Naruto held on to Rossweisse as his hoodie slowly came off due to the sudden gesture. His hands were wrapped firmly on her waist. "Are you alright?" he asked with concern written all over his face.
"Um, y-yeah." Rossweisse had both of her palms on Naruto's toned chest, feeling his abs.
"This house is too damn big. I almost got lost on my way to the toilet. Do they have a map of this house or something?" Naruto tried to joke.
Rossweisse was giggling out in the open at his joke even though it was a lame one.
"I uh, I-I wanted to take a walk outside. W-wanna come along?" Naruto looked away in a manner that made him cute as he asked her to take a walk with him.
The look made the Asgardian's heart melt.
Naruto Uzumaki wasn't a man after love, he simply wanted to leave the house for a while lest he contracts the devil virus.
Also, it seems like he wanted to get his mind off the events of the day. It might take a while to come to terms with it, but he had already acknowledged the fact that there was no easy, fast way back home. This was his cross to bear alone.
The Underworld didn't actually have a GPS and this was his first time in the blasted dimension. He didn't want to get lost, or worse, wander off to enemy territory, and the only person he trusted right now—rephrasing that; the only person he could trust, rephrasing that even further; the only person he could take a comfortable walk with—was Rossweisse.
The jerk of a teacher was truly uncomfortable with so many devils around him. He'd rather choose to be with the Valkyrie than the greedy creatures.
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"How gloomy," Naruto thought, as he stared at the night sky.
They say you don't know the value of something until you lose it. He should have enjoyed the night sky of Kuoh more when he had the chance.
He made a mental note to go sky-gazing when he gets back home.
Parents should really think twice about what they wish for their children when they pray for their children to go to great heights and unbelievable places in life.
Take Minato and Kushina for example, their son Naruto was in… The underworld of all places! Surrounded by supernatural creatures! He's gone to places his parents could never dream of much less reach.
"So, um, Senpai, how did you get here?" Rossweisse asked, starting the conversation.
Rossweisse's voice snapped Naruto out of his internal musing. He thought about it and decided to be honest with her, "A little child brought me here."
His answer roused disbelief in her countenance.
"You don't believe me, but that's the truth," Naruto added, seeing the look on her face.
"No, I do. I was just wondering what kind of child would do that," she waved her hands haphazardly.
"So the Gremory household owns everything as far as my eyes can see?" he questioned.
"Yeah, they are pretty loaded," she replied.
Naruto nodded and snapped his head west. There were a lot of weird signatures coming from the forest in the distance. His curiosity peaked and he voiced it out, "What's that forest?" he asked, pointing a hand at the forest.
Rossweisse followed where his hand was pointing with her green orbs before they landed on the forest. "That's the Familiar Forest."
"The Familiar Forest." Naruto tested the words in his mouth so he could remember.
"It's a forest Devils visit to get a familiar, a beast they can work with."
A look of realization dawned on Naruto's whiskered face. So that's the Devilkind's 'DevilMyuboku'? Now, he was really interested. He was so gonna visit the forest before he left.
Naruto created a mental list and named it 'the things that cow-tits bat would do for me after I win that rating game' and added 'visit the familiar forest' to it.
"Did you know, The Underworld doesn't naturally have a day and night cycle. The day and night cycle we experience here was set up by a magic seal to help the humans reincarnated as devils get accustomed to the Underworld."
"You mean slaves," Naruto replied with a flat look.
It blew up right in her face. She was trying to bring up a new topic to get the blonde's attention and it failed. Now she had a half-bored, half-annoyed Senpai tonight
"I don't get why people, even supernatural beings, would sell their freedom, their souls, to devils."
The Valkyrie did a mental fist pump. Yes! she was getting good at reading the blonde, which means they are getting closer.
It seems her last-minute decision was well worth it
"I mean, why would I or you, let a Devil turn us to Devils and put us in slavery? This is the first and only reason why I hate Devils."
Naruto never needed to find another reason to hate devils. One was just enough. He might start working on a seal to end The Evil Piece System just to spite the Devils and free those who were coerced into becoming slaves but he knew next to nothing about The Evil Piece System.
"So, if a friend turns into a reincarnated Devil"—Naruto shut her with a look—"Someone you know? An Acquaintance?" she quickly added. "What would you do?"
Naruto hummed and grabbed his chin with his thumb and index finger and looked up with a thoughtful look.
If Sasuke… Nopes, nah! That bastard wouldn't become a Devil slave even if his life was on the line.
Nope, no, Shikamaru is too lazy for that.
If Kiba was to—no, Kiba's too much headstrong to do something like that.
If Neji—nah, the cage bird seal was enough of a thorn in his life.
If Sakura became a reincarnated devil, against her will, he and Sasuke would slaughter the entire peerage and find a way to return her to normal.
An evil aura surrounded Naruto as he subconsciously leaked killer intent in his thoughtful state. Rossweisse moved away from the blonde who now had the image of a roaring fox behind him.
"I guess I'd slaughter the entire peerage for turning my friend into a slave," he concluded like it was the normal thing to do in that situation.
"Odin's beard!" Rossweisse exclaimed in her head.
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