Chapter 22 Fight
Today, an historic battle was taking place in the underworld, a battle that decides the fate of the red ruin princess… Her future, her freedom hangs in the balance, on the shoulder of her peerage, her perverted pawn to be precise.
Riser and his peerage vs Rias and her peerage.
The battle for Rias' hand in marriage begins now.
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In a particular dimension, one brown haired pervert was getting his ass beat by a certain blazing chicken. Everything that could go wrong went wrong.
Issei bitterly wondered why this was happening. He trained his ass off just to save his Buchou from this horrible fate of her being forced to marry a despicable devil like Riser but even with all of his training, his body gave out on him due to the multiple boasts he attempted and, now, his weak, prone body was on the floor.
All he could think of was Rias's tears as she begged Riser to stop hurting her pawn, forfeiting in a desperate wail filled with despair, to save his life, as his eyelids became too heavy for him to keep open and the bliss of unconsciousness took him away from this hell… Pun intended.
(Two days later)
Issei Hyoudou woke up with a gasp and no memory of what happened in the climax of the rating game. An image of Rias crying while hugging Riser flashed through his mind.
"It seems you've awoken," Grayfia Lucifuge said as the magic circle she used faded away.
Issei immediately asked about Rias and what happened and she explained it all to him. How Riser threatened to kill him and how Rias had to give up to save her precious pawn.
Fresh tears streamed Issei's eyes as he lamented his inability to keep the promise he made. Grayfi tried to tell him it was inevitable as he was a young and inexperienced devil but still, it hurts to know how weak he was and the sacrifice she made.
Grayfia let Issei collect himself before she brought out a paper with a magic circle on it and presented it to him.
"It's not too late, Issei-san." The stoic made tried her best to make a reassuring expression on her face.
Issei took the paper and stared at her in confusion while scratching his scalps.
"With these, you can get to the wedding party." Grayfia explained.
Issei's face contorted with anger at her implications. "Are you telling me to attend the party?"
Grayfia sighed and took in a deep breath before she relayed the Maou's message to Issei, word for word. "'If you want my sister back, barge into the hall and ask for a rematch' Those are Sirzechs-sama words," she said as a White magic circle teleported her back to the Underworld.
Issei stared at the paper for a moment before Asia entered his room and expressed how happy she was to see him.
He told her he was going back to the Underworld to bring Rias back but Asia wanted to go with him. He declined her offer and made a promise instead. A promise to bring back Rias no matter what.
"There's something I want you to do for me, Asia and only you can do it," he said.
"I'll do anything," Asia nooded.
Issei whispered to her ear and she exited his room to get what he wanted.
(Scene change: Naruto's house)
A certain blonde shinobi stared at the white ceiling with total boredom. His boredom was so great, a black aura surrounded him and a vision of a masked silhouette wearing ninja garb crossed his mind. It has been a week and 2 days now and his predictions were true. No sight of the young Bats in Kuoh Academy. The Cat-woman too wasn't around and for a while he enjoyed it before his boredom caught up to him again.
The Shinobi turned his head to a clatter behind him to see Kurama munching on a piece of meat and the other Bijūs just doing their thing.
'Oi, Minna, I'm bored, dattebayo," Naruto said as he interlocked both hands and brought them behind his head.
All the Bijūs froze. A bored Naruto? Again?
"Hey, let's not lose our heads here, you could go buy one of those things those teenagers love so much," Son Gokū said.
"You mean a video game?" Naruto asked. They all nodded in unison.
"Not interested," he groaned. The Bijūs started sweating bullets before the doorbell rang and saved the day.
Naruto stared at the door for a while as the ringing continued. He got up and walked towards the door and saw it was Issei on the display screen. The boy looked a bit disturbed if his posture was anything to go by.
"Sensei!" Issei screamed at the door. "I know you're in there, Sensei. Please hear me out!" he begged. The door knob twisted immediately as the visage of his Sensei appeared.
"What do you want, kid?" he said distastefully.
Issei kneeled and bowed his head. "Please teach me Sensei!" Issei screamed with his head touching the floor.
Naruto's eyebrow disappeared into his hair as he scratched his temple in confusion. "You're not making any sense, Hyoudou."
"What I mean is to teach me how to fight," he begged.
"Fight? Fight?!" he scoffed. "What makes you think I can teach you?" he asked.
"I know how strong you are. I saw you take out fallen angels without moving from where you were," Issei said.
"So he was the one, huh?" Naruto remembered sensing someone when he took out those crows but it vanished a second later. "Look, Hyoudou, I can't teach you anything at all," the Shinobi said.
"Please Naruto-sensei. I'll do anything." Issei was prepared to do anything.
"Anything you say? What if I told you to betray that Gremory Girl and your friends?" he said with a calm face.
Issei froze on the floor not expecting the blonde Shinobi's price to be this steep.
'I-I-I..." The brown haired pervert opened his mouth but no words came out.
Naruto stared at the clouds above, it was becoming habitual of him, like an old man reminiscing about the past. He sighed deeply. "Tell me, kid, Why do you want power? What is it you truly want to achieve with it.?" he asked as he stared at Issei right in the eye.
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