Chapter 8

"Then what are we waiting for?!" Eleonore, the eldest daughter of the Valliere family, struggled again Wardes, Louis's fiancé. Wardes desperately tried to stop her from killing herself, knowing the damage that monster could do still sends chills through his body. Even then, he could feel Eleonore's rage floating from her body and was unsure if he himself signed his death warrant.

"My little sister is in grave danger and you hold me back?! How can you call yourself a man you less of a man! Let me go or I swear I'll turn you into a disgusting cockroach!"

Wardes looked concerned for a moment but stood strong, "Elonore, if that monster finds out we picked up his scent he'll kill Louise on the spot. We can't fight him yet until we gather strength, that monster took down the whole royal guard and me and if we march right at him he'll tear all of us to pieces. I've survived death the first time but I know fate won't be so nice on the second."

Eleonore finally relaxed and Wardes releases his hold, "If we don't have a plan we'll be dead…" he said.

"I don't care about your stupid plan!" Elonore shouted and sat beside the curb. She waved the cab driver away and the man nodded, leaving at her instructions. She buried her face between her hands and felt like crying, "My sister…my poor, little sister…" her saddened expression quickly changed and fire burned in her eyes, "I'll whip her good for this! Not only did she take some commoner as a familiar but a criminal!? I'll make her sore!"

Meanwhile, hundreds of miles away with the academy ground for noble magic were Naruto and Louise. Naruto held a make-shift water gun and had a playful look on his face while Louise was barely keeping up. This training was for the purpose of controlling Louis's magic, Naruto is naturally good and teaching and helped Louise manage to squirt water from her wand, one of the most simplistic spells there is.

"I…" Louise tried to catch her breathing, "I order you to stop running at once!"

Naruto stopped. Louise sighed in relief and pointed her wand at him, "You fool. Did really think that'll I'll fight nobly!?" she grinned at her plot to splash Naruto with water. Naruto just shrugged, "I don't care I just want you to actually shoot me and cool me down. I won't even move, I swear."

"Wipe that nasty grin from your face and be prepared!" she shot at Naruto but the water curves to the side and misses him completely.

She shot again but the water just refused to hit him. Naruto laughed loudly at her pitiful attempts, "You can't me even if I don't move! It's almost unfair I'm armed with a weapon at all!" he laughed some more. Louise's face turned hot pink as she pointed her wand more threateningly, "Shut up!" she warned but Naruto was only getting started.

"Louise the zero." He playfully sang and Louise gave him a look that was ready to kill. Naruto noticed the blood lust and his expression quickly evaporated, "Oi, oi, what are you planning on now?"

Louise smiled, twitching with anger that seeped from her skin and shot a fiery explosion at Naruto without any kind of hesitation. Naruto tried to dodge but wasn't fast enough to complete dodge it and was hit only slightly. His body flew backwards and flipped a couple of times before he was covered in dirt and scratches.

"Naruto!" Louise ran to his side, her anger disappearing and a massive regret filled its role. She leaned down to him and held him on her lap, tears brimming from her eyes, "I'm sorry!" she cried out. Naruto had one eyes open and the other painfully closed but he was still smiling.

"It was my fault." He replied, "I shouldn't have pushed you like that but on the bright side you've actually hit me." He slowly tried to sit up but Louise held him down.

"Don't move too much, you're hurt."

"Oh?" Naruto resumed his position, "Are you concerned about me?" Naruto teased once again and Louise dropped his head on the hard floor immediately. Her face was redder than a rose and looking the opposite way with her arms crossed, "I-I'm only concerned as much as any master would for their familiar…baka…" one of her eyes slid open carefully, "Anyways, do you have any idea how fast you're going? There's no way I can keep up."

Naruto looked shocked, "Really? I wasn't even trying."

"Pfft!" Louise didn't believe him, "Trying to act high and mighty in front of your master? Well, I appreciate the thought." She started chuckling to herself thinking Naruto couldn't possibly get any faster Naruto's expression wrote a different tale. He snickered back, "Princess…" he said, "…I don't mean to be rude but never underestimate a shinobi. Your mana pool can barely even cover half of my full speed."

Louise's eyes widened as Naruto's body evaporated in thin air until instantly appearing in front of her, "But I don't even need half of my speed to dazzle you." He spoke cockily and vanished again. Louise felt her eyes darting from one point and another and each time Naruto would teleport to another different area with his stupid signature smile.

"Impossible." Louise stepped back, shivering from the difference in power, "You can't teleport. It cannot be done without a magic seal."

"Oh." Naruto stopped for a moment, "I'm not teleporting. I'm running." He disappeared again. Louise felt almost uncomfortable. His mere physical abilities were unlike any she ever seen before even with magic. Naruto really is an amazing familiar but with anything that's amazing there has to be flaw.

"You didn't acquire that power by yourself." Louise said unexpectedly and she didn't know she hit a landmine. Naruto stopped, his body frozen and his face turned dark. Louise never saw Naruto so lifeless like this before, "N-Naruto?"

"That's right…" Naruto didn't move a single inch, "My power is my own but I didn't obtain it by myself. At first I had help…"

"Then that's just like any normal person." Louise weirdly tried to make him feel better mostly because Naruto was acting strangely.

"No." Naruto corrected her strictly, "I didn't get help like any normal person would. I got help from a monster…" his voice became sharper and sharper as if he was holding a knife towards Louis's neck, "I am a monster…"

"B-But even then…" Louise spoke even though she was scared, nearly frightened to death, "…you still had time when you were alone, when you helped those you thought were your friends and at that moment it was special to you. But no one was born strong. Everyone had to work hard. Even monsters…" she stepped closer to Naruto but Naruto didn't change. He was still staring coldly to the ground but he was listening and that's what she needed most from him right now.

"A-A-And you don't need them anymore. You don't need anyone but…" she hesitated, unsure of how he really felt, "…but me. I supply your mana now. I am your master and you need me…just as much as I need you. I don't need you as a strong familiar, a strong slave, not as a hero…I need you as you. You are Naruto. You are my Naruto."

Naruto's eyes widened and he felt heat flowing from his face. He turned his head to Louise and not a single shred of coldness remained. He felt tears brimming from his eyes and immediately couldn't control himself. He ran as fast as he could which meant Louise didn't see it coming and embraced her. He felt her warm body pressing against his, the reassurance that somebody that really loves him and accepts him for who he is real.

Not as a monster, not even a hero but to accept him as who he is which is Uzumaki Naruto. Louise now felt her blood rush to her head so fast that she nearly faint. She wasn't used to Naruto's teleport-style speed and was completely unguarded but when she felt his heartbeat beat through his chest. It was so fast, maybe even faster than he was and even though it was frantically beating. It was also calm and gentle. As if he was caressing her softly in her sleep.

"Louise…" Naruto finally spoke. He broke only slightly from the embrace just so he could look into her eyes. He didn't say another word and was ready to accept her just as she accepted him.

Louise's looked confused for a moment before she realized what he was doing. Her face was covered in red as she moved her once gentle hand and turned it into a fist, "Ehhh?!" she swung it at full force and knocked Naruto right on his face.

"Y-y-y-y-you turn me down not even a day ago a-a-and you want to k-k-k-k-k-kiss you!?"

Naruto opened his eyes, finding himself on the ground. The girl isn't strong enough to use her magic correctly or supply him with a steady flow of chakra but damn, he touched his sore face, she can throw a punch.

The sunset touched the horizon after classes and Naruto carried a woven basket down the stairs filled with used panties, not dirty, just used. Louise isn't a dirty type of person, which made cleaning it all the more easier.

It was until a maid had followed behind him, looking tired and concerned.

"What's the matter with you?" Naruto started the conversation. The cute maid stopped in front of him and had her hands on her knees, frantically trying to talk.

"The headmaster w-wants you." She spoke.

Naruto looked at her and then at the panties, "I guess I can do this later…" he started walking with her as they made their way through the courtyard. Naruto didn't want anyone trying to steal something that belonged to Louise so he carried it with him.

"Do you know what the Hok-" he stopped himself. That's right. There's no Hokage here, just a principal of some sort, "What the headmaster wanted from me?"

The maid managed to act normally now and had her hands folded in front of her. She resembled a peaceful dove ready to make amends between two hostile factions.

However, she shook her head no and replied, "No. I'm just a maid here but I think it's because of what he saw in you during the talent show. It was really impressive Naruto."

Naruto nearly stopped, "You know my name?" he returned to his previous form, "Ugh…what's your name?"

"Oh, how rude of me, my name is Siesta. I work here as a maid. Not many of us can be mages after all."

"Mages?" Naruto looked confused, "So you're a normal person?"

Siesta nodded, "Yea. Only noble families can be mages and it eventually created a class system where the mages are always upper class and the normal folks are bottom tier. We end up as slaves or sometimes worse?"

"What do you mean worse?" Naruto raised a brow, looking a little uncomfortable now and hoping she doesn't say what he thinks she's going to say.

Siesta looked sadly out one of the windows they were passing by, "Human trafficking." She told him, "They sell children up to eleven years old. But ever since Henrietta was at the throne, the trafficking looked to be getting weaker."

"Henrietta?" Naruto looked a little dizzy after hearing her name. It was like there was something familiar about her but at the same time it was a missing memory inside his head.

"Queen Henrietta? Do you know her?"

The name was said again and Naruto felt a sharp pain prick at his brain and was brought to the floor. The panties scattered. He desperately tried to fix himself but his head became more and more painful. Siesta looked confused and tried to help him up but Naruto was already drifting off and on from the real world.

"Henrietta…" he said again, and then the memories of what happened flashed inside his mind. He could see a dungeon, deep within the school and the queen tied up, bound by chains, "Henrietta…" he looked desperately at Siesta and could feel another familiar presence drift within his memories, "Siesta…save the princess…" he looked weak, "Contact the royal guards, tell the headmaster that Henrietta is trapped inside the dungeon."

"Naruto?" Siesta didn't hear the news that Henrietta was kidnapped, "Let's go to the nurse I'm sure you're just a little tired."

She tried to grab his hand but Naruto pushed it away and held her sleeve tightly, his nails digging into his skin with blood dripping from it, "Please Siesta…I can't hold him back for long and if I use too much chakra I'll kill Louise…please…" he begged.

"Hold back from what." She stepped backwards and saw Naruto curled up in a ball. His body shivering even though it was a nice, warm evening and his eyes shut painfully tight.

Siesta looked at him one last time before racing down the halls. She passed the corridor and blew pass several students who were concerned for her frantic state. She ran to the headmaster's door and was ready to fly in with what she heard from Naruto until she felt a hand touch her shoulder.

She could've sworn that Naruto was at least a hundred feet behind her but here he was, standing so close to her with a red ooze flowing from his body, "That won't be necessary Siesta…" the voice spoke, cold and harsh as a sharp chop hits her on the neck and she faints.

Naruto opened the headmaster's door to find the old man with a long staff beside his desk and a piece of parchment written in blood as it should be when royal blood is concerned. He looked at Naruto, focused and unfazed by the immense amount of power coming from him. He stood up with his bony legs and thin arms and held his staff in front of him.

"What should I call you, stranger?"

He asked. Knowing perfectly well that it is not Naruto in front of him anymore.

The young shinobi smiled, fangs and his whiskers grew three inches longer. His eyes in a frenzy, bloodshot and as if his pupils were vibrating from the energy escaping his very skin.

"Kurama…boy…" he called the headmaster a boy, basically explaining the difference in age and wisdom, "…call me Kurama."

The old man circled Kurama and Kurama copied his movements until they were both on the opposite direction. The headmaster was in front of the door that separated himself and his precious students while Kurama was near his desk, smiling like a devil.

"What have you done with Naruto?"

"Him?" Kurama chuckled softly, "I've put him to sleep. This world is a really nice place, it evaporated the cage that held me due to the lack of chakra that was given to him. Now it is my turn to play and I don't play nice…"

"That's good…" the old man responded, feeling the sweat from his forehead drip onto the floor "I don't play nice too…"

He opened the tip of his staff and a button appeared. He quickly pressed it and the floor below Kurama disappeared. But Kurama focused his red chakra and floated in the air, grinning madly.

The old man didn't wait for a second for him to react. He ran with full force, as fast as his skinny legs could carry him and tackled Kurama to throw him off balance.

Normally, a small attack like that wouldn't do anything at all. But Kurama didn't expect him to do it. He thought he would use his magic abilities but the old man knew too well that the only abilities he could cast that can even scratch the dangerous fox took time he didn't have. He could also sense Naruto preventing Kurama from using his most destructive abilities. This was also another reason the fox fell through the hole. As they fall he threw his staff into the air and whispered a few words. The staff floated and a magical barrier appeared, covering the hole from any kind of escape. He felt his life-force diminish as he did it.

But he was perfectly aware that this was the only chance he had to buy them some time, even if it mean shortening his already small lifespan.

Kurama looked at the light diminishing from his view as he descending into darkness. Naruto was still fighting for control of his own body and for a split second they switched again. He whispered quietly to himself, hoping his feelings would reach her.

"Louise…I need your help…"

Louise was sitting on her chair in front of mirror and felt a cold breeze rush through her, "Naruto…?"