Everyone glanced at one another, not too sure how to take the information, memories of the blond tormenting them in the Gremory estate was still relatively fresh...
Before anyone could ask however, the younger red-head brought out several pieces of paper from her other pocket, showing it to them.
"Here, everyone take one. Naruto prepped this for us, it's for training apparently."
Issei frowned as he stared at the slips of paper that occupied his kohai's hand, that looked familiar...
"...Aren't those Naruto's...uh...seals?" Rias questioned, grabbing one of them and turning it around in wonder.
"Yeah, we are supposed to use these to help train our reaction speed for future battles. The note said that all we have to do to use it is place them on a wall and heat it up with some fire. When it glows...then we have a few seconds before it sends the first...volley." the half-devil explained, eyes scanning the note on her hand.
"...Volley?" Asia parroted, green eyes looking particularly nervous.
"Yeah. It doesn't exactly fill me with confidence either." Mio responded dryly, putting the notes away and giving the seal a hard look.
She could already tell that this wouldn't be easy, but she would still go through with it regardless. She couldn't stay like this.
Well...at least Naruto was probably having an easier time than her.
"Damn it...! Back off already!"
All Naruto got in response was a defiant roar that echoed across the forest floor, one that was continuously following him as he attempted to make his escape.
The shinobi in question was speeding across the forest, running as fast as he could without hurting the girl under his arm, since she was too young to take a higher speed. All while ignoring the enraged creature that was crashing through trees as if they were made out of flimsy paper.
Naruto grit his teeth in rising annoyance, this guy wouldn't let up at all. But the simple fact was that he didn't have too much time to kill...
The sun was setting. He really didn't want to keep the kid outside in the cold.
But as the blond continued to speed past the forest, it became increasingly obvious that the beast behind him wouldn't stop without some intervention.
With that in mind, Naruto secured the young blond under his arm to form a cross with his han-
The shinobi ducked as poison spewed over his head and dissolved the area which it affected.
That snake for a tail could spit venom!? How the hell did that work!?
On second thought...he didn't want to know.
The forceful duck at the last second nearly caused him to tumble, but for the sake of his well-being, he simply had to jump over the puddle of venom that spread in front of him.
So Naruto used his tumbling as an excuse to jump over the venom, but due to his already suspect balance...he didn't exactly have a stellar landing.
To say that he had to 'tuck and roll' was putting it mildly, as the blond pushed the smaller blond to his chest and rolled down a steep hill, nearly crashing into a tree.
But he recovered admirably, forcefully pushing off from the ground the second that the floor leveled out enough to do it safely, for the kid's sake.
Still, Naruto was back to square one again, with the ridiculous and persistent yokai chasing after him without any intention of giving up the chase, with it's ally probably joining it soon enough.
So the shinobi finished what it originally intended to do!
"Kage Bunshin no Justu!"
With that, a small explosion of smoke appeared at his location, with the real Naruto jumping through it without stopping.
He wasn't the only one who quickly got out of the smoke.
The yokai that was after the human quickly charged through the smoke, intent on-
"Oh no you don't!" a Naruto clone declared, landing on top of the vicious beast after it fell from the tree branches.
The beast immediately began to try and fling the clone off, it's enraged howls echoing throughout it's rampage.
'Naruto' grit his teeth as he held on tight, what the hell was taking them so long!?
Just as he finished that line of thought, two more clones emerged from the shrubbery at opposite sides of each other, flanking the rampaging yokai, and holding kunai with wire attached to them.
Both new arrivals threw their weapons at the yokai's feet, quickly jumping over the beast and switching places, allowing for the wire to entangle their prey.
"Now! Heave! We have to buy the boss some time!" one of the clones said, gritting his teeth as he held firm.
"Heeeeey! Bastards! You tangled me with the yokai!" the clone on the yokai screamed, as he realized that he was caught in the wire with the beast, struggling to break free.
The other clones turned to one another, shrugging at their brother's misfortune. Shit happened sometimes.
"...Acceptable loss?"
"...Acceptable loss."
The clone that was tied to the yokai just gave them the middle finger in response.
Naruto knew damn well that his clones have temporarily kept the creature that was chasing after him tied down, they were him after all,
Well...that and he stopped hearing the annoying growls of the yokai behind his back, so there's that.
The shinobi glanced down at the blissfully unaware girl under his arm, he was honestly surprised that she didn't wake up from the constant movement he had to undertake. Forests are rarely straightforward after all.
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