First up was Yuki, he headed straight to her temporary residence in the mansion and knocked on her door. He learned from experience to never open the door to a girl's room carelessly.
Bad shit tended to happen.
After waiting for a second or two, he knocked again, with more force this time.
He waited for a little bit longer before announcing his entrance and opening the door.
What he saw was expected.
Yuki was laying on her bed, seemingly knocked out. Although he noted that she didn't change to her sleeping clothes at all, did she fall asleep by accident?
He let out an indulgent sigh, she even forgot to put on her blanket, she must be freezing...
So he quietly walked up to her bedside and grabbed the bed cover, pulling it slowly over the young hero's form. The shinobi grinned, she was completely out of it.
He silently left her room, making sure to quietly close the door behind him.
So Yuki was fine, but what about Issei and Asia-san?
He ventured forth, intent on finding the unlikely duo and whether they were doing ok. Honestly though, they were probably fine. Issei seems to act more gentlemanly around her...to a degree anyways.
The blond knocked on the brown-haired boy's room, waiting for a response. After he received none, he cautiously opened the door, half-expecting it to be filled with...'magazines'.
After a quick look around, he determined that the 'magazines' were hidden, but also that the two people he was looking for weren't here.
Naruto sighed, Mio wouldn't like that. But like he said, he trusted the teenaged boy enough to leave Asia-san's safety a priority.
Nevertheless, he decided to look for them just in case anyways, maybe he could help them out with whatever they were doing?
So he left the mansion and headed towards the forest, intent on finding something to help him kill time until Rias-san came back.
"...What is your wish my king?"
"...To kill a dragon and to claim my prize, like the fairy tale stories of old. It seems that fortune has smiled upon me again now that the Gremory girl has left, a truly perfect opportunity."
All was silent for a moment as the two shadowy figures stopped speaking, one waiting for her king to give his command.
He did.
"The magic circle is set, transport on my mark and make sure not to stray too far away from me...the gift that I've received from my master won't work if we are separated. Keep your target occupied for as long as you can muster, with your life if necessary. Don't disappoint me...or else."
The other figure bowed her head in submission, she learned to never disappoint her king.
His punishments would make many beg for death.
"My life is yours..."
"...Then we shall go."
Naruto was currently jumping from tree branch to tree branch, moving at a casual pace while enjoying the feeling of the wind pushing against him.
It's been a really long time since he has relaxed while tree-hopping, kinda like back at Konoha.
Although he was relaxed while moving around in the forest, he was out here for a reason. To have some fun with Issei and Asia-san!
He was bored.
Anyone who knew anything about Uzumaki Naruto...would know that a bored Naruto...was a dangerous Naruto.
So this was in everyone's best interest anyways.
However, just because he was relaxed, it didn't mean that his natural-honed instincts were dulled in the presence of any danger.
Something he just learned.
Then Naruto stopped his movements, locking his legs in place to stop himself form moving to another tree branch. Eyes widened as he sensed something.
That something being that feeling that he has been getting all throughout this training trip.
Someone was there...
The shinobi's head snapped towards the ground as he felt multiple sources of killing intent, that was all aimed at him.
Sneak attack!?
Not wasting any time, he moved away from his spot on the tree branch on to another branch, all in an effort to dodge the magic bullets that smashed against the place he was standing just a second ago.
The second he landed on the other tree branch, he focused on the situation.
Such as...
"...How the fuck did they get in here?" Naruto mumbled to himself, thoroughly confused at how these obviously hostile individuals got here.
Rias-san said it herself right? No one should've been able to enter this area without permission.
But while that was a pretty serious question, he had a bigger one.
...Why couldn't he couldn't sense them?
He couldn't sense them at all.
That should be impossible...yet the only reason he was able to react to their attacks in time was because of their killing intent.
Even that was dulled considerably when compared to normal...
He couldn't ponder the question further as more magic bullets smashed into his current position, forcing Naruto to jump to another tree branch once more.
This was beginning to get annoying.
But he knew where they were attacking from now, since he was paying attention to the source of their attacks this time, so time to take the fight to the enemy!
He jumped away from the tree branch he was standing on to the trunk and used it as a springboard towards where the intruder's attacks were coming from.
He obviously surprised the attackers, since they did not have any sort of defenses set up for him to break down.
Perfect. Just how he liked it.
Without bothering to look, he brought one of his attackers down by pulling on their large cloak and sending them crashing into the ground as he finished his own descent. Using the momentum of his jump to slide away from the rest of that person's comrades.
He took this chance to check on what exactly he was dealing with.
The first thing he noticed was that most of the people in front of him were wearing long cloaks to cover their features, giving them a mysterious appearance to go along with their slightly unnerving ability to avoid detection.
The second thing he noticed was that there was one specific individual who didn't follow along with what seemed like the standard uniform of this group. Naruto couldn't help but notice just how...fancy this person's clothes were, as if he or she was going to go to some important event rather than fight.
For all Naruto knew, they probably were. Wouldn't be the strangest thing he has seen before.
But unlike the cloaked group of people, this person wore a black mask that completely covered their facial features from view.
The only thing he was able to see from the person's face...was a set of orange eyes that gave him a stare that the blond was all too familiar with.
A patronizing stare, eyes filled with nothing but disgust as they stared at the shinobi as if he was worthless trash in their eyes.
He already wanted to clock this guy.
"...Who are you people. What do you want? How did you get here?" Naruto demanded from the group, a stern look on his face.
If possible, the assumed leader's eyes became more poisonous.
"...You don't have the right to speak to your betters like that...human trash."
The shinobi tilted his head, a slow smirk beginning to form on his face. "...Careful there buddy. Keep going and I will ram my foot up your ass in compensation for each and every insult that you throw."
The masked person then turned to their comrades, ignoring the blond's words entirely.
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