Though, that was all she could gather from her highly tuned devil eyes, but now, at least, she was keenly interested.
So this was who Sona noticed, huh...?
Rias nodded decisively, and smoothly went back to her desk in order to plan out how to best meet with him face-to-face.
With Naruto and Issei reinforcing her Peerage, she should be in a much better position to stop her nightmares from coming true...
Naruto figured that Shitori-san was probably very disappointed in him.
But he didn't really care about getting himself an education since he has a much better reason to say; 'When will I ever use this in my life?'.
After all, he was going to get back home one day, while focusing on beating the crap out of some people and talking down some others.
So he really doubted that he would ever need to know about how to draw art, learn about biology, or this world's history.
But, at the very least, he was able to give both of his new roommates a decent tour, which took most of the school day.
So he decided to skip his classes again, and lead his new friends back home.
"So Mio, how do you like Kuoh Academy?" Naruto asked his 'new sister'.
Mio beamed at him, and began to animatedly talk about how great the high school was, and how she would love to enroll into the school.
The sheer concept of going to school again, and making new friends really seemed to have brought the red-head out of her shell a bit.
Naruto just smiled at her exuberance, internally deciding that he would do his best to make sure that she could smile like that.
As long as she was under his case, he would do his best.
The shinobi frowned then, twitching as he...
...
"Hey girls, I need to go pick up some groceries for the house. I didn't really think that I would have too many people coming over, you see? So can I trust you two to find your way home by yourselves?" Naruto asked with a friendly smile, almost as a challenge.
Maria beamed at the sign of trust that the blond offered them and quickly agreed, dragging Mio with her as she moved to charge ahead.
Though, Mio physically stopped the succubus by dragging her heels on the ground, staring at Naruto for a moment, to his confusion.
"What's up, Mio? You ok?" Naruto questioned in slight concern.
She didn't answer at first, instead choosing to continue to stare at him, before she finally did something by asking a question of her own.
"I should be asking you that, are you ok, Naruto?" Mio asked, her growing frown marring her features.
The blond just waved her off with a chuckle. "What, don't trust me with getting the groceries right? Well, I think that you should have more faith in my abilities, imouto."
His remark caused Mio to burn up in embarrassment again, before she gave a huff, and stormed back towards the house. too upset to continue the conversation.
Heh. She was too fun to tease sometimes, even Naruto of all people couldn't resist.
Keeping his smile on his face, Naruto began walking towards the nearby grocery store, his features slowly losing it's positive attitude as he took in the features of someone he didn't want to see again so soon.
He eventually stopped in the middle of a busy sidewalk, right in front of a girl with hard eyes.
Nonaka Yuki.
Neither said a word for a moment, both just staring at one another for a couple of seconds.
Other pedestrians could be forgiven if they seemed like a shy new couple trying to kiss one another with their close proximity. But there was no friendly gestures to be found in each other's eyes.
"You lied, Uzumaki Naruto." Yuki eventually spoke up, her accusation stated like a fact.
Naruto felt his hackles start to rise at the charge.
"I didn't lie to you at all, Nonaka-san. I never go back on my words, you can bet on that." Naruto retorted, his blue irises growing cooler.
"Oh? Since when was Lucifer's daughter someone you considered precious, Uzumaki Naruto?" Yuki hissed with her eyes narrowing in anger.
Ah. So that's what this was about.
"That is a different matter entirely, she is a girl that needed help and I simply decided to help her in that time of need. Do I need to explain all of my actions to you now, Nonaka-san?" Naruto asked, slowly becoming more incensed by her words and his naturally hot-tempered temperament wasn't helping.
Nonaka Yuki stared at him for a moment before taking a step back.
Naruto widened his eyes for a moment, unsure of what was going on, or how he should take it.
Was she backing off?
"Fight me, Uzumaki-san." Yuki demanded with a dark glint in her eye.
The shinobi jerked slightly at the demand, needing a second to appreciate what the hell just happened.
In her eyes, no matter how you looked at the current situation as it was, they were enemies. Even if Uzumaki was just being a nice person for whatever reason, it still didn't change the fact that this boy was aiding an enemy of her faction.
That was all there was to it.
"I thought you cared about innocent humans? You would fight me here?" Naruto wondered aloud with a grim face, sparing a look around him.
If she attacked him here, then he would have no choice but to aim to kill, despite any possible problems down the rode with this 'Hero Tribe'.
Too many lives would be at stake if he didn't, and his anonymity wasn't worth the lives of so many people.
Yuki widened her eyes in surprise at his words, did he actually care about the innocent humans around them?
She thought that he would attack her here regardless, since he was helping the devil princess, so she assumed that she would have no other choice...
Maybe Uzumaki-san wasn't the trash that she assumed he was.
"You're right, let's take this to where you battled those stray devils and helped Naruse Mio. There will be no distractions there." Yuki conceded easily enough.
Both future combatants stared at one another and then disappeared in speeds that no ordinary human eye could follow.
They both arrived at the forest in a few moments, using the relatively empty streets to reach their destination without hassle.
Both of them took their positions away from one another, preparing themselves for a fight.
"...Is there no way we could end this peacefully, Nonaka-san?" Naruto asked, genuinely not wanting to fight the girl who seemed to have such a strong moral compass.
It was the simple fact that they were on opposite sides that made this hard to negotiate over.
Loyalty to a group above all else.
"Sorry, Uzumaki-san...but like I said before. We are enemies now, there is no more diplomacy. Don't worry, I will do my best to make your end painless." Nonaka solemnly stated before allowing the green aura from before to overtake her fully.
Naruto narrowed his eyes, so she was taking this seriously huh...
Before him, stood Nonaka Yuki in her combat attire.
She wore a form-fitting navy blue leotard with a white skirt. She had metal gauntlets on her arms and legs ,as well as a blue cape that adorned her shoulders.
On her hand was the blade that she had before in all of it's glory, pointing at Naruto again, just like last time.
Except this time...
"Uzumaki Naruto...this time you will face Sakuya's full power! Prepare yourself!" Yuki shouted as she lowered her body to pounce her enemy.
Naruto had his blond locks cover his eyes, and then looked up to meet determined yellow with hard blue.
"Bring it."
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