"He went back to sleep."
Lazy bastard.
The blond shrugged it off though, what could you do sometimes?
The red-head took a seat for herself, facing towards the blond, then gave him a determined look.
"Naruto, we need to talk about Rias-sempai. I think she's in trouble and that she needs help-" Mio began quickly, hoping to get Naruto's backing to help her friend.
But she was stopped when the whiskered teen raised a hand up with a bored look on his face.
"Sorry Mio. I'm way ahead of you already. You're going to ask me to help Rias-san about her engagement issue, right? Old news already. Get on with the times." Naruto drawled with a smirk.
He enjoyed the flabbergasted look on the red-head's face.
Then she shook her head in disbelief. Just how did he do that? He was asleep at the time, right?
Ah well...she shouldn't question it. For the sake of her sanity, she couldn't think too deeply on the blond's 'Narutoisms'.
"Alright...assuming that you're going to help her...what are you going to do?" Mio asked curiously, wondering what the teen could do about such a complicated problem like pre-arranged marriage.
The shinobi simply shrugged, seemingly content with torturing the female teen by refusing to quench her curiosity.
The half-devil gave him a dirty look. "Ugh. You're being difficult on purpose."
Guilty as charged.
He was just bored.
Mio's expression then shifted into a frown, before she leaned closer to him. "Though...if you're ever having trouble...you can come to me for help you know? I don't want you to overwork yourself over some harebrained scheme."
Naruto blinked at her shift in demeanor, maybe she wasn't entirely convinced that he was ok now?
Nevertheless, he nodded with a confident smile. Assuring her that everything was going to be alright now.
Judging by the loss of tension in her muscles after his assurance, he'd say that he did a pretty good job.
"...Oh my. I believe that I'm interrupting something quite juicy here."
Mio's eyes widened and her face turned as red as an apple at the insinuation thrown at herself and Naruto.
The blond didn't catch the teasing however, so he just looked at the resident succubus with confusion.
"Maria! It isn't like that!" the red-head cried out, feeling very much embarrassed at what her guardian was implying.
Maria merely shrugged as she walked into the dining room, a teasing grin still remaining on her face. "I don't know...you seemed to enjoy moving into Naruto-sama's personal space and asking him to rely on you. You also seem to be closer than before...did something happen, I wonder?"
Mio looked away.
Naruto coughed into his hand.
...
"...Wait. Did something happen?" the succubus asked with a wide-eyed look.
The shinobi shifted uncomfortably on his seat as the silver-haired girl's eyes concentrated on him with frightening intensity.
Then her eyes teared up.
"How could you!?" Maria cried out, her face was filled with despair at the lack of denial.
This bought the duo's attention to the succubus, they were both slightly alarmed at her sudden outburst.
But before either of them could ask her what the problem was, she cried out.
"Why didn't you do this when I was around!? Now I can't save your shameful faces in my video cam!"
Just like that, Maria lost all sympathy.
"...Is catching people in embarrassing moments your only mission in life?" Mio asked quietly, an annoyed glare aimed at her guardian.
Maria looked offended at the accusation. "Of course not! How could you think of me like that!? I have standards! I only do my best to capture embarrassing moments of people I like!"
Ah. Of course. Mio really shouldn't be surprised by this point.
Naruto looked on, an indulgent smile creeping onto his facial features.
He was happy that these two were having fun, despite the dark circumstances just yesterday. It gave him a nice and fuzzy feeling.
Now all he had to do was keep it that way.
All by beating up some random fire chicken?
Yeah...he could do that.
After a while, the rest of the mansion began to wake up to greet the new day.
Yuki woke up and joined them at the table soon after Maria made her...interesting entrance.
She nearly gave him a minor heart attack when the young hero suggested that they should get some studying done before their little trip ended, all to 'help him' of course.
He didn't need that kind of help, damn it!
So he was immensely thankful when Mio managed to grab Yuki's attention long enough for others to get to the table.
Soon afterwards, Issei and Asia-san both entered the dining room as well, looking as if they hadn't gone through a life-or-death situation.
The shinobi wanted to keep it that way.
Albeit, Issei looked a little rattled, and walked up to the blond with purpose.
Maybe he wanted to talk about what happened yesterday? Well it wasn't like they couldn't talk about it...just that this maybe wasn't the best-
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