Red String of Fate (NarutoxHighschool-DXD)
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"Talking"
'Thoughts'
Memory Lanes/Names
Deep/Demonic Voice
(Thought Scenario)
Important Stuff
This story been redefined as Red String of Fate along with other story set in the same universe! All the Route Roulette Stories bonded together to tell the whole story about one Naruto Uzumaki, his destiny, his heritage, and along with a girl of his fate.
The first chapter of this is a background story to Route Roulette (series) as every other one will share the same beginning, but the middle and ending will be completely different. It's all depending on what's Naruto's adventures are.
=[Prologue]=
Devils… when one thought about what these demonic entities' appearances supposed to be, one would believe them to be twisted, vile abomination like something out of a horrid nightmare. That was true enough in time immemorial, but that wasn't the case now. A fallout occurred long before anyone could care to remembered, and from that moment onward, pure-blood devils gained humanoid appearance in most of the sense, albeit with at least one pair of black bat-like wings that can be hidden at will as well as an arrowed pointed tail to some. Furthermore, Reincarnated Devils can come in a variety of shapes and sizes, such as the case with Tannin – a former Dragon King, Koneko Toujou – a Nekomata, or Enku – a Qilin. With these little changes, over the eons, it had completely altered the devil's race, and hence, their identity.
There were four Satans and 72 Pillars uphold the foundation of their society. A devil's life was peaceful, or at least as peaceful as it can be within the confines of the underworld. They would form contract with the mortal – human – realm as their daily life allowed, and by granting the contractor's heart desire, they would acquire his or her soul. That wasn't exactly true since no one really knew how contract actually work. The intricate mechanic of the magical binding was lost and forgotten by even their current leaders: Lucifer, Beelzebub, Leviathan, and Asmodeus. All devils knew that they simply grant the desire, whatever it maybe – sinful or not – and something happened in the middle. Once successful, they gained powers based on the strength of the wish. Many assumed it was due to the soul of a human as it was a spiritual manifestation like all life in creation.
The magical binding contract simply worked, and no one questioned it.
Unfortunately, like all good thing, the serene lifestyle must come to an end as war of extinction began between the Three Great Factions. Their conflicts plunged the underworld into a sea of blood. Countless atrocities were committed during the war as Angels, Fallens and Devils fought for total supremacy. The cycle of hatred and malice continued for years, and no one really knew why they had fought in the first place, or who actually fired the first shot. A few Ultimate class devils began to grow tired of the seemingly pointless war with no end in sight.
"What the hell is he? It's only one devil! Kill him!" An angel shouted the command as yellow flashes appeared all across the battlefield, with most of it near the angels themselves.
"WE CAN'T! IT'S THE YELLOW FLASH NAMIKAZE!" Several of them screamed before they chocked on their own blood as their throat was slit, or their heart was pierced, with extreme precision and efficiency.
The leader of the angelic vanguard looked around with desperation, trying to salvage this battle before a bright flash blinded him when appeared before him. Without much thought, he swung his light spear across the phenomenon but the silhouette ducked down, continuing to form a figure. Bright blue eyes looked directly up at the angel's shocked face from his couching position. Before the angel could do anything else, the blond-haired man lunged forward, and with a single stab with the knife in his small knife, another life was extinguished.
The spiky blond hair man with two bangs on his side stopped his assault after a while, and took a detailed look around the battle field. His bat-like wings flapped slowly behind him as he sighed at all the corpses within his field of vision. He glanced down at his weapon. It was a small kunai, but was now dyed completely in crimson liquid showing the world what he had done. It was a child play for him with his family's technique that earned him the nick name Yellow Flash. He shook his head slightly before speaking up.
"Hey, Kushina, do you think this is pointless? Why are we even fighting in the first place?" the blond man called over his shoulder as a reddish long-haired temptress wrapped her slender arms around his neck from behind. Her hands quickly found its places upon his muscular chest as she nibbled his ear in a playful manner. The couple just float there in midair while behind her was dozens of angels bounded by demonic fiery chains. The blazing chains continue to squeeze the life out of its victim before their bones could no longer handled the immersed stress and gave out a loud crunch. Their inside was turned to mush before they were set alight.
"Minato, let's do it right here! I want a child! Give me a child!" Kushina whispered quite loudly into her lover's ear as his body shivered, ignoring the fact that they were on a battlefield and she'd just killed some of her opponents in the most gruesome manner imaginable. Minato then sighed at the request after he recovered from the chill and tried to break out of her strong grip. When that failed, he started to contemplate how this all began.
Minato Namikaze and Kushina Uzumaki were married before the war even begun. The House of Namikaze and Uzumaki weren't part of the 72 pillars, for they belong to something much greater and far more ancient. The duo was the only known living heir of their House, and now one of clan had to perish because they decided to join their bloodline in unholy matrimony. Many of those that still remembered their origin protested and were against such a union, fearing the product of such unity would be far too great to be controlled, but the couple sincerely ignored them with their fists and went ahead anyway.
However, due to the devil's extremely long lifespan, it had caused their entire race's fertility rate to drop sharply as the universe always tried to find equilibrium to rebalance things. Even so, that did not stop one Kushina Uzumaki, known as the Red-Hot Habanero to most of her friends and comrades. What she wanted, she will definitely get, and she wanted a child desperately. Sadly, there was never time for such close intimacy as Minato Namikaze, her husband, was always busy with the war and constantly ran off to spearhead some unknown battle. In the end, she was growing tired and every increasingly impatience.
Minato sighed again as he rubbed his temple while still in his wife's firm, but strong, embrace. Although he could get out of it any time he wished, but that would lead to severe punishment later. Minato exhaled deeply, trying to gather up his courage.
"I don't mind you're getting off on this, but I don't want to do it here," Minato said, pointing out the obvious. Similar to his wife, Minato thought that this war had gone on for far too long and he felt like did his part already. He had participated in many battles, but counting them now, he felt it was negligible amount compared to how many clashes occurred every single week. Minato couldn't remember how many he had killed as he no longer care. They were simply faceless adversary now to him, and he didn't want it to be like that. Kushina, on the other hand, was getting frustrated every single day to the point that she would strangle anyone in sight with her flaming energy chains, enemies or not.
Kushina ignored her husband's comment, and slid her hands over his chest, trying to undress him, but Minato grabbed his wife's hands in haste.
"Stop that, we're still at war, and if we do it here, what would Leviathan-sama say when he saw his top commanders having sex on a battle field and in the middle of all these corpses?"
"He would say good job and let us continued or I will castrate him –ttebane!" Kushina shouted in irritation and increased her grip on her prisoner, not giving him any chance of breaking out of it. Fiery chains appeared from her body and wrapped itself around Minato.
Minato sighed as he felt his clothes were being incinerated, burning off slowly so his wife could have what she wanted. It would be incredible awkward later, returning back to base completely naked. Minato quickly coated his body, and clothes, in demonic aura to prevent further intrusion from his wife's power.
Kushina noticed the aura and growled.
"I don't want to fight anymore! This war had separated us for too long, and I ran after you because I heard you tried to run off to fight again. Don't give me more bullshit about it's your duty! I swear if I find out who started the war, I'll skin them alive for ruining our marriage!" Kushina swore with agitated tone, before continuing: "Or are you growing tired of me, is that why you kept on avoiding me?"
Minato felt a bit of guilty from his wife's statement. It wasn't like that at all. He just felt that if he went through with it, he would never able to leave his wife's side in bed, and in effect, he would neglect his own duty.
"Kushina, don't say that. I would never get tired of you. Like I said before, I love everything about you, and your beautiful crimson hair reminded me… well not Gremory, that guy pissed me off, he finds everything funny… he even joked that if he was a female then he and I would be married. That was disgusting. Anyway, I'm so glad I met you, and you managed to replace that horrid image from my mind," Minato assured while being sarcastic as Kushina giggled. She then placed her neck on his shoulder's side in a loving manner.
"Beside, who else but me in the whole underworld could possibly stands up to your temper, my hot tomato? OW~!" Minato asked before he cringed in pain as his ear was bitten down hard. She pulled her head back, stretching it out a little with her teeth before letting it go.
Minato about to rub his ear in order to numb the pain, but a wet tongue wrapping around it stopped him. His wife was soothing the bite-mark playfully even though she was the one who did it. Minato allowed Kushina to do that for a while as they floated there. Silence reign the battlefield, but it didn't last long.
"GAH! Enough talk and fighting! Show me your prowess and manhood! Gimme!" Kushina shouted angrily after she felt her lust rose up several notches. Minato exhaled and rubbed his ear to remove the saliva. He had a lick of it, and found it was sweet as usual. Somewhere inside him, Minato didn't want to fight anymore. He just wanted to make love to his wife to the rest of their days and finally have a child that they always wanted. He looked toward the ground below where all the corpses laid in total silence. How peaceful they seemed to be when they weren't trying to kill him, or throwing insults right in his face.
Minato inhaled deeply, clearing his mind of all obligations.
"You know what? You're right! I've been fighting for so long that I beginning to neglect my beautiful wife… I'm sorry, so from now on, I'm done with all the fighting," Minato declared as he squirmed in the binding, trying to turn around. Minato succeeded as the chain became loosen for a bit due to their owner's command. In that effect, he managed to come face to face with his wife.
Kushina had a wide smile on before assaulting his lip.
"I knew you come around one day, forgetting about all your duty and just go with it! I can't wait anymore, let's do it!" Kushina called out with joy after breaking out the rather sloppy kiss, and began undressing him hastily while ripping her own clothes off as well.
"Wait! Not so fast…. I'm all in for it, but I suggest we do it somewhere secluded, completely away from the world," Minato called out as Kushina's hand slowed down. A confused expression was plastered on her lust filled face.
"I said I'm done with the fight so I'm going to fake our deaths. If they think we're both dead, no one will bother us anymore, and we can spend the rest of our days by each other side, uncaring about anything anymore. Because right now… I really don't care who win this stupid war," Minato explained as Kushina's eyes sparkled. No one can interrupt them ever? It definitely got her complete approval.
Minato thought for a bit before stripping his clothes off to show his entire body to his wife.
"I need yours as well… and also, clean that off your face…"
Kushina didn't realize that she was drooling a little, thus she wiped the saliva off the side of her lip quickly with a slight blush. Kushina stripping her own clothes off afterward and handed them to her husband. Minato slashed his chest with a kunai, sending his blood spraying on the clothing while Kushina gasped in panic, but a spread out palm reassured her.
"We need to make it looks real with our actual blood," Minato told his wife. She nodded in understand as her husband handed her the weapon. Kushina took it and slashed her arms, spilling out her blood, soaking the clothes in front of her.
Minato and Kushina quickly flew toward the ground to find some suitable replacement corpses, and dressed them in their blood stained wears. Their self-inflicted wounds had already healed in that time due to their superior lineage.
"For one final touch," Minato said as he outstretched his hand, and sparks appeared, jumping between his fingers. They increased their intensity as the area filled with crackling sounds. With a wave of his energized hand, a thunder bolt erupted from it and high into the sky, growing larger before crashing into two corpses, turning organic matter into charcoal and making them unrecognizable while the clothes remained relatively unharmed. Minato nodded a little and turned toward his wife.
"Some fire would do nice too –ttebane!" Kushina declared as her reddish hair glowed with a mixture of bright and dark tints. Flames erupted from it seconds later. It jumped from the source, running toward the two corps along the air and did a complete revolution around its intended target to create a circle of flames. A wall of fire rose into the sky, forming a whirlpool of flames. The flaming vortex ripped the corpse apart effortless and burning much of the clothing before dissipating completely. Minato and Kushina both smiled with approval as they entered each other embrace. They watched the floating charred pieces of their former wears drifted slowly back to earth around them.
"Let's go! We are technically dead! How this war will end don't matter to us anymore," Minato announced and grabbed Kushina's hands. His wife nodded. Minato released a bit of his demonic aura, and they both disappeared in a yellow flash.
High ranking devils found the remains of the battlefield sometime later as Minato and Kushina didn't reported back to base. The devils mourned for their loss as Leviathan, along with the rest of the Satans, watched the simple memorial. They want to make it bigger for their fallen friends, but wartime dissuaded them otherwise. Leviathan returned back to his private chamber after the funeral and noticed that Lord Gremory was already there.
"Do you really think that Minato Namikaze and Kushina Uzumaki would really die like that?" Lord Gremory asked with a hint of skepticism. Leviathan simply chuckled.
"I think only a fool would believe so," Leviathan answered with a smile. Minato was powerful, and there was no way in hell the blond would allow his body to be destroyed beyond recognition. If Minato were to die, he would take down his opponent as well. Besides, Kushina was there as well, so only God would take them both on, and the chance of killing both of them would still be fairly low.
Leviathan and Minato were their childhood friends, and Leviathan knew, without a shadow of doubt, there was no way for Minato would go out like that. If anything, it would be much bigger bang for everyone to remember and told in legend. Leviathan had thought about it during the service for the dead, and found there was only one reason why Minato and Kushina faked their own death, and it was similar to his own train of thought. He had grown tired and weary of this war. Many of others had felt the same, but they could not cast away their pride and admitted they were wrong in the beginning.
There was no surrender, only victory for them.
Leviathan frowned a little at that prospect. He couldn't see any way to have a peace talk and end this costly war on a better term.
'Victory or extinction… there's no middle ground,' Leviathan thought grimly. He passed Lord Gremory by and sat on his throne-like seat before paying attention back to the crimson-haired Lord.
"Wherever they are, I think they are happy. They pulled out of this war and we shouldn't force them to return. They will reveal themselves on their own accord when they feel they are ready," Leviathan stated thoughtfully as the Gremory gave a nod.
"Then I shall wait until that day," Gremory vowed. He thought for a bit more before asking: "My master wished to know your answer to his plan of ending this war?"
Leviathan frowned and then sighed. Assaulting heavens directly would take all their forces, and even then, there was no guarantee of a victory. They would have to deplete their own garrisons in the process, making their controlled territory free for easy picking.
'That plan is foolish… If anything, it would severely weaken both sides to the point that there no choice but to sit down and talk… huh?' Leviathan thought, keeping his frowning face. He slowly returned it to expressionless.
"Lord Gremory, tell your Master that he has my complete support. I will talk to Beelzebub to get his as well. Once Beelzebub agreed since it is to his ruthless nature, Asmodeus will have no choice go join as well unless he wants to look like a coward in front of his own men," Leviathan said impassively as Lord Gremory bowed. Once Lord Gremory left the private chamber, a smile crept across Leviathan's face.
'Finally a way to end the war… even if I have to sacrifice myself for it; all our generation is unneeded for the future. The hatred of the pasts should be cut away so a clean slate can be use,' Leviathan thought as he formulated his plans as well as its contingency.
XxXxX
Years went by, and the Great War finally was over with the death of God and the Four Satans in one apocalyptic battle. The titanic clash marked the end of to the long war, but it also took many lives in the process, devils or angels alike. Minato and Kushina heard and mourned for the friends' passing, but they remained in the deepest depth of the Underworld, uncaring much about anything afterward. They tried constantly to have a child, but it was difficult. Eventually, they manage to beget a son, who had bright golden-haired – more brightly than his father – and deep oceanic blue eyes.
"Look, he's just like you, I swear he will be more handsome than you," Kushina declared confidently as she rocked the bundle of joy her arms. Minato, on the other hand, was depressed in one corner of the room after the comment. Kushina sang a lullaby for her son, and before long, Minato joined in as Naruto giggled at his parents.
"Ok.a…as..an," the boy stuttered a bit, pointing at Kushina as she blinked. She pulled her son closer and rubbed his cheek with her as the baby's laughter filled the room.
"He's even smarter than you too," Kushina said as Minato went back to sulking in the corner. After playing with her son for little while, Kushina turned her attention toward her husband, who was probably faking to get her attention.
"Stop being such a baby, and get more baby food for Naruto, it ran out very quickly so buy more this time!" Kushina ordered as Minato looked up from his spot. Only her husband can go outside world due to his Hirashin ability. No one could potentially follow him back home without some sort of complex teleportation.
Unfortunately, whenever Minato went out to buy supply, a few devils, who survived the war, remembered him showed by their polite greeting. The jig was up a long ago, but they decided to let Minato have his privacy even if they grudgingly felt that Minato should have been there during end of the Great War, or at least during the civil war that followed. Minato could have taken on the mantle of leadership and put the end to those clashes, where devils were killing devils.
'I didn't want to be leader of a whole race… just my family is hard enough,' Minato thought as he stood up. He remembered something when he went out last time.
"Oh, I ran into Ajuka Beelzebub last time. He was being mysterious and cynical as ever, but he gave me these chess pieces. I think they called them Evil pieces… I'm not sure if it was a joke name or not since no one can really sure what went through Ajuka's brilliant mind most of the time," Minato said with a hint of mockery.
"Ajuka Beelzebub? Who was that again…? Oh! Little Astatroth? That's strange, did he married into Beelzebub's family line and forfeit his own heritage? That would make Diodora Astaroth the next heir instead…" Kushina speculated as Naruto pulled her hair in order to get her attention. Kushina looked down at her child and didn't notice Minato's face, which grew darker.
"Diodora Astaroth is dead… he was killed by Shalba Beelzebub. A lot of things have changed since we went into hiding. All the former Satans, our friends, are gone, and their children grew even more vicious without their guidance, believing they should rule instead of the current government. They didn't seem to care about the wellbeing of any us… and our now dying race," Minato said with a hint of guilt.
"I sometimes wondered if we did the right choice then, abandoning the war and leaving everything behind," Minato concluded.
"Stop it! Stop punishing yourself over it! What's done is done, and beside it's not your fault how they behaved and tried to start another war after the big one. You can't blame yourself for other people actions," Kushina scolded as her husband turned to face her. Kushina sighed and held Naruto up toward his father.
"Besides, it was definitely worth it!" Kushina said in a loving tone as Minato smiled.
"Say Otou-sama," Minato baby talked to Naruto, who somehow managed to stick his tongue out, but didn't say anything.
Minato sighed as Kushina brought the boy back into her arms. Naruto went back to play with his mother's long crimson hair by wrapping his tiny fingers between the strands.
"Speaking of Ajuka-kun, he said these will allow us to reincarnate other race into pseudo devils in order to supplement our own number. It was an alternative to actually mating as some of us can't have children anymore. The absent minded boy said it should also boost our power even if a little bit. Even though he knew I was with you, he gave me only one set… sooooo which do you want to be? King or Queen?"
"So childish, I don't want to be either, you can be both King and Queen if you want," Kushina snorted when looking up before returning her attention back to her son. Minato just shrugged, eyeing his son for a bit before speaking up.
"What about Naruto?"
"What about Naruto?" Kushina repeated the question as Minato moved closer to her, and gazed deeply upon his new born son.
"Which one do you want to be, Naruto?" Minato held up several pieces as Naruto blinked, looking up at the chess pieces. With his small hand, he tapped the King piece. Minato had a broad smile and placed the King piece on the boy's chest as it submerged into the babe. A demonic aura glowed around the boy for only a few seconds before fading away.
"That's done then, this set belongs to Naruto. I don't want to be either. We didn't have peerage before and we definitely don't need one now," Minato said as he kissed his wife while Naruto clapped his small hands together.
"Gonna go buy some more supplies, I'll be back in a jiffy," Minato said after breaking off the kiss. He rubbed his son's cheek afterward.
"Ot…ou… ," Naruto said with a bit of giggle as Minato's happiness exploded.
"I think I made the right choice after all, he was worth it," Minato admitted as he moved slight back from his wife before disappearing in a yellow flash. The baby saw it and clapped his hands excitedly at the feat.
XxXxX
"Naruto!" Kushina called out as the boy stuck his head to the side of the pile of books. He was sitting down on a table, reading through some of them. There wasn't much thing to do at home, which was isolated in middle of nowhere. So most days, Naruto would read through the numerous books that his father brought back from outside world. For now, he was contented.
"What is it Okaa-sama?" Naruto asked politely as his mother approached him from the entrance. Once she reached the table, she slapped the pile of book in front of her away as it collapsed to the side and off the table. She leaned over with a deadly glare. Before Naruto could say something about it, his cheek was pulled by a powerful grip.
"Ow…ow…ow..., what was that for?" Naruto asked as he rubbed his swollen cheek when his mother let go.
"Naruto! When are you going to give me a grandchild, I want a grandchild damnit. Go and make one already!" Kushina pointed at her teenage son. She was frustrated, but Naruto simply shrugged, ignoring her as usual and returned back to his study. He was sixteen, almost seventeen year old now, but he had no interest in actually finding a mate.
A bright yellow flash filled the room in its luminance as Kushina blinked, clearing her eyes. Naruto, on other hand, had no problem with such thing. The origin point of the blinding light was on the second level, by the railing as there was a gap in the middle, allowing it to oversee the first level.
Minato had returned from his shopping, and brought some more books for his son. He placed them on the bookshelf, allowing them to join their extensive library. Some of the books were ancient as they were salvaged from his and his wife's ancestral home. Those were incredibly old, from long before the organization of the Satans and its seventy two pillars.
"And you! Come with me and give me another child," Kushina pointed at her husband. Minato looked down at her from the second level with an eyebrow raised.
"Seriously? I think we have passed the age of having any more children," Minato retorted flatly. Kushina growled angrily and threw an energy chains at him from her arms. It quickly bounded its target and pulled him off the second floor toward her, but not before he crashed into the ground level's marbled floor. Naruto looked up at his parents after the noise. He simply shrugged afterward and returned back to his book, uncaring much about them.
"Who told you that? I tell you when I can't have any more children so LET'S GO!" Kushina shouted as she dragged her bounded husband by the ear toward their bedroom and out of the library. Naruto took out some earplugs and placed them at their respective spot. He didn't want to hear all those noises while he concentrated on his study.
The next day's morning came around quick enough as Naruto entered the Kitchen while stretching a little. He noticed his father was sitting by the table, looking a bit delirious.
Minato was gazing at the space in front of him absentmindedly. His body was sore all over, but he snapped out of his mental state when his son sat across of him and coughed a little. Minato blinked a little and paid some attention.
"It was really noisy last night, with all the girly screaming, seriously dad, you should stop doing that, it felt creepy," Naruto mocked. Minato sighed then smirked at his son. Kushina entered the kitchen sometime later to make their breakfast while Minato and Naruto was enjoying their morning drinks.
Naruto raised an eyebrow after having a look at his empty plate in front of him. His father was enjoying his breakfast while his mum sat by the man's side. Naruto turned toward his mother. A few second later, he decided to speak up.
"Huh? What about me? Where's my food Okaa-sama?"
"I'm not cooking for you anymore. Get a wife to do that for you then you can finally give me a grandchild, or you can cook it yourself. You're old enough," Kushina pointed out with a smirk as Naruto blinked and opened his jaw a little. He hadn't cooked a single thing in his entire life. After a kaleidoscope of thoughts, Naruto shut it and a grin grew on his face.
"You do know it takes two to make one right? How can I give you a grandson if I'm stuck here by myself? Do you want to be my mate, okaa-sama? I don't mind if you don't, and my child would be your son and grandson as well. It's like killing two birds with one stone," Naruto deadpanned as Minato spayed out his coffee and chocked a little while Kushina face-palmed.
"Minato! This is your fault for hiding us here! If I don't get my grandson, I'm going to castrate you since your seeds no longer give me what I wanted –ttebane!" Kushina declared and jabbed accusing at her husband. She had forgotten that their house was hidden from the world, and her son had been home study ever since he was born. Furthermore, Naruto seemed uninterested in woman as usual.
"Yes, because I was the one who suggested it in the beginning…" Minato about to say but his wife stood up from her seat and snapped at him.
"WHAT DID YOU SAY!?"
"I said, I could arrange a marriage for Naruto. I think many of other clans wanted to join with ours to take advantage of our bloodline," Minato answered and tried to calm his wife down.
"Who?" Kushina asked as Naruto clicked his fingers and pointed them at his still emptied plate. Kushina sighed and walked to the counter to make her son's breakfast. Minato collected his thought before asking his son.
"Naruto, what do you think of Gremory? You've read the family tree from your mother's side, Gremory House and Uzumaki House are descended from the same line so that would make the two houses distant relative. Rejoining our two Houses is a great proposal and I don't think Lord Gremory would refuse something like that," Minato asked his son, who tilted his head slightly to the side. He brushed his golden hair back a little afterward, trying to remember what he knew of Gremory Clan.
Unlike Uzumaki, Gremory lost control of their flames over the generation, but they made up for it through their adeptness in Demonic Arts and their sheered powerful magical talent. Lord Gremory married Venelana Bael, giving their children the Power of Destruction as well. Naruto frowned a little, realizing his children would eventually gain the Power of Destruction if he went through with that proposal. He didn't really want them to as his mother power wasn't base on fire as he figured it out in secret. Flame was just byproduct of that overwhelming powerful bloodline ability, but it had been diluted down through his mother's side, and they simply forgot what they originally were. Having power of destruction would dilute it further since they were almost opposite to each other.
'What was her name... she should be around my age as well… Rias Gremory?' Naruto thought as he remembered all the family line of the remaining pillars. They liked to show off by writing their own prowess into books for other to read and be awed. Before Naruto could answer whether he wanted to marry someone from Gremory, his father spoke up.
"Oh crap… I forgot, they only have one daughter and she is betrothed to Riser Phenex, second son of Phenex Clan…"
Naruto exhaled and checked if his mother had made his breakfast yet. Minato shrugged and continued.
"How about Phenex then? They have a daughter as well. Ravel Phenex and she's younger than you… She's well mannered, modest, elegant and quite polite… but unfortunately, she has some sort of brother complex so she admired her older brother, Riser, to the point of worship. That was the impression I got when I was first introduced to her as I visited Lord Phenex's house at Gremory's request."
"Isn't Phenex descended from Pheonix, they have immortal body and healing tears?" Kushina asked as she put down the plate for her son. Naruto and Minato nodded.
"Wouldn't that mean my grandkids will be true incarnation of Pheonix by gaining my flames as well?"
"Yes, it's probably going to be like that," Minato answered.
"That would be awesome! Marry her!" Kushina pointed at her son who rolled his eyes a little and started digging into his breakfast. "Can it also strengthen my bloodline and increase the flames intensity?"
"Actually it might be possible, but if you truly want our grandkids to have powerful fire ability, Naruto should marry Kunou of the Nine-Tails… she's a descendant of Kurama, the original Kyuubi," Minato pointed out. His wife thought a bit on it and nodded.
"Isn't she my cousin? I mean, from our family tree, Kurama also is my great great grandfather… actually, Kurama was her great grandfather, so she's like my aunt!" Naruto deadpanned as Kushina shrugged.
"Does it matter?" Kushina said, reminding her son that most Youkai tended to inbreed in an attempt to strengthen their unique power. So it was fine for him to marry Kunou. Naruto shrugged afterward at the implication.
"I think my fire is strong enough, if you want more ability in my kids, I should marry someone with water or ice like Sitri Clan, or earth to gain more elements," Naruto pointed out, hinting out that he had lightning and flames, although the flames weren't exactly from fire based ability.
"Sitri Clan… Sona and Serafall… I'm not familiar with that clan, but Sona Sitri, the heiress of their clan also went to the same academy with Gremory's heiress… although I heard they were at odd with each other. But I've heard good things too, she's very strict and is an intelligent person so you would enjoy her company immensely," Minato speculated as he had a glance at his wife, who nodded in understanding.
"Serafall might not be possible since she's known as Serafall Leviathan, gaining the title of one of the Satans under Sirzechs Lucifer's leadership," Minato pointed out as Naruto snorted. He didn't care much for the empty title of the Satans.
"I don't think it matter. Did you forget dad? I'm the heir to two of the thrones so if I want to marry her, she can't refuse," Naruto said, pointing out the origins of their race. Minato slapped his forehead and smiled with his wife. They had told their sons what they knew of their origin, and Naruto was able to piece back together much from random statements written in the oldest known book. Bloods of a prince were powerful.
"Yes… you are heir to the two thrones, but nobody will acknowledge that unless we entered the original underworld… the planes of Hell so you could sit on the throne to prove your birthright," Minato said with a frown. No one dared to enter those places simply because it was difficult to find the portal directly there, and those portals currently located in the dimensional gaps, where the Great Red resided.
Naruto wondered if he could fight evenly with the Great Red one on one and stalled the strongest being in existence. Naruto shivered slightly at the thought.
"Speaking of them, Uzumaki and Namikaze, both descended from the Princes, unfortunately, we didn't record which princes they were… I only know that the four Satans, Lucifer, Beelzebub, Asmodeus and our former master Leviathan descended from the Satan, one of the Princes, who have absolute control over darkness, while God descended from another Princes, who control light, making them polar opposite," Minato said.
"666," Naruto muttered as he finished his breakfast as his parent looked up at him.
"That was the original pillars weren't it? 6 Princes, and 66 Supports… somehow they became 4 Satans and 72 Pillars," Naruto said then drank some liquid.
"Yes… 6 Thrones and 66 Guardians, they are not humanoids like their descendent, and they can't be labeled as good or evils. Just two sides of the same coins… fortunately, our ancestral books said they don't care about this dimension anymore, and I hope it would stay that way," Minato frowned as he remembered how powerful these guardians were described in those pages. The Princes themselves were shrouded in mystery, and only one their names were revealed. Rarely anyone still remembered that, however.
"Thank for the meal, Okaa-sama. Shouldn't I have a say in who I'll spend the rest of my lie with? I have to meet them first before I can make my decision, what if I don't like them? Also, what did you say about an academy?" Naruto asked as his father frowned.
"Kuoh Academy… set up in Gremory's territory in the human world, it used to be an all-female high school so there are plenty of female attending, including many devils from prominent families… actually you could met a lot of possible candidates there," Minato stated as Naruto frowned a little.
"Human world… wouldn't there be human there as well? Are they also possible candidates?" Naruto asked as Kushina thought grimly and then slammed her palm on the table.
"No human, devils only!"
"So angels and fallens are fine then?" Naruto joked as his mother clenched her hands.
"Did you say you don't care who as long as you get a grandchild… so I just pick some random one, impregnate her and bam! You have your grandkids," Naruto said with a mocking tone.
"NO! I want my grandkids to be pure devils!"
"Calm down, Kushina, I don't think it matter much…"
"How is it not mattered? You traitor!" Kushina grabbed her husband by the collars and shouted spits at his face. Minato just sighed while Naruto put his and his father's plates away.
"What I meant is, you can use those Evil pieces to reincarnate her after she died, so it doesn't matter if she's a human, angels, fallen," Minato pointed out and reminded his wife the chess pieces. Kushina let her husband go and felt a little embarrassed.
"Evil Pieces?" Naruto asked, pushing his chair back into the table and was about to excuse himself.
"It's the chess set I gave you a while back…"
"Huh? Those weird things? I threw them somewhere. The set was missing half along with a king on one side," Naruto said nonchalantly causing Minato to face palmed.
"Naruto! Those things, as you say, have the power to reincarnate any other race into a devil! You shouldn't lose it, and the King piece is missing because it's inside you!" Minato shouted and started explaining the Evil Pieces to his son. Naruto's eyes widened at the information but then returned to normal almost immediately.
"So if everything didn't work out, I just need to find someone, kill them and reincarnated them as a devil and then impregnate them? That seems easy enough," Naruto said impassively and left the kitchen. Kushina was the one who face-palmed this time while Minato just froze there.
Inside the library, Naruto opened the chess set that his father gave him for his birthday a while back. He checked the pieces and picked up the Queen. He had catch up on those Evil Pieces and understood about the rating games in the follow up. It seemed that ones can use that game to make disagreement between each other go away, as well as improving one own social standing.
"Hmmm… so it has the power to reincarnate anyone into a devil," Naruto mumbled as he took out dozens of metal plates. He wrote the names of each possible candidate as wife including Rias Gremory as he could challenge Riser for her hands. He also added a many plates that were not named for devils since he didn't know them, thus only wrote them as generalization.
When completed the task, Naruto grabbed all the plates and threw them into the air as he channeled electricity through his body. It was the ability he inherited from his father. In his hand he held the Queen pieces as he magnetized it before looking into the air.
The plates were floating in the room as they were aided to the powerful magnetization through Naruto's power.
"I'm not sure who to choose so I will let fate decide," Naruto told the plates as he increased the electrical current. The plates themselves orbits around the room in a randomly pattern. He threw the Queen in the air as it was attracted to one. The chess piece and metal plate was then glued together. Naruto stopped the manifestation of his power for all of them to drop onto the floor. He walked toward the one he was interested in and picked it up before reading the name.
"I guessed fate has decreed it, and also I should complete peerage. Who should I add into it," Naruto mumbled as he sat back into his seat and spun the metal plate on one of its corner on top of his desk. He was in deep in thought, thinking about his next move.
Author Note:
This is Rias Route, as in she's the heroine. Check my profile to see other Route Roulette story whenever I work on them. It won't be years as I don't plan on spending years writing each of them and I do want to finish each and give each a good conclusion!