Chapter 3
Back again! Thanks for the reviews guys! I appreciate them a lot. PS slightly changed the last chapter.
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"Fate-sama are you okay?!" Was the first thing Fate heard the moment he arrived back at his base of operations, as five girls surrounded him checking over all the bruises and cuts that he had sustained in Kyoto.
"It is nothing" He said monotonously, "Do not fret"
*Thud*
"Fate-sama! Your arm!" Screamed a dark haired girl with cat ears, pointing at the fore mentioned limb, that was now on the ground.
"Well that is troublesome" Muttered the white haired boy.
"Tertium" Called out a male voice, gaining the attention of Fate and the five girls, turning to look at a tall dark figure enveloped from head to toe in dark robes with some red areas whose head was covered by a hood, whose face was covered by a mask.
"Yes? What is it Dynamis?" Asked Fate towards the cloaked man.
Pointing a finger towards the limb that was currently spreading white blood on the floor, Dynamis questioned, "How is it that you became so damaged? You could have easily used a replica doll, since I doubt the situation needed you to intervene directly"
Eye twitching ever so slightly that only Dynamis noticed, Fate tried to keep his voice calm, "Once I sensed a strong energy surge I decided to investigate personally, the person to whom the energy surge belonged to is the one responsible for my current state, if my doll replica had engaged him, it would have been destroyed after the first attack"
"That fiend!" Screamed one of the girls this one had light hair in two long pigtails, "Don't worry Fate-sama we will destroy him for you"
Ignoring the girl's outburst Dynamis brought a hand to stroke his mask covered chin, "Hmm did you get any data on Negi Springfield while you were at it?"
"Enough to know that as of now he is of little importance" Remarked Fate, as the tallest of the five girls, with long waist length hair and two horns started reattaching his arm, "Though we may have to alter our plans slightly"
"I see" Remarked Dynamis as he considered the information that Fate had provided for him, snapping his fingers a hole opened on the floor, and out of this hole elevated a platform , that had a white tree on it whose branches formed sphere around a pitch black five foot long key, the key had metal poles piercing the shaft of the key in different directions and at the end of the key on the opposite end of the tooth was a purple sphere with a ripple pattern and one black dot in the centre, giving the appearance of an eye.
Reaching into the tree and removing two of the metal rods from the shaft, Dynamis turned towards the white haired boy whose arm had been successfully reattached.
"Was everything recorded?" He asked.
"Yes" Answered Fate plainly.
"Good" Muttered the masked man before stabbing one of the rods into Fate's chest, ignoring the fact that the girls visibly flinched when he did this, and then stabbing the other into his own chest.
"Now for the sake of peace, for the sake of finally becoming complete, tells us about this…Naruto Uzumaki"
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I will complete the Moon's Eye
I won't let any of my comrade's die!
This world…I'll end it
Because I was called a genius
…that is also my ninja way
I'm going to become Hokage
Naruto…I'm so sorry
Eyes snapping open Naruto sat up with sweat going down his forehead, looking around Naruto couldn't recognize where he was he was, sitting on a bed in an ornate room that made him feel as if he was in some temple.
'Urgh what happened?' He thought as he tried to remember how he got where he, however his thoughts were interrupted when he heard a familiar voice yelling, "Setsuna-san"
Jumping out of the bed ignoring the fact that he was wearing different clothes, he jumped out of the window to run towards where he heard the voice come from. Arriving at where he heard the voice coming from he saw Negi, Sestuna, the blonde girl, Evangeline, and the green haired girl from last night, Chachamaru.
"Where are you going? What about Konoka-san?" Asked the ten year old toward Setsuna.
"I..it's the law of my people…Once you've seen my true form I've got no choice but to…" Said Setsuna with tears in the corners of her eyes, turning her back to Negi she begun to run, "I've fulfilled my role to protect Ojou-sama... so now I must- umph"
Because she had closed her eyes to hold back her tears she didn't see Naruto who had gotten in her way, leading her to crash into him knocking him over with her falling on him, sitting on his abdomen.
"Urgh" groaned Naruto, "This is not a good morning"
Realizing the position that she was in, Setsuna was quick to jump of Naruto and stand upright, "I'm sorry for knocking you over..." Realizing who she was talking to Setsuna's eyes widened.
Rubbing his head Naruto sat up, "Nah, it's okay…so what all this having to leave thing about…?" Naruto's question died out when he realized that while he was sitting up, Setsuna had gone on her knees with her head bowed down touching the floor.
"Thank you so much for allowing me to save Ojou-sama!" Said the dark haired girl in a completely serious voice as if her life depended on it.
Not knowing how to react to this, Naruto felt very uncomfortable, no one had ever given him thanks in such a manner so naturally his only response was, "Eh?"
"You took that attack that was intended for me" Continued Setsuna, "If you hadn't done so I wouldn't have been able to save Ojou-sama"
Now Naruto remembered, throwing himself in the way of the sword so that Setsuna could get to that Konoka girl. "Oh yeah, don't worry it was nothing" He said with a casual shrug of the shoulders.
"NO IT WASN'T!" Screamed the girl, making Naruto nearly jump out of his skin. Lifting her head up from the ground Setsuna looked Naruto directly in the eye. "Not only do I owe my life to you, but you also allowed me to save Ojou-sama, to me that is worth far more than my life, so I…I will do anything that you ask no matter what it is"
"But Sestuna-san, what about Konoka-sa…" Tried to interject Negi, only for Naruto to lift a hand to tell the ten year old that he'll deal with it.
Crossing his arms Naruto returned Sestuna's steadfast stare with his own, "Do you really mean what you just said?" Asked Naruto to the teenage girl.
Nodding, Sestuna did not seem to waver at all even though she had essentially given him her existence on a silver platter.
"Okay then…" Said Naruto with a dead serious face, "…I have only one request, one that is worth your life and in your own words more than your life…."
Stiffening slightly Setsuna mentally prepared herself for such a request.
Grinning brightly Naruto told her his request "Stay by Konoka's side like you want to"
Yet again Naruto was surprised to receive only silence after saying something, Setsuna was staring at him with wide eyes, Negi was smiling at what Naruto requested, the blond girl who hadn't said anything merely lifted her eyebrow, while her green haired companion just remained silent with a stoic face.
Standing up Naruto dusted of his clothes, "Okay now anyone know where I can get breakfast?" He asked as if what had happened was nothing more than a normal "Good Morning", as we walked past Setsuna.
'Ah, I was hoping that it would at least get interesting' Thought Evangeline a bit disappointedly.
Meanwhile Setsuna was in a state of shock, not even noticing that Naruto had stood up and walked past her, 'He could of asked for anything' she thought, 'He could of asked for anything and he asked me to do something for myself' It was on that day that Naruto gained Sestuna's undying respect.
"Hey are you coming or not?" Sestuna was snapped back to reality by Naruto's voice calling her, letting herself smile she stood up and followed Naruto and Negi as they entered the temple.
Throughout this ordeal no one but a Evangeline noticed a certain long haired brunette hiding around the corner, listening to what had happened.
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"Eishun-sama, Uzumaki-san has awoken" Stated one of the many servants that worked in the Konoe household.
Thanking the girl for informing him, and asking her to bring him the blonde boy, Eishun went back to his meditating, the awakening of a mysterious boy whose seemed to be releasing such a large amount of power was a serious matter, but what worried Eishun above all else was the name, Uzumaki.
He had heard that name long ago during the Great Mage War twenty years ago, while traveling with his comrades in Ala Rubra, specifically he had heard the name from a one-time enemy that Nagi fought during the war.
"That red hair and fiery personality...yes you most definitely possess that blood of an Uzumaki running through you, but wait that's not all…a world in turmoil, a war…I wonder you just may be an inheritor of that boy's will"
To this day neither Eishun nor any other members of Ala Rubra ever understood what that man meant; Nagi especially wouldn't let it go for some time though he eventually decided that it wasn't important.
But now a boy with that exact same name pops up out of nowhere with a ridiculously amount of strength, Eishun was most definitely going to look further into this, especially considering a certain something that happened once the blond boy apparently fainted.
Hearing the servant call his name Eishun told her to come in, but not alone she was accompanied by Naruto who had a stealing bowl foramen in one of his hand. "Thank you Sayaka, you may leave us"
Giving her master a bow Sayaka was quick to leave, leaving Eishun and Naruto alone.
"Sit please" Eishun ordered the blonde boy, who casually sat down in front of the bespectacled man, it was then that Eishun noticed that the boy's right cheek seemed to be red.
"Did something happen?" Asked the bespectacled man.
Blinking a bit in confusion, it took a second for Naruto to notice what Eishun was referring to, "Oh don't worry it was nothing" He said scratching the back of his head, in reality when he had started eating his fourth bowl of ramen, Asuna had entered the dining hall, while Naruto had greeted her with a good morning, she greeted him with a slap to the face, but before Naruto could ask why she did that he had been summoned, by the servant girl. "So you're the head of the house Ossan?" Asked Naruto, before taking a slurp, of his ramen.
Chuckling at being talked to so informally, which hadn't happened in a long time, Eishun decided to just get right to the point, but first things first, "I must thank you for helping to save my daughter last night"
"Oh it was nothing really" Said Naruto feeling a bit embarrassed from all the 'thank yous' he'd been receiving.
"I'm afraid that I have some questions for you" Said Eishun now with a serious tone in his voice, seeing that the old man was serious Naruto, also decided to be serious.
"Okay I understand" Said the teenage boy.
"Why were you sealed?" Asked Eishun, if this boy was sealed for any reasons such as for being too dangerous, Eishun couldn't let the fact that the boy helped save his daughter interfere with his decision, for that reason the room had a charm laced on it that would alert him if the boy lied.
"To stop something terrible from destroying the world" Replied the blonde casually.
"Was it Ryomen Sukuna-no-Kami?" Asked Eishun.
"Who?"
"The demon you destroyed in the lake"
"Oh no it wasn't that weakling" Said Naruto shaking his head, that demon wasn't even close to Biju level, hell the little monsters the Ten tails created could probably beat it. "It was something much worse, the Ten Tails, you ever heard of it?"
"Can't say that I ever had" Replied Eishun. He'd probably have Takahata or his father-in-law investigate that in the library at Mahora.
"Well there were these two mad men that were trying to bring the end of the world by using this creature" Stated Naruto, " Since it was indestructible we basically had to seal its power, but while doing this we needed a large amount of chakra to be used, i.e. me, otherwise the jutsu wouldn't work"
This story did seem farfetched, but according to the charm he was being honest, though he'd have to question him more about this chakra latter on. Nodding in understanding, Eishun gestured for Naruto to continue.
"Though honestly I don't completely understand how the jutsu worked, I suck at sealing jutsu" Naruto said while shrugging his shoulders, after all the Hokage said that it was a variant of the Shiki Fujin Seal, that worked better with multiple high level users, "So long story short, I saved the world but got sealed away myself by accident, my memory is still a bit blurry"
"Interesting" Said Eishun stroking his chin, "Now I must ask, but why do I sense demonic energy from you?"
Noticing that the boy tensed up when he asked that question, Eishun thought it best to postpone that answer for now, "You can take your time to answer that one, so don't worry I hold nothing against those of demonic affiliation, so we can postpone that, and carry on to another matter that I wished to discuss with you"
Sighing Naruto was thankful for that, though in hindsight he'd probably prefer to talk about his demonic powers first.
"Now…" Said Eishun pulling out a card from his robes, the card had an image of a teenage girl with waist long brunette hair wearing miko robes, "…about this Pactio you formed with my daughter last night"
"My what with who now?" Asked the confused blond.
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"Asuna-san that wasn't very nice, you should apologize" Whined Negi, as he Asuna, Setsuna, Konoka, Evangeline, Chachamaru, Yue and three other classmates that were tagging along, a short girl with purple hair that covered her eyes, Nodoka Miyazaki, a bespectacled girl with waist long green hair, Haruna Saotome, and a girl with red hair tied up in a 'pineapple' like ponytail, Kazumi Asdakura, walked up a hill to meet up with Eishun Konoe.
"Will you shut up already! He deserved it for what he did, despite helping us!" Yelled back the pig tailed girl, having grown annoyed at the ten year old's pleas. Meanwhile Konoka could only giggle at the arguing of the two. Feeling someone tapping her shoulder, Konoka turned to look at her classmate Haruna.
"So what did Asuna do?" Whispered the bespectacled girl, as always she up for some gossip.
Giving her classmate a shrug of the shoulder and a sneaky smile , Konoka answered, "Oh I don't know, maybe it has to do with the fact that Asuna gave another boy apart from Negi-kun attention"
"What?!" Screamed both Asuna and Haruna when they heard what Konoka had said, who just smiled back at them.
Turning her attention to Asuna, Haruna began asking question, "Really? Who is he? I he hot? Is Negi-kun really jealous? Oh going after two boys Asuna I didn't think you were the type, you have my respect!"
"Stop it isn't anything like that!" Screamed the poor red headed girl, "I just slapped a guy in the face nothing else…and don't lump me in with you!"
"Well it does seem that my daughter's classmates are as energetic as ever" Hearing the older voice, he group realized that had arrived at the meeting point with Konoka's father, but he wasn't alone, he was accompanied by a certain blonde whiskered teenage boy, who waved at them with a big grin on his face, now wearing more normal civilian clothes.
"Helloo, cutie" Muttered Haruna upon seeing the boy, spending most of her time in the girls section of Mahora didn't give her many chances to go 'researching' boys, so encountering a cutie with unique facial markings like that, Haruno most certainly thought that the prospect of 'researching' him would be worthwhile treat.
Greeting Negi and the other girls that he was familiar with, Naruto noticed that they seemed to have brought along some other girls who he didn't recognize, though he did feel a bit scared with the way one of them was looking at him in a way that reminded him of how Jiraiya would look at women walking by, while one girl was looking at him curiously and a last one he didn't recognize…
Eyes widening Naruto was in front of the last girl, Nodoka , within a second with his face inches way from hers, "Hinata?" he asked in a voice that sounded more desperate than he was comfortable with. Nodoka merely squeaked and backed away from the blonde, though Naruto was able to see for a second her eyes, 'Not even a Hyuga' he thought sadly, noticing that everyone was staring at him Naruto scratched the back of his head embarrassedly, "Sorry about that" He said to the shy girl, "I thought you were somebody else"
"I...it's okay…I…I understand" Stuttered the shy girl, which reminded him even more of Hinata.
'You dumbass' Thought Naruto dejectedly, 'Let it go already'
"Quit whining and pouting" Growled Kurama within his mind, "I understand it's hard for you, but don't go clinging on desperately to any hope like that, you'll only hurt youself, and quit blaming youself its pathetic"
'Yeah I understand Kurama' Answered back the blond to the demon fox.
"Anyway" Voiced Eishun interrupting the odd silence that had befallen the group, "I think it's time we get moving, this way Negi-kun"
And so the group followed Eishun to some house that was hidden in amongst the trees, apparently from what Naruto heard it was the house of Negi's father, whom the brat has been looking for a long time.
Once inside everyone went on their own thing, the library trio consisting of Nodoka, Yue and Haruna, went looking through all the bookshelves, while other like Asuna, Negi, Konoka, Sestuna, Kazumi, Chachamaru and Evangeline, just browsed around the house.
Naruto though wanted to know more about the world that he was in know, so like the library trio, he decided to look through a few of the books, most of them he didn't understand, they talked about spells that he couldn't understand and some even about ki, thankfully Eishun had briefed him on the concepts of Ki and Magic and the fact that that Magic was hidden.
When looking through the books, not completely paying attaention, Naruto saw a certain title that caused him to widen his eyes, 'The Tale of the Gallant Jiaraiya', reaching out inmediatly to grab the book, Naruto was kinda surprised when a smaller hand also reached for it grabing at the same time he did.
Looking at who the arm belonged to he saw that it was same girl as before, Nodoka he thought is what they called her. Upo. realizing that Naruto had also grabed the book, Nodoka was quick to let it go, practically recoiling from her hand being so close to Naruto's, "S…sorry "she stuttered, "…Enjoy, t..the book" then quickly before Naruto could sy anything she had ran off to some other part of the house.
"Geez" Muttered, Naruto, "Did I scare her or something?"
"You shouldn't worry" Said a monotonous voice from behind Naruto, turning around he saw Yue, standing there with a book in her hand, "She's just shy, especially around men, she just doesn't have that much experience dealing with boys her age"
Nodding in understanding Naruto looked down at the book in his hands, "It just seemed that I might have scarred her before" He said rather sadly.
"Don't worry, Nodoka is a very understanding and forgiving person" Assured the petite girl, "You mistook her for someone else, Nodoka understand that so relax"
"Oh thanks then" Said Naruto, "Uhm, sorry I don't think we've been introduced yet, I'm Naruto Uzumaki..."
"I'm Yue Ayase, nice to meet you" Said the girl, before going back to browsing the bookshelf.
Deciding to leave the girl to her devices, Naruto looked for a place to sit so that he could read the book, seeing an empty couch, he headed towards there. When he got there he sat down opened the book and started reading.
After reading the book for a few minutes Naruto couldn't help but chuckle a bit, the story of a ninja, called Jiraiya, who fell in love with a maiden called Tsunade, while fighting his arch-enemy Orochimaru, was surprising close to the story and vastly different at the same time. Without realizing it Naruto had started crying while reading the book, ignoring everything around him as he was submerged completely in the book.
"Are you okay?" Asked a soothing voice which brought Naruto out of the book, looking to his side, he saw a girl with long brunet hair sitting next to him with a worried look on her face.
Wiping away, the tears on his face, Naruto scolded himself for letting his emotions out so easily, luckily nobody else had noticed, looking at the petty girl in the eye Naruto gave her a bright smile, "Yeah, I'm okay, just some dust in my eyes" Then he recognized the girl from the card that Eishun showed him, "Wait you're Konoka right?"
Giving the boy her own bright smile Konoka nodded, "Yep that's me, it's nice to finally talk to you Naruto-kun"
"He, well it's nice to talk to you too" Then Naruto remembered exactly the details of the card that Eishun explained to him, specifically how he formed a Pactio, blushing at the thought of being kissed while unconscious. Gulping in apprehension, Naruto decided to address that matter that he and Eishun had discussed very thoroughly, "So, umm, you dad said that last night you…" Not knowing how to finish the sentence Naruto let it just hang.
Realizing what Naruto was referring to Konoka couldn't help but giggle had how flustered the boy had become. Putting her hand into her pocket she pulled out her Pactio card, "Yep I formed a Pactio with you" Seeing that Naruto seemed to be blushing even more, Konoka decided to tell him about the circumstances, "Because you were so wounded, and that apparently some of that petrification dust had touched you before, so you fainted from both of those things together"
Seeing the boy nod in understanding Konoka continued, "I apparently have an affinity for healing so I formed a Pactio with you because I don't have any control over my magic yet.
It was just like how Eishun explained it, so both stories matched up, Naruto guessed that he must have been too close when created the Fuuton: Rasengan, and must have touched that strange dust, which he guessed must be the petrification dust, but his high healing ability thanks to Kurama must have delayed the effects.
"Well thanks I owe ya Konoka-chan" Said Naruto, truly thankful for what the sweet girl did for him, then it occurred to him another thing that had been bothering him, "Hey by the way do you know why Asuna slapped me this morning?"
"Yeah I know" Giggled the girl, and so the two started talking not only about why Asuna slapped him but about other things too.
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"…What's this photo?" Asked Negi, looking at a photograph in a frame, on the desk of the upper floor of the house, the photo had a red headed boy who loOked very much like Negi in the picture accompanied by several other men.
"These were the Thousand Master's comrades in arms" Answered Eishun, who had called, Konoka, Asuna, Setsuna and Naruto upstairs, who were followed by Evangeline and Chachamaru.
"Comrades?" Asked Negi.
"Yes this picture was from 20 years ago" Said Eishun.
"Excuse me let me see" Said Naruto, wanting to see this so called 'Thousand Master' that Eishun had talked so much about, squeezing between Asuna and Konoka who were gushing over the photo, Naruto was able to take a good look at this Nagi, and it was just as Eishun had said, he had dark red hair much like Negi did.
*Flashback*
"So you're saying that all Uzumaki's have a naturally strong life force?" Asked Eishun.
"Yep"
"Also that they tend to have red hair, though you yourself are a rare exception" Said the bespectacled man who was sure to discuss this with Takahata and his father-in-law once this was over.
"Yeah, also I heard that people from my clan tend to be very brash, short tempered and basically had kinda fiery personalities" Said Naruto, seeing no problem telling this man all that he knew about a clan he hadn't learnt about all that long ago, from his perspective at least.
"Yeah that sounds like Nagi all right" Muttered Eishun with a sweatdrop.
"Who now?" Asked Naruto, if this man knew any Uzumaki's personally Naruto wanted to know.
Seeing no harm in telling Naruto, seeing as he had been completely honest throughout their conversation Eishun spoke, "All the features you described of your clan fit perfectly with an old friend of mine, Nagi Springfield, he had dark red hair, he was a tough bastard to kill, after all that's why he's recognized as probably the strongest mage in the world, and all the personality features you described well…you kind of remind me of him honestly"
"OH" Said Naruto, what a coincidence, he wakes up after who knows how long and he immediately meets someone who knows a clan member, though it looked like the clan name seemed to have disappeared, but the bloodline still lived.
"Actually you've met his son already, you're familiar with Negi-kun I presume?" Eishun looked with amusement as Naruto's eyes widened at being told this.
"Holy shit I wake up and right of the bat I meet a little cousin, a hundred times removed I guess, but still what are the chances? Though he doesn't act like an Uzumaki at all" Yelled Naruto completely shocked, with Eishun sweatdroping at how true Naruto's statement was especially regarding Negi, then a question popped into Naruto's head. "Wait a minute. Why do you want to know so much about the Uzumaki's?" Asked the blonde boy.
Putting down his cup of tea that Sayaka had brought him a couple of minutes ago, Eishun answered the boy's question, "Twenty years ago when I was traveling with Nagi and some other friends of ours, we encountered an exceptionally powerful man who said that Nagi must have the blood of an Uzumaki in him, for years none of us understood what he meant, 'till today that is"
Picking up his cup again Eishun took another sip.
"Who was it?"
"Who?" Asked Eishun, surprised that the very relaxed teenager seemed to be dead series in deep contrast with how'd he had been throughout most of their conversation.
"The man who knew about the Uzumaki's, who was he? You gotta tell me please"
Seeing that this was very serious matter for the boy Eishun put back down his cup and looked the young boy in the eye. "He said his name was…"
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Naruto was snapped out of his memory as a certain red headed girl shoved him from behind, "Hey were having a photo taken, you coming or what?" She asked him.
Noticing that everyone else was heading down stairs, Naruto followed Asuna to where everyone was standing to have their photo taken by Kazumi. Sating behind Negi with Asuna and Nodoka on either side Naruto gave a big smile for the camera.
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The Kyoto trip had finally ended and all of class 3A were in the train station some already boarding the train, though Group 5 were having trouble because Haruna was acting all mopy, due to apparently missing her chance to'research' the blonde cutie that they had met, due to this Group 5 had been slowed down and they were practically last to board the train.
"Haruna will you please cut it out? You're winding everyone up" Said Yue though her tone made it hard to tell whether she herself was annoyed or not.
"But Yuechi" Whined the bespectacled girl, "We hardly ever get to interact with boys our own age apart from the meat heads that Ku-chan deals with every morning, but this guy was cute friendly and seemed perfect for 'research'" Haruna had to wipe the drool from her chin, "But I didn't get a chance, while at the house because Konoka was hogging him and you wouldn't let me get near him" She said while pointing a finger accusingly at Yue.
Yue just stood there continuing to sip from her drink, she did what she had to do, Naruto-san seemed to be a perfectly nice person and Yue didn't want Haruna traumatizing him, besides Yue had noticed that before Konoka went to talk to him he seemed to be crying, for whatever reason Yue was sure that he didn't need the perverted mangaka groping him.
Finding that Haruna's whining had begun to get annoying Asuna decided to try and drown it out by talking to Negi, "So you think that clue you found at you dad's house will really help you find him?"
Nodding happily Negi couldn't wait to start looking through the scroll, "Yep I'm sure there's something in here" Then a worried look crossed the tenyear old's face, "But I wonder what's going to happen to Naruto-san"
Seeing that the brat was gonna start worrying again Asuna gave him a forcefull pat on the back, "Don't worry" Sher said, "Konoka's dad said that he's going to sort things out for Naaruto so I'm sure that everything is going to be fine"
"Though you really should of apologized to him Asuna before we left" Commented Konoka.
"Will you drop it already geez" Though now that she thought about it, she had probably been a bit too harsh to slap him, he had risked his life to save Konoka, it's just that he had been so reckless and Negi could of died while fighting Kotarou, "But it doesn't matter now because it's too late anyway" Said the girl with a huff.
"Or is it?" Said a cheerful voice that the group recognized.
Looking towards where they heard the voice, they saw Naruto there, waving cheerfully accompanied by one of the many teachers that had been assigned to look over the field trip, Shizuna Minamoto.
"What are you doing here?" Half yelled half asked Asuna pointing at Naruto accusingly.
"I got word from the Headmaster back at Mahora" Said the elegant Shizuna, trying to calm the boisterous girl down "Naruto-kun shall be accompanying us back to Mahora"
"What?/Really?" Was the response that Group 5 gave, though Konoka and Haruna sounded particularly happy.
"Yep I'm coming along" Said Naruto with his still wide smile on his face. Though he didn't notice how it seemed that Haruna was about to jump at him before being pulled away by the ear by Yue. As Shizuna walked away to deal with the other students, Naruto lowered his voice so that nobody else could hear, "After all Eishun-Ossan said that one has to stay as close to their Ministra Magi as possible"
Eyes widening in realization, Setsuna now understood what Eishun-sama, meant by sorting things out for Uzumaki-san, it seemed that he was sending him over to Mahora to help protect Konoka, 'It's only natural' thought Setsuna dejectedly 'I failed to protect her during this trip' Gripping her sword tightly she firmed her resolve, 'But I won't let that ever happen again, I'll become much, much stronger'
"Asuna don't you have anything to say?" Asked Konoka, as the library trio went ahead.
Shuffling her feet uncomfortably Asuna tried to muster her apology, but she was beaten to it.
"I'm sorry" Said Naruto, leaving Asuna confused.
"Eh" Was the boisterous girl's response.
"I'm sorry that I left Negi to deal with a stronger opponent" Said Naruto, "I was my error in judgement, so I'm sorry Asuna, Negi"
"Wait a sec, I'm the one who's supposed to be apologizing" Said Asuna waving her hands, fighting down her blush in embarrassment, she looked Naruto in the eye, " I'm sorry for slapping you, after all you did for us okay!"
"Well I think that's enough" interjected Konoka, "You're both sorry so that's good, now lets go or we'll miss the train"
Both teens blushing in embarrassment, they looked at each other and laughed at how silly they were acting.
"Guess, we both had something to be sorry for" Said Naruto scratching the back of his head.
"Yeah" Admitted Asuna who was also feeling a bit silly.
"So it looks like we're going to be seeing a lot more of each other" said Naruto, stretching his hand out, "So how about we put that behind us, friends?" He asked smiling at the girl.
Looking at the blonde's outstretched hand, Asuna stretched out her own hand to shake his, "Friends" She said giving the blonde a smile of her own.
"Asuna-san, Naruto-san, the train is going to leave soon!" Called out Negi, catching the two teens attention, who wondered how long they had been holding hands. Letting go of the other's hand they followed the group on board the train.
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As Class 3A was sitting down, a certain waist long blonde girl with green eyes, waited expectantly for her beloved Sensei to enter and sit next to her. She didn't get as much time to spend with him during the trip, but she'd make up for on the way back. Seeing the remaining member of Group 5, Asuna-san, take her seat, Ayaka Yukihiro did the best to contain her excitement, she had convinced the members of her group to leave her seat empty for the sole purpose of having Negi-sensei sit next to her.
The she saw her beloved Sensei talking to Shizuna-sensei and Nitta-sensei, she couldn't hear what they were talking about since she was in the middle of the train, but from what she could see Nitta-sensei didn't seem happy, then again he never looked happy. Apparently having sorted whatever it was that they were discussing, Negi-sensei, turned to look at the students apparently going to make an announcement.
"Everyone I hope you had a good" Said the ten year old teacher, to which everyone cheered happily, "So soon we'll be heading back to Mahora Academy, but firstly I want to make a little announcement"
The class started whispering as to what it was he was going to announce. Seeing her beloved Sensei clear his voice, Ayaka payed him the utmost attention.
"Class 3A won't be traveling back alone" Stated the little teacher, causing to the class' murmuring to intensify, usually Ayaka would tell them to be silent, but she herself was confused by the statement.
"We'll be accompanied by someone who has business to discuss with the head master, so…umm…please be nice to him" With this Negi-sensei, turned to Shizuna-sensei, who then gestured with her hand for someone to enter the compartment.
The mere statement that the fact that it was a him got the class extremely curious, though hearing that he had business with the Headmaster meant that he must be some adult, so naturally they were all shocked when they saw a blonde teenage boy, with blue eyes and weird whisker marks on his cheek appear.
"Hello" Said the boy, "I'm Naruto Uzumaki, nice to meet ya"
The entire class went silent…for about two seconds, before they all screamed either, "He's cute!" or "He's hot!", but before they could get out of their seats to give the teenage boy a typival 3A greeting, Nitta-sensei's voice boomed throughout the compartment, "SILENCE!" Causing most of the class to immediately pipe down.
Feeling the train starting to move, Shizuna-sensei seemed to whisper to Naruto-san to find somewhere to sit, oh well it wasn't Ayaka's problem, though she will act politely to her guest as per etiquete, she's going to spend most of the trip back enjoying her time with Negi-sensei. Poor girl was so caught up in her daydream that she didn't notice somebody taking the seat next to her.
"Hey thanks for the seat I thought I was going to have to stand up for the rest of the trip" Said the voice of whoever was sitting next to her.
Looking to her side in shock, Ayaka's eyes widened when she saw the blonde boy sitting in the seat that she had reserved for Negi-sensei.
"What are you doing?" She asked almost sounding scandalized, which caused the blonde boy to blink in confusion.
"Umm, I'm sitting down?" Said the boy a bit confused.
"That seat was reserved for Negi-sensei!" She said almost growling.
"I think Negi is sitting with Asuna" Said Naruto pointing towards the front of the compartment.
"Noooo" Wailed the blonde girl, "I didn't take that into consideration!"
"Geez it not that big a deal" Said Naruto looking at the blonde girl with a confused look.
"You don't understand!" Said the blonde girl, "To think that Negi-sensei, has to endure the trip home with that violent Asuna-san, to think that such a sweet child will have to be forced away from a motherly figure such as myself to think-arghph"
Ayaka's ranting was interrupted when Naruto had taken a few pages from a magazine that was on the floor, curled them up in a ball and shoved said ball in to the Class representative's mouth.
Face turning red in anger, Ayaka couldn't believe it, 'How dare he!' She thought angrily, 'How dare that uncouth lout!'
Hearing a giggling sound, Naruto turned to look on the opposite side of the compartment of where his and Ayaka's seats were, he saw Nodoka, who upon noticing that he was looking at her blushed and covered her face with her book that she was reading.
"Now listen here you…" Said Ayaka having pulled the ball out of mouth and started throwing names and Naruto.
But he didn't care he'd been called a lot worse in his life and besides her eraction was quite funny, ignoring the blond girl's rants Naruto thought back to the conversation he had with Eishun.
"Who was it?"
"Who?" Asked Eishun, surprised that the very relaxed teenager seemed to be dead series in deep contrast with how'd he had been throughout most of their conversation.
"The man who knew about the Uzumaki's, who was he? You gotta tell me please"
Seeing that this was very serious matter for the boy Eishun put back down his cup and looked the young boy in the eye. "He said his name was…"
"…Orochimaru"
To be continued
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And that's a wrap. Phew finally finished, with this chapter I had many ideas but fitting them all in was hard, now soon we'll be heading off to Mahora.
So see you guys soon.