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Reality Viewing: Naruto the Charming Assassin Charmer
-Chapter 25-
"Hmm," Lala frowned as she dug around inside her invention, moving around parts carefully as she looked for the problem. "Well that deals with the clog but why does the coolant line keep getting plugged up?"
"Probably because you got the main valve so close to that conduction coil," Naruto chipped in, squeezing in beside the pinkette so he could point to the aforementioned valve. "See, the excess heat from this is getting into the coolant before it can get properly chilled, thus boiling it down until it gets too thick and gums up in the system."
"Oooooh… I see it now, I can't believe I missed that. Thanks Naru."
"No prob."
"Wow…" While the duo were focused on getting the television fixed, neither of them noticed the looks they were getting from most of the room's other occupants. Particularly from Momo and Sephie, who were staring at the whiskered blonde in shock when he not only helped but actually corrected Lala on something mechanical related.
Sure, her machines had a habit of exploding, a lot, but they'd never met anyone who could actually point out a design flaw to the eldest of the devilukean princesses. Mostly because nobody but her could actually understand her designs in the first place, and especially not by a human at that…
And yet for the last ten minutes Naruto had been doing just that, picking out several issues that Lala needed to fix, like an exhaust fan that was blowing dust into the system.
"Forgive me if you find this… rude but how does your son know so much about machinery?" Sephie asked Kushina, who giggled softly and waved off the eldest pinkette's concerns.
"It's not machinery he's good with rather functionality, Naruto likes to help the tech guys set up during our fashion tours so he picked up a lot of the dos and don'ts on how to keep things running smoothly." The redhead explained between snickers as she snapped several pictures of the duo working. More specifically how close the two were unintentionally getting as they struggled to fit into the same space in order to work on the TV. 'Hello future teasing material~.'
Lala may be engaged to her best friend's son but she'd be damned if she missed out on such a golden moment to embarrass hers later.
And she wasn't the only one as both Ringo and Momo were snapping up photos of their own, though the latter was naturally more focused on the blonde's ass than her sister's.
'Whelp, this is gonna be annoying…' Mikan thought with a shake of her head. She could already see where this was going to go and it would no doubt lead to a LOT of headaches for her in the future.
"Alrighty! I think that should do it!" The youngest of the Yuki was broken from her thoughts when Lala closed up her invention with a cheer and turned it back on.
Yami didn't know it, but something was… off.
"Whoa!" Naruto covered his eyes when a mostly undressed Yami popped up on screen the moment it powered up. A second later, several golden locks wrapped around his head before turning into a blindfold and dragging him back to the couch. "Thank you."
"You're welcome." Yami said with a small nod, despite knowing that Naruto couldn't see it, as a faint blush crossed her cheeks.
"Aw, what's the big deal? You've already bathed together so-" Several large blades sprung up all around Momo. "Shutting up now"
"Good call." Kushina stated with a giggle while Yami let the weapons turn back into hair.
'… Naruto going off into the desert alone… I'm not worried about him. I'm really not… but I've had a strange feeling that something is wrong.' Yami wasn't worried about Naruto. He was stronger than she was, and he had a lifetime of battle experience. They might be on a different world than his own, but she trusted him to keep himself safe. No, her strange feeling was something completely different than that. She didn't know what was causing the strange feeling, but she had the feeling she was being watched.
Which was weird, because she was about to take a shower, her ship now having a fully refilled water supply… she didn't want to use it. Instead, she was actually using the shower that was in the Inn they were staying in.
"Sheesh girl, you gotta relax, all that stress will cause that lovely face of yours to wrinkle up." Ringo told the transforming blonde while patting her head, causing said girl to give the tiniest of petulant pouts.
She did not need to be babied.
"Actually, if it was anyone else, I'd agree and say she's being paranoid but this is Yami, something is definitely up." As much as Momo loved to tease Yami, and everyone for that matter, she knew that the former assassin had a scary level of awareness of her surroundings. Even when asleep she could catch and react to even the smallest disturbance around her, which the youngest pinkette had the unfortunate pleasure of experiencing firsthand on more than one occasion.
"Same, but that begs the question of what exactly is bothering her." Mikan chipped in, rubbing her chin in thought.
It cost her per minute to take a shower, any use of water was charged if it wasn't water that was being recycled for its own use later.
"That makes sense." Kushina said with a nod that Ringo shared. Desert planet so naturally water was considered a luxury to use, it didn't take a genius to figure that out.
"A hundred… qaurzits?" Mikan tried to read the pricing that was marked on a meter of the shower, which was thankfully in English. However, the last word was simply beyond her… how do you pronounce something with five Z? "How much is that in our money?"
"It's pronounced quitzite and that'd be about four thousand two hundred and thirty yen." Sephie stated, making the brunette's eyes widen in shock.
"For just one minute of showering?"
"It used to be thirty times that before they got help from the Devilukean Empire." The eldest pinkette stated in a dead serious tone that made everyone else's jaw drop in disbelief.
Standing in just her panties and the belts around her legs, she held her dress up to her chest to cover it, and looked around.
Somebody better not be watching her right now, or somebody was going to die.
No windows in the room, and she hadn't come into contact with anyone that could plant a microphone, tracker, or any type of camera on her.
"Well one could have planted one in the room itself, like what the principal tried to do in the girl's changing room… and the pool… and the lockers… and-"
"How does that man still have a job as a Principal?" Kushina asked, no demanded, incredulously as Momo kept listing off all the ways the principal had tried to spy on his female students.
"We've been taking bets on that, I've got ten thousand yen on it being blackmail." Mikan stated, with everyone aside from Kushina and Naruto nodding in agreement while muttering different bets. Said bets ranged from Incompetent Law enforcement to straight up divine intervention.
"Well whatever the reason, remind me to go put an end to it later."
"Oh brother, looks like I'll have to get the shovels and hacksaw ready…" Ringo muttered with a tired yet amused sigh, earning herself several weirded out looks from most of the room's occupants.
"No… before I met Naruto, I always had this feeling…" Yami shook her head and folded up her dress, before she placed it down. Taking off each belt on her legs was always tedious, so they came off before her panties did. Walking into the shower, she drew the curtains closed behind her, and started the water. "... It feels nice, this cold shower." Yami turned the water to its coldest setting, and she enjoyed the feeling as the water cascaded over her skin.
All of the sweat that she had worked up just by being on the planet was being washed away, and though the cold water had certain effects on her body, she ignored them in favor of getting to work taking care of her hair.
"I'm gonna have to spend this whole episode blind-folded, won't I?" Naruto asked dryly… before blinking in surprise when his face was actually uncovered all of a sudden. Turning to Yami, one could almost see the question marks above the whisker faced teen's head when his fellow blonde let her hair go limp. "Uh… or not?"
"Don't stare or else." Was all the former assassin said, pointedly refusing to meet his gaze while she spoke though she did create a few daggers to emphasize her threat.
"Noted."
It was her best weapon after all, had to keep it free of tangles.
'Good, she's distracted… I'll use this chance to separate.'
A white blob started to form out of Yami's dress as a humanoid white face started to take shape, coming out of her black clothes as if it was normal. Green hair forming as a white colored man with a twisted face started to come out of the clothes completely. He was naked, but without any genitals or any other gender formative characteristics other than his masculine body shape.
"UGH!" Everyone in the room flinched when the creature revealed itself with Lala hiding behind her mother, who hid behind Ringo, who in turn clung to an equally startled Kushina. Meanwhile Momo, the one who shouted, had latched onto Naruto's side with a freaked out look on her face, unintentionally knocking the boy onto Mikan. "How the fuck did that thing get there?!"
"I don't know, but I want to stab it." Yami said while instinctively transforming her arm into a huge serrated blade.
"What is that thing?" Kushina asked, grimacing at the sight of the deformed humanoid as all of her instincts told, no screamed at her to stab it. And not in just a "its bad" way but rather it was like every fiber of her being was literally burning with the intent to murder it, then murder it again just to make sure it was good and dead.
"It's a Zetsu, it's one of the fate a victim of the Otsutsuki's tree may suffer," Sephie muttered softly as she came out of hiding, though those close to her could see that she was still shaking ever so slightly. Her eyes gained a familiar distant look as she hugged herself, shivering from a non-existent chill. "Most of the time they just suck the life out of you until you're nothing but a withered empty husk. But on a few occasions the Otsutsuki would command the tree to instead convert its victims into those… things to serve their whims. They're still alive if you can call it that, but with every trace of who they used to be drained away, leaving an obedient shell that follows their every whim."
"And now they can fuse to clothes… great, as if they weren't nightmare fuel enough." Mikan muttered as she pushed Naruto and Momo off of her… before promptly latching onto the whiskered blonde for comfort. She would have hugged Yami but she was currently too sharp and pointy to get close too.
"Is somebody there?"
White Zetsu refused himself into Yami's clothes, changing his color to black as the fusion was completed. When Yami looked out into the bathroom, using the curtains to keep her breasts and lower body covered, she didn't see anything there. With narrowed eyes, suspicion of a person there visible in them, she scanned the room for the sound she had heard.
'Damn girl… as useful as you are for staying next to the Kyuubi Jinchuriki, your paranoid mind is really troubling.' White Zetsu thought as he stayed inside of her clothes. For awhile now, since she killed his fellow White Zetsu clone, he had been hiding inside of her clothes. A single spore had been planted on her, and it formed into him. Sadly, he had yet to find the chance to escape from her and use his chakra to mentally contact the other White Zetsu clones.
"…Excuse me a moment," Yami suddenly stood up from her seat and speed walked to the twin's bedroom, slamming the door shut behind her before anyone could react. Almost immediately afterward the group all heard the sound of fabric being ripped apart. A few minutes later the transforming blonde returned, only now she was wearing one of Momo's outfits and had a strong burnt smell following her. "Sorry, please continue."
'…Yeah, I'm just gonna let her have that.' Momo bit down the plethora of witty jokes that wanted to come out of her mouth about what just happened. Much as she wanted to she really couldn't blame the former assassin as just the thought of having one of those Zetsu on her made her want to rip and burn her own clothes.
Every time she was naked, she was either on her ship or in Naruto's apartment while Naruto was there, and he didn't have the chance to escape.
This time, White Zetsu more quietly unfused from her clothes and fused himself into the floor, sinking into the ground to make his escape on the foreign planet. It was an easy thing to do mostly, but if she saw him doing it, then she would tell Naruto. She was more useful alive than dead, so killing her wasn't an option at the moment. Stealth was the name of the game, a game he had an advantage in.
"Lala, I never thought I'd say this but," Grabbing the Lala's All Purpose Tool, Mikan all but shoved it into the inventive Pinkette's hands. "Build something. Now. Preferably something that can tell if something like that is around."
"I'm on it." For once Lala didn't have any of her usual chipper attitude when she got to work, her expression uncharacteristically serious as she started putting things together.
"Aren't you guys taking this a little too seriously?" Ringo asked with a raised brow, wondering why they were freaking out so much.
"""No.""" Everyone aside from Naruto and Kushina chorused at the same time.
Time to use his chakra to contact his own creator, once he was far away to not be sensed by anyone.
"That's probably not good…" Naruto thought out loud, with Momo and Mikan both nodding in agreement.
-With Princess Run-
"Stupid Lala! Taking me all this way to test her stupid inventions, and then using her stupid proto-type teleporter! Meanie, stupid, jerk! Eeeep!"
A girl, possibly no older than 10 or so years old, screamed out as she stayed on a tall rock, on all fours. She had long lime-green hair, with dark purple eyes, and was rather fair skinned. She was on the more petite side, which was more normal for a child, though she had started her development in her hips. She wore light clothing, more feathery, and had a veil covering the sides and back of her head, but not her face.
"Oh look, it's little Run-chan!" Lala exclaimed happily, immediately cheering up upon seeing her childhood friend/unknown rival appear on screen.
She wasn't alone in this as everyone could be seen visibly relaxing at the sudden change of situation. Although they weren't entirely calm as there was still an underlying sense of unease, especially for Sephie who looked a bit pale.
"Of course you somehow got her into trouble again with your inventions." Momo couldn't help but shake her head in amusement at hearing the why Run was in her current situation.
"She is cute as a little… wait, if Run is that young right now, and she's the same age as Lala," One could almost hear the gears spinning in Ringo's head as her gaze flickered from Run to Lala and then to Yami. "How old are you again Yami?"
"Approximately twenty four of your years." The transforming blonde stated, making the fashionista blink in surprise.
"Wow, you don't look a day over sixteen, what's you're secret?"
"Trans-Ability, it let's me maintain a-" Yami suddenly froze in the middle of her explanation as her face turned a bright red. Why? Well that'd be because she'd instinctually changed into an older looking and more mature form for a brief moment to help demonstrate her point.
However, she'd forgotten that she wasn't wearing her usual outfit which was designed to work with her transformations. So when she'd suddenly grew up in about three seconds, they hadn't grown with her, instead ripping to pieces that fell into a pile around her when she shrunk back to normal.
"Not looking." Naruto stated as he immediately spun around to face away from his fellow blonde while Mikan tried to help her friend cover up.
Fortunately, Yami was quick to snap out of her embarrassment and wasted no time wrapping herself in her own hair to preserve her modesty.
"Oh my, how bo-" A fist of hair slammed right into Momo's face, sending the young pinkette flying into the wall.
"Oh dear, allow me to fix this." Lala's outfit glowed before transforming into a modest dress as Peke emerged in her tiny robot mode. Floating over to Yami, the dress bot quickly swept up the tattered remnants of her attire into her arms before settling onto the blonde's head. Another bright glow filled the room which quickly cleared away to reveal a thankfully redressed Yami, now with the addition of a small Peke hat atop her head. "There, that should do until my repair systems fully restore your previous attire."
"…Thank you." The former assassin mumbled quietly with a slow nod while Mikan patted Naruto's shoulder to tell him it was safe to look again.
Princess of Memorze, Princess Run.
Ulps, having gained their names from the disgusting sounds they made, and their rather ugly appearance. They were a rather peaceful species normally, at least the domestic Ulps were peaceful.
They were about 10 to 20 feet long, with brown-scales covering their long serpent-like bodies. They had no eyes or ears, or even noses, the front of their faces were just open mouths with 10 rows of sharp teeth. They had 7 small arms coming out of both sides of their bodies, arms that all had 3 clawed fingers on them. At the end of their bodies were bladed scales (for the males), and stingers (for the females). As they circled around the rock she was standing on, they made squishing sounds with their slimy arms.
"People actually keep those things as pets?" Naruto asked incredulously.
"Oh yeah, in fact Nana has a whole pack of them in her D-Dial." Momo stated with Lala and Sephie both nodding in agreement.
"I see…" Well Naruto wasn't one to judge, and he'd seen weirder kinds of pets.
"Ulp." Run covered her mouth to try not to vomit when the Ulps vomited on the ground around the rock to try and attract more of their species to the location.
"Eeeeew…" Many in the room gained green faces at the sight of the creatures barfing all over the place.
"That's so… oh god Lala please tell me you turned off the smell simulation?" Momo pleaded to her older sister, before sighing in relief when she got a quick thumbs up from the gagging princess. The last thing she needed was to know if that vomit smelled as disgusting as it looked.
Two of them, there were about 8 around her, started to dig into the sand. "Stupid guard, running away!" Run shouted as she slammed her small hands against the rock.
Just because he had been injured protecting her, and put her on top of this rock, didn't mean he should run away. He should have run away and taken her with him.
"Aww… he just left her like that? Why would he do that? That's such a mean thing to do." Lala said with teary eyes, making her mother palm her face with a sigh.
"Lala, he went to get help… remember?"
"Oh? Oooooh, that's right! Good job Mister Guard!"
…
"You know for a super genius, that girl is not very bright…" Kushina whispered to Ringo, who nodded as they shared a concerned look.
Well, at least Ulps weren't capable climbers, since their fingers lacked the grip strength to climb, so she should be safe long enough for help to come for her. They were more capable at throwing up their highly corrosive vomit. Run blinked and looked at steam that was rising from the rocks below her, where the Ulps were throwing up. The base of the large rock dissolving rather quickly, her rock growing much less stable.
'And of course they have acid vomit, as if they weren't creepy enough…' Mikan thought with a grimace, making a mental note to never go near the ones Nana apparently owned.
"Hey! You disgusting worms, why don't you pick on somebody with some more meat on their bones."
"Yay! Naru to the rescue!" Lala cheered, waving her arms in the air excitedly with little flags that said 'Go Naru' on them in each hand.
"Where did she-"
"Don't bother," Yami cut Naruto off in a dry tone, shaking her head when her fellow blonde turned to her with a raised brow. "Trust me, not worth the headache."
Run looked towards the sound of the voice, and she blinked when she saw a strange off-worlder walking towards the Ulps with crossed arms. He had a large smirk on his face, cocky and self-assured as he moved confidently towards the dangerous animals. True, they weren't the most dangerous, but a group of Ulps together were not to be underestimated.
"My Naru could totally take them." Kushina boasted proudly with a smirk, crossing her arms while puffing her chest out.
"Do you mean that Naru?" Ringo asked while pointing at the screen, before pointing to Naruto, who blinked in confusion. "Or that Naru?"
"Yes." Was all the redhead said as her smirk grew, making her friend roll her eyes in amusement.
"What are worms?" Run whispered in confusion.
Also, Ulps didn't have ears, they sensed vibrations through their fleshy arms, which lacked the scales the rest of their body had. She didn't know how the man had gotten so close to them without the Ulps noticing, but he must be light on his feet. His loud voice did create the vibrations needed for them to take notice of him though, and since he wasn't on a giant rock, and was larger than she was, it would seem they decided that he was a more delicious meal than she was.
"Oh, so they hunt like graboids, makes sense." Naruto muttered to himself, causing Mikan to snort before nodding in agreement.
"What's a Graboid?" Momo asked with a raised brow.
"Movie monster, I'll show you later." The brunette told the plant lover with a wave of her hand.
'Time to save the princess, and this time, I'm going to actually look cool doingit.' Naruto smiled to himself at his inner thoughts.
Saving princesses was always something he enjoyed, because what said Hero like saving a damsel in distress, and a royal one at that? It was part of his idea of what he wanted to do with his ninja career.
"That is just adorable~!" In the blink of an eye, Naruto found himself smooshed in his mother's grasp when she suddenly pulled him into a hug. "My baby wants to be the big tough manly hero~"
"Moooom… I'm not adorable…" The whiskered teen complained as he fruitlessly squirmed to get free.
"Of course you are, oh this reminds me of when you were twelve and you found those homeless puppies."
"Mooom!"
'Well, this is humiliating…' Mikan thought while she dangled in the air between Naruto and Kushina, the pair oblivious to her being sandwiched between them as they kept going back and forth. Worse still, due to their height difference, the poor girl's head was firmly wedged between the blonde's pecs and his mother's ample bosom.
"Alright, that's enough of that, knock it off you two." Fortunately, her own mother came to the rescue as she pried the duo apart, allowing her to drop to the floor in sweet freedom.
"Save me already!"
'Though, she seems like she has a bit of an attitude…'
"To be fair, she is a ten-year-old surrounded by vicious monsters wanting to eat her, I'd probably be a little snippy too." Momo admitted, with Mikan and Naruto nodding as they retook their seats beside her.
Naruto rolled his eyes and tensed his legs, jumping up into the air as the two Ulps that burrowed into the ground shot up at him. He kicked one out of the air and onto it's side, before he took a kunai out and flung it down the throat of the second Ulp. The kunai came out of the back of it's general head area, and the Ulp fell out of the air and started to twitch, before it stopped moving by the time that Naruto landed on top of the Ulp that he kicked. "Rasengan!" Naruto formed a Rasengan, and slammed it into the Ulp he was standing on top of. Using a low powered Rasengan, he carved a hole through the Ulp with ease.
"Whoo! Go Naru! Go Naru!" Sephie was forced to duck her head when Lala started waving her flags again.
"Yeah! Kick their asses sweetie!" Kushina added in while holding up a large worn out looking foam finger that was bright orange and hand "Naru Number One" in black letters.
…
"Don't ask…" Naruto said dully when Yami, Mikan, and Momo looked to him questioningly.
Standing above his kill, he looked at the 6 remaining Ulps, who were shaking their stingers and blades in anger when the death pheromones of their species spread through the air.
"… So cool." Run whispered as she watched two Ulps get taken down within seconds of each other in such a cool, warrior, way. She moved over towards the edge of the rock and watched the hero that was saving her work. "He's strong."
"Understatement." Yami muttered, recalling how effortlessly the whiskered teen had taken her counterpart with just a single blow.
Naruto jumped off the Ulp and grabbed the bloody kunai he threw earlier, before he spun it, swinging the blood off.
"Now, I don't have to kill all of you… you can just turn your tails, and run away. Be good little worms and wiggle away." Naruto jerked his head in the opposite direction, showing them where he wanted them to go. He started to walk towards the Ulps, before he broke out in a jog.
The creatures started to run full speed at him, waving their tails behind them, and dripping acid vomit from their mouths as they ran.
"Whelp, can't say he didn't give them a chance to escape." Momo said with a grin, sitting up as she giggled excitedly for the upcoming beat down.
One of their tails hit the digesting rock behind them, and shattered a large chunk of it.
For Run, time slowed down as the rock underneath her gave. One second, she was safely on a large rock, and the next she was falling down towards the sand below, right down towards an Ulp that had noticed that she was falling. Her eyes widened as she saw the Ulp getting closer to her, as she was pulled down by gravity.
"Oh no! Run-chan?!" Lala gasped, cupping her hands over her mouth in worry. The whole scene moved in slow motion so she could see her sorta friend falling right towards a mouthful of razor sharp teeth.
"Don't worry sweetie," Sephie rubbed her eldest's back comfortingly. "I'm sure she'll be fine."
Naruto moved.
'One…' Naruto now ran towards Run, with his kunai he split an Ulp in half as he passed by it faster than it could react. He jumped into the air and attached an explosive note to it, before throwing it in between two Ulps. He made a handsign as he passed by over them, and it exploded, sending pieces of them everywhere. 'Two, three.' Naruto thought to himself as he landed on top of the fourth of the six. He slammed his fist into it, and shattered it's armor, and caved it's internal organs in. '… Four.' Naruto thought as he created a Shadow Clone, and grabbed it's arm.
It nodded at him.
Run didn't see as Naruto quickly dispatched each of the Ulps, all she could see was the Ulp that she was falling down towards.
Naruto threw his clone at the fifth Ulp, and using it's momentum, it also threw the original up towards Run as she fell. The clone threw a handful of shuriken at the Ulp it was heading to, before it landed on it's side and knocked It down to it's side, drawing two kunai and killing it with quick slashes, vanishing in a puff of smoke.
'What?'
"Whoa! Hold up, what happened?" Momo demanded as the slow mo effect suddenly stopped and everything just… happened all at once.
"So fast…" Ringo felt her head swim from trying to keep up with the rapid movements. However, despite her best efforts she'd lost track pretty much right after the second kill, seeing naught but a blur.
"What happened? I blinked and it was over." Naruto said, with Mikan and Momo both nodding in agreement, the latter looking a bit miffed at missing the action.
'I could barely keep up.' Yami, the only one who managed to catch everything, thought with an impressed hum. Not a single move had been wasted in dispatching his opponents, with each strike being quick, precise, and guaranteed lethal.
Run didn't know what happened, but in an instant she was no longer looking at the Ulp below her. Instead, time seemed to return to normal as she was in the arms of the stranger who was saving her. She was staring at his muscled chest as she was flying in his arms higher and higher into the sky above them. She looked up and saw his confident grin, his eyes sparkling with joy as he looked down at her.
Despite her surprise, Momo wasted no time snapping a photo of the scene. "Hello new screensaver."
"Huh?" Run voiced out loud.
"A hero always rescues the beautiful girl at the last second, now hold on tight, because we're about to give that bastard down there a one way trip to hell." Naruto held onto Run with one arm, and used his thumb to point behind them to the Ulp. She looked underneath his arm as they stopped going higher, and started to fall again towards the Ulp. It was waiting for them to fall onto it's open mouth and sharp teeth.
"Eeep!" Run's scared squeak got a laugh from Naruto.
Naruto stayed completely still in the air as they fell, and Run screamed louder, not noticing the rings appear around Naruto's eyes, or as they changed into toad eyes.
"Oh! He's busting out sage mode, this is gonna be good." If she was excited before, Momo was now ecstatic as she bounced in her seat like a little kid.
"Sage mode?" Naruto repeated with a raised brow, turning to Mikan for an explanation.
"Classic anime power boost form, he draws in power of the world around him to get way stronger with a bunch of cool abilities."
"Ah, gotcha."
Naruto continued to fall backwards towards the Ulp, with his confident smirk never once leaving his face.
Meters… feet… it wasn't until they were inches away that Naruto turned around in the air, and slammed his fist into the Ulp.
*BOOM*
A huge explosion of sand rose into the air underneath the force of Naruto's fist, the Ulp shooting as deep as it could into the sand, having died on impact with his fist. A massive crater appeared in the sand, while Naruto landed holding her with one arm, his fist in the sand as the rings around his eyes vanished and eyes became normal.
"Holy shit… that was badass-Ttebayo!" Naruto cheered, throwing his arms up in the air.
"Super badass!" Momo cried out in agreement as she latched onto the whiskered teen's side in excitement. "Do it again! Do it again!"
Naruto stood up straight with her in his arm, changing to hold her with both of his arms, before he gave her a toothy smile.
"So cool~." Lala said with sparkling eyes, causing her mother to giggle as she rubbed the inventive teen's head.
"That's my baby boy!"
"Choking… not breathing…" Ringo gasped out when Kushina grabbed her into a back breaking hug of pure pride for her son's counterpart.
"We should probably do something." Mikan said with a bemused sigh as she and Yami watched the group cheering on the boy on screen.
"I'll handle it." Without another word, the transforming blonde beside her sent her hair out to grab everyone and reeling them back into their seats. Fortunately none of them put up much of fight, aside from Momo refusing to let go of Naruto, so it only took a minute or so to get everyone settled.
Run's face turned bright red, and she looked away from him.
'He's… amazing…'
"Oh ho ho~ I smell a crush~" A devious smirk spread across Momo's lips as she looked at Yami. "Better watch out Yami, you've got more competition."
"I could say the same to you."
…
"Damn… got me there…" The young pinkette pouted when she realized Yami actually got her with that one.
Meanwhile, Yami's lips quirked upwards ever so slightly while Mikan high-fived her.
""Aww~ That's adorable~"" Kushina and Lala gushed in almost perfect sync.
'… I finally looked cool saving a princess… yes, that felt amazing, like everything I hoped it would be. I looked cool, and I didn't have to get the shit beat out of me to do it.' Naruto tried his best to not scream to the heavens in joy for what he just did. Usually when he saved a princess, it was after he had gotten into a fight and took some heavy hits. This time, he managed to look like a complete badass doing it.
"Oooooh…" Everyone flinched as a montage played showing Naruto at various points of his life covered in bruises, cuts, and other such wounds.
"Lala no… don't-" Naruto's words fell on deaf ears as the eldest princess latched onto his other side.
"You poor boy!" She whimpered with a sniffle, nuzzling her cheek against his with teary eyes.
…
Sighing, Naruto rubbed Lala's back as she buried her head into the crook of his neck.
"Are you okay Princess?" Naruto asked her with serious concern this time.
Looking cool aside, he needed to make sure she was okay.
Run opened her mouth, but closed her mouth and nodded her head with red cheeks. She leaned her head into his chest and looked anywhere but at his face.
"MmmHmmm."
"Oh yeah, she's totally got a crush on her hero." Mikan shook her head with a giggle while Yami nodded in agreement. Both of them could see the obvious signs of a crush already budding in the young girl in the other Naruto's arms.
"Then lets take you home." Naruto spoke with kindness as he started to walk back from where he came from. Now that he had saved her, he was going to take her back home.
Then, he could go train.
"Real one track mind, that one. Just like the real deal." Ringo stated in amusement, before giving Kushina a knowing look as the screen went back to buffering.
"…What? What!?"
"Oh nothing~" The orangette said in a sing song tone before turning to Sephie. "Hey, why don't we go out and get something to eat while we wait for this to load? Perhaps get to know each-other a bit better."
"You know, that actually sounds like a wonderful idea." The queen said with a smile, standing up alongside the model scout as they headed for the front door.
"Hey! Wait for me, you guys!" Kushina called out indignantly, chasing after the duo as she shook her fist at them… before quickly popping her head back in. "Don't start again without us."
…
"Well, that was… sudden? Yeah, sudden works." Mikan said to herself after a few minutes of awkward silence, unsure of what else to say while Yami nodded.
"Indeed."
"…Wanna go get some food too?"
"Indeed." Yami was getting tired of prepackaged snacks so the duo decided to head off in search of some fresh meals to enjoy.
"Well, well, well, looks like we can get some time alone to… get to know each-other~" Momo purred into Naruto's ear, causing a light blush to spread across the blonde's scarred cheeks as she snuggled against his side. Although any romantic (or seductive) vibes she was hoping for were quickly snuffed out thanks to a still teary Lala sniffling loudly into Naruto's shoulder. "Lala… why don't you make Naruto one of your special dark matter milkshakes?"
"Oh! Good idea!" Like a switch was flipped the bubbly pinkette was all smiles and sunshine again as she sprang from the boy's side, rushing off towards the kitchen with an excited hum. "I'll be right back!"
"Ah, much better," With a smirk Momo wiggled herself around until she was perched right on Naruto's lap. "Now where would you like to start handsome?~"
"…Again, I'm not the Naruto you've been watching, you do know that right?" The blonde she was straddling pointed out, causing the youngest princess of Deviluke to giggle.
"I'm aware, yes."
"Then maybe you should slow down a little," Naruto leaned his head back until he bumped into the couch when Momo got really into his personal space. Despite his blush he seemed surprisingly calm as he met the playful girl's gaze with his own even when their noses were all but touching. "I mean it's not that I don't think you're cute or anything, but could we at least go on a date or something before you get anymore… this?"
"…Alright, you've got a deal," She conceded while leaning back, twisting around on the boy's lap so she was facing the TV once more as she laid her back against the blonde's chest. "How about sometime tomorrow? Assuming you can wait that long without unveiling my-SHIT! Her veil!"
"Huh?" Naruto blinked in confusion when Momo suddenly went stiff as a board with all the color draining from her face, which was locked in an expression of horrified realization. Before he could ask what was wrong though, the plant user all but launched herself off his lap and towards the front door, literally knocking the poor thing off its hinges in her rush.
…
"Huh?" The blonde repeated, question marks blinking above his head.
-Meanwhile-
"Alrighty, I think I got it this time," Writer said confidently as he stood on the shore of the lake. The masked blonde's eyes gleamed with confidence as he finished jotting something down in his ever-present book. "You ready?"
[Almost] One of SKU's hands held out that note from a nearby shack, making Writer shake his head with a chuckle.
"Well hurry up, I don't see why you need to get changed just for…" He trailed off when the white-haired king stepped out into view to reveal his new outfit.
In lieu of his regular attire, SKU was now adorn in a short red dress, a brown cape, and a large brown witch hat, all with gold trim. The hat also had two large buttons and triangular stitching that made it look like it had a toothy smile, while he had his hands covered in backless fingerless black gloves, and wore bright orange boots with bandages around one leg and a black stocking on the other. And to top it off he had a red eyepatch with a silver cross over his left eye and a wizard staff in hand.
"…Really? You just had to dress as her for this?" Writer asked dryly with a deadpan, which only grew when SKU held up a note with just three words.
[It feels appropriate]
"Of course it does…" Sighing, the masked blonde bowed his head in resignation while holding his arms out. "Alright then, let's get this over with."
The ever youthful king simply nodded before pointing his staff at Writer.
"Explosion."
-End Chapter-
