They didn't finish it in time.
The explosion rocked the area and probably hurt a lot of her subordinates...as well as those annoying clones.
But she was far too angry to care.
She's been hurt.
She...has...been...hurt.
Not since the Great War between the biblical factions did she ever receive injuries!
Yet this human not only hurt her twice...but he managed to do damage to her flawless skin...that was unforgivable!
It was time to crush him once and for all!
Naruto was quickly running towards the last confirmed location of Vretiel.
Last memory he received of her, she was looking pretty upset.
Probably because she took a rasengan to the gut.
But damn, she must be pretty tough! Most people can't take a rasengan's grinding force to the stomach so easily!
Well...maybe not easily...but still.
He doubted that he could get another one as easily as the last one though.
He decidedly ignored the fallen angels which were suffering under his clones' hands.
There was a woman which was trying to get her head from out of the ground.
There was a man which was cursing him out when he passed him as his body was stuck underground...with only his head above ground.
Another woman was hanging upside down from a branch due to the ninja wire that was holding her up.
Finally, he saw a man that was held onto a tree with several kunai that stuck his clothes to the bark.
Man, his clones had a weird sense of humor eh?
Then he finally saw his objective.
The woman was frazzled, that was for sure. She was glaring at the ground as if it has done something absolutely horrible to her while her fists were clenching and un-clenching at will.
He decided to take the time to notice her current state.
In the beginning of the battle, like most fallen angels for some reason, she dressed provocatively. Her body was covered by a dark blue dress which was form-fitting to her figure. The attire even had a considerable v-neck and a slit down the sides of her leg!
But now...
Well, if her dress was barely holding together before. Then it was definitely barely holding together now.
There was grime all over her and her dress, as well as a gaping hole in the front of it which showed her stomach. There was now a swirling wound where that hole was.
Wonder what did that?
After waiting a little bit, he had enough of waiting and decided to announce his presence.
"Man! That was quite the party you threw back there Vretiel-san! I was genuinely impressed with all of the party guests you invited! But now I think that the party is just about over...don't you?" Naruto said while walking towards the fallen angel.
Her attention snapped towards him and her regard was obviously extremely poisonous.
"...You...! You dare...you dare mock me...!? I will kill you!" Vretiel screamed at the approaching blond, her composure completely broken as she couldn't stand the utter gall of the human teenager in front of her.
Naruto nodded sagely at this. The bigger the baddie, the bigger the breakdown maybe?
"Well, for the first time since earlier today...you may just get your chance. Ya see...I'm the real Naruto." the shinobi said with a shit-eating grin.
The fallen's rising hysterics stopped the second she heard this piece of information.
Then she began chuckling.
Those chuckling grew into laughter.
That laughter turned into hysteric laughter.
As the woman seemingly broke down in front of him, he just then received the information from the clone at the church.
Yuki has reinforced Issei. Good, he wasn't gonna question her on why she was here yet. Best not question something good.
Finally, the woman stopped laughing and regarded the blond with a cool smile. Though he couldn't help but notice that the smile was not friendly.
"...This is fine...I don't care if I lose my entire army...as long as the ritual succeeds then I can still achieve my ambition! But first...I will destroy you...that will be the end of this ridiculous farce!" Vretiel snarled at the blond. Though Naruto didn't look too impressed.
"Well then...you just have to actually beat me to do that now won't you? You haven't been doing a good job of it so far though. What makes you think that you can beat me now?" Naruto asked with a tilt of his head. Did she really lose it or did she really have more planned?
She merely shook her head. "No no...my army has been crushed. I only have one thing to combat you with...although I have been saving my energy in case this happened...!"
Vretiel brought out her wings again, this made Naruto tense as he prepared to stop her from flying again.
But she didn't make to fly.
He frowned for a second. What was-?
Then he noticed it.
Her wings.
There weren't four pairs of wings.
"You see...I just managed to upgrade. You will be the first to face my new power!" Vretiel exclaimed with a mad smile marring her face.
She had spread her five pairs of wings and took flight as Naruto was shocked by this turn of events.
He immediately knew his mistake.
"Can you defeat me now!? Downer!?"
The blond shinobi just clicked his teeth.
Time to finish this.
Naruse Mio was upset.
Very upset.
Naruto was not only absent again...but he also made trouble for the student council.
The blond not only left early...be he forgot to buy the groceries!
It just so happened that she was spending some time with some friends at her class today. She was finally getting that normal life that she yearned for ever since...that happened.
Well, it was interrupted because the house needed food.
Not only that...but she heard from Maria that Naruto hasn't been home all day!
So she thought that she had a right to be upset.
Mio finally reached the house and opened the door now that her errands were accomplished. She closed the door behind her and placed the food on the counter in order to put it away inside the fridge.
After finishing that up, she decided to rest up in her room for a while as she decided on-
Mio stopped.
"..."
She immediately turned around from where she was headed and looked towards Naruto's room.
The door.
The door.
It was slightly...ever so slightly opened.
Practically a crack.
But the fact was...it was open.
Mio stared at it as if she was looking at a bomb that was about to go off.
What should she do?
She talked about going in there and getting him back for his pranks but...
Now that she had the chance...she was hesitating.
It was an invasion of privacy.
It was rude.
It was just outright bad.
Yet...
Mio hemmed and hawed over the dilemma. She wasn't as interested in getting her psuedo-brother 'back' like before. More like...
She was worried.
Maybe she was being a little needy but...ever since her parents died...she couldn't help but fear that other people would leave her as well.
In the short time she has known Naruto...he had become one of those people.
She's afraid...no...terrified that the blond would leave her alone.
Like so many before.
Now he's been gone since early this morning...
Maybe clues to where he was can be found in his room?
Mio stared at the door...
Then she made a decision.
She opened the door and walked in.
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