"You've got some nerve you know." She said, a moderate group of kids behind her.

"Just because you happen to sit next to the Princess," She continued, now her gaze turning into one of anger. "You made her pick up the eraser you dropped, didn't you!"

'Just what the hell is this woman's problem, is she delusion.' Naruto thought, not even deigning her a response, just fixing her with a bored look.

"Did you do it on purpose?" She asked, her face close enough to make him uncomfortable.

"This is stupid," Naruto finally said, putting his hands in his pockets, and turning to leave. "Quit wasting my time with your bullshit, I'm leaving."

An "Obama, get him" followed up by a, "Where do you think your going!" had Naruto sighing.

The gang watched with smirks on their faces as they waited for Obama to give him a beatdown, only to stare in shock as a loud clap sounded and their friend fell to the ground.

There Naruto stood, one leg raised high into the air, obviously having kicked the other boy beneath the jaw. His hands remained in his pockets the entire time, and his long blonde bangs hid his eyes from their view.

"I don't want to fight you guys." He said, slowly lowering his foot with ease, his balance never shifting, easily showing how agile he was.

"Why!" One girl called out almost hysterically. "Is it 'cause that was a fluke, and now you know you can't take us all on!"

"No," Naruto replied calmly, his eyes now in view again, leveling each of them with a calm gaze. "My godfather taught me martial arts from a young age, I'm just afraid I won't be able to hold back enough."

His words only seemed to make them all bristle, and as a group they all charged at him, intent on making him see the error of his ways.

Naruto just had to let out another sigh at that.

2 of the 6 girls there rushed in first, coming at his flanks in a pincer attack.

'At least they have some sense of tactics, However…' Naruto thought, watching them close in.

Jumping into the air above them, Naruto watched as they collided into each other, fist's burying into the other's cheek.

Coming down from his leap, he was almost immediately intercepted by 4 others, all rushing at him, forming a circle so that he couldn't escape.

Naruto lowered his form slightly, eyes panning about, measuring everyone's distance from each other as well as him, the speed they were coming at, and where their weight was centered. It all painted a picture that allowed Naruto to find the perfect solution, strategies, or tactics.

Setting his hands on the ground, Naruto ducked under the first punch, before flipping into a handstand, and split kicking the 2 closest to him. Crossing his arms into a better stance, the blonde whipped his body into a windmill, before sweeping the legs from underneath his two opponents.

Raising himself up slowly and with grace, Naruto gave an air of unawareness, something the two remaining girls were far too eager to cash in on.

Leaning back in the very last second, Naruto grabbed both of their arms and threw them towards each other. Launching into a back handspring to get away from the collision, Naruto watched as the two knocked each other out.

Now only one remained, the original girl whom he could only assume was their leader.

Naruto walked forward, his movements smooth and graceful. Kanae Hozuki could only stand there and accept her fate.

"You know," He said slowly, Kanae closing her eyes and tensing her body. "I would normally just beat you up like the rest of your goon squad to teach you a lesson as well. However, when I look at your eyes, they look different from the rest."

Here Kanae opened her eyes in surprise.

"You don't hold the same hero worship that the rest did, you look almost concerned, as if this was personal." He spoke in the same soft even tone.

Even with his eyes half lidded with indifference, Kanae found that she couldn't tear away from his gaze, no more as if she was caught in a trap. It was as if he was peering at her soul, it was incredibly unsettling, yet her heart sped up in her chest, beating erratically, pounding loudly in her ears while her gaze was entirely focused on the intense look Naruto had leveled her with.

"For that, I'll let you off the hook." Closing his eyes and putting his hands in is pockets in dismissal, Naruto stepped past her and started walking back towards the main campus building.

Suddenly stopping mid step as if he had forgotten something, Naruto looked at the girl over his shoulder.

"And please don't just assume the worst of people, it's not very becoming of a lady after all." Naruto said, throwing a playful smirk and a small wave in her direction, before continuing on his way.

Kanae felt a fierce blush spread across her cheeks from the entire encounter, before a groan from one of the students she had brought along reached her ears.

"Uzumaki? What brings you here." She asked surprised, but overall happy to see him.

"Please Touko, just call me Naruto," He said stepping into the club room she liked to spend her lunches holed up in. "You know how I feel about formalities."

Turning around and offering a bright smile, she followed behind him.

"Sorry, Naruto" She offered with an apologetic smile as Naruto threw his backpack on the table and sat down heavily. "It's a force of habit."

"Its whatever." He replied a small satisfied smile on his face.

Walking towards the table, Touko sat down near him.

"What brings you here." She started off.

"I need an alibi."

She couldn't help but sigh at that one.

"Why am I not surprised." She huffed out, slumping into her chair.

A cheshire grin seized Naruto's features, and like a predator he pounced at the slightest sign of weakness.

"Of course, my main reason was to come see you."

Touko gave a small amused smile as she waited for the theatrics soon to come.

"In between boring lectures the thought of meeting you at lunch is the only thing that keeps me going." Here Naruto leaned forward in his seat and gestured in the air with his hands, a falsely arrogant smirk sent Touko into a fit of giggles.

"But if I'm being honest here, I really do need you to tell anyone who might question you that I was here with you all of lunch." Settling down into his chair once more, Naruto pulled out a large black bento from his box and read the note that had been posted on the lid.

Touko easily agreed, before she also began reading what was written for Naruto.

"Have a nice day, Onii-chan! ❤❤❤" The blue haired girl read aloud, to Naruto's slight embarrassment.

"Isn't that cute." Touko teased, Naruto struggling not to show any reaction, but a slight aversion of his eyes more than gave him up.

"Haha, honestly," She continued, smiling sweetly. "You and Kasumi sure do get along well for siblings."

Naruto gave a short grunt of acknowledgement, before picking up his chopsticks and grabbing the first thing that he saw.

"You know we aren't actually siblings." Naruto said offhandedly as he bit into the rice ball that was suspiciously shaped like him.

Touko froze for a second, while Naruto continued eating. Once the girl had gotten over her short moment of shock, she asked him to explain.

"Yeah, I'm actually adopted," He began, making a deadpan face as looked at the hearts made in soy sauce drizzled all throughout his rice. "I didn't show up into the family until about 6 years ago, when I was 10."

"Haven't you ever noticed that we looked nothing alike, or wondered why my name wasn't Honoka?" Naruto questioned.

"Well now that you point it out, it does seem-" She was suddenly cut off as the bell signalling the end of lunch rang.

"Well, I have trash duty." Naruto said as he rose from his chair and stretched his arms high above his head. "So as much as I'd love to stick around for a few more minutes, I do have somewhere to be."

"A bunny?" He questioned as he pulled out the object that had been grabbing his attention from the trash can.

'Maybe one of the girls lost their stuffed animal.' Naruto thought as he turned the little bunny this way and that, searching for anything that could point out the owner.

"Well here's something," His eyes landed on the note stitched onto the toys stomach, before he read it quietly in confusion. "Today's weather: Sunny with spot showers of the school falling."

What the hell kind of forecast was that, and why would someone right such a weird message on a child's toy?

His musings were cut short as a growing shadow blocked out the sun and caught his attention.

Slowly tilting his head up, Naruto was treated to the sight of a FUCKING clocktower descending from the clouds, and on a speedy collision course with him.

Even shocked as he was, Naruto had the sense of mind to get the hell out of there; rushing to get to safety even though it was clear he would get crushed.

'Come on! There's absolutely no way i'm-' Naruto shouted in his head as he focused every ounce of his being on a spot on the grass 20 yards away and well out of harm's way; the school building damn near right on top of him at this point.

Smoke rose in large clouds from the site of the crash, the tower like structure destroying the ground below it and creating a large crater in the middle of the field.

He shouldn't have survived that.

That tower was being dragged down to earth by gravity at such speeds that Naruto had absolutely no chance of getting out of there. Yet somehow, he had.

One moment he was about to be crushed, then an in instant, his body went into overdrive and next thing he knew he was here, sitting on the ground shaking slightly as the energy from before left his body.

Whatever he had felt a moment ago, it sure as hell wasn't adrenaline, he knew what adrenaline felt like and that was most definitely not what he felt earlier.

The large face of the clock sat only 3 feet away from him, his form easily distinguishable in its reflection. What he saw made his eyes widen.

A pattern like black flames could be seen rippling softly on parts of his face, neck and arm, quickly receding to a place on the back of his neck. A place he knew a strange birthmark occupied. Pushing some of his hair out of the way, and checking it out in the reflection, Naruto confirmed the 3 tomoe mark on the left side of his neck, right where his neck met shoulder blade.

"What the hell is going on around here?" He asked quietly, not expecting a reply in the slightest bit.

"So that didn't take you out huh," Whipping his head around, Naruto saw a strange girl with cat ears atop her head, wearing his schools uniform and wielding some sort of scepter. "Guess I'll have to go overkill on this one."

'Wait, she's the one responsible for this!?' Naruto's thoughts were cut off, when a ticking noise alerted him to the bunny he still hadn't put down.

Looking down at the cursed object, Naruto saw a timer that had already reached 3 seconds. He didn't even have the time to register the fact that he was holding a bomb before he heaved it with all his might away from him.

It proved to be futily though as the timer had gone off before it had reached any considerable distance from the boy.

"Shit!" Naruto threw up a cross guard out of sheer reflex, knowing from the start it wouldn't do anything to lessen the force but still doing so.

He was surprised however, when instead of the raging hot flames and shrapnel he had been expecting, he felt cool air against his skin.

Lowering his guard, Naruto took in a few things.

One, he was being held like a princess.

Two, the person who was holding him was Kagari Ayaka, the Princess of the school.

Three, he was fucking flying.

Or rather, she was flying, and by proxy, so was he.

Looking down, Naruto tried to judge just how high up in the air they were, unfortunately they were far too high for him eyeball it out.

"I-" Naruto began only to be cut off.

"The Modern WItch, eh?" Standing atop a higher building behind them, the girl from before made her presence known. "You're a lucky little bastard aren't you?"

"There." Kagari said quietly, Naruto not too sure what she was going on about, still reeling over the two consecutive attempts on his life in the past 15 seconds.

It took a second, but Naruto felt the wind blowing against his back and gravity's attempts to drag him back to the ground, as if it were angry that some human had decided to take to the skies knowing damn well it shouldn't.

He was falling.

Make that three attempts on his life.

Naruto just sighed, he couldn't even find it in himself to be surprised anymore, simply watching as Kagari flipped out of the way of the two sword wielding bears that had just come after her.

Suddenly his eyes picked up on something familiar, a black mark on her hand, one of 3 tomoe, the exact same pattern as the mark on his neck.

Suddenly a large ball of flames engulfed the trio, the heat blasting Naruto in the face and forcing him to cover his front side.

Not even a second later, his descent was forcibly stopped as he returned into the grasp of his saviour once more.

"Were you hurt at all?" Naruto was vaguely aware of her voice, backing away slightly and trying to get a feel of his legs once she had set him onto the ground.

Just what the hell was going on?

"Do not leave my side." She ordered, stepping in front of him and facing off with the two robotic bunnies from before, the duo seemingly unaffected by the flames they were covered in.

A large fireball engulfed the two hulking figures once more, Naruto assumed that it was from Kagari again.

Out of the flames leapt one assailant, sword descending onto the girl in front of him, Kagari bringing up her broomstick to defend, surprising the boy since the sword didn't outright slice through the little shaft of wood she held. From the side, the 2nd bunny flew directly at Naruto, the boy quickly ducking an overhead swing despite being caught off guard. Naruto used his fast footwork and agility to back pedal from the wild swings of his opponent's sword.

Finally baiting the stuffed rabbit, Naruto dodged at the very last second and watched as the now free of flame bunny buried its sword deep into the grass, unable to pull it out.

Naruto was about to smirk in victory when he felt another presence from behind. Sparing a glance over his shoulder, Naruto widened his eyes in fear as he saw another large sword aiming at his chest.

Fuck.

Seeing an opportunity, Naruto spun around the still struggling first robot, and put his hands on it's back, guiding it slightly forward until it was in range of the sword that was almost finished with it's arc.

'Please don't slice right through the entire rabbit and chop my hands off afterword.' Naruto silently pleaded, fear easy to see on his face.

Luckily for him, the seconds rabbit's sword only got halfway into the 1st, before it stopped completely. A smile broke on his face; he was safe.

'Not for long though.' Naruto noted with trepidation, as he saw the 2nd bunny slowly but surely pulling out the blade from his friend.

Shifting his hands to get a good grip on its shoulders, Naruto flipped into a handstand above the first rabbit's head, before leaning forward and slamming his heel onto the back of the second rabbit's head, sending the stuffed rabbit crashing face first into the dirt.

Coming down to land, Naruto was shocked at the amount of damage he had inflicted on the downed rabbit. A deep dent the shape of his foot was clear to see on the rabbits exposed neck, and from what he could see, its entire frontside had been blown to bits upon contact with the ground. If Naruto hadn't been wearing pants, he probably would've noticed the same pattern of black flames covering his right leg, before receding back to an area on the back of his neck.

For now, though, he needed to focus on finishing this last guy off.

Gripping the blade stuck in it's chest with both hands, Naruto put every ounce of strength behind his arms as he slid the blade out the last few inches from his opponent's chest. Not losing a shred of momentum, Naruto shifted his hips and put one foot behind him, as he swung around in a full arc and sliced right through the neck of the bunny who had still been struggling to pull it's weapon out of the ground.

Naruto let out a wild grin of satisfaction as he watched the head soar across the field. Seemingly distracted, another foe stepped out of the woodworks, and came at Naruto, sword almost finished with it's motion.

His opponents moves weren't very fast, and they were all incredibly linear, Naruto had enough time to put the blade he held into a good position to block with. The tanging of steel clashing with steel rung out, but Naruto had still been sent flying back.

A considerable distance at that.

'Damn, that things freakishly strong.' Naruto thought, sinking his sword into the grass to stop him from flying any further back.

Now that he had the time to look around, he saw Kagari and her opponent far away from him. He had been separated while he was fighting earlier.

He had no time to rectify this though, as a large group of robotic rabbits formed a circle around him, preventing his escape.

Naruto just sucked his teeth and glared at his attackers. The bunnies took this as a sign to go, because they all rushed him soon after. Naruto would not go down this easily though. Right hand still on the handle of the large blade, the boy lifted himself up high enough to set his right foot on the guard of the blade. From there he sprung high and away from the rushing onslaught of enemies, his eyes never leaving their forms.

Sensing the ground coming beneath him, Naruto rolled backwards over his shoulder to reduce the damage from falling from such a height. Standing back up, Naruto turned around to be met with an alleyway full of more of his attackers; damn near an army of robot bunnies.

Yeah, even with all of Jiraiya's training when he was younger, there was absolutely no way he could take on this horde of enemy's.

Not like he could have made a choice either way, as a particularly large bunny came from behind and forced him onto his knees, his arms held behind him as he watched an axe wielding one approach.

'An execution, huh.' Honestly he should have been more freaked out by this, but after all the crazy shit he had just seen, and the battle following up that had really only taken the course of 2 minutes, his brain just couldn't keep up.

He was simply being presented with too much contrary information all at once, the kid couldn't exactly process that he was about to be killed.

Naruto let his head hang loosely, closing his eyes, Naruto came to terms with the situation, eerily calm even as he heard the chopping block descend.

"Naruto!" A voice yelled out to him, Kagari's to be exact.

To his amazement, the entire alleyway lit up in flames, yet he was unharmed.

A pair of arms wrapped around him from behind, but Naruto was still caught up in the fact that the flames weren't even emitting heat.

They burned the stuffed rabbits to ashes, but he couldn't feel a thing.

"Is this really a dream?" Naruto uttered, not really asking anyone, just speaking for the sake of saying something.

"What do you mean?" Now aware of Kagari's presence, Naruto leaned back slightly into her embrace.

"It's just, I thought that this was a dream earlier, but I'm still capable of logical thought, that doesn't happen in dreams." Naruto spoke in a far away tone, his gaze focused on the flames that licked at his skin and all around the pair of them, yet not hurting them in the slightest. "But, I can't feel these flames, this should hurt but they don't, I'm just so confused."

Naruto felt her body move from behind him, watched as she kneeled in front of him, felt the touch of silk as her hand cupped his face and turned his face upward to look her in the eyes. The blonde boy who wasn't even 16 looked deep into her eyes, his gaze showing how completely and utterly lost he was, half lidded in show of how tired he was physically, emotionally, and mentally. He could smell the scent of her shampoo from how close together they were, and boy was it dulling his senses.

"I know you're confused." She answered, her voice soft and calming in it's own little way. "But don't worry, I'll protect you."

Maybe if he wasn't so drained, he would have protested about being protected, about having someone else fight for him, but right now that wasn't the case. He was tired, and sleepy, her offer was very tempting, he was more than ok with letting her do her thing.

Their noses were almost touching at this point, and Naruto held onto her every last word like a devout follower hanging onto his pastor's speech. She was his guide, Naruto was a sinner willing to be set on the right path.

Flames reached higher and higher, effectively cutting them off from the outside world and providing their own little space, their own little world. Naruto was lost in the green yellow eyes of this girl.

Damn was she good looking.

"I'll protect you, because," A slight pause, Naruto listening in with rapt attention, as if she had the answer to life's greatest mysteries.

"Naruto, is my princess."

Wait, wait wait. Hold up.

Princess? He was a dude.

"I'm sorry, what now."

The flames that previously surrounded them flickered into inexistence, the normal alley walls not even showing signs of a fire having taken place here.

Standing up now, Naruto watched as she stepped back, flipping her hair over her shoulder and regarding him once more.

"So swallow your pride, and let me protect you."

Naruto couldn't help it, he burst out laughing.

Kagari waited patiently for him to finish, finally getting answers once he had.

"I'm sorry it's just," Wiping a tear of mirth away from his eyes, Naruto gave Kagari the brightest smile he possibly could. "This is all a bit too much, a lot of things have happened to me in the past 5 minutes and I'm having trouble keeping up."

Naruto sat down right where he was standing before flopping onto his back. His head never met the ground though as a knee had been placed behind his neck, Kagari could be easily made out, kneeling down by his side.

"Are you ok?" She asked, worry evident in her eyes.

Naruto smiled a disarming grin before a yawn escaped him.

"Yeah, I'm fine, I'm just exhausted. One thing though." Naruto requested.

"What is it." Her naturally soft spoken voice did wonders to lull him to sleep.

"I want you to explain everything once I wake up." And with that, Naruto passed into the sweet realm of unconsciousness.