Broken Faith 17
Vindice Deux, Divine Vengeance
Disclaimer : Don't own anything. Nope…. Not Naruto, Not Negima, nothing.
P.S. I wasn't going to upload this until i got 400 reviews but I was only short of about 15 so I figured, what the hell and just posted it anyway.
Enlightened End : Lol. I really wasn't expecting anything from that comment, simply that I hoped I was doing well enough, but I appreciate the good gesture of reviewing all my chapters. *Blush*
And thanks to LordGale119 for reminding me about Kalafina and Yuki Kajiura, well known for their songs in Kara no Kyoukai. I can no longer call myself a faithful Nasu-verse fan for forgetting them T^T.
Yeah... anyway I still haven't really caught up to the manga, I only recently read till Jakan pulling off girl's pantsu. That's right, up till now I was writing this fic more or less blind, only a bit of ideas about what happened in canon and occasionally going on to check the veracity of what I wrote, especially the parts with a lot of dialogues. Lol.
Best. Fight. Ever. I can totally see Naruto and Rakan, the two idiots that they are (Or at least a matured Naruto in canon would. The current one wouldnt know what panties were unless Sakura held his hands and stuck it up her skirt.. and thats if she wore one. I expect she wears something like men's briefs, considering how... masculine she is. ), having a panty stealing competition to see who can get the most off. Still I never expected the amount of shit I have to write and shovel before we can finally get to Mundus Magicus. Wish me luck.
Soundtrack List
Yuki Kajiura – Song of Storm and Fire
Kalafina – STORIA
****Broken Faith****
He landed and stared at her in shock before looking up into the sky.
A giant white column of light was heading right for him.
"Fu….." was all Naruto managed to get out before the pillar of light slammed into him, blowing dust and dirt everywhere.
Everyone immediately shut their eyes from the glare of the light and the dust cloud.
One by one they squinted nervously; this couldn't be good. However they only saw a blonde whose eyes were screwed shut. A few tense moments passed but the blonde stayed stationary. Slowly each of them crept forward, Asuna was the one to reach the blonde first, Konoka followed shortly, "Err... Naruto? You alright?"
Eyelids peeled back carefully to show one blue eye squinting back unsurely at her before they swivelled downwards; Naruto patted himself down and let out a sigh of relief. There didn't seem to be any after effects.
Then realizing as if remembering exactly why he was here the blonde looked over his shoulder and yelled, "Springfield! Your ass is grass when I get my hands on them!"
He made to move towards the small redhead but his body suddenly stopped responding, instead he felt two soft orbs in the palms of his hands.
Looking down in confusion to where his palms were he squeezed a little as if he couldn't believe what they were doing, only to get a soft moan and a throaty giggle in reply.
"Oh my, Naruto-sensei..."
He could literally hear his brain crash and burn before it rebooted and finally processed the fact that he was grabbing Konoka and Asuna's breasts. He squeezed them again; just to be sure he wasn't currently under some sort of drug induced hallucination. The very menacing aura that filled the rooftop gave him a very resounding negative reply, causing him to look back up at the owner of the anatomy he was currently squeezing. The red headed one. The black haired one was too busy giggling.
"Naruto..."
"Eeep." Naruto franctically made pulling motions, but his palms didn't move from their resting spot, "I swear to Kami, I didn't know, I can't stop them!"
Asuna drew back one fist, fully intending on planting it in Naruto's face and rearranging his features in the process if the blaze of energy that surrounded her fist was any indication.
"Eeep!"
But before she could let her fist fly, the palm on her breast had already shifted onto her shoulder and flipped her onto her back with a yelp. A grunt from beside her told her that Konoka had suffered the same treatment. "Wha?"
The blonde started mechanically walking toward a paling Nodoka. The only part of his anatomy that seemed to be responding to his orders was his head, and it was currently too busy shouting in panic to help the rest of his body, "Gaah! Help! I can't control my body!"
He had already reached the white as a ghost Nodoka and his arms outstretched to grab her before Setsuna finally regained her senses and slashed at the blonde to drive him back.
The blonde side stepped the attack and leapt back out of her attack zone before mechanically walking forward once more. Only this time a gust of wind from Konoka halted him in his tracks while Asuna readied her harisen beside Setsuna and her nodachi. All three of them forming ranks around the stunned Nodoka.
"Ahhh! Don't attack, that's gonna hurt dammit!"
"Then don't move!"
"I can't help it! My body won't listen!"
"Fufufufu. So amusing. Like a toy. Can we make this permanent?" No one replied because they were all busy sweat dropping and making sure they didn't make eye contact with the flaky princess.
Naruto mechanically ran forward again, ducking under a slap from the harisen, he tripped Asuna before kicking her towards Setsuna who had to jump up to catch the flying girl.
While the other two were busy he turned his attention towards a grinning Konoka, "My, my, aren't you aggressive today..."
"Konoka... Just... make me faint. Do not molest my body again."
In response the girl pouted before throwing gusts of cold wind at him, trying to at least slow or freeze the blonde, Naruto ducked under one blast before jumping over another, steadily making his way towards the girl in miko uniform.
When Konoka saw that her attacks weren't making much of an effort she stowed the fans away before drawing two steel ones from the seal on the back of her neck. These were her only melee combat weapons. Steel fans with razor sharp edges when opened, made specifically for her by Naruto. Naruto's body immediately drew a small knife to parry the girl's vertical slash before ducking a harisen from behind.
"Stand still you idiot! How are we supposed to make you unconscious if you keep dodging!"
"I can't help it dammit! Wait, attack me! I'm about to jump!"
And jump he did, avoiding a reverse side cut from Setsuna who had dashed into the fray, straight into a sideways head smack from the harisen before Konoka landed a direct axe kick that sent him rocketing into the ground.
"Fufufu... at least now we know how to deal with him... Can I play now?"
"Konoka-ojou sama..."
Asuna glared at the groaning Naruto before replying, "Play? How do you plan on playing? The idiot's gonna keep trying to kiss Honya-chan, we should hit him with everything we got right now."
"Hm hmm...it doesnt hurt to try..." Konoka smiled slyly before stepping forward, "Neh... Naruto-sensei... I wish you would tell me if you liked touching mine and Asuna's boobs."
Asuna immediately spluttered loudly.
Everyone looked to the side and saw the World Tree glow slightly before emitting another pillar of light.
Naruto looked up and groaned, "This is not my da-"
The pillar of light slammed into him.
Negi who had been hiding behind a table beside Nodoka while clutching his ass slowly stepped out, feeling more confident now that they seemed to be able to control Naruto.
When they could see again, they found Naruto squirming on the floor, one hand clamping his mouth shut while the other tried to pry it off. From their position they could tell that he was screaming something but it was muffled by his hand.
Asuna couldn't help the slight grin despite blushing at the rather personal question, it served the bastard right. This was divine payback for his torturous training. She nudged Setsuna who couldn't help the grin as well.
"Mmpmmh!"
Konoka leered at the blonde from the safety of her position, "What was that? I can't hear you Naruto. Speak up!"
"Mmmppphhes!"
"Louder!"
His hand was slowly being pulled back while Naruto's panicked eyes roved around for any exits for a strategic retreat. Unfortunately...
"Yeess... they were very soft and firm." A slight squeak escaped his traitorous lips as the blonde blushed furiously, just then his body leapt up and started towards Nodoka again.
"Wha! He's still trying to kiss Honya-chan! Stop him dammit." All four of them leapt to intercept the blonde who was crying anime tears.
"Someone KILL me! This is soo embarrassing."
"Fufufu, neh Asuna, do you think we could override that kiss Nodoka command somehow?" Konoka whispered at the red head as she blocked a punch with her fans. Even when he couldn't control it, simply blocking his blows really hurt, Konoka reminded herself.
"How?" Asuna urgently whispered as she flailed her harisen at the blonde, keeping him off balance for Setsuna to dash in guerrilla style and for Negi to throw spell after spell at the blonde.
The blonde dodged everything before landing in a handstand in the midst of the three girls and fired of rapid kicks to everyone in range, Asuna who was the slowest of Naruto's three students couldn't get away in time and barely managed to blocked a direct blow with her fan, "Dammit blondie, if you're going so far just to kiss Honya-chan, I'd like to see you kiss a girl you actually like." She grunted as she withstood the force of the kick.
The World Tree flared up brightly as everyone turned as one to stare incredulously at Asuna. She looked dumbstruck, "I didn't mean that! It wasn't a wish!"
"Asuna-san!"
"Ma, ma, I was going to ask something to that effect anyway. You just did it faster. But i never knew you were so brave Asuna-chan."
"Whats going on here?" a regal voice interrupted the dumbstruck party. All of them, Naruto excluded looked up to see at least 8 people, including a blonde in black standing on a roof, a cute red headed girl beside her and a few other familiar faces.
"Takane-san, Mei-san! Seryuhiko-sensei! Gandolfini-sensei!" Negi breathed in relief, it would be easier to get Naruto now, even while his head was whining and shouting instructions at them, his body was far more than capable of slipping away from their attacks, even by the smallest margin. It was infuriating how the tall blonde could bounce, spin and twist in mid air like that. Just then the largest pillar of light so far slammed forcefully into the roof, blowing everyone that was near ground zero back.
The teachers who had just arrived struggled against the gale force winds, "What's going on? I thought you would have learned your lesson about rules Negi-san." Her tone was one of imperious disdain, showing her disapproval of the situation as she reached Negi's side.
"There was an accident. A girl was about to confess to me. Naruto interrupted me in time, but in return he was accidentally confessed to instead. From there things sort of... uh... spiralled?"
Takane looked disbelievingly at the small boy, "Spiralled? We all felt the flare of magical energy once. We thought it was settled because You were near here. Instead we feel another damn flare from the World Tree, worried we all left our posts to see what was happening and you say this was an accident?" behind the furious blonde girl her mage co-workers nodded solemnly while Mei quietly put Nodoka to sleep before taking her somewhere safe. A civilian had no place in a mage battle was what her Onee-sama would say.
"And now, we arrive to find yet another flare, and this time it's so big people are bound notice no matter how dumb they are!"
Play Yuki Kajiura – Song of Storm and Fire
Just then the flare receded to show a stationary Naruto.
Asuna stepped forward warily, "Na-naruto?" Something was very wrong.
He turned to face her, but this time his eyes were blank, "Wish understood."
Far faster than he was at first the blonde disappeared from his spot. Asuna's neck prickled as time seemed to stop and an overwhelming feeling appeared behind her but she couldn't move fast enough to beat him back, her body seemed to freeze and for those few microseconds she could feel his hands reaching out to grab her only for a shadow fist to throw him away roughly. The blonde flipped through the air and landed completely unruffled.
Asuna fell to her knees, so this was Naruto when he had no reason to hold back? No... this wasn't all the blonde could do. The realization made her shiver a little. For that one instant, the feel of his gaze on her neck felt like something completely inhuman was bearing down on her. He hadn't even used his presence then, it was all him, nothing but the force of his personality, attitude and skills. It felt like something implacable.
The blonde looked around, even enthralled his blank eyes burned with calculating intelligence, "15 opponents confirmed." He snapped his fingers. 'Tenkuu no Tenbin.'
Eeveryone froze completely, not one finger twitched as the blonde watched them with purple blazing eyes.
"Wha-what is this?" Someone shouted, Gandolfini replied with gritted teeth, "I don't know, but he can freeze anyone he likes, he did this before on our missions."
Setsuna forced herself to calm down and extended her presence to fight his technique, it lifted his freezing effect enough for her to move and it calmed her down enough to make thinking easier, internally she promised to apologize to Naruto for revealing his secrets later, "Keep fighting! He can only freeze more than 10 people for 30 seconds maximum. He won't be able to use this technique for another 15 minutes after that!"
She dashed at him, using the tactics he had taught her, hit and run against superior opponents, but every time right before her blade neared him her entire body slowed enough for him to simply side step her, she jumped back and tried again, only for the same feeling to dull her blade and slow her movements enough for the blonde to kick her back roughly with a snap kick. This was crazy, she knew he could do this, but he had never shown her and she never truly believed him until now. Such power and he still claimed he was limited. The realization made her shiver a little. It was the way he fought, skills and power was important but with Naruto, there was an added facet to battles. He played with the mind. His moves and parlour tricks, despite the mundane way he labelled them, were designed to make his opponents feel weak, utterly inadequate, he slowly brought you to ruin, and it made you feel like your defeat was already decided. No matter strong you were it was useless, when your fists suddenly felt heavy and slow. It felt like defeat was inevitable.
The blonde in the mean time had just stood stationary, surveying everybody there before six equally stoic clones split away from the main body, five of them leapt away while the sixth retreated to a safe spot.
"He made clones! They're getting away!" one of the teachers shouted unnecessarily.
Gandolfini grunted before successfully moving his limbs again, "His spell ended! Five of you chase after his clones!" a few of the newcomers nodded but before they could follow the clones that had jumped away they were intercepted in mid air by a thick wall of earth.
Rejoining the rest, all of them charged at the blonde simultaneously only for him to draw in a breath and fire multiple fire balls in a spread shot before stomping his foot, causing lightning to ripple outwards from his feet in a dangerous arc.
"Gwah! He can use spells without chanting!"
This time Konoka shouted, "That's not it, it's that clone!" she pointed to the sixth one who had remained as she leapt to the air to avoid the ground lightning attack and twisted to dodge a few fireballs, "That clone chants and channels the energy to the original to release whenever he wants!"
Well not really chant, more like make handsigns but she kept that fact to herself. The blonde had showed her the way he fought with his equivalent of spells to allow her to practice against another mage sort off. His jutsu was faster than spells, more flexible, more potent and his arsenal was incredible, spanning over the 5 major elements except light and dark. When she told him that she wondered why he never used them he had smiled at her, a chilling smile, and said there was no reason for him to use them. Then he had split into 100 clones. Each one of them fired one spell simultaneously, from every angle, every element and each spell was fast and powerful and his grand finale, a great screeching orb. The barrier he was using at the time completely disintegrated and yet her best spells never managed to even dent that thing. She understood why, had he wanted to he could have just bombarded everything straight to hell. But he preferred to play around. The realization made her shiver a little.
Asuna who had simply punched the floor with enough brute force to create a rampart of cement, protecting her and a few of the slower teachers from the lightning and fire attacks, grunted before smashing the cement wall with her harisen causing it to rain deadly cement on the clone.
Once she confirmed her attack had hit she shouted out, "The clone is gone, knock the original out only, he doesn't know what his doing!"
A few of the teachers were slightly startled at being commanded by a middle schoolgirl but showed no further hesitance in following her orders.
Setsuna concentrated on dodging the attacks before dashing in to cut the blonde bit by bit before jumping back out of the danger zone, "Damn, what's going on? He didn't react this way earlier when the other wishes were made!"
A tinkling laughter answered her question, everyone looked up to see a small blonde girl sitting casually out of range, sipping some sake, "The other wishes weren't something he wanted to do so he could resist those partly, and I would applaud him for his strength of will, but now, he can't resist precisely because it's something he wants to do."
"Evangeline-sensei! What are you doing here?"
The vampire snorted, "Even the blind and deaf could sense the huge amounts of spells being used and the flare of magic in this area, others are already converging in this area. I just thought it would be fun to watch and arrived first."
She smiled evilly, "And I wasn't wrong on both counts."
Shadows leapt above her as reinforcements arrived. It seemed like every teacher or magically aware person in Mahora was here, drawn by the huge flare released by the World Tree barely seconds ago.
"Crystallizatio Tellustris!"
"Capteus Flammeus!"
Several other restraining spells hit Naruto and rooted the blonde to the spot.
A blonde woman in a suit landed next to Gandolfini, "What happened? We thought sending 10 of you in would be more than enough to suppress whatever caused the second flare. When the third flare hit we got worried and I decided to mobilize every spare mage we had as well."
Gandolfini sighed in relief, "Touko, glad you could make it. We didn't get here in time. Someone was confessing and Naruto-sama tried to stop it, he was only partly successful. Instead of the original recipient, he was hit instead. From there, we tried another wish to cancel the first one but it only made things worse."
Asuna quietly decided to not let Gandolfini know the true version of events and gave a quiet sheepish chuckle as an apology.
Just then with a roar, Naruto broke free of his binds.
Most of those present gulped at the display of pure power, enough to rip at least 7 restraining spells apart in fifteen seconds.
The blonde didn't react; he just stood stoically watching everyone that stood before him before speaking in a mechanical tone again, "Opponent count exceeds twenty person limit. Switching to anti-personnel tactics." He pulled out a card and intoned, "Adeat"
Everyone tensed and readied themselves as they saw the blonde, now clad in a red trenchcoat and a white mask that was no better than his previous blank expression; heft a rifle in his hands.
"A-a sniper rifle? And what does he mean anti-personnel? He can't snipe all of us at once."
Negi paled at the words, he had a fair idea of what was about to happen but before he could make a move, Naruto spun the rifle in his hands and spoke again.
"Vindice Deux, aim at the stars and strike them down."
The rifle blurred into a very familiar bulky canon.
"Oh crap." Without another word Negi burst forwards and fired of a 'Fulguratio Albicans' at the blonde's head.
"Wha-what are you doing Negi? That was a lethal attack!" Asuna demanded from her homeroom teacher. Negi didn't let up; instead he activated his Cantus Bellax and engaged Naruto in melee combat before shouting over his shoulder, "Listen to me! Do NOT let him fire that thing! It will decimate at least an entire block easily!"
All the teachers present paled before jumping at the blonde.
"His weapon requires him to stand still for at least 3 seconds to charge a shot at lowest power, anything longer than that and this block will go up in smoke! If he manages to fire it off, use your strongest defensive spells and then attack him as soon as you can, the canon has a 6 second cool down cycle before he can charge another shot! Just keep him busy and use lethal attacks, anything weaker than that he will just brush off or dodge easily!"
Flashback
"Bwahaha! Good. Very good Negi!" a blonde yelled from within the forest of stone. "I can tell you're learning."
The two of them were practicing in Evangeline's resort again, a day after Naruto's lecture to them in class.
"But since I was the one to give you the answer, I don't think it's fair that you should get off so easily, don't you agree? So I'll just have to take this up a notch."
"Up a notch?" a confused voice asked him from somewhere else in the rock forest.
Naruto smiled, "Yes, Vindice Deux! Aim for the stars and strike them down!" he roared.
"Wha-what?" Negi frantically looked around but couldn't see anything and finally realized that Naruto had purposely given him a tactic that had its ups and downs and was fully expecting him to fall into the trap instead of figuring out another way or at least circumventing the inherent weakness of not being able to see your opponent, especially if he's better at stealth than you are.
Before he could calm down and sense Naruto's position, a huge beam roared out from his left, decimating any stone spike in its way and barely missing him by a few metres.
Negi fell to his bum, his knees failed to support him as he stared dumbly at the wide trench that was at least five feet across and only got wider as it went.
"And that... Is the next level." A voice spoke from beside him, he looked up to see his nii-san carrying the canon from Kyoto on his shoulder. "This time, your opponent has the same base stats and his attacks are still linear. But unlike last time, they are unblockable. Now to your feet Negi. In situations like this, watch your opponent carefully. Powerful attacks, unlike my normal attacks where I can fire anytime I want without pause, always have a time between firing and recharging. Your job... is to look for that pause and learning the most effective way of taking the advantage during that short window of opportunity. This is a weakness many mages share but most of them have methods to counter that weakness, so I'll be countering your efforts myself."
He heard the sound of something humming again and paled as he correctly assumed that monster his nii-san was carrying was charging.
He only spared enough breath to mutter one word as he scrambled away.
"Shit."
End Flashback
"Shit."
Negi muttered as Naruto danced away from another of his spells before spinning in mid air, causing two spells that were about to hit him from opposing sides completely miss and nearly hit a mage on each side.
Naruto's natural evasiveness was insane, quickly thinking he called out a warning before quickly turning the ground underneath Naruto to mud, causing the blonde to slip slightly when he inevitably landed, just enough for the blonde female teacher to run a blade through his left arm, causing Naruto to drop his rifle.
Negi winced, nii-san was going to kick his arse later if he remembered any of this, but before anything else could be done, the blonde seemingly ignoring the blade in his left arm had lifted the teacher and thrown her into a group of chanting mages before appearing right in front of a crouching Negi with a foot poised to stomp on the boy.
Instead the blonde was tackled by Asuna, he didn't fall but the foot that was meant to stomp his head in, hit the floor 3 centimetres short of his family jewels.
Negi gulped. He still needed those dammit. Grasping the foot in front of him tightly in a bear hug, Negi chanted frantically and released a point blank 'Jovis Tempestas Fulguriens', he was shocked as well since he was in contact with the target but gritted his teeth and endured the sensation of thousands of needles piercing his skin.
Everybody else shielded their eyes from the bright flash and subsequent explosion, partially happy since that someone had finally landed the first direct hit on the evasive blonde, and partially horrified that two of their colleagues was probably badly injured, including Naruto.
When the dust finally cleared everyone stared in disbelief as the red clad blonde strode out of the dust cloud, slightly charred but otherwise completely fine and simply cricked his neck as if that spell had merely itched. Negi was lying face down on the floor behind the blonde but was still conscious since he was struggling to get up.
Setsuna grunted, "So this is what it feels like to finally fight Naruto-sensei when he isn't holding back at all?"
Asuna chuckled grimly from beside her, "Nope. I know he still has at least a few tricks left. Remember his style in Kyoto and his other form? Yeah... we're not even pushing him anywhere near that, 30 teachers, 5 teenagers and we're still getting our butts kicked. Badly. Where is Takahata-sensei anyway? I bet he could beat Naruto."
Konoka laughed slightly as she joined the conversation, "Forget Takahata, you sooo owe us lunch for this, and by the time we're done, you won't have enough money to go on a date with him."
Asuna reddened slightly, "You were going to do it anyway, so it's not entirely my fault! Why are we fighting anyway? It's just a kiss right?" she shot back and blushed even harder when she realized exactly what she had said.
Setsuna laughed and pointed at a blank faced Naruto that still managed to look menacing, "If he manages to get those lips on you, I don't think he'd stop until he sucks every bit of air out of your lungs."
Konoka and Asuna gulped knowing full well they were very possible targets.
With Clone 1
Naruto leapt away from the original, his eyes blank, set on the vampire watching the proceedings casually from her perch. Landing beside her he just waited for the vampire to acknowledge her. She looked up at him in confusion, "What are you doing here? Aren't you supposed to go kiss people you like?"
The blonde stalked closer with a menacingly blank face causing Evangeline to backpedal, "Wa-wait! What are you doing?"
Naruto lunged at her before she could start chanting a spell or defend herself, she was so surprised that she didn't evade the blonde.
Naruto slammed her hands up on the wall and pushed her body against the wall before leaning down, Evangeline's face steadily burned redder and redder until his face was inches away.
She screwed her eyes shut, not believing what was about to happen until she felt lips brush across her forehead.
Her eyes snapped open in complete surprise and stared at the blonde's eyes which suddenly had a glimmer of life in them, "Even if you don't think you deserve it, I still care for you, my little sister. You have already repented enough even if everybody else doesn't believe it and even if you don't know how to show it. I will always believe in and care for you."
He brushed his lips against her forehead again before letting the limp vampire slide down the wall onto her rump and watch the blonde clone leap away again.
Staring at her palms, she didn't know what to make of the jumble of emotions burning in her chest.
With Clone 2
The clone landed in the clearing casually before strolling to the field, casually dispersing the other clone that was still there and taking its place.
Chizuru who was still leaning against the tree and stroking some of the sleeping children's hair with Akako on her lap looked up with a weird expression; there was a change in atmosphere that she couldn't explain. "Naruto? Is something wrong?"
Naruto turned his blank eyes on her and responded, "Not really. But I do have a request if you do not mind."
Chizuru looked strangely at the blonde, "And what might this request entail?"
"This." Was all he said before lunging forward, pressing Chizuru's body to the tree and molding his against hers before capturing her lips.
Chizuru eyes widened in shock and she struggled futilely for a few seconds, waking a sleeping Akako up in the process, but soon her body went limp as her hands went around Naruto's neck to support the weight that her knees no longer seemed to be able to take.
Sad to say the kiss was cold and mechanical and when Naruto removed his lips to look down at the panting girl his eyes were still blank. Chizuru took deep breaths before doing something unexpected, she grinned slyly at the blonde, "If you're going to kiss me, you're going to do it properly. That barely counted." Her arms that were snuggled around his neck tightened and pulled his lips back down. The clone yelped at the sudden move before his lips were occupied again.
A glimmer of life entered his eyes and with a grin, his kisses became more passionate as he started to nibble her lower lip slightly. His hands stroked her sides as their bodies melded together even more snugly and Chizuru moaned slightly as her fingers roamed his scalp and back.
Before anything could go further a slight retching sound disturbed them, both of them snapped apart to see a group of kids that weren't asleep mock retching. Chizuru smiled very sweetly at them and they all immediately somehow fell asleep on the spot. Akako didn't notice; she was too busy staring at her father with her jaw hitting the ground. What the hell was he kissing the nice lady for?
"Otou-san?"
The clone smiled at her before sweeping her off her feet and smothering her face and tiny palms with kisses, causing the small girl to giggle delightedly, "I love you, my precious daughter," and smothered her with even more kisses.
"I love you too Otou-san!" the girl hugged him tightly.
Chizuru just smiled gently at the father daughter pair before furtively touching her pleasantly puffy lips.
It didn't mean she wasn't going to get an explanation out of him though. With force if it came to that.
With Clone 3
Makie sighed as she slumped on her desk, her shift at the Haunted House had just ended and her feet hurt, her legs hurt from standing all day, the kimono chaffed slightly since she wasn't wearing anything under it and it was rather heavy and hot to boot.
Pouting to herself slightly she wondered what Negi-sensei was doing, her homeroom teacher hadn't shown up the whole day after his first visit this morning. Slightly depressed she let her face drop flat on the cool wooden surface only for a cold sensation to suddenly brush the back of her neck.
Yelping slightly she jumped out of her seat in panic before spinning around to see Naruto casually leaning on the wall beside her with a cold can of coffee in his hand. she guessed that was what the cold feeling was.
"Yo, good work today. The Haunted House is really popular."
Grabbing the offered can she popped the tab before knocking a deep gulp back and sighing in satisfaction as the cool feeling flooded her insides.
The two of them leaned against the wall and Makie allowed herself to slump slightly into Naruto's side. The clone just smiled as a glimmer of life sparked in his eyes and placed a gentle kiss on her head before sitting down and letting her sleep on him if her quiet snores and snuffles were anything to go by.
With Clone 4
Ayaka looked down at the sleeping Negi on her lap with a gentle smile. Hearing him call her onee-chan had warmed her heart to the core. Sometimes she regretted being close to Negi, sometimes when she was alone, she even contemplated changing schools because of how she would imagine how life would have been if that hadnt happened... That always made her feel guilty even if her heart skipped a few beats at him smiling at her; knowing that she was just replacing Negi with her little brother. It just felt wrong...
Because he wasn't working for her affection of his own merits, and even when he did tug at her heart strings because of something touching or sincere that he did, her thoughts would inevitably turn to how much he looked like her little brother. And how life might have been.
She didn't want to resent her family. It was wrong.
Two arms jolted her out of her melancholy as they wrapped around her neck from behind. Jumping slightly in her seat, but not enough to wake Negi-sensei up, she tried to throw the person who was touching her violently over her shoulder.
Unfortunately the person didn't even budge when she gripped his arm.
"Calm down, it's just me bondage girl." She immediately relaxed and laughed slightly, it was weird how she never identified the blonde any other way, she could see blonde hair and never think about him, never see blue eyes and think about him. As dumb as it sounded, the only thing that reminded her of him was the words 'bondage girl.' Although she had to admit it was surprising how the way he popped out of nowhere to harass her didn't even bother her anymore, though she kept up the pretence because bickering with him was fun in a twisted way.
"What are you doing here idiot? Weren't you busy with something?"
"Yeah, but I wanted to see how you were doing when I found you acting all sappy here alone in the park."
Ayaka huffed, hiding her embarrassment with pride, "Why the hell would you want to see me? I'm not someone you need to be worried about."
"Meh, if I said I didn't care about you at all I would be lying."
"Wha-what are you saying here of all times baka!" Ayaka hissed angrily while her cheeks burnt brilliantly.
"What? Is it wrong to care for a friend?" Ayaka blushed even brighter for overreacting and huffed again before the both of them fell silent and despite herself, she allowed her head to lean back onto his shoulder with a small smile as a breeze scattered maple leaves all around them while Negi snuffled a little in her lap and Kotarou snored to the side.
"Oh my... what a cute family... do you mind if I take a picture of this? You remind me of myself when I was young and in love with my husband."
Ayaka looked up to see an elderly woman with a soft smile holding up a camera, she was about to protest when the arms around her neck squeezed gently and the blonde behind her replied for her, "We don't mind. But if possible please don't use the flash. Our son is still asleep."
Ayaka's blush went deeper, their son? Discreetly she pinched the arms around her neck but he didn't show any signs of discomfort, in fact he leaned even closer till their cheeks were side by side. Ayaka desperately tried to keep her blush down, if she didn't, the blonde would feel the heat with how close he was to her. Damn that bastard for being able to make her all sappy like this so easily.
"Smile."
Just as the flash went off she felt something brush her cheek.
Her mind blanked as she realized exactly what had happened. The arms squeezed her gently again before unwinding and their owner disappeared like the autumn breeze.
Dumbly she stared at the sleeping boy on her lap; she didn't know what else to think or do to fill the emptiness in her mind. Though she did note when he left, it suddenly felt a lot colder.
Her mind rebooted just in time to hear the chattering old lady walk away with one last comment to her husband, "Such a young couple but the way they seemed so close, so peaceful. It was beautiful. But I wonder if one of their parents had red hair. Both of them were blonde but their son was red headed."
Ayaka Yukihiro blanked again but before she did she swore to pound the blonde male as punishment for this.
With Clone 5
Naruto dropped down roof to a bell tower where a single person stood at the very top. She seemed to be enjoying the breeze while caressing a pendant or something in her hands.
"Penny for your thoughts?"
"Make it 10 million and I might say something." She replied just as fast as she looked at the tall blonde that reminded her of memories best buried, with a small smile.
"Where's Negi? I thought he was here with you?"
"Negi-sensei has already left, he was meeting up with somebody I think,"
"Ahh... I see."
Naruto just walked closer until Mana looked at him strangely over her shoulder, something was wrong with his aura, but he just kept closing in on her.
When she finally realized he had no intention of stopping he had already intruded her personal space and leaned on her when he froze, the unmistakable feeling of having the cold barrel of a gun nudging his privates.
"I'm surprised at you, Naruto-san. I didn't think you were this careless."
"I'm usually not," the clone admitted, "At the moment I'm somewhat enthralled and it's rather hard to think with what the magic is urging me to do. The orders me and my original received was to show affection to people we cared about, but knowing someone has a gun to your balls is usually enough to snap you out of a daze. Magic or not..."
Mana forcefully pushed down a blush at the rather frank way he had said he cared for her, "Oh?" she pushed the gun harder, digging it slightly into his skin causing the clone to wince, "And in what way, pray tell, were you about to show affection to me?"
"Like this," He side stepped out of the gun's line of fire before nudging his knee between hers and tried to flip the half demon girl onto her back, only for her to twist in mid fall and land on all her knees before snapping her head up only for his lips to capture hers. Mana stiffened at the sensation before the pleasant sensation drove all thought away.
The blonde wrapped his arms around her waist and hoisted her up without breaking the kiss and Mana responded furiously, a fact that she absently noted and would later on be more surprised at rather than the fact that she had been kissed.
Soon, tired of letting him being so dominant she pushed the blonde back against the wall and took the initiative, for her first kiss, it really wasn't so bad.
Pulling apart, the mercenary grinned slightly at the dazed look on Naruto's face before burying her face in his chest to hide the blush she suddenly failed to stop, "You owe me for that. It was my first kiss and I was saving it for somebody else." Her voice was muffled by the cloth of Naruto's trenchcoat.
Naruto grinned, "Its worth more than anything I own," just as he bent down to capture her lips again, Mana fired a shot into his thigh. It wasn't a real bullet, simply a rubber one, she meant it as a warning that another kiss would cost even more but she definitely wasn't expecting him to puff away.
Staring at where the clone was barely seconds ago she gathered her wits again, "Tch. I'll claim the money later."
She turned back to her original position and unruffled her white silky dress. Looking down at the still open pendant she smiled softly before snapping it shut and breathing the evening breeze deeply.
With Clone 1
The clone quietly slipped into the cottage, Chachamaru's signature told him that she was cooking something in the kitchen. Presumably dinner for Evangeline, him and Akako before she had to leave for her club activities.
Quietly he snuck into the kitchen and leaned in the doorway as Chachamaru quietly chopped some onions on a board with a little more force than necessary, not that he noticed. Smiling softly as his eyes shone brightly with mischief, he tiptoed behind her before wrapping his arms around her waist. She didn't skip a beat, and Naruto pouted, "You already knew I was coming?"
"Yes. I felt the flare or magic and when it merged with your signature I assumed someone had confessed to you and you had succumbed to the World Tree, though I do not know what the contents of the wish was." There was a slight tilt in her inflection that made confused Naruto. She didn't seem too pleased with something.
Deciding he would ask her about it later, he continued nuzzling her neck which felt warmer than usual and chuckled quietly, "Do you want to know?"
"Um... ye-yes."
Spinning the housewife kimono wearing gynoid around, he peppered soft kisses under her jaw, "The wish was for me to show affection to those I love."
She definitely skipped a beat there, the clone grinned and pushed his advantage, pushing her against the sink he kissed her forcefully while his hands stroked her back and sides.
Chachamaru let out a quiet squeak but the shy reaction was contradictory to the rest of her actions; her hands fisted his clothes, not letting him go as she returned the kiss just as fiercely. Finally leaning back onto the sink, their lips parted and Chachamaru suddenly understood how people who were out of breath felt. Wait, what was she angry about again? She couldn't remember.
Anyway, it wasn't too bad and she hoped for a repeat performance.
For purely academic purposes only of course.
Naruto grinned at the gynoid's red cheeks and her uncharacteristic shyness before lifting her chin up with one hand and laid another mind shattering kiss on her lips.
It didn't take very long for the gynoid to go completely limp in his hands. Moving back slightly, Naruto stared incredulously at the gynoid.
She had completely blacked out with a goofy grin on her usually stoic lips.
Forming another clone to finish her cooking, he carried the fainted girl to their futon and decided to keep her company until she woke up. Doubtfully she wouldn't be pleased he had screwed up her schedule.
With the Original
Mismatched eyes swivelled around the battlefield frantically.
Konoka was lying in a heap on the ground where she would be safe.
Setsuna was also nothing more than a lump of flesh beside Konoka.
Nearly 30 teachers lay about in various states of consciousness, most of them were simply exhausted, some of the more unfortunate ones were unconscious by force. She winced at the one teacher that she didn't know, who was still planted halfway through a brick wall with his butt hanging grotesquely where everyone could see it. The idiot had decided enough was enough and had cast a powerful Fire High Ancient area spell at where Konoka, Setsuna and a few others were tangling with Naruto. Naruto had taken one look at the oncoming rush of fire before flashing right in front of the guy, flared his presence to the max, suffocating almost everyone in the vicinity in the process and roared at the spell in defiance (Asuna rubbed her eyes at that moment, she swore the flames had somehow managed to shrink and look scared) before taking the entire attack head on rather than allow Konoka and some others to get hurt despite his enthralled state.
Then he had proceeded to kick the fat teacher so hard that he had gone through the wall.
No one else had enough balls to try another possibly lethal AOE spell after that.
When that was done, he had flashed back to a Setsuna that was a still stunned at him blocking a High Ancient spell, wrapped his arms around the swordsgirl, transformed into an adult Konoka look-alike and started whispering something into her ears. Needless to say, Setsuna lost and was out like a light in 5 seconds.
Asuna conveniently ignored the awesome nosebleed Setsuna had spurted into the face of five teachers before fainting. The five teachers were then knocked out one by one since they couldn't see.
After placing Setsuna where she was safe, Naruto had returned to the battlefield and tripped a still stunned Konoka. Stunned at the method used to take out her personal bodyguard so easily that is. Before she could defend herself Naruto had split into two, one grabbed the princess and kissed her furiously while the other clone kept the rest at bay.
Konoka had resisted at first, although Asuna was rather suspicious since it didn't seem like she was fighting the kiss too hard.
In fact after the blonde had wrapped his arms around the girl and whispered something in her ear while licking her ear lobe, Asuna could almost swear that instead of being kissed, Konoka was the one who had grabbed Naruto by the ears and kissed him.
No... she must have seen wrong. Fog of War and all that jazz.
Then the blonde had proceeded to do something with his fingers that were running up and down Konoka's body lewdly, the princess let out a quiet eep and completely fainted.
The last man standing against Naruto, or rather boy, had been Negi, and they had both fought, magic and fists against magic and fists. Both of them kept using stranger and stranger and more and more outlandish tactics as the battle dragged on. At one point Negi had clambered up on to Naruto and tired to smother Naruto to death by covering Naruto's face with his body before Naruto retaliated by literally transforming into a sea of naked girls with bouncing boobs and squashed Negi in marshmallow hell, it didn't work, mostly because the boy was desensitized by it, but the bouncing distractions had allowed for Naruto to perform an ass poke that defeated Negi. No wait she didn't see anything, she didn't want to see anything. Negi had just fainted all of a sudden.
Yes that's right...
And so they were here now, only her against Naruto. Well not really against especially since he had already disarmed her of her harisen.
She was going to pound his head in.
Well she would've if her hands weren't being pinned by the wrist above her to the wall by one of Naruto's arm while his other arm placed feather light touches up, down and along her side and back.
Asuna shivered. Oh god, she was going to get corrupted like Konoka. And right now her muddled brain didn't know if that was a good thing or a bad thing.
Her mind blanked as Naruto's lips drew nearer to her face and she shut her eyes tightly, not wanting to see Naruto forcing himself on her.
For a few seconds nothing happened when she felt something wet drip on her shoulder.
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Carefully peeking out from under her eyelids she saw that Naruto had completely bypassed her lips and smashed his forehead so hard on the wall behind her that his mask had shattered. The wall wasn't much better, in fact it was crumbling and it seemed like only Naruto's hands was holding the whole thing up from collapsing completely. Blood dripped from the wound on his forehead as his hands fell to his sides limply and he slid down, before he fainted he managed to whisper a quiet "Sorry." and a chaste peck on the cheek before his eyes shut completely and he fell on her.
Struggling under his weight, she fell to her knees, still utterly stunned.
A teacher that had his face planted in the ground suddenly perked up and asked a very quiet whisper, "Is it over? Are we safe?"
Gandolfini looked at him weirdly, "I thought you were unconscious?"
"Ahaha..." the teacher laughed sheepishly before helping another teacher up.
Gandolfini with his arm around Seruhiko's shoulder limped up to the blonde and a still stunned Asuna.
The stunned girl finally regained enough presence of mind to mutter an apology, "Sorry for all the trouble. I'll make sure the idiot apologizes and fixes everything." She mumbled, her eyes fixed on the blonde that was now sleeping peacefully on her lap.
Gandolfini laughed loudly, "It's alright. If anything I think we're the ones that have to thank you. This fight has shown us that a lot of us have been slacking off from practice, especially ever since he started taking a major role in guarding the Mahora barrier, fighting against the 'Black Paladin' himself was a great opportunity as well. We never knew exactly what he was capable of, even when he was on missions with us and his mysteriousness made a lot of people uncomfortable around him, so this was a true eye opener."
Konoka limped up to Asuna with Setsuna and Negi, "Black Paladin?" she questioned quietly.
Gandolfini laughed sheepishly, "Naruto-sama doesn't know it, not many dare to call him that to his face but his actions on missions has earned him the moniker Black Paladin among the wider mage population because of his actions. He always fights what for what is right regardless of the rules and protocol, hence the Paladin, but his methods and results are rather... disturbing and he usually dresses completely in dark colours, hence the Black."
Then the dark skinned mage added with a wry smile, "And believe me, even though his intentions are good, the fact that he always did what he wanted regardless of protocol drove Touko, Mahora's Mage Association's Head of Operations," he gestured at the shouting blonde woman behind him," up the wall so many times that most of us even started a betting pool about when she would finally snap and beat him into the ground or kiss him silly,"
Negi realized something, "Missions? What missions? He never even missed one class even if he just sleeps in them, so how did he go?"
Gandolfini shrugged, "I guess he uses that clone technique he has. The missions I'm talking about are those that usually involve arguments between Eastern and Western mages because of his ambassador status; to date he has already gone on at least 15 missions and stopped 26 illegal intrusions into Mahora with his improved barriers and skills." He looked at the five teenagers weirdly, "Didn't you know? I thought he would have told you seeing as you're his homeroom teacher."
Negi glared at the unconscious blonde, "Oh, we didn't know, but we'll make him tell us once he wakes up. In fact I think I'll hit him just for not telling us." All three girls agreed readily.
Gandolfini waved them farewell as the groaning mages regrouped under the blonde female's orders and left in a staggering group, surprisingly enough there were no true injuries whatsoever, simply bruises and concussions. The worst was of course the rather plump teacher, but he wasn't complaining. Scratch that, he was going to buy a nice wheelchair and retire as soon as possible. He had nearly hurt innocents and a girl in front of Naruto. People who did that had the tendency to suddenly develope an all consuming urge to spend the rest of their lives braiding their hair, playing with dolls and having tea parties. And that was if they were lucky enough to catch him on a good day.
Negi sat down beside the quiet Asuna with a groan before poking the limp Naruto, "I'm late for my ... date... shit where's Nodoka-san!"
Konoka smiled and pointed to where Mei had left a sleeping Nodoka in safety.
Negi healed himself as best as he could and scrambled off to waken Nodoka and finish his date.
Sighing at the rushing Negi, Konoka and Setsuna just slumped down on the wall beside Asuna and Konoka nudged the quiet Asuna slightly, "What's going on in that head of yours? You're being quieter than usual."
Asuna looked at Konoka with a troubled expression; "It's nothing..." the red head hesitated for a bit before sighing tiredly and started to rant, "The bastard always seemed to be just there you know. I mean we knew he was powerful but he never acted like it. He was always just there with the group, joking around, training us, sleeping in class like a moron, teasing Makie and Ayaka to the point where it looked like they were frothing at the mouth and all around being an utter goof ball and now we find out this bastard has been going out on missions? And that at least half of the magically aware population are scared shitless of this idiot? Then that fight... I mean, it really drives the point home that he is powerful. Not to mention, I thought we were close and then we find this out. It makes me wonder, do we really know who Naruto is? And if we don't, how much hasn't he told us?"
Asuna cocked one fist, wanting to slam it into that peacefully sleeping face but slowly her fist unclenched as she hesitated before lowering to caress his whisker birthmarks, "Why won't he tell us anything Konoka? I thought we were friends, if not friends than at least allies after Kyoto, or a teacher after he trained us." she asked with a soft tone before continuing her angry rant again, "It's so infuriating you know! It's just like that time Negi pissed me off because he didn't want us to get involved, and now we find out Naruto has been doing the exact same thing, only... only... quieter? No subtler. Yeah, only subtler, and he had the balls to lecture me about it. Kiii, thinking about makes me want to hit him even worse now!"
Konoka smiled gently before running her hands through the blonde's soft hair, "That's the fun part isn't it? We'll keep finding out about him, peel away layer by layer, I don't know about you, but it makes me feel that everything I do with him is worth it, so when the time comes, I can... Kyah..!"
Asuna and Setsuna both looked at the squirming princess and simultaneously decided they didn't want to know and gave them plausible deniability.
Setsuna looked at the sleeping blonde's visage and spoke, "I suppose it's just the way he and Negi-sensei are. They don't want us to get hurt, so they burden everything by themselves. They have a reason to get stronger. Maybe they didn't do it on purpose, but when I saw Negi fight Naruto toe to toe, when I saw how much Naruto-sensei has been hiding from us, I don't know why, but I can't find it in myself to get angry that he's hiding stuff from us, instead to me, it just means that I have a long way to go, that I have to get stronger, so that one day I can fight with them at their side as equals, so that one day he won't need to hide stuff from us. Because when that day comes, it will mean that I finally managed to become strong enough to be worthy of being someone they can confide in."
Setsuna shrugged embarrassedly, "That's the way I feel anyway,"
"Kyaah! Se-chan you're so cute when you speak like that! So warrior-like, ahh... love on the battlefield is so beautiful." Konoka flung herself at the blushing Setsuna, "Ko-konoka-ojou sama, it-it's not love!"
Just then fireworks exploded in the sky and the three girls settled down beside the unconscious Naruto to watch.
"Pity the idiot isn't awake to see this."
Konoka smiled slightly, even though Asuna was angry at the blonde she still cared for him in her own way, "Yeah."
With Clone 1
He looked out the window where he could see the firework in the distance but a slight stirring in the futon drew his attention back. Smiling slightly he stroked Chachamaru's hair, "Good morning."
"Ah... What happened?"
"I think I went a little too far this afternoon." More fireworks sparked in the distance, causing Chachamaru to look out the windows as well. Sitting up, she knelt beside the blonde as he wrapped his arm around her side and they both just watched the fireworks silently.
"Ah... I forgot I have to go..." the gynoid sai with a note of sadness in her monotone voice.
Naruto smiled, "Yeah, go ahead. Evangeline's dinner is already taken care off. So you can go enjoy yourself."
"Thanks... Naruto." The gynoid placed a soft kiss on his lips before going to get ready.
With Clone 2
Naruto sat alone under a tree, bouncing Akako on his lap. Chizuru had already left with the rest of the children since it was getting late. Akako turned to see her father smiling at her, squriming around to face him, nuzzled his chest, "Papa... today, fun."
Naruto kissed the crown her head, "Yeah. Today was fun."
A popping sound from the distant distracted both of them.
"Ah! Papa! Hanabi!"
The blonde grinned at her excitement and looked up and watched the fireworks as well, "Yeah... its beautiful isn't it?"
"Umu. Beautiful."
"Here. Papa will take you where we can see the fireworks closer. Ok?"
"Yatta! Mama coming?"
He smiled at his excited daughter, "Mama is a bit busy. It'll be just us today." Akako pouted and seemed to deflate for a while before seemingly shrugged it off and bouncing again. Naruto grinned at her cheerfulness before picking her up and taking to the roofs. ,"I'll buy you anything you want today. Just for my precious daughter."
"Yatta!"
With Original
Konoka turned to the other two girls, "Wait, aren't the two of you supposed to join the Mahora Martial Arts competition in an hour?"
Asuna face palmed, "Great, I completely forgot. And now I'm so tired from fighting this idiot I don't think I can join."
Setsuna sadly agreed.
"Konoka! Setsuna! Asuna!"
All three girls turned to the voice, "Negi? Is your date over?"
Negi reached them and panted slightly, "Yeah. Listen, I wanted to tell you something." The homeroom teacher pulled out a pocketwatch, This was the thing Chao-san gave me."
Setsuna perked up, she had completely forgotten about the time travel device, "Oh yeah! We can turn back time for at least a day. That way we can all rest before the Tournament. And since we already attended the Haunted House and Club business we don't have to worry about them!"
Asuna looked dubiously at the watch, "You sure this is safe?"
Negi nodded excitedly, "Yeah! I don't want to miss the Tournament, and I'm sure Naruto wont either. So we can just turn back time, the four of your can rest in the dorms while I go meet up with everyone else..." he counted his fingers and sweat dropped, "At least another day of no sleep if everything went according to plan."
Asuna finally agreed, "Alright... just don't do anything funny. I don't want to end up in some alternate dimension or 10 years ago because you wanted to play with that thing."
Negi pouted at her, "Ok, ok, everyone hold on to me."
When time turned back it was daylight.
Asuna and Konoka looked around in wonder, "Wow... time really changed." A small snore from Asuna's lap caught her attention and she smiled, "Come on, I don't know bout you guys, but I'll bring Naruto to our rooms. He can sleep on the couch." She yawned a bit, "I'm tired too."
She tried to stand up but nearly stumbled when someone else caught her while Konoka steadied Naruto's other side, "Here. We'll help."
Asuna grinned at the two girls, "Thanks." Turning back to Negi she asked, "What are you going to do?"
"I have to meet up with Iincho and the rest; I'll see you guys at the Tournament tonight?"
"Yeah. Don't worry about us and the idiot here. We'll be there."
Asuna waved her homeroom teacher off as the four of them stumbled off in the direction of the dorms.
****Broken Faith****
Negi leapt off, intending on finding Iincho and helping at the Haunted House but a glint in the sunlight distracted him. Squinting at it, he saw it was Tatsumiya-san, wielding a more traditional rifle compared to the one Naruto-nii san used.
Side tracked he leap up beside her, "Mana-san? What are you doing?"
"Patrolling. We're not supposed to let people confess remember?" just as she said those words she fired at a couple.
"Hah! Wha-wha-wha?"
She fired again and again, "Gyah! You can't kill people for just confessing Mana-san!"
"You don't have to worry, these are just tranquilizer bullets. They are just asleep." Mana replied with a small smile and calm tone, "Although... they probably won't wake up till the Festival is over." She added with a rather sly grin.
He decided to spend some time with Mana, only being interrupted once when a confused Naruto had arrived. Judging by his confused face Negi knew this was the Naruto who hadn't been enthralled and fought them yet, and Negi felt the urge to keep his earlier promise. Smiling slightly he walked up to his nii-san innocently before planting a fist in his guts.
"I'll give you an explanation later," and received a middle finger for his troubles. Negi just grinned as the blonde jumped away.
A few hours later, he left Mana and bumped into Yue.
Meanwhile Mana watched her homeroom teacher leave. Opening the pendant again, she wondered what made her tell the boy about her past. It wasn't like her and it wasn't like she gained any benefit from it.
As she was wondering she felt a familiar presence approach her.
"Penny for your thoughts?"
Mana smirked, "Make it 10 million and I might say something."
****Broken Faith****
Naruto blearily looked around. Negi was hiding behind a table while Konoka, Asuna and everybody else was staring at him weirdly as a few new arrivals landed beside Asuna, he faintly recognized the blonde girl he teased this morning. He wondered why all of them looked worried.
Nevermind, Naruto attempted to move towards Negi only something held him back. Looking down in confusion he saw that his entire body was shackled in some sort of chains made of light. Struggling against them proved futile. Then his perspective moved, making him feel slightly nauseous as his body moved while he had no sense of control, it felt weird, as if he was watching from his eyes but at the same time not. Like the images were fed directly into his brain.
He struggled again, he seemed to be stuck in his own psyche or something.
He watched as his body moved, disappearing with a burst of speed and reappearing behind Asuna, his arm, which he had no control over made to grab Asuna and he tried to shout a warning like earlier only no sound came out. He struggled against the shackles of light even harder.
His body was flung away by some sort of shadow, the blonde sighed slightly in relief.
Suddenly he felt the sensation he usually did when he drew on his chakra, only this time he wasn't the one controlling it. Everyone in his vision froze, and the blonde growled at himself as his body moved, as thoughts and calculations ran through his head, thoughts that weren't his.
'NOO!'
He tried to scream.
Those thoughts were his and yet not his; these thoughts cared for nothing except the goal, showing affection for those he cared for. Everything or everyone that tried to stop him was nothing but collateral damage.
Naruto gritted his teeth as his body drew on even more chakra and unleashed dangerous jutsus.
'STOP IT!'
These moves weren't the moves of a student, of the bodyguard he was now, of the person he became.
These moves were the moves of the assassin he was before. Efficient, sharp and brutal. The moves of someone with only one target and ready to do anything to achieve it. He winced as his body kicked Setsuna away violently, the girl crashed into one of the teachers. That was going to bruise.
He grinned as his body was finally restrained and more people arrived to help. Ok, there was hope. Turning some of his attention to his clones, he could feel one of his clones about to kiss Evangeline and he struggled even harder. He called forth more chakra to fight the shackles. As he struggled he could feel the shackles shift slightly and the clone simply pecked Evangeline's forehead chastely instead of forcefully capturing her lips. Naruto grinned. Ok, he was getting somewhere. He now had a little control over his clone's actions.
He fought even harder and turned his attention back to the original. This one was harder, his earlier efforts proved useless, only managing to bring a slight pause to the battlefield before it continued to try and break free of the restraining spells.
In the real world, the blonde drew more chakra and burst free of his bindings.
Inside his mind, Naruto paled a little as his body's thoughts passed his mind. The most efficient way to the target with multiple obsctacles; large scale demolition tactics.
With one eye carefully watching his body's action he struggled even harder but the shackles wouldn't even shift a little now. Even though Negi couldn't hear it the blonde cheered for the boy as he told everyone what to do. He tried as hard as he could to influence the body outside, but nothing worked. Eventually he felt like he had expended everything and hung tiredly from his shackles as his body terrorized the mages.
He gritted his jaw, no, he couldn't give up yet, his body would hurt someone if this continued.
There! Negi had turned the ground to mud but his body hadn't noticed, this was his chance! Roaring silently he pushed one last time, one last burst.
He pushed hard enough that red flames leapt up and black chains wrapped around him but it didn't hurt, most likely because this was only a mental representation of him, but it was enough, he winced a little as his material body stumbled on the mud and Touko managed to stab his arm, making him drop the rifle. With tooth aching cracking sounds, the chains of light shattered and the blonde fell tiredly to the floor. Or what he thought was the floor. He had no strength left; he needed to rest for a while.
But he could feel the slow change in his body's thought process. In a few minutes it would realign to the same principles, the same way he thought before being enthralled, but still enchanted and seeking to show affection as the Tree termed it. At least now it wouldn't hurt anybody without him watching.
Everything faded to black.
****Broken Faith****
When he next opened his eyes, he was surprised to find himself in a completely white space where he couldn't see anything at all. Frowning he tried to remember how he had gotten here. Last he rememb... ah... The blonde sweat dropped, he hoped no one accidentally died.
Gahh... anyway how was he supposed to get out of here?
"Naruto-kun... you look well."
The blonde spun around at the sound of someone calling his name, what the hell? Wasn't he alone in here?
His eyes widened. "Whu-wha-huh? Jiji?"
The Sandaime Hokage stood there with a wide familiar toothy grin, dressed in his usual white robes minus the Hokage hat.
****Broken Faith****
AN
Ah, it has come to my attention that my rants and opinions make me seem like a self important jackass with my head so far up my ass because only my opinions are right. My advice? It's my opinion, I'm not forcing it on you, you read it of your own volition. So how the heck do you define it as self important and that I consider only my own opinions as the right ones? I mean I have nothing against homosexual people, heck, if two girls started making out in front of me, I'd join them as long as they gave me permission. For guys on the other hand... I got nothing against you as long as you don't try to plant something up my ass, I don't like yaoi just because, well I don't like them, I mean I'm not condemning anybody, you guys can write what you want, all I want is a place where I don't have to see slash every time I log in. Fanfiction dot net has another sister website fictionpress dot net or something, I don't see why they can't make a fictionyaoi dot net. But that might be going too far so I'll settle for a normal filter.
Tenkuu no Tenbin : Scales of Heavenly Balance ( Variation of the Shinra Bansho series )