Last time, Naruto had made his first impression in Kuoh Academy, getting different results. It was also when he started in his new academy life that he met Rias Gremory, where he couldn't help but be intrigued with since he can sense she was someone special.

Morning

Naruto was, currently, training in the thick trees surrounding Kuoh Academy. He was currently wearing a pair of sweatpants, a black loose long sleeve shirt and a pair of sneakers. Moving with great speed and precision as he held a bokken in his hands as he trained in his kenjutsu.

Twisting, slashing, and thrusting his bokken as he ran, leapt, and swerve in different directions as he continued to advance himself in his sword fighting technique. He has a set schedule, for himself, on what he would be doing for the week in the morning and evening. Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays are physical training days where in one week it's either to increase in stamina/stretching workouts while the next will either being hand-to-hand combat or kenjutsu. Tuesdays and Thursdays are artistic practice in practicing his artistic skills or musical practice string or piano.

As he continued to train, his mind went to what has happened in the past month since he started to attend Kuoh Academy. In a week since he started, he has risen in popularity. His first rise was when the kendo girls spread word about how he beaten up the three biggest perverts where he learned that they were called the "Perverted Trio of Kuoh."

The next step to his rise in popularity was during P.E. class where the boys were off working out on the field while the girls were in the gym. After the initial warm-up of jogging a mile, the boys were separated into 2 teams. The track was located near the school, so anyone in the classroom where able to see outside towards the field. Out of the entire boys, only Naruto wore a white loose long sleeve t-shirt with navy blue accents with the academy logo emblem embroidered on the left breast and navy blue track pants while the rest wore short sleeve shirt (same design) and short with navy blue and white sneakers. The boys didn't like it since they all thought that he was just special or something which they decided to show Naruto on whose top dog in a game of soccer.

The teacher in charge stated that it will be shirt vs. no shirt, which Naruto was in. Naruto asked the teacher to let him switch places since he doesn't want to remove his shirt, but the teacher didn't give him a choice and to man up. The guys made fun of him since he acted like a sissy but quickly shut them up when he showed them which he chuckled at their looks.

Flashback

As one team start taking off their shirts, Naruto walked up to the teacher to ask him to switch teams since he doesn't want to take off his shirt.

"No! I'm not switching teams. You're already given special permission from the principle to wear the winter wear but here, I'm in charge. Now take off your shirt or have a failing grade for the day." The teacher stated he wasn't budging from his decision.

Naruto sigh as he slowly walked away and headed towards the sidelines, where he was going to take off his shirt. Normally, he wouldn't care about receiving a failing grade for the day, but he had his deal with his parents on assuring that if he continues on having an A grade point average he can live by himself. As he walked towards the sidelines, the male members from the other sports club started to make fun of him about taking of his shirt.

"My aren't you acting like a little girl now huh!" said one from the baseball club, where everyone started to laugh

"Do you want a sports bra or a nice blouse…" said someone else where the other guys chuckled at the comment.

The totting continued on until he made it to his destination where he began to take his shirt off, where the sideline was located in front of the academy building, where the people inside the class can see them

(Hercules the Legendary Journey Intro)

Slowly, Naruto placed his hands on his shirt where he lifted it up over his head to take it off. Once he took it off, he tossed his shirt on to the ground where he completely exposed his chest. The male students shut up after seeing Naruto's physic where they were now embarrass themselves in shame as they had a red face on their face, especially from what Naruto has.

Naruto has a muscular yet lean body that would make every guy jealous.

(Negima Ch. 238 pg. 2 Negi Springfield)

Along with his sculptured body, there were some scars on his body. On his chest, a light diagonal slash ran from his left shoulder down pass his heart while on his back, two scars were diagonally cross each other but was deeper. This showed that Naruto has been in violent fights that had sharp objects slice at him.

While stretching his arms and upper body in a way, the teenage boys looked at Naruto while looking at their own bodies, which they drop their heads even more in shame or embarrassment since none of them come close to having a six or even a 4 pack abs.

Naruto then started to walk into the field where he then looked at them with mocking smile at them.

"Now, what's this about their being a girl in this class? I can definitely see a lot of them here." Naruto gestured where he got himself ready for the game.

Before he got himself in position at center field, he looked at them one more time as he said out loud to them.

"Oh and to just let you guys know, the only reason why I wear these track pants is… the gym shorts are too tight and short since it would reveal more than I would like, especially since I don't wear any underwear, just knee length swim trunks." Naruto said with a smirk

It took a couple of moments before they all got the message where they looked even more embarrassed because of the inadequate difference.

(End OST)

End Flashback

It was after gym that he saw the sudden change towards him around the female student body. During lunch, walking across the hallways he notice that all the teenage girls had blushes on their faces and eyes of lust towards him. He wondered why where he then notice a couple of girls were giggling at a cellphone screen. Out of curiosity, he stood behind them to see a picture of himself, bare-chested, in gym class. The girls look back where they blush and ran away in embarrassment. He guess that some girl or girls must have saw him like that were they took pics and sent them around where the whole school now knows.

The final step in his popularity was when he befriended both the Great Ladies of Kuoh, Rias Gremory and her best friend, Akeno Himejima. He remembered that after a week in the school, his friendship with Rias started when they had lunch together where Akeno tag along.

Flashback

Sitting outside underneath a tree that viewed the tennis court, Naruto sat peacefully, enjoying the view, as he ate his homemade lunch (2 ham/cheese sandwich, chips, and sports drink). As he ate, he notice the presence of two people coming towards them. He looked around to notice his classmate, Rias, and someone else behind her walking closer to him.

He looked at them where he politely greeted them. "Good afternoon Gremory-san and… who are you pray tell." Greeting both Rias and her friend who he ask her name as well.

"Good afternoon Namikaze-san. I hope you're having a nice lunch… Oh, the person behind me is my best friend Akeno Himejima…" where Rias introduced her friend behind her.

From what he can see, Naruto couldn't help but think how beautiful Akeno is, where she rivaled Rias in both looks and body. Akeno was also a buxom young woman with very long black hair and violet eyes. Akeno's hair is tied in a long ponytail that reached all the way down to her legs with two hair antennae sticking out from the top and sloping backwards, with an orange ribbon keeping it in place.

"Oh, well hello Himejima-san, I'm Naruto Uzumaki Namikaze. A pleasure to meet you." Naruto greeted the newcomer

"Fufufu hello to you too Namikaze-san… I hope you're having a good first week here in Kuoh?" greeted Akeno

Naruto nodded, telling her he was where he looked at Rias, "So Gremory-san, on your way to eat somewhere or something?" Naruto asked

"Actually we're hoping if you don't mind if we ate lunch with you since I would like to know more about you." Rias explained

"Know more about me? What do you mean?" Naruto asked

"Well, you've been abroad for all your life and it kind of interest me to know where you have lived for all that time." Rias admitted while she actually had a different agenda on her mind.

"Oh, well sure… ok, however you got to answer my own questions from me as well." Naruto asked where Rias nodded in acceptance where both Rias and Akeno sat down next to him.

Rias asked Naruto on where he lived when he was abroad. Naruto told her that because his parents are the owners of a big company, he has moved from Japan to live in the major cities in Europe's countries such as Portugal, Germany, Italy, France, and United Kingdom, as his last visit. He usual stayed in school in each of these countries for two to two and half years before transferring to another whenever his parents have to move because of business.

While growing up he has done several noticeable activities that many European schools had actually wanted him to attend with a scholarship. His parents, of course, didn't want that since they wanted him to be close to them since even with a hectic work schedule, they still tried to be good parents where they did their best on raising him whenever they had time.

His father, that look like an older version of himself as Naruto describe him, has taken him on trips, from fishing, to camping, to rock climbing trips where they not only enjoy the activities, but also had some father/son time where they talk about anything important that was on their minds. He also learned all his martial arts, along with the etiquette that goes along with it, from him since his father was pretty good back in the day since he still maintains his body with training.

"In fact…" Naruto said as he undid his shirt and collar where he opened it up to reveal his chest, where both Rias and Akeno blushed a bit from seeing his well-tone chest but then saw the light scar run diagonally down his left shoulder, "… this scar is something I received from him when I fought my old man, blade to blade." Stating as both Rias and Akeno look at it, then at Naruto since he looked like his scar is a mark of honor for him.

He then talked about his mother as the best, personally, mother in the world where she had done many things for him. She has always been there whenever he felt depress about something, or teaching how to be a good person. Teaching the piano and string musical instruments as well as encouraging him on his sketching/painting hobby. Everyone time he visited his parents during his school's free time, she always made a home cook meal, trying to be the best mother she can be.

Growing up, his parents, whenever he had something important in his life, they would drop everything and come to see, either in his sports team/martial arts competition or either in his artistic/musical events, they would be there to cheer him on.

Once Naruto answered Rias questions, he asked Rias and Akeno about themselves where Rias first explained about herself to him. She said that she's studying abroad to Kuoh from her home since she wants to be more independent for herself. Her parents come from a noble lineage where they are also partly in charge of a business where she was expecting to one day take over. Akeno has lived in Japan all her life where she was decedent of Shinto priests. When Rias arrived, she soon met with Akeno and soon became best friends with her. Rias also explained that she is also the President to the Occult Research Club while Akeno became her Vice-President of the Occult Research Club.

"The Occult Research Club… you mean stuff about the supernatural like Monsters, Youki and stuff like that?" Naruto asked

"Yes… although we are now focusing on more of the eastern mythology such as Angels, Fallen Angels and Devils." Akeno explained

"Ooh…" Naruto said since he was always been curious about such things for some reason, but never actually got into it.

Rias saw the curiosity in Naruto's eyes where she leaned a little closer to him, "Say Namikaze-san… do you believe in such things?" asking the male blonde

Naruto suddenly felt something strange where his vision change to another similar situation but instead of Rias, it was young woman with silver hair (from his painting which he didn't figure it out) appeared in front of him with her hair covering her the top half of her face yet can still see that she was very beautiful where he felt he was at peace. His vision disappeared as fast as it came where his attention was back on Rias. "Well, I can't say that I'm not curious about it… by the way… Gremory-san… you're leaning a little too close to me." Naruto sheepishly stated where Rias looked surprise for a moment.

"Oh, sorry…" Rias apologized to him where she looked surprise about his response.

It was then that they heard the warning bell ring off to alert the students that lunch was finish. It was there that Naruto re-fix his shirt and got up. He then put out his hand where he gently and swiftly pull up both Akeno and Rias from the ground.

Heading back to class, Akeno left to go to her own class which was 2 rooms apart from them, "See you after school buchou. See you next time, Namikaze-san…" Akeno bidding farewell

"Naruto…" Naruto responded

"Nani?" Akeno asked confusedly

"You can call me Naruto…" Naruto said to Akeno

"Well then, please call me Akeno, Naruto-kun…" Akeno said affectionately to him.

"Alright then, Akeno-san." Naruto said

As Akeno left, he turned his attention to Rias, who look a little sad/depress about something. Naruto walked towards his class while he looked at Rias, "Well, aren't you coming Rias-san…" smiling at her.

Rias perked up when Naruto called her by her first name where she saw that he was smiling at her, silently telling her that it was alright to call him by his first name. Rias put on a gentle smile as she walked right next to him, "I'm coming Naruto-kun…" with affection.

End Flashback

Ever since then, his friendship with both Rias and Akeno has progress smoothly to the point where he actually told them where he lived. With his friendship also brought a bit of an annoyance since the entire academy thought that Akeno and Rias are trying to get Naruto to date one of them where they all thought it was going to be a love triangle.

He stopped thinking about on what's been happening in the past month where he focus back on the here and now. He stop his practicing as he went to his gear (academy uniform, school bag, hygiene supplies such as shampoo/body wash, etc. and other things he needed ) to check on what time it is from his cell. He saw that it was only 30 minutes before school started where he decided to call it in for now.

Walking out into the opening towards the Academy gym building where the male shower room is located. The female students that had arrived around the time saw Naruto emerge out of the tree line to see Naruto walking out, covered in both dirt and sweat from the obvious kenjutsu gear that he carried with him. The girls looked at him with lust in their eyes since Naruto's sweat was soaked into the shirt where it outlined his chest for them to see his chiseled body.

Refreshing himself, changing his clothes, securely putting his stuff in one of the Gym locker, eating a protein bar, Naruto went to his class for the start of a new day in the Academy. Upon entering, Naruto was soon greeted by Rias.

"Good Morning Naruto-kun." Casually said Rias

"Morning Rias-san." Naruto greeted back

"So how the second prince of Kuoh Academy doing this morning? I hope your kenjutsu training went well this morning." Rias said as she smiled cheerfully at him with her eyes closed.

"How did you know I was training in kenjutsu? Actually more importantly, why did you call me the second prince of Kuoh Academy?" Naruto asked out of confusion for the last question

"Oh, I just heard it from some of the girls around the school. They said that you were covered in sweat while carrying a big duffle bag over shoulder while you held a bokken in your other hand." Naruto nodding in understanding where Rias continued on, "And for the second question is because the girls sees how polite and respectful you are to them along with having an attractive face, that they started to call you that." Finished Rias where she looked at Naruto to see that he chuckled dumbly at the idea of being called the second prince of Kuoh.

"Naruto-kun, what's the matter? I thought you would like to have this much attention…" she asked him

"Most guys yes, but me, I prefer not to have that much attention drawn to me because of my talent or looks. It's annoying since almost every girl I've met has either wanted to have me as their boyfriend just because of what I can do or whom I'm related to. Personally, I would like to have a girlfriend who was more my friend, like you Rias-san" Naruto admitted where Rias looked a little surprise while having a tint of red on her face.

It took a moment before Naruto realized on what he said where he, with a bit of a blush, excused himself to Rias since class was about to start. Rias accepted it while she took the moment, after Naruto walked away, to go think on what Naruto just told her about having a girlfriend who was his friend.

Early evening

It's been a couple of days since the awkward conversation that he and Rias had. Not much has changed except Rias reaction towards him. He saw that she was trying to get closer to him, but not like any of his fan girls or such, like she wanted to really get to know him. For the past couple of days, she started to open up a bit to him where he also did which felt really nice since, besides his family, he never really opened up to anyone before. He can also feel that he can actually see Rias as more as a friend but wasn't going to try anything until he's absolute sure about it.

Naruto was walking back home, carrying his school bag over his shoulder while his other hand carried his violin case that held his, an original, Stradivarius which he holds with great pride and honor.

Naruto found his instrument in an abandon home in Italy 8 years ago. He was exploring the wilderness around the area since he was on vacation with his parents. As he explored, he found an old home which he remembered the people saying that it was abandoned where no one maintained it which showed from the old and rotting wood that was around it. In his mind, he decided to explore in it just to see where he walked in. It wasn't long before he fell through the floor to the basement. He wasn't injured but was annoyed for falling. He looked around a bit to see where he found a secret compartment. He opened it up to see a few things and an old violin case. He opened it up to see a beautiful violin that looked to be in great shape. He went and took it to his parents where they had it appraised by a professional. It took several days of evaluating where they soon got the answer where they learned that it was an original Stradivarius, changing the total number of original Stradivari instruments from 650 to 651. The instrument belong to Naruto since he found it and the original family that lived in the house was gone. With it, they taken it to a professional to re-maintain, re-tune it and authenticity by the museum of music; Interpreti Veneziani.

For the past couple of years, he and his violin had played in several concerts where many didn't know that the instrument was the real deal where he and his family would chuckle and laugh about it. On a low note, only a couple of people knows about Naruto's Stradivarius where only the Interpreti Veneziani curator, a trusted tuner from the curator and his family.

As Naruto walked towards his home, he made his way to a walking overpass bridge where he spotted something very unusual. He saw from a bit of distance, Issei in the middle of the bridge where he stood in front of a young girl from what he can tell. Now, he knew about Issei from what he's heard from the student body, where he heard that Issei was one of the three perverts, also known as the Perverted Trio of Kuoh. From what's he heard he moved closer where he saw who it was.

The young woman who was next to the young pervert was very attractive with long black hair that reach down to her hips and violet eyes. She wore a school attire which consisted of a dark red jacket with the letter "P" embroidered in gold, a white undershirt, a rebod w, and a green skirt with a thin white strip around the lower end of it.

Getting closer to them since he needed to cross the bridge to get home, he felt that something was off here for some reason. As he got closer, he heard the male brunette spoke out just loud enough for him to hear.

"Alright, I like to go out with you." Issei answered where he then had a blush on face for embarrassing himself when he spoke too loudly.

The young girl laughed at Issei's behavior where he laughed along with her. After a bit more talk, they both exchange digits to each other where they then separated to go home. Naruto can tell by the brunette's behavior that he must be on cloud 9 where he couldn't help but think on how weird the situation is before shrugging it off.

"Who am I to judge? For all I know, that raven hair girl might be into guys like him or she might be just as perverted as him for all I know. Everyone has their own quirk." Naruto thought to himself

The young girl gently smiled as she walked across to the other side while Issei walked in the opposite direction as her. It wasn't till she reach the other side when she caught Naruto walked towards her with his eyes closed and such. She looked a bit surprise but instantly went to her casual happy look. Naruto opened his eyes to take a really good look at the girl where she had admitted to himself that she was a real looker. Just as they cross paths with each other, Naruto's body suddenly snap up where he felt that danger was around. He looked around as he wondered on why he felt like this but didn't see anything other than the raven hair girl. He pondered for a moment before shrugging it off as he left for home.

Unknown to him, there was someone watching the scene that has been unfolding. From out of the shadows, a young girl slightly came out to the open from behind some street signs. She has hazel eyes, white hair where two bangs going past her shoulders and several loose bangs hanging over her forehead while the back has a short bob cut. She wears a black cat-shaped hair clip on both sides of her hair. But the thing about her is that she wore the Kuoh Academy girls' uniform, without the shoulder cape.

When she watch Issei and the girl leave each other, the young girl was about to call her senior but stopped when she saw one of the two princes of Kuoh walking across the same bridge as well where she witness the surprise look he had when he cross paths with the raven hair girl. The young girl watched until the blonde continue his venture back home.

In a gothic room, Akeno was busy making fresh tea while humming a nice melody in doing so. On a coffee table, that was nearby, a chessboard with its pieces were strategically put into certain positions. As Akeno was finishing making tea, Rias walked into the room after taking care of some business. She looked around where she saw the chess pieces. It took her a moment before she made checkmate on the puzzle before her.

"Not bad Akeno, but it was still too easy." Rias simply stated

"Ara ara, that was sure quick buchou… and I thought I made it harder than usual" Akeno responded where she then served tea to Rias.

It was around at this time when the young white hair girl came into the room after coming back from the street. Rias greeted her young friend.

"Koneko… welcome back. Tell me, did anything happened to the target?" Rias asked

"Hai Buchou, he made contact with one of them." Koneko responded

"Hm, I see…" Rias remarked as she thought about the situation. Her thoughts stop when Koneko explained to her about what else she saw.

"Buchou… I also saw Namikaze-san crossing paths with the same person that Issei contacted." Koneko stated surprising Rias and Akeno.

When it came to Naruto, Rias couldn't help but think and blush about the conversation they both had a couple of days ago. She thought about what Naruto told her, about how he wanted a girlfriend who was more like his friend where in her mind she agreed with since she wanted a boyfriend that cared for her as her friend. She thought about Naruto more often especially since he was able to do something that no mortal has ever done before.

"He is certainly an interesting one, huh Buchou…" Akeno stated

"Yes, especially since his weird power actually negated my charm magic on him." Rias added to the statement

Akeno looked curious when Rias explained that for the past couple of weeks, her relationship with Naruto has steadily increase to the point where she can trust him. Of course, the thing that got Rias so intriguing in Naruto was because of the several times she had used her magic on him, he seemed to negate/disregard it in some way or another which interested her.

"I can see why you're so interested in him buchou. If he can negate a simple charm as well as enter a simple barrier without even knowing it, anyone would be interested." Akeno remarked where Rias agreed with her friend. Rias thoughts were interrupted when Akeno continued on.

"Personally, I'm more interested in seeing what's underneath his pants since seeing his chest up-close showed a lot of promise." Chuckled Akeno as she place a hand on her face from imagining it where Rias blushed as she visualized Naruto's chest, where even she admitted to herself that she dreamed about it in her sleep about her laying on top of him and feeling it with her hands.

Her thoughts about Naruto's body stopped when the short petite girl spoke up, "What are you planning to do next buchou?" asking her leader

Rias thought for a moment before answering her young junior, "With Issei, it depends on what he does next. For Naruto, I'm going to go and confront him myself." Stated with a smile

Akeno and Koneko looked a bit surprise on that last part. They both knew that both Naruto and Rias has gotten closer in the month but they didn't think she would confront Naruto by herself, which they figured that she use some other type of method. One thing is for certain, tomorrow morning is going to be exciting.

Till Next Ch.

Also, I'm having a bit or writers block with my other stories, but I'm still writing them bit by bit. So my followers don't worry, since I am not going to abandon it.