The room was always locked...
...
Oh shit.
His eyes sharpened as he gave the two girls to the opposite of him a hard look.
"...Did you go into my room?" Naruto asked quietly, he honestly wasn't sure how he would react if they actually did...
Mio bit her lips for a moment, unwilling to concede that she did indeed go in his room. But the simple fact that she stayed silent rather than deny the charges was proof enough she knew. So the least she could do...
"...Maria didn't know." Mio mumbled quietly.
Only then did Naruto feel his own anger begin to bubble up to the surface, causing him to step forward and slam his hands on the table in anger.
"...What the hell Mio! I specifically asked you guys to not go in there! Two things; not to blow it up the house and not to go into my room! What the hell!" Naruto raised his voice in anger, unbelieving that Mio would take advantage of his rush to the battlefield. She may not have known the circumstances but it was still pretty messed up!
Mio's own hackles were raised at the blond's rising tone and she stood up in to retort angrily and slammed her own hands on the table. "I was worried about you! You left school early and completely disappeared off the face of the Earth until now! I thought that I could find out where you went if I checked your room!" Mio shouted out in her defense, unwilling to back down. "Also you're dodging the question! What does this paper mean Naruto!?"
Maria quickly got up and tried to separate the two from each other, both of them were among the most stubborn people she has ever met...there was no way they'd back down if they thought they were right.
She was sure that Mio-sama thought that Naruto-sama was trying to focus on the fact that she entered his room to dodge the question she asked. She was also sure that Naruto-sama felt justifiably upset about how his privacy was violated without any sign of an apology, especially since he was still a teenager that probably stilled desired personal space.
"Wait wait! Both of you please calm down!" Maria cried while physically getting in-between the two. Hoping that at least one of them would back down so the other could take a breather and think more clearly.
Everything was silent for a few moments as the psuedo-siblings stared each other down in a clash of wills.
But slowly, ever so slowly...Mio backed away from the contest while keeping her eyes locked on the blond's.
While staring at her eyes, Naruto understood.
She wasn't backing off because she was intimidated or anything. No...
She was acknowledging her mistake. It may not have been put into words, but the feelings were at the very least conveyed.
So Naruto, slightly pacified, backed off to get a quick breather for himself. Internally he was bonking himself on the head for getting so upset, even if it was justified, he still didn't like getting angry at a friend like that.
Honestly though, if this was back at Konoha and his room was entered without his permission?
He probably would have been upset at the perpetrator, but not this upset.
Over here on the other hand...where the knowledge of being a ninja was likely to bring in some unwanted attention?
His anger was more about the fact that his last safe haven where he can be Uzumaki Naruto; the shinobi of Konoha...was breached. The last place where he didn't have to worry about hiding the fact that he was a ninja was suddenly...not so safe anymore.
That pissed him off.
It was only after the anger left his body did he wince and grab his right hand. He just slammed that hand on the table in frustration and he completely forgot that he was still hurt there.
Though it seems he wasn't the only one who noticed the wound.
"Naruto-sama...how did you get hurt like that?" Maria asked with a small frown, she's seen him take on stray devils without any effort at all. So what exactly could have hurt him like that?
Mio also frowned at the wound as she moved around the table and walked up to the blond to examine it. It was only after she got closer did she notice some strange things about Naruto that she didn't notice earlier.
His clothes.
The Kuoh Academy-issued jacket was pretty singed at the cuffs, as if they were nearly burned off. His clothes in general were pretty ruffled up and dirty...as if he had gotten into a fight.
Mio then looked up at Naruto's eyes as the boy began to sweat bullets at this cross-examination.
Ah...yeah...at this rate he may as well throw in the towel for hiding who he was.
But...he really didn't want to.
Although they have been together for a short time, he couldn't help but grow a little attached to the two freeloaders in his house. Life was boring while he was trying to find a way back home. The simple fact that he had no choice but to interact with them while they lived here helped in making him attached to them as friends.
So what would happen if he announced that he was a ninja?
He seriously doubted that they would really consider the fact that he was a ninja from a different world...even with the proof literally right in front of them. So more likely than not, they would think of him as a ninja from this world.
The ninjas from this world were known for being assassins and back-stabbers, something that he really didn't want to be associated with on a normal day...let alone with people he cared about.
But more importantly...
"Naruto?"
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