"I'm not saying that you have to be like me...who can make the most ridiculous plans on the fly. Nor do I mean that you have to be like a certain lazy genius at home. But you need to think about this kind of stuff, otherwise even though your Peerage has a lot of power...someone who knows how to use their power or team more effectively could beat you." the shinobi finished.
Rias stayed silent for a while. Now that she thought about it...she never adventured further than what she was taught by her teachers. She always assumed that she knew everything that needed to be known about battlefield ideas and plans...
Yet someone who was doing terrible at school at the moment was teaching her about something relatively simple...but something she never thought about.
She was already seeing the benefit of the spar with the whiskered blond, despite her severely bruised ego.
Seeing that Rias wasn't going to say anything, Naruto decided to continue. "Another thing about the tactics you used...it's way too blunt don't you think? You and your Peerage literally did nothing but try to destroy my clone. You never tried to take the bells at all. Something straightforward isn't bad, but can you at least try to use a little variety here?"
The high-class devil could only look away at the admonishment, obviously feeling foolish now that her actions were relayed to her after the fact.
"Now that we dealt with that...we gotta talk about the powers that you and your Peerage use."
Rias glanced up to look at Naruto warily. "You yourself admitted that my Peerage has a lot of power. So what can possibly be the problem?"
The blond grinned at her, taking the challenge behind her question. "Easy. You and your Peerage...despite having great power...are waaaaaaay too overspecialized."
The red-head frowned at that, overspecialized?
"Rias-san, if someone managed to get close to you or Akeno-san and happens to be a close-combat specialist...what would you do? If either Kiba-san or Koneko-san faced off against a fast magic-user...what would they do? The fact that none of you have any real way to deal with something outside of your field of specialization is just a very bad idea no matter how you look at it." Naruto said with a frown and a pointed look.
"Huh? But that's how most people fight Naruto! Most specialize in one thing and one thing only! You can't seriously expect me to learn another style of fighting so that I could cover my weaknesses better! Especially when I could just work with my Peerage to cover our weaknesses." the high-class devil protested hotly.
But the whiskered teen shook his head. "That argument would make sense if you actually covered each other's defenses well. You just attack piecemeal and attack when one of your members are in trouble...there's more to teamwork than that. Chaining in attacks, messing with the enemy formation to help with those in the front line, support abilities...those kinds of things."
"Besides...who says that you gotta follow what everyone says you're supposed to do? I'm not saying that you should learn a new style of fighting at all, I'm just saying that you should try to cover your bases better. Like...maybe work on getting your speed better, that way if someone manages to get through either your knight or rook...then you could at least dodge them and buy yourself some time." Naruto said with a deadpanned look. Seriously, this wasn't anything new here.
He seriously didn't get what was so confusing about this. He wasn't the sharpest knife in the...knife drawer and even he knew this.
Hell, just to prove the point...!
"I hope you realize that even my twelve-year old self had a better grasp of this idea then you, right? I had very few techniques to call my own and I was only any good in close-combat, but I used my wits and made creative uses of my small amount of abilities. Seriously...I was even the dead-last of my class and I knew this, so I don't get how you can't." Naruto complained while scratching his head.
What the blond didn't notice was how pale-white Rias had become after he finished that sentence.
"...Wait...there are more of you...?" Rias asked with a hesitant tone, unwilling to believe that there are more people like Naruto running around.
The shinobi looked at her, confused, but decided to answer her honestly. "Yep. A whole lot of people like me. Why?"
She didn't respond for a moment, she was too busy dealing with the implications of his words.
"...And...you were the dead-last?" Rias asked with an unintentional hitch in her voice.
Naruto didn't understand what was going on, but he wasn't afraid to tell people that he was once a dead-last. After all...he was without a doubt the best of his class now.
"Yep! The person who barely passed the test that was given to him. Even then, sorta failed it...I kinda got the right to get a team based on a whim now that I think about it..." Naruto wondered with a sweat-drop coalescing.
Yeah now that he thought about it...
*THUD*
Naruto blinked as he glanced at the formerly conscious red-head. What the hell happened to her?
...Maybe she needed some rest. No, maybe they all needed some rest.
So he stood up and was about to address the group...
But before he did so, he quickly grabbed a kunai and flung it towards the forest at a specific location.
...
He didn't hear any cries, all he heard was the *THUNK* of wood getting hit.
Was he imagining things...?
Well, good thing no one saw that then. The last time he made a mistake like that was when he nearly killed a poor defenseless snow rabbit in his first C-rank mission.
So...no one had to know about this one.
The whiskered blond chanced a glance at his fellow blond, who was currently nodding off due to the amount of energy she was expending healing so many people.
Yeah, time to get some shut-eye.
"Asia-san! Once you're done, I'm going to use my clones to take everyone inside the mansion. You should get some rest too ok?" Naruto called out to the nun.
The only response he got was a sleepy affirmation, man...she was out of it.
He began to pick up all of the unconscious bodies of his allies using clones and personally helped Yuki up so that they could get some rest.
The only one unaccounted for was Issei, and he trusted his clone to get him home.
...Hopefully.
"...Uh...Iseei?...You gonna be ok?...Oh geez...I hope I didn't kill the kid...come on then, let's get you home."
"...Urgh...just kill me already..."
Bleary pink eyes slowly opened up to stare at the ceiling.
Where was she...?
...Oh yeah.
Training.
Training with Naruto.
Terrible idea. Horrible idea. Never doing it again.
She was hurting in places that she didn't know existed at the moment.
Really...all she wanted to do was stay down and fall back asleep in this nice and cozy bed...
...Wait. Bed?
Mio looked around and noticed that she was inside her appointed room inside the mansion. When did she get here?
She was about to shrug it off when she felt her stomach rumble.
She was hungry.
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