Chapter 43:

"WHAT ARE YOU?" Riser screamed in shock as he felt an incredible pressure press down on him and couldn't move his legs anymore. Suddenly, he heard something getting slammed and turned his head to the side, to see Naruto holding Yubelluna's head and slammed her to the ground with brutal force, his queen quickly losing unconscious.

The energy around Naruto began to materialize into a hand and grabbed Riser by his throat.

"Let's see how immortal you are!" he said in a voice that sent chills up everyone's spine and slammed Riser, head first into the wall and threw him and the piece of wall across the garden with his head still inside the wall.

A disfigured Riser emerged from the rubble, on the ground, panting hardly while his face began to heal back to normal but before Riser could get back up, Naruto appeared above him and drop kicked his shoulder. Riser screamed out in pain, however Naruto wasn't done, he created a Rasengan in his hand and slammed it against the Phenex's back making blood fly out everywhere as his body was slowly torn apart by the Rasengan.

Naruto stood up and looked at a defeated Riser, his back slowly healing back to normal again.

"You filthy trash!" Riser spat out, "Don't you understand? This engagement is very important and is necessary for the future of both our clans...Trash like you who doesn't know the rules cannot possibly understand something like this!"

Naruto crouched down to grab Riser's collar and pulled him up to eye level, and punched him in the face, resulting in Riser's face slamming back to the ground. He repeated this another ten times slowly creating a crater. After the tenth time, Naruto brought a nearly unconscious Riser facing him again.

"I have watched the recording of the Rating Game!" Naruto punched him again, this time still holding onto his collar "There are very few things that can make me angry in this world but YOU...You just about managed to do everything that would make me angry. One!" He punched Riser's face again, breaking the facial bones and watched his face quickly heal back to normal, "You look down on others and judge them by their birth and not their abilities. Two!" He slammed another Rasengan into Riser's body and waited his body heal back again, "You made someone precious to me cry, someone like Rias! And finally three!"

Naruto dropped Riser to the ground and created another Rasengan so Riser closed his eyes and waited for the pain to come. After a moment and not feeling any pain, he slowly opened his eyes and saw Naruto was holding a Rasengan and looking sadly at him, speaking in a quiet voice, "You don't value your comrades and view them as expendable. Even when they were willing to sacrifice themselves for you..."

"You say I'm trash who doesn't know the rules and I probably am but I do know one thing..." Naruto crouched down and stared into Riser's eyes so deeply that Riser thought that he was reading into his very soul. "Those who break the rules are trash but those who abandon their comrades are worse than trash. You are worse than trash and you don't deserve your Peerage's loyalty. I'm glad that I'll be taking them from your hands. Think about what I said and think about someone other than yourself for once in your life."

Riser's Peerage who had all woken up now heard Naruto's entire speech and felt something strange in their hearts when they watched him speak out so passionately for the very people who until just a while ago were his enemies. He didn't even know most of them. All of them knew then and there that they will gladly serve under him.

Naruto slowly let his Rasengan disappear and stood up. For the very first time in his life, Naruto actually felt good when he beat the hell out of someone. If Riser didn't have the blood of the Phoenix inside his veins, he would have been dead by now.

Naruto stepped out the crater and looked around at the audience, maybe he overdid it a little.

Suddenly, a small sound of clapping was heard and the one clapping was non other than Lord Phoenix, he wasn't happy that someone had beaten Riser like that but he knew that someday, someone must put Riser in his place and show him that his power isn't all mighty before he makes a bigger mistake.

Everyone began to clap their hands and cheered out loudly for Naruto, soon the whole crowd was cheering for him. A funny feeling began to well up inside him and he couldn't control himself anymore.

"YEAH, I DID IT! HOW ABOUT THAT HUH?" He roared in excitement and cheered out loudly while waving his hands around at the crowd. Ravel slowly made her way beside Naruto and pulled his sleeves. Naruto stopped and looked at her with a curious smile on his face.

"Sorry Naruto-sama...I..."

"Don't worry Ravel-chan!" he rubbed her golden hair making Koneko's eye twitch violently at the gesture "What done is done now!"

Ravel smiled and nodded her head.

Naruto smiled but suddenly felt a negative emotion behind them and turned around, Riser was crawling back from the ground with a hateful glare. All his injures were healed now but he was really tired and hoping this attack will defeat Naruto.

Riser began to flare out his flaming wings again and readied to attack but suddenly Naruto's energy parted down the middle and opened up into a full-length cloak, revealing a black undergarment with three magatama on each side of his high collar. His seal's numerous swirl-patterns, which were located all over his body, opened up into complete, dark circles. His eyes become red and slitted.

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