Naruto remembered helping her with groceries and a few other things when Issei was absent. She looked so pitiful struggling with the bags so he extended a helping hand.
"It's nothing really." Naruto shook his outstretched arms furiously "Just helping out a neighbor."
"I know single men like you rarely have home made food. Please take this as a token of my appreciation for the other day." She pushed the box into Naruto's chest.
Naruto gripped the box, a bit startled by the forceful behavior. "Thank you, Hyoudou-san." He expressed his gratitude.
"I hope it's ramen." He thought, bringing the lunch box to his side.
"Can I ask another favor, Naruto-san?" Mrs. Hyodou said.
Naruto cocked his eyebrows and nodded nonetheless.
"Please take care of my Issei," she blurted out. "He's an extremely perverted kid and he needs a lot of guidance." She finished, glancing at Issei disapprovingly.
"Mom!" Issei protested.
"He might be a handful sometimes but he's a good kid." She regarded Issei with pride.
"I can take care of myself, Kaa-chan," he protested with a blush on his face.
"You need to listen to your Sensei, son."
Naruto watched them both with a wistful look on his face. "It's really good to have a mom who dotes over you sometimes."
Naruto was orphaned three hours after his birth and consequently grew up without the love of a mother or father. He was all alone in a world where everyone hated him for something he wasn't. Something he could never become.
He was grateful he had the chance to meet his mother and father even though the former was a chakra imprint and the latter, an Edo tensei. He'd choose to be born the same way again, scorned and hated by all if it meant being the son of Minato and Kushina.
"I will, Hyoudou-san," he declared.
"Oh thank you Naruto-kun." She jumped up in joy. "If you ever feel lonely or you need home made food, just visit us, okay."
"Kaa-chan! Leave Naruto-sensei alone. He might run late for School." Issei tried to send his mother away discreetly.
He really was running late for school today. Maybe he would accompany the blonde teacher to School today. Mrs. Hyoudou bid them a farewell which Issei returned with a wave of his hand
"May I come in S-sensei?" he stuttered fearfully.
Naruto shot him a flat stare.
"Look, I can explain." Issei said.
Naruto blinked several times with his flat stare plastered to his face. The brown haired pervert shrunk under his stare before he sighed dejectedly.
"Why don't we do this while we trek towards school?"
He wanted to question the Shinobi about the mild earthquakes that happened today and, just maybe, if he could help with the Excalibur issue going on.
"Go away, Hyoudou" Naruto did a shoo motion with his hands.
"Are you still angry about that?" Issei asked fearful of his Sensei's wrath.
"Damn straight. And I'll still punish you for betraying me," he replied sardonically.
Issei cringed badly when he saw the look in Naruto's eyes. He really wanted to remain loyal to the Uzumaki but those jiggling Oppai were too much for him.
With a huge sigh of defeat, Issei stared at Naruto one more time before he turned around and walked away.
"Well... goodbye, Sensei." He waved with a dejected aura around him and his slouching back really helped augment his miserable look.
He jolted a bit when Naruto closed the door forcefully. He glanced at the door one last time glad that wasn't him instead.
Naruto sat comfortably in the living room staring at the lunch box on the table with hardcore intensity. He wondered when was the last time someone gave him a lunch box only to find out that this was the first time someone did this kind of thing for him.
He began unpacking the lunch box and a delicious sight greeted his vision.
It is by the eyes one recognizes a tasty treat, then followed by the nose and lastly the tongue testifies to the judgment of the eyes and the nose.
"You're gonna eat it or what?" Shukaku's gruff voice brought him back to reality.
"Yes. I'd be bad to let something like this go to waste." He answered as he split apart the pink chopsticks Issei's Mom provided him with and took a bite out of it,
His face lit up like a Christmas tree when the sweet deliciousness of the food assaulted his taste buds.
"Today might have been a total disaster, Naruto. It's a great thing you placed chakra blocking seals around the house."
"Wash id thad bawd?" Naruto enquired with a mouth full and all the Bijūs nodded.
"You really need to clear your head, Naruto."
The blonde ninja let out a satisfying sigh as a loud Burp escaped his throat. It's been so long since he had a good meal like this. All he had was ramen all day long and quite frankly, he didn't mind at all. It was after all a coping mechanism... Oh wait, that was a big lie. He was just too obsessed with ramen to stop.
"Oh how I wish that vixen was here," a certain flaming cat lamented.
Naruto squinted at the little, blue, flaming cat on the glass table licking its paws. What's with cats and their weird quirks?
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The orange pigmentations of Sage Mode were present around Naruto's eyes as he breathed in and out, staying as still as a rock with no movement at all.
He took a deep breath and gathered as much Sage energy as he could in that moment. He then exhaled deeply and released the purified sage energy back to his environment.
Nature's malice wasn't as strong as when he first tried to use Sage Mode when he got here. A fact that gladded his heart. He could sense everyone in Kuoh in this state. From the earthworms underground to the birds in the sky. He could sense Hyoudou's unique signature; Dark and Dragon-like. He could feel three different pure holy energies and a whole lot of corrupted energy in the area belonging to several crows and one stood out the most.
It was blood thirsty and wild.
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