The Shopkeeper of Konoha

As they talked among themselves, John came back with a smile on his face. The grin told that he had gained what he wanted. He whispered to them.

"I have bribed them with some fine clothing, and we are allowed to stay here. In a tavern. And I have known this guy before, so I spoke the right words, and he said he will pass on the information to Father so that we can meet him by tomorrow or the day after tomorrow."

"Then let's book a tavern here. I know a good one," Arya said as she pulled them to a tavern close by.

"Since when did you know about taverns?" John was skeptical and asked.

"Oh please, you know I hated being in the castle all day and being taught how to be a better woman," Arya replied.

"So you both are princes and princesses? I have some experience in disappointing my father," Loki said.

"I didn't disappoint my father. I made him proud when I killed the Night King."

"Night King? Sounds like my biological father," Loki replied.

"Well, in a way, he is like your biological father. Just that he can raise zombies," Aoto commented. The others listened to their banter, and soon they reached a tavern, and Jon couldn't help but nod.

"What are you nodding for? It's not like we are going to stay here. We will have to leave, or else Ayame is going to drill all of us for being late," Winry said. This made them realize that it wasn't some kind of vacation, and Naruto was in the Academy and thus needed to go back and also introduce Loki to him, which he had been gushing about.

They soon went inside the tavern and asked for rooms. Thankfully there were multiple rooms available. And Aoto went to their respective rooms to show that they were going to live there, but in the next moment, everyone gathered around in the same room. They needed to go back.

Aoto asked the system for the way back, and soon they were in the library.

"There is no time delay." These were the first words Loki said as he came out of the dimensional portal.

"So time is flowing steadily for both sides?" Corazon asked. Loki nodded.

"Well, guys, we need to get to work. In an hour or so, Naruto will be here, and I need to update Loki about this world a bit," Aoto said. Everyone nodded and soon left their way to their work while Aoto just went to his shop with Loki, giving him a rundown of the world here and how things worked.

The more Loki knew of this place, the more he was surprised. Aoto even gave him a rundown of the GOT world.

"So a boring old Midgard. Nothing major," Loki said after hearing about the GOT world.

"Well yes, but there are dragons," Aoto said.

"Seems like Muspelheim pissed in their world," Loki replied. Aoto just shrugged his shoulders. Dragons were there in Muspelheim, so he was right in his explanation. As they were talking, they heard someone running outside, and before they could say anything, a kid with yellow hair came running in.

He stopped the moment his eyes laid on Loki and just like others, he seemed to be a bit disappointed. This annoyed Loki as he could easily guess his thought processes.

"What kid? You expected something more?" Loki asked.

"I have read so much about Gods, and I expected you to have two more eyes. Maybe eyes on your hands, two more hands. Maybe even two more legs like a centaur. You don't even have horns." Naruto didn't even bother to introduce and spoke of his disappointment straight out.

"Horns.. You need horns? Here are the horns, you little rascal," Loki said and then proceeded to grow his horns, but then again, Naruto, who had lights in his eyes, was disappointed again.

"Those are fake horns," Naruto shouted.

"Oh yea. How about I shut your mouth," Loki said, and in the next moment, his lips got stuck, and he couldn't say any more words.

"This kid is more rebellious than Thor," Loki cursed.

"You are his teacher, and he is more rebellious than you can ever handle," Aoto said.

"Maybe I made a mistake getting away from that throne," Loki replied and just looked at Naruto, who seemed to be using his fingers to get his mouth open but he couldn't. This was a hilarious and a comic scene, but Loki just looked at the kid for a minute and then looked at Ken.

"That thing is quite powerful."

"And that is its half capacity," Aoto said.

"Really. I would love to see the full," Loki replied.

"Someday," Aoto said.

Finally feeling a bit of pity for Naruto, Loki allowed him to open his mouth.

*Pant* *Pant*

Naruto, getting his freedom back, panted a bit and then looked at Loki as some kind of God and told him.

"Teach me this, Master." Naruto said. Loki looked at Naruto with fake disgust and said no. But of course, Naruto wasn't ready to let go and started to convince him to teach. In response, Loki went to the library, to which Naruto followed like a good kid. Aoto nodded as he could see that Loki was taking a liking to Naruto and knew that he would teach him.

Later in the evening, Hinata too showed up to meet her father and to learn magic. She was shy as usual but understood that this man was here to teach them. Shikuro and others were good teachers but they weren't systematically taught, so having someone who had been taught magic from childhood was a great help for everyone and even for Aoto.

Though he knew that they could almost never learn time magic if there were no special circumstances, learning other kinds of magic was fine since he was sitting on the throne, and he must have come across all kinds of magic from different universes, so he had a huge knowledge of them. If he didn't, he could always allow his mind to go back to the throne and learn from the multiverse.