Chapter 90: Patience
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"Are you kidding?!" Naruto demanded with wide eyes. Defeat that thing in hand to hand combat. They had watched as that thing battled another of its kind over territory. Needless to say, the clone doubted even the original could defeat it. Crossing his arms to form an X, Naruto exclaimed stubbornly, "Hell no. I'm not going to think about a fist fight with that thing. Plus, I want something that can heal. Not something that can knock me out with a single punch."
"Such a stubborn servant I have," Rias lamented to herself.
"You must have be having a hard time, Ojou-sama," Zatouji remarked with a wry grin.
"Shut it, ossan," Naruto snapped in irritation.
"A-Ano, she had pure eyes," Asia claimed nervously before adding, "I'm sure she was a good-natured girl."
Naruto rubbed Asia's head in response to her remark. Aww, Asia is such a good girl. Empathizing even with that creature that looked like the Hulk.
Always being optimistic and kind. Asia looked confused by his random gesture since he didn't say his thoughts aloud, but didn't remove his hand from her head.
"I'm sure she is, Asia, but I really doubt I can handle something like that. That's a familiar that can break us if we aren't careful.
I'd rather have a familiar that is more…passive and nonviolent," Naruto told her softly.
"I guess so," Asia replied hesitantly before adding as she looked back, "But I think she was lonely. We could have named her Dine-chan."
Naruto just chuckled awkwardly. Despite urging Naruto to take the Undine, Asia seems to have bonded a bit with the muscular creature.
Naruto stiffened slightly as memories rushed into his head. Taking a moment to sort through the information the original sent back by creating and dispelling a clone, the clone quickly announced, "The boss found some help. A girl from our school that claims to be a beast tamer. Abe Kiyome."
"Oh yes. I know her, if only distantly. I'm surprised Naruto-kun managed to gain her aid. Abe-san seems very wary of devils, and thus carefully keeps her distance from us," Rias remarked thoughtfully.
"Yeah. Boss had to beat up a wyvern for her," the clone told them.
"Oh you helped her with that beastie," Zatouji commented with a raised eyebrow.
"You know of her?" Akeno asked curiously.
"Of course. That girl has been coming here for years. For the past month or so she's been hanging around the haunt of an adolescent wyvern.
At least three days a week. Good girl. Comes from a long and prestigious line of beast tamers.
She skilled and knowledgeable concerning taming monsters, but she's been having difficulty with the stronger and more violent monsters.
She lacks the pure animal dominance that is sometimes necessary with certain monsters," Zatouji informed them nonchalantly.
"Good thing she ran into the boss then. That wyvern is in no position to defy her right now," the clone exclaimed with a grin.
"That's good. Plus, she's now helping you, right?" Yuuto replied thoughtfully.
"Yep. For today she'll be helping."
"That will no doubt make things easier," Yuuto claimed cheerfully.
"I know. She saved the boss a lot of problems," the clone said with a wide smile, sure his quest to gain a fairy as a familiar was moving forward smoothly.
"STOP SCREAMING IN MY EAR, WOMAN," Naruto yelled in frustration. Naruto was currently jumping through the tops of the trees, carrying Kiyome in a piggyback. The beast tamer was also screaming her head off.
"HOW CAN I NOT SCREAM?! WE'RE JUMPING THROUGH THE TREES. WE'RE GONNA DIE. THIS IS INSANE AND DANGEROUS," Kiyome screamed out, and unfortunately for Naruto, her mouth was right by his ear.
"You're the one who didn't want to fly. We don't have time to walk, so this was the only option," Naruto growled out.
Despite being a beast tamer, Kiyome was clearly human. And not the human from Naruto's world.
The type of human that hasn't ever flown without an airplane, doesn't climb more than twenty feet in the air, and prefers to avoid any potentially dangerous activities.
So she found Naruto's methods of travel terrifying. Apparently she isn't an advanced enough beast tamer to have grown used to more exotic methods of travel.
Which was further proven by her yelling in a panic, "OH GOOD LORD. WE'RE GOING TO RUN INTO SOMETHING. THEN WE'LL FALL AND DIE."
Turning to look at her angrily, Naruto returned, "I'm not going to run into anything unless you keep screaming in my ear. Now shut up, or I swear you'll be the one receiving the Thousand Years of Death next time. Unde-"
"LOOK OUT," Kiyome interrupted by calling out.
Turns out you shouldn't tree hop without looking where you are going. As soon as Naruto looked forward, his face met with a thick branch. The wood exploded from the force of the collision.
Naruto fell backwards as he lost his balance, and Kiyome screamed as they plummeted towards the ground.
Naruto acted on instinct and pulled her from his back onto his chest so that he didn't crush her when he landed back first on the ground.
The air driven from his lungs by the impact, Naruto laid there in a daze. Kiyome was similarly stunned, but seemed unharmed thanks to Naruto's quick action. After a few seconds, Naruto wheezed out, "That was totally your fault."
Unaware of the original's plight, the clone walked with the rest of the Occult Research Club in silence. They had been walking in silence for several minutes till the clone's patience finally ran out. He finally burst out by exclaiming, "Okay, what are we doing now?"
Zatouji rolled his eyes before claiming, "We're waiting for these two to make a decision in regards to their familiars." Pointing to Asia and Raynare.
"What are we even meant to be doing?" Raynare demanded in slight annoyance.
"Y-yes. How do we choose a familiar?" Asia asked nervously.
Sighing, Zatouji explained, "Just choose one. It's that simple. Low-tier familiars are easy to tame and catch. Just find one you like, and choose it. You can also just wait. Sometimes familiars will choose their own masters."
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