So first of all thanks again for the reviews. They help out a lot, you guys told me that I switched between 1st and 3rd person a lot last chapter and made it my goal to rectify that mistake. I know this chapter isn't perfect but i do believe its of a higher standard then chapter 2. Anyway i hope you enjoy. :)

Naruto Phenex – Chapter 3 Improving

"Is it really alright for you to be walking around the human world without telling your parents?" asked a nervous Kyra. Currently they were walking through a rather dense forest, a forest Naruto thought everyone used as a shortcut, and you never know what kind of predator is lurking around the corner.

"For the hundredth time; it's fine, really. We're 10 years old, we're practically adults, and it's not like we're spending the rest of our lives out here." Naruto said with bored look. "You need to relax more."

"You're too relaxed..." she gave him a hard stare "I still can't believe we came all this way just because you heard a rumor" Shaking her head a little she continued "Usually you would be asleep or slacking off somewhere, putting this much effort into finding some Youkai isn't like you..."

Naruto spun around with a mock hurt expressing while clutching his chest "Oh Kyra-chan you wound me so! How could you say that to your amazingly, badass and handsome King?" Straightening himself out he gave her a pointed look "by the way, it's not just some Youkai but a powerful one and since I only have you, I can't let this opportunity slip through my fingers." Naruto finished with a rare determined look.

It's not his fault. Really. He's been meaning to get more members but he's quite picky. Add on the fact he has to actively look for them...this doesn't bode for the young devil.

Sighing quietly, she said "Well since I can't talk you out of it, I have no choice but to follow you." Kyra then asked a question that's been plaguing her mind for a while "Do you know where this Youkai is?

"..."

"Do you know where we're going?"

"..."

Her eyebrows twitching slightly "Please tell me you know where we actually are..."

"..."

"..."

"Ohhh look, squirrels!"

"Don't ignore me!"

Break

After a small beating from an angry Kitsune, the dynamic duo, after some hours of hiking eventually found themselves a way out of the forest and into rather large town. Cars zooming in and out of the streets, people moving in herds from one building to another, all in all it was a rather busy looking place.

Finally seeing civilization again, Naruto didn't waste any time and quickly ran towards the towns' location. "Social activity!"

"Don't runaway so suddenly Naruto-sama!" shouted an irate Kyra.

Break

"We've been walking around for an hour, are you sure it's here?" True to Kyra's word, the duos have been scouting the town out for a while now. Naruto, not being that adept in sensing energy, decided to do it the old fashioned way.

Ask Kyra to do it for him.

It might not be her speciality but she was further ahead in her studies then Naruto. Although, that being said finding a source of Youkai in such a populated is no easy task.

"My gut feeling has never let me down before; the Youkai has got to be here." Naruto reassured her.

She gave him a look "Have you ever relied on it before?"

"Nope." He replied without a care in the world. Before the Kyra could rip him a new one he stopped in his tracks. "I bet it's him."

Looking where her master is pointing, there was a young man sitting on a bench happily eating what she assumed was his lunch. He seemed to be in his early twenties, give or take a few years, and wearing a skin tight sleeveless black top with light grey combat trousers. He also wore two fingerless crimson gloves and crimson combat boots. What Kyra noticed first however was his bright orange shoulder length hair.

Spreading out her senses, the young man did in fact have quite a vast amount of energy in him. Kyra then pouted and turned with a huff "You got lucky..."

Chuckling a little Naruto walked up to the man who by now had finished his lunch realized he was being approached by someone. Looking down at Naruto he said "What do you want kid?"

"Are you a Youkai?"

'Blunt as ever' Kyra thought while face palming.

"Maybe, why would a devilling want to know?"

"Cool, join my Peerage!" Naruto said rather loudly unable to contain his joy anymore.

"What's your name kid?" he asked after a couple of seconds.

"Naruto Phenex. What's yours?"

"Ringo." The now named Ringo stared at Naruto intently for a minute or so, trying to figure out what his intentions are. It's not exactly normal to be asked to join some ones peerage when they know next to nothing about you.

"You do know I could be really weak or a psychotic manic..." 'Does this kid think anything through?'

"Are you?"

"..."

Ringo couldn't hold it in. He started to chuckle lightly until it erupted into a full blown laughter. "Haha of course not kid. I'll tell you what; if you impress me ill think about joining you."

"You got yourself a deal!"

Break

The duo, now trio, made their way back into the forest, much to Naruto and Kyra's dismay. After trekking for a couple of minutes they came upon an opening that was covered in craters and other assortments of scars. "What happened here?"

Looking of at Kyra who asked the question Ringo said "This is where I train. I thought this place would be the perfect for my little warm up."

Ignoring his remark at her master being weak she turned to Naruto "You sure you want to go through with this?"

Sighing slightly he replied "Not really but I do need more peerage members."

Ringo now standing in the middle of the opening, he gestured towards Naruto "This is how it's going to go down. The the arena is this opening; we fight till either one of us is unable to continue. Agreed?"

Nodding his head he walked to the opposite side of Ringo. "Before we start this, I've got to ask you something." Surveying Ringo nod his head he continued "Why are you so into this? You could have just as easily refused my offer."

Regarding his confused expression Ringo sighed "Seriously speaking, I was bored. I haven't had a fight in awhile and you might be the one to solve that problem." He finished with a smirk.

"You think I can beat you?" Naruto said, not bothering to hide the surprise in his voice.

"Haha no, that's not what I meant. Something tells me I'll fight a lot of strong people if I hang around you for a while. But like I said, you have to impress me first." With that Ringo got into a relaxed stance.

Not understanding what he means by that, he shrugged and got into his own fighting stance. No one moved as the wind blew by. Wanting to get this over and done with, Naruto quickly conjured up a black fire ball, the size of volley ball, and launched it at Ringo.

Impressed by the size of the attack, he quickly rolled to the right only to come face to face with another fire ball. Ringo jumped over the second ball of fire, and then broke into a sprint when he landed. Wanting to make this a close range fight he bolted it towards his direction, but didn't go unnoticed by Naruto who launched a volley of fireballs.

Looking in awe, he watched Ringo weave in and out of his attacks with great athletic ability, and then disappeared completely. Only to reappear in front of Naruto with his fist rose.

Using the reflexes he gained from his mothers tortures training, he managed to doge the fist and roll out of the way. He then watched in slight fear and amazement as Ringos fist impacted the ground, leaving a small crater in its wake.

Finally registering how outmatched he is in close quarters Naruto quickly took to the skies. Or at least that was the plan before Ringo grabbed his ankle, pulled him down and thrust his elbow into his gut pushing the air out of his lungs.

Kicking of his chest and propelling himself out of his grip he shot a stream of fire out of his palms at Ringos face. Not finished yet Naruto cocked his fist back, surrounded it in fire then thrust it forward.

"Hiken!"

A stream of black fire the size of a truck flew at incredible speed across the field at the unsuspecting Ringo.

Extinguishing the flames on his face he got a good look at the big ball of hurt hurtling towards him, so not intending on burning to death raised his leg high in the air then with amazing amount of strength brought it down on the ground.

The earth around them shook when the fire crashed into Ringo. The anticipation was killing him, had he won?

Only for his hopes to fall to pieces when a perfectly fine looking Ringo emerged from the smoke. But what shocked him more was a wall of rock surrounding him. It had protected him from his attack.

Ringo taking advantage of his dazed expression promptly charged Naruto and kneed him in the gut and sent him flying through the air.

Groaning in pain, Naruto stood back up and quickly reassessing the situation he realized something.

Ringo was stronger.

He was faster.

And he definitely had more fighting experience then him...this is why he doesn't usually rush things...

Shaking his head of those thoughts, he was determined to gain another member and by Satan he will get one.

Sprouting his wings and swiftly flying up, he held his arms out and conjured a hefty amount of his power to them. Not wasting anytime he started to spin in the air and released a lot of flames from his body.

"The hell is he doing?" not sure what to do, Ringo stood in the same spot, waiting to see what happens next.

As Naruto spines faster and faster black flames start to surround his body and produce very large amount of heat.

Feeling the heat Ringo had a bad feeling about this so promptly bent his legs and flung himself right at Naruto with his fist cocked back. Seeing the approaching Ringo, Naruto, finally done with his technique, spun downwards straight into Ringos path.

Fist collided with the tip of the twisting flame, the resulting explosion large enough to shake the trees around them, launched both combatants into the forest, through some trees in Ringos case, and into the ground with a loud thud.

"Naruto-sama!" cried a hysteric Kyra while running towards Narutos prone form. Kneeling by Naruto she checked his body for any notable injuries but his regeneration powers already finished healing him. "You really didn't want to draw that fight out did you?" she giggled while stroking his golden locks.

"How's he doing?" abruptly getting up and standing protectively in front of Naruto, she saw Ringo, burned marks all over him, striding in their direction. Noticing her behaviour he swiftly raised his hands in a surrendering motion. "Whoa there missy, I'm not going to hurt my king so no need to worry."

Blinking a few times she just registered what he said "What?"

"Haha he impressed me alright. That much control over his powers and only a kid, I'm already excited of how much of a monster he's turning into." Pausing he looked down at Naruto "So what happens now?"

"Actually I want to ask you something." Said a croaky voice which turned out to be Naruto as he propped himself up on his elbows. After calming down a frantic Kyra he continued "You said you're a Youkai, but you didn't say which one."

Smiling at the blond he said "You're right I didn't, well to answer your question I'm a were-cat or to be more precise a were-tiger."

Getting over his shocked state first Naruto pulled out a chess piece from his pocket and said "Well welcome to my peerage Ringo the were-tiger, my Rook."

Break 1 week later

Naruto normally isn't someone to scare easily. But the glare his mother was giving could even make the four great Satans cower in fear. When she found out he went to the human world on his own she was furious. Not knowing where he went or what he was doing she had no choice but to wait for him to come back.

She was pissed.

"So you got another peerage member..." Lady Phenex said with an even tone.

Ringo quickly excused himself when he saw the look in the woman's eyes. He may be serving someone now but he's not going to stick around when a powerful woman is pissed off.

He's not crazy.

"Yeah and he's really strong too!" and as usual Naruto is completely oblivious.

"You idiot!" with that his mother delivered a beating of a life time.

Break

After having his ass handed to him by his mother, Naruto promptly vowed to never upset his mother again. She packs a mean punch.

"I heard you got another member."

Coming to a halt on his way to the dining hall he heard a voice. Turning he saw his brother Riser leaning against the wall and smirking.

"He's also strong. You should watch out, I'm catching you up." Naruto replied with his own smirk.

His smirk growing slightly he pushed himself off the wall and strode towards Naruto. "Oh I'm sure he is but it's going to take more than some puny cat to beat me."

"Oh you want a bet on it?"

Oh he didn't.

Everyone in the Phenex clan knew that winning a bet against Naruto was impossible. His luck seems to trump all odds and beat everything. No one can blame Riser when he hesitated slightly.

Only slightly.

"And what bet is this?" a cold shiver rose up his spine when he saw his brothers mega watt grin.

"A few years down the line we're going to compete. My peerage versus your peerage."

"You sure you want to do this little brother. I wouldn't want to embarrass you in front of your friends." He couldn't help, he hoped Naruto wasn't joking. A fight like this would be exciting.

"Of course I'm sure! I'm not just going to win; it's going to be a clean sweep!" exclaimed Naruto, punching his fist in the air.

"Well you've brought this on yourself! No backing out now, it's time to show you whose number one!" shouted Riser over his shoulder, walking down the corridor.

"We'll see about that"

Break 2 weeks later.

"Ehhh you have two members already!?" came the voice of a Rias Gremory. Naruto now on one of his regular visits to the Gremory clan was sitting with Rias in the dining hall. He just told her how he got his second peerage member. "And you're going to fight your brother? You're crazy."

"You never know, he could win." came the voice of Sirzechs as he entered the room. "Hey Naruto!"

"Hey Sirzechs"

"You're supposed to call me Onii-tan!"

"I refuse!"

"Don't be like that Naruto-tan!"

"Argh don't hug me all of a sudden! Help!"

"Let go of him Onii-sama!"

"Rias-tan I'm trying to spread my love!"

"I don't want it, go away!"

"Sirzechs-sama, could you please behave like a dignified Satan."

Everyone froze. Turning around they saw a not so happy looking Grayfia who staring intently at Sirzechs.

Completely oblivious to the danger he's in Sirzechs appeared next to his wife "Grayfia-chan Naruto-tan won't call me Onii-ta OW OW OW!"

Grayfia, pinching his cheek and simultaneously leading him out of the room, spoke to him in a calm voice "Sirzechs-sama could you please come with me. We have much to discuss."

With peace and quiet finally obtained Naruto sighed loudly "Your brother is so weird..."

Giggling into her hand Rias was about to speak only to be interrupted by someone else opening the door. In came a young girl who looked to be around the same age as Rias with long black hair and violet eyes. Her hair is tied into a long ponytail, reaching all the way down to her legs with two antennae sticking out from the top and sloping backwards that is held together with an orange ribbon. She's wearing a white top with a crimson skirt.

"Akeno!" said Rias propelling herself of the chair and gave the girl a hug.

"Ara, ara did you miss me Rias?" Spoke Akeno in a teasing voice.

"Oh quiet you..." her cheeks were tinted pink as she turned away. Facing Naruto she suddenly remembered something "Oh yeah I forgot to tell you! This is Akeno Himejima, my queen!"

Widening his eyes slightly Naruto got out of his chair and approached them. "I didn't know you had a queen. Yo, I'm Naruto Phenex." He finished with a smile.

"So this is the guy you're going to marry. No wonder you're so smitten with him..." Akeno said with the same teasing smile.

"AKENO! Don't say that!" A now cherry red Rias shouted.

Break

Letting Rias calm down the three of them went to the garden and chatted a bit about whatever came to mind. Later Sona arrived and joined the three of them and played chess with Naruto.

She still can't understand how she loses to him every time.

A topic was soon brought up that got Naruto's attention. "School? Why would I want to go to a school?"

"Not right now. We're talking about in a few years. You should come with us." Rias said as she sat closer to him.

"Go to some boring school or sit at home and sleep. Ohhh the choices..." Naruto remarked sarcastically.

"If you can't cope then there's no need in pushing yourself Naruto-san." Sona stated while sipping on her cool drink.

"Mou~ don't you want to learn what the human society is like? It's going to be so fun! You have to come...Please?" Rias moved closer and closer with each word spoken, she was nearly sitting on his lap.

"Nope. There's nothing you can do or...say...that..." Naruto would have continued but forgot one rule every man should follow.

Never look a girl in the eye when they want you to do something.

Right now he made the mistake of looking into Rias's eyes. 'Those darned puppy dog eyes! So cute and adorable...No! Come on Naruto stay strong' Quickly shuffling away a few feet he tried to compose himself "I-I'll Think about, okay! Just stop looking at me with those eyes!"

Smiling happily Rias high fived Akeno and Sona and shouted "Yay the four of us are going to school!"

'What have I done'

Author's notes:

First things first. Were-cat. I was originally planning on putting a werewolf in Narutos peerage but then I thought werewolfs are pretty common among monsters in general so i researched a bit and found the were-cat. I hope you like the little change.

Second is the fight scene. I know its not really that good, I got stuck on it so many times. I tried to make Naruto weak but not too weak. Then with ringo i tried to make him stronger then Naruto but not too strong as to make Naruto, his king, seem irrelevant. After all in my opinion the king should be the strongest in the peerage. If any of you guys can give me some tips on moving past this problem, it would help me out a lot.

As for the harem, everything is set for that. There will either be 4 - 6 characters in it depending how i feel further down the line. But I am stuck on who to pick for the peerage. At the moment the vacant spots are: 1-Bishop, 1-Rook, 1-Knight and 4 pawns. They can be male or female i don't mind, they can even made up. All Ideas are appreciated. Thanks.