Pieces of paper that were on fire...
She wasn't even able to utter a word as the chain-explosion set off and engulfed her in fire.
Himejima Akeno was woken up by an explosion.
Not literally, but the sound of one did knock her out of her unconscious state.
Violet eyes blearily took in their surroundings as the queen did her best to gain some sort of cognizance of her surroundings.
What happened exactly...?
Oh. Right.
She was hit by a surprise attack by their blond enemy. Who knew that the little fox had it in him?
But now she knew that none of them had a chance of defeating the whiskered menace without the entire Gremory team working together.
It was somewhat humiliating to accept that fact though...if it was the real foxy-kun then she could understand...but a clone?
She wouldn't accept something like that so easily!
Determination in hand, she spread her bat-like wings and flew towards the sky to find her comrades as quickly as possible.
The second she reached the sky, she spotted a rather sizable trail of smoke a ways away, that must be the explosion that she heard a while ago...
Considering the circumstances, the possibility was high that one of her comrades was currently engaging the wily blond.
If so, then she'd better hurry to help them.
With as much speed as she could muster, she headed towards the devastated piece of the forest, hoping she wasn't too late.
Koneko gasped as she gripped her damaged arm and knelt on the floor, she took some pretty heavy damage from those small explosions.
Rook or no...she sure as hell felt that.
"Lesson for Koneko-san." a masculine voice drawled out, with footsteps to help punctuate the imminent danger that the young devil was in.
"It'd be a good idea for you not to depend so much on your enhanced strength and endurance. Seriously, while you are a very good close-range fighter...you are also very predictable. Add to the fact that you aren't too fast and you should know that anyone who can predict your attack pattern or are faster than you would beat you easily." Naruto-1 said with a frown.
Koneko didn't respond, she was too busy trying to get back onto her feet. She was obviously at her last legs here.
The clone simply walked up to the white-haired girl and patted her head.
"...Though you held out admirably. So far, you're the one who has managed to truly use their head in this fight. Be proud of that. Now rest for a bit." Naruto-1 said with a smile.
He then chopped the back of her neck and knocked her out instantly.
Another one down it seemed.
He glanced up to the sky and felt the presence of the last member of the Gremory team.
One Himejima Akeno.
He placed Koneko onto the hands of a clone which was on standby, moving her away from the fight about to happen.
After waiting for a moment, he saw the tell-tale signs of someone approaching the area using bat-like wings...
Finally, the last member of the Gremory Rias' Peerage has arrived; the queen.
Naruto-1 gave her a flourish with a smartass grin on his face. "Welcome Akeno-san! Congrats on being the last member of your team left standing! Mind giving up instead of fighting though? I'd much rather finish giving you lot your grades than beat you up."
Akeno just revealed a slightly bitter grin at the information. So she was the last member standing huh...?
But her eyes revealed her determination to keep fighting.
Seeing this, the Naruto clone sighed. He shouldn't be surprised, but he could've hoped.
He supposed he knew the feeling though, this must be how ero-sennin and Kakashi-sensei felt whenever he wanted to keep fighting them, despite how thoroughly outclassed he was as a kid.
Fine then, just like them...he'd honor Akeno-san's wishes as well.
He brought out a hand and made a gesture towards the violet-eyes girl.
The gesture meant one thing.
'Come at me.'
Akeno obliged.
Her body began to glow as lightning began to crackle around her body, she was preparing to fight.
Well...looked like it was up to him to bring the fight up-close and personal again.
The queen brought her hands down towards the clone and created a magic circle. Lightning emerged from it and shot towards the ground with ill intent.
Naruto-1 moved out of the way of the incoming elemental attack and moved around to pick up some rocks, to utilize as projectiles. He flashed into the forest and back out of it in order to get a very specific rock as well.
The reason he was using rocks instead of...say...his kunai, was rather simple.
He had a limited supply of kunai and shuriken...so he really didn't want to waste it in something like this.
That...and he figured that it was safer. He didn't quite trust their abilities yet, so he didn't want to seriously hurt them or anything.
So he managed to gather enough rocks and quickly threw them towards the devil in the sky. But before they could reach her, she obliterated most of them with her lightning magic.
After dealing with the blond's most recent attack, she prepared a more powerful lightning-based attack by concentrating her demonic energy...
"Got ya!"
Akeno widened her eyes as she felt someone push against her from behind. It was...
"...Naruto! But how...?" Akeno wondered with wide eyes as she stared at the blond clone that was pushing her towards the forest ground.
"Heh! Another problem with the mindset in the Gremory group...and the wizard-types specifically! You don't pay attention to your surroundings enough! If you don't know that there is a danger...then you assume you're safe. But someone crafty like me can use that against you!" the Naruto clone cried out with a massive grin on his face.
The clone was one of those rocks that she didn't destroy!
Naruto-1 watched as his clone sent Akeno crashing to the forest floor, it was time for him to finish the job he guessed.
He raced towards the recently made crash site. Once he arrived, he saw a somewhat ragged Akeno that was unsteadily getting back to her feet.
"I'm sure that I don't need to mention another weakness with how you fight right? Despite getting improved defenses and speed as a queen...you never use them. You may as well be a bishop for how closely you stick to ranged attacks. If you improved onto either defense or speed...then you wouldn't be hurting as much as you are now." Naruto-1 said with a frown.
He was hoping that the physical pain was drilling it into their heads right now. If they wanted to improve...they couldn't stay this one-dimensional.
Akeno gave him a shaky smile in return. "Fufu...to think that foxy-kun would be giving me a lecture about how to fight...how do you say...it's rather surprising and refreshing."
"Heh. Well I'm glad that you think so. But you should know that you definitely can't win now right? So..." Naruto-1 replied before trailing off.
The queen gave him a confused look before several fast objects flew past her and began to circle around her. She couldn't even try and concentrate any demonic energy to retaliate as she felt something bind her body.
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