"So, where am I suppose to find a place to stay?" asked a familiar blonde to the androgynous summoner in charge of helping champions settle down someplace safe – for themselves and others.

The room that they were in was a small one, tucked off to the side in the Institute of War. And like the rest of the institute, it was brilliant and glowing, a small piece of the shining gem of magic and civilization. The summoner was quick to answer the blonde's question.

"Ionia always provides for its champions, even if they just happen to crash land there. It's a really nice place, Ionia, lots of sites to see and everyone is like family there. But you'll find that many champions stay in Galrin, it's the smallest island in Ionia, just off the coast and away from the general public. I can teleport you there and get you all set up! It's really pretty and there's no way you can't love it... Actually I'm so confident that I'll teleport you right now!" The summoner got up from the seat and walked in close to Naruto, hardly giving Naruto time to react to the sudden statement.

"That's nice but why..." it was too late for Naruto to ask his question, because the summoner had already chanted and transported them to the small island within the realm of Ionia.

Naruto felt sick after the rushed transportation, but fortunately it was a lot better than the first time. The summoner quickly nudged Naruto on in his sickened state. Naruto quickly met a clerk-woman in the building, whose responsibility was to register the guests into their homes, either for rent or for permanent residence. Naruto was put through a few short-answer questions by the nice woman to make sure he was safe for the community, followed by the summoner presenting his League pass that served to prove that he was a summoner and that Naruto was the new Champion who was magically announced to the world minutes ago.

The clerk-woman explained the details of his stay, "You'll be residence number five. And this will be your key, don't lose it though, it's magically linked to your house so no one can enter it without being near it. And they're very difficult to replace; it's impossible to remove that magical link too. We always put very strong stuff up for champions of the League, knowing how paranoid many of you are." She gave a small laugh and handed Naruto the key to the house. The key looked like an ordinary wooden block. He guessed that there was no need for intricate shapes with this 'magic'. "So is there anything else I can help you with today?"

Naruto was shown to his house, which wasn't grandiose but seemed to be modest in size. The house suited him perfectly, especially when he compared the house to his previous home in the elemental nations, followed by a sewer that he lived in for decades... He loved his new home!

The heavily-cloaked summoner then began informing him of what he was entitled to as a champion on the walk toward the house, "Each champion has a budget, about a hundred gold pieces a week outside of housing expenses. If you're going to spend more than that, please tell either me or the League directly before you do, so that we can compensate accordingly. If you would like something abnormally fancy or any help maintaining weaponry that's 'beyond the norm' please come see me, I have lots of connections to those kinds of people. If you need any information about anything League related, or if you have any concerns or worries, or if you're generally upset with the rules here, come see me as well, I'm a very knowledgable person."

"Oh, okay. Thank you." Naruto was about to let the summoner continue, when he remembered what he was going to ask before being teleported here, "And – umm... summoner?" The figure nodded, not giving an identifying name, "Why did you insist on bringing me here? You rushed me here really quickly without really asking me." Naruto was more than a little suspicious. This place had great living, security, (and given what he smelled in the halls) great food... it didn't add up to the summoner's insistence for him to live here.

"Well-" The summoner halted, realizing that this conversation was with a champion of the League, a sigh followed, "I'll be honest. Most people don't want to stay here anymore. People don't like the sheer extreme intensitythat feminism holds here. Most men stay away because of it and those lively, hot-blooded women don't go anywhere without men, and normal people usually like good company so they stay away as well. So it's a cycle that leads to this wonderful place coming to ruin. I just happen to know the owner of this place and the owner is just a really nice person who would like to keep this place at a decent price for anyone to visit and taste luxury. Not only champions with their near-unlimited wealth. So I'm hoping that you could help the owner by toughing it out here and showing everyone that it's not so bad." The summoner was clearly nervous, but obviously not lying.

Naruto simply sighed, "Of course I'll stay here. But are females treated badly in this country? What do you mean by feminism not being liked by men?"

The summoner chuckled, "No, no, not like that at all. I'm sorry, women aren't treated anything like that here or anywhere really; it's just that the females here happen to be. Well... I'm sure you'll find out. It wont be hard to understand after you stay here for a bit."

Naruto looked blandly at the odd summoner, clearly not liking his lack of an answer, "So then..." Naruto looked at the key in his hands.

The summoner looked shocked for a moment, "Ahh! I'd almost forgotten to say! Those keys really aren't as hard to replace as she'd made it sound back there. This place keeps a spare key to every home, in case they have to call a summoner from the League to evict someone." The summoner took a moment to chuckle, "Never know if someone is going to rent a house for the night, then lock themselves inside with a lifetime supply of food and never leave again. No, bad business. So no funny stuff, okay? We generally have all of that covered." The summoner could have winked.

Naruto nodded again, he wasn't planning on trying anything illegal. He didn't even know what was illegal here. But he was sure he could find something on Ionian laws at a later time.

"But as a final tip from me, many champions in the League are not all that they seem, and many will take interest in you since you're the newbie here. Now that should be all. If you need to contact me, there's a magical circle in the residence with the capability of contacting me, it's on the wall of the kitchen and all you have to do is put your hand on the circle and say 'League helpline' and you'll be in business. And if you need to know anything about the League or Ionia, these two books should help you out with the basics that you'll need to know."

Naruto nodded in understanding and took the small novellas from the summoner. The summoner teleported in a show of blue light from the front yard of Naruto's new residence, heading back to the Institute of War with a job very well done.

Naruto looked at the door and realized there was no place for a key, or a wooden block as it would seem. Naruto reached for the door-nob and hoped for the best. As he touched the nob, it began to warm to the touch, probably something to do with this 'magic' thing that seems to run everything in this world. It's most likely something entirely different than chakra, but this 'magic' would be worth looking into. Regardless, he felt exhausted and decided that he would try to read some of the books on the League and Ionia before going to bed for the night.

-==Break==-

"So that's our new neighbor..." said a stern figure on the street. Staring at the home of one Naruto Uzumaki.

"It seems like it." said another sleek figure, mimicking the same action.

The stern figure furthered the conversation, "And here I thought a male would never have the gaul to live here."

A different figure with a horn on her head then came into the conversation, "Well he's not exactly from here, you know?"

"Oh ho? What do you know Soraka? Something juicy from his judgement we should know!?" Exclaimed the regal-most woman of the four.

Soraka replied, "You know I can't, Karma. It's against the oath."

"I know, I know, It's still so sad. He seems so interesting too." Karma seemed downed a bit.

"We all know he's going to represent Ionia at the match in three days, do you think he's ready for that?" The stern one brought up a valid point, everyone was going to be curious about what he could do.

The sleek figure jumped in to give her opinion on the matter, "Irelia, you know you can't count on new champions to be truly good at anything, especially male ones. They get full of themselves while people are adapting to how they fight, then they get slaughtered after all of the other champions understand their tricks and abilities, and then everyone forgets about them."

Karma couldn't help but to further the tailed-one's irritation, "Wow Ahri, harsh words. He seems like such a cheery guy too. You both have similar titles, you both share the whisker marks on your cheeks~! Oh, it's so cute!" Karma gushed.

Ahri wouldn't take being compared to someone so obviously green to their world, "Did you see how much he was smiling, he's probably royal and house-trained like all those Demacians are. There's no way we could have anything in common." Ahri couldn't believe that he could be anything like her.

Soraka decided that she'd try to clear a few things up, and while she may not reveal everything she knew about a champion, she could bring up things that were known already to the public, "Except you're forgetting the announcement, he's related somehow to the void. And we saw that his clothes were neon orange. No 'ninja' from anywhere would wear that; I think that he's poor and not from around here."

"Are you hinting toward something, Soraka?" Irelia smirked, catching how Soraka stated what she thought entirely about the new champion, outside of the information made public. A very gray-area move.

"Not at all, I'm only speculating and talking about my opinion. You can never really know for sure." Soraka winked at the girls, she may be forbade from telling or showing anyone directly, she can state opinions and subtly hint toward ideas.

"Well, we'll know tomorrow who's on our team. Voting ends tomorrow and almost every summoner waits until the last few days to vote in case of new champions like this. So expect him to be at your training tomorrow, Ahri." Karma ended the conversation, leaving Ahri with a small frown, knowing that she and him were guaranteed to be representing Ionia together.

-==Break==-

"So Kyuubi, what do you think so far?"

"We don't know enough, of course. We're walking through a wild jungle blind here. We hardly know where we are, what the world looks like, what any of their technology is, or what this magic of theirs is capable of. I think we should try to stay low for the time being."

"That definitely makes sense, were the extra-sensory seals working well?"

Kyuubi was ecstatic, "Oh they're fantastic! It's almost like I'm out there myself! Except I can't control anything, feel anything or..." she trailed off as she reached some of the more negative aspects of it. She was grateful, but it wasn't being out there herself.

"I know Kyuubi, I'm trying to get it done. But for now we can only make your stay here as bearable as possible. For now, I can only give you two senses, hearing and seeing, I'm sorry. But I think that I may be able to make us a seal that will let me and you contact each other without me going unconscious!" Naruto wanted to really savor the suspense on this one, and waited for her to ask the question he knew she would ask.

Kyuubi raised an eyebrow, "Really? How would that work?" She was more than a little skeptical.

Naruto laughed a bit, "Well, you see. What we would have to do is..." Naruto explained how they would speak to each other through thought, what seals he used and how they could be expanded later on to be used even after she had her own body, if she would like. He went on saying about how their private and mundane thoughts, not directed toward each other, would be protected simply by the mechanisms of the seal. And in case of cataclysm, there was backup seals that would destroy the seal

should it get out of hand.

She was starry-eyed, it was definitely Uzumaki-level sealing. As they had both found out through Naruto's mother's techniques, Uzumakis were known for their creativity and ingenuity, which is why they excelled so well in seals and most all other shinobi arts, "Wow, that is some impressive work, Naruto."

Naruto's hand went to rubbing the back of his head while he put on an impish grin, Naruto was taken aback by the uncommon praise of Kyuubi. Blushing he replied, "It's nothing really, I'll start setting it up tonight so it's ready for use in a few days. But I'm going to have to get some good rest for tomorrow so I can start learning more about where we're going from here."

As they had come to realize, Kyuubi still had no need to sleep after arriving in the world. Which made sense, since she never needed sleep anyways and she was still primarily a chakra-construct. As compared to the mostly-human Naruto, who now needed very little sleep, but still had to sleep most nights. "Try not to work too hard on it, knowing you, you're probably going to get in some kind of trouble tomorrow, and you'll need your sleep." Kyuubi let Naruto go to his work while she went back to training on her fighting forms, pausing every so often to look over and see how he was doing.

-==Break==-

The next morning, Naruto got dressed and decided to go to this 'brunch' where they served food for all the home owners to promote 'neighborliness'. He thought it was a cool idea to get to know people, but from what that summoner said- well it couldn't hurt to meet his fellow neighbors.

Walking down the street, he came to the building where he'd originally been introduced to the neighborhood and to his home. Walking up to it and opening the door, he found the woman from yesterday that gave him the key to his new home. She brightened up at seeing him.

"Oho! Mr. Uzumaki, it's so nice to see you here. It's great that you decided to join us for our complimentary brunch." The woman gestured for him to follow her down the halls, "The others haven't arrived yet, but I'm sure they'll be here soon. Though they usually show up a bit earlier, but it shouldn't be a long wait at all if you wanted to see them." She smiled on, moving him along.

Opening the large set of double doors at least twice his size in height, the cafeteria looked like a long hall with another small door on the other end of the it, likely coming from the kitchen to serve food. There was a single round table currently in the middle of this, looking out of place in the larger facility, with only five chairs.

"I'm sorry if our tables and chairs don't live up to the expectation Mr. Uzumaki, but due to our shortage on people who stay here... I hope you can forgive us." The woman looked like she was worried he'd leave now, thinking he didn't already know about the shortage on guests. Or maybe that this implied they didn't have good service. Either way, Naruto would have to show her how misplaced her worry was.

"Oh don't worry about it, it looks lovely. Like a family table. I think it's great!" Naruto gave the woman a double thumbs up and a huge, bright smile of encouragement.

The woman gave a timid smile back and told Naruto to sit where he'd like to sit for his meal. Naruto decided to chose the seat that faced away from either end of the hall, as to avoid the awkwardness of watching as the other people staying here walked to the table, or the awkwardness of hearing them enter the hall but not seeing them until they sat at the table.

Naruto was then given a menu to order from. Which he told her not to give him until the others arrive, so he wouldn't seem rude in front of the others when he got his food when they were still ordering or waiting on theirs. The woman smiled again and laid down the menus in front of all the seats, "Here, at least you can look at the menu. The other four always get the same thing, so it wont be an issue for them." The waitress-clerk chuckled. She asked him if he was okay here by himself for the moment, with her leaving at his response.

Half an hour later

Naruto's upper body was half laying on the table at this point, nearly asleep with his head facing away from the front doors. Until Naruto's hearing began picking up on small sounds outside the door, starting with a laugh, then some words, "... Should be gone by now..."

"Yeah! I can't wait to eat! The food here's always so amazing!"

"You guys..."

The door opened and he could almost feel the glares immediately aimed at him. He took his head off of the table and stretched out his arms and legs by making them go ramrod straight, a few cracks following, and then let his limbs go limp. Turning his head to the side facing the opened door, he was greeted with the sight of four beautiful woman, all with very defining features. One with a large horn jutting from her forehead, another with four elegant blades hovering by her head, the third with a silk kimono that molded to her skin, and finally a girl with – fox ears and tails? How... familiar.

He saw them strut over to their apparently usual seats with a pointed look at him. As they sat down, the fox-girl and the blade-girl noticeably shifted their seats further away from him. He suppose that the blade-girl did it so he didn't get hurt by her blades, and the fox-girl so she didn't- erm – get hair on him? He hoped he didn't smell that bad.

The waitress-clerk came back into the room and noticed them all sitting down and smiled. She took the orders of the women, presumably giving Naruto time to remember what he'd chosen to eat before his nap. After she left to deliver the orders the air became deathly silent, Naruto let out an exasperated sigh and felt all four women's eyes on him quickly. He couldn't even breath properly in this atmosphere. He needed an ice-breaker. But he didn't have any good ones; or any at all for that matter.

The waitress soon brought in the food for them all, he really didn't know what he got, but it looked delicious in the picture and it looked something like ramen. And if the smell was anything to go by, it may as well have been ramen!

The four women started eating conservatively the moment they got their food, with a hopefully silent gulp, he muttered out a quick, "Thank you so much for the food" with a small inclination of the head toward the waitress, as was custom in his homeland. Then ate slowly. The food was divine! But the company was not. And if he didn't act soon, then they'd no doubt leave and come even later or sooner next time! Avoiding him at all costs. So what to do?

Naruto stared at the most curious looking one of the four females, it was clear she was making an effort to avoid eye-contact. But eventually failed, at which points the first words were said between those at the table.

"You do know that it's rude to stare at people, don't you?" The woman spat venomously.

"Huh? Yeah, sorry!" Naruto shut his eyes and gave his good ol' foxy grin at the fox-woman. Unwilling to let the conversation go, he pressed forward, "So... what are you? Some kind of cat-lady?"

The woman's gaze suddenly intensified, and the others looked shocked at what he said, but Naruto ignored this, he wanted to try and understand these people and what their big issue was. "What?" She gasped out, "I am part fox." The woman looked outraged at the mis-comparison.

Naruto ignored the signs that he should back off and decided to dig deeper, "But you look like a cat; bushy tails, slit eyes, sharp nails, whiskers, tall ears, and you even have the fur color of a cat!"

"I. Am. Part. Fox!" She looked about ready to attempt murder at that point, any sane male would back off and let things simmer down, but Naruto couldn't.

"I don't think so." Waiting for a moment to catch a train of thought, any train, "All...-umm. Foxes have orange fur! All the ones I know do, at least. Your fur is white, so that's impossible!" Even he realized the absolute stupidity of that statement.

"You retard. You're the 'Fox Ninja'!?" She said with pure contempt, "Don't you know what a fox looks like? You have whiskers to don't you?! Well I doubt you're a cat-fox ninja-thing because of that! I'm the Nine-Tailed Fox, Ahri! And I. Am not. A cat!" Ahri had raised up her Orb of Deception, the boy's eyes shifted to it immediately and stared at it in shock for a moment before waving his hands out in front of him as if asking her to stop.

"Woah. Woah! I'm sorry!" Fortunately, common sense returned to Naruto that he'd gone too far with the whole 'ice-breaking' thing, and now would likely never repair relations with them. It was depressing really. The woman, Ahri, went back to her meal and eating it, the taste seemingly more bitter now after that little debacle. Naruto whispered out in a small voice, "It was just a joke..."

Ahri was up in arms in the next beat of a heart, "What was that!? I'm some joke now? Is that it? I'm just some funny, tail-end of a bad one-liner?!" Ahri was absolutely livid. Naruto saw the other females looking on abhorrently at the scene.

He was completely shocked at how horrible that all turned out, from having them hating him and wanting to ignore him to now hating him and wanting to murder him. There was no Kyuubi involved this time, no one else to blame, no one died for love and sacrificed themselves. They hated him for him, pure and simple. If he couldn't even make friends with these few people, how was he suppose to deal with all the other oddities of this world, the strange creatures that summoner's book mentioned. He was doomed here. And he wouldn't take just sitting here and receiving all of this in such an unfriendly environment, his fight or flight insticts kicked in.

Ahri continued on, "You're just some stupid-" And Naruto vanished in a burst of flame before he could hear anymore of it. Luckily the table didn't catch on fire.

The room was silent.

-==View Change==-

"...I'm just some funny, tail-end of a bad one-liner?!" The words were spat out, and every female at the table was struck by the whipping Ahri was attempting to give the young-man. Her Orb of Deception in hand, she struck out with every cursed word she had against him, "You're just some stupid-!" In these moments, every female but the fox currently throttling the boy noticed the broken look dawning on the boy's face, despair etching itself into every feature of his expression, and hopelessness manifesting in every contour of his lining.

The boy suddenly collapsed inwards in a show of flames, popping out of existence from the room. And nobody spoke a word.

And for what felt like minutes still longer, nobody spoke. If only now to allow Ahri time to cool off after a rough verbal abusing she'd given out in her rage.

Until, "Well, that ought to show him right. What a wimp of a man, running away after a few words. Can't even stand there and face me. Coward." Ahri seemed almost pleased with herself.

"Ahri, that was too harsh." Soraka said, looking disapprovingly at her, "You need to apologize to him."

A stab went through Ahri's heart at the disapproval of one of her closest friends, "Why would I do that? He had it coming."

"You don't know anything about him, Ahri. What I'm telling you is that I know he didn't deserve what you did to him." Soraka's look was sharper than her horn.

Ahri couldn't believe what she was hearing from her friend, disapproval at bad mouthing some random guy? None of them had ever expressed disapproval for it before, "Oh? Well could you tell me about him then? No!? You have your oath Soraka! It's not that I don't trust you or anything, but I really don't care if he gets hurt or not, he's gone and I'm happy about it."

Soraka raised a finger to her, as if pointing to a flaw in her idea, "He's not gone though. He has nowhere else to go, no one else to go to. From what little I know about him, he's going to seek out the safest place he knows of. He's probably going to hole up in his home and there will be nothing you can do about it." Irelia and Karma were astounded at the lashing Soraka was giving to protect this random male; serious arguing and bickering of any kind was uncommon between their close-knit group. But at this point, they were beginning to wonder what Soraka had seen in this Fox Ninja.

"Fine. I'm going to apologize to him later." Ahri looked frustrated with Soraka, but Soraka was happy that Ahri was coming around. While Irelia and Karma looked nervous about what Ahri's apologizing meant.

And all the while this was going on, the waitress in the background looked piercingly at the females, disgust apparent in her features.

-==Break==-

After Naruto's abrupt departure using his Flame Shunshin he rushed to his home, went into and closed the door to his bedroom, and then tried to sleep. But when sleep would not come to him, he got up and submerged himself in thought and readings around the house. After that, he couldn't stay still, constantly doing something and keeping tears at bay from his horrid failure at the morning's brunch. He missed Kyuubi, after spending so long with her all those years, he needed her to be near him, but he couldn't sleep to talk to Kyuubi, he was too frustrated, too horrified. And if he was honest, he didn't want to see Kyuubi's face, he didn't want to know if she thought he was a moron as well.

Naruto decided that he would relax for a moment, and he tried to think rationally about what he would do next.

He knew what he should do, no matter how much she hated him, or the others, he had to apologize. If he apologized maybe he could go back to them ignoring him and leaving him be like they never met. At least that way he could go outside of his house without feeling guilty or fearing taunts and jeers.

Naruto's plan was that he would go back to the cafeteria and apologize to Ahri, and hopefully she wouldn't blow him to pieces with her Rasengan. Which brought up the question, how did she learn how to make a Rasengan? Did she have chakra? It didn't look like it was spinning, it looked really malleable. Did it have to do with this magic stuff?

He sighed, the kind of things he'd never know because he screwed up everything with them. He'd be hated by them, living in an environment where most of the few people there hated him. And he couldn't even leave because he told that summoner he would try to live here.

…

But that's why he was going to apologize to her! Yes, he could do that.

After Naruto stepped outside, he found out that it was already well into the evening. He must've lost track of time in his fit of depression.

Now he had to figure out where her house was. And there's no better way than to ask around.

Naruto started off by going to the main building to go and ask the clerk-waitress there if she knew, but their closing hours ended a while ago.

So he'd try to knock on each and every house until he found her, or someone who would tell him.

Starting at house number one, he knocked on the door and found the girl with the four blades, she refused to tell him anything. Actually she just stared at him a moment and slammed the door right back in his face.

House number two then. He found the girl with the silk kimono. Second verse, same as the first. Stare at him. Slammed door. Feelings hurt. Moving along.

On to house number three! Finding the girl with a horn, she actually decided to hear him out. Actually her voice sounded very familiar for some reason. Something to think about later.

The woman introduced herself as Soraka, the Starchild. She welcomed him to the neighborhood and apologized for the other girl's lack of manners toward him, that they weren't use to having a man around the town. Naruto brushed it off and asked if she could tell him where Ahri's house was so he could apologize to her about his stupidity, that he just wanted to break the uncomfortable silence this morning.

Soraka smiled and pointed at the second to last house on the street, "House number nine, she stays there."

Naruto nodded gratefully and decided to ask why nobody lived in house four. Apparently it's because Ahri wanted to stay in house number nine, but as to why Naruto didn't get it, probably as a buffer zone between Naruto and the women in the other houses. Naruto thanked Soraka again and wished her a good night. And rushed over to house nine.

-==View Change==-

Ahri was currently getting ready to go out on a night of havoc. She was making herself out to be as beautiful as she could be. After all, girls needed to look their best on apology dates, right?

Getting up to leave her house for house number five, she stopped as she heard a knock on the door. Thinking that is was likely either Karma or Irelia to tell her how stupid what she was doing was, she went over and opened the door.

"If you guys are here to-" Ahri paused, noticing it wasn't her friends. But rather, it was the blonde from earlier. Ahri almost had a slight panic attack, did her friends tell him about her idea? Would he attack her? The panic inside of her was reaching higher and higher levels, almost to the point where she didn't hear what the boy said. "Say again?"

Naruto seemed to look off to the side and breathe in. Naruto bowed low at a ninety degree angle, his head looking back at his own knees, "I'm here to apologize for what I did earlier. It was stupid of me for doing that and I have no excuse. I wanted to ask if you could ever forgive me for what I did and ignore my stay here."

Ahri's eyes widened at his bowed position, his apology was undoubtably sincere and he said everything that she would want to hear, but she was too prideful. If neither Karma or Irelia talked her out of it yet, they must approve of what she was doing, she couldn't go back now. Especially after spending all this time getting ready! Ahri continued to look at his nervous form, too nervous to even stop bowing, "Fine, fine. I forgive you." Ahri said in a bland tone, "But~." Ahri started saying slyly, "I need to apologize to you now, for how I acted."

Naruto came up from his bowed position and shook his head, "Please no, the way you acted was perfectly reasonable. I obviously offended you an-" Naruto was interrupted by Ahri pulling him by one of his arms into the house and sitting him on her living room couch.

"I insist~" Ahri continued, "I'll be back with something to drink."

Naruto was uncomfortable, this house looked quite a bit like his own, the only difference was that the walls were painted a pretty light blue instead of the bland white at his house. Well, he was actually really uncomfortable since one of the girls that was suppose to hate him, the one that should hate him the most actually, was now happy with him and trying to apologize as best she could. Is this how this world worked? Hatred comes and goes like the wind as long as you apologize? Is that was the Death God thought this place would be a paradise? There were so many questions he had about this world.

Ahri came back in the room with what looked to be some kind of tea, "It's my own recipe, I really like it myself. But it's quite a bit of work to make another cup, so I would like you to try it. So far you're the only person I've ever made this for, so tell me what you think." Ahri had a sincere smile on and handed Naruto the cup. Afterwards, she went to the couch across from him and watched with gleeful eyes.

Naruto's instincts screamed out to him that everything about what she said sounded wrong, that her smile was wrong, the very air here was wrong. But he had to trust her, maybe it was a custom of the land and would make everything worse if he didn't accept. He put on a good face, and if worst came to worst-

Naruto drank the tea, giving him a warm feeling as it went down his throat. 'It's drugged' he immediately concluded.

Ahri's 'sincere' smile morphed into something more cheshire in nature, "So how do you like it~?" She giggled at his awed face.

Naruto looked up and smiled at her, "Very tasty, it's quite the recipe. Where'd you find it?" Naruto distracted her with the small conversation to give time for him to activate his mother's Poison Purge Jutsu, which expelled all sorts of drugs and poisons from a person's body. It's so effective that the great medic ninja Tsunade apparently used this religiously for alcohol. Of course, the Kyuubi's chakra he produced would destroy the drug on its own, but he preferred to take no chances here, this world's drugs could be different than theirs and he wanted every safety measure he could gather up.

Ahri replied, "I got it from a nun in Northern Ionia, she gave the recipe to me for just such an occasion. When I want to treat a guest with some hospitality~" Ahri giggled again, watching as Naruto's face flushed red. Ahri likely thought it was some combination between the embarrassment, the drug, and the pheromones in the air. In reality, it was actually the drug-purging taking effect in his system.

"Ahh, I see." Naruto also could feel his own face heating up. In the meantime, he needed to figure out what her motives were.

"So then~" Ahri smirked seductively, she got up and slowly crossed from her couch over to the one he was sitting on. Reaching him, she saddled his lap facing him. Putting a hand on Naruto's cheek, she giggled.

"How are you feeling~?" Ahri gyrated her hips a bit then came in close and asked whisperingly in his ear, "Would you like to play a game with me~?"

Naruto looked at her completely shocked, was this what she wanted to do? Why go through the process of trying to drug him? He was getting uncomfortable very fast and his eyes started burning up. "What are-"

Ahri silenced him by gliding her hand on his cheek over so that her index finger was over his lips. "Don't you trust me~?" She giggled again, a light seemingly shining on her from the other side of the room, "Lets have some real fun~"

And at the end of that sentence, Naruto exploded into motion, knocking her off of him and instantly entering into his Perfect Tailed Beast Cloak. In this form, he started sensing her frustration with him over his lack of succumbing to her, and her hatred of him. Either he was mistaken and coital intimacy was how people got rid of their hatred in this world, or the summoner's previous advice was very applicable here. He saw the Rasengan orb right in the grasp of one of her tails, likely what was causing the light from behind her. Her Rasengan was obviously some kind of ability to be used offensively like his own Rasengan, considering how she held it up threateningly earlier.

Ahri stared shocked at the boy in front of her, who managed to not only break past her charms and allure, the thick pheromones in the air, and the extra-strong drug in the tea; but he was now leaking out life's pure energy. The thing she needed most to survive, the thing that she'd been addicted to for so long now, the very thing that caused her to feel such regret! She hated that thing! She hated him! She hated all men who offered her their life's energy so easily, so willingly! But most of all, she really hated this boy here who was now leaking such a precious energy every which way! She'd take it from him then! Take it all so he'd never waste such a precious thing as life ever again!

Naruto watched as the woman, Ahri, got up and straightened herself out. He watched as her emotions began getting more unstable with every passing moment, sinking into some sort of feral rage directed straight at him. She carried the ball in her hand, and he watched as it moved around her hand slowly, until she struck out with the ball soaring straight at him in a line.

Naruto thought quickly, and formed a Rasengan in the palm of his hand and met the pseudo-mockery mid-flight, hitting it straight back to Ahri. Ahri looked up shocked at him, now growing even more furious at the failed attempt on his life, due to a technique that looked so much like hers.

Ahri activated her Foxfire technique, conjuring three floating flames that moved around her, and rushed at Naruto with her Orb of Deception in hand, planning on delivering her abilities at close range where there'd never be a chance at him dodging them.

Only for Naruto to think ahead of her, as he seemed to move faster than she could react. He dove low and put his hand on her stomach, pumping chakra into all of the chakra point in his flat palm, he blasted her upward, causing her to hit the ceiling.

Ahri is a champion of the League of Legends, and while hitting the magically-reinforced ceiling did hurt, it wouldn't take her out of her searing rage. As she hit, she began to use one of her special techniques, the Spirit Rush, where she moved as particles of the very life energy this boy wasted so haphazardly, she basically teleported from one place to another in less than a blink of an eye. Using this ability, she hit the ceiling and immediately rebounded with the use of her Spirit Rush, she was under the boy with her Foxfire and Orb of Deception hurling toward him faster than he could register.

And yet when they hit the boy, he vanished in a puff of smoke leaving her abilities to hit the spot she'd used her Spirit Rush from. What kind of illusion was this?

Ahri looked around for any signs of the boy, her sights not picking up on anything and her nose no longer smelling anything of use from the singed ceiling. It was completely quiet and her sixth sense for life energy was so bogged down by his expulsion of so much of it that it was useless in tracking him.

Ahri's bloodthirsty mind began calming down and her feral pursuit came to a close. She sighed in agony as she thought over what she did and how stupid it was of her to do it. She made an enemy of the new champion of the League, one she'd have to work with tomorrow. She'd tried to kill him against League regulation out of spite for what? Being alive? Annoying her? So what if his life force was the strongest she'd ever seen ever. It was no reason to kill him to take it, a kiss has always been more than enough to steal the energy of any normal person, yet she felt she had to toy with this one because... because she was jealous? Maybe because he could be like her-

Ahri's ears perked up as she suddenly heard the door open and slam shut. That little-, of course he couldn't have escaped her house. There were magical barriers preventing anyone from leaving through anywhere but the front door. And he couldn't escape without opening it, so he must have hidden... But where could he have? Could he go invisible? She sighed...

It was stuff she'd never know because she screwed up everything with him. She'd be hated by the only man to ever resist her charms, to be above the rest. The only man to be full of so much life and energy!

But he was a dirty, rotten man. And like all men, he probably only saw her as an object, or a trophy to be won. Or maybe he was one of those men who saw her as some kind of whore or just weak-willed in general. Though it didn't help disprove that after she drugged him with some serious aphrodisiacs, filled the air with a large density of pheromones, and used some of her most powerful charm illusions on him. Though that begged the question how he got out of it all. He'd have to be immune to drugs to get out of the aphrodisiac. He'd have to be immune to either biological chemicals or just be immune to his biology in general, and while he seems young, he wasn't that young- not from what she felt... And he'd also have to be immune to illusions as well.

For a champion to be so strong and to be immune or resistant to so many things, it made her wonder if they had a new tank champion in the League. And she prayed it wasn't another Taric, though that may explain how he was immune to everything. No, she doubted it. He may have tried to hide it, but he definitely took in an eyeful when he got here.

Maybe she was beginning to lose her looks. No, that was definitely impossible. As she'd learned through the years, aging wasn't really much of an issue for her as long as she had plenty of life energy left. It would sustain her body's life force as long as she still had some left.

But she was getting off track. The boy, she was definitely certain he wasn't like all the other men. He didn't treat her like dirt, he didn't taunt her or badmouth her during their fight, he definitely was very stupid if the morning was anything to go by. But most importantly, he didn't take the bait she was practically thrusting out for him, any other male would think she was coming onto him, but only he picked up on everything. While the drug, the chemicals, and the illusion didn't work, any normal male would easily think she was needy and coming onto them and go for it; but he didn't. It was exhilarating.

But that was beyond her, he hated her now no doubt and she blew her chance with what may be the best guy she'd every found. She was going to be living near a guy who was amazing, but hated her completely. Irelia and Karma were going to have a field day. And Soraka... oh Soraka.

But the boy's, Naruto if she recalled, abilities were mostly unknown to her. She recognized that sphere, it was so much like her Orb of Deception, but it was spinning. It was spinning in so many different directions, how did he do that? It hit hers and sent it flying back with no trouble at all. It was scary, how all the lives she'd taken accumulated into this orb, but didn't even come close to the power of his. How many lives did he take? Was he actually a sociopath? No, he would have taken her orb from her and absorbed it into his own and increased his own power. Which begged the question, where did he keep his orb? It just came from nowhere!

-==Break==-

The sleepless night was long with questions for Ahri. As she focussed more on the blonde fox, the more curious and obsessed she became.

The morning arrived and Ahri had gotten no sleep before going to meet her friends at their usual meeting place in front of the cafeteria.

-==In Front of the Door to the Cafeteria==-

Soraka looked up and noticed that their usual foxy friend had arrived, "Hey Ahri, how are- oh wow, did you sleep at all last night?"

Karma and Irelia looked back to Ahri and noticed how tired she looked, "Uhm, I hate to jump to conclusions here but I believe that we all deserve to know this, was he really that good?" Karma smirked, knowing that what she said was completely impossible knowing their friend – most likely. But it did make her wonder what did happen last night, Ahri was never like this after sucking the life energy out of a guy. They continued talking while walking over to the table, which was oddly lacking of a certain blonde.

"Oh shut up Karma, I couldn't sleep well." Ahri didn't feel in the mood for silly word games or stalling the issue, they all sat down at the table and she thought over what to say. She decided that they were curious and that she'd had more than her fill of unfulfilled curiosity last night, "I failed, Naruto was immune to the drug, to the pheromones, to my charm illusion, and to me in general. I don't understand him." Ahri laid her head down on the table in shame for what happened.

Soraka looked completely befuddled with her mutilated expression, but said nothing in return, as did the other two stupefied females who seemed further confused since the blonde wasn't here. The common thought between the two knowing females was if Naruto had left or not.

Ahri's eyes were watering, "I'm sorry, Soraka. I lied to you, I wanted to end him, I didn't like him and I thought that I hadn't gotten any new life energy in a while so I thought that maybe I could get away with sucking it out of him. But he was just so... I don't understand! He's immune to everything I do and he was so fast, cunning. He defeated me so e-eas-ily. He- he even has a better-bet-better orb than me." When Ahri looked up from her head-down position, she had tears streaking down her face with her eyes more red than white or yellow. It shocked her friends beyond believe, they'd never seen the normally pacified fox cry before or be so emotionally invested in something.

Soraka decided to speak, "It was awfully stupid what you tried to do, if you'd succeeded, you know what the punishment is for killing another champion." Soraka pointed out to her, but she sighed. She would lecture the poor fox later, right now she needed friends, "So what happened Ahri? Tell us everything."

Ahri stared at her and tried to wipe off the tears and the salt trails, she started explaining, "So it first started when he knocked on my door. I was getting ready to go over to his house and do the deed, but he showed up to mine first because he wanted to apologize. He sounded so sincere when he apologized too, he said everything just the way I wanted to hear it, but I didn't care. I invited him in and decided that if he was bold enough to come to my home, that I would pull out all the stops. I started using my natural pheromones with my usual magical methods; he should be at least part-fox too, so he'd be affected quickly and easily. I also went and made him my special herbal tea with extra aphrodisiac mixed into it. And when I knew both of those should have been set in place, I walked up to him, sat on his lap, and cast a direct charm-illusion on him-"

"Wait, hold on." Called out Irelia, "Were both of you talking during this? Or was he quiet?"

Ahri was confused with the question, but she knew Irelia wouldn't ask something pointless and was going somewhere with it, "Uhm, yeah we were talking. He was really nervous and asked a quick question or two after he drank it. I think he asked where I got it and... no I think that was it. He was really quite during most of it."

Karma looked at Irelia, "Seems pretty normal to ask that when you get some good tasting tea, and since he was nervous I can see him being really quiet."

"But he asked that right after drinking the tea, didn't he, then never took another drink again?" Ahri nodded slowly at Irelia, wondering what she was on about, "Maybe he did ask to know where it came from because he was curious, but I think that most people would've savored the taste a bit more and drank more of the tea before asking that question to you. And more so, they definitely would've had to drink more of it after asking the question if they liked it." The other three girls seems thoughtful at that and let Irelia continue with the importance of this, "If that's how it happened, I definitely think he knew about it being drugged, if only after he drank it. He needed to distract Ahri from the fact he was putting it to the side, so he asked a natural question to distract her from him not wanting to drink more.

"He must have some way to purge the drug out of his system then, he couldn't be completely immune to it, otherwise he would've kept drinking it to make it easier on himself."

The others mentally applauded Irelia's thought and agreed with her, "And that's great to know if on the off chance-" But Karma was interrupted by Soraka.

"Please continue Ahri, we'd all like to know the rest."

Ahri shrugged off the nervousness and continued, "So I applied my charm, I worked my usual 'wonders' and everything seemed to be going fantastic. His face looked flush, he was rigid and nervous, I prepared my Orb of Deception behind me on the off chance he got difficult when I began sucking out his life energy. But suddenly he burst up, in this yellow-orange... veil or cloak, I suppose is what I could call it. He had all these strange black lines and markings all over him and a jacket that looked destroyed and cut up."

Ahri began panting at the memory of the pure energy that flowed through her at that moment, but she continued through the memory.

"He was leaking out pure energy, life energy. The thing I need so much and the stuff I'm addicted to, he radiated so much of it everywhere. I think my house still has a bunch of residue that I can't do anything with because I can't figure out how to absorb it. But he was in this cloak-thing, and I got scared, or maybe jealous, and I threw out my Orb of Deception at him to try and kill him. I expected him to dodge, or since he's a champion, live even. But instead what he did was make his own Orb of Deception, and deflect mine back at me with no issues at all!"

Ahri was ready to cry remembering that moment, she shouldn't have brushed that off, that should've brought up alarm bells about how strong he was.

"His orb was spinning, but not just spinning. It was spinning in different directions, it was like it had layers in it that each spun its own way, and it was made of such pure energy, it was scary. Even scarier was when he moved so swiftly and gracefully and got right up close to me. He put his palm on my stomach and used his own internal life energy to shoot me up like a rocket and hit the ceiling." Ahri rolled her shoulders, "I decided that I needed to use my Spirit Rush and went underneath him, hitting him with it and my Foxfire and my Orb of Deception. But when they hit, he burst into smoke and I couldn't find him. A few minutes later while I was trapped in my thoughts, I heard him walk right out the front door and actually escape me. I spent the rest of the night thinking about everything that went wrong, everything I could think of that I should've done, what he tried to do, everything that I could think of that had to do with him."

Soraka stared knowingly at her, "You want to understand him, don't you?"

"Understand him? I don't want that anymore, I want to know him. Soraka, is there anything you could tell me at all? Anything?" Ahri looked pleadingly at her horned friend, still with watery red eyes that looked like they'd cry blood if the tears spilt.

"Ahri, I can't tell you anything because of my oath. However, nothing prevents me from showing you." Soraka smiled at Ahri. Soraka knew that this was also against her oath, but it was a less severe offense by far.

Irelia and Karma looked like Braum himself had come and frozen them in blocks of ice, but then broke their way out of it and requested permission to tag along, "Soraka, could we come as well?"

Soraka stared at them and sighed loudly, "I'm sorry, but this is going to have to be something I share with Ahri here alone. But I don't think you both need to know about Naruto anyways, you both don't have a crush on him like our dear Ahri does." The three of them laughed at Ahri's expense.

Ahri's eyes had since cleared up slightly but still looked completely exhausted, "I just want to know..."

The others looked sadly at their friend, not knowing what to make of this new side to her.

Soraka decided that if Ahri and her were going to do this, they would have to do it now and alone.

-==Break==-

Soraka guided Ahri over to her own house, number three, to show Ahri who Naruto was.

In Soraka's living room, a couch looking very much similar to the one Naruto sat on, a pale tan color, was where Ahri was told to sit while Soraka prepared.

Soraka began by putting her hands to Ahri's temples; asking afterward for Ahri to close her eyes. Soraka started muttering an incoherent incantation for the spell she was going to use.

A moment later, Ahri was in a large expansive room full of doors with her eyes wide open. The room was made of pure white marble, cool to the touch. The room lacked any distinctive features, as if the whole box was made from a single block of marble. The only interesting things were the doors, each one seemed to have a different kind of wood or varying types of metal, one even looked like it was a woolen door?

Soraka appeared next to her, "Ahri, this way." Soraka began walking toward the closest door on the left, a door made of solid gold.

And it was apparently heavy, Soraka seemed to struggle getting the door opened enough for them to slip through, "I could help, Soraka?"

"No, Ahri. It's fine, it's just something I have to do on my own." Soraka wasn't use to sharing secrets, it seemed to be a literal strain on her to open up a secret to someone else. After the door was finally opened, they both went in further.

Ahri was at a loss, "Where are we?"

"Well this entire place is my mind, a sort of representation of it. And we are in my memories of all I have about Naruto Uzumaki, our Fox Ninja." Soraka trudged along ahead, the light was very bright at the end of the hall they were going down, but Soraka seemed to understand where they were heading.

"Why is it so bright in here?" Ahri was getting annoyed by having to nearly hold hands with Soraka to get through the tunnel.

Soraka was hesitant to answer Ahri's question, but answered nonetheless, "The entirety of this place represents my mind, and this place here represents my memories. This is a direct representation to my feelings on these memories."

Ahri was wide eyed and awed, "But this room is so bright, and the door was solid gold! Are these memories that amazing?"

"Kinda'. Now we're almost there." Soraka stopped, causing Ahri to falter in step. But before Ahri could question her, Soraka needed to make something clear, "I need you to promise me something Ahri. That no matter what you see here, you will never let it affect your judgement of him. He's a strong man who doesn't his past brought up in any conversation. He doesn't care for any of his past anymore after coming to Runeterra." Ahri remained silent, but Soraka could tell that she was listening intently, "In the League judgement, we chose a few moments that seemed emotional, iconic, and painful; we had him relive those memories. Yet those memories didn't even phase him. He told us immediately that none of those events define him anymore, because they're in the past.

Soraka continued on, "And I'm letting you know now, that these are those memories we saw." Soraka guided Ahri forward until they both suddenly saw light.

-==Break==-

"I'm sorry Naruto, you failed..."

…

"This is your second try Naruto, I'm sure you'll pass."

"I'm sorry Naruto, you failed again."

…

"Naruto, you failed!"

…

"You, Naruto, you are the Demon Fox! And I'll kill you to avenge the thousands you've massacred!"

…

"What's the loser doing here?"

"Yeah, I thought he flunked out yesterday with the lowest scores out of everyone here..."

"Team Seven: Naruto Uzumaki, Sakura Haruno, and Sasuke Uchiha."

…

"I thought I hired actually shinobi, these are just a bunch of punk brats."

"My name's Tazuna, and I'm the super bridge builder of Wave country."

…

"Hm, loser, you scared or something? Scaredy-cat."

…

A bestial roar at the loss of a friend, "I'll kill you!"

…

A preliminary match between family, "Hinata! You can do it!"

…

"Neji, you're wrong. If everything is predestined, then I'll fight it! I don't care what it takes, I will become hokage!"

…

"Gaara – I know what you're feeling right now. You're hurt and alone. You've felt the stares, everyone wishing you'd disappear. I don't know how much pain you've felt until now, but you and me Gaara, we have each other. So you can't lose yourself to the darkness. It's how I get stronger Gaara, with people behind me, supporting me."

A different boy spoke up a bit later, "Temari, Kankuro. Let's go home. And... I'm sorry, for everything."

…

"You're coming back home with me, Sasuke! Rasengan!"

"Chidori!"

…

"Hello Leaf Village! Naruto Uzumaki has finally returned!"

…

"Gaara! You bastard, give Gaara back to us!"

…

"Who gives you the right to call Sasuke yours! Rooahhrr!"

…

A girl gasped, "Sasuke..."

…

"The world will know real pain. The fear instilled by that pain would prevent wars. And the world would be on the road to stability and peace."

"But that kind of peace... It's nothing but a fake!"

…

"Do you hate me?"

"Yes. Know pain."

-==Break==-

Ahri was suddenly back sitting on the living room couch of Soraka's house. What happened?

Ahri looked at the exhausted Soraka, who looked like she was nearly about to pass out, "Soraka, what was that. That made no sense... Just some voices, a few images, scenes." Ahri shook her head, "I could hardly make out anything."

Soraka was looking down at the ground in exhaustion, "That's how the League judgement works. We siphon out as many memories as we can in the few moments when champions first enter, then one of us speaks to give the others time to sort through the memories. Each decides on a defining or emotional moment in their life and makes them relive it. The issue with Naruto was that there was too much, too many defining moments, too much lifetime to accurately go through. There were holes, giant gaping ones that we couldn't access at all too. That's not normal, even traumatically suppressed memories we could gather, but we couldn't see those. In the end, this was all we managed to extract from his mind collectively.

"Naruto is by far the most terrifying champion we've seen yet, but I have no doubt he's in the League for only good intentions. He's a pure soul who wants friends and trust in a world so foreign to him." Soraka looked at Ahri. "You know what I know now, which isn't as much as you'd hoped, I can see. But it is all we have."

"Soraka, thank you. It's not as much as I wanted, but you're right as always." Ahri gave a little smile at that, "And I think I have more questions now than ever. But at least I know now that I have to go straight to the source to find out what I need. Thank you again Soraka" Ahri made to get up and leave.

"You should probably get home though, no doubt your letter has arrived." Soraka managed a smile back at Ahri through her exhausted look.

Ahri nodded at the moonchild and left the house so that Soraka could rest in her own home.

Ahri trudged slowly down the path between the houses and paused as she was about to pass house number five. Who was she kidding about talking to Naruto. What was she going to do? Walk up to the house and demand answers from him? He'd laugh at her for bringing up his supposedly 'unimportant past', or maybe he'd even just sneer and hate her more for being pushy or something.

She considered maybe going up to the door and apologizing to him to make up for what she did, truly apologize this time. But there was no way he would accept it, no way he could forgive her. No matter how of a soul he may be, nobody could forgive her for what she did.

Ahri did notice that there was no floating, glowing, blue letter in front of the door of the house though. Had the letters not come yet? That was impossible, the League was always so tight on the timing of those. Which means that either he wasn't voted to be on the team, he'd already picked it up, or he'd already moved away. She didn't really know which of those options were good and which were bad.

Continuing walking down the path, she saw that she had gotten her letter. She grabbed it on her way inside and began reading through it. Ignoring the League's normal theatrics with the letter.

-==Hours Earlier==-

Naruto rushed to his house at the speed of lightning, coming to a near skidding halt. He didn't slow down enough though, and hit his whiskered face on the front door. Ignoring the feeling of a bloody nose, he quickly opened his door, and rushed inside to safety.

Naruto took a few moments to collect himself and straighten out what he thought had happened. But there was no time apparently, as the moment he closed his front door he already began passing out. He fell backwards onto the tiled floor, registering some pain that he felt on the back of his head before he totally blacked out.

-==Break==-

Naruto woke up in the sewers of his mind, the waters being slightly higher now as compared to when he was here the previous night.

Looking around he saw a red blur racing toward him from his left at break-neck speeds. And Naruto had barely anytime to shout out so much as an exclamation, "Wh-ahh?!"

Naruto was taken down in a second by the blur, who Naruto recognized as the only other person in his mind, Kyuubi. Naruto was the recipient of a brutal onslaught of closed fist punches. Any attempt to stop her was met with a various growls and struggles by Kyuubi. Naruto didn't suffer any real injuries fortunately, but after a few more moments of this senselessness from Kyuubi, Naruto grabbed her arms and flipped her on her back so that he was staring down from above her.

As they both began to gain their breath and Kyuubi began calming down from her feral state, Naruto began with the most obvious question, "What was that for?"

Kyuubi looked up at him, narrowing her eyes and staring purposefully back. She tried to remove his hands and legs from pinning her down, but Naruto wouldn't yield until he had his answer. Kyuubi relaxed and looked away from the intimidating figure above her, lifelessly she spoke, "It's not important."

"How can it not be important! You came over here, running at me like the apocalypse was at your heels, you tackle me down and try to beat me into the floor! This wasn't some surprise sparing lesson, this wasn't some sort of stealth training or practice of any kind." Naruto immediately interjected, he was concerned for Kyuubi beyond a doubt, but given what he'd gone through mere minutes before, being nearly killed or raped by that Kyuubi lookalike. He was now wondering what was going on with Kyuubi herself.

Kyuubi continued to look away, she refused so say anything.

The figure above her didn't seem to take her answer, "Kyuubi, you must be frustrated about something. And I've never seen you keep something like this from me. Is there something bothering you? Did I do something wrong?" Naruto himself sounded dejected now.

Kyuubi looked back up to Naruto with a fire in her eyes, "D-damn right you did something wrong!" Kyuubi managed to force Naruto off of her with pure effort. She got up and kicked his chest so hard that he slammed against the far wall of the sewer. Naruto collapsed onto the floor, his back leaning on the wall, the palms of his hands also laying against the wall, and his legs forming a 'V' out in front of him.

Naruto saw her racing back toward him, but instead of find himself being laid into again with vigorous punches and kicks that he wasn't prepared for, he instead found Kyuubi sitting on his lap and embracing him for all she was worth, her tails splayed out behind her over his legs.

"You idiot... How could you let that fox whore get that close to you." The question was more of a statement, and Naruto knew that he wasn't suppose to respond to it. "How could you fall for her so easily... how could you look at her like that. You stupid idiot." Kyuubi rested her head over Naruto's shoulder.

Naruto looked at Kyuubi, and brought his arms around her lithe form. She wasn't crying, but she was emotional at the moment, and that required all his patience. He could wait for her to open up.

"Naruto...?" The question was laced with fearful curiosity, "Do you like me? More than that. Do you really like me? As more than a person; as my mate-. Would you like me that way?" Kyuubi was shivering above him. She wasn't cold, but she seemed terrified.

Naruto tightened his hold on her, stopping her vibrations. "I – I think I would. I mean, I think I do, Kyuubi. You're beautiful, you're strong, and we've known each other for so long. Yes, yes I-" Naruto was interrupted by a kiss from Kyuubi.

Kyuubi's hold changed as she removed her arms from Naruto's torso and wrapped them behind his head.

The kiss was sensational for both of them, from that point on they knew nothing could tear them apart.

-==Break==-

Naruto was stretching, he was so glad that he moved. He was beginning to get serious cramps from sleeping on the tiled floor last night. Honestly, he wouldn't care if he got a few cramps, he was on cloud nine right now.

If everyone he use to know could see him now! His girlfriend/mate was the Kyuubi! They'd definitely bring out the pitchforks and torches now.

He remembered what Kyuubi brought up last night, about how she figured out that his seal to have them communicate wasn't so perfect after all. Apparently, even in its incomplete form, Kyuubi could still use it to influence some of his thoughts and actions. She had apparently used it last night to force Ahri off of him. She said that the searing pain in his eyes was because she took control of his subconscious thoughts using the seal.

It's because of this that he'd need to either revisit the seal, or just mark it off as not worth the time needed and move right on to finding a way to remove Kyuubi from his mind without killing him.

He was about to go out and find a nearby place to get food when he suddenly saw that his door was glowing eerily blue.

Being the natural prankster he was, he knew that this could be a setup for a prank. But at the same time, common sense told him that nobody in this whole community would prank him.

So Naruto opened the door outside and found a blue, floating, glowing envelope. The back of the envelop showed;

'To: Naruto, the Fox Ninja

From:'

And the card slowly and dramatically spun around, revealing the giant, audacious lettering of;

'The League of Legends'

A golden light began to shine on the envelope and Naruto couldn't help but to begin sweating at the misuse of magic. If he recalled from the book that summoner gave him a while back on the League of Legends, wasn't it suppose to help regulate magic and control misuses of it so spontaneous magical events stopped happening? Wouldn't this count as misuse...

Naruto gave a grunt-like sound of disappointment, he really wished it was a prank, it would give him someone to prank back. Naruto took the letter and the light show stopped as dramatic music began playing from the envelope. Naruto couldn't help but think of this as a prank now.

Naruto opened the letter as the music began getting more intense; he was expecting a letter of welcome to League or something to that effect.

'Dear Naruto, the Fox Ninja,

You have been selected by the esteemed summoners of the League of Legends to represent your country of Ionia in the Noxus-Ionian XII Trade Dispute Match. You shall be summoned to the Institute of War at precisely 13:30:00 tomorrow for this match.

In the order of votes by which they were chosen, your team shall be composed of:

Naruto, the Fox Ninja

Ahri, the Nine-Tailed Fox

Lee Sin, the Blind Monk

Irelia, the Will of the Blades

Sona, the Maven of the Strings

Due to the presence of a champion that has been with the League of Legends for less than the probationary period would normally allow, this match has been changed from a 'Five-on-Five' champion matchup to a 'Team Duel' champion matchup. For an explanation of the rules, please consult your League of Legends guidebook; Chapter XLI, 'Dispute Match Rules' or wait until the day of the match to have them explained.

The Institute of War wishes you the best of luck on the fields of justice tomorrow afternoon.

Signed,

Summoner Ralston Farnsley'

Naruto looked shocked at the piece of paper. He was going to do what? Represent a country that hardly knew him after landing in it yesterday?

Well if this was true, then the people of the country were counting on him! And if the summoners at the grand Institute of War noticed him enough to have him be one of five to represent a whole country in a dispute match, then he would gladly participate to help out the country.

The only issue now was to figure out the rules for the match.

-==Break==-

Naruto looked through both of the books that the summoner had gotten him and found no traces of what this matchup would entail for the battle, he assumed that he must not have gotten the League of Legends guidebook. All he knew was that he and his four teammates were in some way going to fight on a 'field of justice' in some kind of dueling format. Naruto got an idea.

Naruto moved over to the 'magical' blue glowing circle on the kitchen wall and placed his hand on it.

Naruto fortunately remembered the phrase that the summoner told him to say to contact him, "League helpline."

A female voice spoke up from the wall, "The summoner for the champion helpline is busy at the moment, we appreciate your call and ask that you wait a few mom-"

Suddenly the slightly-familiar voice of the summoner that helped him spoke up, "Hey there Naruto, what can I do for you?"

"Hey there, I was wondering if you could help me understand this trade dispute matchup thing, the match is going to be a Team Duel matchup?"

"Okay, sure. League matchups are varying Five versus Five matchups, usually. There are often other kinds though. The rules for each match are discussed right before the start of the match as I'm sure your letter told you, and any clarification can be asked to a judge if you see one nearby. But generally what happens with a Team Duel matchup is that there are three matches of one-on-one fights, followed by a two-on-two fight. You'll likely be fighting in a place called the Howling Abyss, which is just a straight line with a few turrets in the way. The way you win is by destroying this big, huge, hulking thing called a Nexus. There's one on either side of the arena."

"Oh..." Naruto was lost in all the new information, he couldn't really picture what this place looked like or what awaited him, but it seemed like he was going to be fighting somebody one-on-one, so he could deal with that, "Well alright then, thanks for the info!"

The summoner hung up and Naruto felt a little bit better about the vague information.

He had a day to prepare and he wasn't going to squander it. Naruto left his house to go and eat some food and get some training in before tomorrow's match.

-==End Chapter==-

A/N: I'm too lazy and sick right now to put any questions and answers in here. If you have any, I'll be happy to answer them for you privately! If you have any criticisms, I'm an open heart and I always love constructive criticism! If you find any errors in my fic, please just tell me the sentence and I'll get it fixed in no time! If you flame, I will use it to make some delicious s'mores!

And I'm sorry this took so long to get out, I've been sick for a while and hope to be better within the next few days so I can get back to a better pace of writing. Although I have been sick off-and-on for the past week-and-a-half or so... So I'm not expecting any miracles at the moment.

But ending on a happy note; personal goal reached! 25 pages! Hahaha! Phewph, proofreading chapters this large is so difficult, and I'm so sorry for all the errors I no doubt missed this chapter.

This is Ryden Purrson, hoping you all are doing a helluva' lot better than I am at the moment! x3