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Chapter 9 - Chapter 9

Rias couldn't help but laugh at discovering she'd gained a prankster for a servant.

Rias giggled, "It seems I've gained a little prankster in my peerage?"

"Peerage?" Naruto blinked.

"Another time," Rias said, "School is starting soon." She removed the hand from his chest and smiled as she backed away. "I will send someone for you after class, okay, Naruto-kun?"

"Yeah, that's fine, I guess," Naruto smiled as he waved Rias off. "I'll see you later, Rias."

Naruto yawned as he sat down in his seat. Class was about to start and he was already wanting to go to sleep. Man, Shikamaru was right when he said learning was troublesome.

Closing his eyes, Naruto placed his hands behind his head and leaned back in his chair to rest. He could easily afford few more moments of shut eye. It wasn't like the teacher could say anything. Despite what many people might assume, he actually had pretty good grades. Sure, it wasn't a 4.0 average, but 3.1 was pretty damn good too.

Back in Konoha, everyone had called him the Dead-last because he sucked at theory and reading assignments. That wasn't going to happen here. He wouldn't be thought of as an idiot in this world, even if it meant he had to... ugh... study.

Cue shudder.

"Ohayo, Naruto-san."

Cracking an eye open, Naruto found a handsome young man with short blonde hair and grey eyes standing in front of him. He was wearing the standard school uniform and his blazer was fully buttoned. He sort of reminded Naruto of Sasuke in the way that all the girl's seemed to think he was the hottest thing since the creation of fire jutsu.

"Kiba," Naruto gave the boy a bit of a lazy look. "What's up?" The only reason Naruto didn't have the same problems with him that he had with Sasuke in the beginning, aside from the small fact that he had outgrown those kinds of petty thoughts, was because Kiba was actually very friendly. He acted nothing like Sasuke did back when they were in the academy.

In other words, he wasn't a complete jerk with a fifty foot pole shoved up his ass.

"Not much," Kiba sat down in a desk next to Naruto's. "I heard that Buchou has talked to you?"

"Buchou?"

"Rias-sama," Kiba added when he saw Naruto's confused look. At the sound of the red-haired beauty's name, Naruto's face lit up in recognition. "I was told she talked to you this morning?"

"She did," the blond eyed his somewhat friend with the sort of casual awareness one has when they're hearing something interesting enough to pay attention to, but not enough that they were totally into what was being said. "I didn't know you knew her?"

"Buchou's the president of the Occult club, which I'm a part of," Kiba informed him with a friendly smile.

"Ah," Naruto nodded his head, "That would explain it." From the words Kiba spoke, Naruto easily deduced that the other blond was also a Devil, and this research club was likely some kind of front for Rias and other Devils to gather or something.

Naruto had to thank Kakashi-sensei and Ero-sennin for pounding some common sense into his head. He would have never been able to figure something like this out if they had not helped him.

"I was told that you were joining the club and that I should take you to the clubhouse after school so you can be informed of what we do."

"Sounds good," Naruto closed his eyes, "Now be a pal and wake me when class starts."

"Haha," Kiba sweatdropped a bit, "Sure thing."

"YOU!"

Naruto stopped and cast an annoyed glare as the pervert, Issei he remembered the kid was called, came running up to him with a crazed look in his eyes. It wasn't that the kid was talking to him that bothered him, so as much as it was the fact that he had things to do and places to be. Besides, Naruto already had a hunch about what the kid could want.

The brown haired, slightly insane looking member of the Hentai San'nin-Gumi grabbed Naruto by the collar of his blazer. The unusual gleam in his eyes was not doing the pervert any favors right now.

"You remember Yuuma-chan, right? Right!?"

"Yuuma?" Naruto slapped Issei's hands away and adopted a thinking pose. After a second, he snapped his fingers and looked at Issei. "You're not talking about a chick with black hair, violet eyes and black angel wings, are you?"

"Yes! Yes!" Issei was crying tears of joy at the knowledge that someone finally remembered the girl who had killed him. "That's exactly who I'm talking about!"

"Nope. Sorry. Never heard of her before."

"EH!?" Issei looked at Naruto in shock as the blond began walking away. Moving quickly, Issei ran to catch up with Naruto as the spiky haired blond caught up with Kiba, who had waited for him at the end of the hall after Issei grabbed him. "What do you mean you don't remember!? You were there!"

Naruto gave Issei a bright smile. "I have no idea what you're talking about."

"Wha...? But that's―"

"Now, if you'll excuse me," Naruto interrupted, "I have somewhere I need to be."

Naruto could hardly contain his snickering as he left behind a dejected Issei. The last he had seen of the boy before disappearing outside of the school building, his shoulders had been slumped and their had been a look of depression on his face. In most cases, he would have actually felt bad about doing a prank like this, but the over exaggerated expression on Issei's face just made it too funny for him to feel guilty about.

Really, that boy was just far to easy to prank. It almost made him feel bad for pranking someone who was obviously so gullible. Almost.

"That wasn't very nice," Kiba did not sound very displeased despite his words. Naruto got the feeling his fellow blond was amused.

"Eh?" Naruto shrugged, snickering a bit. "I couldn't help myself. The perv was just begging to be pranked."

"Is it because Issei-san is a pervert that you prank him?" asked a curious Kiba.

"Not really," Naruto shook his head. "I mean, sure, it's always amusing to prank perverts because they tend to have stronger reactions than most, but it's mostly because he just leaves himself so open. If he wasn't as naïve and easy to fool as he was, I wouldn't have nearly as much fun pranking him like that."

"I see," Kiba laughed. He led his fellow blond outside, and Naruto noticed immediately that they were walking towards one of the other buildings located within the academy grounds.

"Is the occult club not in the main building?" he asked curiously.

"We have our own building," Kiba told him, pointing towards the large school building they were heading to. Naruto immediately noticed that it was different than the main one, older, and had a slightly different style to it's architecture. Despite it's obvious age, it was still very well maintained. "This used to be the main school building, but when the new one was built, Buchou was able to acquisition it for the occult club."

"That makes sense," if they were devils, they would need a place away from prying eyes to do whatever it was devils did.

And just what did devils do if they didn't sacrifice virgins, babies and puppies anyways? Hopefully, he would find out.

Naruto could only hope he'd find out what devils actually did with their time before his imagination got the better of him.

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