Naruto's eyes open to a world of dark deep beneath the school grounds. He felt his legs forcefully regain control after the recent Kyuubi takeover. He tried to recollect his memories the best he could and successfully remembered some of them but as to how it happened was still a mystery. The thinking quickly halted after a wave of stinging pain hammered away in his skull. It was starting to feel like his whole body was being reattached like some kind of doll.
Dim light from a room close by was the only sign of life in this hopeless chasm. He desperately sought for it, a change of scenery, a new face, anything to get a good grip on reality. He struggled to get up and keeping his balance proved to be a difficult obstacle.
Swaying from side to side in an awkward fashion, falling unto the wall for support when his knees gave out, it was a terrible experience. He thinks hard on something happy.
Louise.
The poor girl must be worried to death. An accident he was involved in? She's also aware of his strength so something taking his time like this must be big. He swallowed hard. There's no reason to be weak right now. He has to be strong. He has to take away all the pain and be strong. It's his only choice now. For the one he loves…he has to draw his strength from that.
He arrived to the room and found the Headmaster sitting all alone on a wooden stool, a baby blue colored book at hand and an intense aura emanating from him.
Naruto had always thought this man to be wise and his little trap door while leading him to it was impressive as well. He wondered what would have happened had he not change.
His question was quickly answered when their eyes met and the old man fumbled the book to the floor, terrified.
Naruto was taken aback. "Did you seriously have no idea what you'll do next?!"
"Y-You're back?!" He brought out his staff. "I didn't want to do this but you leave me no choice. I'll have to use my secret move."
Naruto quickly rushed his hands in defense. The pain had disappeared after the initial shock, also a weird aura omitted itself around this room. "I'm back to my old self, don't worry?! Anyways…what's this feeling I'm getting from the room?"
"Health regeneration…" The old man sighed in relief. "We both took a bad fall…I broke a hip…so I casted a regeneration circle to get me back to shape. I would've brought you too along but I didn't know which would awaken."
Naruto laughed. "Well, you were prepared right? You had that secret move."
"I was really just going to hit you in the balls and run." The old man snorted, "I don't suppose the other one is immune to that kind of pain."
Naruto lopsidedly smiled but kept a mental note to make sure he wasn't the one feeling that kind of pain. "I can't say if he is and I don't intend to find out."
"Anyways." The headmasters face became serious. "I can't have any of this to happen again and I can't push it under the rug. I'll have to extract you and Louise from this school and it'll be acted out tomorrow in the morning. I like you and Louise as a familiar and student but I cannot help you even if I wanted to. What you committed was an act of terrorism to the school."
"L-Louise? What does she have to do with this?"
The ancient wizard closed his eyes. "While it's true she plays no part she had played the biggest one, summoning you here, and to be a noble that is expelled from this school is more worse than death. Being expelled from this school goes down bloodlines. We will not allowed another person with her family's name to be a part of this school."
"That's nonsense!" Naruto yelled out. "You don't curse an entire family on one persons action, let alone that person having no reason why I'm here. I'm here not because I was summoned by her, I'm here because I was summoned for the greater good. I'm a hero for this world, sure, a worn out hero at that but a hero nevertheless. Don't do this headmaster, there's another way."
The headmaster looked at the marble floor for a while but lifted his head not seeing it. "I'm sorry Naruto but your actions come with consequences…I can't simply pretend they don't exist. I hope you tell Miss Louise before then. It's better she hears it from someone she cares about."
"That's why you're telling me?!" Naruto spat, "So you don't have to see that you're killing her dreams!"
"No…" The old man solemnly answered. "I'm telling you in hopes that you'll prevent her from hurting herself. You may not understand it with the world you were previously in but there have been cases of suicide…if you truly love her protect her. Never in my life have I issued out an expulsion but because of your careless actions, I must make it so."
Naruto didn't say anything after that but his thoughts rampaged his mind, running laps all over his brain. How was it his fault? He can't control it. But the school houses very important people, it only makes sense why they prioritize safety above else. With him going crazy he's certainly a hazard to everyone attending this school but why does Louise get punished too? Of course…there's always a person who has to be blamed for. He can't be blamed for his actions because he's just a lowly familiar. They'll blame the master for not being able to control him. He hated it. He hated it so much it was burning into his skull that if anything, anything he'll do as a hero in this world it would be to abolish this ridiculous class system.
"Now then…" the old man opened a secret passageway using the torch as a lever. It revealed a spiral staircase leading up and before Naruto could step first, the old man quickly squeezed himself in front of him. They walked up and found numerous of reporters carrying notepads ready to bombard them with questions. The old man raised both his hands into the air, drawing the most attention to himself and crackled his signature old smile to let Naruto pass by without any interruptions.
The headmaster might have done something cruel…maybe…but he knows his heart is good. He didn't want to grant the expulsion. He had to. Even now when he has already set it in stone he's still trying to save Naruto the time to find Louise as soon as possible and spend enough time with her before he had to ease the information in. Naruto sighed and walked forward.
It was until he felt a hand touching him by the shoulder. It felt nice. It was warm, soft, something that gave him hope in an odd way. He turned around and saw the young woman. It might be a reporter who had a sharp eyes.
"I'm not answering any questions." Naruto quickly said.
"It's not that…" the womans voice held something urgent in it. "It's something else."
Naruto was still analyzing her appearance as she was talking. She had beautiful blond hair, a shapely figure and wore thin glasses which hinted that she was a reporter but he was captured by it as well. Her posture enhanced it by a lot more too, whoever she was, she knew how to pose properly. He knows his words on attractiveness might not mean much, but if it does make her day at the very least he made one girl happy.
"You're really pretty." He compliment her, also changing the subject completely.
"O-oh?" The girl blushed madly red and curved her body to the side.
"I'm really attracted to girls with glasses but sadly…I'm apparently owned and after today I might even be dead so I'll see you when I see you." Naruto turned to walk away but felt his shoulder being grabbed again.
He had already healed his wound and was back to normal so pulling him like a ragdoll wasn't going to work. He stood in place and cleverly smiled. "If you want me somewhere all you've got to do is ask." He said, trying to sound cool but what happened was the complete opposite.
"N-No I don't, kidnapper!" The young lady yelled. She pulled out a syringe and stabbed Naruto on his neck, and a neon-red liquid disappeared into his body. Naruto stumbled away from her grip and had his hand on his shoulder. "Are you crazy! You just stabbed me with red liquid. Nothing good comes from neon-red liquid! What the hell was that!?"
"I-I don't know…" The girl dropped the syringe in panic. "Wardes…"
"Wards?! Who the hell's Wardes!?" Naruto yelled before she could finish. "Did you seriously grab a liquid you don't know what it is and stabbed it into someone you just met!? Seriously, it was neon for crying out loud!"
"W-What did you do to the princess." She tried to remember why she did it but even herself felt she was starting to sound a lunatic. Naruto didn't know how to comprehend it. He met a girl, called her attractive and got stabbed with a syringe. Not a normal knife, a syringe and then proceeded to place a neon colored liquid into his body. He felt his legs turn wobbly and stumbled to the floor.
The girl tried to assist him since she really didn't intend things to go this way and after she's been complimented too and her love life being so stale. Another girl appeared, this time a familiar one.
"Naruto!" she ran to him. Her pink hair jumping on her shoulders. She knelt against his body as Naruto started to feel the world around him disappear. "What happened? Naruto, tell me!" she didn't even notice her sister, Eleonore, was standing right next to her.
Louise pushed Naruto face near hers and Naruto was still able to barely speak. "Louise…" the medicine must have increased his emotional feeling since he felt tears streaming down his cheeks. "I'm sorry. I'm so, so sorry." He too had forgotten the girl who put him into this state was standing close by. "I screwed up. I really did. I hope you don't leave me because of it. You're expelled because of stupidity, my inability. I'm so, so sorry Louise. Please don't leave me."
For the first time, someone so strong, someone so powerful like Naruto was crying. Louise had her cheeks rest against it, wiping away his tears with her face. She always wanted to prove herself useful to him and now she can.
"I don't care…"
"B-But don't you love this school?"
"I do…I love this school. I love the friends I made, I love the memories we had and I'm very proud and happy I got lineage I have but Naruto…" she whispered in his ear right before Naruto passed out.
"I love you more than all of it…"
"Hiyah!" the culprit revealed herself and stabbed Louise with the other syringe she had. Unlike Naruto she quickly passed out and she looked at her sister and her boyfriend on top of each other unconscious. "I'll have to deal with you later…"
Wardes appeared from a curtain and they both made eye contact. Eleonore started walking away but stopped for a moment in front of Wardes. "I guess you saw all of that…"
"Yea…" Wardes replied. He was supposed to be Louise's fiancee. And it looks like it's not going to happen. He bent over to pick her but Elonore got in the way. "I don't suppose I should allow this."
Wardes shook his head and insisted. "I'm not going to do anything…but please…if it's only one last time. I want to hold her like a princess again."
Elonore waited a few seconds before moving out of the way.
A/N: Yea, I know, long break, but well worth it right? Just kidding. I'm at a point in my life where I have no idea where it's going to lead me. Whether it's a boring life or an interesting one. I feel like I'm lost. So I don't know if I can be consistent with chapters. I'm just a lost person right now and nothing in my life is going to be consistent at the moment. I guess I hope for the better…
