The students in the room all jumped at the sudden voice before they turned to face the source of the voice, Azazel.
"Hey! It's you." Issei exclaimed, pointing a finger at Azazel.
"You guys need awareness training. You didn't notice I was here" Azazel smirked at Rias.
"Azazel, what are you doing here?"
"Well, you're looking at the new consultant of the ORC. Yeah, I pulled some strings'' Azazel clarified before his face morphed to a serious one. "Listen, Rias, Never engage Naruto without an ultimate class devil around to protect you. In fact, don't engage him at all and maintain a neutral peaceful relationship with him. Leave Naruto to us leaders and he isn't at fault here, instead you should reprimand them" Azazel gestured at Issei and Asia. "Naruto was just doing his job"
"But- Ugh! I understand" Rias said. She found it frustrating when everyone sided Naruto and she couldn't make a comeback. Maybe she's labeled him a bad guy from the start so everything he did no matter how big or small, good or bad, would always be a bad thing to her.
"Well, you guys could use some help if you want" Azazel spared a glance at Sona.
"I don't need a pervert's help," Sona replied.
"Damn, the disrespect around here is real" Azazel exclaimed, totally unaffected by her impression of him.
"Well, see you around Rias." She waved the ruin princess goodbye.
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Gaia sat in a restaurant sipping hot tea from a black mug, she released a gratified sigh. She paid her order using Naruto's debit card. He gave her a golden debit card and told her to do whatever she wanted with it.
"Here you go Ma'am" The waiter gave her the debit card blushing.
Gaia wore black pants hugging her legs and a white leather jacket over a black turtle-neck long sleeve. Skinny black pants and black trainers.
The goddess smiled and took the card putting it in her back pocket. She exits the restaurant staring at the clear blue skies.
"I wonder how they're doing," Gaia said quietly, thinking about her former husband and her children, the gods of Olympus.
If the Olympians learned of her escape, all hell would break loose and Zeus, especially, would hunt her down. Gaia didn't want to create trouble for Naruto, someone who's been through so much in his life that Gaia sometimes wondered how he remained sane. He held on to sanity well and now he's lost his motivation, the present Naruto paled in comparison to the past Naruto and what he did just to find a way back home. The past Naruto smiled more often, was caring, honest, Exuberant, and extroverted and most of all, A Hero but The present Naruto was the opposite. He only cares for a few people in this world and she was among the very few people he gave a fuck about.
Gaia sighed walking back home with a grocery bag.
"Gimme all your money" Someone said from behind.
The boy had a beanie on with Khaki shorts and a green top armed with a swiss knife. He jerked around brandishing the sword at her.
"I don't care if you're pretty Lady. All I want is your money and your groceries" He yelled this time moving forward raising the knife for added effect.
"Hm? Naruto's near" She noticed his peculiar energy around the area.
"You think I don't see you walk around flashing your debit card? I want that and your password" The boy no older than twenty four sniffed several times scratching his nose and neck, jerking his head around. Drugs, Gaia noticed.
"You deaf or what!"
Gaia entered his personality space and placed a hand on his cheek making sure they had eye contact.
"Listen, little boy, you have to stop taking those drugs, they won't do any good and if you'd invest the money you spent into purchasing illegal drugs, you wouldn't be here brandishing a knife at an innocent defenseless woman" Clearly an understatement. Gaia wasn't a defenseless woman, had the boy known who he brandished a knife at, he'd piss his pants.
"So be a good boy, take these and go buy something nice for your mom" She said patting him in the head and putting a Twenty thousand yen bill in his hands.
Throughout the entire talk, the boy's eyes glazed over as if in trance and when Gaia finished, he breathed out a sigh of relief and tears streamed down his face.
"Thank you," He said, wondering why he was taking her before he stumbled backwards going home to his mother.
"Youngsters these days. The human world blossomed into a beautiful flower, a beautiful flower with thorns." She said resuming her walk back home.
Swish
Naruto appeared in a swirl of leaves in front of her. The corners of his lips curved up a bit when she saw him. Naruto rarely smiled and when he did it was almost unnoticed but she was used to it so she could spot them instantly.
"Let's go home," Naruto said and walked beside her.
"How was work today?" She inquired.
"Worse. The red bat ruined my mood." Naruto responded.
"Red bat? Oh, you mean Rias?" Gaia corrected. "Same thing" Naruto said.
"Naruto-Chan, it's rude to call others names. How would you feel if someone calls you Narutomaki?" Asked Gaia.
"I'd…"
"...You see, " Gaia said.
"Well, it's hard to remember people's name"
"Try harder! You're a teacher for crying out loud"
"It's troublesome and I don't want to"
"Come on Naruto, let's get home fast. I'm gonna make you a mean bowl of ramen" Gaia said, shaking the grocery bag in Naruto's face.
Gaia put her hand between Naruto's elbows, staying pretty close to him looking around. Naruto didn't mind much but the look on the men's faces was quite… Disturbing. He might bash in a head or two if they don't look elsewhere.
"You don't talk much about your homeworld. Why?" Gaia asked all of a sudden.
"There's not much to talk about"
"Oh come on. We're talking about an entire different world here."
Naruto kept his eyes glued to the phone ad going on the huge tv screen besides a building wondering why he didn't have one of those.
"Your people must have been great sages back in your homeworld" Gaia tried to make him open up.
"Actually, only a small number of people could command the power of Nature back at home" Naruto replied.
"How small?"
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