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Disclaimer: I don't own any of the characters here that belong to Naruto that I put into this story except for my own Original Characters. Neither do I own any of the character in any of the crossovers I do. I'm just using them in this fan fiction and I have no money so don't bother suing me. You'll just lose money instead of gaining any. And remember to leave a review!
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Party Crashers –
Prince Naruto sat morosely on his throne in the castle's grand ballroom, resting his chin on his hand as he watched the arrivals walk in. The musicians were playing a lively tune, and many nobles and merchants were dancing with their wives or dates as he listens to the girls introducing themselves to him. Glycine stood near him whispering to him the customs of some of the girls and where they're from.
"Why so glum, my prince?" Lobelia asked cheerfully, her dark eyes following a well-built servant as she carried a tray of refreshments down the hall. "The Royal Ball is starting! This hall is bustling with the most beautiful young girls from all over, all lusting for a chance to be your bride!"
"And this should excite me… why?" Naruto ask after the last of the girls to be engage to him had introduced themselves to him.
"For most guys having a horde of willing women after you is a good thing," Lobelia replies.
"Really now!" Glycine said. "Do you have to do this? This is a very important party you know. This party is Naruto's chance to make a good impression on the guest from the other countries."
"How about the time your grandmother grabbed the wife of that noble from the Frass Confederation and started making out with her in front of her husband?" Lobelia smirks.
"Well my grandmother may be like that but I and my mother have raised ourselves above those kinds of antics," Glycine said trying to outlive her grandmothers wild swings in her younger days.
"I'm sure I'll find out what you're like sooner or later," Lobelia said with a grin.
"What's that suppose to mean?" Glycine said glaring at her fellow maid.
"It is a tradition for Delmo's once they reach the age of eighteen to go out and find a guy to sleep with. And I'm going to be there to see if you're a screamer or not," she said to the blushing noble girl.
"You two stop this now," Decapre said her voice muffle under her gasmask.
"You don't want to make Naruto look bad do you?" Aprile ask the two younger girls.
"I don't really mind," Naruto said. "But ague with each other later."
"Alright, we will," the two girls said.
"Looks like, Anzu's band is going to start up," Aprile said as she spots some young girls around her age setting up on the stage at one corner of the room.
"I hope they learn some new songs since the last time they played," Lobelia said as she waited for the band to start up.
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Across the room –
'I hope everyone likes my song,' Anzu thought to herself as she rapped her fingers against her thigh, mimicking the tempo of the song she planned to sing once her concert began. Around her, the girls of her small band tuned their instruments one final time, making sure that everything was perfect.
Down below, a small strange colored hair teen smiled and stepped away from the stage as the band got ready to play. He waved up to Anzu while the brown haired girl moved to the center of the stage with her mic in hand. "Break a leg Anzu." he called up to her.
"Thanks." Anzu called back before taking a deep breath to calm her nerves. She then turned to her band, "Okay girls, lets do this nice and neat, I want a good steady rhythm and a pulse pounding beat."
The girls around her all nodded and her drummer, a girl named Ami, began tapping her drumsticks together as the light spilled down around them. Anzu smiled and looked up as the stage lights shined down on her and her band mates, "Alright girls, 1, 2, 3, 4!!!" Her drummer, Guitar player, bass, and synthesizer all began at once, releasing a smooth and rhythmic beat that pounded through the ballroom. Anzu lifted the mic to her lips and began to sing, "Set me free. Gonna be alone, got to be free..."
Her throat clear, Anzu gave herself to the music and turned her eyes up to the people around her and sang, "Tell me, I don't understand anything, but You always say those kinds of words, too!! I want to turn into a bird and fly the high skies heading for the distant, far away hope. When I look down and see my tiny self. I wonder if I'm only living recklessly. If only I can keep looking at the present like this nothing can harm me and I'll have no fear for tomorrow. I want to ride on the wind and fly to the edges of my dreams."
"Fastening on my back these wings called courage. I want to turn into a bird and retain my courage to look down. I will not give in to the reality of passing days. Set me free."
"Gonna find my way, I'm gonna be free. Like a beast that has to choose between steep paths..."
"I won't fall if I can sniff out the right ones. But because we humans are led astray all the time we don't have the strength from fighting loneliness. I want to ride on the wind and go to the edges of dreams straining these eyes called courage."
"With a single fragment melting little by little, We'll start to change so slowly Can't you feel it everywhere?"
"So that even if I chose roads steeper than any beast would. I'd still not lose my will not to give up."
The music went into a short musical Solo and Anzu moved her body with the pulse pounding beat, her heart flying inside her chest, letting her feel truly alive as she swept her arms out around her, as though embracing the entire audience. She didn't even feel nerves anymore, only the smiles and cheers of those around her as they listened to her sing and watched her dance. The next verse quickly approached and Anzu lifted the mic to her lips again...
"If only I can spot my tiny self on the ground nothing can harm me and I'll have no fear for tomorrow. I want to ride on the wind and fly to the edges of my dreams..."
"Fastening on my back these wings called courage. I want to turn into a bird and retain my courage to look down. I will not give in to the reality of passing days." (1)
Anzu took in a deep breath for the second part of the song she and her Yugi had came up with. "New days on the morning of the beginning let's give the earth. Blowing in the wind Put just a little bit of hope and love in the pocket."
"I wish If only I had wings. I would overcome my sadness, my past, and my fears."
"Yeah! I've got nothing to lose. Fight at the first chance Brand new day. Take my way! On these, the palms of my hands, I want to catch the miracle."
"I will traverse the never ending sky and earth and then the future. These new born wings are, Oh! Probably certainly definitely. Someday going to shine!"
"Maybe probably somewhere out there, an answer exists. Going on my way! The one and only truth is in the faraway wind."
"Sometime When I feel like I'm losing I smile and take a deep breath. I'll discard my weak, crybaby-like self."
"Yeah! There's nothing I can't do. Screwed up someone's Everyday! Save my dream! Even if I'm laughed at I'll ignore it and try!"
"Until that day when I pass up the clouds that go towards the horizon. The wings that support my dreams are, Oh! Forever, forever, forever keep on! Going to take flight!!"
"New days on the morning of the beginning let's kiss the earth. Blowing in the wind Put just a little bit of courage and love in the pocket."
"I will travel the never ending sky and earth and then the future. These newborn wings are, Oh! Probably certainly definitely someday going to shine!"
"Until that day when I pass up the clouds that go towards the horizon. The wings that support my dreams are, Oh! Forever, forever, forever Keep on! Going to take flight!" (2)
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At one of the tables –
"That could have gone better," Ino said as she sits next to Hinata who is doing her best not to make any eye contact with anyone sitting at the table.
"Hinata you didn't even look at him," Ino said. When Hinata presented herself to Naruto all she could do was mumble her name and look at the ground.
"Yes but it was kind of cute," Shizune said. "Making yourself look so shy might help you. Some guys like the cute shy types."
"You're making her blush," Kurenai said as Hinata's face is becoming redder then a tomato. Hinata averted her eyes hoping to avoid encouraging them from poking fun at her, but only succeeded in looking even more adorable.
"I wonder how we're going to win over Naruto when he has all of these girls to pick from," Ayame said as she noticed that a lot of the girls that are in the engagement are pretty. Not to mention the girls with the Delmo bloodline with developing figures and by judging from the older women with the same bloodline, those girls are going to be very busty once they get older.
"But you are his friend and Hinata has his cuteness," Sakura pointed out.
"I'm sure that it will count for something," Tenten said.
"You just have to look on the bright side of things," Ino said as she and the other girls try to uplift their spirits.
"That doesn't really help you know with all of these girls," Ayame said again. "Besides from what I overheard, once Naruto wears the crown at his eighteen birthday, is the day when he will make his war on the Leaf."
"Yeah but either you or Hinata can change that once either of you becomes his wife," Kiba said.
"I never really care much for the Leaf anyways," Ayame replies.
"What do you mean by that?" Shikamaru ask as everyone at the table is looking at her.
"It shows what kind of village it is when all Naruto's parents wanted was for him to be looked upon as a hero. Instead the adults go around and do the opposite of his wishes. Ever since I started helping my dad with our shop I have seen how everyone in the village treats him and the smiling mask he had to wear for all those years not knowing why everyone hates him. Even if I do marry him I'm not going to try to talk him out of it," Ayame stated to everyone at the table.
"What about your father?" Asuma ask. "What would he think about this."
"I told him that when I found out I was going to be engage and he said it's up to me alone to decide," Ayame said. "Besides the day we left for the airship my dad went close shop and is currently heading here to open a shop around here."
"He's what?" Kiba ask.
"I figure that the Leaf might use dad to get me to talk Nartuo out of going to war so I said to day it would be a smart thing to get out of the village while he can," she said.
"You really think they would do that?" Hinata ask her.
"What do you think?" she asked.
Hinata look down poking her fingers together.
"And as I said before," Ayame said before anyone could get a word in. "Me and Hinata are the only girls in the village who were nice to him so there's no way you can replace me."
With everyone gone silent with her comment, Ayame started looking around the room. A scene caught her attention over to where the people from the Sand village Ayame saw something that she couldn't help but stare at. She considered herself a pretty healthy eater and she had always thought that the fat guy Chouji could put it away fairly well, too. But they were nothing but rank amateurs in the face of the eating and drinking exhibition that's taking place at the Sand table.
Platter after platter of food was brought in from the kitchen only to be quickly dispatched in the blink of an eye. Pitcher after pitcher and bottle after bottle of beverages met the same fate. Seeing something caught Ayames attention the others at the table turn to see what she's starring at. They could only watched in shock at the primal scene of tearing, ripping and fighting that went on before them. All but two of the others at the Sand table that ate in a normal manner, the two sisters on the other hand tore into the plates set before them like ravenous beasts. They grabbed at anything they could reach, fighting, kicking and clawing at one another in order to get what they considered their fair share': namely everything. The only other difference she noticed among them was that the big-chested Naga soon was concentrating on the alcohol, draining any form of liquor she could reach without a break.
"And I thought that Tsunade could drink," Shizune said as the younger woman at the other table is drinking far more then her mistress could.
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At the Sand's table –
"I can't wait to get out of this getup," Temari said as she couldn't wait to get out of the former kimono she was force to wear for the event. She couldn't move as freely as she could do with her usually outfit.
"Why because you look like a girl?" Kankuro ask as this was one of the few times he has seen his sister in a dress.
"Shut up," Temari said as she takes a bite out of her meal.
"Have you decided of what your plans are for winning over the prince," Cye their teacher ask the two girls at the table. With all the cut backs in the Sand, they were only able to send him and Naga as the rest of the adult ninjas are too busy to make the trip, yet alone being out of action for six years.
"Well my little sister shouldn't have any trouble fitting in with this crowd," Naga said as she drinks down another cup of wine. With her figure she had easily blended into the crowd of Delmo women with only her outfit making her stick out.
"I shall bring to this land, JUSTICE!!" This head-turning shout came from the younger sister, Amelia. Assuming a dramatic, if a bit precarious, perch on the tall back of her chair she continued, "Fired with a burning love of peace and justice we scour the land of evil!! Let all who fear the light of the law flee before us like cockroaches, but we will crush them with the iron boot of right despite their flight!!!" Amelia's blue eyes seemed to glow with the fire of her dedication as she spoke, arms and fingers moving and pointing at the correct times for the biggest emotional impact.
"MMmm, yeah. Right. Whatever." Naga spoke through a mouthful of food as she took the opportunity to steal every scrap on Amelia's plate.
"Big sister!?!?!" Amelia wailed jumping back down in her seat in a futile and tardy attempt to protect her meal. "How could you??!!"
"You snooze you lose, Amelia!" Naga spoke smugly as she shoveled the stolen food into her mouth. "A girl's gotta look out for herself in this world cause no one's gonna do it for you. I saw that Kankuro!!" Her fist flashed out faster than light to smash into the puppet user's face as he sneakily reached his hand toward her plate. "Hmph! Serves him right!!" She observed self-righteously as the force of her blow snapped Kankuro's head back in a welter of blood and knocked him and his chair over.
"Hey!" Temari shouted at the jutsu mistress. "I wanted to do that!"
"Well you stop that," Gaara said as he sat in his chair picking at his meal as he's been lost in his thoughts.
"What's the matter?" Amelia asked him as he's been sitting like that for a very long time.
"They manage to seal the nine tail fox back into the Demon World where it came from. And now it can be summon back to this world by the prince," he said.
"You're thinking of having them do the same with you?" Cye ask.
They were met with only silences.
"Raising from the darkness of your life you will shine in the new life you will gain!" Amelia said as she has a dreamily look in her eyes.
"She's you're sister," Temari whispers to Naga.
"Don't remind me," she said.
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"What do you think of your husband to be?" Zaku ask the two Sound girls at the table. "Those side effects of the sealing must have been a shocker."
"Beats the guys that I know," Kin said as she pokes her fork at her plate.
"What do you mean by that?" Dozu ask.
"That his fox ear's does gives him a cute factor that's something that neither of you two have," Kin smirks at her two teammates.
"I have to agree with that," Tayuya said as she stuffs her face.
"By the way," Jirobo spoke up after he took a bite out of the rank of meat on his plate. "I been wondering why we were sent when the invite is only for the two girls to be engage to the prince?"
"It's quite simple really," Kidomaru said. "While we're here in the West we're going to be scouting around and gather information and the local underworld groups around here."
"While Tayuya and Kin get to know prince Natuto we're going to look for some new blood. And since most of the people around here are very strong we're here to give them a good idea of what kind of power the Sound has," Sakon explain.
"But we also have to make sure that we don't make trouble with Metal," Kimimaro said. "We don't want to become a target like the Leaf."
"Which is why we're not going to follow out that plan the boss was cooking up," Dozu said. "Why waste energy when someone else is going to do it for you."
"And he's set on taking his revenge," Tayuya said. "And I'm guessing it would make a bad relationship with Metal if we crush the Leaf before he can."
"I guess we can help by making sure that none of the Leaf ninjas escape the village," Zaku suggested.
"Could give us a good relationship with Metal," Kidomaru adds.
The doors of the ball room open letting in two very tall figures, followed by a male who was very short by comparison who stood in the center of the two tall figures. The short male looked very pale, possibly quite pasty indeed. His hair was white making him look like an elderly short male at first glance. He wore a long blue robe with gold trim, which covered a white shirt under a gold vest. He wore brown pants that stopped at the knee, which was then followed by white knee-high socks that went into brow shoes. The man also wore a blue tri-corner hat that gave him a strange air around him.
The two people with him are two women, one of them the younger one is dress in a fine gown. The older woman is a beautiful middle woman dressed in what looked like a modern charcoal-grey business suit, her chestnut hair bound up in a bun and round, wire-framed glasses perched on her nose. The younger woman was shorter than the older woman, but taller than the man. Slender and athletic looking, she was also dressed extremely differently than her suit-clad companions: skintight, dark red leathers, with a sword hanging from her hip. The sour look on her tanned, beautiful face was also in opposition to the slightly-forced smiles the other two were sporting as they entered the room.
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On the second floor –
"About time they showed up," Hunrok said as he leans on the guardrail.
"Who are they?" Tsunade ask as she watched the party from above. The party of three made their way to a table that's been reserve for late comers.
"The short man is Ramon Barego, head of the Barego faction. He's the 11th castellan of the castle Los Illuminados. He rules over several villages and runs one of the three riches mines in Metal, the area is also heavy in metal works thanks to the mine. It also sits on a major trade route, so it's always heavy with traders coming and going. The village of Pebol that's built near the castle is one of the most productive trade centers in Metal. Where one can find practically every known trade guilds and companies could be found as they made deals that either made them or broke them. This has made the Barego clan quite powerful in Metal who reap the rewards of the business deals that take place in Pebol. Everything one could desire is available for sale there, any whim or fancy could be satisfied...for the right price. Ramon Barego, the current head of the clan is 34 years old and stands about four feet tall, and speaks in a high, childlike voice. He took control as the head of the Barego clan at age twenty. He also a raving egomaniac but can back it up. He might not look like it but he's very powerful, quite skilled in jutsus and throwing blades. He's more powerful then an eastern Kage, and uses his small size to his advantage by being able to get into small tight places that a normal size person can't follow," the Metal King answers her.
"He's stronger then a Kage?" Tsunade ask in disbelief.
"Yes he is," he repeated. "The two women with him are Belit, his wife and Sekhmet his daughter. Belit with her sharp mind is the brains behind the Barego factions, she comes up with ideas and plots to gain support for her husband's faction whenever she sees a way to gain more power thought intrigue and plotting. She takes the Game of Houses to a new level. This is the name given the scheming, plots, and manipulations for advantage by noble houses. Great value is given to subtlety, to aiming at one thing while seeming to aim at another, and to achieving ends with the least visible effort. Their daughter Sekhmet is the top sword user of the White Fang School, her abilities and skills with a sword makes her a raising star in the sword user's circles. She also has a reputation of walking around the school with an unmatched elegance that left other girls looking jealous and guys drooling. The only thing that surpasses her swordsmanship is her ice queen image that she plays to the letter, never showing mercy to anyone who gets in her way."
Before the conversation continued any further, the sounds of approaching footsteps diverted their attention. The doors once again open and two women step into the room. The older one is a gorgeous red-haired woman dressed in a very short, shimmering green dress that looked like it was intended for a night of clubbing. To the woman's left stood a bubblegum chewing girl who was slightly smaller than the redhead, but equally beautiful and curvaceous. Her bright blonde hair was arranged in two ponytails to either side of her head and she was wearing what looked like a typical schoolgirl's outfit, although a bit…brief. But in a place like Metal… that's a common thing.
A few steps behind them, a tall figure, easily seven feet tall, came into view, dwarfing the two women easily. The man looked very haggard in appearance, his head bald and unnaturally pale in color. His eyes were noticeably two different colors a blue right eye, and a red left eye. There was something about that left eye, a fake quality to it, probably a false eye. He sported a very long black beard with flecks of gray, which hung down to his chest. The man wore a black trench coat which covered his entire body, save for the bottom of his dark black pants with matching black boots. It was clear that he was not in a happy mood. His facial expression was firm, unwavering, being the type of person no one dared mess with. He stopped in the center, flanked by the women on either side of him.
"Who in the world is that?" Tsunade ask as she could feel a powerful aura coming from the three newcomers.
"The big guy is Bitores Rokake is the head of the Rokake faction. He is the village chief of Grant Village, better known as the village of sin where you can find all kinds of vice right in the middle of nowhere. It's in an area where it hardly ever rains, and if it rains it is usually warm droplets of moisture that dissolve before it hits the ground. Usually twice a year, a major downpour comes. The mine is the poorest mine in Metal only giving out a few cart loads of tin ore and a few handfuls of copper every once awhile. At first the village didn't even had a name or even a village as there where only a handful of people living there at the start, it was just a mining camp. That's until the Rokake family moved in. Their influence over Grant Village started when they brought a large number of women from all over the world there to keep the miners happy, turning a struggling mining camp into a thriving, bustling village. This is before Carline's great-grandmother married into the royal household. In addition, the people charged with governing the village, most of them from the Roark line, remained in power for generations, running it as they saw fit. His family has used the vast sum of money generated by all of the gambling and other vices to raise in power. With the money they take in has made them very powerful but after the Delmo bloodline got into the royal house, their power has been drained as their influence in the royal court has been cut out. You have no idea how many members were in the Rokake pockets before Carlines great-grandmother got rid of them. The current generation of the Rokake line is Bitores and his family. He's a giant man of imposing stature and great strength, and wears a black trenchcoat all the time," Hunrok explain the background of the family.
"His wife Erzulie, runs the biggest gambling house in Grant Village. It's also a brothel that offers many vices for travelers. She is very crafty in running the house using the girls working there to gather information through the people that go there. Through that and the network she made through the trader, there's nothing that goes on that she hasn't heard about. The only reason those houses of vice are allowed to continue to operate is that if they're shut down the entire village will quickly fall apart, as the economic activity is the only thing that supports the village. Their daughter Rangda uses her family's money and status to get what she wants either by bribing or by other means. Her snooty attitude as queen bitch of the school matched her rich upbringing on her parent's fortune. She has a well known reputation of going through guys as quickly as she did her fathers money. She is a bully who thanks to her families connection's has gotten away with what she does in Grant."
"She's a brat and the other girl is an ice queen," Tsunade said.
"Yes they are," Hunrok said. "They're going to have a tough time of winning Naruto over. It's a good thing to if either one of them does marry Naruto, it would be nothing but trouble in the long run."
"The two factions are power hungry?" Tsunade ask.
"Yes have been ever since Metal was founded," Hunrok said. "Before Carline's grandmother married into the royal house, it was a member from either the Rokake or the Barego factions who marry into the throne."
"Why are you telling me this?" Tsunade ask knowing that he always used half-baked plans to get people to do what he wanted without them knowing. Like he used to do to her all the times they came face-to-face.
"I'm just thinking four steps ahead," Hunrok said as he begins to walk away, going back downstairs. "Just make sure you play your part."
Left alone on the second floor Tsunade was deep in thought. 'What are you planning this time?'
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At one of the tables –
"Amphora it's been awhile," Queen Carline greeted the Nanman queen as she and her daughter Ty Lee and her friend Mai walk over to her table.
"Yes it has," Amphora said as she seats herself in one of the free chairs. "Not since the trade agreement we sign."
"Yes I remember that," Setsuna said remembering what had happen afterwards. "You're really are skilled in areas besides in smarts."
"Maybe I could show you later before I go back to Nanman," Amphora smiles.
Seto looks over the two girls engaged to Naruto and like what she saw. "I see that there's a lot of potential with these two."
"I see you still have an eye for it," Yan Lin said as she had joined her old friends at the table leaving her granddaughter with her friends.
"What do you mean?" Ty Lee asked them.
"She means that you're going to have much growing to do till you surpass your mother," Mai said, letting out a puff of air as she folds her arms under her chest.
"Oh I get," Ty Lee said. "You're still mad that I'm more developed then you are."
Mai saw red as she doesn't like the fact that even if she's older then Ty Lee is that she already wearing a bra while she's still has a training bra. She quickly reacted breaking out from her board expression, turning it into an angry one and bops her friend on top of her head making her let out a yelp as her fist struck her.
"That hurt!" Ty Lee said rubbing the top of her head.
"Good," Mai said turning her face away from her with her arms cross over her chest.
"Well this brings back memories," Seto said as she was above average even in Metal when she was young and rub it into her friend's faces.
"Grandma!" a small redhead shouted as she ran over to her great-grandmother Zenobia Romanji.
"What is it Sakura?" Zenobia ask her.
"Ranken said that all the girls that are engage to Prince Naruto are going to have to fight each other for him," Sakura said.
"She's just playing around with you," Zenobia said as she pats the head of her youngest grandchild. Sakura is good at using jutsus but she didn't like fighting unlike her older sister.
"Fight each other…" Seto said tapping her finger on her chin. "That's not a bad idea."
"Thanks for giving her that idea in her head," Setsuna said knowing where this is going.
"No it's not," Carline said shooting down her friend's idea before it got off the ground.
"Oh… you're no fun," Seto said as she had a good plan going in her head.
"Sorry but there's no way I'm going to let something like that to happen," Carline said. "Making these girls fight for my grandsons hand."
"How about for a date?" Yan Lin suggested.
"That I can allow," Carline said as that would show her what kind of fighters some of these girls are.
"Hey Mai who do you want to fight?" Ty Lee asks as she got work up in thinking about showing off her skills to the Prince. Especially since she finds his fox ears makes him look so cute. She couldn't wait till she has the chance to find out how they feel like.
"A fight," Mai smiles for the first time since the party started, this was the first exciting thing to happen since she got to Metal. "Now that's something I can get into." A spoon full of gravy suddenly stuck the side of her face. Quickly turning to where it came from and the projectile came from the Sand table after Amelia had stamp her foot down on the table making another one of her speeches.
"Opps," Amelia said seeing what she had done as she was in mid-phase in doing another one of her speeches.
"Opps is right," Mai said as she makes a leap towards the young Sand kunoichi tackling her off her chair she's standing on.
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"Looks like the party is really starting to get wild," Lobelia said as she sees two of the girls fighting with a crowd forming around them.
"Someone like you would like this kind of entertainment," Glycine said to the thief.
"Aprile stops those two before someone gets hurt," Naruto said as he could see that the two girls are trying to pin the other down but it would soon turn to using weapons and jutsus. Something that he couldn't let happen, if he's going to one day rule he's going to have to set some examples to show that he could. "And bring them to me."
Aprile didn't say anything as she leaps from her standing position towards the two fighting girls. She landed right next to them and before they could react to her, she japs her fingers into the sides of their necks making them go limp. The two girls couldn't move any part of their bodies besides their heads. Aprile grabs them both up, lifting Mai over her shoulder and held Amelia underarm, easily holding the combine weight of the two girls as she carries them over to Naruto. The crowd parted as she walks pass them only stopping once she's in front of Naruto and drops the two girls in front of him. She taps the sides of their necks and they found that they could move their bodies again.
"Amelia and Mai…" Naruto greeted the two girls as they pick themselves up. "I believe those are your names right?"
"Yes they are," Amelia said nervous.
"Yeah those are our names," Mai said in a boarded tone of voice.
"You two shouldn't be fighting. Someone else could get injured while you two are wildly throwing weapons around," Naruto said as he sat in his chair.
"She's the one who was throwing food around," Mai said pointing to Amelia.
"And you're the one who tackle me," Amelia responded pointing to Mai.
"If you want to pick up where we left off please be my guest," Mai said coldly giving her a hard glare.
Amelia would have too but both of them were reminded of who they were standing in front of. Naruto raise his hand and two circles of fire surrounded the two. They quickly look towards Naruto who had trap them with a jutsu but didn't make any hand signs to do so. All he did was raised his hand and did so and two rings of flames had surrounded them.
"And I thought it were boys who love to fight," Naruto said as he looks at the two girls.
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"Wow… check that out," Irma said seeing the fireworks.
"Looks like he's better at using fire then you are," Cornelia said to Taranee.
"Well he does have the traits of the fox on him," Taranee said as she snaps her fingers making a flame appear on her finger tip.
"I wonder what else he can do?" Hay Lin said as she hovers in the air so she has a better view. Her abilities with wind jutsus is one of the best at their school and is training to learn how to be able to fly. All of her outfits already have small but strong wings on the backs so she can take off whenever she needs to. She couldn't really fly like a bird but she could glide using wind jutsus and the fake wings on her back.
"Hay Lin you do realize that we can see up your dress right?" Will, points out as she could easily from her position look up the silk dress her friend is wearing.
"Hehehee," Hay Lin laughed uneasily as she floated back down to her seat blushing.
Cornelia leaned close to her with a cats grin on her face and said, "Aren't you a bit old to be still wearing undies with pictures on them?"
Hay Lin stunk into her chair blushing very red. Irma followed suit as she leans close to her on her other side, "Strawberries undies you are the youngest of our group." Making, Hay Lin blush even redder and stink lower in her chair as the two girls started giggling at her.
"What do you guys think about Naruto?" Will ask them to get the girls off from picking on Hay Lin.
"He's not bad looking," Taranee said. "And those fox ears make him look cute."
"Forget that," Cornelia said. "I heard from Frankie whose older sister works as a nurse under Doctor Mizuno the royal doctor, that the prince is very well equip."
The other girls all stared at her wondering what she meant by that. Seeing the confuse looks on her friends faces, Cornelia explains. "You know how our bloodline makes us stack when we're all grownup right?" Her friends all nodded as they were all growing up. "Well if it makes women look hot think of what it does for guys."
All the girls blush red as they figured out what their friend meant. They all knew what happens between a guy and a girl as their moms sometimes invite their friends over to have some fun with their dads. In Will's case her mom would spend a night at one of her married friends place hoping to give Will a baby sister. They all learned this in Sex Ed class at their school as it's something that all the girls of Metal needed to know as their bodies started to grow into womanhood. In very big ways starting at the age of thirteen was when most of the girls of Metal started to grow up.
"You mean… that… he has…" Will began but couldn't bring herself to finish what she was saying.
"That right she said she saw first hand of how well endowed he is," Cornelia said as she leans close to her friends to tell them all of the juicy details. Making her friends all blush a very deep color of red as she tells them everything she heard about him and a certain part of his body.
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Back to Naruto –
"Well you two stop all of this fighting?" Naruto ask the two girls surrounded by fire.
"Find," Mai said seeing that she had no choice in the matter.
"Alright," Amelia said wanting to get out of the circle of fire. "Now… could you please let us go?"
"As long as you two don't start fighting again," Naruto said as he waves his hand dispelling the fire rings.
"Thanks," Amelia said as she runs back to her table.
Mai stares at Nartuo, "I heard that you're strong but I would like to see how strong you really are."
"A test of power?" Naruto ask as he waves Aprile and Decapre down from advancing on her.
"Yes a test of power," Mai smiles as she stares at him. "I want to see if you're strong or just another pamper prince."
"Fine then," Naruto said as he stood up from his chair motioning the girls to step away and let him handle this. "A ruler who only gives orders will never gain the respect of the people."
"That's a good thing to hear," Mai said as she watches Naruto stand a few feet away from her. "When do we start?"
"Anytime you're ready," Naruto said.
Mai didn't say anything as she threw stilettos from her spring-loaded in holsters on her arms, readying her legs for when he jumps to avoid her attack. But to her surprise he just stood there as her deadly weapons flew at him. Before it made contact Naruto sprang into action his right hand blurred as he clawed through the air knocking the stilettos out of the air in one clean motion. Then before Mai could recover from the shock seeing her attack handled so easily Naruto hand glowed red, as his clawed hand got sharper. His form blurred as he seem to disappear from in front of Mai.
Mai look around wondering if he had turned invisible like some of these Delmos are able to. Glaring around Mai went through all of her senses looking for Naruto, she couldn't hear him moving, or feel him using chakra, hell she couldn't even smell the prince. She concentrated on an aspect of her bloodline that she didn't use all that often and focused on catching the energy signatures Naruto was putting out, but he wasn't anywhere to be seen. That was quite a surprise, even Ty Lee could be seen when she did this, but Naruto wasn't anywhere to be seen. She grunted in respect of the technique, it was quite impressive and put anything she knew to shame. "Alright, I'm impressed, you can stop now."
"I already did," Naruto said who's standing back-to-back to her.
Mai turn ready to resume her attack when she found her clothes had been ripped to shreds and were falling off. Her holsters were all cut making a clang sound as they hit the floor. She was left standing there dress in only her under garments of a black tank top and shorts, everything else was shredded to pieces.
"The fight is over," Naruto said as he walks pass her stopping once they were side by side. "I could have easily ripped your body apart."
"So… powerful…" Mai said as she had never seen any boy do that before. The sheer power he had used with so little effort and with so much grace… She felt something stirring inside of her, a feeling that no boy she had ever encounter had manage to awaken. She could feel her cheeks growing red.
Before the scene could go further the doors of the ballroom burst open as one of the Nanman soldiers came running in.
"What's the meaning of this?" Amphora shouted to the soldier.
"My queen," the man said. "Someone started attack the camp with fire bombs setting it on fire and now the mumakils are rampaging through the city."
"They're what?" Amphora shouted as people began running towards the windows and outside to see what's happening in the city.
Carline started barking orders for all free guards to go and stop the rampaging beasts before they wreak more of the city. "Naruto stay here while I see to this," she shouted over to him as she rushes out the doors to see the damage so far. Cammy and the other bodyguards quickly rush over to the Prince of Metal as they needed to make sure he remains safe in all of the confusion happening around them.
With most of the people in the room gone, Naruto motions his girls to follow him to the top of the castle. As they neared the back door of the ballroom, Naruto fox ears heard the sound of a crossbow being fired. He ducks down as a bolt flew where his head was a moment ago. Looking up he saw a man dress in a gray-green suit aiming a small crossbow at him. Before he could fire he was sent flying as a busty blond punch him in the face sending crashing into a wall, which left a crater impact where he was sent flying into. But to the woman's shock the man just stood back up and fired his crossbow hitting arm as she raise it to protect her face where he was aiming for. Février stop him as she fired her crossbow sending a bolt into his head, putting him down for good.
"Naruto we got to get you out of here," Cammy shouts not knowing how many there were with that man.
The wall close to them suddenly burst apart as a big dark skin man wearing a gray-green suit, armed with metal gloves punch his way through. He charge at Naruto screaming in blind fury, but he didn't get anywhere close to him. Cammy, Juni, and Juli all struck him from the front and his sides all at once stopping him cold. Santamu followed their lead as she leap through the air grabbing his head and using her momentum twisted his head around snapping his neck. The four girls disengaged from the big man letting his lifeless body to fall to the ground.
Two men leap through the opening that the man made, both armed with swords. They threw their weapons at Naruto not caring what happens afterwards with their weapons gone. Noembelu jumps in front of Naruto and blocks the two blades with her body, the two blades bounced off her steel hard body as she used her bloodline. Satsuki quickly went into action cutting off the two men's arms off with a swipe of her sword. Xiayu and Jianyu pointed their weapons at the two now armless would be assassins, they would need those two alive to find out who had sent them.
A man dress in the same suit as the other four but his jacket is wide open and undershirt untuck, burst out from a second floor window showering the people down below with broken glass. Naruto and the Killer Bees shielded their faces from the broken glass giving the man the time he needed to strike as he fell towards the ground. He kicked off from the sides of a wall boosting his downward fall towards Naruto, his two blades ready to deliver fatal blows upon him. Setsuna appeared in front of her blocking his two blades with an iron staff and kick him away from Naruto and his bodyguards. Looking where he was headed Daredevil saw he's heading for the King of Metal along with a large group of Delmos. Seeing he has little chance of escaping he acted fast and threw his two blades… at Agent Alpha and Agent Beta, the two blades buried themselves into their foreheads.
Daredevil hit the floor and was quickly surrounded by Delmos all pointing their weapons at him. "Who are you?" Hunrok said as he stands in front of the assassin.
"Sorry can't answer that," the man said as he bites down on a false tooth that all agents have incase they were captured. The tooth contains the drug, Raging Nostrum giving him super strength and speed. (3) Daredevil cough up blood as he feels the drug flowing through his body.
"He took a drug," one of the guards shouted. They charge in but to their shock Daredevil jump straight up into the air like he's flying right to the ceiling that was several stories high.
He hanged upside down getting his bearings and launched himself downwards towards Naruto. The Killer Bees leaped into the air to stop him, but the power he now had allowed him to swat all of them away as he powered right through them. Setsuna push him out of the way as Daredevil lands in front of them. She was going to attack but was stop as Naruto pushes her aside letting him face his foe head on. Naruto raised his hand as it glowed red and he clawed the air creating red blades flying at Daredevil. The blades struck him head first, cutting his head into several slices.
"That's for hurting them," Naruto said as he saw how hurt the Killer Bees were.
"Naurto are you hurt?" Setsuna ask him.
"I'm fine it's the Killer Bees who are hurt," Naruto said waving her off. "Get some medic teams here and help them."
"Of course," Setsuna said smiling inside as he's acting like a ruler should, caring for his people rather then themselves. She shouted over to Glycine and Lobelia who are helping the Killer Bees up from where they fell. "Glycine, Lobelia, gathered up the other girls and escort Naruto to his room and stay with him there until its safe."
"Yes ma," the two maids said as they walk off with Naruto along with several guards waving the other maids who are scattered around the room to follow them. The other guest who had stayed during the assault are all being, asked by the guards to leave the building till they cleared everything up and gather anything to link the men to the group that sent them.
"Looks like someone doesn't want Naruto to become King," Hunrok said to Setsuna. "At least we now know who set the fire."
"And I have a feeling that is just the beginning," Setsuna said knowing whoever sent those men aren't going to give up that easily.
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Authors Notes –
1 – The opening song of 'Slayers Next'
2 – The opening song of 'Scrapped Princess'
3 – The drug from Suikoden V. The drug makes the person super human but after it wears off the person dies.
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