Hey lads and mates, hope y'all are doing well, I present chapter 4 to you guys and also I figured I'd clear up some stuff, for starters, any interaction between Naruto and the girls, while it may seem fast, it's in reality pretty normal to be friendly and even more so when you're attracted to said person.
That doesn't mean I'll rush into the relationship, you don't have to worry, while there will be quite a lot of romantic moments, there won't be any relationship for quite some time.
With that out of the way, I do hope you all enjoy.
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A frown grew at Rias's pristine visage as she read the letter for what seemed like the hundredth time now, a letter with the initials and signature of her father Zeoticus Gremory.
The contents of the letter were most displeasing to Rias as she contemplated the piece of information received. 'Damn you Riser, bad enough that you're practically forcing me into this marriage but now you're trying to push us to get married now! when we already agreed to solve this once I was done with university, damn you' Rias thought angrily.
Truly it seemed like she just couldn't catch a break, her day was entirely ruined no thanks to that belligerent pig and her beloved father.
She read the letter one last time, her form encased in her signature power of destruction as she grew even more wrathful at the contents of the letter.
Even more displeasing was that Riser was supposed to arrive tomorrow to see her in her club, she had just ran out of time with getting rid of this contract.
Ughh, she needed immediate solutions to get out of this shackling and unwanted marriage but her only two options were either a rating game, an option that wasn't very favorable for her.
The other option was…
Was being sullied with another man's seed, and there were no guarantees with that option that it would annul the contract, Riser might not even care that she would be 'spoiled goods' as people would see it.
Besides she didn't have many men to choose from, Kiba was too respectful and only had eyes for Tsubaki, Issei could work but truth be honest she'd rather not give her virginity to her pawn.
That left only Naruto-Kun but doing it with him meant that he might not respect her as a woman after the ordeal! She does plan to pursue a relationship with him once she's done with Riser and the stupid marriage contract, choosing Naruto meant that she might forever lose his respect and admiration.
That was of course not mentioning that it will be her first time, it was supposed to be with someone special right? Sex was supposed to be a union caused by love or lust, yes? Definitely not a union caused by desperation.
'Snap out of it Rias, none of this will matter if I'm married to Riser, I will get out of this accursed marriage one way or another' The red-head thought determinedly, getting up while simultaneously crumbling the letter in her hand.
Yet despite her new found determination, Rias couldn't help but be saddened at the recent turn of events and what she had to do.
'Why do you do this to me Father? Is it wrong that I just want to be like a normal teenage girl with no shackles and to just have fun and meet boys I like? Is it really that wrong?'
Rias felt the beginning of tears building in the corner of her eyes, she wiped at them and sniffled but her heart broke at the circumstances put in place by her parents.
"Forgive me Naruto-Kun" Rias uttered sadly, her blue eyes alight with grief and bits of shame for what she had planned.
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It was nighttime when Naruto finally returned home to his and Rias's shared residence, having spent most of the day either learning in school, hanging out with Akeno or Training, Naruto felt like he was owed a date with his bed.
Of course, being on a date entailed that he had to shower and smell good and not reek of sweat, one hot shower later and Naruto was happily nuzzling his face on the soft and comfy pillow, the way his comfy cushion just wrapped his face in softness was tugging him to blissful sleep.
He was looking forward to it
You don't always get what you want unfortunately.
Naruto came to that startling realization as he heard Rias knock on his door, getting up sullenly while mentally crying at his luck and fortune, the shinobi trudged towards the door where on the other side a mesmerizing red-head lay waiting for him.
"Hey Rias-Chan, you just ruined my beauty sle- is everything okay?" Naruto's cheerful disposition faded away into a concerned outlook as he gazed at a set of watery and heart-tugging aquamarine orbs.
"Hey what's wrong?" Naruto asked softly, wrapping his strong arms around Rias's more delicate and fragile frame, poor Rias leapt into his arms and hugged him back desperately, trying to submerge her existence into Naruto's warm and consoling hug.
He looked down worriedly just as she looked up, deep ocean blue meeting soft vulnerable turquoise.
"Naruto-Kun" Rias called out slowly
"Yes Rias-Chan" he responded just as slow and soft but his tone belaying confidence and strength
"Please don't think bad of me for what I'm going to ask of you" She pleaded a bit, nervously twirling a strand of her hair.
"I won't but what do you need from me, I'll try my best to help you." he assured her confidently. Internally curious but wary of what help she was asking him precisely for.
Had he been three years younger, he would have immediately offered his help without knowing what he was getting into, fortunately he grew from that naivety.
It didn't mean that he was immune to the warm tears of a kind young woman like Rias.
"I want us to have sex… Naruto-Kun I need you to fuck me." Rias said, her eyes darting to look at everything but at him, feeling extreme embarrassment and self-conscious at what she just said.
"Huhh?" Naruto was dumbfounded.
"Are you really gonna make me say it again?" Rias asked with even more unease than before, her cheeks flushing even more crimson.
"No, I heard you the first time, you just surprised me is all. Rias-Chan where is this coming from?" Naruto questioned her gently, cupping her small hands with his big ones.
"Maybe I just really want you to make love to me Naruto-Kun" Her usual bright and beautiful smile didn't reach her eyes, Naruto couldn't help but frown at the sight "Rias what's going on" he brought her over to the end of his bed where they sat and he wrapped her in a side hug.
"You can talk to me, what's the issue that's making you act like this? I can tell just by the look on your face that you're very sad." Naruto tried to console her, his heart bleeding with worry for the unusually sullen and discouraged girl.
"It doesn't matter Naruto-Kun, just make me a woman already" She got off the bed, causing the blonde to drop his arm and Rias grabbed his shoulders, pushing him gently till he lay on his back with her straddling his stomach area.
Only now did the shinobi catch on that Rias was wearing a flimsy purple see through nightgown, the fabric failing entirely in its purpose of covering Rias's beautiful and curvaceous form. Large milky breasts practically out there and jiggling.
It took a lot of willpower and determination but Naruto forced himself not to blush, trying his utmost best to not look down and ogle a clearly in need of help friend.
"Rias-Chan, stop. It's obvious that something is going on, talk to me." Naruto pleaded as he lifted the redhead off him, eliciting a squeak from the heiress as he stood up and placed her on the floor, crossing his arms and waiting for an explanation.
Rias looked down and sighed despondently before looking back up. "I'm in an arranged marriage, one that I've been stuck in since I was a child. I'm being forced to marry a despicable pig who only sees me as another pair of tits and ass… I've been trying for a long time now to get out of it but nothing seems to work."
"I'm sorry that I came to you like this but it was the only thing I could think of to escape this forced marriage, to escape from Riser Phenex. I know it's not fair to you and I'm sorry Naruto-Kun but I didn't have much of a choice."
"Hey, I'm not angry Rias-Chan, I am a little disappointed…" Naruto trailed off seeing her wince. "But I know that you have your heart in the right place, so don't worry about this, I forgive you." Naruto consoled her.
"Now what's our gameplan, what options do we have so far in regards to saving you from this Riser Phenex, tell me everything" Naruto demanded, Rias looked shocked at his use of 'we' the shock faded away and Rias felt a bit more better and at ease to have Naruto by her side.
Tell him she did as she explained everything from her Father's hands in the contract to how she felt in all of this, the view that the underworld society had about it. All this was information Naruto was soaking up patiently, his features twisting slightly at the thought of Rias's parents.
"… it would be quite accurate to say that everyone in the underworld, be it my parents or the Phenex clan or the elder council, they all want this marriage to happen, each have their reasons but I'm the one who is losing the freedom from this affair." Rias explained sullenly.
"Rias" Naruto called out softly, said girl looked at him silently, waiting to hear what he had to say about all of this.
Placing his hand on her delicate shoulder, he said the only thing that came to his mind. "I promise that you won't be married to Riser or to any other douchebag who you don't want to marry." Naruto vowed to her, unveiling the resolve and confidence in his eyes to the silently observing redhead.
Slowly, the blank expression on Rias's face faded away as she smiled gratefully at him "Thank you Nar…"
A blue teleportation circle formed in the middle of the room, what followed next was the voluptuous form of a silver-haired woman garbed in a French maid attire with piercing gray eyes glaring at the blonde.
"Rias-Sama, get away from this trash." Grayfia demanded frostily, her posture rigid and tense as she took note of the scantily clad heiress standing just mere centimeters away from the muscular blonde whom her little sister figure was no doubt planning to lay with tonight.
Naruto's eyes hardened as he glared at this woman, the audacity of her to come into his room uninvited, demand something from Rias and insult him?
He opened his mouth to let her know exactly his thoughts and got cut off by Rias before he could say anything who immediately leapt to his defense.
"Grayfia what do you think you're doing, you have no right to just come barging in like this and furthermore, Naruto-Kun is not trash."
"I've come here to stop you from making a terrible mistake, though I did expect you to be in your pawn's residence so you can imagine my surprise when I learn that you're housing a human and planning to be intimate with said human." Grayfia stated stoically, her eyes trained on the blonde who glared back.
Rias frowned heavily at her brother's queen, most displeased with her actions. "That same human who you were insulting is the same one who turned down my advances and is the very same who's actually trying to help me with this stupid marriage!"
"No matter what role he played tonight, it doesn't matter Rias-Sama, your presence is required as issued by your parents Lord and Lady Gremory." Grayfia announced, walking up to her little sister figure while materializing a full and concealing coat from her hand.
The Strongest Queen wrapped the coat around the red-head's frame once she was in hugging distance, her movements gentle and pleasant despite the rigidness that still lay within her form.
"I don't know who you are but you're clearly precious to Rias and vice versa, why are you not helping her?" Naruto questioned her, his confused but firm blue eyes locked on icy gray.
One of the many skills imparted to him thanks to his Godfather was reading body language, the blonde wasn't a master of the art of body reading, but even a novice could see just how much Grayfia conveyed her care through her soft and tender ministration to Rias.
"Because my hands are tied in this, my position as both a maid of the house of Gremory and as queen of Lucifer ensures that I can't interfere in this contract, I simply have no say in the matter." Grayfia replied stoically, walking back to the center of the room and forming another magic circle.
Naruto said nothing, what was there to say? Clearly the odds were stacked against Rias in every conceivable form, it didn't mean that he would give up and let her lose but the situation was just not favorable.
Rias seemed to read his thoughts because she turned to look at him, her eyes conflicted and a fake smile plastered on her face, "I'm sorry Naruto-Kun but don't worry I'll figure this out and I'll see you tomorrow." she leant in and placed a chaste kiss on his cheek.
Pulling away and walking towards her older sister figure, both Rias and Grayfia disappeared to the underworld, leaving Naruto to contemplate everything that's been said and happened after he let Rias in.
"Well… shit, looks like I won't be sleeping in early after all." Naruto mumbled to himself, mind racing with ideas and theories to help his distressed and shackled friend.
He laid on his bed and stared at the ceiling blankly, each idea flashing in his head getting rejected just as instantaneously.
'C'mon Naruto, think damnit, what can be done to help Rias with ending this contract? The only way we know so far is either for Rias to win the rating game against Riser or for her father or Riser's to annul it themselves.'
Naruto closed his eyes in thought as he mused about her chances 'The odds of the second option happening is outright impossible as both parties are deadest on this marriage happening, meaning that the rating game is her only option however the way Rias-Chan described it, she has no experience in those events whereas Riser had participated, won and practically never lost in any of the matches he took part of.'
'That's also without mentioning that Rias doesn't have a full peerage while this Riser has the maximum number of pieces, the odds truly are against her in every way.' Naruto concluded, his heart aching for the sweet woman who took him in without truly expecting anything in return.
She was a kind soul who came off as sultry and coy but was in actuality a very compassionate woman, definitely not deserving of the fate of a loveless forced marriage.
'Now it makes sense why she wanted me to join her peerage so badly, except with this being a permanent process, I just can't join no matter how much I want to help her… I need to find out if this process is reversible, if it is then I can help Rias from there.' Naruto theorized, partially satisfied to finally have a possible solution.
'Still though, for Rias's sake it should be assumed that the process isn't reversible… which means that I need to decide from now if I can stomach the idea of not being human.' Naruto felt the beginning of a migraine as he contemplated the decisions.
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To say Naruto slept well was like saying that the sky was brown, such a statement was simple false, certainly untrue, and very much preposterous to even think about.
His friend's dilemma kept his thoughts running, even after finally making his choice after much thought, he simply couldn't sleep as his mind replayed the scene from when Rias knocked on his room to when she and that weirdly dressed woman left.
There were just too many thoughts going through his head, some which didn't even revolve around his friend but rather on the failure of being able to use summoning jutsu, he couldn't even summon a tadpole! And that's with him using twenty-five percent of his reserves!
He was eventually able to sleep but having taught his body to wake up at around sunrise, Naruto felt drowsy as he only caught a measly five hours of sleep, definitely not something he wished to get accustomed to.
Fortunately he had an easy fix to his drowsy and groggy state, it took around fifteen minutes but exiting the bathroom, Naruto felt refreshed and energized, he headed downstairs to converse with Rias and was promptly disappointed by her lack of presence here.
A part of him was expecting it given last night's event but such knowledge and expectations didn't help in erasing his disappointment at not seeing her.
Quickly making breakfast for himself and heading to school right after, Naruto felt uncomfortable as he realized just how attached he'd been to Rias the past few days, just walking to school alone was a struggle considering he still hasn't memorized the layouts of his destination.
"You don't realize just how close you get to someone until it's too late." Naruto murmured to himself, a quicksilver image of the Uchiha crest flashing in his mind at the thought.
Keeping his head clear, Naruto proved to himself to be competent and capable man as he made it to school all on his own, what followed after was hours of him being tortured in class, leave said class once it ended just to go to another class and endure the same painful process repeatedly until school was finally over.
Naruto groaned as he slumped on his desk, laying his head on his arms to get a comfortable sleep. School was finally over but paying attention to teachers as they droned on and on about history or math or physics was quite challenging, made even more so since he had a headache from creating so many clones earlier to study so he could catch up.
He won't be deadlast ever again dattebayo!
But despite his new goal and despite the fact that this time around teachers were not trying to sabotage his education, it sure as hell doesn't mean that he'll enjoy studying. No thank you.
He stayed there for a while, just enjoying the peace and quiet and the lack of monologue emerging from the demonic and evil teachers here at this academy.
As nice as it was to stay, Naruto knew that there was much to do and much to accomplish so getting up, groaning pitifully as he did so, Naruto walked out of class, waving and smiling back at the occasional girl who smiled and blushed at his general direction.
It didn't take long before he was out of school ground and before the blonde knew it, he was standing just outside of Rias's home, face to face with the door, he raised his hand to knock and hesitated.
The implications of his decision once again engulfing his existence and reminding him of a very much likely probability of his choice being permanent.
Going through with this meant that he might never be human again, a goal that Naruto worked so hard to prove to the villagers of Konohagakure. Such a decision meant that Naruto would eventually outlive all his friends and the few he considered family.
"Because I Love You Naruto-Kun"
Being a devil meant that… that it might not work out with him and Hinata if he sees her.
Naruto stood there for a while, torn between the duty he felt towards his home and doing the right thing.
Torn between helping a woman whose shown him so much kindness he's never received or ever would have fathomed such as simply walking with him to school everyday to even opening her home to him because he had nowhere to go, Rias truly did everything she could to help him even after he refused to join her peerage.
Then moving to Hinata, while she didn't provide him with food or clothes or opened her house to him, she did jump in to face a monster of an S-rank shinobi in order to protect him, in her defense when it comes to providing for him, he just simply didn't need her to survive in Konoha.
In a world surrounded by so much pain and hate directed towards him, she was the only one who ever said the words 'I Love You' at him. An experience and a moment that many were familiar with, but one that had been deprived from the shinobi.
To decide between the two choices after everything that happened… Naruto wouldn't have been able to make up his mind had he not remembered the quivering and glossy eyes he stared into last night.
Naruto knocked on the door, patiently waiting for the Gremory heiress to show, she didn't disappoint as she opened the door and welcomed him inside with questioning eyes. "Why did you knock Naruto-Kun? You didn't forget the keys right?" Rias asked him inquisitively.
"No Rias-Chan I didn't forget my keys" Naruto replied back with a small laugh. "It's a bit awkward to explain but I felt like I needed to show you some respect and knock on the door."
"Ohhh, I kinda understand but not really." Rias stated a bit confusedly.
"It's a bit awkward to explain as I said but that's not what I want to talk to you about Rias-Chan, do you have a moment?"
"I do Naruto-Kun, as it so happens I also need to talk to you." Rias uttered seriously, grabbing his hand and leading him to the living room, they sat together on the couch.
Both of them said nothing, neither of them sure of how exactly they wanted to start this.
'This is awkward' Naruto thought to himself, he couldn't handle the silence anymore
"Rias-Chan I was thinkin…"
"Naruto-Kun I want to…"
Both of them spoke at the same time, all was silent for a few seconds before the pair laughed softly at the awkward situation.
"Rias-Chan please go first, I insist." Naruto said with an amused twinkle in his eyes.
"Awww aren't you a gentleman. Thank you Naruto-Kun." She graced him with an amused and beautiful smile, a cheeky grin was her response and Rias had to suppress a giggle at the goofy expression he was making.
"I wanted to apologize for last night, it wasn't fair what I was planning to do and I'm really sorry for all of it." Rias looked down, feeling great and immense shame at her actions last night.
She felt Naruto place his hand on her shoulder and she looked up, expecting to see a disgusted or a disappointed expression but was surprised by the look of understanding found on Naruto's face. "We all hurt our friends unintentionally sometimes." Naruto remembered how horrified he felt at the sight of Sakura's injuries by his hand back at Tenchi bridge. "But that's the thing… it's unintentional." He murmured understandingly to her.
"Besides. Did you forget that I already forgave you Rias-Chan." Naruto smiled teasingly at her and Rias couldn't help but laugh, the blonde's word and smile helping elevate the guilt and burden on her shoulder.
"Thank you Naruto-Kun. You won't regret the second chance you gave me." She promised determinedly. "I know I won't" he agreed with her wholeheartedly
"Also do you remember how we talked about my options against Riser last night?" at Naruto's nod she continued "Well it's official now, I have a rating game against Riser ten days away from now and I want you to help train us please, we could definitely use the help." The moment she finished speaking Rias felt trepidation as she awaited his answer.
"Of course I can and will help, it's the least I can do after everything you did for me and even then, I always help my friends." Naruto brightly proclaimed, unknowingly helping Rias relax from the stress that just plagued her.
"But there is something that we do need to talk about that concerns all of this." Naruto stated seriously, his relaxed and easy-going demeanor fading away as he appraised Rias with the most serious stare he'd ever given her to date, poor Rias felt her heart beating rapidly as she stared at the suddenly dead-serious shinobi.
"I thought about this for a long awhile and it wasn't easy to decide but in the end I have decided to join your peerage." Rias felt a massive tidal wave of relief, excitement and happiness at the prospect of someone strong like Naruto joining her, her chances of winn… "But I need to know a few things first."
"What do you need to know Naruto-Kun? I'll try my best to answer all your questions." It was difficult to rein in her excitement but Rias managed as she spoke professionally to the blonde.
"For starters, the turning into the devil part… is it reversible?"
"Not to my knowledge but I know the creator of the evil pieces personally, he's my brother's best friend, I can introduce you to him so you can ask these types of questions but as far as I know, the process isn't reversible." She stated truthfully
"If it were irreversible and I did decide to join, can I expect to still have my rights and freedom and to do as I please, even if it meant leaving to somewhere far, far away in the future?"
"I can't lie and say that you'll have all the freedom in the world as you do now, but I do promise you that as long as you help me win this match against Riser and as long as whatever you do doesn't create an international incident in the greater supernatural world or doesn't affect the underworld in a negative way, then I won't restrict your freedom like how you may fear I do."
Naruto paid attention to every word spoken, eyes tracking her body language in order to try sense any form of deceit that might contradict what she was promising, he found himself satisfied with the lack of evidence that she might plan something.
"Unlike most devils Naruto-Kun, my clan pride themselves on being very affectionate and caring towards our servants, if anything you'll have my help in achieving your goals as long as they aren't against the underworld's interest and as long as what you seek to accomplish is something I agree with."
"That's nice and all Rias-Chan but I'd like to know not about the Gremory clan or their heiress Rias Gremory but I want to know about Rias the person, is she the type to truly think of her servants as her family, does she see her servants as people very precious to her?" Naruto questioned her, all his focus condensed into one single point, the woman in front of him.
Naruto's question took her by complete surprise, it took her a few moments but Rias regained her bearing and answered the blonde's question, her respect and admiration towards the shinobi swelling at his thought process and mentality.
"Yes, my peerage is my family and all of them whether it's Akeno who I've known for years or Asia and Issei who've been apart of my family for less than a month, all of them despite the differences are truly precious to me." Rias stared back into Naruto's stern unflinching eyes.
Her answer brought a smile upon the shinobi's face, his grim and stern bearing returning to his normal relaxed and carefree expression. "Well… when you put it like that, I suppose I have no choice but to join your peerage Rias-Chan."
She tried, she really did try to control herself but the joy of having Naruto in her peerage just made her lose all sense of control as she squealed in utmost delight and hugged the blonde. "Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!"
Naruto's eyes softened as he hugged her back, he wasn't entirely sure if he made the right choice in becoming a devil but it felt right to help someone when they needed it, especially one as kind as Rias.
"It's no problem Rias-Chan but you have to know one thing, if this process is irreversible then I will turn back into being human once we're done with this Riser fiasco. Deal?" It was tough being stern towards a woman who was hugging you tightly but Naruto got his point across if the repeated nodding was anything to go by.
"So how do you turn me into a devil?" Naruto asked her curiously.
"Oh that's pretty simple really." Rias let go of him and stood up for the next part. She had him lie down on the couch as she explained the process to him. "Every chess set has a total of sixteen pieces, one king and one queen, two rooks, two bishops and two knights, there's also eight pawns altogether."
"The king piece is in me as I am the leader of the peerage, Akeno-Chan is my queen and my right hand so to say, Kiba-Kun is my only knight and Koneko-Chan is my only rook, Asia-Chan also is one of my only bishops and Issei-kun… his case is a bit special as he took all eight of my pawn pieces."
(Now would be a good time to mention this. Unlike in cannon, Rias doesn't have Gasper Vladi in her peerage, she never met him. He doesn't exist in this world)
Naruto was dumbfounded at this startling revelation, there was simply no way that Issei was that strong.
"Issei took all eight of your chess pieces? How does that work exactly? No offense to Issei but he isn't exactly strong, actually he's pretty weak no offenses intended again but what is the worth of pawn pieces compared to the rest?" he needed to know the answer to this question.
Rias had to stifle a giggle at the blonde's reaction, it was quite amusing really how he felt in regards to Issei, nonetheless she indulged him. "A queen is worth nine pawn pieces, a rook is worth five pawns, knight is three and a bishop is also worth three pawn pieces."
She remembered the elation she felt when learning just what exactly did Issei possess for a sacred gear, she got really lucky with her choice. "Issei is a special case because his sacred gear is one of the longinus sacred gears, there are only thirteen of them in existence Naruto-Kun and they are so powerful that they're classified as Gods-killing weapons."
"And Issei possesses one of them." Now it made sense why it took Issei all of the pieces in order to be a part of Rias's peerage. 'Kinda like being a jinchuriki huh.' Naruto thought to himself, seemed like he and Issei had more in common than what he thought initially.
"Yes he does, I'll tell you more about it later Naruto-Kun, right now I want to turn you into a devil then we'll make the most out of these ten days and become stronger." Even a moron could feel the determination in her voice as she voiced out her words.
"This right here Naruto-Kun…" Rias said, gesturing to the unique looking piece that materialized on her hand. "Is a mutated rook, mutated pieces are quite rare and are much stronger compared to the standard pieces that every high-class devil would possess, I only possess one because of my Onii-Sama gifted me with his mutated piece."
"Not that I mind you using such a piece but why use that specific one if it's that rare." He questioned inquisitively, no doubt there was a reason behind this choice.
"Well Naruto-Kun…" Rias trailed sheepishly. "You're too strong for me to use the standard pieces, it's one thing if I'm turning someone weaker than myself into a devil but that's not the case here, this wouldn't work if not for my brother's or technically now my mutated rook."
Naruto nodded at that, her explanation was quite logical and reasonable.
"So how do we do this Rias-Chan?"
Rias smiled gently at him. "Like this." She placed the mutated rook on the centre of his chest and started to chant. "I, Rias Gremory, do hereby order you Naruto Uzumaki in my name to live as a devil of my house, you shall become my devil and rejoice as my new rook!"
The abnormal looking piece atop the shinobi's chest glowed a bright shade of red not unlike Rias's hair and sunk into his body. A fact that had Naruto feel and look uncomfortable as he sent a questioning and unsure gaze to the visibly happy red-head.
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"I believe in you Issei-Kun, I know you can achieve whatever you put your mind into." Asia cheerfully proclaimed, her faith in her first friend and kinda secret crush being absolute.
"You do? You really think I can achieve my dreams!" Issei asked her excitedly, grasping her shoulders and eagerly waiting for her response.
Issei felt like he was one of the luckiest men in the world to have Asia as a friend, the sheer amount of trust that she had in him made him want to become a stronger and better man, something he definitely planned on doing in order to become harem king.
"Mhmm!" Asia brightly smiled at him, her heart beating quickly as the object of her affections was paying so much attention to her.
"Yosh! Then I definitely won't fail and will become even stronger than even you teme." Issei roared enthusiastically.
His announcement was met with approval from everyone who smiled at him encouragingly minus Naruto and Koneko.
The shinobi just rolled his eyes and mentally apologized to his teachers for his past behavior before he left on his trip with his Godfather, Issei's rumbustious attitude reminding him of his younger, more eccentric self.
Koneko on the other hand just ignored him, pretending to not hear the pervert at all.
"That's the spirit my dear Issei-Kun, work and train very hard for me, okay?" Rias fluttered her eyelashes seductively at her only pawn, her voice melodic and soft yet very alluring as she addressed the second weakest member of her group.
If possible, Issei seemed even more fired up than before. "I will become super strong and one day I shall touch your heavenly boobs Buchou!"
Akeno bit her lips to stifle the laugh at the awkward smile Rias sent her pawn. Naruto had no reservations as he let out a loud bark of laughter followed by several smaller ones.
Kiba too couldn't resist chuckling at the announcement while Asia was appalled yet blushing at his indecent words, Koneko just gave the leader of the perverted trio a dark glare then looked ahead, intent on just forgetting about his pitiable existence.
"Cutie-pie if you want…" Akeno slid up closer to the blonde shinobi, her mouth just an inch away from his ear. "You can touch my boobs anytime." She slyly said, her smile widening a touch when she noticed the pink hue on the blonde's face.
"I'll uhh keep that in mind Akeno-Chan." Naruto mumbled embarrassingly, desperately trying to not think about the audacious woman's offer.
Rias narrowed her eyes dangerously at her queen. "Akeno stop harassing my rook" she demanded.
Right away everyone stopped walking to look at the blonde and their king, their expression belaying shock at this news. Naruto looked a bit uneasy at their reaction but smiled nonetheless.
The first to snap out of it was Akeno who looked extremely pleased at this. "Ohh that's such wonderful news." Akeno voiced out delightedly as she hugged the blonde tightly
That busted everyone out of their shock as they each congratulated him on joining, some more enthusiastically than others as they talked with him.
'Well this is certainly not the worst decision I've ever made in my life.' Naruto thought to himself as everyone minus his king praised his decision to join them.
End.
Hey lads, I hope the chapter was enjoyable to you all, I know quite a few of you will be peeved on my decision to have Naruto become a devil, fret not as this is just temporary and is part of the storyline I have in mind.
I say this again, him being a devil is just temporary and is part of the storyline for this crossover fanfic.
Anyway take care lads and stay safe.
Peace.
