clone of him appeared.
"I want you to put up a henge and listen in and make sure that you report on everything this group does. You understand?"
"Got it boss!"
Sighing, Naruto smiled and then left the building while his shadow clone henged into an insect and found a spot right above the door.
Finally, things were changing.
Okay, well, um, I guess I just revised some things here and there since, well, not everyone seemed to be enjoying the Naruto wants to be in Rias's peerage. I guess I'll just keep on imagining that story to myself.
So I did change the story a little bit, and actually, I like how this storyline is unfolding. So far. If everything works out like I imagine it. (Very least likely)
Anyways, for readers who read the original, I hope you didn't hate this much as much as you did the other, and new readers, just ignore.
Bai
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