There was also the fact that they were all seemingly converging towards her from all directions.
So by the time most of them had arrived to her, she was pretty much a nervous wreck.
One of the Naruto clones decided to try and wake her from her seeming nervous breakdown and snapped their finger in front of her face.
It did the trick.
"Ha...Haaaauuuu!?"
...Kinda.
"Woah woah! Calm down there Asia-san. We were just wondering if you could heal those who got hurt. If you please." another blond clone said while trying to speak politely.
That finally snapped her out of her nervousness.
"Ye-yes! Please place them down on the mats so that I can start please." Asia said with a slight accent in her voice.
The clones nodded and gently placed their victims on to the many mats on the floor so that they could get treated by Asia.
So far it was only the Gremory team, Mio, and Maria who were accounted for. So the Naruto clone that led the charge against the Gremory team was about to order the other clone to disperse their chakra, in order to give their information to the boss.
But before he could.
"...Wait..."
Naruto-1 blinked as he felt someone grab his jeans, he looked down to stare at a pair of blue-green eyes.
"...Heya there Rias-san. Didn't expect to see you awake so soon. You doing ok? Not too badly hurt?" the clone asked with a comforting smile.
The combat was over, no need to be hard on them afterwards.
"...I'll live. The only thing that really took a heavy hit today was my pride." Rias grumbled, ashamed that she lost to a clone...a clone.
It wasn't something that you could really live down.
Naruto-1 just patted her head in his condolences. He knew that the boss meant it when he said that he'd never let her live it down.
"But...even though the thought that I would lose this battle had occurred to me...I didn't think I'd lose so badly. So...when you're...I mean when you have a chance...can you..." the red-headed devil stumbled over her words, trying to convey something to the clone that she wasn't used to.
The clone could take a guess.
"No worries Rias-san. That was the entire point of this, you'll get the full review when I make sure everyone gets here. Though I think that the boss would like that chance to talk with you. I also suppose that you don't really want your Peerage to hear this talk either...?" Naruto-1 asked hesitantly, she seemed to be someone who liked to have her dignity whenever she could. So if her Peerage essentially saw her getting tips from someone younger then her...
"...Yes please."
He called it.
Naruto-1 nodded and then gave Naruto-2 a meaningful look.
He caught on quickly.
They dispersed their chakra and allowed themselves to *POP*, sending their information back to the boss.
Naruto was facing off against Yuki once more, prepping himself for another bout of blades-work.
Although Yuki looked pretty exhausted by this point and was covered with little cuts.
Compared to her, there was no indication that he was in a fight at all.
But it seemed that she was determined to score a hit on him as she gulped in another lungful of air and prepped herself to charge him again.
But he raised his hand in the universal symbol of 'stop'.
He just got information from two of his clones. It was time to go back.
"Yuki. I think this is good enough for today. Now that I got the information from the other clones, I can say that you are ahead of the class by a large margin. Congrats!" Naruto said cheekily before putting his kunai away.
The hero said nothing, she was too busy catching her breath and not falling over in exhaustion.
The shinobi walked up to her and put his arm around her shoulder with a grin.
"Need some help?"
Yuki glanced towards her friend's eyes. She smiled at the helping hand, she was pretty tired.
It was a good tired though.
So the two trudged off back towards where everyone was waiting for them.
It took a while for them to reach the little psuedo-medical center. But they made pretty decent time considering that Yuki was limping a little.
By the time they reached the group, the sun was beginning to set and mostly everyone was patched up by the resident healer.
Though the only one awake was still Rias at the moment, staring up into the sky in thoughtful silence.
Naruto dropped off Yuki into a mat and thanked Asia for her help, he decided that this was the best chance to talk to Rias-san in private.
So he walked up to her and sat down near her supine form as she was staring into the slowly appearing stars.
"...Well. I'm ready whenever you are Naruto. How bad was it?" Rias asked with a slightly self-mocking grin.
The blond couldn't help but wonder if she was being too hard on herself.
"Alright. Well, first off...you didn't do terrible." Naruto said, trying to start off on a good note.
It didn't seem to work though, as the Gremory seemed to just deflate at his attempt at laying it gently to her.
"By the Maous...Naruto...just tell me the truth." Rias grumbled before getting up into a sitting position.
Well...she asked for it, he supposed.
"Ok. Your teamwork is decent but your coordination was terrible. You attacked as if you were individuals rather than one working unit, like a team should be. This is especially bad when all of you depend on teamwork in some way to fight stronger opponents. Not only that, but your tactics Rias-san..." Naruto began with a frown.
She wasn't that worried about her abilities to make plans though. She was taught well by her teachers as a child to make excellent...-
"They suck."
Wait...what!?
"Wh-! What do you mean they suck!? The formation and the tactics used against you, especially in the beginning of the fight, were standard operating procedure with the pieces that I had on hand! So how could they-!" Rias began before getting cut off.
"That's the problem Rias-san. That was standard...whatever the hell you just said. It's something to be expected from your opponents due to who you have working with you. So standard and so expected...that I was able to figure out how best to counter it." Naruto explained with an annoyed look on his face.
Rias' eyes widened in shock at this logic. So precisely because her tactics were so standard...they were easy to counter?
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