Chapter 7

A/N: Just as a reminder, this isn't canon. I know Naruto has chakra reserves that can make him last for days but you know…it isn't cannon. I'm just saying, in the beginning I made Naruto a security guard; it shouldn't be surprising that he doesn't have the same chakra reserves…you know…I mean, it's too late to change it but like I try to make things make sense. You'll just have to wait and find out why Naruto can't use his reserve, but anyways, thanks for reading and I enjoy reading reviews, feel free to review if you like it!

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Naruto felt her warm lips touch his, the embracing feeling that wiped away his loneliness. He's always been alone, partially because it was his fault but there some cases which it wasn't. Sakura for example, he had no hard feelings for her when she chose Sasuke. It's only natural that she did and he expected nothing of it. Hinata was his fault. The girl could only wait so long before someone else stole her heart.

He isn't unattractive. He's actually well built with admirable features.

There were other girls in the village who took interest in him, being the past hero and all that really made him a love interest but he wasn't satisfied to an extent that they were only interested in him because of who he was.

That's why…he breaks apart from Louise. Louise looked shock, saddened but nodded her head with a resigned smile, "I…" she struggled to say. Naruto couldn't say anything. He just stood there and watched her. Louise continued on, "I…I'm sorry. It won't happen again." She then walked away from him and went to the door, "I need time to clear my head, at least replace the sheets."

"Louise…" Naruto finally spoke but she was out the door, "…I don't want to hurt you…"

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Louise walked outside the door and into the corridor. The nicely painted pictures on the wall of past great people surrounded her. She wondered if Naruto's face will be there, "I'm sure of it…" she whispers to herself. Louise on the other hand isn't so great. There's not a doubt in her mind that she won't share the same statures of other great magician despite coming from a noble family.

She went outside because the pictures and decorations were making her sick. The cool, night breeze gently grazes her skin, creating a slight, but pleasant chill. Her eyes stared at the moon, its white light revealing itself in her eyes.

She wasn't mad at Naruto for rejecting her but she felt an empty spot in heart because she did. She believes it's her fault for rushing it so early but she didn't regret it. That's how she felt for him and she acted out how she felt, something she rarely does at all.

The candle lanterns hanging above as light post to cover the otherwise dark sidewalk provided aid as Louise sat on a bench that placed in the middle of it all. The night sky, decorated with starts gently caresses her with its light and soothes her complicated soul.

"Naruto is a hero…" her heart wavered, "…and I'm a zero. That's how it should be." There were tears adjusting within her eyes, "Am I not worthy of being Naruto's master? Of course I'm not."

"Of course you are!" a random female voice appeared from nowhere. Louise looked around, nearly jumping from her seat, "Hello?" she calls out and the voice answers, "Hello Louise."

"Where are you?" Louise asked and the voice responds yet again, "I am everywhere...I am the trees, the water, the stars. I am darkness and I am the candle that lights the darkness. I am despair and hope, courage and will. But the real question is who are you?"

Louise hesitates to answer. The voice sounds oddly familiar but she can't place it because it sounds like something out of this world. It's like an echo from the future, coming to her. For some reason though, she answered, "I am Louise."

The unknown voice laughs, softly, and slyly, "Are you just Louise…? Am I not talking to Louise Françoise Le Blanc de La Vallière? Are you not the daughter of a prestigious magus family?"

Louise looked trouble and the constant teaching of her family to be proud of her lineage even though she's not kicks in, "Y-Yes. I am that Louise."

"Hmph." The voice snickers, "Then why are you sad? You should be more confident in yourself. Is there a reason you shouldn't be?"

Louise's head goes limp, wounded but at the same time thankful for her consideration, "Tons of reasons I shouldn't be. It's because of me that Naruto," she pauses and decides to explain herself, and she really needed someone to talk to anyways, "Naruto is my familiar. He was summoned to this world for some reason and he's meant to be the hero of this world. I just know it."

"You really think so?" The voice asked, "Because it is I who brought him here and it is I who can take him away. Are you tired of Naruto, Louise, because if you are, it is simple for me to make him disappear?"

"Impossible." Louise stated, loudly and defensively, "I'm the one who summoned him here. He belongs to me! I won't let him disappear."

"But you are only dragging him down. Your chakra pool is terrible for a skill set of his. You can barely keep him alive, if you truly care about him…"

Louise does care about him, more so than Naruto himself believes. The kiss was basically her being overcome by her emotions. She wanted to kiss him since that talent show, since she returned back to her room. Her feelings for him are strong, "No." but her words counter what she feels.

"I'm selfish. I can't be trusted with Naruto but I'll get stronger. I can't have him leave me. I'll get stronger and he can use me whenever he wants."

"Even if he wants to?" the voice said.

Louise looked at the earth with more intensity because of what she said. That's right. What if he wants to go? Should she stop him? He wants to return back to his world or is he content with this one? If she spends time with him, create bonds, overcome obstacles and at the end he goes, will she break?

"Then…" she was ready to resign, "Then…I'll have to let him g-"

Her voice was cut off by another voice, one she is familiar with and can immediately put a face on it.

"I'm not going anywhere…" Naruto stood there proudly at the side of Louise. Louise looked stunned. How long was he there? Naruto smiled at her but immediately switched back to his serious expression, "As long as I'm needed here. I'm not leaving. My existence in this world is to become its hero and Louise's is here to help me. I don't care if she's weak, I don't care if I can't use my full power and abilities. I am a hero and it's about time I give myself credit for it. I don't need my full skill set to be a hero because being powerful was never what a hero is to begin with. Being a hero means standing up when you're hurt, being a hero means helping people even though you're weak, being a hero means never giving up...and I'll be damned if I give up on this world because I can't use my full power. If I did that, then I'm no hero!"

There was a silence. Louise looked up to him, astonished, stunned and even the mysterious voice was taken aback. It was until the mysterious voice breaks the silence that Louise snaps out of it, "I see…then time will tell if you can back those words up, Uzumaki Naruto."

The voice disappears. Naruto looks coldly at the black air until returning back to normal. He looked at Louise and grinned, "I've come to say that I've replaced the sheets and your bed is ready…master." Louise eyes glowed, "Y-you called me master."

"Don't get used to it." Naruto warned but smiled anyways, "You must be tired." He looked at the giant clock in the middle of the school, "Climb on my back. I'll bring you home." He bent over and Louise was reluctant to get a piggy back ride, "I-I don't need it. I can walk on my own." She tried but the incident still shook her up. Naruto offered his back again and Louise grunted, "I-It's not because I like riding your back but because I'm weak right now, you got that?"

"Hai, hai," Naruto responded.

They started walking back to the dorm when Louise lightly punches Naruto on his back, "Why did you reject me…baka…." Naruto shrugged, "It's not like I don't find you attractive or anything but I guess it's because you're something I want to protect and being with me in a relationship…might hurt you."

There was a hint of shock in Louise's eyes as she said, "Really?"

"Really, really…" Naruto told her, "I hate to overuse this pathetic line but it really isn't you, it's me. Maybe if we're in another world…then maybe…"

Louise rolled her eyes, "Considering you're not from this world and we shouldn't have met at all, I think right now is the best case scenario…" The stars wrapped its light around them as they continued to playfully argue back and forth until reaching the house.

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In the middle of the darkness of what was a rather extravagant home was a woman dressed in magnificent clothing and wore glasses that she pushed up in the bridge of her nose. Her eyes darted back and forth as she climbed the staircase and knocked on a door with an odd rhythm. The door opens and a man dressed in a suit of armor walks out and examines the lady. He nods his head after identifying her.

The lady looks discretely inside and discovers a small light with grim faces all around, "Is it true?" she asked. The faces didn't answer, but looked elsewhere, distraught, "Is Queen Henrietta really missing?"

One of the man, dressed in sleek clothing which made it easier for him to move sighs, closing his eyes with a stressful expression, "That seems to be case…"

"How?!" The woman demanded, her glasses sliding down which she habitually pushes back up, "You're supposed to be watching."

"And I have…" the man responds confidently but it quickly disappears with what he says next, "But…we were quickly defeated. I've never met a soul strong as this one, luckily, I've managed to produce a video using one of my spells and I've caught the man's appearance."

"Then let us see." The woman quickly said and the man proceeded to show everyone in the room. The intruder could be seen easily wiping out the royal guard which he then went inside Henrietta's room and kidnapped her. He had a strange, red aura about him and blond hair with whiskers at the side of his face. The woman recognized the man. She saw a picture of him in the newspaper when she found out her sister won the talent competition with an amazing familiar, "That's…" she paused, wondering if she should reveal that it was Louise's familiar. Naruto Uzumaki.