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Chapter 6: Protection

Naruto's Journal

Everything needs protection. Babies that have just been born and those that are still waiting to come into the world. Things that are worth a fortune and those that are free. Everything needs to be taken care of. Everything worthwhile needs to be protected from danger and no one knows better than those in charge of the task.

And that is why we're here to learn to defend the earthly ones from our enemies. We're here to earn our halos and learn to become guardian angels. The rule we live by is simple but important.

To guard and protect.

But seeing professor Hiruzen leave the school ground I can't help but wonder whose going to protect us.

"You'll be left alone for two days. During that time we will be reporting your progress to the high spears." Hiruzen said to his class receiving interested and curious looks.

"Remember though the school may be closed for the weekend each of you will still be expected to carry on with your earthly duties." Hiruzen said to his class receiving understanding and determined nods. He had nothing to worry about he did have a class full of angels. They will get their jobs done no problem.

"The low spears want to know everything about you. But you'll be on your own while we make our way to sulfur city." The devil professor said to her class. Already seeing the open conniving looks as they already planned with their friends everything they could get away with while the teachers were gone. She sighed in pride at her class for their diabolicalness.

Minato walked into the school building with his usually dark hoodie on lifted up to hide his face as he carried in with him a small black box. Careful no to shake it around else he hurt the creature inside.

"I can't believe it we have to entire school to ourselves!" Hinata said her face lighting up at just the thought of all they could do. Naruto seeing this going very bad very quickly decided to speak up to his friend.

"Get a grip girl. The professor was really clear the fact that we're alone doesn't mean..." Naruto started playfully but was cut off by Tamara's laugh.

"The voice of our conscious speaks. Come one relax Naruto. I mean think about it Hiruzens not around and we have some freedom." Tamara said walking up closer to her friend.

"But the professor was really clear... you know?" Naruto said still not completely on board with what their friends were thinking.

"Clear that we can't sleep in late and have a little fun? That's not against the rules right." Tenten said they weren't really asking for much. They'd still be good little angels they just didn't want to be perfect little angels.

Naruto nodded in understanding at her logic. He guess that wasn't so bad.

"So where should we start guys?" Tenten asked already looking forward to a little down time. They were't to worried about their earthy ones. If they had time off the devils probably did too. And their was no way a devil was going to work over time if they could get away with it. They had nothing to worry about from them.

"The cafeteria still open on the weekends isn't it? I'm a little hungry." Hinata said giving her two cents and was practically decided where they were going to go.

"W-what! No! What do you mean!" Choji said shocked at Sasuke rejection of their invitation to invite him for some fun. Choji, Sakura, and Ino had all come to Choji's and Sasuke shared room to ask if he wanted hang out. But only really seemed interested in relaxing in his bed.

"I'm not in the mood to play games with a bunch of angels." He said in a very uppity way. Like ruining an angels day was just to above him. Strange seeing as that was a devils very past time. It was practically in their DNA.

"Who said anything about play! If I remember correctly I believe the term we used was crush them! Crush they angels!" Ino said not believing her ears as well as their other friends. Sasuke was usually the most excited about messing with angels then any of them. It was a real shock to see him turn them down. Choji's jaw still hasn't left the floor yet.

"And humiliate them. Yeah now that's what we're talking about! We don't play with angels. We just intend to teach them a lesson when they're profs. aren't around." Sakura said getting worked up at just thinking about how that sugar sweet angel beat her at her own game during their last challenge. OOOOOOOOH she would get her back for that.

"Yeah exactly!" Choji said finally speaking up. Sasuke just continued to lounge back with his hands behind his head his eyes closed and a content smile on his face from his relaxed position as his friends continued to try and convince him to go out with them.

"Not interested." He said simply turning away from them on the bed cocky smile still in place. He been in this particularly good mood since that stupid star had disappeared from his hand. It felt good to never have to care about anything again. He just wanted to soak in the feeling.

"I'm not about to waste my only Tsunade free weekend. Nice speech though." Sasuke said waiting for his friends to just leave and give up.

"If Sasuke doesn't want to come maybe it's because he has alternatives." Sakura said trying to get a rise out of her friends she succeeded when he once again turned to face them.

"Enlighten me Sakura!" Sasuke near screamed at her.

"Well just maybe after your last little encounter with Naruto your afraid to face him!" She she challenging Sasukes pride as a devil. He stood up quick from his bed with a look of rage getting into Sakura's face.

"I'm not afraid of anything! Or anybody! But my hands are completely tied! According to the VETO we can't touch them no matter what they do!" Sasuke said using the only rule devils follow as an excuse why he didn't seem to want to hurt Naruto. Sasuke let this himself also believe this lie as he said it. Rather than figure out the real reason he seemed to be losing interest in hurting Naruto and more interest in just being around him.

"Who said anything about touching them?" Sakura said with a conniving look on her face.

'We're going to have so much fun today." Tenten said as she walked down the hall with her friends.

"If you say so." Naruto said still not feeling a hundred precent okay with their do nothing day. His mind couldn't help but drift to Konohamaru and Sasuke. Wait. Sasuke? Why think about him. There is no way that devil is doing in over time work.

As the group of friends walked they didn't notice the hooded figure following slowly being them. They also didn't notice as the figure lowered down and placed the box on the ground opening it. A spider crawled out slowly as Minato chuckled evilly.

(High spears)

"Welcome professor Hiruzen. Let's began with Hinata. How is she proceeding in this stage?" The high spears said voice filled with kindness hidden behind their great wall thrones. As Hiruzen was surrounded by what seem nothing but an open list golden and welcoming room in the clouds. With no visible exist or entrance.

"She's doing very well. Hinata started on the right foot winning her fist competition with Ino. Hinata over came her on Ino's own territory." Hiruzen said pride filling his voice.

"We're well aware of that professor. Have you forgotten that we're omniscient? What interest us is what you have seen in Hinata's heart." The higher spear said her voice calming in her explanation.

"Well she's full of life. Loves nature and flowers. She carried her camera everywhere. She's naturally very curious. She has a tendency towards over indulgence." Her said with w fond smile on his face.

Hinata walked with a happy smile on her face carrying her cake as she walked towards her friends.

"That's some diet there." Naruto teased seeing how quickly Hinata gave up on her diet which he was glad for. She did't need to diet she had the perfect figure as is.

"That desert looks sinful." Temari said with her own amused smile.

"It's not it's just a slice of cake. But to make up for it I'll do gymnastics all afternoon." She said with a smile making her and her friends all laugh at her antics.

She was about to take a bite when she was hit in to bag goth the had with some type of vegetable that made her land face first in her cake.

"Nice shot! An angel food cake with a difference. How do you like desert Hinata!" Before Sakura could even finish her taunt a plate of flood already had crashed into Ino's face for throwing the votable earlier cutting her off mid laugh. Sakura gave a gasp of surprise not believing the angels would throw something back so quickly. Being the goody-two-shoes they are they thought they'd at least have to work a little harder for a reaction.

"delicious, don't you agree?" Hinata said smuggle a hand on her hip as she face the pissed of devil.

(Low spears)

"Ino is always elegant so refined." Tsunade said about her student. She stood on a cover like place that looked like the inside of a volcano. Standing on a single platform of rock surrounded by lava.

"We also know that she lost her first battle with her angel advisory." The low spears answered with a deep more masculine voice.

"That may be true but I am sure that she'll triumph over her soon." Tsunade said with complete faith in her students evil abilities.

Mean while the angels and devils were in an all out food fight between each other across the cafeteria. Despite this fight having started of with anger they were actually all smiling and laughing a bit. Even the angels which would be very surprising to see. Despite the food fight being as a group they were mostly aiming for their own devil and angel advisories.

They were so engrossed in their fight none noticed the spider that was creeping up behind the devils. It weaved it's way through the stomping feet and moving bodies.

Naruto winked at Sasuke before throwing a plate of cake at him which he dodged with a little difficulty but the amused smirk never left his face.

"Have some desert!" He held before chucking a apple pie at Naruto hitting him dead center in the face. A pissed looked was revealed on Naruto's face when the plate fell.

"That's enough!" He shouted not noticing the spider by his boot that was going to bite him. He flew up just in time to dodge it.

"We're acting like a bunch of children! If it's a fight you want then let's do it the right way! In the challenge room!" Naruto shouted face contorted in determination.

Naruto, Tenten, and Hinata faced Sasuke, Sakura, and Ino in a desert setting in the challenge room.

"So why'd you bring us to the desert?" Sasuke demanded from the angels.

"That should be obvious. There's no one else around to hurt." as Naruto said this excited looks began to cross the devils face at the thought of going all out.

"Your the ones were going to hurt." Sakura said with a gleeful yet strangely evil look. The face only a devil could pull off.

"I wouldn't be too sure of that." Tenten said with her own look of anger.

(High spears)

"Tenten is exactly what her nickname implies. Kind always ready with a smile on her lips. I would say she's a genuine soul..." Hiruzen said but was cut off by one of the spears.

"With her head in the clouds?" They said with only slight amusement.

"Yes but for an angel that isn't exactly out of the ordinary is it?" Hiruzen countered back.

"Video fly." Tenten said and her pink wings lit up brightly seeming to project a angel like armored huge robot with a sword on the ground before it took solid shape landing kicking up dust everywhere.

"Wow an archangel robot! Cool move." Naruto said as he and Hinata came up to Tenten's side proud of her.

"Thank you." Tenten said feeling very happy at her friends praise.

"Your turn! Let's see how you handle that!" Hinata said to the devil confident they couldn't top Tenten's move. For extra measure the robot blow up a mountain rock formation they were floating above. Making the Devils move away in shock almost getting hit.

"I'm sending this thing to the scrap yard." Sakura said getting mad at having almost being hit.

"Metamorphosis fly." She said turning herself into a giant secant like creature with legs and spike like things goings down her body.

Sakura charged the robot head first. It struck her with it's sword not seeming to cut her but it did send volts of electricity coursing through her body painfully. She wrapped her tail around it trying hold it still as she bit into the side of it's helmet. But it got out her gasp to soon to do any real damage. She went to bite again but it shot it's destructive laser from earlier at her sending her flying back.

"Do something already! Don't you see that Sakura is making us look bad!" Ino said to Sasuke to get him to help. Though she'd never admit it was because she was actually worried about their friends who was now currently hurting on the sandy ground.

"Okay play times over boys and girl now it's my turn." Sasuke said cockily.

"Fire fly." He said his wings themselves seeming to lite on fire. He flicked them towards the robot setting it completely alight. Allowing for Sakura to change back to herself.

"Hinata it looks like Tenten's arch angel could use a hand mind stepping in?" Naruto asked Hinata but she was already flying to help before he could finish the question.

"Medium fly." She said her songs turning into lightening as thunder clouds formed making it rain above them. The rain quickly put out the fire on the arch angel thankfully before it could be too badly damaged. But Tenten still had to call it back as it couldn't fight anymore or she risked breaking it for good with no chance of repair.

"See that? Typical devil fire. All flash and no real substance." Naruto said mocking Sasuke for his failed attempt at destroying the arch angel.

"You got some nerve! I'll squash you you stupid flying bug!" Sasuke said flying up to Naruto. His temper always did get the best of him.

"Chill out Sasuke their nothing you can do!" Ino shouted trying to calm her friend. This was getting out of hand even for them. But Sasuke just continued his path to Naruto when he started getting to close for Hinata's liking she stepped up.

"The VETO you can't touch him." Hinata said urgently the destress clear on her and Ino's face. Everybody new that angels and devils just don't touch no matter how much they hated each other.

"Go on I dare you! Try it!" Naruto said. Sasuke and himself not really grasping how big of a deal it would be to touch seeing as they already had and nothing incredibly bad seem to happen other than just a little star on their hands for a few days. Sasuke was gripping his hand think about that star in the back of his mind trying to decided if it was worth it.

"Calm down Sasuke! Ino is right the Veto is very clear devils and angels cannot touch!" Sakura said with urgency before an idea struck her.

"At least not while in angelic or diabolical form." She said snidely.

"You mean...?" Sasuke started.

"Exactly!" Sakura said no further explanation needed.

(Low spears)

"Sakura has an ingenious imagination. She's skilled in transformation. The powers of her wings allow her to assume many different forms and when necessary she can also become invisible. Surprise and deception are the best weapons to confuse our enemies. That's what I teach every day." Tsunade said.

"What's going on? Why'd you ask me back here?" Naruto asked Sasuke as they faced each other in the challenge room original setting when the holograms weren't up. Haven left their friends behind in the activated portion of it.

"You'll see in sec. Basilisco activate metamorphosis. To confuse and curse." Sasuke said looking down at his snake that was wrapped around his entire upper body. It hissed in his face seeming to give of a light from it's mouth. Before it dropped to the ground and circled it's feet at high speed and Sasuke seemed to coated in fire before his wings and horns disappeared as his was put in his human form.

"The rule is we can't change into our earthly forms without a reason!" Naruto said to Sasuke like a mother reprimanding her child for something he'd done a million times.

"Rules are made to be broken. And believe me I have a really good reason angel." Sasuke said with a smirk walking up Naruto still clutching his hand subconsciously. Instead of backing down Naruto meat him with an equal smirk.

"Yeah?"

"I can't challenge you properly as a devil but as an earthy alls fair. So what do you say? Want to transform?" He said trying to egg Naruto into changing. Naruto just smirked placing a hand on his hip.

"And if I don't want to?" He said amused at Sasuke seemingly desperateness to fight. Devils were so simple minded.

"Just like I thought your too scared huh?" Sasuke said and just like he expect from Naruto easy flare up temper he reacted immediately. Both still unaware of the spider that was descending towards them from the ceiling.

"Cox activate metamorphosis!"

Watching the whole thing play out on a screen was our regal prisoner.

"Quick give him a bite! Before it's to late!" She screamed at the screen just wanting the spider to get on with it. Naruto was right there! All it had to do was drop down. But before it could Naruto flew up in the air to transform.

"To guard and protect." Naruto said as his wings and halo disappeared and his clothing changed.

"Finally! Now I've got you!" Sasuke said going to charge.

"I don't think so." Naruto said moving away not just from Sasuke but also from the spider unknowingly once again. Even the spider was getting frustrated at this point.

"You gotta catch me first!" He said running out the door. Sasuke chuckled before following after.

"NOOOOOOO! They escaped again!" Our regal Prisoner screamed out in frustration.

"You can't get away from me! Stop!" Sasuke said amused as he chased Naruto through the halls. Smiles on both their face as they huffed from the use of their legs so much. It was one thing to fly after each other it's another to use a limb they barely ever did before.

Though despite that Sasuke chased Naruto all through the building smiles on their face as they went. he wasn't even angry anymore they were just enjoying run.

(Low spears)

"Sasuke is full of fire. Undisciplined, stubborn, proud." Tsunade said going over Sasuke's report.

"All excellent qualities." The low spears said impressed.

"And that's part of what make him the worst in the class." Tsunade said with a smile.

"Really? Professor Tsunade you know you can't hide anything from the low spears. What happen to Sasuke? He hasn't been himself has he?"

"It's true and I don't know why. Lately his mind seems to be else where." Tsunade said a hint of worry actually seeping into her voice.

Sasuke chased Naruto all the way into the court yard. Once he got there he stopped seeing he had lost Naruto for a second and without even realizing it he actually felt some distress creep into him when he did. Until Naruto popped up from behind a tree with and amused smirk at Sasuke confused face. He laughed at Sasuke a little running past him quickly bumping into him a bit playfully.

Sasuke smirked at the boys antics before after him once again a look of almost awe on his face.

(High spears)

"Naruto is special. I understood that as soon as I saw him." Hiruzen said.

"She lost the first challenge with Sasuke?" The spears said confused at choice of words.

"Thats true but he recovered immediately. He's intuitive, sensitive, and conscientious. So full of life! And ready for new challenges." Hiruzen said explaining his belief.

"We understand he has a great deal of talent."

"Yes I believe Naruto will become an extraordinary guardian angel. Perhaps the best of the all."

"If that's the case then why do you look worried professor Hiruzen?" The high spears ask with true sincerity. Hiruzen sighed his shoulders sinking a bit in worry.

"Because something is happening to him. Something I can't understand. And I'm not exactly certain what to do."

Naruto ran into a classroom followed quickly after Sasuke. He leaned on the teachers desk to catch his breath. Sasuke doing the same with a student desk. The both stood panting for a second.

"Hang on. Your pretty fast. For an angel that is." Sasuke said between pants.

"Can't admit when your beat can you? You poor pathetic devil." Naruto said but their was so much exhaustion in his voice it could;t even be taken as a real insult. But Naruto started running again as soon as the words left his mouth. Sasuke fast on his heels with a smirk of his own back in place. Excitement still clear on his face.

They continued running through the building. Naruto even found himself stopping ever once in a while when he couldn't see Sasuke. Allowing the devil time to catch up.

They were now in a part of the build they'd never been before Naruto turned a corner and made his way down a set of stair until he came to a large door with ancient markings on it. Though Naruto paid that no mind and only registered how he had covered himself.

Sasuke followed quickly behind placing hands on either side of Naruto's head faces inches apart as they caught their breath.

"Got you! Now that I've got your attention I'm...!" Sasuke speeches drifted off as he didn't know what he wanted to do now that he actually caught Naruto. His hands even lowered as Naruto gave a hum for Sasuke to continue his threat.

But Sasuke was saved as they both noticed the strange door they were leaning on. They looked up at it in shock and confusion.

"Where are we?" Sasuke finally asked out loud.

"This inscription says something about earth. It seems like their guarding something very important that's kept inside." Naruto said taking a closer look at the words.

"I can't believe it!" He suddenly yelled. "If this is right it guards all the spirits of the earthly ones." Naruto said excited to come across something to big. Sasuke on the other hand was starting to feel like this was a place they really shouldn't be.

"I think maybe we better go. We might be trespassing URGH!" Sasuke said going to reach for Naruto's hand before he felt a sharp pain in his foot.

"Hey whats won.. Ugh!" Naruto tired to ask if he was okay but felt the pain himself. They didn't notice the spider that had just bit them run away before disappearing into the air.

"Are you alright?" Sasuke asked suddenly feeling very worried about Naruto not knowing where this sudden burst of care came from.

"Yes I'm fine now." Naruto said as the clasped both their hands together with each other not even registering they were doing it. or even if they did they didn't really care. It just felt really good to be touching right now.

"Something bit me." Naruto said just a bit surprised. Angels and devils didn't really have to worry about that because the only bugs they were surrounded by were usually mascots.

"Naruto!" Voices of Naruto's friends could be heard coming down the hall but Naruto and Sasuke just tuned it out in favor of focusing on each other only.

"Yes I felt it too." Sasuke said. they finally let go of each other when they began hearing Sasuke's friends too.

"I think we better go." Naruto said even though he really didn't want to for some reason. Sasuke was feeling the need to stay together as well.

"Naruto I think... maybe... I don't think we should tell anybody about this okay?" sasuke said and Naruto nodded quickly in agreement humming his confirmation.

Our regal prisoner watch the exchange with an evil smirk of pleasure.

"Yes! We are fast approaching that great day Minato! The day these chains are broken!" She said laughing gleefully into the emptiness around them.