All right here's a Devil May Cry/Naruto cross that I hope will be as good as my Kingdom Hearts Naruto story. This is going to be another Naruto/harem story with Hinata and Sakura definitely in the harem. Naruto himself will be a badass. If anyone's got any suggestions to harem additions, I'm open to ideas.
As always, please don't slam my grammar and just enjoy the story.
The Red Shadow
Chapter 1: A Guardian Devil.
A young Naruto Uzumaki sat upon the roof of his apartment complex, a red, blue, and purple cloth that the boy had found in the trash and became fond of. He sighed as he looked up at the moon. He always liked looking up at the moon, especially when it was full. For some reason it gave him of since of feeling complete which he lacked when the sun was out.
Granted during the day the villagers of his home, not to mention a couple of the ninja would try and do everything in their power to kill him. The only ones that seemed to actually give a damn about the boy were a small handful on ANBU agents, a teacher at the ninja academy, and the Hokage himself, whom the boy looked to as a grandfather. Despite what many people may have said, the Hokage at taught Naruto the Shadow Clone Jutsu to help him while he was in the village. Unfortunately one of the side effects of the jutsu was that everything Naruto's clones experienced, Naruto would learn after their "death." So basically, Naruto had experienced his own death more times than he liked.
Glancing down from his perch, he sighed as he saw villager beating on his door. This annoyed him, angered him, and made him feel a since of pity for the people that were so blinded by hate that they wouldn't even explain the 8 year old boy why the wanted his head mounted on a wall. Not wanting to deal with them this evening, Naruto jumped from the roof and bound from building to building, creating shadow clones as he went and sending them off in multiple directions. He always had one with him to take care of the cloning since the skill took up half his overall chakra and using the clone helped keep his own reserves.
For reasons the old man wouldn't say, Naruto had what felt like a near unlimited supply of chakra. He told Naruto he would tell him about it when the time was right but in the mean time to just trust the old man, which Naruto did faithfully. As Naruto leapt from rooftop to rooftop, one of the clones dispelled himself, sending information to Naruto that made him stop dead in his tracks. Dispelling all his clones, he took of for the one particular clone's last location and saw something that made his blood boil with anger and, unknown to him, his eyes blaze with furry. Inside the room was a young girl, probably about the same age as him, tied to a bed and bleeding. With an angry growl he jumped onto the ledge and peaked into the room, thankful to find no one inside he hoisted himself inside. Glancing around, he walked to the girl and placed a hand over her mouth.
Her green eyes snapped open and looked fearfully at Naruto as he placed a finger over his lips. The girl nodded and Naruto created 4 clones, 3 to help him with the girl's bonds and another to search the rest of the house. After the girl was free, Naruto grabbed some cloths from the floor that he assumed were hers and gave them to her.
"Thank you." The girl whispered, getting dressed.
"Well, can't really have you running around naked if we want to get you out of here." Naruto said, doing everything in his power not to look at the girl. He may have only been 8 years old, but he was still a man. The girl placed a hand on his shoulder causing him to turn around. She was smiling at him and him at her. Then his expression changed as the information from his clone came to him.
"What's wrong?" The girl asked.
"There's another girl here." Naruto said. He started to move down the hall but found the girl following him. Naruto sighed but nodded. He didn't want here anywhere near this because there were people in the room this time, but if he could distract him, then she could help get the second girl out of there.
"I'm Sakura." The girl said, getting Naruto's attention.
"What?" Naruto asked, looking back at the girl and her bubblegum pink hair.
"My name, it's Sakura, just Sakura." She replied.
"Pretty name Cheery Blossom." Naruto said with a smile. "I'm Naruto Uzumaki."
"The one everyone on the Civilian Counsel wants dead?" Sakura asked.
"Try the whole damn village wants dead." Naruto growled. He brought a finger to his lips and pointed to the door. Sakura nodded. Naruto peaked through the door and held up 5 fingers, indicating that there were 5 people in the room. One of them was a woman that looked a lot like Sakura but Naruto wasn't about to bring that up. One of the men in there standing next to the woman was a man in a white robe. There was a single girl strapped to the bed like Sakura was and on top of her was a man getting ready to rape her while another man was getting his "weapon primed." Naruto turned back to Sakura, held up three fingers, and then pointed in the room. Sakura nodded showing she under stood. Naruto made 5 Shadow Clones and held up his fingers. He slowly dropped them and burst into the room. Two of the clones jumped forward and kicked the two rapists while one more pinned the woman to the wall and the last one attacked he man. Naruto and Sakura worked on freeing the girl from her bonds. Naruto had gotten her legs free when he spun around and blocked chakra charged strike.
"Sakura, get the girl and get the hell out of here!" Naruto shouted. "Shadow Clone Jutsu!" The room was suddenly filled with Narutos. The clones split into two groups, most of them escorting the girls out of the room while the others fought off the man and the woman who was now brandishing a sword. Despite being only a kid, Naruto was a capable fighter who was more than able to take care of himself. Granted that didn't mean Naruto wasn't taking any hits. Most of his clones had poofed into smoke because of the man, however, while the original was fighting against the woman with the blade.
Suddenly, Naruto heard a scream which broke his concentration just enough for the woman to raise her sword and slice off his arm just below the elbow. Naruto screamed in pain as he clutched his arm. Naruto growled, staggering back. One of his clones was by his side and ripped off his cloak and using it to bandage up the wound to try and stop the blood flow.
"Another time bitch." Naruto growled as he and his clone charged out and leapt out a nearby window. Nodding to his clone, he created another one and then quickly dismissed it. The information to the girl's location came to Naruto's head and he and the clone took off for the area.
Sakura and the other girl had stopped to rest on a rooftop. He didn't blame them for being tired; they weren't use to running for their life like he was. Although the fatigue from the fight and blood loss were starting to take their toll on the boy.
"Can either of you go on?" Naruto asked, wincing from the pain. Sakura nodded as did the other girl. "Sorry but I don't think I caught your name." Naruto said, kneeling before the pale eyed girl.
"Hinata," the girl replied.
"Pleasure to meet you Sunshine," Naruto said with a smile. "Now come on, let's get out of here, those people are on our trail and I think they're getting help." The three of them started running again until Hinata and Sakura collapsed from exhaustion. Naruto himself was starting to feel dizzy, this night had taken a lot out of him, and he was surprised he could still move. As he dropped to his knees, a figure stepped before him.
"Please," he whispered as the world started to go black, "help the girls." He whispered as he blacked out.
N/DMC
Naruto groaned. His head was throbbing and he couldn't feel his right arm below the elbow. Then he remembered: he didn't have that part of his body anymore. With a groan of frustration he slammed his fist against a nearby table, spilling the water that was on it.
"Hey." A voice shouted, grabbing Naruto's attention. He looked over to see a girl maybe only a year older than himself with her brown hair tied up into a pair of buns wearing a pink Chinese dress. "You ok?" She asked.
"I've been better." Naruto grunted, pushing himself up and then slipping to the right with his lack of arm. The girl was quick at his side helping him. "Thanks."
"I'm Tenten." The girl said with a smile. "No real last name."
"Naruto Uzumaki." Naruto replied. He looked down at his arm for the first time and saw the bandaged stump for the first time. With a sorry look he ran his hand over the bandaged stump. "Thanks."
"Wasn't me, my mom's the medic, she's in the other room with those two girls you showed up with." Tenten said. Naruto's eyes widened as he remembered them.
"Hinata, Sakura, are they ok?" Naruto asked. He honestly didn't give two fucks about his own condition; he was more worried about the two girls he had hoped that she saved. Tenten pointed and Naruto threw his legs over the side of the bed, not caring that he was only wearing boxers and bolted into the room. When he saw that Sakura and Hinata were curled up on a pair of beds he sighed with relief, they were safe.
"They're doing fine, a little beat up but perfectly fine." Said a voice. Naruto looked over to see a woman standing there with a warm smile on her face.
"You must be Tenten's mother." Naruto said. "Thank you for helping them…and patching up my arm." He added as an after thought.
"You're welcome young man." The woman said kind smile. "My name is Rin."
"Naruto Uzumaki." Naruto said bowing to the woman. Then they heard it, the angry mob that had formed outside chanting "kill the demon, kill the demon, kill the demon." Naruto sighed, and he had been having such a nice time.
"Guess it's time for me to go." Naruto said with a sigh. "Take care of the girls and whatever you do, do not let a woman with pink hair take them."
"What are you doing?" Rin asked.
"It's me they're after, demon is apparently their favorite nickname for me." Naruto groaned. "I'll let them see me so that they don't cause you any trouble." Naruto turned to leave but Rin put a hand on his shoulder.
"You're not going anywhere." She said. "I'm going to go out and talk to them; I'll tell them that you're not here." And with that, she walked out of the room. Naruto moved to the window, hiding in the shadows. A minute later, Tenten, Hinata, and Sakura came to join him. They watched as Rin tried to calm down the insane mob, and it worked for a minute, but then someone shouted something that got them all riled back up again. And then a certain pink haired bitch walked forward and slapped her across the face.
"That's it!" Naruto snapped, leaping out of the window and kicking Haruno in the face knocking her back.
"You all saw that!" Haruno shouted. "Completely unprovoked, the demon attacked me!"
Unprovoked? Naruto thought. Try helping out one of the only people in this godforsaken village to actually give two shits about me.
Yeah, it's a pretty fucked up world we live in kid. Said a new voice in Naruto's head. Naruto's eyes widened and all of a sudden he was in some kind of sewer standing in front of a cage with two giant red eyes with slit pupils.
"What…" Naruto asked, taking a step back.
It's nice to finally meet you Naruto, allow me to properly introduce myself, I am the Nine Tailed Fox Demon. The creature said.
"T-The Nine-Tailed Demon Fox, as in the one that was defeated by the Forth Hokage?" Naruto asked.
Not defeated, just sealed inside of you kid. The Fox said, and then its eyes seem apologetic at the boy. Sorry for all the hell you've gone through because I've been put inside of you. If it's any consolation, I'm the main reason we're not dead yet.
"Furball's also the reason I've been awaken after, hell, I don't know, and how long has it been out of action? 2-3000 years?" Said another voice. Naruto spun around to see another man leaning against the sewer walls. He had white hair that hung over his eyes and was wearing a long red coat, boots, and fingerless black gloves. A giant sword with a skeleton designed hilt rested on his back.
"And just who in the name of the Hokage's Liver Spots are you?" Naruto demanded.
"Me?" The man said innocently. "I'm just your many times removed many more times great grandpa." He stood up strait and looked at Naruto. "The name's Dante."
"Dante huh?" Naruto asked. "So, what are you doing here in my head? I mean I get why he's here," he jerked his thumb back at the Fox, "but what about you?"
"Well the thing is kid, my dad was a devil, and when a person has devil blood in them, it's sort of dormant until a person comes into contact with a demonic object, and the devil power awakens." Dante explained. "In you're case kid, after fluffy got sealed inside of you, your powers awakened.
"And this couldn't have happened before my arm got cut off?" Naruto demanded.
Consider yourself lucky that it's happening now kid, The Fox growled. Most devil power doesn't mature even with a demonic influence to awaken the blood until they're around 18 years old.
"Ok if you say so." Naruto said. "So, what are we going to do about the crowd that wants to kills us in the outside world?"
"Well, with your devil blood awake, we can give you a new arm and outfit you with the family weapons so you can protect yourself." Dante said.
"I don't give two shits about protecting myself!" Naruto shouted. "But I don't want them to hurt Hinata, Rin, Sakura, or Tenten." Dante was slightly taken aback by his decedent's outburst but then smiled at the kid before ruffling his hair.
"Kid, you've got quite the burning spirit, don't let anyone ever tell you otherwise." Dante said with pride in his voice. Naruto cracked a smile at the man but was then punched in the gut knocking him out. "Well, we'd better get started." He said looking up at the fox.
Whatever you say Son of Sparta, the Fox Demon said as red tendrils of chakra started to leak out to the boy's body.
On the outside, Naruto's body suddenly disappeared into a pillar of red chakra causing everyone to go wide eyed and take a step back. When it faded away, Naruto stood there, his severed right arm replaced with a blue scaled arm that pulsated red in time with his own heart beat. On his right bicep was a ribcage and skull tattoo on his bicep and elbow. On his left arm was what appeared to be some kind of long tail while Rin saw that what appeared to be a demonic wing appeared on his back along with a yin-yang symbol. His once bright blond hair was now a platinum white and his left eye which had once been a deep ocean blue was now blood red and both of his pupils had narrowed into slits while his whisker marks had seemed to become more defined on his face.
"Shadow Clone Jutsu," Naruto said, crossing his fingers in front of him creating 3 clones. Slowly, each one slide their hands along his tattoos and while the clones drew a large broad sword with a skeleton hilt design from his right arm, another pulled an o-katana from his left arm, and the last one pulled out a giant curved, just demonic looking blade from his back. The original meanwhile pulled out a strange angled weapon from his back that was mostly black with a white top and spun it around his finger before holding it sideways in front of him. "Now, are you all going to just walk away, or do we have to do this the hard way?"
"Die demon!" One of the ninjas in the crowd yelled, throwing kuni and shuriken at Naruto. Naruto just smirked as he pointed his weapon and did something that created sounds similar to thunder and caused the flying weapons to shatter.
"If you want to get technical, it's devil now." Naruto said with a smirk his new red eye gleaming.
"That is enough!" The Hokage's voice boomed over the masses of people. Many of the people in the crowd were thinking that now that they saw that demon for the monster that he truly was.
"Evening Old Man, nice night isn't it?" Naruto said pleasantly, smiling at the Hokage and nodding to the two ANBU officers that were by his side. "Weasel, Wolf."
"Evening Fox." Weasel said pleasantly. While Naruto originally thought that the nickname he had been given was because of the marks on his face, he now knew the truth.
"Good Evening Naruto." The Hokage said. "If I may ask, what is going on here?"
"Well, perhaps we can talk about it inside." Naruto said. "That is if it's ok with Rin."
"Of course, I'll have Tenten put on a pot of tea." Rin said bowing to the Hokage. The old man nodded with a smile and then nodded to his two ANBU operatives who disappeared. Naruto did the same to his clones, which followed suit. Walking behind the Hokage, Naruto entered the weapon shop and soon spotted Sakura and Hinata who jumped towards Naruto and hugged him tight.
"Thank goodness you're all right." Hinata said holding Naruto close.
"We were afraid that they were going to take you away from us." Sakura added.
"Hey, it's ok you two, I'm ok, and I'm not going anywhere for a while." He smiled at them and seemed to put the two of them at ease. They smiled as the three of them sad down with the Hokage sitting down on the other side of them.
"So Naruto if you would care to begin." The old Hokage said nodding to Naruto as Tenten sat down a pot of tea in front of them. Naruto quickly launched into an explanation of what had happened this evening, asking Tenten to take Hinata and Sakura into another room at one point when he was worried things would get to be a bit too much for them. They were reluctant at first but agreed. When Naruto explained everything to the Hokage, the old man was infuriated at what he had learned.
"Listen Old Man, I don't care what's going to happen to me, but is there anything you can do for them?" Naruto asked. The old man sighed and stroked his white beard in thought.
"Unfortunately, Hinata is bound by clan laws that are near unbreakable and Sakura's mother will fight tooth and nail to see to it that her daughter is returned to her." The Hokage said. "However…"
"However what?" Rin asked, curious as to how the two girls could be helped.
"The only way for them to be completely free is to…marry into another clan." The Hokage said. Naruto raised an eyebrow at that and starred at the Hokage.
"So you're telling me that the only way that those two can be free is if they are married off to someone?" Naruto said. He looked up and saw Hinata and Sakura standing there looking at them all. Naruto sighed and ran his fingers through the slicked back side of his hair. "With what those girls have gone through, I don't know if there's anyone that can take care of them and treat them right."
"What about you?" Tenten asked.
"Tenten," her mother scolded looking at her daughter.
"Actually, that's not that bad of an idea." Naruto said, looking up at Sakura and Hinata. "That is, if Cherry Blossom and Sunshine over there will have me." He smiled at the two of them. They both grinned and jumped into Naruto's arms hugging him and nodding. "Wish I had a couple of rings so I could do this right." Naruto said.
"A-Actually," Hinata stuttered, pulling out a small diamond ring, "it belonged to my mother." The Hokage sighed as he himself pulled out a small ring.
"This Naruto belonged to your mother, given to her by your father." The old man explained. "While I can't tell you their names, I can say that I'm sure they would want you to keep it in the family."
"All right then." Naruto said, creating a shadow clone and kneeling down before both girls. "Hinata and Sakura, will you marry me?"
"Of course," Hinata said as Naruto slid her mother's ring onto her finger.
"If I have to," Sakura said with a smile as she was given the ring of Naruto's mother.
"Then we are now officially engaged." Naruto said, dispelling the clone and standing up. "Of course I would rather we not get married until we at least make Chunin level." He said with a smile. Both girls looked at each other and nodded in agreement.
"Now the only question is where are you going to stay?" The Hokage asked.
"They're welcome to stay here." Rin said. "We've got an extra room that we don't use. And we'd be more than happy to let them stay with us, right Tenten?"
"Of course, I always wanted siblings." Tenten said with a smile.
"Thanks Angel." Naruto said with a smile that made the girl smile and go a little red. "Of course, that doesn't make things the same. There are still going to be people who hide and the shadows to prey on the innocent." Everyone looked at the young boy who had gone from being happy go lucky to being dark and serious. "With these new powers of mine, there needs to be someone watching in the darkness, forever in the darkness, a guardian devil." He looked you at the old Hokage with a smirk on his face.
"They'll hunt you." The Hokage warned the young devil.
"You'll hunt me, you'll condemn me, hell you'll sick the dogs on me because that's what needs to happen." Naruto said, looking at the Hokage with a fearless smile. "Because sometimes…the truth isn't good enough. Sometimes people deserve more." He looked over at Sakura and Hinata. "Sometimes people deserve to have their faith rewarded." The Hokage nodded and rose to his feet walking out of the room before he paused in the doorway.
"Naruto, you are become the hero that Konoha deserves, but not the one it needs right now." The Old Man said. "We will hunt you, because I know you can take it. You are not our hero; you are a silent guardian, a watchful protector. A Dark Knight." And with that he walked out of the room to leave Naruto with his thoughts and to dispel the crowd outside.
N/DMC
A young woman was backed into a corner. The men before her sneering as the thoughts of evil things danced in their minds.
"Don't even bother screaming little girl, no one around will give a damn about what happens to you." One of them said with an evil smirk.
"How much do you want to bet on that?" said a voice from the shadows. Out walked a young man with a glowing blue and red arm, white hair that was slicked back on one side to revile a glowing red eye. The man, no, he was more of a boy, wore a long apparently 9 tailed coat with two swords on his back, one at his hip, and strange weapon in his left, human hand.
"And just who the fuck are you?" One of the guys demanded.
The boy just smiled and raised his weapon before answering: "The Red Shadow."
And I'll just let your imaginations run with that for now. I'm got some pretty good ideas as to what's going to happen in this story but I'm always open for suggestions. Just don't slam my grammar please.
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