I Don't Own Naruto or Attack on Titan!
Royal Redemption - Chapter 7
The sound of a flare gun being fired blasted through the training ground as another trainee finished the simulated battle-zone. The result of that particular trainee was one of the better ones out of the hundreds of potential soldiers, but it was still not up to standard. It was only natural that more trainees scored lower than the previous year's standard since many of them were a few years younger than normal.
This year had the most trainees under the age of sixteen since the establishment of the military, so strange results was to be expected. Strangely though, most of the top students of the large group were under the age of sixteen. The standard time for passing through the simulated battle-zone was fifteen minutes, and five new trainees had already showed above-average performance.
"Good run, Ackerman, as good as usual!" saluted Shadis with a nod of the head; he had more respect for the top student of the year.
Naruto, who was standing next to his superior, smiled at the girl as she walked passed him. Mikasa was currently the top ranked student out of the hundreds of trainees in the camp, and there was quite a gap between her and Reiner Braun, the second ranked student.
"Good job, Ackerman…" said Naruto with a discreet wink to his friend.
Mikasa blushed a little at the praise and nodded. "Thank you, Naruto-sensei…" The girl, along with Eren and Armin, had all made an agreement with Naruto to not act overly familiar with him during classes. The last thing Naruto wanted was for his other students accusing him of being bias to his personal favorites…even though Mikasa was really his favorite student.
Shadis looked down at his list and sighed a little. "The results are getting better, but are still nowhere near where we want it to be."
"What do you think the problem is, Senpai?" Naruto asked with genuine concern; he didn't want to have the weakest soldiers at the most dire of times.
The main instructor shook his head. "It's just the trainees…some of them are naturally talented while others are not; the only ways to improve these grades are with constant repetition and self-improvement."
Naruto sighed and nodded. "I see…"
"But there is something we can try…" muttered Shadis as he looked down at his young assistant.
"Sir?" inquired Naruto a little lost.
"Everyone, gather over here!" cried the booming voice of the main instructor as the huge crowd of trainees gathered over to their direction.
Naruto stood next to his superior as he looked down at all the trainees looking up at them. He saw Eren and Armin talking with Mikasa and a few others as they waited for everyone else to gather round. It seemed that the three kids he took care of had made many friends of their own inside the group of trainees, and one of them appeared to be the same girl Naruto saw up on the hill a few weeks ago.
Annie Leonhart was ranked fourth in the entire camp, and was one of the most talented trainees of the year. She always had a bored expression on her face and talk with a stoic voice, which was completely different from the angelic tone she used when she was singing. Since she intrigued Naruto so much, he had tried approaching her in order to get to know her better, but the girl seemed to be avoiding him on purpose…
"You all have been getting better at using you 3DMG, but the results are still not good enough!" announced the strict sergeant as he glared down at the large group. "Some of you may still be figuring out different ways of maneuvering your body while in mid-air because you've never seen how a 3DMG is used by a true expert, so we are going to show you today!"
Some murmuring could be heard in the crowd as Naruto saw some nods. 'I guess seeing someone else do it would be helpful…but how would they see it, a real expert would zip through the forest in a few minutes at most?'
"Naruto…" spoke Shadis with a more polite voice. "You're up!"
Naruto was surprised as many people started to buzz in excitement; after hearing tales from Eren, many people wanted to see how the prodigy was said to be the most talented soldier of the century…
"Me…I'm the expert you were talking about?"
Shadis smirked and nodded. "Yes…based on the review I got from Captain Levi, something like this should be child's play for you." Naruto bit his lip and kept on listening. "Besides, I've never seen you in action before, so this will also be my personal assessment for you."
The blond ran a hand through his hair and shrugged, "Whatever…at least this will help them."
Down in the crowd, Eren had a bright smile on his face as he excitedly looked up at the scene. He had seen Naruto's skills first hand when he saved him and his family from the Titans, and he wanted to see how fast Naruto could make it through the forest. Armin, who was standing next to Eren, was also very excited; he had only heard about Naruto's skills from Eren and Mikasa, but he also knew that he was able to survive his fight for Wall Maria, so he really wanted to know how strong Naruto really was.
"How fast do you guys think Naruto-sensei will go?" asked a curious Marco was he whispered over to his friends.
Connie crossed his arms in thought. "He's supposed to be a genius right?"
Sasha nodded as she stood next to Ymir and Krista. "Yeah, I heard from some guys talking in the kitchen that Naruto-sensei was recommended to his post by Commander Erwin Smith of the Scouting Legion, if someone like that trusts his skills, I think he will just plow right through this!"
"So what does that mean…like ten minutes?" asked Reiner with his arms crossed; Bertholdt, who was standing next to his best friend, nodded in agreement.
"I have no idea, I mean Mikasa is already very fast, and she did it in fourteen minutes, so I'm thinking maybe twelve minutes?" suggested Jean Kirschtein, one of the top students of the year, ranked sixth overall.
Armin bit his lips in thought. "I think ten minutes sounds right…the average is fifteen minutes, and more than five minutes early will be crazy."
"I don't know; Naruto-sensei had always been unpredictable…" said Eren with a grin.
"Five minutes…" said a sudden and piercing voice that cut through everyone else's at once. "Naruto-sensei will be done in five minutes." Everyone looked over to see Mikasa looking up at Naruto with her usual stoic face, and the look in her eyes suggested that she was completely serious.
"Five minutes!" cried Jean. "Are you serious, Mikasa, that's ten minutes above average?!"
Mikasa didn't answer, and just continued to look up at Naruto…
Off to the side, Annie heard what Mikasa said and looked up at Naruto with narrowed eyes. The girl had been a little wary of Naruto since he caught her singing up on the hill, and she wanted to see if he really was as talented as other people claimed…
"Are you ready, Naruto?" asked Shadis as he walked up to his assistant.
"Yes, I'm ready!" responded Naruto with his gear all strapped up.
"Then go ahead…" With that, the main instructor walked off towards the edge of the heightened platform and sat down on his chair with a small grin on his face.
Naruto chuckled softly as he jumped off of the platform and got to the front of the forest. All the trainees were silent as they watched their teacher prepare to head into the forest. One of the admin was holding onto a gun, and he pointed it up into the air…
"START!" cried the admin as he fired the gun.
Naruto hands instantly initiated the 3DMG and shot his cables to two trees fifty feet away. All the trainees stepped back a little as the gas from Naruto's tank blasted him off in high speeds. The prince's vision was almost instantly filled with trees and leaves. With his muscle memory, his fingers reacted instantly to the change of landscape, so his cables were shooting from one tree to another very naturally.
The blond's body zipped through the first part of the forest effortlessly as his eyes scanned the area for mock Titans. Doing such a menial exercise gave Naruto a deep sense of nostalgia; he had done very similar training back when he was training with Dallis in the palace, and it reminded him of how hard it was back then. It was amusing to think about really…something that Naruto thought to be near impossible five years ago would be so dirt easy now.
After another few seconds, the first few mock Titans appeared in Naruto's eyes…
'Found you…' Naruto mused in his mind as he targeted the Titan furthest away from his position. The three Titans were in front of Naruto in almost a straight line, so Naruto attached himself to the last one and used it to strategically coordinate himself accordingly through the area.
The sound of his gas shooting out from its container filled his ears as he shot towards his targets at high speeds. Finally unsheathing his blades from his sides, Naruto responded through pure muscle memory again, and beautifully removed the nape of the Titans' necks in a sequential order. The blond used the last Titan's head as a springboard, and kicked himself higher into the air.
Recently, Naruto had noticed that his instinct have been getting a lot better than before; it was almost as if he could sense where everything was around him. Even now, if he closed his eyes, he could see the entire forest from his sixth sense, and could figure out where everything was around him. Since he was just going through a mock assignment, Naruto decided to test his instincts out…
Naruto sped towards the other end of the forest with a zigzag fashion because it was where his senses were telling him to do. He could feel some sort of disturbance in specific areas of the forest; as if something heavy was sitting upon a certain spot, and Naruto assumed that it was where his targets were located.
"What do you know…" muttered the prince as he found himself facing three more mock Titans.
With delicate twisting of his body in mid-air, Naruto easily sliced through all of them with his skilled flicks of his blades. As the rushed to the next part of the forest, Naruto couldn't help but scoff at the pathetic mock Titans. After seeing the real thing, Naruto realized that the fake ones do them no justice. The cut-outs only displayed the size of the Titans, but do nothing to suggest their crude smell, overwhelming heat, lifeless eyes, and mountainous presence, and that made everything much easier for him…
"This is ridiculous…how are the trainees doing so back with this?" muttered Naruto to himself as he slashed through another few targets.
The prince didn't know if they had changed the material the used for the nape of the Titans' necks, but it felt much softer than it did from when he was training with Dallis. But it could also be a sign that suggested Naruto's own physical strength had gotten a lot stronger since a few years ago, which would ne natural, but Naruto himself had been noticing some changes recently. Ever since he got out of the hospital he had been getting many strange perks in his abilities, and the extremely improvement in his physical strength was one of them.
"Take this!" cried out Naruto with a grin on his face as his blade almost cut through the mock Titan's whole neck.
Naruto looked ahead and saw that he was already at the end of the forest, so with a smirk on his face, he blasted out of the tree line. The soldier in charge of shooting the flare gun when Naruto arrived looked at him with widened eyes, and shakily pointed his gun up into the air. The loud bang of the gun being fire made Naruto cringe a little, but the smile on his face was still there…
""FOUR MINUTES AND FIFTY SECONDS!" cried the admin holding onto the starting gun as he saw the green flare in the sky.
"H-Holy shit…" stuttered out Jean with widened eyes. "He really did it in five minutes…"
"I guess they don't call him genius for no reason, huh?" said Sasha as she looked over at Connie, Ymir, and Krista.
Reiner nodded as he stepped forward. "He really has incredible skills…no wonder they allow him to teach at such a young age."
Eren grinned and rested his elbow on Armin's shoulder. "See guys, I told you Naruto-sensei is unpredictable!"
"Yeah, but this is crazy!" exclaimed Armin with widened eyes. "Naruto-sensei is ten minutes above average! I don't think many soldiers who have already served for a few years could do this, even if they're in the Scouting Legion!" The blond boy was looking around as his friends as he spoke. "This is incredible…not only does he have to zip through the forest in time, he also has to find the Titans in there…he must be extremely fast to have done this so quickly."
"Naruto-sensei is strong…" said Mikasa with a small smile on her face as she looked over at the group. "I've seen his reflexes on the 3DMG before, and his skills with it is incredible…it is no wonder that he is able to do this."
Ymir sighed and nodded. "You called it…"
'So you are quite skilled, Naruto-sensei…' thought Annie to herself as she walked away from the main group.
Shadis, who was still sitting on the platform, was also shocked at the quick display. The man had trained thousands of soldiers before, and no matter how talented some of them were, they couldn't have finished the whole course in less than five minutes. The man knew that if Naruto had missed some targets inside the forest, the men stations at each mock Titan area would have shot up a black flare, but he saw none of those, so Naruto had really completed the entire course.
'This kid is truly incredible…no wonder Levi and Erwin would hold such high praise for him; if this continues he might be stronger than Levi in a few years!'
Inside the fortitude of Wall Sina, and on top of a natural heightened hill, was the palace of the King. It was the tallest and largest edifice in human possession, and also the most secured place in all of Humanity. Not only was it at the epicenter of the three walls, it also had complete protection by the Military Police and the internal Imperial Legion. The royal family, the most powerful family who had complete control over Humanity, lived within that sanctuary, and most of them were oblivious to the outside world.
In the midst of the large collection of grand buildings, Prince Konohamaru stood next to his Father as they each looked out at their private lake inside the palace. The boy was the second son of the King, and the bearer of the Eagle Medallion. At ten years old, the prince had grown to be a bit of a spoiled brat, unlike his older brother, and had no plan to change anytime soon. Since his birth, the boy had gotten everything he had ever wanted; everyone catered to his every whim, and he thought he already had all the power in the world…
"So how you are your studies going, son?" asked the King with his long white hair blowing through the wind.
The brown haired boy crossed his arms with a pout on his face. "It's very boring…why the hell do I need to study history in the first place?!" The King smiled at his pouting son and just patted him on the head. "I mean…those historical figures are dead already, why would I care about what some dead person did when they were alive?"
The King sighed. "History teaches us the successes and mistakes of our ancestors so that we may learn from them, and allow society to progress…" Konohamaru looked up at his Father with a confused expression and the King just sighed again. "You really aren't anything like your older brother…"
"Oh yeah, where is Onii-sama anyway, I thought his educational trip would only take three years?" asked the boy as he tilted his head to the side.
"Well he still has three months before it is a full three years, so give him time…"said the King as he looked out at his large lake and pondered about his heir.
Unknown to Naruto himself, the King had actually had eyes on him the entire time he was out of the palace, and had been receiving reports about him every week for the past two years and nine months. The King really loved his eldest son and was worried about him facing the world by himself, but so far he had been feeling nothing but pride. His personal spies had been reporting to him Naruto's heroic acts all over the world, and how he managed to reduce the crime rates within Wall Maria by 50%.
The King would always have a peculiar smile on his face as he thought of his first-born…the only child he had with the one woman he had ever truly loved in his entire life.
"Sire…" softy said a guard standing next to the King. "I believe Konohamaru-sama must attend his classes now."
The King nodded as the boy pouted. "Okay…run along son, and actually try to learn something today."
Konohamaru sighed and nodded. "Hai Otou-sama…"
The King chuckled at his watched his little boy stalk off with the guards towards his classes, and wondered what the world would have installed for him. Konohamaru was not anything like the diligent and extremely self-motivated Naruto, and the Father was worried for him. The King strongly believed in self-improvement, and would not deliberately push his children towards one particular direction. Such a way of parenting worked very well with Naruto, but was not going so well with the second son…
'Maybe I should start guiding him myself…' pondered the King as he turned around and headed back to his own quarters.
Unknown to his children, the King was actually much more than just a man driven by his carnal desires. Yes, he did have a gigantic harem inside his personal quarters, but a large portion of his personal space was filled with a very large library. The King was actually one of the most educated and wise men in Humanity, and only a collected few knew of it; Dallis Zacklay being one of them.
"Leave me…I will go in alone", said the King as his guards remained silent outside of his personal quarters.
As the white haired man stepped into his library, he was immediately greeted by the beautiful smile of his Queen. There was a fifty by fifty feet portrait of the late-queen hung on the large wall of the King's study, and he would stare up at her every day for at least an hour. Ōtsutsuki Kaguya was the love of his life, and the most amazing woman he had ever met.
It was back in his youth, when he was still a prince of his Father's, when he first met his wife. He was walking through the largest library inside Wall Sina, and a beautiful shade of blonde hair caught his eyes. It belonged to a young and beautiful woman sitting by one of the many aisles in the fiction section, and her blue eyes were twinkling in joy as she flipped page after page in her novel.
The King could still remember how he felt the moment he saw her…it was as if time itself had stopped. He recalled standing by the edge of the aisle for at least a half hour, just looking at the woman. The King chuckled as he recalled his young self being oblivious to how creepy and off putting he actually was…even when the woman noticed him.
Flashback on
"Excuse me, are you alright, Mister?" asked the melodic voice of the blonde woman as she looked into his own brown and enchanted eyes.
The prince's face flushed as he tried to regain as much pride as he could, and nodded. "Yes…I'm sorry about that."
The woman stood up with a smile on her face, and walked over to the white haired young man. "Were you perhaps looking for this book?" asked the woman gesturing to the novel in her hands. "I believe this book is quite sought after in the library, I just found it on the shelf with luck!"
The prince, wanting to accept the provided reason, nodded. "Y-Yeah, I was looking for a good novel to read, and I thought I would check if this book was returned."
"Well I'm almost finished with it; how about give it to you after?" The seemingly everlasting smile on the woman's face melted the prince's heart completely.
"Sure…would you mind if I stayed here as you finish reading?"
The woman shrugged with a grin on her face. "Sure, this is a public library…" The woman extended her hand to the man in front of her. "I'm Kaguya by the way, Ōtsutsuki Kaguya; it's nice to meet you."
The prince happily shook hands with the woman and immediately noticed how soft her hand was. "Nice to meet you Kaguya-san, I'm Jiraiya…" From that moment on, Jiraiya knew he could only love one woman…and that he would do anything to make her his Queen.
Flashback end
King Jiraiya sighed as he sat down on his office chair. "Our son is really growing up, Kaguya-chan…I'm sure you're very proud of him." Jiraiya pulled out an ink pen and a stack of paper. "Soon he'll be stronger than you!" The Queen's smile on the portrait seemed to brighten as the King continued to speak with her. "He hasn't realized his true power yet, but he will…and when he is ready, I can finally pass the throne to him."
Jiraiya spend the next hour writing page after page on his desk; his mind using all of his life experience to inspire the movements of his hand. The King was creating a manual for his son; one that will teach him everything he would need to know as King, and a novel that told the story of his mother…
"One day Naruto will become the savior of our world…just as you said he would be…and I would finally be able to see you again, my love."
Mikasa had a frown on her face as she saw Eren being thrown to the ground by his sparring partner. Actually, it wasn't his sparring partner, but the girl him and his sparring partner decided to pick on. It seemed that Eren and Reiner wanted to stop Annie from leaving the training grounds on her own, and challenged her to the sparring exercises…and got their asses handed to them.
Mikasa had known that Annie was probably the best hand to hand combatant in the training camp, perhaps even better than herself, and it was the perfect chance to find out. The black haired girl excused herself from Sasha and walked over to where her brother and his friend was getting tossed around like a couple of beany bags.
"Hey Annie, how about a spar?" asked Mikasa with her usual stoic voice and emotionless face.
Many of the surrounding people stopped to look at the situation as Mikasa stood in front of Annie. Eren and Reiner picked themselves up from the ground and quickly jogged off to the side. They both also wanted to see the two most powerful girls in the camp duke it out in combat, and Eren couldn't help but feel a little nervous about it.
Annie was definitely very strong, and Mikasa was a monster like always, but he could figure out who was going to win. The blonde girl gave him a very weird and intimidating feeling as they fought, and he didn't know if Mikasa would be able to beat her like she does many others…
"Why do you people want to fight me?" said Annie with a sigh as she brushed some strands of hair out of her face.
Mikasa crossed her arms. "Because you are strong…"
Annie turned to face Mikasa fully but still had a bored look in her eyes. "So you only want to fight because I'm strong?" asked the girl as she stepped forward herself. "Not because of this training exercise?"
The black haired beauty nodded her head. "Yes…but also because you were throwing my little brother around like a rag-doll." Eren blushed and glared over at Mikasa as she said that; he didn't like to be referred to as her little brother…even though he was fine with it inwardly.
Annie shrugged a little. "Sure…why not."
Mikasa smirked and raised her fists. "Then let's go…"
Eren and Reiner, along with Sasha, and a couple of other people watched the incoming clash with great excitement. It was good that they were at the lower corner of the training field and most of the other trainees didn't notice them; if they knew, all of them would be rushing over and opening betting pools to see who would win…
"Hey, what the hell are you two doing?!" cried the familiar voice of Naruto.
Mikasa and Annie looked over, and saw that Naruto was yelling at a couple of guys dancing around stupidly instead of training. It was Connie, Jean, Marco, and Bertholdt, and they all looked a little nervous as their teacher walked over to them with a glare in his eyes. Wanting to know what Naruto would do to the boys; Mikasa and Annie dropped their fists and looked over at their direction.
"Jean again…" muttered Eren with a smirk on his face. "That's what he gets for slacking off…let's see what Naruto-sensei will do to them!"
Reiner sighed and shook his head. "Why are they slacking off like that?"
"Because this is a pointless exercise…" said Annie without looking away from the scene.
"What do you mean?" asked Mikasa as she stood next to her rival of a sort.
Annie remained silent, and just looked over to see what Naruto would do to the boys…
Jean backed away from Naruto with a nervous look on his face; he was the one who started slacking off in the first place so he was worried about what his punishment would be. Connie, Marco, and Bertholdt were just as nervous, but they remained still as Jean slowly edged back towards them for mental support. Naruto had become a strict teacher in his own classes, and wouldn't withhold punishment if he really wanted to teach someone a lesson, so the boys were quite worried.
"Someone answer me…what were you doing?" asked Naruto with his hands in his pockets.
Jean chuckled nervously and scratched the back of his head, "S-Sparring?"
"Well I sure hope not, from what I saw I thought you were practicing ballet with Connie!" exclaimed Naruto loudly as many people started to laugh at their expense. Jean and Connie recoiled with blushes on their faces as Naruto walked up to Bertholdt and Marco. "I asked the two of you…what were you doing?"
Bertholdt was sweating profusely as Marco decided to fold. "I-I'm sorry Naruto-sensei…but we were just slacking off."
"Slacking off…" muttered Naruto with a smile on his face. "Good man, Marco, at least you are honest." Naruto walked slowly in front of the four young men in silence, and the tension made them become more and more nervous. "If you have time to slack off then you all must be exceptional in hand-to-hand combat…" The prince bent down and picked up the wooden knifes on the ground. "Jean…attack me with this…just as we practiced, you will attack me with the knife, and try to impale me."
"S-Sensei…"
"Now!"
Jean gulped as he held the knife in his hands, and rushed towards the teacher with the best of his ability. He wasn't bad with the knife; he attempted to fake his movements by casting his free hand over his right hand the moment before he lunged out…but it wasn't good enough.
Naruto effortlessly caught Jean's hand and stopped the knife immediately. "This is the result of practice?" The blond pulled Jean by the hand and kicked his legs out, causing him to trip and fall to the ground while releasing the knife. As Jean groaned on the ground, Naruto threw the knife to Connie. "Your turn…and I hope you do better."
Connie was shaking as he stepped up, but knew he had to do it no matter what. With a grunt, the young man burst forward at fast as he could and planned to use his sudden movements to catch Naruto off guard…but it also wasn't good enough.
"Seriously…this is pathetic." Naruto, like he did with Jean, pulled Connie towards him, but instead of kicking his feet out, the prince shoved a hard palm to Connie's face, and made him fall to the ground in a heap. The two remaining boys were extremely nervous for their turns, but prepared themselves to catch the knife. "Let's change things up a little…"
Marco and Bertholdt didn't see it coming at all when Naruto suddenly rushed forward at them with the knife in his hand. The blond jabbed Marco in the stomach with a moderate amount of strength, and kicked him down when he bent over from the pain. Bertholdt tried to back away, but Naruto's legs swept out and tripped him to the ground. Immediately after, the prince pressed his left foot onto Bertholdt's right arm, his right knee onto his left arm and placed the knife at his neck.
"I could have killed the four of you several times over by now…" Naruto got off of Bertholdt and threw to knife to the ground. "The four of you are within the top ten students of the entire camp, so I ask you, with sincere curiosity, how are you all so bad at this?"
The boys remained silent as the shamefully remained on the ground…as everyone else in the class looked over at them.
"Get up…I'll give you each one more chance."
Jean was the one to get back on his feet first, and then it was Connie, then Bertholdt and Marco. They were mostly fine and only felt a little sore from their respective falls, but their ego was bruised badly. They didn't expect Naruto get so angry at them for slacking off in this particular class since it doesn't count for marks.
Naruto stared into each of the boy's eyes as he crossed his arms. "All of you will come attack me all together, and if you manage to beat me, I'll let you off clean."
"A-All of us at once?" asked Marco unsure of what he heard.
"Yes…" answered Naruto with a straight face.
A series of discussions started to arise in the surrounding crowd as the four boys were preparing to fight their instructor. Off to the side, Eren, Armin, and Reiner were all surprised that Naruto would want to fight all four at the same time; no matter how bad they were at fighting, the numbers gave them a huge advantage. Annie was looking over at Naruto with narrowed eyes; wondering what he was up to…
Mikasa stepped forward in interest with her arms crossed. 'All four at once…how long will this take?'
"Oh my God, why does Naruto-sensei keep doing these crazy thing?!" exclaimed Sasha as she shook her head at the scene.
"I guess he's just that confident…" casually said Ymir with a bored look on her face.
Krista actually looked worried as she looked around at her friends. "Yeah, but he's going to fight four of them at once…isn't that a bit too much?"
Back to the focus of attention, Jean was glaring over at Naruto for trying to embarrass them more than he already had. The young man wondered if the teacher actually thought he could beat all four of them at the same time…
'Just how full of yourself are you?'
Connie looked nervous as he discreetly looked over at Bertholdt. "Is he serious?"
The tall man was still sweating as he gulped. "I think so…"
"But isn't four on one a little unfair?" asked Marco nervously.
Naruto sighed and just leaned his weight onto one side. "Come on…you're not scared are you?"
Jean cracked his knuckles and stepped forward. "Come on guys…he told us to fight him together, so let's show him what we can do!" Connie sighed and stepped forward also after realizing that there was no way out of the situation, and the other two followed suit. They were not thrilled to fight their teacher at all, but they were ordered to do so…
"Show me what you got…" taunted Naruto with a smirk.
Jean growled and ran up to Naruto as fast as he could with his fist pulled back. "AARGH!" cried the young man as he swung as hard as he could at the older man.
Naruto stepped to the side to avoid the uncontrolled punch, and caught Jean's wrist as it past his face. While holding his student's arm to the side, Naruto kneed Jean hard to his side, and followed with a swift stomp to behind his knees, which caused him to fall to his knees. The blond held Jean by his head and pulled it straight into his knee…
The other three young men were all staring at the scene in shock as Jean fell to the ground unconscious…
"What are you three waiting for…you already lost one teammate?"
Before the three moved, Naruto rushed over to their position and kicked Connie right in his chest, sending him flying to the ground. The other two were now by his sides, so he quickly spun his body around to land a backhand to Marco's face, and a low kick to Bertholdt's shin. While the two on the sides were stunned, Naruto ran over to the winded Connie and lifted him up by the collar of his jacket.
"Make it two teammates!" The prince then elbowed the young man in his arms and allowed him to fall to the ground like a sack of potatoes. The others cringed when the saw a huge bruise immediately emerge on Connie's face as he groaned loudly on the ground in pain.
Eren and the others were all shocked at how ruthless Naruto was suddenly being…he was usually very polite and compassionate to his students…
Bertholdt and Marco knew they had to react soon or it would be too late, so they both charged over toward Naruto in two different directions; Bertholdt on the right and Marco on the left. Naruto still had his back facing the two incoming enemies as they prepared to launch their fists at him…
But it seemed that he had predicted it…
Naruto suddenly bent down fully and watched as the two fists fly past above his head. Bertholdt and Marco were both unprepared to miss their confident attack, so the stumbled a little as their head strained to look back at Naruto. The prince's blue eyes stared unceremoniously into the two boy's widened eyes as he released himself by kicking his feet out.
The blond was extremely fast and explosive, and he jumped into the air as he pulled his legs back. He spun his body in mid-air until he was looking down at the ground, and kicked both his legs out to strike the two young men on the back of their heads. The teacher landed on the ground in a swatting as the two boys did a full flip forward and lay on the ground barely conscious.
The entire field was silent as everyone stared at their teacher with some fear in their eyes; no one had expected him to beat up the four so badly. Eren and Armin were shaking a little from where they stood; never had they ever seen Naruto's eyes appear to ruthless and cruel…
"A-Are they okay?" stuttered out Krista as she nudged Ymir.
"I hope so…" replied Ymir with a soft voice.
Reiner was seriously worried for his best friend, Bertholdt and wanted to run over to check. "Damn…that was way too brutal!" The young man was rather angry at the teacher; yes they were slacking off but they didn't deserve such a beating.
Mikasa was also surprised at how ruthless Naruto had been, and looked through the corner of her eyes to see Annie actually nodding a little at the scene…
'What is she nodding about?'
"Eren, Mikasa, Reiner, Sasha!" cried out Naruto loudly. "Come here and round them up!"
The four immediately ran over to the fallen trainees and checked to see if they were okay. Reiner headed over to Bertholdt, Mikasa went over to Marco, Sasha went over to Connie, and Eren over to Jean. All of them were barely conscious after the attacks from Naruto, or had just woken up in Jean's case. There may be some concussions or broken jaws, but they were fine overall…
"I know damn well why four of the top ten students would do so badly in this class…" started Naruto as he gained the undivided attention of his students. "The grade of this class does not go towards your main score as a soldier, so even if you fail this class you would still be in the top ten…" Everyone remained silent and most of them agreed to his logic. "But that only tells me one thing…"
Naruto walked forward to the four beaten up students and pulled Jean up by his collar…
"…and that is you are all only training so hard to join the Military Police, not to better your own skills as a soldier!" The teacher shoved Jean back down into Eren's arms and ignored his groan of pain. He then walked to the next person and yanked up Bertholdt from Reiner. "I can't be the only one who sees the contradiction in the curriculum of this camp!" Naruto released Bertholdt and pulled both Connie and Marco up at the same time, "The contradiction is how the ten students who have the most skill in killing Titans would be sent to the place furthest away from any Titans!"
Mikasa, Eren, along with many people's eyes widened in recognition…
"And your slacking off today had showed me that you are all cowards who became soldiers to stay away from the Titans…so much for swear your lives to the King!" Naruto turned away and walked back to look at the rest of his students. "I don't care if you are a coward, I don't care if you want to live a peaceful life…but as long as you are in this camp training to become a soldier, I expect you to keep our main principle in mind and better yourselves as much as possible."
'Freeing mankind from the fear of the Titans…that's the main principle of the school', thought Eren as he looked up at his teacher in a new light.
"I am not forcing any of you to join the Scouting Legion and fight the Titans…but nonetheless I expect all of you, while you are in this school, to do your best in every class!" Naruto turned back and pointed a finger at the four injured students. "Let today be an example for all of you…if I see anyone who slacks off in this class again…I will beat you to a pulp so you will fail your other classes that actually count for marks." Naruto did a slow 360 degree turn and looked into each of his student's eyes. "AM I CLEAR?!"
"HAI, NARUTO-SENSEI!" replied everyone in unison.
Naruto nodded. "Good…now get your asses back to work!" The instant those words left his mouth, everyone hurried to their partners and fumbled with their wooden knifes. They all made sure to do the actions correctly so that they don't infuriate their teacher again.
Eren smiled at his surrogate older brother as he held Jean from the ground. 'Talk alone is cheap…and Naruto-sensei's actions really brought the point across'.
"Bring these guys to the infirmary…" ordered Naruto using his usual polite tone.
Eren and the others nodded, "Hai!"
As she lifted Marco onto her back, Mikasa looked over at Naruto and gave him a small smile; showing that she was impressed with what he did. The blond discreetly winked over at her as a small smile graced the corner of his mouth…
"That certainly got the point across…" said a voice behind Naruto as Mikasa and the others left for the infirmary.
Naruto looked back and was surprised to see Annie talking to him. She had her usual bored expression on her face with her hands in her pockets, but he could faintly see some praise in her blue eyes. Something told Naruto that Annie was also aware of the contradiction in the program, and it was why she didn't try as hard in this class compared to the others. Naruto had noticed that outside of Eren, Reiner, and Mikasa, most of the top ten students never really tried in his class. He picked the four males to beat up since he didn't want to brutally hurt the girls…that would be unseemly of his royal stature.
"Yes…so now will you stop skipping my class every day?"
Annie had the tiniest of smirks on the corner of her mouth as she turned around. "Yes…" With that, she started to walk away, hoping to find Mikasa before the class ended.
"Leonhart…" said Naruto.
"What is it?" asked Annie as she turned back to look at the teacher through the corner of her eyes.
Naruto had a small smile on his face as he looked at the girl. "Feel free to go back to the top of the hill again…from now on I will only go there every other day, so please enjoy the scenery tonight, and I'll go tomorrow."
Annie had an emotion in her eyes that Naruto couldn't read at first, but then she gave him a curt nod of the head.
"Okay…"
As Naruto watched the girl walk off into the distance, he couldn't help but ponder the emotion she showed him…
'Was she…relieved?'
The End!
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