The Legacy of the Most Unpredictable Ninja

7

"Why are you so tired Naruto?" Mio asked with concern.

Naruto has been yawning non-stop ever since she woke up, he did get a good night's rest right?

Naruto just gave a somewhat strained smile towards Mio as he continued walking towards Kuoh. He spent a bit too much time at the forest and was exhausted because of it. He supposed that in a life and death struggle he wouldn't be nearly as tired...but he wasn't, so he wanted to sleep like a normal human being.

But he had to keep up appearances, he definitely didn't want Mio or Maria to begin checking up on him during the night.

"I'm fine Mio, I just slept weird last night. As soon as class starts I should be fine." Naruto said with a smile. Mio continued to stare at him with doubtful eyes as he tried to give the impression that he wasn't that tired.

Thankfully he had a reprieve when another voice interrupted them.

"Naruto." Yuki said as she walked to join the group. She gave Mio a nod to signify her acknowledgement of the younger girl which Mio reciprocated. The young hero then turned to Naruto.

"We have to talk about scheduling tutoring sessions." Yuki said, Naruto just slapped his head in response. He totally forgot about that.

"Right right...we can talk about it later in class today ok?" Naruto said with a reasonable tone, but both of his companions gave him dull stares.

"...Naruto...class is for learning. Not for making plans." Yuki said with a sigh. Mio followed after her lead with an admonishment of her own.

"Seriously...how lazy are you? Sleeping during class and now making plans during class? You're a terrible older brother figure you know?" Mio said with a small grin, she finally got a measure of revenge for all the teasing she got her classmates about Naruto. She was feeling vindicated!

Naruto just groaned at their words, his head hurt and he couldn't come up with any decent come-backs so he just said what he could come up with.

"...Shut up."

Mio giggled at the pathetic comeback while Yuki smiled at the nice atmosphere.

How long has it been since Yuki enjoyed life like this?

But the tutoring session with Naruto wasn't only meant for helping her friend out, although that was the initial motivation. They also needed to have a talk.

The Hero Tribe was getting restless.

There were many elders back at home base that were suspicious of Yuki's standing with the supernatural factions ever since she changed her mind about the stance they should take in regards to her targets. They were all changed to 'observation' targets rather then 'elimination' targets. Some believed that she was being deceived by the 'unknown variable' and that they should send a team in order to 'save her'.

In all fairness, her change was abrupt if they didn't see what actually happened so their suspicion should have been expected. But the fact was that if she didn't convince them soon...

She shook her head of the dark thoughts, this was a happy time now. She'd deal with Hero Tribe elders as soon as she and Naruto were alone.

For now, she would enjoy the nice atmosphere.

Naruto stared at the ORC club room door.

It didn't have a note this time...he made sure to be extra careful in checking. Now he had to make sure that Rias was actually here so that they could have that talk that Naruto desperately needed to have.

He was an action guy at heart, waiting around for someone's opinion on the matter wasn't exactly his usual MO. But this wasn't his world, he had to check with Rias so that he wouldn't make some horrible mistake. After all, he was pretty good at detecting liars...so it wasn't like Rias was gonna lie to his face or anything without him noticing.