Chapter 7: Chapter 7
It had been a week since Naruto rescued Rias from her engagement with Riser Phenex and things had returned to normal, as normal as it could be under the circumstances anyway.
A week ago, Rias had told Naruto that she needed to do a few things first before going with him to the human world. Naruto always wondered what Rias was doing during that time as she had begun to act a bit strangely the past week. Rias didn't let him come near her room at the Gremory Castle or her house at the human world even for just a visit. She said that it would ruin the surprise she had in store for him. When Rias told Naruto that, Akeno began to tease Rias a lot more, even for her. Meanwhile, Koneko just looked at her master with a more expressionless face than usual, if that was even possible.
Unfortunately, that was the least of his problems…
First, the girls had fully grown up to become beautiful girls in their own ways and were incredibly attractive. Now, Naruto didn't have the problems other males would face when they were surrounded by beautiful girls. He is considered an absolutely pure soul even by the high standards of an Archangel like Gabriel for a reason after all. The problem was that ever since Naruto fought and won against Riser's entire Peerage by himself, he had become a celebrity of sorts in the underworld.
Naruto understood the consequences his actions that day would have, there was no way people were going to ignore his achievements after that stunt. So Naruto was prepared to face the amount of attention he would get, in fact it was kind of like the first few months when he stayed at Gremory Castle, only on a larger scale. What he wasn't prepared for was the frequent arguments and fights he had to resolve between his female admirers and companions.
Akeno's teasing and the resulting 'spars' between Rias and Akeno that were demolishing the Gremory Clan gardens weren't helping matters either.
And then there was the matter between him and Ravel, Naruto was practically a member of the Gremory Clan while Ravel was a full blooded member of the Phenex clan. Both sides agreed that Ravel was still too young to get married and decided to wait a few more years for her to fully mature. Plus, it also gave both Naruto and Ravel time to decide whether they truly wanted to be together.
Both the families agreed that the engagement would only be carried out if they both were willing, the lesson of Rias and Riser's disastrous engagement still fresh on their minds.
Rias wasn't pleased about the fact that Ravel may get married with Naruto before her but she accepted the fact. One reason was because there still was a chance for her to get married to Naruto first since he didn't say anything about marrying Ravel first.
The other reason was because she liked Ravel as a person and was very thankful for her caring for him when he went to Heaven two years ago. Still, that didn't stop Rias and Akeno muttering something about being the first girl after Rias's parents decided Naruto could choose his own partner if he wanted to.
However, the one girl in the Gremory Clan who was openly displeased about the arrangement was Koneko. Naruto guessed that feline and avian could never stay with each other without having a fight, his fight with Riser being a prime example. However, his intuition was telling him that there was something more to the matter than at first glance.
And there was the problem with his new peerage. Basically, they had been traded from Riser to Naruto. However as Naruto didn't take the latest promotion so he still couldn't have any authority over them in a Rating Game or anything like that. Naruto remembered what happened a week ago, when he met them in Gremory territory, where the girls decided to move to instead of staying at the Phenex's territory like before.
(Flashback.)
"What did you just say Naruto-sama?" Yubelluna said out in shock while the other girls looked at him with wide eyes "You know we can't do that."
"Can you repeat that again Naruto-sama? I think I still don't understand." Xuelan asked with a frown, with some of the girls around her already had tears in their eyes.
"Lle-chan, Nel-chan, please calm down!" Naruto tried to calm the green hair twins down when he saw them almost crying, Ravel was standing behind him in concern "I'm not going to leave you girls. It's just the higher ups forbid me from having you girls as an official Peerage until I become a high class devil."
Naruto want to sigh seeing the girls in front of him. He wondered why everything had turned out like this. The information of Naruto defeating Riser Phenex and his peerage have gone to the higher-ups, or should he say the elder council. They have summoned him to their office and forbid Naruto from having any authority over his new peerage, citing his rank as a low class devil and his relative inexperience as an excuse, saying that who knew what could happen if he couldn't control the girls and let them become stray devils.
Naruto nearly snapped when the elders said those words, he nearly transformed into his Kyuubi form again but calmed down when he thought about it a bit further. Even though the elders said those words with a straight face, everyone knew that they were scared of Naruto's power if he went stray. The boy had become powerful over the years and they planned to keep the boy from having even more power until they could be absolutely sure that he could handle all his abilities. He admitted it was a good reason and that they had ultimately good intentions, as a devil like him going stray with his Peerage would be disastrous for the Devils. That didn't mean he had to like it though.
The elders said that if Naruto wanted the girls to become his official peerage, then he had to take the promotion test three months from now like most devils to become a mid class devil, then take another promotion test to become a high class devil.
"Naruto-sama, please stay with us!"
"Please Naruto-sama! Please I don't want you to leave."
Ni and Li screamed out and ran to hug him tightly, "Girls, calm down… please!" Naruto pushed both cat girls from his body and held them from their collar and gently put them on the ground.
"Naruto-sama, I don't care about what the higher ups said!" Mira pleaded, "We will follow you if you go to the human world and stay here if you are here! We will never leave your side, never!" All the girls nodded at Mira's speech, agreeing with her words. Naruto sighed and massaged his forehead, he should have delivered the good news first.
Looking at Ravel who was looking at him with a meaningful look, he understood exactly what she wanted him to do. Looking at the girls and taking a deep breath, he began,
"Everyone, listen to me!"
"Yes Naruto-sama!" Everyone answered in unison, nodding his head Naruto continued,
"Don't worry about it!" His face warm and gentle, he looked at each of them in their eyes and said in a gentle voice, "All of you, you're my peerage now, I will do everything to protect all of you and I really do mean it. So I'm definitely not about to let some old geezers order me around and tell me to stay away from you." Naruto smirked evilly when the girls looked at him in confusion, Yubellena asking the obvious question,
"But Naruto-sama, you said that the elders forbid you from having an official Peerage until you were a high class devil."
"They did, however they didn't say anything about an 'unofficial Peerage' now did they?" His smile grew wider when they finally understood his implications and rushed over to hug him. As he was swarmed by them, he thought of how he managed to convince the elders to accept his idea. He swore on his life that he wouldn't lead them astray and when that didn't do the trick, the support of the four Maous and the implied possibility of a painful chakra fueled beating did.
After Naruto got out of the impromptu group hug, Xuelan asked, "So what does that mean for us now?"
"Well, I'm still have to become the tests to become a high class devil so I can't participate in Rating Games with you guys but I don't care about that, I care about you guys. So I'm sorry if any of you girls are displeased with this, so please bear with me until I become a high class devil, alright?"
The girls hearts fluttered when they heard his words and if there was any doubt that he was the master they were waiting for, there were none now. All the girls looked at at each other and came to a silent agreement. Yubelluna, acting as the representative of the group again, said,
"We could live with that Naruto-sama but please remember that if you're in any trouble or need our help, all you need to do is call us, we will be there for you!" Yubelluna said with a bright smile on her face, all the girls behind her cheering loudly.
Naruto looked at Ravel and saw her looking at him with a satisfied smile on her face, and once again, Naruto understood the meaning of her look.
'Thank you, Naruto-sama.'
Now he was progressing smoothly with his Peerage. Naruto was pleasantly surprised when the girls actually didn't mind having him as their master and would answer his call whenever he asked them to, just like they said they would.
With a lack of other things to do considering they weren't his official Peerage, Naruto had decided that the girls should for now stay at their respective homes at the underworld and take missions while training together which included him.
Naruto got to know the girls better during the week of intense training. Yubelluna on the battlefield was almost the exact opposite of Yubelluna in daily life. While she was cunning on the battlefield, she showed a surprisingly submissive personality when outside the battlefield, making her the exact opposite of Akeno. Mihae was as gentle and quiet as her appearance suggested, making her the person everyone in the group goes to have a nice relaxing chat.
Naruto to his pleasant surprise discovered that Li and Ni, the twin cat girls who specialized in close combat also have a love of pranks like him. This was perfect for Naruto who had been itching to get back at Sirzechs ever since he revealed his guilty pleasure food ramen to the devils during his fight with Riser.
So he seized the opportunity to teach them extra 'stealth' lessons, which basically meant taking turns to find out who could prank Sirzechs the hardest under his guidance. He still smirked at his last conversation with Sirzechs before he and the twins began their plan two days ago.
(Flashback, the Gremory Castle.)
"Hey there Sirzechs! How are you doing today?" Asked a very cheerful Naruto to Sirzechs who he 'happened' to see in front of him in one of the corridors.
The tone of his voice immediately made Sirzechs freeze and go on guard, as carefree as Naruto was, Sirzechs knew that even he wasn't this cheerful without a reason, which usually meant he was about to suffer from one of Naruto's pranks, which was especially likely since he revealed his guilty pleasure food to the public.
So he spoke without turning around, "Uh…I'm fine Naruto, what are you up to these days anyways? Last I heard, you were busy training with your Peerage." He said both in an effort to make small talk and because he was genuinely curious.
"Well, we're just working on our teamwork, trying to improve our strengths and cover our weaknesses, you know, the usual." Naruto's normal reply made Sirzechs silently sigh in relief as he didn't think Naruto was going get him for the ramen issue.
"Oh, I'm also doing 'stealth' training with some of the girls.
Or not.
When Sirzechs finally turned around to face Naruto, his fears were all but confirmed by the look on Naruto's face. Desperate and in denial he asked, "Naruto, why do you have the 'I'm going to prank Sirzechs so hard that he won't be able to show his face to the public' look on your face, Naruto, Naruto…?
"What are you talking about?" Naruto asked seemingly clueless, walked up to him and patted him on the shoulder, "Don't worry Sirzechs, I'm sure that 'nothing' bad is going to happen to you. Anyways, I got to go, goodnight Sirzechs."
After saying that, Naruto went on his merry way humming a jaunty tune and leaving behind a certain Satan Red frozen in dread.
(Flashback End.)
Last he heard, Sirzechs was still hiding in his room with his hair coloured bright pink and going to the toilet every ten minutes caused by the laxative put in his drink or should he rather say, the whole bottle. All the while having nightmares about the deadly combination of tar, rubber ducks and feathers used against him.
The twins immediately proclaimed that Naruto was the best master they ever had when they saw the aftermath of their pran…Stealth lessons. This didn't mean much, considering that their only previous master was Riser and he was a major jerk but he took what he could get.
In fact, they were so inspired by his skill in 'stealth' that they were now recruiting the other members of the Peerage to join in. The ones who were most interested were the flaming chainsaw wielding twins, Ile and Nel.
He convinced them to train in other methods of close combat aside from their chainsaws because while they were great as intimidation against weak opponents, the flaming chainsaws were next to useless against a strong foe.
At first they resisted separating with their beloved chainsaws but eventually relented when Naruto dodged all their attacks for a better part of an hour with his hands inside his pockets.
He became fast friends with Karlamine as they both had a cheerful personality and cared for their comrades. However, she did have one quirk though, she was bluntly speaking, a sword maniac. If one was unfortunate enough to mention something remotely related to swords in her presence, she would literally talk about them for hours on end.
One such unlucky victim was Kiba, who was subjected to a 3 hour long talk that was only interrupted because both Rias and Naruto intervened on behalf of Kiba's sanity. Siris, the other sword wielding member, had a personality much like Koneko to Naruto's surprise. Siris normally had an emotionless expression and spoke only when she needed to. She even liked being petted on the head like Koneko. It was almost as if she was a taller, more grown up version of her.
Isabela, the girl with the mask covering half her face, despite her appearance, was without a doubt the most respectful member of the Peerage. She bowed low to Naruto during their first training session and humbly requested him to train her as she said she finally knew just how much room she had left to improve, a request that Naruto readily accepted.
She was paired up with Xuelan as their respective fighting styles complimented each other. Isabela was a brawler who could both dish out damge and take it while Xuelan relied more on using her agile body to dodge attacks and counterattack with her martial art moves.
Marion and Bürent at the beginning behaved like stereotypical maids towards him. However, they dropped their maid routine when they saw that he wasn't like Riser and warmed up him like the others.
The two weakest members, Shuriya and Mira were disheartened by Naruto's blunt words about their strength at first were encouraged by Naruto to not give up. So now, Shuriya was training to become a combat medic while Mira acted as a scout that harassed the enemy in battle.
Ravel who was a part of the peerage became Naruto's assistant of sorts, supervising some of the members' training while he was busy helping the others. She kept up her training too as she was beginning to see that the Peerage as a whole was getting stronger with his help and she didn't want to fall behind.
However, the girls' first meeting with Rias's Peerage was interesting to say the least...
Ravel and Rias both tried to hug his arm and glared at each other. Yubelluna challenged Akeno for something about 'finding out who is his true Queen'. Karlamine once again bugged Kiba about his ability to create demonic swords while Kiba did his absolute best to avoid her.
Li and Ni were trying to get Koneko to reveal her true form with Koneko ignoring both of them and instead settled for glaring at Siris who was sporting a satisfied smile because she was being petted on the head by Naruto, her special spot. She eventually made her way to Naruto and tried to take over Siris's spot, resulting in a silent battle for Naruto's petting, not that Naruto was aware of it.
Issei was crouching in the corner drawing circles on the ground muttering something about the position of 'Harem King' being taken already with rainclouds raining over his head. Asia wanted to comfort him like she always did, however she was occupied with Shuriya asking her for tips on healing skills while the rest of Naruto's Peerage watched on.
Needless to say, all the events of the past week drained him more than any of his missions. Naruto was really tired from both physically and mental and decided to sleep an entire day when he returned to his house in the human world.
The alarm clock in the shape of a toad with white wings that was a gift from Gabriel rang loudly, waking Naruto up. He yawned and got up, feeling refreshed. His strength was restored along with a clear mind. Naruto stretched his limbs and got ready for the new day. Now that he thought about it, tomorrow was the day he officially joined Kuoh, so he guessed he had to go buy supplies for school later.
The sound of his doorbell ringing pulled Naruto out of his thoughts. Wondering who could be visiting this early in the morning, he quickly putting on a shirt to make him decent and ran downstairs to open the door. At the door was a very familiar person with a beautiful smile on her face.
Rias was standing there, with a suitcase at her side and wearing a white buttoned up shirt that had a few buttons opened, exposing large amounts of cleavage. She also wore blue jean shorts that showed her long, creamy legs. All in all, she looked incredible.
He spotted the crimson bracelet on her wrist, which she didn't wear the past week. It made him think that she really didn't want him to know what she was up to, if she even considered the fact that he could teleport to anywhere the bracelet is when she never bothered with it before.
"Good morning Naruto-kun!" Rias smiled brightly at him. She was hoping that she made a good entrance. She did plan this day for nearly a week after all.
"Rias-chan?" Asked Naruto in mild surprise, it was odd that she would show up at his new home unannounced even if they were close.
Before Naruto knew it, Rias ran up to him and hugged him tightly into her chest, burying his face in between her considerable bosom. He idly realized he was in a position that perverts like Issei would literally give an arm and a leg to be in.
(At the same time, Issei's room.)
Issei can be seen writing furiously on his desk, he had bags under his eyes because he stayed up all night long thinking of ways to 'beat' Naruto and become the 'Harem King' first. Suddenly, he abruptly stood up and cried a river of anime tears.
"Damn it! My pervert senses are tingling once again, Naruto-san must be doing something ecchi with a girl right now!"
A moment after his outburst, Issei wiped off his tears, "But I won't lose to you Naruto-san, I going to work even harder to surpass you and become 'Harem King'!", resuming his 'work' with renewed energy. If you looked closely you could see a fire burning brightly in his eyes.
"From now on Naruto-kun." Rias smiled and hugged him tighter, "I will live with you!"
While he didn't mind his current situation but as awesome as it was to die from suffocation by breasts, he wasn't really keen on dying. So he gently pushed off Rias much to her disappointment, a little out of breath. After catching his breath he replied,
"But Rias-chan, I only have one room." Naruto told her "And you can't live in the guess room you know."
"Ufufu, don't worry about that Naruto-kun." She giggled and pulled the suitcase with her into Naruto's house, "We'll share the same room just like the old times."
Naruto frowned, she's got to be kidding. While he and Rias did sleep with each other even though he had his own room, that was years ago, when they were still children.
Naruto thought her habit of sleeping with him would change when he was in Heaven but it seems like he was wrong. It wasn't that he minded her presence, she was one of his best friends after all, it was that he thought that she should do it only with someone she truly loved and not with anyone else, not even her best friend.
Rias looked at Naruto's face and frowned herself, she never liked it when he frowned, it meant that he was over thinking something. She planned for this day for nearly a week, the time it took her to arrange and settle everything in the underworld. Her mother told her that she would have to make a move with Naruto now or else she would lose the first place in his heart.
She agreed, since in most of the anime she watched, the childhood friend always in second or third place and the thought of the same fate happening to her was not comforting to Rias, not one bit. So she had decided that the first thing she would need to do was to live with him at his home in the human world, just like any normal couple would.
Rias slowly closed the distance between them and put a finger under his chin and frowned cutely.
"Don't you want me to live with you Naruto?" Her eyes were watering with her lips trembling, it was a perfect example of the puppy dog look.
'I would feel like I kicked an actual puppy if I rejected her now...' Naruto silently sighed, Rias definitely changed a lot over two years and he wasn't just talking about her body too.
"Of course not...By the way, who told you where my house is anyway?" He smiled and tried to change the topic to less troublesome matters.
"Onii-sama told me where your house is." She looked around the house with a smile, "I have to say Naruto-kun, you sure found a fine house in just three days!"
Naruto eyebrow twitched and his smile sweetened to sickening levels, the reason he decided to live in the human world was because he wanted to get away from all the attention in the underworld but now with Rias living together with him in the human world, Naruto could safely say that his plan was ruined because of the attention he was going to get in the human world. Looks like he didn't prank Sirzechs hard enough, he knew that Sirzechs probably didn't have a choice in the matter, with the likely outcome of him getting blown to kingdom come if he didn't. Regardless, Naruto was still going to prank him and prank him hard. Looks like there were going more 'stealth' lessons for Ni and Li in the future.
He was snapped out of his thoughts by a curious Rias who was waving her hand in front of his face.
"You were spacing out, what were you thinking about?"
"I was thinking about what horri...Wonderful things I could do to your brother. Anyways come on in." He said as he picked up her suitcase and motioned for Rias to follow him, "I bought this house from the saved up money from all the missions I did two years ago with the money Sirzechs-nii gave me after me and Ajuka returned home." It wasn't a lie, he did buy the house with the money he saved up from the missions he did two years ago.
Naruto lead Rias to his room and began to help her put everything in place, Naruto sweatdropped when he saw a lot of anime DVDs and manga in her special suitcase, it was a suitcase with unlimited storage space, so she could put anything she wanted in it and still carry it around easily. Naruto, being the nice guy he is, helped Rias sort her belongings. After they were done with the manga and anime DVDs, he helped with her clothes, putting them into the wardrobe. He sometimes picked up her bra and panties but put it away in the wardrobe before Rias saw him and got any weird ideas.
Naruto did have to say though, while she had a lot of mundane underwear, she also owned a lot of 'exotic' ones that could make a pervert die from excessive blood loss. Why she had these so called underwear when they barely covered anything, he had no idea. Hell, even his own underwear covered more than these things.
After finishing with everything, Rias put her last picture on the table next to his bed, it was a picture that she and Naruto wanted to take together when they were fourteen but Akeno and Koneko had jumped into the scene at the last moment before her father took the picture. In the picture was a young Rias with her arms around Naruto's neck sending a annoyed glare at Akeno who had her arms around Naruto's left arm sporting an 'innocent' smile on her face, at the corner of the camera was the upper half of Koneko's face. Naruto stood in the middle of the picture and smiled brightly at the camera. This picture brought back a lot of memories for Rias but now everyone had grown up and she knew the battle for Naruto's heart was now more intense than ever.
Luckily for her, Akeno and Koneko still couldn't come to Naruto's house because of some matters. So she still has an advantage over them to make the first move on Naruto.
"There, all done!" Rias turned to Naruto, "Thank you for helping me Naruto-kun."
"It was nothing Rias-chan!" He smiled but then his stomach chose that moment to growl.
"So, I guess you haven't had breakfast yet did you, Naruto-kun?" She asked with a giggle when Naruto scratched his head in response, "Well, let's go to the kitchen and let see what you have."
Naruto followed Rias to the kitchen and was pushed down on a chair when the crimson haired girl refused his help and decided that she would cook breakfast for him by herself. Judging by the aroma coming from the kitchen, he was sure that breakfast today would be one to remember. If living with Rias meant that he could eat delicious food without having to cook it himself, then he would gladly let her stay at his house for as long as she wanted to.
After twenty minutes of agonizing waiting, she had finally finished her dish that she was practicing during the week with her mother and the chefs at Gremory Castle, Ramen. Her brother secretly told her before his unfortunate 'accident' that Naruto thought this food was a gift from God to the world, even though he was a devil. She saw the fact that Naruto really liked Ramen herself when he actually considered the ticket of free Ramen over her, so Rias had practiced how to make the best Ramen she could in one week and hoped he would like it. Naruto didn't have much in his kitchen but she managed to find everything needed to make an extra big bowl of Ramen for him, and a small one to her.
She gently put the bowl gently on the table in front of Naruto and sat down with her own.
"Itadakimasu!" Naruto took the chopsticks and began to taste the ramen, Rias was sitting with a nervous expression on her face, she hoped she didn't mess up anything, this was after all, the first dish she had ever made for Naruto. It was the least she could do after the many things he had done for her. She waited patiently as Naruto gulped down the food and turned to her "Wow Rias-chan, it's really delicious...Wow, I think it can be even compared to my own ramen!" He smiled and began to eat his ramen with a happy smile on his face. Rias let out a heavy sigh she didn't know she was holding but did a double take when she thought about his words.
"Wait a minute, what do you mean by 'can be compared to my own ramen'?!"
"Naruto stopped eating and looked at her, "What, ramen IS my favourite after all, of course I know how to make it. Want me to give you some tips later?"
Rias mumbled downheartedly, "Okay..." She wanted to make the best ramen for him but if his own was tastier then it was meaningless. Naruto looked at her and knew what she was thinking.
"Patience Rias-chan, I've been making ramen for as long I can make food, it will take time for you to surpass me in ramen making, if I allowed it that is." He added smugly.
She pouted and mumbled softly, "That doesn't make me happy you know..."
She didn't look up when she heard him standing up but gasped when she felt a pair of strong arms hugging her gently, the kind of hug a person would give to comfort someone, before the arms pulled back.
"Does that make you happy?" He gently asked.
She couldn't help but blush when she looked into his cerulean orbs. She could see it, just like the time when they were kids. His eyes haven't changed a bit even after all these years.
They still held emotions like...
Care...
Adoration...
Kindness...
Naruto went back to his seat and resumed eating while Rias, with a happy smile, began to eat her ramen too, the food tasting more delicious than all her previous attempts.
After three more big bowls of ramen, Rias found out that they have ran out of food ingredients so Naruto suggested that they go out to buy groceries as he needed to buy school supplies for school tomorrow anyway.
While Naruto never went to highschool before, he was intelligent and creative, plus with the education he got from Rias's mother, he more or less knew what to expect at school. Still it never hurt to be careful just in case.
Upon arriving at the bookstore along with Rias, Naruto could see that the two of them were being stared by many people, especially the teens. The adults thought they looked really cute with each other and some became jealous of Naruto for having such a beautiful girlfriend, while the teens looked at them with hearts in their eyes, whispering to each other with some and even coming over to ask questions. The girls looked at him and Rias with adoration, the boys on the other hand mostly looked at Rias with lust filled eyes and at Naruto jealously. He couldn't really say he blamed them at all.
Rias smiled when she saw the stares from everyone in the bookstore and hugged Naruto's strong arm to her chest, drawing a lot of jealous screams from the boys, while the girls squealed in delight at the romantic scene. Rias saw a lot of familiar faces at the bookstore and recognized a few of them who were Kuoh students. Tomorrow would be both a chaotic and wonderful day at Kuoh for Rias, tomorrow was the day Naruto would keep his promise to her.
Leaving the shop carrying heavy bags, Rias had decided that if they had wore the same bracelet as each other then they should share the same bag and bought two identical crimson bags. Naruto didn't mind at all, it would show their friendship to everyone and warn any guys out there not to touch her or mess with him.
They stopped at an ice cream shop and decided to rest there eating strawberry and chocolate ice cream. The owner of the shop really liked Naruto as he was a good customer for the past week and gave them an extra ice cream scoop with two spoons, the two of them sharing it with each other.
This brought back a lot of memories from when they were young and first met each other, Naruto still remembered the days when he was still a homeless, orphan child who used his strange powers to steal food for survival. Life as a street brat was really hard for Naruto, however everything changed when he met a young red haired princess who crashed straight into on the street. Naruto chuckled a little at the memory but still thought it was weird that he couldn't remember how he woke up in Gremory Castle with a headache. Even his 'friends' couldn't tell him anything.
Yeah, some friends they were, a bunch of noisy beasts laughing at their daily entertainment which was Naruto's life. At least he found a way to shut them out in daily life.
After finishing the ice cream, Naruto and Rias went to the supermarket so that they could buy ingredients for the kitchen. Knowing about Naruto's endless appetite, they bought enough to last them a whole month. She would have called her family servants for groceries but going out with Naruto like this made her think they were a couple on a date, even if it wasn't. They received just as much same attention as they did in the bookstore. However, since almost everyone in the supermarket was an adult so they received a lot of approving looks instead.
By the time Naruto and Rias finished with all their shopping, it was late in the evening. The two quickly returned to their house so they could make dinner in time. Just as when Naruto was thinking where his house was since he couldn't see it, Rias took his hand and pulled him towards the street his house was located in. When they stopped at the alley that lead to Naruto's house, he facepalmed.
Standing in front of him, where his house used to be, was a huge mansion. The three houses near his had somehow disappeared to make room for the mansion that came out of nowhere.
"Let me guess, you had something to do with this don't you." Naruto deadpanned while looking around for any sight of his former house. Naruto could see the familiar garbage bin, the alley but this huge mansion was definitely not where he woke up every morning.
"This is our home now Naruto-kun" Rias said with a smile, "My family made it for us!"
"For the two of us?" Naruto pointed to the house and then motioned his hand to him and Rias "This? A bit too much don't you think? And where are the neighboring houses? Wait, forget I asked that question." He didn't know how her family did this without alerting normal humans, one would think that a mansion in the middle of a normal neighborhood would stand out like a sore thumb but he didn't really want to know.
Still, building a mansion just for him and Rias, Naruto could understand the Gremory family's concern for them but a big mansion like this was a bit much. Hell, he could even see a lot of the things they brought here, including a whole garden and a big outdoor pool.
"Don't worry about that Naruto-kun!" Rias giggled but then frowned slightly, "After all, we don't know who would want to stay here with us." Of course there would be a lot of 'people' wanting to stay here with them and she knew exactly who they were. Her father wanted to give Naruto a palace here but she quickly talked him out of it, saying that it would be a bit too much even for them. So Lord Gremory guessed a mansion like this should be enough for now. She had seen the designs of this house and memorized all of them in her head.
Rias took Naruto hand and pull the groaning boy to his new house and opened the door for them, she was really excited now, this was the place she and Naruto were going to spend a lot of alone time together. Who knew what will happen between both of them. Dirty thoughts filled her head as she visualized scenes from some of the erotic manga and anime she had read and watched with the characters being replaced with him and her.
"Well come home, Rias-sama...Naruto-sama."
A monotone voice pulled Rias out of her thoughts and got Naruto, who still looking around the house with a deadpan gaze to look towards the source of the voice. Rias gasped loudly and Naruto arched an eyebrow in confusion when they saw Grayfia standing in front of them with her usual maid outfit, her hand clasped in front of her skirt in a deep bow.
"Grayfia?"
"Grayfia-nee chan?" Rias and Naruto asked at the same time when they saw the silver haired maid. Especially Naruto, if he heard right, Grayfia just call him master. Which was weird as she always used the respectful suffix '-san' for her fellow comrades, the members of Sirzechs Lucifer's peerage.
Naruto put everything away and went to the living room, with Rias at his side and Grayfia following closely behind him. He could see that the living room alone was as big as his old house's entire first floor, in the middle of the room were high-class wooden chairs with an old, traditional design and a large and comfortable looking couch, all the table and chairs were on a crimson carpet with the symbols of the Gremory Clan in the middle.
However, these weren't the first thoughts that came to his mind, his first thoughts were,
'This place is going to take forever to clean...Good thing I have my shadow clones...'
Filing his thoughts away for later, Naruto and Rias sat down at the couch when Naruto noticed Grayfia still standing behind the two of them was or more accurately, she was standing right in front of him, with her usual blank face with a little redness on her cheeks. He stared at her with Grayfia staring right back at him, seeing the awkward situation, Rias quickly stood up and said,
"Grayfia, you could sit there!" Rias motioned her hand to the chair at the other side of the table, she didn't know why Grayfia was here, when she was supposed to be at her brother's side now as the head maid of the Gremory Castle and taking care of little Millicas, her brother's son.
"Thank you for your concern Rias-sama but I will stand here!" Grayfia shook her head.
Seeing that she couldn't convince her, Rias sat down on the chair and waited for Naruto to start a conversation.
"Uh, Grayfia-nee? You could sit there you know, we don't mind." Naruto pointed towards the chair, he didn't want her standing like that when he was going to ask her why she was here. Naruto saw Grayfia as a big sister he never had, sure she could be strict and stern at times but she had took care of him during his first months at the castle, she cared for him like any sister caring for their little brother. Even after all these years, she was still the same and Naruto counted his lucky stars that he had someone like her in his life.
"Yes Naruto-sama." When Naruto finished, Grayfia nodded her head and made her way to the chair in front of them, earning a surprised look on Naruto's face and another gasp from Rias. Naruto scratched his head while looking at Grayfia but brushed it off thinking that it wasn't something really important right now.
Rias on the other hand was looking at Grayfia with suspicion in her eyes. Something was not right about the strongest queen here, she was the best person she knew at hiding emotions and she always hid what she was thinking under that emotionless face of hers, and her stern voice which never quivered no matter the situation but Grayfia could never hide the fact that she was a single woman and the small pink on her face whenever she call the blond 'Naruto-sama' was very suspicious. She never blushed, EVER. Yet here she was, blushing like a normal girl when Naruto gave her an'order, she was never like that when she was with her brother.
An disturbing thought appeared inside of Rias's mind. Could it be that Grayfia liked Naruto? If she did, then there were no way she and the other girls had a chance with him, Grayfia was ranked as the second most beautiful girl in the underworld second only to Serafall Leviathan when the Maou was in her adult form. Not only that, Grayfia was really experienced in love matters, a fact that none of the girls who had their eyes on Naruto had. She might be strict and stern when she was doing her duty but she was a normal woman when she was off the job and went out dating just like any other single woman trying to find her true love.
This woman, Grayfia could be the most dangerous obstacle in her way to Naruto's heart. Compared to her and the others, Grayfia looked like a tank while the other girls looked like ants. She would have to tell Akeno and Koneko about this tomorrow when they were at Kuoh.
"Well...Grayfia-nee, not to be rude or anything but why are you here?" Naruto began the conversation with the question he wanted to ask since he first saw her here,
"And what about your duties at the castle?" Rias added, Grayfia looked at both of them for a moment and replied,
"Well Naruto-sama, Rias-sama...Venelana-sama believes that household chores like cleaning, laundry or keeping everything in order would be really hard with just two people, she also thought that this mansion, the Uzumaki mansion..." Naruto's eyes turned wide at the name, "...Can't stay in order without someone with responsibility and hard working looking after it. Since she believed that Naruto-sama wouldn't want a lot of maids running around his house so when she asked who was going to be the Uzumaki mansion's maid, I volunteered myself. I believe that my abilities at housework would be helpful for you." Grayfia said with a very small smile on her face but quickly resumed her stoic face when she continued "Don't worry about my duty at Gremory Castle, Sirzechs-sama should be fine without me, the promotion is over for now so Sarah-sama had come back to the castle to help him." It was the truth, Sirzechs's wife came back to the castle after finishing her mid class promotion, the young woman really wanted to meet her son and enjoy her time with Sirzechs.
When Venelana asked who would be going to the Uzumaki Mansion and the maid there, Grayfia had volunteered herself a little too fast, making every other maid look at her in surprise while Venelana had a confused expression on her face. However, the lady of the Gremory Clan trusted Grayfia that she could take care of the mansion so the two didn't have to worry about the mansion.
Sure Grayfia knew with that shadow clone technique of his Naruto could finish cleaning up the place in just an hour or two by himself, she still found it reassuring that she would be there to help him keep his house in good condition. Grayfia also found herself really liking being ordered around by Naruto, even though she knew that they were just simple requests from him. She couldn't find it in herself to deny anything he wants. The power, the determination and even the concern for all the girls in Riser's peerage he had shown during the battle with Riser Phenex had attracted her to Naruto. Naruto had shown everyone how powerful he was now and how much he changed during two years in heaven. It kind of arousing to her when he fought Riser with cold and emotionless eyes like a experienced warrior, even when he attacked Riser until he couldn't even think straight anymore.
A strict personality didn't mean she was a woman that didn't need a lover in her life.
She would stick with the position as the maid of the Uzumaki Mansion for now, and see how her feeling develop concerning Naruto. She also knew about the other girls competing for Naruto's love and the first place in his heart but she won't lose to anyone, especially not to Serafall, the Maou that set her eyes upon Naruto and her rival.
"Grayfia-nee, I don't want to trouble you, I can do the chores by myself." Naruto smiled at her, part of him thought it would be nice to have Grayfia as a maid in the mansion, with her help the housework he was not looking forward to would be a lot easier but he had seen what Grayfia did to Sirzechs when she wasn't pleased or when something was out of order and he didn't want to trouble the person he considered as a big sister. "If you want, you could stay here and be a resident of this, uh, Uzumaki Mansion, you don't need to take care of everything here."
"Thank you for your concern Naruto-sama." Grayfia shook her head and stood up "But as the maid of the Uzumaki Mansion, my duties are clear. I will start tidying up the dining room for you, I guess you two haven't have dinner yet, have you?" Naruto and Rias shook their head, "Then I will prepare dinner, please wait for me to prepare a meal."
"Wait Grayfia, I will help you." Rias stood up and upon seeing that Grayfia was going to deny her offer, the red haired girl added quickly, "That's an order!"
"Very well, Rias-sama." Grayfia nodded her head slightly while her expression still didn't change, deep down inside, she wanted to be the only person who prepares her master's every meal but if Rias said it was an order then fine, she would let it go this time. Tomorrow however was a different story.
Just as they were about to head to the kitchen, Naruto spoke up,
"I'm going to help you guys too, I'm not about to let you two do all the work."
"Naruto-sama, that would not be neccessa..."
"Yes it is, I already allowed Rias to prepare breakfast for me so I'm helping out with dinner. Or do you have such a low opinion of me? I did live by myself for two years you know." Replied Naruto.
Finding no reasonable reason to reject him, the girls begrudgingly agreed, to be honest, they were curious about his culinary skills and just how good he was in a kitchen.
As it turned out, he was pretty good, Naruto was able to follow the expert instructions of Grayfia without a problem while Rias had some difficulty doing so. With Naruto's help, they managed to finish much quicker than expected. Naruto was now in the kitchen cleaning up while Rias and Grayfia were arranging the table. As they worked, Rias tried to make some small talk,
"Naruto's surprisingly good at cooking isn't he?"
Grayfia replied while still setting the table, "Yes, Naruto-sama's skills are good enough that he could probably do very well as a butler." At this she redden just a little but it was enough to be detected by Rias who was seeing more and more proof that Grayfia did have feelings for Naruto and she didn't like it one bit.
Just as Rias looked like she wanted to say more, Naruto came out of the kitchen,
"Alright, I'm finished with the clean up." Naruto looked at the dining table that was prepared for a moment and continued, "And looks like you guys are done too so what are we waiting for? Let's eat!"
Naruto sat down on one chair with Rias sitting down at his left side with only Grayfia still standing with her usual stoic face.
"Grayfia did all the work." Rias said and motioned her head to the maid, who had moved herself from the table to behind Naruto "I just helped that's all."
Naruto took his chopsticks and tasted the nearest dish.
"Wow, it's really good! We should do this more often!" Naruto chewed while nodding his head, he had this dish before in the Gremory Castle but the flavor was different, in a good way. Naruto mused that the three of them must have added their own special flavour to the dishes.
Naruto and Rias began eating, after noticing Grayfia wasn't eating with them, he turned to her who was standing behind him and frowned.
"Grayfia-nee, why aren't you eating with us?"
"There is no need Naruto-sama." Grayfia said. Naruto didn't see it but Rias who was a girl with a good woman's intuition could hear the hidden happiness in Grayfia's voice. She had seen the look on the maid's face when she talked to Naruto in the kitchen. Rias never saw Grayfia try so hard in cooking like this when she was a maid in the castle. Even when she was in the service of her brother, it wasn't everyday that she could see her cooking the meals herself. She did have to admit though, Grayfia was good, very good in cooking and saw that Naruto was impressed by her skills.
"I will eat later, after you and Rias-sama finished your dinners first."
"Nonsense Grayfia-nee, you worked just as hard if not even harder than us in preparing dinner so eat with us." He stood up and pulled her hand, Grayfia's eyes widened in surprise as she followed Naruto and was pushed down on the chair at his right. Rias was gripping her chopsticks hard and with just a little more force she would snap it in half. She was right, Akeno or Ravel weren't the strongest threats, they were nothing compared to Grayfia, she was the most dangerous enemy. She was frankly a bit amazed at the women Naruto attracts, who next, a Seraph and a Maou?
When Naruto returned to his chair, he could see that Grayfia still wasn't so sure about eating with them. Come to think of it, he never saw the silver haired maid eating with them before, she always stood behind Sirzechs and waited while everyone was eating and chatting with each other, he guessed that Grayfia took her duties as a maid very seriously the duty.
She may stay like that when she was his foster brother's personal maid but she's with him inside of his house, she would be treated differently, maid or not.
Using his chopsticks, Naruto took a fried shrimp from one of the dish Grayfia was staring at. The strongest queen of the underworld brought her head up and looked at Naruto.
"Say ahhhh~Grayfia-nee." He grinned brightly and brought the shrimp to Grayfia's mouth while the maid looked at him confused. Rias's mouth were wide open in shock seeing the scene in front of her.
Grayfia face began to turn red, she never had anyone feed her like this before. Sure Grayfia and Sirzechs used to be in love with each other but their relationship was in the middle of the Great War, so things like this weren't possible. She was really confused now and her face turned red at Naruto's action. His grin was making her heart beating really fast.
Looked at Grayfia's blushing face, Naruto couldn't help but think Grayfia was actually really cute when she blushed like this. Grayfia was a true beauty and the emotionless face was part of her charm, but there was just something about her when she blushed like this, Grayfia looked more like an normal girl, her true self whenever she had the day off.
Naruto had seen Grayfia on her days off before and it's truly amazed him by how she held herself in front of everyone. The strict, emotionless maid who always punished her master whenever he acted childish or forgot his position as the leader of the underworld had completely disappeared and was replaced by Grayfia Lucifuge, the strongest queen of the underworld, a beautiful, warm and kind woman, who was also womanly and had really good taste in fashion, which confused Naruto greatly when Rias told that part to him.
Looking back and forth at Naruto and the shrimp, Grayfia finally made up her mind and opened her mouth to Naruto. The blond hair boy smiled and put the shrimp gently into her mouth. Grayfia gently chewed it like a true noble lady, somehow being feed by Naruto made the shrimp taste much more delicious.
"It's very good!" Grayfia swallowed the food in her mouth and muttered happily and it wasn't not just because of the fried shrimp that she made herself and ate more than a hundred times before.
Not to be outdone by the maid, Rias picked up her chopsticks and tried to feed Naruto herself. The blond smiled and ate the food Rias was feeding him, dinner that night was really fun. Naruto while eating his meal also feed both Grayfia and Rias, while the crimson haired girl happily returned the favour, the white haired queen was too nervous and didn't know what to do and didn't make a move.
After the dinner, Naruto had left two clones for cleaning all the dishes despite Grayfia's protests. Seeing that they had some free time, Naruto suggested the three of them explore the mansion in order to get used to the layout. While both Rias and Grayfia had already memorized the layout, they happily agreed, eager to spend some more time with Naruto.
The first floor had a normal room that was three or four times bigger than the one in his old house, it also had a Japanese style room, with a bathroom with a bathtub and a much more advanced shower. On the second floor, he could see his room was mostly here, the main differences being that it was a bit more bigger and had a king sized bed. He noticed a strange door that wasn't there before and opened it, being a little surprised when he saw Rias's belongings here in an identical room with a slight girly colour scheme with her bed being a queen size with a flat screen TV in front of her. This room struck him as just a smaller version of her room at Gremory Castle without the high class bed or elegant decorations. When Naruto asked her about it, she blushed a little in embarrassment and said that she was used to her old room so she modeled the one in the mansion after it.
The next three floors were basically full of empty rooms with the same design as his but a little smaller, Naruto guessed he could give these free rooms to the guests or anyone who wanted to move in and stay like Rias. Naruto also saw Grayfia's room, which was exactly above his room at the third floor. Deciding not to disturb her privacy, especially when she was right beside him, Naruto moved to the sixth and topmost floor and saw that the floor was essentially one huge room. Naruto decided to use this floor as the VIP room if anyone of high status like Azazel or Sirzechs decided to visit him. There were also a lot of doors that he couldn't open here but guessed it was nothing important so Naruto move to the basements with Rias and Grayfia.
They or rather, Naruto discovered that the mansion had three basements. The first basement had a movie theater, training rooms, changing rooms, and a large indoor bath which had a refrigerator filled with three different flavors of milk, Naruto tasted one of them and it was actually really good. There were also two hidden rooms here, the first hidden room was basically empty while the second hidden room contained an assortment of baths of various sizes but were noticeably larger than the first and gorgeously decorated with ornate patterns of tropical plants, maiden statues pouring water into the bath and the Gremory symbol.
The second basement had a heated indoor swimming pool, which could really helpful if the residents of this house wanted to relax. The third basement was a mostly vacant floor that was empty, he could use this basement for storage room. There was an entire library here that had a copy of every book that the Gremory Castle library had, meaning that it was very useful when someone needed to research something about devils.
All floors in the renovated house were accessible via an elevator. There appeared to be even more hidden rooms in the residence. Naruto remarked that whoever designed the mansion had a fondness for hidden rooms and that he could probably be here all day if he wanted to find all the hidden rooms with Rias and Grayfia agreeing.
If Naruto didn't want Grayfia be in charge of the household chores before, he certainly didn't want Grayfia to take charge of cleaning duty now that he knew the true size of the mansion. It would take her at the very least a full day to finish cleaning the entire mansion. Thankfully, with the help of his shadow clones, the job of keeping this mansion in good condition would be much easier but first, he needed to find some residents for this mansion. Who knows, maybe he could ask the rest of Rias's Peerage or even his own to come live with them. He figured that his plan of not drawing attention to himself in the human world anyway, so he might as well ruin it with style. One thing was for sure though, his life was about to get more interesting from now on, for better or worse.
After the impromptu tour, Grayfia asked for a task to do, Naruto after thinking about it for a while, assigned her to take care of the plants at the garden outside, which she happily obeyed as it also gave her some time to think. Rias had brought Naruto to her room to watch anime together. Another reason was because the heiress of the Gremory Clan didn't want Naruto anywhere near Grayfia at the moment, she didn't do anything and she already caught Naruto's attention. Naruto sat on the sofa with Rias's head on his shoulder, both of them watching anime until midnight until Grayfia showed up in the room and scolded them about staying up late and told them to go to sleep as they both had school tomorrow.
Naruto returned to his room and jumped onto his bed and quickly drifted into sleep, the new bed reminding him of the extremely soft bed he had in his house on Heaven.
As the first of morning light peeked through the window in Naruto's room, waking him up, he thought about how nice it was being like this once in a while. He usually did a lot of missions that pushed him to the limit of his endurance so he always slept like a dead man whenever he returned from all those missions. And even though he always woke up refreshed, it was nice to not hurry up for something for once.
He enjoyed the feeling of his soft bed, soft pillow, warm blanket and also his warm and soft hugging pillow.
Wait a minute.
If he recalled correctly, he only had one pillow last night and it was under his head. The pillow he was hugging now felt real soft and warm.
He looked down a bit and saw Rias's sleeping face snuggling into his chest. He could see that she was sleeping naked just as usual and was using him as a hugging pillow. His right arm being hugging tightly by her, resting between her bare breasts while his left arm was around her waist.
As if that wasn't enough, Rias was also hugging him so tight that he could feel his arm pressing into her toned stomach with his right hand was being sandwiched between her soft thighs. She had sneaked into Naruto's room sometime during the night and slept on the bed with him with him thinking her as a body pillow and hugging her.
Oh carp.
While he didn't mind sleeping together with her naked when they are children, Naruto had hoped that this strange habit of hers would change when she grew up and could finally sleep without taking off her clothes or at least wear something that she found comfortable. Looks like he was wrong about that, not to mention he didn't feel comfortable sleeping with her like this now that they were teenagers and all. For now however, he needed to get out of this situation, fast.
But just as when tried to make his move by moving his hand away from Rias's waist, the crimson haired girl suddenly opened her eyes when she felt the lost of Naruto's warmness. Big blue green eyes slowly opened and looked at cerulean eyes. A smile appeared on her face when she realized the position they were in, of course she was pleased when Naruto hugged her last night when she sneaked into his bed using the door that connected their room together.
Naruto tried to free himself when Rias's beautiful smile turned to a seductive one but he quickly moved and changed their positions before Naruto could escape. In an instant, Naruto found himself being pushed down onto his bed with Rias who was on all fours on top of him, looking at Naruto with her blue green eyes with her seductive smile still in place.
Oh crap.
"Good morning, Na~ru~to~kun~!" She said in a deliberately slow and sexy way.
Naruto who had managed to compose himself by now replied in a calm voice,
"Good morning to you too Rias. Could you, uh, get off of me? It's a bit uncomfortable like this."
"Oh my~Naruto-kun, you shouldn't be so shy like that. Don't worry, I'll make you 'really comfortable' soon." She said as she licked her lips slowly, she used a hand to trace a circle around her left breast and finally put it under her heavenly mound and pushed it up so it looked even bigger than before, "You know, if you want to touch, you just have to ask."
By now Naruto decided to escape, he wasn't going to be like the male character who got seduced by women like in those dirty manga Rias read. Now when he just woke up, he concentrated his energy and used the 'Substitution Jutsu'.
Rias didn't know what happened, one moment she was holding Naruto down right where she wanted him, the next there she was holding down a wooden log after a puff of smoke. She looked at Naruto who was standing at the foot of the bed, looking at her with twitching eyebrows and spoke after he was sure she wasn't going to make another move,
"Substitution Jutsu, used to get out of tight spots by substituting with something else." When Rias tried to speak he quickly added, "Don't ask where the wooden log came from. Now, care to explain why are you in my room and more importantly, my bed?"
The crimson haired girl pouted and puffed up her cheeks, "Mou, I was trying to have some fun, you meanie."
"I think you and I have a different definition of fun..." He deadpanned.
Then suddenly the room's temperature began to drop at an incredible speed. The walls around the door of Naruto's room began to freeze and the surface was covered in a thin layer of frost. The doorknob slowly turned into ice and broke into a thousand pieces. Now with the lock destroyed, the door slowly opened to reveal a stern Grayfia who have her arm folded under her breasts. A silver aura radiating around her body. Her face remained the same but her eyes normally calm eyes had turned into a murderous glare and it was directed at Rias.
"Naruto-sama, breakfast is ready." Grayfia bowed her head at her blond haired master, "You should eat them before it turns cold." With her completely refusing to acknowledge Rias's presence.
"Alright Grayfia-nee, I'll be right down." Naruto nodded his head, thankful that Grayfia had appeared to save him from Rias even if she was a bit late.
But before Naruto could move, Rias launched herself at Naruto, forcing him to catch her and rubbed her body into his. She didn't care about the cold, her rage of being disturbed by the maid had heated her body up so the cold was nothing to her right now. She glared at Grayfia with her own murderous glare and smirked, she had nothing to be afraid of the maid at this kind of competition.
Naruto tried to pry her away a persistent Rias while she spoke to Grayfia.
"Grayfia, can't you see that I'm trying to make Naruto-kun~really~comfortable here?" Rias smirked when she saw Grayfia's left eye twitch violently, "Breakfast can wait for later."
Grayfia looked at Rias, still glaring, the scene of her former master's sister was rubbing herself over Naruto, even if he looked unwilling was not a scene she would forget soon. As she gripped her maid dress tightly, an idea came to mind and she moved towards the two, standing in front of them and said slowly,
"It can't be helped then." Both their jaws dropped when they saw Grayfia slowly taking off her clothes, starting with her apron and the maid headband on her head, "It's my job as Naruto-sama's maid to make him as comfortable as possible, so Rias-sama, please move to the side so that I can do my job!" Grayfia finished talking just as she took off her dress, living her in only her bra and panties.
"No! Grayfia-nee, not you too!"
Naruto said and teleported away from the two 'crazy' devils.
"Here's your bag and bento, Naruto-sama."
"Thank you, Grayfia-nee." Naruto smiled and took his schoolbag and the bento, which was decorated by with a small yellow fox on the lid and also various flowers on the side from Grayfia. He liked the look of the bento and put it into his bag and waited for Rias to take her bento from Grayfia. He had his face turned away so he didn't see the heated glare the two threw at each other.
Well, the little problem in the morning was settled by Naruto. After making both of them wear their clothes again, he had both Rias and Grayfia on their knees, which the latter was a little happy to obey. He had scolded them about modesty and told them in no uncertain terms that stripping their clothes did not comfort him in the very least. Their talk lasted around twenty minutes after which Naruto went to get ready for school and came down to the first floor to have breakfast with them.
"Let's go Naruto-kun." Rias smiled and ran to his side.
"Okay, Grayfia-nee, take care of the house and yourself for us, okay?" The maid responded by bowing slightly, "Farewell, Naruto-sama. Have a pleasant day."
The trip to Kuoh Academy was enjoyable with Rias telling about Kuoh, about the students, teachers, even the infamous 'Pervert-Trio', who Issei was a part of. Rias also invited Naruto to join her Occult Research Club, which Naruto agreed to and joked about calling her Buchou just like anybody else. After that, Naruto and Rias also talked about the protections in her territory and the strange activities of stray devils here.
When Naruto and Rias came near Kuoh, they saw that Akeno, Kiba and Koneko were waiting for them by the street that leaded to the gate of the Academy. Seeing Naruto, Akeno and Koneko face cheered up while Kiba had a bright smile on his face and waved to them.
"Buchou, Naruto-senpai!"
"Hey guys!"
"Hello everyone."
"Naruto-sama!" Akeno quickly moved to Naruto's right side and hugged his right arm with a beautiful smile on her face, "I'm so glad that you can finally come to Kuoh." Akeno smiled and turned to Rias, who was glaring at her.
"Nii-chan." The quiet white haired girl came in front of Naruto, her normally stoic but nevertheless cute face blushing. Naruto smiled at her and rubbed her hair just where she liked it, before opening his schoolbag and taking out a piece of cake. He asked Grayfia to prepare some cake this morning, knowing that the white haired girl might want some sweets.
"Here Koneko-chan." Naruto handed it to her, which the white haired girl took with a smile and purred slightly when her head was being rubbed by Naruto again.
"Hey there, Kiba-kun." Naruto turned to Kiba, "What are you doing standing there by yourself, come over here and join us."
Kiba looked at his senpai and smiled, "Yes, Naruto-senpai."
Naruto nodded his head and walked with the group to Kuoh Academy, with Rias at his left side and Akeno at his right side, Koneko was walking in front with a small smile on her face. Kiba was walking with them with his usual smile. On their way to Kuoh, the group had gotten a lot of attention from the Kuoh students who happened to walking on the same street with them. Some of them recognized Naruto from the bookstore yesterday while others wanted to know who was the handsome, attractive boy walking with the school idols.
Naruto looked at the gate of Kuoh Academy, he could finally keep his promise with Rias, to go to high school together. Even if two years had passed and he only had one year with them here, a promise was a promise. No matter how much time he had left, he would fulfill the promise with Rias.
Taking a deep breath, Naruto finally made up his mind and walked into Kuoh Academy together with his friends, ready to face any challenge this high school had for him.
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