Chapter : 27

"Here you two are." Akeno graced the pair with her beautiful smile as she set down a cup of tea in front of each of them.

"Thank you, Akeno-chan." Naruto grinned at the Nadeshiko girl as she stood back up and pressed the carrying tray against her bosom.

Akeno smiled in return.

"You're very welcome, Kitsune-kun."

"You're not going to stop with that, are you?" asked Naruto. His answer was a giggle and a shake of the head from Akeno.

The blond sighed, but did not dwell on Akeno's nickname for very well. There were far worse things he could think of then to be called Kitsune-kun. At least she had gotten it right and called him a fox instead of a cat.

Not that there was anything wrong with cats. He just didn't like it when people nicknamed him incorrectly.

"Hmmm..."

Naruto eyed the tea with a speculative gleam. Then he looked down at the girl nuzzling his chest with her nose and cheek, whose head he was still petting with both hands.

He went back to looking at the tea.

"Just how am I going to drink this?"

Rias nearly snorted as the blond tried to take one of his two hands away from the task of pampering Koneko, only to have the girl snatch it back and place it on her head. She then looked at him with those large, amber orbs, causing Naruto to cave like a wet paper towel.

As the boy looked on, hopelessly trying to figure out how he could drink his tea while petting Koneko, Rias felt a sense of vindication. It served him right for getting so close to the Rook anyways. They had just met all of four days ago and already the two were practically inseparable!

He was a member of her peerage, not Koneko's. Koneko didn't even have a peerage!

"Since you've both finished handing out fliers, let's move on to the next step."

Rias decided the best thing to do would be to separate the two by starting Naruto and Issei on the next part of the new lives they would be leading as Devils. It was for their own good anyways. They needed to begin forming contracts and Koneko already had several that needed to be completed. Really, it was for the best all around.

She ignored the voice that told her she just didn't like seeing Koneko hogging all of Naruto's attention. It wasn't like she was jealous or anything. No. Definitely not.

Denial is not just a river in Egypt.

"Alright!" Issei cheered, clenching his hands into fists and pumping them in excitement. "I've finally graduated from doing miscellaneous jobs!"

"If our first task was handing out fliers in order to build our base of clientele, then our next one is forming contracts with the humans who have taken our fliers. Am I right?" Naruto speculated.

"That's right," Rias said, pleased that he was so quick on the uptake. It was even enough to make her forget her minor irritation towards Koneko for sitting on Naruto's lap and getting pampered by him. "Akeno, if you would?"

"Of course, Buchou," Akeno stepped into the center of the room. Naruto watched with interest as the raven-haired girl closed her eyes and furrowed her brows in concentration.

The ground beneath her began to light up. A large circle about a meter or so in circumference drew itself on the ground, glowing a deep red.

It was a very complex circle, with lettering of a language Naruto did not understand running alongside the outer layer. There were multiple, elongated ovals that spanned across the entire construct, six in all, forming what looked almost like an atom.

About a foot from the outer layer was another circle. This one kept getting cut off whenever it ran into a line from the ovals. Running along the inner edge were several symbols, and located within the approximate location of where the line would be inside of the ovals were larger versions of the same symbol. There was another oval surrounding it and within the oval was a twelve pointed star formed from the multiple elongated ovals that spanned the entire circumference of the whole circle. Located between each point was a symbol and in the center of the star was one final circle.

Naruto had seen many things in his life, and though he was not a master at the art, he had been pretty damn good at making seals after Jiraiya taught him during their three year training trip. Even with everything that he knew on sealing and all the seals he had seen, the Uzumaki had never seen something that looked so damn complicated. And this girl was making it like it was nothing.

It was damn impressive.

As Akeno began to chant in an unknown language (to him at least), Naruto decided to let his curiosity overtake him. "What exactly is this?"

Rias turned from where she was watching Akeno to him. "Right now we're engraving your inscription inside of the magical diagram." She tapped her chin for a moment, quickly thinking of the best way to elaborate further. "The best way to explain it would be to call it the proof of our relationship, after which this magical diagram will become the basis for all the magical powers that you'll be using."

Naruto wondered if he should tell her that he wouldn't need this magical diagram thingy, since he already had his jutsu, but figured that if they went through all the trouble of doing this for him, it would be rude to refuse.

Besides, while he didn't really care to learn magic, it wouldn't hurt to have another trump card available. As the old saying went, it was always good to have an ace in the hole.

"Naruto." Said blond looked up to see Rias holding her hand out towards him. "Give me your hand."

The blond nodded and stood up. Or he tried to. There was a bit of a problem that prevented him from actually walking over to Rias.

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