naruto hero of monster girl encyclopedia ( Shelved)

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What was that?! I didn't even see her move!" Kiba yells out as most of the other gennin just stare dumbly at the arena as Sasuke is carried out on a stretcher. "That, Kiba, would be the result of endless training in swordsmanship from a prodigy like Alke" Aria tells the boys with a smirk.

"So you know who she is?" Asuma asks Aria only to have Erika answer for the lilim. "Of course Aria would know who general Alke is. Not only is she more skilled with a blade than any living creature in this world but she's also the personal bodyguard for the Demon Lord's family" Erika tells the chain smoker while glancing at him out of the corner of her eye.

"You said 'general Alke', why would a general be guarding a single family? Even if it's the one with as much power as Aria's" Kurenai asks. "She retired after being offered her current position" Luna tells the woman as she keeps her eyes on the arena.

"Pfft, she would've quit being a general whether mom offered her a job or not" Aria says with an amused expression. "Why's that?" Shikamaru asks, his curiosity getting the better of him. "Alke only joined in the first place to get battle experience and improve her swordsmanship" Aria begins to tell Alke's tall to the group while she sits up right in her seat. "It worked just as she planed and she became the youngest in known history to earn the title of general. Being only fourteen at the time" Aria explains, getting a few widened eyes from the shinobi.

"That certainty does sound like a prodigy. So what happened?" Kakashi asks the girl sitting above and to the right of him. "I'm getting there!" Aria happily says while rubbing the man's hair and getting an annoyed grunt from Kakashi. "Alke quickly became a household name, being feared by those in the Order and beloved by those she vowed to protect" Aria says with a happy smile once she finished messing up Kakashi's hair.

"But," Aria says as her smile turns to a slight frown. "Even though she was loved and respected by those who served under her she was cold and closed off to everyone around her. Her obsession with protecting everyone she could and passion for her swords were the only things on her mind and she felt that friends and loved ones would only interfere. She became someone surrounded by love and admiration, but couldn't feel any of it" Aria recounts Alke's sad tail.

"She's eventually become powerful enough to take out entire armies single handed and often did so to spare her soldiers from any possible harm. But" Aria says as her eyes show pity for the woman she's talking about. "Alke hated every moment she had to fight. She felt no joy in defeating warrior after warrior. Eventually it became to much for her to bear on her own and she bragged into my mothers thrown room demanding that she be stripped of her rank and allowed to leave the the military force. She even drew her sword and threatened to fight mom knowing that she'd never be able to win" Aria tells them.

"Wait! Why would your mother offer someone that just threatened her a position as her bodyguard?!" Sakura all but yells after finally shaking her disbelieve of Sasuke losing so easily out of her head. "Simple" Aria starts as she leans forward, "to prevent her from doing something idiotic" Aria tells them. Seeing their confusion Kakashi elaborates "Giving Alke that position would give her a way to avoid the constant fighting while still being loyal to the royal family".

"Correct!" Aria says as she goes to pat Kakashi's hair again but stops when the man gives her an annoyed glare. "It was soon after that little incident that Naruto first showed up at the palace. With in a month of coming to visit me at the palace every chance he got the blond ball of energy managed, much to everyone's surprise, to form a friendship with Alke. After that she started teaching him how to swing a sword and to this day she hasn't become closer to anyone else, even with me, mother, and some of my sisters becoming friends with her as well" Aria says with a warm smile at the memories.