Yuki was walking in the hallways of Kuoh Academy with her bag, she was currently on a mission of great importance. A mission that several people seemed to have taken upon themselves to complete today...mostly due to her friend's bad luck no doubt.

The mission? Catch 'the Naruto'.

She ignored the fact that she just treated her friend as if he was an animal.

It seemed that the Student Council under Shitori Sona was currently hunting down her friend in order to force him to go to detention for all of the classes he has missed. Not only that, but detention seemed to include remedial classes for any students that were failing their classes. A measure seemingly directed by the kaichou herself.

At least that was the reason yesterday...she had no idea why they were chasing him now. Maybe for the same reason, or a new reason entirely?

Nevertheless, the moment he heard of their hunt, Naruto had ran as fast as he could to dodge these 'punishments from hell' as he called them.

So her mission was simple. Find Naruto before the student council caught him so that they could begin their tutoring sessions.

The kaichou should be reasonable enough to see that her tutoring would help make the blond a better student, he was a human that needed to integrate into modern society after all. Despite all of his ridiculous claims that he wouldn't need education for anything useful, she was sure that he just needed a friendly push in the right direction.

So she was searching for her blond friend, she figured that if she looked for the area that seemed to have the most commotion, then she would find her objective.

Where was that currently?

Well considering the dull roar of noise that was coming from outside the building, she thought that she could make an educated guess.

But before she could go down the stairs...

"Nonaka Yuki-san."

The hero immediately ceased her movements and briefly had her hand twitch.

It was itching for the comforting handle of Sakuya on it's palm.

She sent a side-glance towards the one who called her name. Slightly wary that she would speak to her now after all of this time. They've been doing a good job of ignoring each other's presence so far...so what changed?

"...Gremory-san. Himejima-san." Yuki intoned while unintentionally clenching and un-clenching her fists, while she now wanted to be on better terms with the devils of Kuoh Academy...she didn't feel comfortable facing them without her blade.

Old habits die hard it seemed.

Blue-green eyes trained themselves on yellow, as their owners continued to stare one-another down without speaking. The contest was ended abruptly though, as one person realized that they wouldn't be alone in that hallway forever.

"Buchou." Akeno said simply, trying to get her friend to concentrate on the task at hand.

It seemed to have done the trick.

Rias politely coughed onto her hand in order to collect her thoughts, this wasn't exactly easy to say. She has been taught to fear and consistently stay vigilant against the legendary heroes of old since she was a child.

Now there was one in front of her.

She didn't trust her. Not for one moment. Especially when the lives of her Peerage were at stake on that trust.

But she trusted Naruto to be a reliable third-party. That was enough for her for the moment, but this still needed to be said.

"Nonaka-san. We have been enjoying somewhat of a...status quo haven't we?" Rias asked rhetorically, while inclining her head politely.

Yuki nodded cautiously, she knew what Rias meant. Despite her earlier conviction of making allies with the devils here, she was thoroughly uncomfortable with approaching them without either Naruto...or her sword. The devils seemed to share the same conviction as she did, so there was a somewhat unofficial status quo in effect.

They avoided one another like some sort of deadly disease.

That alone was actually very satisfying for Yuki, as the simple fact that they haven't attempted to kill each other yet was actually quite the achievement. Whenever devils and heroes have met, conflict always ensued, so she was actually content with the baby steps regarding their relationship with one another.

Yet here Gremory was, doing...something.

"Yes. I suppose we have Gremory-san...that isn't a problem is it?" Yuki asked with a steady stare.

Rias did her best to ignore the annoyance that she was beginning to feel, she was the diplomat between the two. She had to keep her cool in such delicate situations, she was practically raised since she was a child to do such things.

Didn't make it easy though.

"...I felt that considering the circumstances...that we should resolve our differences for now in order to promote harmony with our little group session in the future." Rias said simply with a politician's smile.

Yuki stared at the red-headed devil blankly. Circumstances? "I fear that I have no idea what you are talking about Gremory-san."

Both devils turned towards one another in confusion. Did Naruto not tell her about the training session he proposed yet?

"Hasn't Naruto told you...? Well, if not then the responsibility falls to me it seems. Earlier today Naruto has suggested that everyone involved in our little 'pact' should go on a training trip. All in order to better prep ourselves for future conflicts and to improve relations with each other. You aren't aware of this?" Rias asked with a curious look. They literally talked about it yesterday...so surely.

Ah.

Nonaka wasn't here yesterday was she? They don't live together either, so school was probably the only time they can meet each other.

He was currently dodging the relentless student council at this very moment as well. Apparently he pranked the student council room in retaliation for the morning chase that they instigated yesterday...so he probably wouldn't have had the chance to tell her.

Yuki widened her eyes at the new information. When had this happened? Why didn't Naruto tell her?

Looking at the hero's shocked reaction, Rias concluded that Naruto definitely has not spoken to her yet. "I see...you two have much to talk about. I only wished to propose a...'truce' for lack of a better term. That way we could all get the best experience from this trip, what do you think Nonaka-san?"

Yuki was still slightly stunned from the rather new and abrupt information, but she was cognizant enough to nod her head at the high-class devil's words. A truce sounded like a good idea considering the circumstances.

But she still couldn't quite believe that she was agreeing to what amounted to a cease-fire between a group of devils and a hero...

"...It's quite surprising that we are even talking about this isn't it?" Yuki voiced her own amazement at what they were even contemplating. Her words caused Rias' eyes to widen slightly as well.

She didn't really think about it but...yeah. A truce between supernatural factions was one thing...but a truce with a human hero in any capacity was something of a far-fetched idea.

Yet here they were.

"...Yeah...you're right Nonaka-san. Let's work hard together ok, 'hero'?" Rias said with a small and tentative smile. She then extended her hand to shake.

Yuki stared at the hand.

She took it in a handshake. "Yeah...let's work hard 'devil'." Yuki said with a small smile of her own.

Akeno couldn't help but smile warmly at the sight, it seemed that the times were changing. Who would have thought it possible?

If this was possible, what else was possible she couldn't help but wonder? Real peace with the other biblical factions?

For a split-second a gruff-looking man with black hair and beard appeared in the forefront of her mind, she shook away the image and frowned darkly.

...Yeah right. As if that was possible.

"Hey! Yuki!"

Everyone immediately became stiff as a voice called out to the hero. The hero in question knew that voice however, and couldn't help but internally sigh at her friend's bad timing.

Especially when considering the company she was in.

Naruse Mio finished walking up the stairs and spoke again. "Hey hey Yuki! Have you seen Naruto? We were going to talk about something, but he disappeared again..." the young girl complained before stopping herself after realizing that the bluenette wasn't alone.

Rias stared at the girl that was addressing the hero, she felt like she was looking at a mirror for a moment. They shared quite a few physical similarities with each other. But was more important to her at the moment was the fact that she felt that the girl wasn't normal.

She couldn't feel what energy the girl had, but it was definitely something...why wasn't she aware of her before now?

Mio for her part was panicking slightly, of all of the times to meet the little sister of the current Maou Lucifer...especially when she wasn't as good as Maria at hiding energy signals.

She was good enough at it that they wouldn't sense her, as long as she wasn't close by anyways.

At the very least she doubted that the older devil could sense her demonic energy. So she could simply play ignorant for now...just in case.

"Ah Mio...now really isn't the best time." Yuki mumbled, hoping that the younger girl would take the hint and leave. But it seemed to be too little and too late.

"I'm sorry. We haven't met before, my name is Gremory Rias and this is my friend; Himejima Akeno. Pleased to meet you." Rias said with a pleasant smile, still slightly shocked at the presence of what was very likely another supernatural being. Seriously, she was beginning to worry that she wasn't very good at governing her territory...

Mio immediately bowed in a show of respect to her senior. "My name is Naruse Mio, I recently enrolled into this school thanks to my...onii-san." Mio said with slightly gritted teeth, still embarrassed that she had to call Naruto that in public.

Rias pondered the name for a moment, she could have sworn that she heard the girl's name before...

Wait...a brother?

"Wait. Your older brother wouldn't happen to be Naruto right?" Rias asked with widened eyes, so this was the blond's elusive sister?

Considering Naruto's penchant for surprising people, she supposed that she shouldn't be surprised at his little sister's lack of presence until now.

Mio simply nodded in confirmation, unsure of whether admitting to the fact would be good or not. All she knew about the high-class devil was the fact that she had formed a pact with Naruto...but she had no idea if she was genuine in her positive demeanor towards the blond.

Well, she would find out in a moment she supposed.

Rias nodded at this and smiled at the younger girl, if she used the same reasoning with Nonaka then it was very likely that the girl in front of her had no idea of her brother's scheme.

"I see! Well then it's very nice to meet you at last Mio-san. I was just speaking to Nonaka-san here about your brother's newest hare-brained idea, do you know about it?" Rias asked cheerfully, wishing to make a good first impression on her fellow red-head.

If she had to guess after seeing Mio's twitching eyebrow though, she'd say that she had no idea either.

"Let me guess...I'm involved in this little idea of his aren't I?" Mio groaned while pinching the bridge of her nose.

The 'Two Great Ladies' just smiled at her guess while Yuki just shrugged.

Awesome.

"Mou! Naruto always does this! He does whatever he wants without anyone's approval or anything! What if I have plans or something when this was gonna happen!?" Mio complained, feeling a small headache begin to coalesce.

If she brought up the issue to her psuedo-brother, she could already imagine his response...

'Eh? Whatcha mean I promised to not do anything stupid? Are you implying that my plan is stupid!? Oi! My plan is absolute genius dattebayo!'

Mio placed her head into her hand...he would definitely do that...

"Ufufu...it seems that foxy-kun can make things quite difficult for little Mio, doesn't he Buchou?" Akeno giggled with hand covering her mouth daintily. But her king didn't respond to her words.

Though the queen couldn't help but be slightly surprised at the thoroughly understanding look that her king was giving the younger girl.

Rias walked up to the girl and placed her hand on the younger girl's shoulder.

"...It's tough right? To have such an energetic older brother that constantly does random things without telling you? To have him do things that embarrasses you all the time?" Rias asked softly with an understanding smile.

Mio looked up at her fellow red-head with slightly teary-eyes. She understood the trials of a little sister with an overly energetic, but still well-meaning older brother? That could only mean...

"You have one too...?" Mio asked hesitantly.

Rias nodded solemnly, an unfortunate truth.

All was silent for a moment as both young teens stared at each other in the eyes, conveying their understanding of one another before...

"Rias-sempai!"

"Mio-chan!"

Both girls suddenly embraced each other! Tearing up as they finally found someone to share and understand their frustrations over their big brothers!

"Ara ara, it seems that they will get along just fine." Akeno said with a small smile, she supposed that considering the shenanigans of Sirzechs-sama and foxy-kun...they couldn't help but bond quickly over their shared 'pain'.

Yuki for her part just sighed melodramatically, she was worried for nothing it seemed.

Now that the introductions were taken care of, she supposed that she should re-focus her objective back towards finding that elusive blond friend of hers.

"Where are you Naruto?" the hero wondered aloud.

Naruto was running back inside the high school section of Kuoh Academy.

Why was he running you ask?

Well...

"Today is the day I catch you Uzumaki!"

Yeah, the student council was at it again. His current chaser; Saji-san, was trying pretty desperately to catch him this time around.

He wasn't doing a good job at it.

Apparently this latest chase was started because of the prank he pulled on the student council...which in turn was caused by their attempt to take him to detention yesterday.

Why this guy was crying angry tears while has was chasing him was beyond him though.

"Damn it Uzumaki! Because you flooded the entire room, the kaichou had the entire student council stay behind and redo all of the paperwork that we have done! You soaked all of our work in that flood damn iiiiiiiiiittt!"

Ok...so maybe he did have a somewhat geniune reason for getting angry at him.

"But more importantly...your prank got everyone wet! That would have been a perfect staring opportunity with their clothes sticking to their skin...but you did it while I was out! WHY!?"

"THAT'S WHAT YOU"RE PISSED ABOUT!?" Naruto shouted out incredulously, the water thing wasn't meant for peeping shots!

Speaking of water...this guy wasn't caught in his prank in the student council room...

That had to change, his title as a pranking master was depending on that.

That's why he grabbed a water bucket from a student that was holding it up for punishment outside of a classroom. Rebels gotta look out for one another anyways.

After that, Naruto ran into a art class that was still in-session, much to the students' and teacher's frustration.

"Uzumaki! What the hell are you doing!?" the balding teacher roared out in anger as he saw the blond menace run into his classroom.

"Sorry teach! Needed something real fast! See ya later!" Naruto shouted in response with an easy-going grin. While he was responding, he quickly grabbed some super glue for his newest prank and left the class as fast as he appeared.

Saji kept chasing after the troublemaker, intent on catching the blond and giving him sooooo many detentions...

Detentions for the rest of his life.

But before he could catch Uzumaki and extract his vengeance, the delinquent came running back at him with a bucket of water! Saji immediately got ready to tackle the blond, but before his very eyes he vanished in a burst of speed.

Naruto quickly pushed the bucket filled with water over Saji's head and then with incredible speed and practiced hands, glued the teenaged boy's collar to the bucket.

The end result was a soaked Saji that was flailing around trying to get the bucket off of his head.

"Grblganslgh!? UZHUGAKI!" the bucket-head screamed out.

The shinobi admired his handiwork and gave himself a pat on the back for protecting his title as 'master of pranks' before running from the student council member. Time to get away before any of his comrades found him.

He decided to just hide inside the classroom that he was close to, better than finding a new place or staying 'on the run' so to speak.

He opened the door to the classroom and shut it before anyone saw him enter the room from the hallway. He turned to face the students inside the room in order to-

"Naruto?"

Naruto glanced at the source of the voice and waved lazily in greeting.

"Yo Issei, sorry for barging in but kinda in a hurry." the shinobi said with a toothy grin, completely ignoring the flabbergasted looks he was getting from the other students.

"You! I remember you!" a boy with glasses shouted out and pointed an offending finger towards the blond. Naruto looked at him for a moment, feeling like he met him before...

Then it clicked.

"Ero-megane!" Naruto said with wide eyes. "I totally forgot you existed for a while there!"

The dubbed 'perverted glasses' just scowled and retorted. "Never mind that! You promised me something right!? You promised that you would get me a woman! Where is she!?"

Naruto blinked.

"...I just said I'd try to see if there would be any offers. I never promised you that you would lose your virginity or anything..." Naruto said with dull eyes, he quickly glanced around the room to see if there was anyone who would take said offer.

As he thought, the second he looked around all of the girls there immediately crossed their arms in an 'X' in order to announce their refusal.

Naruto just gave the perverted boy a helpless shrug. "I tried."

The teen just sat down in gloom at his 'horrible' loss in fortune, but another boy immediately went by his side in order to comfort him. "Don't worry Motohama! You can get rid of your frustration with a new porn video that I got! You're not alone in this battle against popular guys!"

"Matsuda...!"

The two boys hugged each other and reveled in their own pathetic pain.

Naruto just scratched his head, thoroughly confused at the turn of events that have happened. He turned to ask Issei about what's up but...

"I know right you guys!? Death to all popular guys in the world! How dare they experience the wonderful sensation of losing their virginity!"

He forgot that Issei was an idiot too.

"Get away Issei! You are a part of the popular group now too! Don't think we didn't notice that blond beauty that was in your house...!" ero-megane shouted out in a jealous rage.

Ah...he must be talking about the nun; Asia.

Issei tried to deny the charges, but the accusation was already out.

"Huh!? That beast has a beautiful girl in his house!? He must have blackmailed her! Or maybe he's keeping her captive! You better let her go Hyoudou!" a brunette girl called out when she brought out a shinai to attack with.

Naruto quickly decided that this class was a bit too insane, so he decided to make his escape and find refuge in another class. But before he could leave, he noticed that there was a girl with glasses standing close to him. He couldn't help but notice the glint in her pale yellow eyes.

She was staring at him very intently.

"...Not bad Uzumaki Naruto. Not bad at all."

He shivered.

Why did he suddenly feel so...violated?

Yuki figured that she was getting close to Naruto after walking past some evidence of his recent...actions.

One of which happened to be a rolling around Genshirou Saji, who was trying to get a glued bucket off of his head. He was even screaming quite a few obscenities while he was at it.

Ignoring the strange scene, she kept moving forward. That seemed to be relatively recent so he shouldn't be too far...

"Sorry! Gotta go...like...now!"

A blond bullet sped off from a classroom and crashed into the hero, nearly sending the two sprawling to the ground.

Yuki blinked as she recognized the blue eyes that met her own.

"...Found you Naruto."

Naruto groaned. From the frying pan...into the fire huh?

The worst part was that he promised to do these tutoring sessions with her. So it wasn't like he could just escape or anything.

The only reason that it didn't happen yesterday was because Yuki happened to be absent, now he had no excuse!

Well, he supposed he could do his best to postpone it...

"Hey wait Yuki! I got classes still so can we do this-"

"You are already skipping classes and you are obviously going to keep skipping classes." Yuki retorted before he could finish his sentence.

...

"Yuki! As class representative, you shouldn't be skipping classes! Let's do this lat-"

"I have received the full support from our sensei in my endeavor of tutoring you. He allowed me to skip classes today." Yuki relpied quickly.

Damn it sensei...! You definitely allowed her to cut class just to fuck with me!

He'd add him on his hit-list later!

Naruto tried to think of another excuse to latch on to but he immediately felt himself getting dragged through the school hallways by the hero of Kuoh.

"Let's begin our first session Naruto. We have a lot to catch up on." Yuki said with a comforting smile, trying to convey how beneficial this would be in the long run.

But in his fear, all Naruto saw was a distorted smile from the young hero.

"Nooooo! I don't wanna learn damn it!"

Classes have officially ended.

Mio was quite happy today, she made a new friend that she could share her embarrassing stories to! To think that her new friend would be directly related to the current Maous though...

She shrugged her shoulders, not like it was too big of a deal. Rias seemed to be a genuinely good person, so she wouldn't judge her because of her family. Especially when considering all of the shit that her own family relations have caused her.

Speaking of family...

Now that her classes have officially ended for today, she could now search for her constantly missing brother. Hopefully he wasn't out fighting life-and-death battles like the last time he went missing...

But she trusted him to keep his word, more likely he was just running away from the student council again.

As she was looking for her missing sibling however, she ran into a rather interesting sight.

The student council was escorting what looked like...a bucket-man away.

Well...not something you can claim to see everyday, but this was a good chance to ask about the blond's whereabouts.

"Kaichou! Wait up!" Mio shouted out to the retreating backs of the group as she jogged to reach them.

The entire procession stopped in order to wait for the red-headed teenager. The student council president moved up to acknowledge the young half-devil as she rushed towards them.

"Do you need something Naruse-san? We are rather busy at the moment." Sona said crisply, she wanted to get that silly bucket off of Saji's head as soon as possible. It wouldn't exactly reflect on the student council too well if one of their members was looking like this.

"Of course kaichou. I'm looking for Naruto right now, he said he wanted to talk to me and I can't find him. Do you know where is?" Mio asked quickly, hoping that they might have a clue.

Sona sent her a small and inexplicable smile, one of genuine happiness. But she couldn't help but notice that her eyes seemed to be taking some slight sadistic pleasure from something...

"Why...I do actually. Check in the library and you will find your missing brother." Sona said slyly, immediately afterwards she motioned for her student council to move again.

As they left, Mio was greatly puzzled over what Sona just said. Naruto...Uzumaki Naruto...her foolish foolish brother was in a library!?

Also, the Shitori Sona she knew never acted like that before...

Well, she knew where to head to next at least. So she quickly jogged towards the library in order to find more clues to this mystery.

"Uhhhhh..."

"Come on Naruto. When was the first shogunate established?"

"...Damn it...I don't know! I'm not too good with names..."

Naruto had his hands over his head as he tried to stop the colossal headache that was forming.

Yuki sighed at his answer. "The family that formed the official shogunate won overall control of the country in 1185, but only established official control in 1192."

...

Naruto moaned into the table as he repeatedly bonked his head onto wooden surface. He could only remember this kind of stuff with sweeping generalizations, not the very specific stuff!

...Like dates and names of dynasties...and stuff.

"Damn it Yuki...this isn't going to work. You should be proud that I even remembered the heai...no wait...heyia? No! Heian Period! You should be proud that I remember about the Heian Period instead of pushing me to remember more ya know!?" Naruto complained with a twitching eyebrow.

But this only received a passive stare in return from the bluenette. "We wouldn't have to cram all of this information if you studied in the first place." Yuki intoned with a slight glare.

He truthfully had nothing to say against that.

"But still Yuki! I really don't have to learn any of this! I'm telling ya that I will never use this information ever again-!" Naruto started before wincing as a flying projectile hit him in the forehead. He glared at the perpetrator, that devil woman over there...

The librarian.

The elderly woman just glared at him while throwing an eraser in the air and catching it, it was a show of force. She was threatening to throw another of those damn rubber erasers at him again...!

She'd get hers!

Yuki sighed at the blond's hostility to the chief librarian. The elderly woman hated when the silence of the library was broken and all perpetrators were punished with a precisely aimed eraser to the forehead. It legitimately hurt as well.

Mostly because no one expected such a frail-looking woman to throw so hard.

Naruto just grumbled to himself and sat down again to continue glowering at the history textbook in front of him. He was actually making a lot of progress, the problem was that she had to deal with his continuous and ridiculous claims that he would 'never use the information' once he was done in Kuoh.

Didn't he know that it would look suspicious if he worked at a low-end job while he was extremely wealthy? As humans they needed to fit in the modern world, so he couldn't be uneducated in the basics!

As a friend, it was her duty to stop Naruto from making silly decisions because of laziness!

"Hey Yuki...can we take a break? My brain is fried and I really don't want to keep reading about the Kamakura..." Naruto said tiredly while scratching his head.

Yuki stared at the blond for a moment before nodding at his request, she had something to talk to him about anyways.

"Alright Naruto. But first there are some things that we have to talk about." Yuki said quietly while moving up from her seat opposite of the blond to the seat right next to him.

Naruto raised an eyebrow at the move and couldn't help but remember that the hero had no sense of personal space. But her tone shifted to a more serious one, so he assumed that she moved so that there wouldn't be any eavesdroppers. "Alright. What is it Yuki? Sounds serious."

Yuki nodded. "Remember that call that I received at the abandoned church? Well it was from the leader of the Hero Tribe...he wants to meet me in order to discuss the recent events surrounding Kuoh Town. He also wanted to personally speak with you Naruto."

Naruto narrowed his eyes at that, the leader of a faction wanted to talk to him? Personally? Guess he got big names interested in him now. "Any idea why he might want to meet me Yuki?"

The young hero simply shrugged, she honestly wasn't sure.

"But...I do trust him Naruto. He's a good man." Yuki said with a comforting smile.

Naruto's eyes softened at that, so he's got Yuki's approval then...

The shinobi nodded decisively, meeting with such an individual could be nothing but good for him. He could get information on the individual who is leading the heroes and maybe find out more about the faction as a whole. The only thing he had to truly worry about is a double-cross...but since Yuki trusts him, he would trust his integrity.

"When can I meet him?"

Yuki smiled at Naruto's question. "The coming weekend."

Naruto nodded at that and began to think about meeting with such a person...he doesn't have much experience with treating important people with a lot of respect that their positions granted them. At most he treated such people formally, but never with outright deference like most people...

He wouldn't start now either.

Before he pondered the question further, he heard the library door creak open and saw Mio enter the library.

The young daughter of the original Lucifer pinned Naruto with a stare before walking towards his table.

Yuki glanced at the teenaged girl with interest as she stopped before the two of them with her hands on her hips. Obviously at least somewhat annoyed.

"Naruto. I can't really believe what I'm seeing right now...but I will ask later. For now, we have to talk about your lack of information-sharing skills." Mio said with a dry expression.

Yuki blinked at her words. Wait...

Naruto widened his eyes at her words. Wait...

"Ah right! Mio I forgot to tell you that-!" Naruto began, but was quickly silenced when an eraser smacked him in the head, most likely caused by the evil old lady.

"Ah. So you were going to tell me at least. But when were you planning on telling me this Naruto? This was pretty important to know about, especially when it involved...well...who it involved." Mio said while consciously trying not to talk about supernatural things in a library.

Naruto was about to defend himself, but he felt a sharp poke hit him in-between the sensitive juncture of his rib cage and his hips. He glanced at Yuki who was responsible for the annoying feeling.

"...You forgot to tell me too." Yuki said with dull eyes.

...

"I know! I was going to tell you two, but I was distracted by the evil student council and-!"

Another eraser was all he got before he finished his fast-tracked explanation.

He mentally decided that the librarian was going to go onto his hit-list.

No...she was going onto his shit-list. She was just that annoying to him right now.

As Naruto was distracted by the flying rubber projectiles, Mio only just noticed how the two individuals in front of her were sitting. Literally arm-to-arm, with no personal space being considered.

Mio blinked for a moment.

"...Yuki? Aren't you sitting too close to Naruto?" Mio asked hesitantly, pointing out how close they were to one another.

The hero looked to check her current proximity with the blond. They had to sit like that in order to talk without anyone hearing their conversation, plus they were friends right? This was what friends did, at least she was pretty sure they did. "I don't see what's wrong with how close we are Mio. Is there something wrong?"

"Uh...no not really. Just wanted to point that out I guess, not really a big deal or anything. Yeah, forget I said anything." the young half-devil reassured quickly and somewhat clumsily.

The hero looked at the young red-head with a tilt of her head before shrugging and watching the spectacle of the librarian face off against Naruto.

Mio just plopped down onto another chair, inexplicably annoyed for some reason.

AN: Not much more to say about this. Sorry for slightly slower updates, but important test time for me. So the next chapter might be a little later than usual as well. Welp, we will see. Anyways, this was kinda written without as much diligence as usual. So point out any errors if there are any please!

Also there has been questions about why Maria hasn't brought up the whole Master-Servant Contract thing. Well considering the obvious effects and why she even brought it up in the first place in canon, I decided to either not do it at all or to hold off on it. Mostly because the optics of those sexy scenes would make all of the slow relationship-building that I have been doing...kinda worthless.

That and Maria had no reason to have Naruto or Mio use it to find one another in case of danger. Naruto's house was stated to have fuin seals that muffles energy signals earlier in the story.

As for if I will do it in the future? Maybe. Sounds like fun tbh. :p

Finally for plot, the meeting with the leader of the Hero Tribe is really soon and will probably be the main focus of the next chapter, so cya then!

-RekkingPride