A/N: Can anyone see this chapter? The site, and the app, our glitching crazy with no fix yet in sight...
Honestly, it's really saps my inspiration...T_T
In other news, very much the sick. Wouldn't wish this on my worst enemy. Thankfully, I've got speech to text; apologies for any errors herein.
But hey, would you look at that? Yet another weekly update, FOUR times in a row. I'll try to maintain it as long as I can.
Easier said than done, that, I'm down to one day off a week, and its wearing me out...
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Last but not least, I hope you've noticed the song-based-chapter-title theme we've got going on here now~!
We needn't use the song names themselves, but rather phrases from within them.
Ergo, we have PLENTY of titles to work with now...away we go~!
"There is nothing more dangerous in this world or the afterlife...than an angry parent."
"Yeah, about that! Lemme stop you right there!
HAVE YOU SEEN KURAMA?!"
~?
Worth Fighting For
"WHO MADE MY DAUGHTER CRY?!"
Naruto craned his neck back with an irritated scowl, blinked once and tried to make heads or tails of what was happening.
"What in the actual hell am I looking at, here?"
Needless to say...well, he did not succeed.
Hell, yes. That was the proper word.
He had no idea who this clown was-and he didn't mean that as a joke either, guy genuinely looked like a clown with the whole white face, bright eyes, and rosy spots on his cheeks-but what he noticed about him first and foremost were the wings. Six of them, in fact. Seraphim, the word popped into his head unbidden. Just like Emily and Sera.
Did that make him an angel?
No halo, though.
Strange.
...why is a clown here?"
Said angel twitched. "Excuse me?"
Kurama righted herself -what, he called it as he saw it- behind him with an annoyed noise and glared baleful bloody red daggers up at the interloper. "You're interrupting us!" She slashed a hand outward, fangs flashing in the low light as she snarled furiously. "Beat it before we beat you!"
With that sudden motion, the last tattered scraps of her top, already barely hanging on to begin with, finally gave up the goose and fell.
She was not wearing a bra beneath said top.
Heat rushed to Naruto's face. "Oi!"
Verosika whistled. "Daaamn...
Vaggie pitched backward with an almighty nosebleed. He couldn't even blame her for it.
Do not make eye contact.
Do not look at the tits!
Do nooooot~!
Apparently the as-of-yet-unamed angel was of one mind with him on this; because he covered his pale face with one hand and sighed sullenly. "Nice try, but I'm happily married."
Kurama tilted her head. "I didn't ask?"
"Oi!" Naruto gesticulated wildly. "Clothes...!
"No, no," Verosika crooned, hips swaying as she wriggled happily in place. "Mama likes where this is going...
"What're you on about?" Kurama looked down with a thunderous scowl. "I'm still wearing...oh." heat crept into her cheeks as she beheld her nakedness. "Blasted things!" seizing one breast in hand, she twisted it viciously, all but ready to tear it away from her chest completely. "I'll show you...!"
Naruto stepped in and seized her by the wrist before she could do something foolish, all the while careful to stare well above the kitsune's head. "Stop that. If you tear your tits off, you'll bleed to death in a minute. Not sure how that'd work since you're already dead, that'd be what, double death, buuuut-gah!" She headbutted him under the chin midsentence, causing him to painfully bite his tongue. "What was that for?!
A finger flashed forth, grinding into his skull. "Because this is your doing!"
"Me?!" He deadpanned down at her, rubbing his chin. "Suuuure, because I magically gave you tits bigger than Tsunades. Blame me for that, too."
She glowered at him, one arm over her bosom, suddenly pink in the cheeks, tails swaying behind her. "...was that compliment?"
He flung up his arms. "NononoandNO, we are not doing this!"
Verosika hooted happily. "You definitely are! Kiss the girl!"
Kurama spluttered! "Not even in your dreams!"
A bolt of light sizzled down between them, cutting him off before she could belt the bitch.
"Seriously?" he scowled up at the angry angel, finding him still airborne. "We're in the middle of something, here. Who are you even supposed to be anyway?"
The maybe-angel twitched. "Do you...not know who I am?"
Kurama bit his shoulder while he was distracted.
He backhanded her into a building.
Without missing a beat, he blinked up at this new, unknown adversary. "Should we...?"
"Ack!" His retort seemed to physically wound the angel; short little bastard lurched in the air and clutched at his heart. "Right in the pride! Cheeky little-no, it doesn't matter!" In an instant he drifted down, wings tucked in behind him, gaze blazing like balefire, eyes only for him. "I know you!" for the umpteenth time he found a furled finger trying to poke a hole in is skull. "You're the prick that made my daughter cry!"
"Buddy," Naruto nudged Kurama aside and batted the blazing finger down with a scowl, "You keep talking about your daughter. But I don't know...
.
..
...wait.
He squinted at the man.
Finally noticed the resemblance, now.
Pale skin, glowing eyes, those cheeky red circles on his face...
"Charlie!" Put two and two together at long last, he snapped his fingers with a laugh. "You're her old man, ain'tcha?!" Seizing both palms in his, he pumped them up and down with an enthusiastic handshake. "She's the brightest little ball of sunshine I've ever encountered in my life, and that's saying something!"
In hindsight, he probably shouldn't have exclaimed that last bit aloud; because it sent the fallen angel into a sputtering tizzy. What was his name again...? It had been some long word that started with the letter "L" hadn't it? Lars? Lucy? Meh, couldn't remember. He'd just call him MorningStar. Or Lucy. Both were easier.
But oh dear, MorningStar was scowling at him. "You're being awfully familiar with my daughter...!"
"Well, why wouldn't I be?" he tilted his head. "We're pals."
An eye twitched. "Is that so...?"
"Yup!" blind to the byplay, he released the angel's hands and clamped a palm down on his shoulder instead. "You raised an amazing daughter, even if she's a little naive...
Kurama faceplamed. "Idiot...
Lucy grimaced. "I mean, you're not wrong about that last bit but-hey!" his scowl returned tenfold as he remembered his reason for coming here in the first place. "Don't distract me. If you're such good "friends" then why did I find her bawling her eyes out?!"
Now his words held weight, and a fair bit of confusion. "Bawling her eyes out...?"
Oh, right. He was kinda responsible for that one, wasn't he?
Ooops...?
When faced with the protective wrath of a potentially all-powerfuk father, there could be only one quart of action, one remedy, one solution to solve his problems. Ergo:
Pass the buck. Pass it hard. Pass it like a hot potato and pass it fast~!
He pivoted in place and thrust a finger forth! "Vaggie did it!"
Lucifer moved just as quickly, rounding on her with an evil leer. "Oh~? And who is this Vaggie...?"
Verosika wisely stepped back, pointing as she went. "That'd be her!"
The recently recovered angel recoiled. "Excuse me?! You're the one who went and outed me as an angel!"
Clever girl, tossing the potato back. "To be fair, I didn't mean to do that!"
Morningstar whipped around to regard him with a glare once more. "So you're the one after all!"
Naruto flung up his hands. "Me?! I didn't do anything! I came down here to-
A fist latched onto his collar. "Hurt my daughter!"
"Buddy, I didn't even know her until today!
"You think that little of her then?!"
"No! Will you listen to me?!
"Not a chance!" he swept an arm out, encompassing them both. "You started this and she," he stabbed a finger toward a chagrined Vaggie, "Lied to my baby girl! You're both responsible insofar as I'm concerned, and miss tall, red and feisty over there is guilty by association!"
"Hey!"
Naruto blew out a breath through his nose, snorting angrily. Alright, that settled it. this guy was either trying to pick a fight, or clearly not thinking straight. He got it, really. Protect your kids at all costs. He would feel the same if he was a parent, and he had encountered his fair share of brats, while he was out on missions himself. Konohamaru, for instance, was like a little brother to him
But they were limits to his patience.
"Look, pal, I don't know who you are or what your deal is here-
"I literally rule this place!"
-but we're kinda in the middle middle of something here. I dunno who told you about all this, you're being misinformed-
"Wait!" Kurama bulled between them, eyes blazing. "You're an angel, aren't you?"
Lucy blinked once irritated, but unwilling to attack outright. "Fallen, technically, but yes...
"Fix me!" she seized his shoulders and gave him a demented shake. "Get me out of this blasted hormonal body at once!"
"Nope!" he battered her hands down as one might an angry child. "No-can-do, that's out of my purview. And even if it weren't, I don't go around helping strangers, least of all souls like you."
She gnashed her teeth. "I have literally never met you!
"Maybe so, but you're still friends with this guy, so I am going to fuck you!"
Silence rang supreme.
Kurama's jaw clicked open, eyes wide and face red. "Excuse me?"
Naruto tilted his head. "Definitely not the right phrase. I think you meant f * * k us up...?"
"Isn't that the same thing? Lucy touched a finger to his chin and squinted at the sky, considering. "No, I'm pretty sure it was-
Kurama decked him in the face while he wasn't looking, delivering a vicious right cross to dent Lucy's cheek. The resultant sneak attack sent him shrieking through a building. His body smashed through it, then another, struck the street once, bounced, and bulldozed another, soon vanishing from sight altogether.
Naruto flung up his arms, exasperated. "Why did you do that?! I literally almost had him talked down!"
"You didn't!" she snarled back, butting her head against his, close enough to kiss. "Nobody fucks me but me!"
"Do you have any idea how ridiculous that sounds...?"
"Besides," she huffed, flicking a stray strand of scarlet hair behind her hair, "That fallen fool was in the way. Now he's not. Our fight continues!"
Vaggie slumped to her knees, covering her face with both hands. "We're so dead...
"Quiet over there, miss-new-wings. That goes double for you, pinkie!"
Verosika squawked unhappily. "Why me?!"
"No more talking! from you!" ignoring them both, she pivoted to face him once more. "Now, brat, are you gonna take me up to the pearly gates, or must I smack some sense into you?"
He scowled at her, undaunted by her display of dominance. "You say that like you were winning before."
A feral grin split her face. "Battle it is! Now where were we...?
She was still speaking when he made to sweep her knees, only for her to block him with a raised heel. Sparks skittered between them, their raised limbs clashing furiously as each balanced upon one foot. Pivoting, he fell upon a hand and smashed a kick into her chin.
Kurama took with a laugh and didn't budge. "Much better! I felt that one!"
She really did talk a good game.
However...!
Rolling his eyes, Naruto dropped flat-swayed under her kick when she tried to follow through-then lunged up and drove an open palm between her breasts. The impact blasted her backwards, sending her skidding away on her bare feet with a pained cry where stumbled once, and promptly doubled over, clutching at her chest.
...You good?"
Had he seriously hurt her...?!
"Owwww!" she wailed, clutching her tits. "Right in the boobs! That freakin' hurts!"
Really, he should've known better.
"Bastard!" Her head snapped up, red eyes glazing with pained tears. "That's a cheap shot! You don't see me going for your balls!"
He winced, slightly chagrined. "To be fair, I didn't think it would hurt that much...
"You try carrying a pair of massive knockers around and see how it feels!"
Nope. All the nope. "I'd rather not, thanks...
Wrong thing to say, that.
"My turn...
Eyes blazing, chest heaving, Kuaram opened her mouth and snarled furiously; the very act of which conjured a swathe of familiar chakra before her lips. As he looked on, it condensed itself it into a singular sphere. She bit down on that mass of deathly light, devouring it, swallowed, condensing it still further.
When next she opened her mouth, he saw the jutsu building within, growing brighter with each passing moment.
His eyes bulged. "Bijudama?! Seriously?! That's overkill!"
She dropped down onto all fours, preparing to fire. "All's fair in love and war!"
His wings flared behind him, each conjuring a rasengan in the vain hope of countering.
And a building between them erupted into a towering pillar of flame.
"YOU'VE DONE IT NOW!"
MorningStar emerged from the inferno, jacket scuffed and dirty. Long red horns jutted from his forehead with blazing eyes to match, sharp teeth gnashing furiously as he snarled. A wicked flame danced atop his forehead and there, just behind his legs, one could see a furious black-barbed tail thrashing about, kicking up sparks wherever it struck the street.
He was furious.
Kurama whirled and opened fire on him
He slapped the tailed beast bomb aside with the back of his hand, diverting it toward heaven high above. Naruto's heart leapt into his throat; only for the blast to strike a barrier.
Miraculously, it held.
Until it didn't.
With a sound akin to that of shattering glass the almighty jutsu smashed through, lancing out in a singular beam to cleave away the top of a tower, then another, followed by a third before finally petering out. The broken remains came crashing down out the heavens, fiery meteors raining down from on high, ventilating buildings and vehicles as they went.
Naruto rounded on his comrade, eyes blazing. "Kurama!"
The kitsune woman winced. "Ooops?"
Ooops, she said!
"To be fair, that winged bastard deflected it...
She hadn't killed anyone with that display -somehow!- but she'd probably scared the ever-living crap out of the Hells and Heaven besides.
Maybe they'd take the two of them a bit more seriously now...?
Needless to say, MorningStar wasn't in the best of moods.
"You come into my house and start this shit?! You're dead!"
For the first time since he'd come to this strange afterlife of his, Naruto felt a flicker of concern.
Wait a minute, if this guy was Charlie's dad, and his last name was MorningStar, then didn't that make him-
Wuh-oh.
The angry angel raised both hands above his head, fingers crook in the claws.
A specter of blazing flame manifested between them.
That was quite the large fireball...
"DIE!"
Aw, crap...
His world went white.
(.0.0.0.)
Kurama came to with a start.
Pain manifested first, punctuated by panic, then followed by a blazing headache as she righted herself. This blasted body was infernally annoying! So soft. So squishy. So weak. Bad enough to be trapped in this shell, but it was twisting her thoughts more than she liked.
Making her slower, for one. In her heyday, she would've dodged that. Blasted humanoid form!
Wait, where had Naruto gone...?
The last thing she remembered was that inferno blast of heat, and pain, for the first time...
She looked down, only for a fresh scowl to writ her freatures.
Why was she in someone's bed? Has she landed here?
Someone grabbed Kurama's hindquarters.
"Heeeey," a sleepy voice drawled, "Whose the broad? Ya've got a nice *hic* ass. I dun...dun remember orderin' a stripper...
Her eyes bulged.
There was an Imp, trapped beneath her, grinning blearily up at her.
As she balked down at him, he sleepily slapped her ass again. "Hey, wait, yer not Verosika...?
In hindsight, she knew it wasn't his fault. The little bastard looked -and smelled!- like he was drunk off of his ass, not to mention half asleep. She'd likely crash-landed though this building onto him when that fireball blew her and Naruto apart, thereby absolving him of any guilt in the matter.
However!
This body had a tendency to get rather...emotional when touched by others.
The result, some might say, was practically preordained.
The fox absolutely hissed.
"DIE!"
Poor Blitzo did not, in fact, die.
Given the chaos followed...
...it was not a mercy.
(.0.0.0.)
Naruto dragged himself out the rubble just in tim to see a shrieking imp rocket across the horizon.
Poor bastard soon vanished, sailing out of sight, not to be seen for the rest of the day.
Naruto sighed. "Saw that coming...
Kurama was fine, clearly.
But was he?
Dusting himself off, he reluctantly rose, shaking the dust free from his hair as he went, patting out little fires all across his body. No broken bones, no blood, just a faint singing. He'd been right to dodge at the last second, there after all. His wings bloomed behind him in a glow of gleaming gold, further confirming that he was unharmed, if a bit dirty. Bemused, he beat them once to clear the smog of dirt and dust around him. From there, he craned his neck, cracked it once to work out a kink, searching for his foe.
"Now where'd he run off to-
He was still speaking when Morningstar barreled into him from the side, howling obscenities. He could scarcely make sense of them all; he was far too focused on the storm of fists that followed. A flaming punch snapped his head to the side, followed by a left, right, then left again, battering him about like a leaf in the storm. For an angel, Lucy knew how to throat a punch! He took each blow head, on accepted them with nary more than a grunt, and finally deigned to retaliate.
Sliding to the right, he caught the next punch, twisted Lucy's right arm aside to reel him in - and slammed a fist into his torso.
MorningStar buckled and spat golden blood, but didn't admit defeat.
His tail slashed out overhead, striking between his wings to carve him across his cheek, blinding him in one eye. It healed a moment later but the damage was done, allowing another flaming punch to dent his cheek. He lashed out with one of his own, sending Lucy careening into the burnt out shell of a car. He grabbed it and whipped it his way almost immediately.
Three wings cut through it with ease, only for him to barrel through the severed halves and tackle him headlong.
Really, he tried, but MorningStar was just so damn short; in the end, he ended up forcing a grapple between them. And what a grapple it was! They clasped hands and strained against one another; foreheads colliding in a shower of sparks once, twice, thrice. Wings slashed out to inflict grievous wounds as the ground cracked, splintered, shattered between them, forming a looming crevasse from which there could be no return. The very foundations of the underworld itself seemed to tremble around around them.
Charlie's Father, the King of Hell itself, leered up at him furiously. "Why won't you give up?!"
He laughed. "Give up on tellin' me to give up, old man!"
A headbutt broke his nose, but he didn't budge.
"OLD?!"
"That's the part you're upset about?!"
Charlie's father was strong, he could admit that much. Stronger than Emily, stronger than Sera, far above Adam. Whatever had landed him down here, he clearly hadn't been slacking. Or maybe he had, and he was simply just this strong after letting himself go. The latter was more likely, if he was being entirely honest with himself.
How strong was he in his prime...?
Scary thought. Exciting thought. Fun thought!
And yet...
"Why are you smiling?!"
"Because," he beamed back. "You're the first person here to make me bleed.
His body burned for a fight, to continue the battle and finish what he'd started, to conquer this place.
Something stopped him.
Charlie would be sad if he hurt her father more than this, wouldn't she?
The thought of making her cry more than once...
.
..
...yeah, that didn't sit right with him.
Letting go he let Lucy stumble past and willfully ignored the opening he left. Tucking all ten wings in behind him, he sat down, crossed both legs beneath him, and laid his hands on his knees. From there, he pressed his forehead to the ground in what he hoped resembled a classic dogeza position of contrition.
"I'm sorry!"
MorningStar scowled at him, still all fire and wrath. "What are you playing at?"
Success! He'd gotten him to pause.
Now came the tricky part.
Daring to raise his head, he sat back up and smiled. "I think there's been a misunderstanding...
Lucy shook a fist at him and snarled out a laugh. "Ohoho, listen pal, the only misunderstanding here is what I'm gonna do to your face with my fist!
"That was a terrible pun, and you should feel bad."
Morningstar scowled. "Says Sera's little bitch."
Realization dawned.
"Wait, wait, wait. Did you say Sera?" His brow furrowed. "I knew it. She tattled on me, didn't she?"
"So what if she did? You still-
"I didn't hurt your daughter!" he snapped back, bringing him up short. "Not intentionally, at least. I guarantee you she cried because of Vaggie, not me. And for the record!" flinging up a finger, he nearly flipped him off, then thought better of it. "I haven't, and am no I ever, nor will I ever be Sera's bitch. If anything she's afraid of me. I'm down here because I want to be, not the other way around."
The King of the Underworld paused. "You're bullshitting me."
"Check with your contacts, then." he shrugged a shoulder. "Shouldn't be hard to find the truth." On a whim, he kept going. "And technically you're her bitch for believing her and going after me in the first place."
Lucy choked. "I'm nobody's bitch!"
"And yet here you are, doing her work for her." he planted his chin against a fist. "She wants me gone. Who else but you could do it?"
His glowing red eyes dimmed, if only momentarily, but the rough tenor in his voice didn't. "So you expect me to believe, what, that you came down here by yourself...?"
"Yup."
"And you didn't fall?!"
"I still have my halo, my wings aren't red, and no horns, so I would say yeah." he offered him his hand. "Look, I really think we got off on the wrong foot here. Let's let bygones be bygones. Water off of ducks back, how's that sound?"
Ironically, it was the last sentence that finally broke through to the king of the underworld. "Did you...did you just just make a duck pun?
"I may have, yes." He bit back a snicker. "Ya know, I used to have this teammate, whose hair was literally shaped like a duck's butt. I used to tease him all the time about it.
A snicker followed and with it, he felt his anger flagging. "You're joking!"
"I'm not," he laughed, unable to help himself as he carved out the shape with his hands and a stream of golden light to create a near perfect likeness of his old friend-turned-adversary. "See?"
The laughter that followed was hoarse, raspy, genuine; it was also a bridge to forging peace between them. "So let me get this straight, you and Sera aren't...?"
Disgust boiled up his throat.
"Bzzzt!" Naruto made a noise, akin to a buzzer, cross both arms before his face, in the shape of an X, and firmly shook his head for good measure. "I can't stand her. Hypocritical bitch! I came down here to see what this place was like by myself. Nobody sent me but well...me."
"...I get it, now." MorningStar scrutinized him for a long, awful moment. "You're new. It all makes sense...
"Eh? You can tell?"
"You're like me, aren't you?" Charlie's father babbled on, excitement overtaking his anger. "You've got ideas. Dreams. You want to make things better...and you make duck puns!"
Yes to the first two, coincidence on the third, he supposed. "I guess...?"
MorningStar latched on both his hands, grinning toothily from ear to ear "Did we just become best friends?!"
Laughter burst out of him. Mission failed successfully? "I think so...
Charlie was gonna freak out...
"Wait!" Kurama came staggering up to them, dirty and exhausted, torn shorts clinging to her hips for dear life. "What's this? Don't tell me I missed the fight?!
Naruto scratched the back of his head. "Hate to say so, but yeah...
"No, no, no." she rocked up to him with a near-feral hiss tails thrashing angrily behind her back. "I am tired, I am sore, I am dirty, my outfit is ruined. Worse yet, some bastard imp groped me, and I'm still no closer to escaping this foul form! I am owed recompense!"
Naruto planted a fist on his hip. "Whaddya want me to do about it?"
"Carry me!"
"Excuse me?!"
"You're excused~!
He had an instant to realize what the heck his old comrade was on about before she abandoned all pretenses and outright jumped him; even with his superior reflexes he barely managed to catch her, securing one hand beneath her knees, and the other against her back, the moment he did, she used all four tails to drape around his shoulders, effectively latching on like a limpet. Believe it or not, those tails of hers were surprisingly heavy...!
"Don't you dare say it."
"Say what?" he pointedly looked away from the beautiful, nearly naked woman in his arms. "I didn't say anything!"
"You were thinking it!" she pinched the exposed skin of his chest. "I didn't ask to be this...this...!
"Thicc?"
"Not a word from you, Lucy!"
Stepping up, Morningstar tilted his head. "So are the two of you...?
"Are the two of us what?"
"You know...!" he gestured wildly. "Like that?"
"That?"
Lucy drew out his hands. "Thaaaaat."
.
..
...oh!
Naruto's bravado died with a ponderous wheeze. "Not a chance! I've been dealing with this psycho for years! I'd sooner gargle rocks!"
"Still holding a beautiful woman there, buddy...
Kurama sputtered and spat indignantly. "It's not my fault, blame this infernal shell of mine!"
The blond sighed. "It's called a body, Kurama."
"Nonsense!" she slapped his chest with a regal hug. "You carried me before, this is no different." he didn't miss the faint flush of pink in her cheeks. "As such, you are going to carry me back to the hotel and you're going to help me clean up. A bath is in order, and a hair brushing besides. My tails are ruined!"
Had she always been this demanding? "And what do I get out of this?"
A tail smacked his forehead. "I stop kicking your sorry ass, for one."
"Bitch, that was a draw at best and you damn well know it."
"Perhaps. Perhaps not. We'll need a rematch to decide."
Kurama grinned up at him and against all odds, he found himself returning it.
It was too much, his emotions finally got the better of him.
Naruto couldn't help himself in the end.
He started laughing.
A/N: Scene~!
Geez, you could cut the tension between those two with a knife.
Worry not, we didn't forget Vaggie and Verosika; they simply know better than to go anywhere NEAR a fight like this.
Glorious misunderstandings are glorious, and a new friendship is formed !
Congratulations Sera, you just made things much easier for our boy~!
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Felt the need to keep the disclaimer down here since the idea of Heaven and Hell has become so hotly debated.
Naruto isn't so much furious at Extermination Day as he is at the idea of it. He's never been to Hell. He doesn't know what its like, only that it amounts to literal angels -of whom Adam is a poor example- are killing a bunch of souls and keeping it secret from the rest of Heaven. And Lute deliberately framed it in the WORST way possible just to upset him.
Of course he doesn't understand. Of course that would upset him. Of course he feels the need to go and see for himself.
After all, we KNOW there are some monsters down there, but there are a food good folk amongst them all.
You can save some, sure, but you can't save everyone.
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"Heya, Charlie! Meet my new bestie!"
Dad...what?"
x
"I am not giving you a bath."
She quirked a brow. "What's wrong? Scared?"
"You cheeky little...!
x
Vox saw the destruction and balked.
Velvette...I want everything we have on this guy. NOW!
x
"Your second mistake was thinking this tactic would give you an advantage over me...your first was your choice of target."
x
Verosika tilted her head. "Ticklish, you say...?"
x
Carmilla pinched his cheeks and scowled at him. "Stupid boy, are you really so dense that you don't realize you're holding the answer?"
Naruto beamed, wholly unfazed by her anger. "Heh. You kept your hair down. Looks nice."
She swore angrily.
x
Emily...?
x
There is great peril considering this, even as a hypothesis, because thoughts lead to actions, whether we intend them or not. Before you know it, we reach disaster, all from good intentions. They used to say that. About roads to bad places. Paved with good intentions. I want to be better." He gripped their throat, dangling him over the edge. "Don't make me let you down."
"You're insane."
"Ah, but what is madness if not the path to brilliance?"
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"You'll learn, or you will be made to learn. Simple as that."
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