Asia, sleeping peacefully with her arms around a pillow, her head gently against the floor.
Mittelt, sleeping in her bed attached to the ceiling, blissfully ignorant to the world around her as she scratched her pregnant belly.
Ravel, arms crossed as she sleeped leaned back into a chair, a stubborn look on her face as she had a political dream of domination.
'No... they can't find out.'
Irina, fast asleep with her head on Xenovia's lap, the two of them having taken to falling asleep nearby each other. Xenovia wasn't able to pull multiple all nighters in a row like Naruto was, so she had taken to falling asleep like the rest of the girls.
'This pain... it's unreal.'
Naruto, awake as his eyes bulged in pain, golden fluid leaking from his lips. His forehead pressed up against the floor as he bit into his lower lip, gold and red blood spilling forth from his wound as the wound sealed itself up as fast as he could make it.
He didn't make a noise.
His right pinky was glowing golden as it transformed from living matter into something golden and glowing. Like a disease, it spread from his pinky slowly as it consumed his next finger, and part of the palm of his hand. Naruto's hand was spasming out of control as he bite into his left hand and drew some fresh red blood. Using his own blood, he grabbed bandages from his work station and started to write inscriptions on them.
'This is the most pain I've ever experienced... it's like my cells are on fire, being burned away... my body is being converted into pure magic... or it is evolving.' Naruto had nothing but the worst kind of pain imaginable as he felt deep changes inside of his body starting with his fingers. 'What the hell... did I use too much magic and break some of the seals I put on myself?' Naruto thought as he pulled up his shirt.
He placed his left hand on his stomach, and black marks started to spread.
Naruto grit his teeth when he saw one of the marks on the seal was faded away.
'Fuck... fuck... 1 of the 9 seals limiting my magical power has faded away.' Naruto saw that the spiral on his stomach was still black, but one of the 8 markers around the spiral had faded away to practically nothing.
Each of the seals cut his magical power by 1/10th of what it was actually suppose to be, sealing away his own magical power. At the moment, with one of the seals faded, his magical power had grown over 10 times what it had been before the seal faded away. The changes in his body had started to take over faster.
If all of the seals broke, then his magical power would be over 1,000,000,000 times what it had been when he had all of his seals tightly in place. He put those seals in place so that he could try to control his own power, but his power just kept growing out of control. His body was changing for some reason, and it was related to his magic. Holding back the transformation was a pain that he had never experienced before in his life, and he never wanted to experience to begin with.
When his right arm transformed into golden magic all the way up to his elbow, the transformation stopped. Naruto finished writing seals on the inside of the bandage that he was working with.
'The transformation went as far as it could go for now.' Naruto thought as he began to wrap his arm up in bandages. His displays of magic had weakened the 1st seal far too much, he shouldn't have used that magic to change the world and change the moon.
...
Naruto smiled.
"It was worth the pain to put a smile back on her face." Naruto whispered as he looked at his bandaged up hand. He would do it all over again and risk breaking another seal if it meant that he could make the girl who followed him happy. The first person to rescue him from how lonely he was, he would take any pain if it were for her sake.
What sucked was that he couldn't redo the seals.
The seal was created to be used in a set of 9, and it couldn't be restored once it had been used. Not to mention it couldn't be reapplied until ALL of the 9 seal markers had faded away from his belly completely. At the moment, only 1 of the 9 seals had faded away.
Naruto walked over to Asia.
She slept so peacefully, Naruto hated to disturb her sleep, but he needed her strength. Naruto leaned down and planted a soft kiss right on her lips. Not even Asia could sleep through getting kissed, and she gently woke up in a cute, sleepy way as she looked up at Naruto kneeling above her.
She blushed, but she smiled.
"... Mor... morning..." Asia was just happy that she got to wake up to a kiss. Her fingers with to her lips. "You kissed me... did you need my saliva for an experiment?" Asia asked Naruto with a soft smile.
That was her first thought.
"No, nothing like that... just wanted to kiss you was all. Sorry if I'm being a bother waking you up, I might kiss you again though. It's really nice kissing the girl you love after all." Naruto casually admitted to Asia as his bandaged hand gently touched her cheek. She smiled, her face growing more red, and she gently grabbed his hand and brought it to her mouth.
"You really love me?"
"More than anything, I'm going to need to borrow your strength from now on. Think you can lend it to me?" Naruto asked her.
"I'm not strong... but I'll do whatever it is you need... it's nice supporting the boy I love after all." Asia whispered back, and though she was still sleepy, she saw Naruto grin down at her. She smiled gently back up at him. "... I wish I could do more for you... but whenever I try, I get too shy."
Naruto grinned wider.
"It's okay, just take things at a pace your comfortable with. I'll always be waiting for you, whenever you're ready. Since I woke you up, want to hold my hand until you fall back asleep?" Naruto asked her, and she nodded her head gently. She just placed the tips of his fingers against her lips, and her hands wrapped around his own. He gently squeezed her hand, and that was all that needed to happen between them for now.
"I love you Naruto... please... be together with me always... I don't want to be alone anymore."
"Forever and ever, because you rescued me from my loneliness, so I will always protect you from yours. Whatever happens in the future, lets tackle it together, at our own pace." Naruto didn't care if he woke up the other heavy sleepers, though he doubted he would. He wanted to confess to Asia, so that was what he did. He already confessed his feelings to her with his actions, but doing it with words was just far more final.
Asia didn't know why Naruto woke her up to confess.
Still, it was nice for her to hear him say this stuff, with all of the other girls around constantly, they never had the chance to confess their feelings. She wanted to so many times, but it was never the right moment. Now, when Naruto woke her up with a kiss, and only the two of them were awake, was the moment.
It was the perfect moment.
Asia leaned up and she laid a kiss on Naruto's lips.
Naruto kissed her back.
It was the perfect moment, the only perfect moment that Asia believed she was going to get. She knew this, everyone else was asleep, this was her chance to do what she had been wanting to do, but had been too shy to do. She swallowed her shyness, and she worked up her courage, and she closed her eyes while wrapping her arms around Naruto.
She was ready.
-The Next Morning-
"Woah, what the hell happened last night, did you have a good dream, this is the BEST breakfast you've made since I got here!" Ravel had woken up to Asia's cooking like usual, but this time the quality was much greater than ever before. Fresh ingredients, larger portions, and Asia was practically glowing as she walked around with a limp.
She had the biggest, the brightest, and the most genuine smile that she had ever seen on the girl's face as well.
She seemed tired, as if she barely slept at all the night before, and she walked with a limp, but the girl seemed SO much happier that she was literally glowing.
"Ah..." Mittelt saw instantly what happened, and she looked at Naruto, but she said nothing when he nodded his head and looked away.
"Ah... just tackling things at my own pace." Asia smiled and she looked over at Naruto, a blush appearing on her cheeks.
Naruto chuckled at her words.
Nobody but he got the importance of her words.