~NRK~
He walked the halls of the boy's dorms, hands folded behind his head and mind on the day ahead.
'I need to watch out for my senpais again,' he thought with slightly red cheeks and a nervous expression. 'Seriously, don't try and crowd a guy who's single!'
Okay, that was a little bit of an over-exaggeration, he knew why this was happening but that didn't mean he had to like it!
… Ero-sennin was probably rolling in his grave when he heard him say that.
He sighed, whisker-marked peach cheeks, blue eyes, and spiky blonde hair all falling as he rubbed the back of his head.
'Come on, Uzumaki, you know Jiraiya-sensei wouldn't want to see you like this,' he thought, wearing his Genetics school uniform.
Wearing some black slacks, a white shirt, and a red tie, Naruto Uzumaki grimaced as he undid the article of clothing around his neck.
Ever since arriving in this world, or he guessed the right word would be reincarnated, Naruto wasn't sure what to expect.
He and Sasuke had died… But as friends, so he'd been expecting the death that followed to lead him to his dead precious people.
As it turned out, that wasn't the case and Naruto had found himself in this place.
It was also called 'Earth', so he'd been happy to think that, maybe, he'd been knocked out at first but then he'd realized he was a baby and it all spiraled down from there.
Growing up in this place, he'd learned that people here weren't ninja and that fact had saddened him to no end.
But, then, he'd learned of these things call Novas, Limiters, and, most of all, Pandoras.
Pandoras were, basically, superpowered girls who fought the Nova, an invading force that's come to earth at a minimum of seven, maybe eight, times?
… For what it's worth, history was never his best subject. Hell, it wasn't even his second-worst subject!
So, Pandoras, the super girls, fought off Novas, the bad guys like Kaguya that always riddled him with goosebumps when he thought about how horrible that'd be if it were true.
Lastly, dealing with himself, were Limiters. Guys who had the power to… freeze things, he guessed?
Naruto didn't fully get it, whenever he did it, himself, he felt like he was extending a part of himself out into the world.
… Oh, right, he was a special case since Limiters who could use 'Freezing' were typically in pairs with Pandoras. But Naruto wasn't all that knowledgeable about that.
After all, he wasn't in an Ereinbar Set with a Pandora, though that hadn't been from lack of 'invitations'.
He grimaced as he reached his mailbox, prayed to the heavens, and then opened it.
The Uzumaki was immediately struck down by the gods because he saw a neat stack of letters with heart stamps sealing them.
Crazily enough, being popular with the ladies kind of sucked when you realized that he was being prioritized due to him being able to Freeze without a Pandora. Add on that more than a few had said that 'they'd make a hot couple' and he realized that some of them just wanted his body.
Naruto didn't want a partner, likely for the next four years, who only wanted him for being, odd this time around, hot and/or having a special ability. He wanted someone he could hang with but, as of late, trying to even be friends with most of the girls in this damn school hadn't gone to plan.
Naruto sighed before pocketing the letters.
He always read them, he never knew maybe he'd find one who was genuine.
"Hm?" he heard from his side. "Ah, how's it going, Naruto? You pick a girl yet?"
Naruto's flat expression turned to his side where another blue-eyed blonde stood with a grin.
"Arthur, why is that that's the only thing that comes out of your mouth when you see me?"
"Well, it's not like it's unwarranted," Naruto thought otherwise. "Naruto, it's already been close to two months since you became a Freshman and you've yet to become a set with a Pandora."
Arthur Crypton, his sole friend in the Freshman Dormitory for the boys.
Like he had mentioned earlier, Arthur had blue eyes and blonde hair, like himself, but his fellow Freshman's hair was far more smooth and fell around his head.
His skin was also like Naruto's own in complexion but things diverted after that when it came to his uniform.
"What happened to your tie and blazer, Naruto?"
"It was choking me."`
"You realize that this is, like, the tenth time this month, right?" Arthur said. "Do you honestly want Ms. Kim to try and give you 100 squats, again?"
"I'd love to see her try," Naruto said with a grin. "You, Arthur, my friend, seem to forget that I hold the highest physical scores among ALL the Limiters."
"I haven't and that's also why I keep telling you to get paired up. Think about it, I've seen you move, Naruto, you could become the best Limiter of our generation, all you'd need to do is get recognized and, to do that, you need to be in a pair with a Pandora."
Naruto rolled his eyes. "And, I keep telling you, that I don't want to be paired with some random girl I know wants nothing but my body, metaphorically and literally!" The former shinobi said. "Look, I'm happy for you and Genessa-senpai, really I am, but you just can't force this."
They'd left the dorms and departed for the school, walking the white pathways of the prestigious Genetics Academy.
"And, I told you, I get that," Arthur argued. "But, you can't just wait forever. This is the prime time of our lives-Ah, hey, Genessa!" the non-spiky-haired blonde began to say before his eyes snapped to a figure approaching them from the distance.
Naruto rolled his eyes at how lovestruck his fellow blonde was. "Sup, Genessa-senpai," he said with a raised hand.
"Hunny, Naruto," the Pandora said, flipping back one of her long pigtails on her head, addressing the blondes before her. "Hmph, coming down to see me win the latest Carnival?" she said with a grin.
As said before, she had red hair set in two, long, pigtails that came down to her bicep. Having a similar complexion to the two boys, her red eyes set her apart from the blue-eyed blonde duo.
She wore the Genetics girl uniform, that being a maroon skirt and top, with an attached collar that had two buttons at the neck. Her long legs were covered in thigh-high socks and, on her feet, she wore maroon dress shoes with a single strap around her feet.
"Oh, right," Naruto tapped his cheek in thought. "Sure, watching you guys fight is always a blast!" he said with a grin as she shook her head at him.
"Seriously," Naruto's brow ticked at her annoyed tone. "We need to find you a nice Pandora to pair with, I'm starting to think that you're gay, Naru-Naru."
"I am not!" Naruto exclaimed with a pale expression. "Why in the world would you think that?!"
"Last I checked," Genessa said with a hand cupping her chin. "You're receiving invitation after invitation and not accepting any of them. Hell, the girls have already started betting on who's gonna nab you."
Naruto's cheek twitched harshly at that, both of them glowing red. "T-That's inappropriate!"
"Ah, see, you do like the attention!" she declared. "But, look at you, in the prime of your life and not taking chances!" Arthur nodded sagely next to her.
"F-For the love of, are you two the same damn person?!"
This was his life as of late and, despite how annoying these two's questions always got, Naruto wouldn't trade them for anyone else.
They'd been the first two to welcome him here and they'd been friends ever since.
~NRK~
"Look, all I'm saying is, worrying about that isn't gonna do you two any good. Let me handle this, trust me, if I like a girl, I'll have no hesitation in letting her know."
Walking in the front courtyard, Naruto sighed.
"We just want you to enjoy your life," Arthur said. "Besides, who's to say you won't find the love of your life by taking one of these girls on a chance? Not everyone gets love at first sight."
"I…" Naruto hated how he knew exactly this situation.
His previous infatuation with Sakura and Hinata's affection for him came to the forefront of his mind and his will wilted.
"See, you know exactly what we mean," Genessa said. "Look, no one's saying that you're gonna end up perfect but it's not like you have to stay with one of them. You're in an amazing position in which you can not do a Baptism and see how things go. Don't take that for granted."
"Look, I get everything you're saying," Naruto said, walking backward in front of the two. "But, trust me when I say, I feel like that won-" he saw their faces of nervous excitement and horror, Genessa and Arthur, respectively, and came to a stop. "?" the spiky-haired one turned around.
Blue eyes met blue eyes that were behind a pair of square glasses. Her complexion was similar to the three's own and she also sported blond hair.
Her hair was long and fell to near her backside and she wore the girl uniform like Genessa. Though, in comparison to Genessa's short skirt, this girl wore the long version of the uniform that came down to her thick, knee-high, brown boots.
"... Oh, hey, Satellizer-senpai," Naruto said with a nod to the confused-looking young woman.
"... Hmph," she turned from him and Naruto chuckled nervously.
"Oi, Satellizer," Genessa called out, gaining the blonde girl's attention. "That's certainly not a way to treat our underclassman," the redhead said with a frown.
"Whoa now," Naruto got in between the two in seconds. "Genessa-senpai, seriously, I'm glad you have my back but some people don't want to talk to everybody," he said, turning to see the confused frown of Satellizer. "Uh, yeah, sorry about that, senpai. Take it easy," the former ninja said before getting behind his friends.
"Come along, you're gonna meet her in the arena anyway!"
"N-Naruto, don't push me!"
"Naruto, what the hell?!"
Watching the spiky-haired blonde push his friends away, throwing a nervous grin her way, Satellizer keep her eyes on them until they disappeared.
'... Naruto… I don't know that name,' she thought.
Then again, she barely knew any names of the people in the school. They weren't worth her time to learn. All she was here to do was get strong and leave.
'... Sunflower,' she thought with a small smile before her face went blank, following after the trio.
She had a fight to win and a title to keep.
~NRK~
Sitting up in a set of bleachers around a large arena, Naruto grinned.
"I know, Arthur," Naruto said to himself. "But there are times when we shouldn't be hostile, we're all on the same side. I get that she has a reputation but being nice, even when someone else isn't, doesn't make you a doormat."
The area around him chatted for a bit more before the lights in the area dimmed. The place was pitch-black for all of a few seconds before a single spotlight appeared in the middle of the arena area.
Standing there, with a smile, was none other than one of their older upperclassmen. Probably one of the most notable.
She smiled at the audience, her eyes closed as they always were and her brown hair falling past her sight. Her uniform shifted, the short skirt twisting, as she pointed at the crowd.
"I hope you all have been waiting for this!" she called out and the audience roared in response. "Hm, hm, good, good! As of today, we're finishing up the second day of the Pandora Carnival! And, seeing as that's the case, we've got the last match of the event to watch! The last standing two of their respective brackets!"
Naruto watched as Genessa walked up with Arthur at her side and, in the opposing corner, he saw her.
Satellizer L. Bridgette, the senpai he'd almost ran into.
"In the red corner, we have the Volt Weapon Chain user, Genessa Roland!"
Genessa flipped one of her pigtails, a grin on her face as Arthur clapped next to her.
Naruto's eyebrow twitched. 'That damn simp!' He thought with annoyed energy about him. 'Seriously?! Can't he take off his rose-colored glasses for FIVE SECONDS?!'
God, dealing with Arthur was a pain in the ass at times.
"And, in our defending champion corner," came the notable Pandora's call, the arena falling silent. "The Untouchable Queen, Satellizer L. Bridgette!"
The silence as the blonde girl came out was damning, the crowd's eyes filled with a form of awe and terror that shouldn't have been possible when looking at a normal person.
Naruto sighed before he stood up.
"Good luck, both of you!" he shouted into the silence, the eyes all over the area turning to him.
Satellizer's eyes widened as she turned to see the smirking fool who'd take such scrutiny.
"Genessa-senpai trained hard for this!" he kept going. "Don't take your eyes off her! She deserves your full attention!" Naruto looked around himself at all the staring eyes. "I will put itching powder in every one of your shoes if you don't find a better thing to be looking at!"
Almost the entirety of the crowd turned away in horror.
Arthur chuckled nervously, knowing that Naruto had already scored a reputation from pranking those who'd tried to harass himself and Genessa.
Needless to say, no one took his words for a bluff.
The blonde young woman turned her gaze to the shocked redhead who breathed in a long breath.
Then she grinned. "Well, well, well, I guess that's certainly an ego-booster," she said, the wrangle and crackle of chains forming around her as she smirked at the frowning, but readying herself, Satellizer. "Hmph, let's get this started!"
She lunged at the blonde Pandora who leaned back, a large trapezoid-shaped blade within her hands.
Genessa came to an abrupt stop before circling Satellizer, the latter's eyes trailing to her before they widened and she fended off a barrage of chains.
The redhead grinned.
"Well, if you and Arthur are gonna be a team, you guys need to get creative!" Naruto said with a grin.
'Hmph, that training makes more sense now than ever before,' she thought, sending the tips of her chains at the Untouchable Queen as she circled her.
Getting creative had been an odd thing to be told but, as Naruto saw more of her skills, he'd come up with amazing tactics!
She grinned as she saw more pieces of the chain heads falling to the floor and focused.
Satellizer frowned as she turned to face Genessa before chasing after her.
'She's fast, the fuck?!' the redhead balked as the blonde caught up to her in record time, blade reared back. '... Heh,' she smirked before she jumped back and raised her hand.
The blonde girl frowned as she looked around, shrapnel, broken chain heads, and chains circling her form.
She felt danger from her back and turned with her arms crossed, a chain slamming into her guard sending her skidding back.
'She's never done something like this before,' Satellizer thought in confusion as she skipped to the side of a compacted ball of chain heads. 'Was this the training he spoke of?'
The blonde sunflower. He'd said she'd have to focus no matter what?
We'll see about that!
Genessa grinned.
Yes… Yes! This was her win condition! She'd-
A laceration appeared on her cheek, Genessa's grinning visage freezing as her eyes trailed down to it.
"H-Huh?"
"Hmph," the blonde Pandora stood behind her redhead counterpart, turning back to look Genessa in the eyes. "He should pick his bets better."
Genessa's eyebrow twitched. "Oi… You trying to say my friends' trust is unfounded?"
Satellizer's eyes narrowed before she ran at Genessa.
'Take her out bef-?!' she made to finish this but found her leg enclosed by snakish-chain. "What?!"
She was pulled off her feet as Genessa grinned, several more chains appearing around her.
"Blast off!"
Satellizer grimaced before cutting off the chain around her captured leg, the force of Genessa's swing still sending her into one of the walls of the arena, the space behind her cratering as she bounced off.
"Oof!" she lost her breath for a moment, eyes wide as they saw the chained missiles coming at her.
Touching ground, Satellizer grit her teeth before disappearing from her spot.
'Accel?!' Genessa grimaced as she looked around. 'S-Since when?!'
There was a breath at her back and the redhead barely got to look back to see her opponent before being hit by the back end of Satellizer's blade.
She slammed into the wall the blonde had originally crashed into, cratering it further.
"S-Shit!" the redhead cursed under her breath as she turned back to her opponent. 'That hurt!'
That power was ridiculous! But, ignoring that, how the hell did she learn Accel?! That was supposed to be a High-End Skill only third years and above knew! H-Had her Stigmata developed that much!?
She threw her arms out at her sides, chains rattling into existence before coiling around her body as she looked at Satellizer.
'Calm down,' she told herself. 'Remember both what classes, and Naruto, said.'
The moment you gave in to panic, you'd cut your abilities down by half. A mind ruled by fear is a greater disability than any lost limb.
She allowed her Volt Weapon to coil around her before closing her eyes.
Something, anything! She needed a way to deal with Satellizer!
Her eyes opened as her chains coiled around her body, blocking the blonde's attack.
'Hmph, she never did this before, either,' Satellizer said with a curious frown. '... Didn't do this in the previous Carnivals, so why the change?'
Despite herself, blue eyes trailed to the blonde in the bleachers.
She couldn't see him all that well from here but she remembered his words.
His encouragement to both of them, an odd thing for her to be the subject of. No one ever rooted for her past her first three Carnivals before she'd been as 'well-known'.
So, who was this 'Naruto' who could look at her with no fear? Whose eyes shined with an understanding that she feared?
"... You," she spoke up, confusing Genessa. "Who is this 'Naruto' person?"
"Hwah?" Genessa blinked in confusion. "Uuuhhh, why?"
"... He cheered for me."
"... God, I swear he's gonna get himself in trouble one of these days," the redhead said with a sigh and a shrug. "... Whatever, fine, beat me, and I'll tell ya everything you want to know."
Satellizer's face went mute before she crouched low, eyes now narrow.
Genessa lifted her hand up and the blonde jumped back as chains tore their way up from the ground, her bladed weapon swung around and bisecting the chains before she disappeared from sight.
'Shit!' the redhead turned on a dime, eyes barely catching a flash of yellow. 'With Accel, she's got a greater advantage!'
She had to win! Naruto and Arthur were counting on her!
Genessa frowned in thought… That might work… But she'd lose all her speed.
The skirt of sound against a pair of broken chains forced her hand.
The chains began rotating around her body along with the shrapnel before it coiled about her body.
"W-What's this?! It seems that Pandora Genessa has come up with a new strategy!"
She felt the chains coil around her body, leaving only her face open, as Satellizer came into sight before her, eyes blinking in confusion.
Genessa Roland raised her hand!
"I fucking lost!" she complained with a yell. "H-How?! How did this happen?!"
Naruto chuckled nervously as he, Arthur, and Genessa walked back to the front of the Carnival arena, Arthur patting his Pandora's shoulder.
"It was still an amazing display, Genessa!" he said with a wide smile and eyes full of adoration, the redhead among them blushing some as he praised her. "To still have the wherewithal to try and use an idea in the middle of a fight! Why I was stunned!"
Naruto's laughter became genuine. "My God, man, aren't you some R-Oh, hey, Satellizer-senpai," the spiky-haired one made to tease only for his vision to catch sight of Genessa's opponent.
She looked at him oddly, the students passing around them staring as she looked at his group.
"... Mmmm, fine, fine," Genessa grumbled as she walked over. "What do you want to know?" she whispered.
Satellizer cupped her chin in thought before words passed between the two, the redhead looking more and more confused as she explained things to the winner of the Carnival.
"I see," Satellizer said as she leaned away, chin in hand. "..." she looked up to see Naruto's eyebrow raised in curiosity. "... I see."
She left after that, leaving the group, and their bystanders, confused.
"... Well… Alright, cool."
~NRK~
An hour later found him traversing the halls when he came onto an odd sight.
There, ahead of him, walking with the notable announcer of the Carnival from a bit ago, was another guy.
He was dressed in the same uniform as Arthur, being that he wore the full thing, and had a similar complexion.
His hair was short and black in color, his eyes a soft brown and full of curiosity as they looked around.
"Ah, well, well, well," the Pandora next to the guy said with a clap. "Mm! Uzumaki-kun!" she waved him down, getting a blink from the blonde. "Mm, mm! Come over, please!"
Naruto nervously chuckled as he did as asked. "What's up, Chiffon-senpai?"
"Wait, you're also Japanese?" the guy next to her asked, Naruto nodding. "I-I'm Japanese, too! P-Please to meet you, I'm Aoi Kazuya!" He introduced himself quickly and with a bow.
Naruto blinked before he chuckled. "Sup, name's Naruto, Uzumaki Naruto."
The guy, Kazuya, looked up with a blink and then a smile.
"Hm, good!" Chiffon grinned as the two boys looked at her. "Naruto, do you think you could help us with a tour?"
As they talked, Naruto looked out the window before leaning out of it.
"Sup, Genessa-senpai," he said to the passing redhead who looked at him in confusion, a patch of bandages around her face. "H-How's the face?" Naruto asked with a nervous chuckle as the young woman's eyebrow twitched. "... Shutting up, now!"
"You're damn right," she said with a flat look, looking to see Chiffon waving at her and then Kazuya. "I don't remember him."
"He's a new guy," Naruto said with a nod. "I'm gonna show him around on a slight tour! I'm gonna get to skip class for this!"
Genessa snorted. "Snrt, of course, that's why you'd do it," she shook her head before heading off with a wave of the hand. "Yeah, yeah, remember to meet me and Arthur at the training rooms later."
"Alright, later!" he said, reciprocating her wave. "Alright, Kazu, let's do this!"
"Kazu?" the other guy said curiously before chuckling. "Sure!"
Chiffon grinned. "Alright, gents, we'll start in the front yard!"
They walked off after that, Naruto noticing the looks of the nearby students.
"Um… Did I do something? I think I'd know if I messed up again."
"Hm, hm, hm," Chiffon giggled. "No, you see, Kazuya here," the boy blushed. "Maybe have hugged the Untouchable Queen."
"... She let you?" Naruto said in disbelief as Kazuya blushed. "Now, uh, I hope you didn't have any pervy intentions, dude."
Chiffon raised a brow at that even as Kazuya shook his head rapidly.
"I-I didn't! It's just… She looked like my sister who… passed about four years back and I just…"
"... Nah, it's fine, I get you," Naruto nodded, laying a hand on the guy's shoulder before throwing him a thumbs-up and a full-on grin. "That stuff can be kind of… deep, I get it."
"... Thanks."
The Pandora smiled a bit. "So, you see, you both have an odd reputation."
"Hold on, 'both'?" Kazuya asked, turning to Naruto who tilted his head in confusion. "Do you know anything, Naruto-kun?"
"Nothing that I can think of,"
"Hmm, Uzumaki-kun, you need to think about your recent actions. You made quite the stir when you yelled out in the Carnival."
"... Wait, just because I was cheering for both of them, I get weird looks?!"
"Yes, there's already a rumor around that you and Satellizer have been friends before today."
"... I mean," Naruto scratched his cheek. "While we're not, I don't think it's something that needs a rumor mill going after it. Man, these guys are WAY too sensitive. She's gonna end up feeling way too lonely."
Kazuya blinked before he nodded vigorously. "I-I still need to apologize for doing that," he said with a wince.
"Kazu, trust me, I'm sure you'll get the chance."
Watching the two interact, Chiffon was left dumbstruck at their behavior.
"N-No, you two! Y-You can't possibly!"
"I mean," Kazuya chuckled nervously. "... I think Naruto-kun is right, this isn't right."
"Your lives are more important, boys!"
"O-Our lives?!"
"..." Naruto frowned in thought. "... Is there something about Satellizer-senpai we should know about?"
"... This is all hearsay, mind you," Chiffon said, looking around before taking the two by the arms and dragging them outside. "Come, we'll talk in the courtyard."
~NRK~
Sitting on a set of benches, Naruto frowned at his third-year-senpai.
"No, seriously, is it really that bad?"
"Yes," Chiffon said with a frown. "You may not know this, Aoi-kun, but Satellizer has a reputation… A title."
"The Untouchable Queen," Naruto filled in, Kazuya blinking in confusion. "She's the absolute strongest in the second-year group. She's gotten the highest rank as well and she can back it up, holy hell."
"She's come to proudly bear the title of 'The Heartless Witch' as well," Chiffon added. "She's never been touched in combat, actually, as of today, Genessa has gotten the closest to defeating her in their year. It's actually kind of crazy… Actually," she turned to a grinning Naruto. "... Uzumaki-kun… Did you have something to do with this?"
"Guilty as charged," Naruto said, getting the third year to blink at him. "Me, Arthur, another guy in our year, and Genessa-senpai go to the training area and I help them out by providing training ideas and different ways to use their skills. It's been that way since the middle of my first month being here."
"Like what?" Chiffon asked in confusion. "Naruto-kun, no offense, but you're a Limiter, how could you teach a Pandora anything?"
"Because I view it differently," she blinked. "They're not creative enough, honestly, senpai. It gets kind of worrying to think they could be a lot stronger if they just thought a bit more outside the box."
"Outside the box?" Kazuya asked. "That is… Well, hahaha, I've got no idea what's going on, actually."
Naruto snorted. "Here's the rundown. Pandoras are supergirls who have powered up bodies and the ability to make personal weapons. They've also got the ability to learn High-End skills when they've… Well, I don't really know how they learn them, me and Arthur just know we've been trying to help her learn some, dattebayo."
"Ridiculous," Chiffon pouted at him and the blonde snickered. "Honestly, learning High-End skills requires the Pandora to have more mature stigmata, a material that allows them to become Pandora in the first place," she crossed her arms. "High-End skills included Accel, Nth Accel, and Tempest Turn, are all the High-End skills. Most third-years know how to do them, which explains why Satellizer knows how," the two boys looked confused.
"You both don't know but she's repeating her second year," Naruto balked as Kazuya swallowed. "... In the past, she never used to go here, West Genetics. She used to be in East Genetics but, after an incident which involved her almost killing Levon Brooks, a Limiter, and several other Pandora, she was put on probation for a year and sent here."
"W-W-Whoa!" Naruto raised his hands in a form of halt. "Why? What happened?!"
"... Most don't know, many believe that he might have done something, let me be clear," Chiffon said with a frown. "No one knows if he did, he was noted as a playboy but he never pushed himself on women. And, outside of that, Satellizer was known as being a cold person even before that event. She didn't care for anyone around her and simply kept on being strong until she almost killed Levon Brooks."
"... I'd rather get the story from senpai before I even think about anything else," Naruto said with a determined frown. "No matter what, listening to only rumors… That pisses me off."
"It's not just rumors, Uzumaki-kun! She's this behavior up even here!"
"So?! We know nothing about her! She doesn't have any friends, no one gives her a chance, how the hell can we just take anything a rumor says for truth?!"
"G-Guys, calm down!" Kazuya stood up along with the two. "Y-You're causing a scene and… I think Naruto-kun's, right, Chiffon-senpai," he said, shocking the third-year. "I-It's not fair to anyone to just shun them."
Naruto breathed in before letting out his breath. "... Alright, sorry, I didn't," he rubbed the back of his head as Chiffon sighed.
"I'm also sorry, that wasn't… That was rather childish," she said with another sigh. "Listen, boys, I don't want to tell you how to live your lives but I want you to have lives in the first place. As your upperclassman, I want you two to be able to enjoy your lives to the fullest here. Watching people run to trouble doesn't exactly fill me with confidence that that'd happen."
"We get it," Kazuya said as Naruto crossed his arms with a nod. "I think Naruto's right, still. We can't just ignore someone based on rumors. Knowing them upfront, that's how people should know someone."
"... I can't talk you two out of this?"
"Senpai," Naruto sweatdropped. "It's not like we're running towards a bomb. All we're doing is talk to someone. Don't you think it's kind of ridiculous to think like that?"
Chiffon frowned as she crossed her arms in thought before kissing her teeth a bit. "... With some thought… a bit," she blushed a bit. "It may very well be unfair and you two are brave and upright young men for doing this… But if I hear so much of a peep of her harming either of you, I won't care, I'm putting her in her place. Are we clear?"
"Crystal," Naruto said, Kazuya nodding next to him. "I don't think it'll happen, though. I get the feeling she really just needs some friends."
"Friends…" Chiffon tapped her cheek as she looked at the two. "Just friends, Naruto-kun?"
"... Yeah?" Naruto tilted his head in confusion. "I mean, what else would I be talking about? You gettin' any of this, Kazu?"
"No, not really, Naruto-kun," Chiffon sweatdropped at the clueless duo. "Maybe she means 'girl friends'? If you're right, Satellizer-senpai doesn't really talk to guys… Maybe we should find girls who'd be her friend!"
"Hmmm, that just might work."
Chiffon felt her brain cells dying from listening to these two.
"C-Come along, you two," she said with a shaky smile. "The tour needs to happen! No more clueless banter!"
"Clueless?"
Oh god, these two were going to cause problems, she could feel it.
~NRK~
"I don't think he's opened these ones, ma'am," came the call of one of her Limiters, his hands massaging her shoulders. "From what I could gather, he's someone who's picky about his Pandora."
"Mmm," she pouted a bit as another one of her boy toys poured her some wine. "Honestly, young men should enjoy the reaching hands of their upperclassmen. We're here to welcome them into a world they'll never want to leave. Hmph, anything else?"
"Well, the recent Carnival finished and there has been a new set of rumors about," another said, sitting in front of her in a pair of leather pants and a collar around his neck. "For one, Satellizer L. Bridgette has won once more, leaving her with over 7,000 points but the oddest, most interesting, thing that happened was that two of the new Limiters has been shown giving her support."
She raised a brow as he slid two photos across the table between them, the young man, who finished pouring her wine, picked them up and showed her both.
She saw a blonde and a brunette. The blonde was rather interesting, what with his cheeks bearing what she thinks are tattoos and the brunette having a cute little face that she'd love to see positioned between her thighs.
She frowned with an eyebrow raised. "And these two have been showing Satellizer support?" She hummed. "I didn't think that bitch had it in her."
"Rumors are that the blonde, Naruto Uzumaki, has a hidden relationship with her."
"Wait, Uzumaki? As in, Uzumaki Arts Production?"
"Yes, the very same. He's the son of the equipment company."
"... Continue."
"He's actually been caught by many giving cheer to Satellizer during her fight with his comrade, Genessa. Not just that but they've been seen in the halls of the arena talking amicably to one another."
"Hmm," she sipped her wine. "While not much it's leagues above anything Satellizer has done with any male. What of the next one?"
"He's actually a bit harder to put down but he had a far more dramatic entrance into her life. He was found, on cameras, hugging Satellizer in the schoolyard after just coming here."
"Damn!" she blinked in disbelief. "Either she works fast or she knew him from before!"'
Looking at the two photos once more she smiled.
"Any invitations?"
"He's received none while Uzumaki has gotten five more today."
"Very well," she giggled. "Neither of these two will be looking to accept any more invitations save for my own."
~NRK~
Naruto let out a dramatic sigh as Kazuya chuckled, Chiffon having left the two a while back to go back to her classes.
"And this, my friendly Kazu, is our fifth class for the day, history," he said the last word like it'd slapped his mother. "Ugh…"
The blonde knocked on the door thrice before both of them were let in.
"Naruto?" the teacher said in confusion before looking behind him. "Oh! You've brought us the newest Freshman!"
"Yes, ma'am…" the blonde said with a lazy drawl, beckoning Kazuya in. "Alright, you guys, let me introduce my new friend, Kazu. He's new, he's nice, so that means you definitely aren't allowed to front-load your homework on him!"
Arthur chuckled from his seat. "That's certainly one form of an introduction," he said, many others nodding with him as Kazuya chuckled.
"Naruto, please go take your seat."
"Got it, teach," the blonde said, throwing a thumbs-up Kazuya's way. "I warmed up the crowd for ya. Don't worry, they don't bite yet."
"What's that supposed to mean?"
"You all know exactly what I mean, Pandora-side of the class!"
"... That's fair."
Kazuya chuckled nervously at the unified response. 'Things may get crazy here, won't they?'
Kazuya chuckled as Naruto, Arthur, and a random Pandora came up to him.
"Sup," Naruto said as he leaned on a vacant desk. "Let me introduce my friend, Arthur," the other blonde male waved. "And my other friend, our class president, Hiiragi Kaho. I just call her Kaho-chan."
"Hmph," Kaho raised a reddish-brown brow, her short hair falling around her head leaving two long bangs to come down to her cheeks with a hair clip in one. "Well, when Naruto-kun introduces you, you can't really deny it's a pretty warm one!" she said with a slight blush and chuckle. "You went all out with this one, huh?"
"I know how the girls in this class think," Naruto said with a conspiratorial tone. "In one year, they release the beasts! They're ticking timebombs of hormones and dolls!"
"Oi!" Came the offended tone of one of the said 'timebombs'. "What's that supposed to mean?!"
"Shut it, Clara! I've seen that book in your desk!" the girl stammered, facing going bright red, before running off, her pack of very interested friends running after her. "You see?!"
"Hm, hm," Arthur chuckled under his fist as Kaho nearly busted a gut. "Oh god, he's the biggest troublemaker in our year!"
"Hmph," Naruto looked not the least bit offended, hell, he looked proud. "Yer damn right."
"One, that's not something to be proud of," Kaho said, wiping away a tear. "And, two," she raised a brow at both Naruto and Kazuya. "What's this I hear about you two and Satellizer-senpai?"
"What'd you hear?" Kazuya asked, wiping a tear from his eye, his smile wobbling as it tried to control his mirth.
"Hmph," she grinned before cupping her chin and closing her eyes. "The first one is that she had a 'faraway lover who came here'," the girl said, getting a blush out of Kazuya as Naruto snorted. "And, for you," she turned on Naruto.
"Lay it on me."
"Word has it that not only have you rejected another set of girls," Naruto's mouth dropped with confusion. "You and Satellizer have been having a secret rendezvous behind closed doors."
"What?!" Naruto blushed bright red. "H-Hold on, now! Who the hell came up with that one?! I'll clobber 'em!"
"Hmph, all I know is that you two have been getting into bad places," she said, placing both her pointer fingers on her noggin and rotating them. "No, seriously, you just got here! Why are you out here looking for trouble?!"
"H-Huh?" Kazuya blinked. "I don't want trouble but I want to apologize for what I did in front of the school. I thought she was someone who isn't here anymore from the back and just… Hugged her?"
"God, help me," Kaho covered her face with a groan. "Come on! Why would you do that?!"
"Uhhh," Kazuya realized a bit earlier that, yeah, that was dumb of him. "Sorry, Hiiragi-san?"
"You're Japanese… Wait, not important! You!" she turned on a cheek-scratching Naruto. "Since when were you and Satellizer so buddy-buddy?"
"For one, this is the first time me and her have actually met face-to-face," Naruto said. "And, two, we're not really? All I did was give her some support. Why the hell is that giving me the rumor mill palooza?"
"Probably because, surprise, surprise, Satellizer doesn't exactly have friends. Much less, male ones," Arthur said with a raised brow. "Naruto… I really hope you didn't make a bad decision."
"Huh?"
"... Oh god, you don't think he did, do you?!" Kaho said in horror as she and Arthur locked eyes.
Kazuya and Naruto blinked before looking at one another.
"The hell are they talking about?"
"I don't know… I mean, they're your friends."
~NRK~
"Mess hall, mess hall, mess hall!" Naruto cheered as the four broke into the lunch hall. "Hell yes!"
Kazuya, on the other hand, looked amazed beyond belief. "L-Look at all the food! Japanese! Korean! Chinese! Even French?!"
"Hehe~" Kaho grinned as Arthur went off towards the French section. "Go off, we can all meet up at the loudest blonde in the room."
Naruto ran off, ignoring her remark. "RRaaaammmmeeeennnn!"
Kazuya snorted at his new friend's yell of triumph, going after him towards the Japanese section.
Looking around at all the options, Kazuya grinned as Naruto got loaded up on three large bowls of ramen.
"W-We really get all this?!" the brunette said with stars in his eyes.
"Hehe~ Being the biggest fighters for humanity gets us the good stuff!" Naruto said, perfectly balancing a three with all three ramen covered on it. "Sushi's over here, over there are the rice balls, rice crackers, okonomiyaki, and everything, Kazu!"
Kazuya grinned like an idiot before he got his tray and picked about before noticing a crowd a bit away.
"W-What's that?"
"Oh, that's Burger Queens, it's an alternate chain from someplace in America, I hear," Naruto said as he, too, looked over. "They're pretty decent though I'm not a big fan of burgers."
"I guess we all headed this way, huh?" Came Kaho, her trey full of expensive-looking fruit.
"I can't even name some of the stuff on your tray," Naruto said with confusion as Kazuya chuckled nervously. "Seriously, that thing looks like a flower in some video game."
"That, my dear friends, is called dragon fruit."
"It's from a dragon?!"
"My God, he loves the stereotype," Kazuya laughed at her tease.
"Oh, glad I caught you all," came Arthur's words as he carried two trays in his hands. "About meeting up, Genessa has shown up and I must be the ever dutiful Limiter!" he said before he began leaving. "See ya in class!"
"..."
"..."
"My God, he's such a simp."
"Yu-huh."
"N-Noted," came Kazuya's nervous chuckle. "We should go grab som-"
There was a gasp in the crowd by Burger Queen, the group of four blinking as they looked to see…
"Oh, it's Satellizer-senpai," Naruto said as Kazuya stared. "I heard she liked burgers so this makes sense."
They watched as the crowd parted for her to reach the cash register, the blonde young woman handing the school lunch card to the cashier.
"Naruto, hold this, please!" Kazuya said, handing his blonde friend his tray. "I'll be back!" he said before he began rushing towards the blonde girl.
"Hold on, dude," Kazuya came to a screeching halt. "Chill, you could just talk to her when she sits down."
"... B-But, what if she leaves?"
"Then just go after her if she does."
They watched as the blonde got what could only be called a mountain of burgers before she went to a secluded corner of the room and sat down.
"Now, go meet her. And don't rush her, the least you need to be doing is scaring her or something."
Kazuya swallowed, nodding as he took his tray from Naruto before heading off.
"Geez, I worry for that guy."
"N-Naruto!" came the call of his two friends.
"Seriously, you guys need to chill," Naruto said with a sigh before coming up with an idea. "Come on, let's go sit by them. Give Kazu some moral support."
He walked off after the new student with little hesitation.
"I-I…" Hiiragi balked as Arthur chuckled nervously.
"W-Well…. Good luck!" he said, speed walking over to a table where a confused-looking Genessa was.
Kaho felt her eyebrows twitched before she followed after Naruto.
Damn all these blondes!
Meanwhile, Naruto, having caught up with Kazuya, nodded to his friend as they came around and sat down on the lunch table by Satellizer.
Mid-bite, the young woman jumped before her head snapped in their direction, eyes widening as she swallowed.
She looked back down at her food, a napkin in her hands, and up against her mouth, in seconds.
"Sup, senpai," Naruto said, much to the shock of those around the three's table. "How's it going?" he said as he undid the seal on one of his ramens, letting out a sound of joy when he did. "Yesss."
His chopsticks in hand, Naruto quickly devoured his ramen, the large bowl, that was about as long as his forearm, done in under one minute.
Kazuya and Satellizer stared in disbelief as Naruto wiped his mouth before moving on to his next bowl.
"W-What?" she said in disbelief before Kaho found her place by Kazuya's side. "T-That was fast!"
"Well, yeah, ramen's my favorite food," Naruto said as he worked on his second bowl. "I bet you love burgers almost as much as I like ramen."
Looking at her food and then back to his, Satellizer let out a soft grunt as she turned her head away but didn't leave, biting into one of her burgers.
Kazuya laughed nervously as he sweatdropped before eating some of his own food, ignoring the two states of nature being devoured to his side.
Kaho decided it was better to not ask questions.
Five minutes later and Naruto let out a sigh of relief, his food done.
The three others stared at his stomach in disbelief.
"W-Where did it all go?" Satellizer asked herself in shock.
"I-I'll never get used to this," Kaho said with a swallow. "D-Do you even feel that?"
"... Mm, a bit," Naruto said, much to the group's collective choke. "But, I always get really hungry around lunchtime. Hell, in a little bit, I know I'll be going up for more."
Satellizer and Kazuya balked as Kaho shivered.
"Where does it all go?"
Kazuya, halfway through his own food, laughed nervously before looking at their gaping senpai.
"... Satellizer-senpai?" the girl jumped, gaze snapping to him before her eyes widened further, slight red on her face. "I just wanted to say that… I'm sorry for what happened earlier," he admitted, bowing his head to the surprised second-year-repeater. "I just… I thought you were someone else who's not with me anymore so I just did that without thinking."
"...?" Satellizer, once she regained her wits, thought of his words. "..."
"H-Huh, I didn't hear you, senpai."
"She said, it's fine," Naruto translated, much to Satellizer's shock. "I think she gets it, it's not like you tried to attack her or something."
Satellizer's head lowered as she ate her food, Naruto nodding.
"... I hope things are fine between us, at least," Kazuya said to Naruto who nodded.
"Like we said, she's not mean, people just need to actually get to know her."
Satellizer's cheeks reddened some, nibbling on another burger when the quartet's table was approached by a group of four.
Naruto wiped his mouth some more as Kazuya stared at the woman, and three guys, mid-drink.
"... Yo?" Naruto asked more than said to the standing quartet.
"It's nice to meet you," the girl said, her smile plastered on to such an extent that Naruto raised a brow. "I'm sorry, I just wanted to talk to you," she said to him. "Actually, you, too, if you don't mind."
Kazuya blinked at her, confusion on his face. "Me too?"
Naruto frowned. "... Haa," he got up. "I don't know what you want with both of us… unless it's what I think it is," Naruto said with a shrug. "Alright, alright, we can talk. I'll make a decision only after that."
"Hmm, that's fine," she said before he took on a frown. "Something wrong?"
"... Shot in the dark," Naruto said. "Aren't these three your Limiters?"
The table silent as the girl's eyes widened.
"... And if they were?"
"Well, we can cut off one specific question of you wanting me to be your Limiter," Naruto said. "Because that's a 'NO'."
"Truly?"
"Look, I'm not interested, even if it was one-to-one."
"... I see," she let off a fake sigh.
Naruto could taste how angry she was, her negative emotions way too easy for him to feel.
"What of you, young man?" she turned her question to Kazuya.
"... I'm sorry but I have someone else in mind for being my Pandora," Kazuya said with a bow of the head. "Apologies."
"... Hmm… Very well," she said with a heated answer, Naruto well aware. "Though, I do need to speak with you, Naruto-san."
Naruto felt her lie but sighed before nodding.
"Alright, fine, where?"
"The roof would be fine."
"I'll be back, guys," he said, throwing a salute back at the group. "Kazu, mind grabbing me some ramen before I get back?"
"S-Sure," Kazuya said with a nod as the blonde disappeared down a hall door with the group. "...?!"
"Kazuya, DO NOT go anywhere alone for a while, alright?"
"W-What?!" Kazuya jumped.
"What?" Kaho asked with a frown. "If it's about this… I don't like how that looks," she said with a grimace.
Satellizer's mouth set in a frown as she heard Kaho say that. "... Do you know who she is?"
Both Freshmen jumped at the blonde's question, Kazuya staring at her while Kaho swallowed.
"H-Huh?"
"Who is that third-year?"
"... Third-year?" Kaho's eyes widened as she cupped her chin. "... Oh… Oh no," she said with a grimace, getting a narrowing of the eyes from her senpai. "She might be… She might be Miyabi-senpai. Otherwise known as the Limiter Glutton."
Kazuya swallowed before he felt something lift below his foot.
Looking down, he saw an orange diamond that knocked against his-
"Don't freak out, I'm talking to you via Freezing. Just don't go places alone!"
His eyes widened as he got up.
"H-How do I get to the roof?" he asked his classmate who slowly stood as well, a frown on her face.
"If we go down the hall, we can climb the stairs."
Satellizer placed her burger down.
"Like we said, she's not mean, people just need to actually get to know her."
His words from earlier stayed in her mind before she got up.
The lunch hall watched as the Untouchable Queen followed after the group.
Chiffon frowned from her table with some of the other third-years.
"Not gonna do anything?" came one of her fellow Pandora's calls, her dark teal hair falling to her rear. "If it's Miyabi… We all know it's only one thing," she said with a frown.
"She can't force him to become her Limiter, Ticy," Chiffon said.
"True but Satellizer just followed after those guys, didn't she?"
"..."
~NRK~
He followed behind them, his four-man group of seniors. Though one of them stayed at his back.
'Dammit and I left my combat gear in my dorm room,' he thought as they came to the door leading out to the rooftop. 'She's gonna start something eventually, just need to be on guard.'
Entering the rooftop after them, he noted that the guy behind him closed the door and faced his back.
Ominous. "What did you want?" Naruto asked as he crossed his arms.
"You see, Naru-Naru," Naruto's eyebrow twitched at the nickname. "What I want, I get," she turned and shot him a beautiful smile that hid her malice. "So, let's try this again, will you become my Limiter?"
"Yeah… No," the blonde said as he heard the Limiter behind him begin shifting forward. "I'm sure you know my reputation?"
"Which ones?"
There was a rush of air before Naruto shifted.
Moments later, he sat atop the confused older Limiter before slamming the back of his fist into the guy's neck.
He didn't get up.
Brown eyes and dark blue hair shifted on a shocked canvas.
"How?"
"I'm known as being one of the most physically gifted Limiters," Naruto said as he got up and crossed his arms. "But I guess you didn't get that memo."
She cupped her chin, shock falling away to contemplation before she smiled.
"Hmm, you're only making me want you more, you know?"
"You'll have to live with that in your dreams," Naruto said. "Now, I'm gonna-"
"Not so fast, Naru-Naru," he already hated it. "Fons, Louis!"
Blue eyes widened as the two Limiters' arms raised.
"Freezing!"
The area became decorated in dark blue hexagons, Naruto frowning as those shapes slipped past his location before forming over the door to the roof.\
"Now, now, young man," Miyabi smiled as she walked forward, Naruto's still form but glaring eyes, defiant eyes, looking at her.
It made this feel so much sweeter.
Standing before him, she grinned, hand coming around to his chin.
"I want to see your beautiful eyes the entire way through, all right?" she whispered into his ear, hand coming to his collar before being arrested by another. "?!"
There was a wet smack before the Pandora was sent sliding back to her Limiters.
"Miss?!" The Limiters called out before seeing the space beneath Naruto's feet being bright orange. "What?!"
"Hmph," Naruto rubbed his neck. "Surely, you knew I could use Freezing, right?"
Miyabi held her cheek as she got to her feet, wincing at the pain. 'H-He's strong?!'
She was a Pandora, she'd taken hits far greater than he should have been able to dish out.
So why did she feel pain at all in this case?!
"I-It shouldn't matter!" She shouted at him. "You're one person! There's no way you could overtake my Limiters' Freezing!"
"Hmph," Naruto widened his stance before rocking back and forth slightly. "Screw off, your guys just ain't enough!"
She growled before daggers appeared in the air around her.
The door to the roof was knocked on harshly.
"Naruto!" Came Kaho's voice as another series of bangs against the door rang out. "W-What's happening?! What can't I open the door?!"
Naruto grinned as Miyabi grimaced. "Not much time left, huh?" he said with a grin. "It won't be that long before the teachers get involved."
"... Hmph," she let out a sigh.
Naruto's eyes widened as he barely leaned back to dodge a swipe from the Pandora, cartwheeling to the side to dodge her downward follow-up.
"Tsk!" she kissed her teeth before lunging after him.
Naruto held out a hand.
Miyabi found her body subjected to an intense downward force before slamming into the floor, her breath was taken from her as the floor cratered.
Naruto grimaced as he buckled a bit, hitting his knee.
"T-Twice?!" She said from her position against the floor. "H-How?! H-How could you establish two Freezing areas in such a short amount of time?!"
"H-Heh!" Naruto grinned with some strain. "S-Shows what you know!"
She growled before Naruto's eyes widened as her daggers appeared outside of the orange sphere of hexagons around her body.
They flew forth.
She appeared behind them.
"What… What are you doing?" Satellizer asked.
"W-We can't get through for some reason!" Kaho shouted at her, confusing the blonde who walked forward. "H-Huh?"
She raised her leg before slamming it into the door, the door denting outward.
The two Freshmen watched in shock as she raised her leg one last time before sending it forward.
The three rushed out onto the roof, eyes catching sight of the grinning, shakily standing up, form of Miyabi Kannazuki.
… And, against the fenced-off rooftop, was Naruto Uzumaki, his body stabbed by a knife in his right thigh, stomach, shoulders, and right forearm.
"No!" Kaho and Kazuya yelled, running over to their stabbed-up friend.
"Do it now!"
The three of them froze in one breath, their eyes widening as they found their bodies incapable of moving, falling to the floor in heaps with only Satellizer standing if only on weak legs.
"Ha… Hm, hm, hm," Miyabi grinned before she let out a long series of chuckles. "It seems like you all came at just the right time," she said, a pair of daggers floating above her head as the ones stabbing Naruto disappeared, allowing the spiky-haired blonde to collapse against the floor in a sat-up position.
"N-Naruto!" Kaho called out as she and Kazuya struggled. "D-Damn it!"
"Hmm, well, well~" Miyabi tilted her head at the sight of Satellizer. "... I'm honestly shocked to see you here of all places, Ms. Untouchable Queen… Mmhm," she giggled. "Well, that title isn't really apt as of late, huh?" she said, walking over to the frozen blonde.
"Aaahh~?!" Satellizer let out a moan as the older woman cupped a breast, massaging it in her hand. "AAHHH?!" there were several wet schlicks before she found daggers in her biceps and thighs.
"Mmm! Oh~ It seems that the Ice Cold Bitch isn't as unexpressive as expected!" the standing Pandora grinned as she let go before using her foot to push the agony-ridden blonde on her back. "Now, look at what we have here… "
"Freezing… Complete, ma'am," came the call of one of the Limiters as the other also let his arm fall. "Your orders?"
"Hmm," Miyabi looked back and forth between all four intruders. "... Let's see, I really want my new boy toy… But we do have the Untouchable Queen in front of us! Come on, boys, we can handle this quick enough."
"W-What the hell…" Came a raspy voice on the roof. "D-Do you think you're doing?"
Miyabi blinked before she saw the spiky-haired one's eyes glaring at her from his location, head up and eyes focused.
"... Hmmm! Hahahaha!" She grinned as she walked over to him. "Why, Naru-Naru," Miyabi made sure to step into the backs of the other Freshmen, their squeals music to her ears. "I'm going to do whatever I want."
She snapped her fingers and the two Limiters lifted Satellizer by the hair and bicep to drag her over, Naruto's eyes widening at the sight.
Then one of them moved behind her and his hands roamed her chest.
"Mmm!" Satellizer's cheeks reddened even as she struggled. "S-Stop!"
"Hm?" Miyabi raised a brow before turning to her underclassmen. "One moment, Naru-Naru!"
Her fist found the blonde girl's abdomen, the attack getting a wet cough from the Untouchable Queen.
"Ah, ah, ah," she wagged her finger. "That's not nice… Hmmm but I'm in a giving mood~" Miyabi purred as she found a place at Naruto's side once more, slim fingers messing with the blonde's collar buttons. "I can show you exactly what a Pandora should do to secure their Limiters. Why it'd be an honor!"
Naruto grimaced as the top buttons on his dress shirt were undone, revealing a bare chest.
"And look at him! Already presenting! Well, can't let him wait~"
"S-Stop!" Kazuya shouted at her. "W-Why?! A-All because of a rejection?!"
"Hm?" Miyabi's hands finished undoing the blonde's top, licking her lips at the sight of well-muscled abdominals. "Foolish, foolish, Freshman, you all should know better," she said as she turned to him, Satellizer's 'punishment' continued. "This is the rule of this school! You all would do well to remember who your superiors are!"
Naruto sat there, unable to move, as his friend, his senpai, was…?!
"Ahhh~ Stop!"
Her tears emerged.
The pupils of a pair of blue eyes thinned as the brown eyes of a kind boy burned with injustice.
The entirety of the group on the rooftop froze as the air became intense.
Death.
Miyabi felt her entire body freeze up, head turning back to see the burning yellow eyes of a downed Naruto.
"I SAID CUT IT OUT!"
"WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING?!"
Orange and dark blue hexagons spread out around the area, the two waves slamming together beneath Miyabi's feet and expelling a gust of wind that knocked her into the fence.
"Gah!" The third-year grimaced as she bounced off it before falling to her knees against the absolute force on her body. "W-What?!"
The area around her choked all forms of air from her lungs before the flying form of one of her Limiters slammed into the face next to her, his face bloodied.
And there she stood, Satellizer L. Bridgette stood there with her hand around the bleeding head of her last Limiter, the boy's mouth open in a scream that couldn't leave his lips.
The boy's body was quickly discarded, furious blue eyes leering down at Miyabi's downed form, half the force of the Freezing on her falling away as Kazuya hit his knees… but it mattered little.
Even as she found what strength she did have to stand, her eyes caught sight of a uniform-dressed midsection before a fist found itself into the right side of her face.
She spat out blood as her body flew back into the fence once more, bouncing off it before her neck was grabbed by a set of enraged hands.
She was slammed into the ground post-haste, more blood, along with spittle, leaving her lips before she was straddled.
S-She couldn't breathe! H-Her lun-
A fist snapped her head to the side with a horrid smack.
'S-Senpai?' Kazuya stared as Satellizer's fist rained down upon the upperclassman Pandora. "... S-Stop…!"
I-If she kept going… Miyabi didn't look like she was even breathing!
The fists did stop, his relief surging forth before he paled at the sight of the large blade in her hands.
She brought it dow-
"Enough!"
An array of orange hexagons splayed out around her, freezing the blonde's movements, her eyes widening as a pair of steps made it to her.
"T-That's enough, senpai," Naruto Uzumaki spoke as he laid a hand on her wrist, gently lowering her weapon. "Please.." he whispered as he hit his knees with a hiss.
"?!" Satellizer stared at the blonde at her side.
"A-After everything's she done?!"
"I-If you go any further…" his eyes met her, his bright yellow eyes' color slowly bled away to leave him with calm blues. "Y-You'll become a murderer, senpai."
The silence that reigned was broken as the entryway to the rooftop became occupied by a familiar, slit-eyed, Pandora.
"What the hell?!" Chiffon stared at the destroyed rooftop, the downed individuals, Naruto, and Satellizer's straddling position on Miyabi. "... Naruto!" she ran over as her fellow third-year went to check on the others.
Naruto placed a hand on Satellizer's shoulder, trying to stand before he buckled. The only reason he hadn't hit the floor was Satellizer's arm securing his footing, the blonde Pandora standing to keep him steady.s
Cool, still enraged, but cool blue eyes settled on Chiffon who laughed nervously as Ticy frowned.
"Most of 'em are fine… But as for the Limiters," the redhead began, her eyes landing on Naruto and Satellizer. "Well, they're in need of healing."
Chiffon nodded, reaching out for Naruto only to find him held away from her by none other than the Untouchable Queen.
"?!" Her eyes opened at that, Satellizer's grimacing expression greeting her full vision. "... Very well," she raised her hands and backed away.
This was certainly the world's oddest development as of late, the Untouchable Queen was helping, and allowing, a male to touch her. Bridgette's Volt Weapon disappeared before she lifted Naruto up from his legs.
"N-Naruto!" Kazuya and Kaho ran over with Ticy right behind them.
"I-Is he okay?" Came the Freshman Pandora's question, leaving Chiffon to sigh, checking over his wounds from sight.
"He looks like he was hit with a rebound," she said, confusing the two. "Whenever a Limiter's Freezing is broken by another, there's a rebound. Limiter's ability to use this technique is in conjunction with their bodies. Their physical states… But they're never this strong."
"It's the same for this one over here," Ticy announced to the knocked-out boy by the fence, her hands checking his biceps and shins. "I'm taking it that he's knocked out?"
"N-Nah, not so… much," Naruto spoke, shocking the two. "H-How's everybody?"
"Naruto, we're fine!" Kazuya said, touching the blonde's shoulder and wincing at the cuts on it. "T-This is rebounding?"
"Yes and no, it's a large amount of force pushed back on you, after all," Chiffon said, frowning at the cuts. "... Did he take it head-on without being able to move when it was this strong? That's not good. Get him to the medical bay."
Satellizer nodded as she, Kazuya, and Kaho rushed out the rooftops, leaving the Pandoras to survey the damage.
"... Shit! I should have listened! If we had come earlie-!"
"Stop that, Chiffon, I mean it."
"... Tsk," The Monster of West Genetics frowned at the sight of Miyabi. "... This isn't going to end well."
"Which part? The roof being destroyed? These Limiters in rough shape? Or the fact that Miyabi might have been doing this for a while?"
"... Haa, you're adding more onto my worries," Chiffon said with a frown. "And you know exactly what I mean."
"... Once the third-years hear about this…" Ticy let the sentence hang.
"... We won't allow this to happen," Chiffon said. "In the end, this is still my fault. Had I just come up here sooner, there'd be no such disturbance in the first place… Ticy, I want you to keep an eye on Satellizer. She's lucked out by having such people around her to try and become friends. I doubt she stopped because of her conscience."
"Yes."
~NRK~
They sat in his medical room, Satellizer patched up and the two Freshmen with their heads down.
"How did all this just happen?!" Kaho couldn't believe that this nonsense could happen all in one sitting.
First, there was her friend and the new Freshman wanting to be friends with Satellizer! Then, somehow, they'd spoken on good terms!
And now, they'd gotten into it with a third-year who was crazier than crazy!
Kaho Hiiragi just wanted the day to go away! Why the hell was she dealing with all this?!
Kazuya, on the other hand, held his head in his hands before tilting his vision in the direction of his senpai.
All this happened and it was only his first day here! Was it supposed to be like this? He had to hope not.
He'd made a quick, seemingly forever-lasting, friend, he'd thought he'd seen his sister but it just happened to be his senpai who was pretty attractive.
He wondered what that said about him.
And now, his new friend was laid up in a hospital bed because of some random girl he rejected! Were rejections supposed to involve attempted rape?! Why the hell had everything gone to the gutter?!
Finally, with the third member of the 'How the hell did things go this wrong?' trio, Satellizer looked up at Naruto's sleeping form, his clothes having been shed a bit back and he was now in some scrubs with bandages decorating his arms, chest, and thighs.
With how the day had gone, she hadn't seen herself sitting in a man's medical room, his body injured, and it not being her fault. This was a whole new experience and she hated every second of it.
I-It reminded her of her… Of her mother… Just waiting.s
And this person wasn't even that close to her! He was just some foolish idiot who decided that she wasn't a bad person and she just… She held her face in her hands.
She didn't know how to respond to that earlier. She'd been prepared for biting words with her silence, most didn't take well to her silent gestures… But he hadn't minded!
Him nor the boy at her side. They'd even thought she was a good person! Satellizer had never heard those words often in her life!
'Actually get to know her' is what they'd said, right? Did they renege on that?
Was she alone again?
"Oooooohhhhh," came the moan of the room's main occupant, all three on the chairs shooting out of them. "Why the hell do I have a wicked headache?"
"Naruto?!" Came the call of the Freshmen as all three came to his bedside.
"Are you okay?" Kazuya asked as the blonde male rolled his neck, head throbbing slightly. "W-When we heard of how bad your rebound was, we were worried that…"
"Rebound?" Naruto blinked in confusion before remembering something. "Oh, was it when my and your Freezing hit each other?"
Kazuya paled.
"Whoa, whoa, whoa, calm down," Naruto said before wincing, an aching arm coming around, pain at the elbow, to rub his forehead. "Phhheeewwww, if that was rebound, I didn't really feel it. It was likely when I got stabbed and lost my hold on my own Freezing that it happened."
"It happened twice?!" Came a shout that got a jump from the group. "Young man, I'm going to need you to repeat everything that happened."
"O-Oh, it's just Dr. Schmitz," Kaho said with a hand at her heart. "M-Ma'am, please don't do that!"
"Hm, hm, sorry, sorry, I didn't mean for this to happen," she said as she strode in, her green hair swept back in its two long side-bang and ponytail form. "That said, I couldn't help but come and see our latest member of the medical wing, eh, Naruto-kun? That is how you use that suffix, yes?" she asked, black eyes looking at the laid-up blonde with a raised brow.
He threw her a shaky thumbs-up.
"Hm, good," she pulled out her clipboard from beneath her arm, her doctor's coat, lavender dress shirt, and dark purple skirt moving as she did, her brown boot-covered feet scuffing against the floor. "I was curious as to how you ended up here and had some… predictions," her gaze went to Satellizer whose own didn't falter. "Strong-willed as always," she said with a shrug.
"Well, you know us kids," Naruto joked. "Fighting over girls, getting rejected, giving the rejections, fights on the dirt, the usual."\
"Well someone's full of jokes," Elize Schmitz said with a chuckle, looking over his injuries. "... Mind giving me a retelling of what happened?"
Naruto nodded and spoke. "Well, we were eating lunch…"
She found her eyebrows raising at many points, the most notable ones being them engaging in conversation, eating, and being protected by Satellizer. The girl had even blushed on occasion as Naruto and Kazuya spoke.
Getting the last bits, she let out a whistle. "Phew, damn kid, did you just look for all that trouble?"
"It comes and goes."
"So I see," Elize said with a pen tapping her lip. "Well, for the most part, you should be fine. With the technology here, we can get you up and at 'em in about a day or two."
"Thank God," Naruto said with a sigh of relief as the others chuckled or smiled. "So, how am I right now?"
"Well, let's see… You can't walk without crutches, right now," the medical professional said. "Your left thigh, even with the rebounds, is relatively okay. It's the right one which is hard to walk on. Those stab wounds aren't doing you any favors."
"Stab wounds…" Kazuya said with a frown before speaking up. "Dr. Schmitz, what's going to happen to Miyabi Kannazuki?"
"Mmmm, oh, right, her," the doctor frowned for a bit. "Well, for one, she got banged up good, especially around the face area," Satellizer almost looked proud. "She's currently in her own room but she's bound for a harsh detention and likely a year's probation for what she tried to pull. Besides the sexual harassment on both Naruto and Satellizer, she's been on a, you'd say, binge of Limiter partners and that's become a problem."
"And the guys with her?" Naruto asked.
"Well, it's the same but they get half a year's probation," Naruto sighed but nodded. "... Look, I know this sounds… No, it is unfair," she didn't try to sugarcoat it. "Anyone outside of this program would have been in jail for at least two years."
"J-Just because they come here?!" Kazuya looked alarmed. "Surely, people like that shouldn't be here!"
"... Maybe you're right," Elize said with a nod. "But, at the end of the day, I don't control who does or doesn't leave. Despite my partial teacher status, I'm just that, a teacher and a doctor, not the principal."
"..." Naruto looked down in thought before grunting. "Alright but, if they try any of that shit again, I'm kicking 'em out," he said with finality as the doctor snorted. "Please, I could handle all three of them, with Freezing, on my own. Things only got complicated when their Pandora got in the way."
"Hmph, so you were up there on your own for a bit?"
"Yeah," Naruto shrugged. "They originally called me, after all."
"... W-Wait, Naruto-kun," Kazuya spoke up. "A-About that, when you contacted me."
"You mean like this?"
The group jumped at that as the blonde male chuckled, the doctor looking alarmed as she looked down at a pulsing orange hexagon.
"That's how," Naruto said before blinking at the group. "What?"
"W-What is that?" Kaho asked in confusion, the orange hexagon disappearing. "N-Naruto, what the hell was that?!"
"Well," Naruto adjusted himself. "Okay, Kazu, tell me, how do you feel when you use Freezing?"
"Actually, yeah, that was important," Elize said, giving off some nervous laughter. "I never thought it was weird but then I remember that Naruto's a weirdo."
"Guilty as charged."
"Ah, continue."
"Well, Kazu?"
"It's… It feels like I'm spreading my entire body out," he said, looking at his hands in confusion. "I-It's like my senses are everywhere."
"Yup," Naruto said, a ring of hexagons appearing in front of him, startling Satellizer and Dr. Schmitz. "Ever since I was, like, ten, I could use Freezing."
The group looked shocked.
"W-Way back then?" Kaho asked and Naruto nodded. "That doesn't make sense!"
"Eh, it is what it is," Naruto said. "Anyway, I looked into it and I always thought about how there's a clear connection between a Limiter and their Pandora. I tried doing all the stuff I could watch on the TVs about the wars but then I always thought it was weird just how… bland it was."
"B-Bland?!" Elize's mouth dropped. "W-What part of the freezing of motion is bland?!"
"Well, it wasn't all the impressive, ya know?" She didn't. "Like, okay, think of it like this. Why is that all the Limiters don't work on using the environment to their advantage with Freezing?"
"... I don't understand," Satellizer said with a frown.
"... Okay, think of it like this," Naruto began. "Things that get covered in Freezing, how easily can they be broken?"
"The question hung in the air as the doctor's eyes widened.
"Freezing does harden what it's on," she realized. "Think of it, you're stopping kinetic motion. Something has to be stopped and built during that time. At least, scientifically, that's how it should work."
"Right," Naruto said. "So, what do you guys think would happen if you, say, Froze a bunch of rubble and hid behind it as a defense?" the group balked. "What if we used Freezing on Volt Weapons?"
"That'd just stop the weapons though… right?" Kaho asked and Naruto shrugged.
"I've tried it and had some kind of success, though only with kitchen stuff," he said with a nervous chuckle. "Mom never did forgive me for ruining all the forks and spoons."
"What kind of success, Naruto-kun?" the doctor asked with interest.
"Well," he considered it. "Like, I can cover a spoon and still throw it," the former ninja explained, confusing the doctor to no end. "Crazy thing is, it does get strong… but a good enough blow leads to… crazy results."
"What kind?"
"The exploding kind."
"Oooh," Elize winced. "... It's like you're applying more force to the area and overcharging. Imagine it like overfilling a glass of water. If the area within the Freezing is the 'max'," she twitched her fingers. "That means that adding any more might compress it too far. It may be more imploding than exploding, Naruto-kun."
"Oh… I don't know the difference, ma'am."
"That's fine, just know, either way, bad things happen."
"Gotcha."
"Wait, we went off-topic," Kaho said. "How does this translate to, I can speak to your minds!?"
"Well, I tried to see if I couldn't do other stuff with it," Naruto said with a laugh. "I mean, it's a connection. If I could connect with other people, that means that we can pass stuff between, yeah? So, I tried it with my mom and dad but it didn't work, they just felt the gravity. So, my dad thought, why not treat it like a scroll."
"Why a scroll?" Elize asked.
"Well, my dad likes writing stuff in those compared to digitally or notebooks."
"Who the hell writes in scrolls?!" Kaho asked in disbelief. "Aren't you the son of a weapon manufacturer? What?"
"Hey, don't knock the classics," Elize said with a slight pout. "Some of the best stuff is from the days of old."
"Yup!" Naruto grinned. "So, I kind of 'pre-pack' it, basically," he said. "With that, I got super into figuring out how it all worked! And, now, I'm able to do stuff like… this!"
In front of him, the group watched the hexagons spin faster until they became a ring of orange.
"That looks so cool," Kazuya said, looking at his hands again as Satellizer reached out to touch the ring.
They dispersed before she could before circling her finger, surprising her a bit.
"When they're spinning that fast, senpai, it's pretty dangerous," Naruto said, the older girl blushing in slight embarrassment. "Hehe~ Though, like it's going now, you can touch it."
Satellizer focused on the rotating hexagons, reaching out with her other finger, she tapped them, pausing the individual pieces for a moment before letting go and they continued on.
Kazuya looked at them too, reaching out to touch one before missing it and touching Satellizer's finger.
He tried for another time and missed, Satellizer focusing as well and catching one.
As the three lost themselves in the little exercise, Elize stared at the event taking place before her.
'She's allowing him to touch her?' the doctor realized. 'No… Is it that she doesn't react badly to Aoi-kun?'
And hadn't she been told that Satellizer had carried Naruto into the infirmary? So that made two men who could touch her with little issue?!
But that wasn't the only amazing thing, was it?! Naruto was showing an outstanding difference in understanding in Freezing than she'd ever seen! H-He could very well be creating a whole new set of control schemes for the technique!
"Hmm, do you think you could teach me how to do this, Naruto-kun?"
"Yeah, sure, I've been working with Arthur on trying to do some of this. Right now, I'm having him work on spoons. He can get it halfway before losing focus."
And he was teaching the students already?!
"... I'll leave you all like this, then," the doctor said, already excited by this prospect, she needed to write this down! "I'll talk to you later, Naruto-kun. I want to talk about your odd Freezing abilities."
"Alright, see ya, doc."
The woman left after that, leaving the group to bring their chairs closer to the blonde in the bed.
"Hmph, so today's been kind of crazy, huh?" Kaho said to the group. "Must be a crazy 'first day', Kazuya-kun."
"Yeah, it's been all over the place, hehe," the transfer student said with a smile. "But, despite all the bad stuff that's happened, I got so much in return, I think I came out a net positive."
"Hehe~ Dattebayo," Naruto snickered, confusing the group. "Well, it'll be nice to meet you, neighbor."
"... Hold on, the hell is 'dattebayo'?" Kaho asked with a raised brow as Naruto's smile froze on his face before he burned bright red. "Oooh~ Naruto, do you have a verbal tic?"
"W-What, no…" he said with a shrug. "I mean, how could I? Datte-Dammit! Wait, no, I'm just flustered!"
Satellizer tilted her head at him before she saw how his cheeks pulled and relaxed.
Her finger moved without thought, pressing against the small grooves.
"T-They're real?" she said in disbelief, the blonde in the bed freezing as she touched those spots.
"W-Wait, sen-pprrrrrr," Naruto tried to stop her before he made a noise that stopped the room cold. "Rrrrrr-NO! Stop! Please! I'm defenseless!" he squeaked, face bright red.
Satellizer's hair shadowed her eyes but her hands reached for his whiskers with intent.
Kaho's mouth dropped before she sputtered and laughed.
"Pfftt, you purr?!"
"My cre-purrrrrr, no, dammit!"
Kazuya hid his chuckles behind a hand before the sound of rapid steps led two familiar figures into the room.
"How the hell are you in the infirmary-what the hell is going on here?" Came one Genessa Roland's voice as she saw what was unfolding before her. "... What the-Are you purring?"
"Nooooooo!"
Kazuya chuckled a bit.
This new university life seemed like it was set to be interesting.
~NRK~
And that's a wrap!
So, yeah, a Freezing Crossover, I know I didn't expect this to come out of my mind but it did.
And, yeah, Kazuya and Naruto are both MCs in this along with Satella and Rana. Being honest… And, in the end, the pairings will be Naruto x Rana, Kazuya x Satella, and (Family/Platonic) Naruto x Satella.
Trust me, it was hard not wanting to pair Naruto with Satella, I wrote this originally with that premise… But then I saw just how early Rana comes into the picture and I was like, damn.
So, the only reason this is Naruto x Rana is because I liked Rana as a character more than I liked how a romantic Naruto x Satella would be. Trust me, I've got ideas for a harem with the E-Pandoras in the future, one day, whenever I finish any of these sides fics.
So, let's run through what happened:
-Genessa isn't a raging bitch in this story… Not as much, anyway. She's far less over aggressive than usual because she's training with more creativity than before.
- Side note, can someone please tell me if it's 'Ganessa' or 'Genessa'? I'm seriously trying to figure out which one it is.
-Satella has another person who can touch her outside of Kazuya. This is done, by proxy, of the beginning of this fic and the manga being different. Satella never lost due to outside interference, she's still the reigning queen.
-Not just that but Naruto openly supports her even if this was only the first time. That's far more than most people would go for her.
-Naruto helps reign in some of Kazuya's impulsiveness. (The irony is very much thick with this one) By doing so, he helps him actually get a chance to speak amicably and more with her. Actually giving his apology and not intruding on her personal space like a ditz… At least until the end but she's far more comfortable with the group than she's ever been with anyone else besides her mom.
-She didn't rage on and try to kill Miyabi, making it so that she was never punished severely for what she did. So, at the moment, she's literally in the right when it comes to the upcoming conflict that we all know is coming
Now, let's talk about the major changes that Naruto's brought to the setting:
-He's introducing new, creative, ways to use Freezing. After all this time away from the manga, I always found the Limiters lacking in how they helped. I hope to assert my ideas well into this fic.
-Yes, he, Minato, and Kushina are all together in the Freezing verse, and, yeah, Minato and Kushina started a weapons manufacturing business. It's not all that big, most militaries employ Pandoras after all, but they have a secret production, to the readers, that will show in time.
So, yeah, I hope you guys like this one.
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~NRK Out~