"Morning everyone! What's going on here?" Naruto inquired out loud, grinning at the assembled group.
All eyes shifted away from the hero to the blond, eyes widening at the his sudden appearance.
"Naruto!" Rias said, her voice rising slightly in surprise. "Where did you come from?"
"I've been around." the blond replied, shrugging his shoulders. "So what's with the looks you've guys got on your faces? You all seem to be on edge."
The shinobi paused, considering.
"Except you, Akeno." he eventually amended.
The queen smirked. "As always."
Both Maria and Mio glanced at one another with deadpanned expressions, even with all of the trouble he caused today, he's still as loud as usual.
"Naruto-san..." Sona stated matter-of-factly. "Where have you been this entire time?"
Naruto kept his grin, a teasing glint in his eye. "I'll answer you if you answer me, I asked first after all."
The student council president grit her teeth in annoyance, did he have to be so him right now?
"...We've had a bit of a problem with two vandals harming school property...do you know about any of that?" Sona asked with thinly veiled suspicion.
The shinobi blinked slowly, carefully regarding the black-haired girl. "Really? That's actually..."
"Inexcusable?" Sona provided.
"Awesome!" Naruto finished grandly, stars in his eyes.
Rias gave out a long-suffering sigh, shaking her head. Figures.
"Everyone, wait here. I'm going to go ask all of the students what happened, maybe someone got it on video!" the blond exclaimed with excitement, turning around to do just that.
"Wait...what!? No!" the Sitri heiress denied. "We have to erase everyone's memories of what happened! Too many questions will begin to surround the school if we don't!"
Naruto stopped after the devil finished her statement, features hidden since he was facing away from her.
"...I know right? Isn't it grand~?"
Sona shivered slightly, what was that...?
The shinobi turned around slightly, a positively evil grin spread across his lips. "What should you do~? If you let me continue, then some video evidence of the day's events may accidentally end up on the internet~. Ohhh...what a dilemma, hmm?"
"W-What...? Why would you...?"
"Unless!" Naruto interjected, eyes narrowed to the point of slits as his cheshire grin had formed. "You get rid of me for a little bit...then that won't happen, now will it?"
Sona's jaw dropped. She was being...she was being...!
"...You're actually blackmailing her..." Rias muttered in disbelief.
"Ara ara, our foxy-kun truly is a one of a kind." Akeno drawled by her side.
"Evil..." Mio hissed.
"...Not bad." Maria nodded, approving of the tactic.
Up until her charge slapped her upside the head for it.
The blond spread his arms out, inviting. "Blackmailing is a bit harsh, let's just agree to do what's best, huh?"
The Sitri heiress stayed frozen for a moment longer, before gathering her wits about her. "You...you're bluffing."
"Maybe I am, maybe I'm not. Wanna take that chance?"
Both teens kept their eyes locked with one another, neither giving up ground as they regarded one another. Playful blue and rigid purple.
Yuki just watched the farce play out, knowing full-well that he was bluffing, he hated tutoring that much. He was trying to have his cake and eat it too.
But Sona-kaichou didn't know that, did she?
After a few more seconds of stressful silence, Sona finally made her decision regarding the annoying blond.
It had to be done, no other choice.
"...I'll stop you." the young high-class devil declared, demonic energy flowing through her in preparation.
"Uhh...I don't think that's-" Mio tried to cut in.
"Hoh?" Naruto wondered, eyes lighting up in amusement. "You think you can take me on? You sure about that?"
"It doesn't matter." Sona stated levelly, eyes narrowing. "You've been getting too cocky recently, and I still think that you were involved with what happened yesterday. For all I know, you may have been involved in today's 'incident'. Nevertheless, it's about time that someone-!"
"You'll destroy public property even more, Sona." Rias deadpanned.
Sona froze, eyebrow twitching maniacally as she realized the flaw in her plan, all to the annoying blond's amusement no doubt.
"...That's what I was trying to say..." Mio mumbled, annoyed that she was cut off.
"I was goinna mention it too." the shinobi drawled. "But now that that's out of the way, whatcha gonna do now, Sona-kaichou?"
The Sitri heiress' eyebrows kept twitching, frustration lacing her features, this intractable...insufferable...smug...!
"Fine!" Sona bit out. "You win, you can take a leave of absence as you wish. But...make no mistake...this isn't over."
Naruto, gave her a shit-eating grin. "Of course! How can I ever make that mistake, hmm?"
The high-class devil huffed, turning away and storming back to the high school, too angry to think about the vandals that escaped. She was simply too preoccupied with mumbling out foul things under her breath.
Naruto turned away from the retreating back of the student council president to the everyone else that remained. "...That was fun."
"It indeed was!" Akeno chirped in agreement, clapping lightly.
The shinobi merely bowed, he was humbled by the support.
"Don't encourage him...it's bad enough that I have to take even more time out of my day to calm her down." Rias ground out. "Even worse, it looks like Sairaorg got away with murder...not to mention the frog."
"Murder she says..." Mio said, shaking her head.
As the red-head continued to shake her head at her inconsolable sempai, three forms emerged from the general forestry to reach them.
"Ah...seems we missed the fun, huh Issei-kun?" Yuuto asked rhetorically, an easy smile still plastered on his face after all of this time.
Issei, who was struggling to keep up after he began carrying Asia, only panted slightly in response, trying to catch his breath.
Asia herself looked on worriedly. "Issei-san, it's ok to put me down if it's too much trouble..."
The brown-haired boy nodded mutely, good idea, brilliant idea.
The shinobi snorted at the pawn's fatigue, before regarding everyone else. "Alright, I'm gonna head to class now, see you guys later."
Naruto didn't even complete his first step when someone grabbed his arm from behind.
"...I think it's obvious to everyone that classes are going to be cancelled today. Nice try." Yuki stated quietly, grip firm and unyielding.
The blond began to sweat slightly, shit...
"...Can we talk about this?"
"No."
"...Please?"
The hero ignored his increasingly desperate protests, dragging the blond away so that they could go and study at the library.
"No! Wait, please! Come on! Have mercy!" Naruto cried out, flailing around like a child with teary eyes.
Everyone just watched as Yuki dragged Naruto away, more than a few feeling that the whiskered teen had it coming. All the while ignoring the pitiful protests coming from the young man's mouth.
Someone in particular was taking great joy in this scenario.
Maria was actually giggling from it. "This was an incredible day! I didn't think that the day would bring in so much adventure! We should do this again some time! Maybe make this a scheduled event?"
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