Note: My first Naruto Highschool DxD crossover, tell me what you think so far at the end of the chapter please!
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Arc I – Heaven
Chapter I
Heaven's Judgement
Location - Unknown
"What is this?" a female voiced in clear disbelief at the sight before her, she only being able to look on with wide bewildered eyes as everything she believed to be true came crashing down around her.
Upon first glance the room she found herself in would be described as anything but extraordinary. Bare of all but the most necessary of furnishings, the room could be described as Spartan. The only thing of note being the red satin sheets laid out upon the bed and the crimson flower petals littering the area around the bedside table.
The sight however took a turn into the twisted and bizarre as to the onlooker the crimson blood petals lost their beauty and became nothing more than rivers of blood amidst this painting of madness.
For before her, resting on the bedside table in a glass container, was the head of the most important person in her life. A man that had breathed life into her and given onto her guidance and love freely. As he did all his children…
Naruto…
"Father?" the voice whispered out in shock before the gravity of the situation suddenly crashed down upon her, "Daddy, are you okay!?" she cried as she quickly ran across the room, her bare feet striking the cold stone tile underfoot at a hurried pace as she rushed towards him.
As the moonlight filtered in through the window it revealed a teary eyed young girl with golden hair that fell down her back in waves of spun gold. She wore a plain sleeveless white dress that stopped just short of her knees. Her fair porcelain like skin seemed to glisten ethereally as her petite formed kneeled down before the glass container.
As her sapphire blue eyes settled upon the still countenance of her father's face, she could not help the tears that streamed down her face as she looked on. Her heart aching at the very sight, she took it all in.
His face stained with droplets of crimson that could only be his own blood and his eyes closed, she could not help but think his expression a peaceful one. His skin, once tanned to perfection had faded to a ghostly white, while his wild spiky hair had lost its once golden hue and been bleached to a pale gold slowly descending into silver. It all making him look ever more deathly to her innocent eyes.
To see the face of someone she had always held as synonymous with strength and life look as weak and deathly as he did now broke her heart.
Glancing upon the glass she saw it stained by a kiss mark directly over where his lips were and instantly she knew…
This was her mother's doing…
Yet incapable of feeling hatred all she felt was the sharp pang of betrayal as it tore through her.
"Daddy?" she uttered softly as she pressed her fingers upon the cold glass of the container, lamenting the fact that she could not brush her fingers over his dimly whiskered cheeks.
It just wasn't fair…
Never again will she ride his strong shoulders. Never would his strong arms wrap protectively around her and shield her from all that brought her sadness or evoked fear. Never would he again hold her hand…
"Daddy!" she cried out as she broke down into tears while hugging the glass container.
"Gabriel?" a groggy voice sounded out causing her to gasp in shock just as she looked upon her father's decapitated head just in time to see him let out an exhaustive yawn.
"Daddy?" the now named Gabriel whispered in disbelief, fearing the sight before her to be nothing more than the mere wistful imaginings born from her own inability to accept the truth.
"What is it baby, night terrors again?" he asked tiredly as he opened a single steel gray eye with ripples extending outwards from the pupil.
"Daddy!?" she happily cried out as her disbelief turned to relief, a relieved smile on her face as she looked upon her father's confused face. "Daddy you're okay!" she cried out before she started hugging the container once more, happy tears streaming down her cheeks at the knowledge of her father being alright.
"Whoa little lamb, what's wrong!?" Naruto asked as he went wide-eyed from the unexpected action, however as he attempted to wrap his arms around her he remembered his current state as he found himself incapable of doing so. "Oh…"
"I missed you so much daddy! I was so scared when I found you like this, I thought you might be d-dead…" she choked out amidst her tears
"The awesome and all-powerful Naruto dead!? Never! I would never dream of leaving my little lamb all by herself, you and your mother are too important to me to allow myself to die!" he said passionately
"Really, you won't ever leave me? You'll stay by my side forever and ever?" she asked amidst her sniffles, her puffy red eyes looking straight at him with equal parts hope and apprehension.
"Forever and ever, cross my heart and hope to eat cake!" he said animatedly with a mischievous smile on his face, the statement causing Gabriel to smile at her papa's silliness.
"Pinky promise" Gabriel asked as she held out her pinky finger expectantly
"I would, but as I'm sure you may have noticed I've lost a little weight" he jokingly said as he looked down at where the rest of his body should be only to come up short. The statement causing her to blush at her own lack of forethought on what she had said.
"Who was it that did this to you papa, was it mother?" she questioned as she ran her fingers over his glass prison attempting to find a way to free him. However as her fingers trailed over the glass numerous blue lines spread outwards as the surface of the container rippled revealing the powerful magic around it to be fighting her actions in attempting to free her father.
"I'm afraid so, she deemed it fit to help me "shed a few pounds" after the Morning Star incident when she found me spending time with the North Star to balance things out. Apparently she suspected me of corrupting her angels and causing them to fall from grace even though it was her that was so insistent on giving them free-will." He explained
"So she cut off your head?" Gabriel asked in disbelief
"Out of love! ❤" he defended with an insane smile on his face that elicited a sigh from her at that "I mean she came up to me in her cute child form and politely asked me not to resist as she cut off my head – it was so adorable!" he gushed, "As if I could say no to my wife when she goes all loli on me!" he said as he blushed in remembrance
"I still say you need to be a bit firmer with her dad, I mean look where complacency has gotten you." Gabriel said as she regarded his current body less state
"Oh this? A minor inconvenience at most I assure you, honestly the only reason I haven't given myself a new body was because I gave your mother my right eye. I mean do you know the things I can do as just a head!? Why, she didn't even carve out my tongue!" Naruto laughed insanely as he stuck out his tongue to reveal one of the most intricate seal matrix's she had ever seen to be imprinted upon it. Thousands upon thousands of seals all perfectly interlocking with one another in order to create a single seal array which took the appearance of his own unique seal.
Instantly she paled at the sight, with that alone she knew her father was not bluffing, if he had wanted to he could have ended all creation even in his weakened state. All he would need to do was bite his own tongue in order to activate the seal matrix and she doubted any "God" would have been capable of stopping the ensuing fallout.
With that one eye, the seal on his tongue, and whatever other nasty surprises her father had at his disposal he was more than a match for any would be god, even her own mother.
"This is nothing more than a mere lover's quarrel in my eyes, a misunderstanding born from the manipulations of the Morning Star. I will enjoy ripping her pretty little heart out of her chest for her betrayal and take great pleasure in seeing the light fade from her eyes as I correct my mistake!" he said with a dark smile prompting her to only nod as she continued her efforts to free her father.
Now let it be said that her father loved all his creations, however there were a great many deal of beings and creatures that were not born of his will, but rather that of others. Those while he cared for, he unlike his wife could not find it in his heart to love as his own.
Then there were those such as the Morning Star, her father as usually complacent as he was to simply allow his wife to run things was not one to be crossed. For he was as wrathful as they came and any perceived slight upon him would be repaid in blood.
You killed one of his children? He would descend such manner of reckoning upon your kingdom that the cries of every babe across the land would be silenced forever.
"Wait, you gave mother one of your eyes after she cut off your head?" Gabriel asked in disbelief as what he had said finally struck her
"Yes, she later apologized and regretted cutting of my head rather than that of that wench Morning Star. She said she needed my help to stop a great calamity that was supposed to end the world of man and begged me to help, however due to my body being indisposed at the moment and we being pressed on time I simply gave her one of my eyes." He explained before he was stricken by a thought "Now that I think about it how did she do? There was a war at around the same time wasn't there - did she kick ass?" Naruto asked with a smirk as he entertained the thought of his wife in her loli form fighting against an entire army.
At that Gabriel took a downcast expression as a small frown came over her face and her golden bangs shadowed her features from view.
"She's dead" she whispered lowly wiping his usual mad smile from his face for a second before it came back full force "What was that my little lamb, I couldn't quite catch that?" he asked her with an ominous smile.
Raising her head she looked at her father with tears in her eyes "She's dead! Mommy died in the Great War!" she cried, "Michael told me everything, of how she sealed an evil monster and in her weakened state tried to-!" she said before she broke down into tears and started weeping.
Suddenly however she felt a chill crawl up her spine causing her breath to catch in her throat for a moment silencing her cries. Glancing towards her father she managed to catch sight of his face contorted in fury and his sole eye having descended from its usual steel grey to an ominous blood red. It was the first time could recall seeing her father honestly angry. A moment where the world finally stopped being a mere game to him and he became serious about whatever he had set his mind on doing.
However, just as fast as it had appeared it was gone. His face set once more in that amiable smile of his that she had grown so fond of.
"Wipe those tears away little lamb for I can promise you with utmost certainty that your mother, my wife, still lives." He said soothingly as that loving side of him came to play, "You see she can't die, I won't allow her to, especially considering I have – this" he said as he opened his other eye only to reveal it to be a sapphire blue with a white cross cutting across it, before quickly closing it again.
"I can't use it properly at the moment due to her current condition, however as long as a piece of her still lives, she can't die." He assured, "Plus the rest of my body is currently resting besides her – see I just squeezed her butt," he said with a smirk, before becoming serious again.
"What I think happened was that she exhausted her energy reserves in sealing this beast of yours and entered some sort of deep sleep as a result. I believe that if I can reattach my head to the rest of my body and actually get there I should be more than capable of waking her." He explained causing Gabriel's expression to brighten at the news.
"However, even I don't know where my body may be, as something is interfering with my sensing abilities in that location. All that I know is that it's in a 364 square feet large room with no doors or windows that was created by my wife. That and the fact that we're both laid out on a bed." He started thoughtfully before backtracking at Gabriel's eager look, "Such information however can be misleading considering it's was her that made it, for all we know it can exist in a separate dimension like this one, or even be the size of a grain of sand." He added before she got too excited, immediately causing her to deflate at that before she brightened up once more.
"Well that's fine, all we need to do is find your body and its problem solved then right!?" she asked with a large smile at that
"I suppose so, there's still the issue of waking your mother and taking care of the Morning Star, but asides from that. Yeah, that's pretty much it, as long as nothing else comes up." He said aloud as he listed his main objectives minus his more private ones.
"Then all we need to do is get you out of here and have Michael help! He took over after mom died - I mean disappeared." She explained before correcting herself mid-sentence now that she knew the truth.
"No kidding?" Naruto said in mild surprise, "Little Michael the momma's boy stepped up to take up the big chair huh? How it's treating him?" he asked curiously causing Gabriel to frown as she continued to try to break the intricate seal work on the container.
"Not good, things have been strained with the devils and fallen angels recently. I imagine mother told you about them?" Gabriel asked getting a contemplative frown from her father
"Kinda, the first time she told me about them in any great detail she cut off my head so I had more pressing concerns at the moment and the second time it was all rushed really and I only got the tail-end of the three faction system." He explained a bit with a contemplative frown getting a nod from her.
"That's fine I'll tell you what I know later, anyways there's a sort of strained truce right now, but honestly there's no telling how much longer that will last. All three factions are scared of fighting now that mom's out of the picture, because they fear that if any of the other factions beyond the bible three find out that god died they will finish off the three factions now that they are weakened." She explained
"Weakened you say?" he repeated to himself with a maniacal grin as he started to seriously reconsider his own non-interference policy.
"However, I have heard big brother mention something about a place called Kuoh in Japan, referring to it as a melting pot of supernatural activity and about how big things are supposed to happen there in the coming years." She recited from memory causing Naruto to take on an interested expression at that.
"Oh did he now? Then that's where we're start looking!" Naruto said with a large grin just as the defenses around the glass container cracked and fell apart.
"Got it!" Gabriel cheered, before suddenly the moon outside became red and the smile slipped from her face while Naruto's only widened.
"Not quite," he said with a dark smile before a large monstrous bellow sounded out in the distance "You better run, these angels are no winged saints, of that I can assure you." He warned prompting her to speed up her efforts as she quickly picked up the glass container that held his head.
"Be careful, I'm fragile" he teased as she picked him up and held him tightly to her chest, she struggling to hold him in her small arms as she quickly fled from the room. Running as fast as her little legs could carry her into the adjoining hall she tried to get to exit as quickly as possible.
"May I recommend changing to your adult form? I fear that you're child form, as cute as it may be, is at a slight disadvantage at the moment." He said just as a roar sounded off just behind her as the sound of something crashing through a wall could be heard causing her to turn around only to hear a cry as whatever it was that entered the hall was quickly launched out the hole they had entered from.
"I also must warn you against looking back, it takes time and frankly they are quite unpleasant to look at" Naruto idly commented as his eyes glowed ominously prompting her to start running again.
"What is it, what's chasing after us!?" she asked hurriedly as she descended a flight of stairs
"Angels - in name only though. Truthfully they are basically guard dogs that look like monsters, but hey your mother calls them angels so who am I to argue with her? She made them, she can call them whatever she may damn well please." He said as he started rambling
"Focus!" She shouted as she snapped him out of it and prevented him from veering off topic
"Oh yes, the life and death situation," he said disinterestedly as he snapped back to the problem at hand, "How about you change out your loli form into your adult form now and fly us to the exit?" he suggested in a matter of fact tone
"Look, I would if I could, but this place restricts all holy energy to almost nothing. Quite ingenious really considering only someone with holy energy can enter this place. Can't you do something about this though?" she asked getting a smile from him at that
"Oh most assuredly, in fact…" he said as his left eye glowed with power and she suddenly found herself filled with holy energy, enough so for her halo to manifest and a golden hue to encompass her form. She coming to a sudden stop at the overwhelming power that suddenly filled her.
"Now about that adult form…" he suggested with a grin prompting her to close her eyes before all the holy energy inside of her burst free as the light fully encompassed her.
There where once stood a frightened young girl was an extremely beautiful woman with long curly blonde hair and a voluptuous figure. Clothed in an elegant white dress she stood with all the grace of nobility as twelve golden wings trailed behind her ethereally and a golden halo hovered behind her head. Light seemed to freely emanate from her being as she bathed the surrounding landscape beneath her golden glow.
"Definitely her mother's daughter! I don't mind this, not one bit!" Naruto exclaimed happily as he was held tightly against Gabriel's breasts.
Smiling at her father's commentary she could not help but feel a burst of joy at being compared to someone as beautiful as her mother.
"Come on dad let's get out of here, whatever those angels were they seem to have backed off after they sensed holy energy." She said as she spread her wings and prepared to fly them all the way to where she knew the exit to be.
"Actually I have a better idea," he said before he opened his right eye for a split second and created a mirror with a swirling vortex before them startling her at that.
"Why didn't you do that to start off with?" she questioned with a raised eyebrow as she looked down curiously at Naruto, not really feeling anger at him having withhold from her that he could do such a thing, only confusion.
"Because it hurt like hell that's why!" he shouted back as she noticed his right eye to be bleeding
"You're eye!" she cried out in shock
"No, my wife's eye," he corrected "Like I told you I can't use it properly in the current state she's in," he reminded her
"Then why did you?" Gabriel asked curiously, sure it would take a little while to reach the exit, but it was not worth seeing her father in pain just to circumvent.
"To move things along a bit faster, to reward you for entering your adult form, and because frankly I'm not entirely convinced you would not drop me mid-flight." He listed one by one
"I wouldn't ever drop you!" she fiercely declared, aghast at the very thought of such a thing
"Whatever, let's just get out of here" Naruto said disinterestedly, not really wanting to argue with his daughter even whilst knowing what a klutz she could be.
Gabriel quickly making her way over to mirror quickly pressed the palm of her free hand that was currently not busy holding her father's head against the mirror causing the glass that separated her from the swirling vortex just beyond it to ripple underhand. In a second all her color seemed to drain into the mirror before in a sudden flash of light she was gone…
-x-
Seventh Heaven – God's Chambers
In an elegant room that held a striking resemblance to the one the heavenly pair had just left could be seen a grand looking mirror with an intricate silver frame. Shimmering ethereally for a moment as it pulsed with some unknown energy a female figure found herself appearing in the room in a sudden flash of light as she tumbled forwards as she was deposited on the ground. She being accompanied by the sound of glass breaking and a pained cry.
"I just knew it! I knew you would drop me!" Naruto shouted as his head laid face down amidst the shattered remains of his container.
"Ah, are you okay father!?" Gabriel cried worriedly as she scrambled over towards her father's head and gingerly picked him up, "I didn't mean to drop you, it was an accident, promise!" she apologized as she turned him over to find him to find him with a pout on his face only to be met with her earnest expression.
"Ah - Your face," she commented as she noticed the large shard of glass had apparently embedded itself in the center of his forehead.
"What!? What's wrong with my face!?" he demanded in a mild-panic
"Oh no, nothing's wrong with it, you're just as handsome as ever!" She quickly placated seeing his panicked expression as she offered him a calming smile, she causing him to blush embarrassedly at the compliment.
"Always the flatterer aren't you!?" he said embarrassedly, obviously giddy at receiving such a compliment, "Why I don't find you attractive or cute at all, after all it's not fitting for a father to harbor romantic feelings for his daughter! It doesn't matter that you're my favorite, after all we all play favorites sometimes right!?" he said as he went off into his own little world, he carefully reciting the line that his wife had instilled into him concerning his many attractive daughters mid-way before descending back into his fantasy.
Only truly half-listening to her father's thanks and self-assurances she focused on the task at hand – removing the knife large shard currently embedded into his forehead that her father apparently failed to even acknowledge. Part of the benefits of being an immortal and seemingly invincible primordial deity she supposed.
"I didn't enjoy being pressed against your breasts earlier, it was just my lack of contact with other's manifesting itself," Naruto continued as he ventured into full blown denial while not paying any attention to what his daughter was doing.
"Yeah, just need to remove this one – little – thing!" she said as she yanked on the shard with each word before finally pulling it free. However she completely didn't expect what happened next.
The moment that she liberated the glass shard from her father's unusually thick skull she was greeted by a jet of blood from the wound that fully drenched her entire upper body in the thick viscous crimson fluid.
It was honestly out of proportion how much blood he produced from what he could contain in his current state of a mere head, especially considering the fact she doubted most humans contained the amount of blood he was releasing in their entire bodies let alone their heads. In mere seconds he had covered her upper body with the sticky substance as well as painted most of the wall behind her crimson as well.
"Oops" she voiced with a sweatdrop as she looked down at Naruto who looked incredibly dizzy at all the blood he had just lost.
"Gabriel-sama it's time for dinner! I brought you your favorite, it's-" cheerfully announced a brown haired angel wearing a maid's outfit as she opened the door to the room with a wide smile on her face whilst she carted in a tray filled with food - only to come up short at the sight that greeted her.
There kneeling on the floor with a decapitated head on her lap was her beloved and gentle master Gabriel. She being fully covered in blood and with the rest of the room looking eerily reminiscent of the aftermath of a gruesome murder. Clutched idly in her bloody hand was a large blood-stained shard of glass that looked just vicious enough to be capable of carving out your heart.
Most unsettling of all was when her lady turned to her with the same smile she usually wore whilst covered in blood and cheerfully greeted her as if nothing was amidst with this picture of madness that had greeted her.
"Hi Laylah!" Gabriel cheerfully greeted "Could you please set that on the tabletop over there for a bit, I currently have my hands full at the moment and it may be a bit before I can get to it!" she said happily
The now named Laylah simply continued to stand idly at the doorframe, with that same wide smile she had worn on her way in. Gabriel finally registering what the current situation must look like to her hand maiden and observing her currently strained expression decided to explain herself before a misunderstanding arose.
"Laylah, this isn't what it looks like…" Gabriel started in the most calming voice she could muster only to be met by her hand maiden's continued strained smile.
Suddenly Laylah's eyes rolled back onto her head as she collapsed in place and fell back with a thud, the food following shortly after as it spilled all over her causing Gabriel to hiss in sympathy.
"Wha happened?" Naruto groggily got out as he slowly recovered from his loss of blood and regained his bearings "Who that?" he asked as he noticed the currently unconscious maid lying in the doorway.
"A friend?" Gabriel hesitantly offered
Moments later the sight of Laylah's unconscious body being dragged into the room before the door was locked behind her followed.
-x-
"Please, I said I was sorry didn't I!? Please forgive me daddy!" Gabriel begged as she clasped her hands together and looked at her father's head pleadingly. She couldn't stand the thought of her father being mad at her, it would kill her inside.
Currently the entire room was a mess with half of it being covered in blood, with a very clear outline of her against the far wall where she herself had blocked a good majority of the blood spray that ensued from her trying to play doctor. Gabriel was currently drenched in blood while she looked at the completely healed head of her father, the large gash on his forehead now nothing more than a mere memory. Currently the angel Laylah was lying off to the side on the part of the room that wasn't stained crimson with a pillow under her head.
Naruto was currently looking with an angry pout off to the side while giving his daughter the figurative cold shoulder considering he didn't have an actual one to spare at the moment. However it wouldn't take long under his daughter's cute puppy dog eyes until he finally cave in and forgive her – that didn't mean he couldn't give her a hard time over it though.
"I don't know I might be too stupid to apologize now, especially considering the fact that my brains have been splattered all over the wall!" he shouted causing her to cry cutely at that as she balled her eyes out at the fact that her beloved daddy was angry at her.
"I'm sorry!" she sobbed "I'm so sorry daddy, please don't hate me!" she begged causing his tough front to crack as he looked at her piteously "I love you daddy, please – please!" she managed to get out amidst her strangled cries as she threw herself on the ground and started flailing around – something that looked all the more awkward as she was in her adult form.
Finally getting fed up with the waterworks and thinking that he wouldn't be able to take any more of his little lamb's mournful bleating he gave in. "Fine calm down, it's not even that big of a deal honestly. Just a minor inconvenience is all. Wow, I forgot how highly you valued my opinion Gabriel. You would think I was asking you to cut off your own wings with how much you're crying."
"Really?" she hopefully asked amidst her sniffling while wiping her tears away "You really forgive me?" she asked as she looked at him with teary hopeful eyes
"Yes, I forgive you – just be more careful with me alright, I'm delicate" he proclaimed with a posh look causing his daughter to gain a look of understanding at that as she looked elsewhere.
"Like a flower!?" she asked excitedly
"Yes, just like a – wait, what?" he asked as he looked towards her confusedly before she turned him so he could see what was next to God's bed in the real world.
There on the bedside table where he had been situated in mirror world was a glass container holding a single red rose where he had been in his wife's parallel world as if homage to their love.
"So I was a rose on her bedside table, she was always such a hopeless romantic my wife." He said with a small loving smile
"Aww, that's so romantic! An eternal rose for an eternal love!" she gushed, "It's just too cute!" she cooed as she hugged his head tightly into her bosom amidst his half-hearted protests.
Naruto could not help but think that considering his current situation, things could be worse. For one he could not have an extremely attractive female willing to lug his head around. After spending centuries completely cut off from any sort of contact or companionship it was a welcome change…
It wasn't long afterwards that the two decided that the best course of action to take at the moment was to present the situation to Michael in order to get the necessary assistance to start their search. They would work out their next step after they knew what they had to work with and talked to newly titled God.
Sneaking out of God's chambers was easy enough, getting to God's throne where Michael currently resided was a different matter altogether. Especially when your group consist of a blood covered Seraph and a decapitated head.
Knowing the panic their current appearances could evoke they decided it would be in their best interests to try to avoid as many possible encounters as possible. However considering their destination such a thing was inevitable…
-x-
Sixth Heaven
"I thought I heard something over here," a male angel remarked as he shone a lantern into a currently unused room and looked inside curiously.
"It was likely just one of the spirit children running about dusting the place, the little dears!" a female angel hand maiden cooed after him causing him to hang his head in acceptance at that.
"I suppose you're right" he admitted with a smile before he heard a sound come from a nearby wardrobe causing him to turn towards it curiously. Strange, the spirit children were usually so diligent in not touching things in the physical world after all…
"Father you're going have to stop moving so much or you'll give us away"
"Easy for you to say, you're not the one being suffocated to death!"
"Shh, he's looking this way!"
Frowning the male angel made his way over towards the wardrobe as his curiosity got the best of him. He could distinctly make out something that sounded like whispers coming from it and spirit children's voices could not be heard outside of the Third Heaven – only their laughter.
Walking over towards the wardrobe he noticed something a bit off about it, inspecting it for a few seconds and noticing nothing amiss his frown deepened further in confusion. Taking a step back as he looked at it he could not help but feel this sense of unease that settled over him while it loomed over him. Now normally he wasn't supposed to touch anything in the unused rooms as they were left unoccupied either in honor or a saint or high ranking angel, but this time he could not deny that he was tempted to open it.
Inside there was supposed to be only the robes of an angel or saint, but maybe – just maybe, there was something else…
Suddenly his highly sensitive hearing picked up on something – was that breathing?
Pressing his ear as close as he dared to the wardrobe he heard…nothing
Backing off in confusion he suddenly felt a cold wind sweep over him only to turn to see a window slightly open in the room. Maybe this was what he heard? The whispering of the wind, the breath of life…
Walking over to the window he closed it shut before looking thoughtfully back at the wardrobe…
"Are you done telling off the spirit children for breaking something yet?" a voice cheerfully rang out from the hall as a dark haired angel popped her head into the room with a grin, causing him to laugh at her statement.
"Nah, no spirit children here, just an open window from their last cleaning." He said with a smile as he gestured to said window
"Then what are you standing around for!? We have places to be, things to clean, food to cook!" the female angel excitedly proclaimed as she led her male companion down the hall
"An angel's duty is never done!" the male angel agreed with a smile as he made to close the door to the room behind them, he casting a final glance at the wardrobe in the process, "An angel's duty is never done," he quietly repeated once more before closing the door softly behind him with a resounding click.
After a few seconds of silence a shuffling sound could be heard in the room, before a male voice sounded out.
"Are they gone?" Naruto asked from his spot currently atop Gabriel's chest
"Let me check," Gabriel responded as she peeked from their hiding place for a moment before deciding the pair of angels weren't coming back. "Yep, they're gone" she confirmed
"Good, let's continue on then!" Naruto declared just as Gabriel slid the door to their hiding place open, revealing it to be a closet with a sliding door directly besides the wardrobe. They having crammed themselves into the bottom portion of it as the upper portion was filled with folded towels.
"That was close, good thing luck was on our side, that and the fact he got distracted with this wardrobe." She breathed in relief
"I prefer to call myself a miracle-worker" Naruto said with fake snobbishness at her statement
"Oh I forgot, you're the god that has taken it upon himself to handle coincidence haven't you?" she said as she remembered the fact that her father had once told her that he was actually quite firm on him holding sole claim to such a position, as in his words; "If you control coincidence you control probability, if you control probability you control luck, and if you control luck… there is no force in this or any universe that could ever hope to best you."
"Then it's inevitably thanks to you that the window was open?" she asked as she knew that he couldn't have done it now as he was trying to go below the radar at the moment in order to not tip off all of heaven that he was back.
"Possibly, I may or may not have had a hand in it," he answered with a mysterious smirk, "I mean it's not like I would orchestrate this entire encounter decades in advance just so I could be crammed inside of a tiny closet with you now would I?" he suggested with a small mischievous smile
"Wouldn't you?" she asked back with a smile of her own before a thought suddenly struck her, "Wait, wouldn't that mean that you orchestrated me finding you after all these years as well?" she asked as she looked at him with a puzzled expression only to be met by an insane grin from him.
"Did I?" he asked back only confusing her ever further at the fact that he did not outright deny her statement.
"Didn't you?" she asked, honest to god confused at this point at what he was getting to.
Spotting her father's maddening smirk widen at her confusion she pouted as she realized he was likely just teasing her, "Fine, don't tell me! I bet the only reason you wanted to be god of coincidence was to make people doubt everything that happens as such so that you can take credit for it!" she declared with a huff causing him his smirk to widen at that.
"Possibly," he said as he looked off to the side causing her to groan at that.
Yep, just like her father alright, never a straight answer with the guy. However, even amidst her current frustration she couldn't help but smile. For how long had she craved for this; to partake of their playful banter again, to be target of his silly teasing once more? She loved and cherished all their interactions and had missed him dearly over the last few centuries, to have him back in her life was like a dream come true for her. A dream that she had worked tirelessly to make a reality…
"Hey how about you look into that wardrobe over there to see if there's something inside," he suggested with a smile as he referred to the wardrobe the angel from earlier seemed quite captivated by.
Shrugging Gabriel decided to follow her father's advice as she walked over towards said wardrobe with him in hand. Reaching out towards the currently unoccupied hand she pulled it open only to find it empty, looking back at her father she found him wearing a grin as he looked inside confusing her. However when she turned back to the wardrobe she found a large glowing magical crest inside of it causing her to take a step back in surprise before she distinctly felt herself being sucked into the wardrobe.
Determined not to get caught up in whatever trap her father had just tricked her into springing she quickly tried to run away with him, only for every step away from the drawer to take a gargantuan effort as the magic locked onto her energy signature as it threatened to suck her in.
"Naruto!" Gabriel cried out in shock as she was swallowed into the spiraling vortex inside the wardrobe along with the laughing head of her father.
"Onward, to Narnia!" Naruto laughed just as the wardrobe door slammed shut behind the two and silence descended upon the room once more.
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"You're insane" Gabriel jokingly proclaimed as the two neared Michael's current location
"I believe the term you're looking for is asinine" he corrected with a mocking smirk before it fell off his face as he considered what he just said, "Wait no, what I meant was-"
"No, asinine, summed it up pretty well there dad." She said as she used his own words against him "Not exactly how I would word it and a bit self-depreciating coming from you, but I suppose if you say so…" she said teasingly causing him to sputter indignantly at that as he attempt to correct the misunderstanding.
So far they had somehow teleported to a laundry chute elsewhere on the sixth floor and after digging themselves from the laundry pile were currently trying to figure out a way to enter the throne room. As it turned out her father had numerous little shortcuts and secret passages all throughout heaven that he had created long ago in order to play with the spirit children and to get from place to place in a timely manner.
What her father had yelled out earlier, Narnia, was apparently an actual location in the third heaven where children that had suffocated inside confined spaces due to lack of parental supervision went – at least according to her father. In reality it was a place where the souls of dead children could happily enjoy a fantasy setting in the afterlife and live out their dreams.
Right now she was currently trying to think of a way to get into the throne room and bypass the two armor clad angels currently guarding the entrance way. Their golden armor glimmering ominously as they held their swords at the ready with their large white wings folded against their back. Their helmets were beset with three feathers; two white ones streaked with red from either of them to symbolize their blood bond and a single golden feather to symbolize their fealty to their lord on high.
"How about you just walk through them?" Naruto suggested as he observed Gabriel tying to think of how to approach the situation.
Not being able to think of a better option she decided to take his suggestion and just wing it. Going around the corner where she was observing them from she quickly walked up to the stunned guards who seemed too shocked to question her as they saw her covered in blood holding a decapitated head.
Smiling at them she uttered a pleasant greeting as her father cheerfully greeted them, the two only being able to look on dumbfounded at the sight of their lady holding a talking head of all things. I mean this was their lady, sister of their lord who they were supposed to serve, they simply did not know how to address such a thing.
Entering the room the two quickly saw Michael sitting on a throne with a peaceful expression on his face as he looked through a scroll of parchment. Michael was a handsome-looking man with long blonde hair and green eyes shaped in a perpetually sad manner, as if burdened with all the sin and bloodshed of the world. In contrary to Gabriel's naive and cheerful disposition, his was wise and saddened. Kind yet thoughtful, this was the Naruto and God's first joint creation, the archangel and current God of heaven Michael.
"Big brother I bear great news!" Gabriel cheered as she barged into his throne room startling him, the two angel guard's from before trailing after her as the other guardian angels in the room looked at her in shock at her appearance.
"Gabriel, big brother is very busy right at the moment, now that mom's gone I have a lot of responsibilities to attend to and I can't-"
"Its mother, she's alive!" Gabriel cried happily causing Michael to go wide-eyed at the proclamation as the scroll dropped lifelessly from his hands and fell onto the floor.
"What did you say?" a startled Michael asked as only for his breath to catch in his throat at the sight of his blood covered sister looking at him with an unsettling grin.
"I said mother lives, and that's not all, look who I found!" she said as she held out their father's smiling head towards Michael.
"Sup" Naruto said with a large smile before Gabriel moved his head over to the side slightly and gave Michael a beaming smile.
"It's daddy!" she cheered, "Isn't this great!? With this we can be a family again! You, me, mommy and daddy - we can fix everything!" she said excitedly before she noticed her brother was not partaking of her current excitement.
Looking at him in confusion she was surprised to see him with an undecipherable expression as he looked intently at their father's decapitated head. Casting his sea-green eyes towards her with a mournful expression he spoke, however when he addressed her it was no longer as a brother to a sister, but as God to an angel under his wing.
"You poor child, you have no idea what you have just done," he said piteously as he stood up and formed a magical sphere underhand connecting to the Heavens' System. This being just as unimaginable pain coursed through Gabriel causing her to cry out in pain as she dropped to her knees while clutching the head of her father abreast.
"It hurts!" she got out through gritted teeth while gasping in pain as lightning arced around her, "Daddy, big brother!" she cried out in pain as tears streamed down her cheeks as her wings plumage faded to a menacing black marking the start of her descent from grace.
Michael quickly activating the Heaven's system created an intricate web of magical seals with numerous depictions of the angel's symbolic crest. However this only seemed to cause her more pain as the array could not contain the vast fluctuations of energy from an angel of Gabriel's caliber and caused it to lash back at her as it tried to stop her from falling. Spinning the orb in hand his attempts to fix the issue only seemed to make it worse. That was when he noticed it, the color was fluctuating between black and gold – her pure heart was overriding the process of falling!
'Amazing' he thought in awe at his sister's pure soul, that was akin to ascending back to grace after falling. Only those angels that had truly repented for their sins and spend decades of utter devotion were usually capable of rejoining heaven. However at this point he doubted she even knew what she had done, was her innocence so great that it simply made her incapable of being corrupted?
"Enough!" Naruto roared as the entire containment array malfunctioned as his power washed over the room. Michael, sensitive to the manipulations of holy energy, felt a massive influx of it all rush into Gabriel as her back arched and her wings exploded behind her in a shower of gold. Her twelve golden wings shimmering with all the raw brilliance of his own as her fall was countered by Naruto's will to keep Gabriel entrenched in the light.
"Gabriel are you alright?" Naruto asked worriedly just before Michael himself could ask the same
"I-I don't know, what was that?" Gabriel asked as she managed to reclaim her senses and lifted her head weakly
"That was what happens when you start to waiver, that's what happens when you go against the will of God." Michael cut in as he looked sadly towards his sister
"What is the meaning of this Michael?" Naruto demanded as he narrowed his eyes at the current lord of heaven
Ignoring his father he continued, "I knew that God lives, for as long as faith in her is not lost neither is she. The sole reason I did not tell you was to discourage you from looking for her, for you see she has not returned to us for a reason. That thing in your hands is no god, that is blasphemy incarnate, father of sin and progenitor of madness she sealed him away long before the Trihexa. Unchecked his powers threatened all creation, yet she knew that even with her own vast powers she could not hope to match a being such as him. So she employed the most powerful of all virtues in order to keep him at bay - love." He said surprising Gabriel greatly at this
"Wow, did you come up with that bullshit story all by yourself?" Naruto said condescendingly as he looked on at Michael in apparent awe
Gritting his teeth Michael continued, "Splitting his power into three, she sealed him away for the good of all mankind!" he declared
"Mankind, since when have I ever given a shit about mankind?" he interrupted again causing Michael to frown at him at that as he stopped his diatribe in order to address his father.
"It is that very kind of thinking that has led us to where we are today father, that apathy and lack of concern is what dims the radiance of a pure soul. Humanity is a shadow of its former self, the humane have become the forgotten. Amidst the starving, the sick, the filthy, the poor what is humane has perished in favor of a concept of individuality that borders on the narcissistic." Michael explained before Naruto suddenly broke out into a maddening grin as it all suddenly clicked for him.
"I get it now," Naruto laughed "you failed!" he thundered causing the very heavens to shake upon his proclamation as every angel stopped mid-action and Michael took on a startled expression.
"You could not handle the weight of the world upon your shoulders, you could not fill the void left by the absence of God and thus you seek to justify yourself! Do you intend to make me your black sheep Michael!? The scapegoat to all your failures and justification for your actions!? Do you truly intend to vilify me, your own father!?" Naruto roared with sheer fury in his eyes at what he was hearing
Michael, not one to be intimidated pressed on "Mother gave everything to seal you away! You know nothing of how much it pained her to do so – to put a stopper to your madness! It tore her heart!" he shouted in remembrance as tears brimmed in his eyes
"Sealed me away!?" Naruto roared in outrage, "What sort of delusions have you blinded yourself with Michael!? What happened arose from nothing more than a mere misunderstanding – I am no monster!" Naruto shouted back
"I know what I saw!" Michael declared fiercely, taking Naruto and Gabriel aback at seeing Michael who was usually the calmest and most level-headed of the seraphs lose his cool like that, "Your words – they're nothing more than lies! Lies that breed more lies! You – you're beyond redemption! Guards, seize him!" Michael ordered, as the numerous guardian angels in the room bore their arms against him only for them to hesitate.
Gabriel while unable to follow what was being said too thoroughly, understood that her brother was in some way against her father and was insistent on bringing some manner of harm upon him. That and the fact that her brother had apparently withheld important information from her on the basis of making her more agreeable with his decisions and disenchanting her from searching out her father. It didn't take her long to decide her stance concerning the situation…
Quickly materializing a spear of light underhand she held the head of her father protectively to herself as she dared the other angels to try to take him from her.
She had only just managed to get him back, there was no force on this earth that could hope to rip him from her. She didn't care if she fell for opposing Michael or for going against God's will. All that she cared about was that they were together, and she would be willing to fight all of Heaven and Earth to keep it that way.
Naruto seeing the guardian angels in the room hesitating in following Michael's command decided to capitalize on this apparent lack of faith that they held in Michael's judgement. For where there was hesitation there was doubt, and where there was doubt… there was a weakness he could exploit.
"Go on do it, obey your God!" Naruto shouted as he goaded the hesitant angels on whilst mocking Michael's new title, "Let's see all of heaven fall from grace on this day as the son sheds the blood of the father in vengeance!" he proclaimed with a mad grin directed at the fuming Michael
"This is not vengeance!" Michael thundered as all of Heaven quaked beneath his power, "This, is rightful retribution!" as he formed a javelin of light that burned with all the fury of the heaven's themselves in hand and slammed it into the ground with a resounding boom.
"An eye for an eye huh?" Naruto asked with a smirk as Michael's eyes of pure light burned into him, "You're mother and I know that saying very well, why you could say we exemplify it!" he laughed as he opened his other eye and revealed his wife's currently deactivated eye in its dormant state shocking the onlookers at that.
"How did you get your hands on that!? Mother would never entrust something of such importance to you!" Michael demanded as he saw the eye of God in possession of his father of all people.
"Believe it or not your mother is smarter than you seem to think. She came to me before the war and begged me for my help. Knowing that even in my weakened state I was still the most powerful being in all creation she pleaded with me to help her save the world of man." Naruto announced, he taking great pleasure at the fury that came across Michael's face at the very thought of his mother needing his help for anything.
"Liar!" Michael thundered, "You are nothing more than a liar and a thief! While I would more than believe her ripping your eye from you, she would never give you her eye after the betrayal she suffered at your hand! It's your fault that the war happened in the first place! In fact it's probably due to you taking her eye that she has not returned to us!"
"Watch your tongue Michael lest I rip it out!" Naruto growled at his unfounded accusations, since if there was one thing he could not stand it was bold faced lies and biased truths. The mere threat causing Michael to flinch. "I was tricked by the Morning Star, as we all were!"
"You lied to mother, it was you that tricked her!" Michael bit back
"I never lied to my wife! I merely told her what the Morning Star had told me! The only trickery that occurred on that day was that of the devil itself!" he declared, causing a chill to run down the spines of the numerous angels in attendance as he invoked the title of the Morning Star after The Fall.
"I refuse to believe such convenient lies! Whether you accept it or not, the blood of millions is on your hands father! You have taken God from us, dived us with sin, do you truly intend to drag all of heaven down with you as well!? Stop this madness father, lest you bring end to this strenuous peace and undo millennia of progress with your actions!" Michael cried as he pleaded with his father while painting himself as just in his actions.
"I guess what they say is true, justice is blind!" Naruto mocked causing thunder to ring through heaven as Michael's anger reached new heights, "You think you're in the right!? You are nothing more than a petulant child trying to fill shoes much too big for you!" he taunted only to be met by a saddened expression from Michael, one that filled him with unease.
Hanging his head in sorrow he gave Gabriel a sad smile, "I'm sorry dear sister, but I don't think I'll be able to hold back." He said as the brightness of the javelin in his hand intensified "I must put forth the needs of the many before the needs of the one!" he cried as he hefted the javelin of light and launched it at the currently wide-eyed pair, tears streaming freely down his cheeks as the guilt of him having to possibly kill his sister tore him apart inside. His father must not be allowed to leave heaven - no matter the cost.
The fate of all worlds depended on it…
Overwhelmed by the emotional burden of her brother actually intending on striking her down where she stood Gabriel could only look on fearfully as the full might of god descended upon her. She rooted in place as a construct of holy energy with the power to strike down a pagan god streaked towards her – its blinding light casting no shadow.
"Do not fear my child…" she heard echo in her mind as she found her arm moving with a will not her own, "…for I am always with you."
As the spear of light finally reached her everything seemed to stop, before the magical backlash struck everyone in the room causing several of the angels in attendance to be knocked off their feet and Michael to take a step back as the holy energy rebounded.
"By the lord" one of the guardian angels sprawled upon the floor uttered in awe at the sight in front of him.
"Impossible" Michael whispered fearfully at the sight in front of him
There, in front of their very eyes, was Gabriel holding Naruto's head at arm's length as the spear of light seemed to arc and bend before his very visage. With his eyes nothing more than streaks of light and his mouth nothing more than an endless white void Naruto was devouring an attack easily capable of wiping an entire civilization off the face of the earth. An attack of the same caliber that had utterly destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah long ago, being stopped by a being that was theoretically in its weakest state in eons.
As the massive amount of holy energy was finally eaten by Naruto as it spiraled down into his gaping maw, it revealed Gabriel to have her eyes closed as her arm trembled hesitantly before her with her father's head in hand. She awaiting the pain she associated with the concept of death to strike her.
Blowing out a gust of air in apparent satisfaction at his meal Naruto spoke, "Little lamb you can open your eyes now." He said softly to Gabriel causing her to hesitantly open her eyes only to be greeted by the sight of a fearful Michael and an awed flock of guardian angels.
"Am I dead?" she hesitantly asked as she wasn't quite informed on what happened to angels after they died. I mean good people went to heaven when they died right? So did that mean that good angels also had a chance to go to heaven if they died? What would happen if someone died in heaven and they were supposed to go there after death anyways, would they simply become ghosts or would they disappear? Would angels that died also disappear? All these answers she was ignorant of, a good deal of them she suspected her brother could answer. However, she was not one to contemplate on something such as death for long, it simply wasn't in her nature. She was always satisfied with what her mother had told her long ago; that good people that died went to a better place while the bad people were punished.
"No, as if your lovable papa would allow your mean bully of an older brother to kill his currently favorite child!" he said loud enough for Michael and the other angels in attendance to hear in order to drive the point home that he was pissed at Michael's actions.
"Why would Michael do that papa?" Gabriel asked with a frown as she completely ignored everyone else in the room and directed the conversation towards Naruto, figuratively giving everyone else the cold shoulder in the process.
"Because he's stupid, that's why," Naruto answered her with all the bluntness of a sledgehammer as he gave Michael a sideways glare, "I mean he has to be in order to consider pissing me off." He finished before prompting Gabriel to turn him over to fully address Michael
"Wait till your mother hears about this - you trying to kill little Gabby" he said before he shook his head "You should be ashamed." He chastised causing Michael to take on an offended expression at that as Naruto tried to label him the villain
"I wish not to harm a hair on her head, it is you that needs to be stopped! However she seems to have made her choice and has forsaken Heaven in favor of you, as such I cannot condone her actions as long as she remains by your side. I do not blame her for this, she is the most kind-hearted pure angel I know." He said fondly as he blessed a currently frowning Gabriel with a smile before looking towards the head in her arms in anger, "No, I blame you! How were you able to survive that attack!? It should have been more than sufficient to slay any God, let alone a weakened one!" he demanded, he only truly stalling as he sent out telepathic call towards his generals for support in what was looking to be a battle on a scale unprecedented.
"You seem to overestimate yourself while underestimating me greatly child! Even if all of heaven turned against me, I could crush you all without even needing to bear my fangs!" Naruto growled as his whisker marks became more prominent and his canines became vicious fangs as he hissed at Michael.
However just then Naruto detected the numerous angels in the other heavens become increasingly agitated through his connection to heaven, thousands of angels were all converging on their position. It didn't take him long to figure out that Michael had summoned them, it seemed that he was mobilizing all of heaven to stop him from leaving. It was time for him and Gabriel to leave.
'Gabriel it's me, can you hear me?' he said through a mental link with Gabriel
'Daddy is that that you?' she said with a mildly startled expression this being just as Michael started another diatribe about how this was all necessary.
'Yeah, it's me – now listen, the heavens are stirring. There are currently thousands of angels coming here in the next few minutes and I'm afraid that if we get caught up in such a large scale conflict I can't ensure that all of them would be able to survive.' He explained causing her to take on a slightly worried expression on the outside, while on the inside she was panicking.
'What do we do!? I don't want to hurt the angels, they're my friends! I don't them to d-die' she thought fearfully
On one hand she wanted her father to be safe, but on the other she didn't want to hurt angels that she had spent centuries with. She didn't want to be forced to make such a choice! However she supposed that if she had to… she would choose Naruto. She simply cared too much to let him go, as much as it would kill her inside she would forsake those of the own kind for him. All she could do was hope that if she behaved her father would deem it fit to revive them later on, though it was doubtful considering they were actively acting against him.
'Of course I would revive them Gabriel, it's not their fault after all - it's your idiot of an older brother's fault!' Naruto fiercely declared, startling her as she forgot their mental link was still active, 'However that may not be necessary, for you see I have a plan.' He said as a menacing grin split his face in the real world coincidentally at a part that Michael was talking about Naruto's limitations, he skillfully making it look as mocking as possible. 'You're going to have to follow my instructions to the very letter however in order to pull this off. Are you sure you want to go through with this? After all there's still time to turn back and I'm pretty sure that even as a head I can still find some way to get out of this.'
'I'm sure' she answered without hesitation as she held his head even tighter against her
'Okay, here's the plan…'
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Michael's POV
Michael felt a bit of hope blossom in his chest as his father and sister listened to him, maybe he could resolve this peacefully after all. He needn't hurt his father after all, he could simply try to reseal him again and continue to wait for God's return. He was sure that when his mother returned balance would be restored and hopefully his father and the Morning Star's actions could be undone. Maybe he could even convince his father to part with God's eye and allow him to return it to her when she came back.
He truly regretted attacking the two of them, especially Gabriel. He would have to apologize to her for his brash actions, he should have attempted to separate the two before attempting such a thing. At that he thought back on some of their past conversations, maybe it wouldn't be so bad to spend some time with his sister and play with her – if only to make her happy. As he got through to them with his word's and carefully thought explanations he could not help but recall what Gabriel had said, about all of them being a family again.
Maybe – just maybe, there was hope for his father yet. Perhaps they truly could all be together again…
Suddenly his body tensed as his senses alerted him to a massive energy construct heading towards him at high speed. Turning towards the pair to regard them he saw his prior attack being launched at him with twice as much power behind it.
…or maybe that was mere wishful thinking on his part.
"Utterly foolish" he uttered as he lifted a single hand towards the attack and crafted a magical circle before it just as the attack came in contact with it. The force of the attack causing his robes to billow under the monumental pressure behind it just before the entire attack flickered out of existence.
Suddenly thousands of miles away the attack was forcibly detonated as it was displaced and the massive amount of energy inside of it was released. It detonating with enough force to set the skies aflame and cause the very heaven's themselves to tremble as the resulting explosion cleared the cloud coverage for miles in all directions. As the resulting shockwave reached their location it caused all the windows in the building to shudder in protest as they creaked under the pressure.
Michael however was unprepared for the sensation of cold steel pressing itself upon the nape of his neck immediately afterwards, causing him to go wide-eyed at the unexpected development. Casting his eyes back down to where Gabriel and his father had been mere seconds beforehand he found the spot vacant and his numerous guards currently unconscious all across the room.
"How?" he asked honestly surprised on how quickly they had flipped the tables on him
"All we needed was a second - we'll be taking our leave now Michael, and we're taking a bit of heaven with us." Naruto declared as Gabriel pressed the holy blade Ascalon onto the back of his neck while standing behind him. Stringed along her waist being a satchel whose small size did no justice to the numerous holy relics hidden within.
"You misunderstand the situation then, you act as if you're the ones in control" Michael answered ominously as the sky outside darkened, he being much too relaxed given his current situation for either of them to be comfortable. "My life is inconsequential to this situation, my survival of no importance, for I can most certainly assure you that you are in no way in control." He said resolutely just as all light ceased to filter into the room from the numerous windowed archways lining its walls.
"Father" Gabriel whispered worriedly
"I know" Naruto responded as he glared knowingly towards the windows, fully aware of what laid beyond them.
For the first time since its conception night had fallen over Heaven, for outside the throne of God had cumulated all of heaven's armies. So great were their numbers that they blotted out the sky and obscured the sun. They were legion, and as such they acted.
Crafting spears of light in hand the resulting multitude of light bathed the area with all the brilliance of a thousand suns - and as one they struck…
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Author's Note:
Wow and that was only chapter one… anyways that's my first foray into a Naruto and Highschool DxD crossover so tell me what you think about it so far! Feel free to speculate on harem members or whatever, that's always amusing, but honestly I hope you like what I'm doing so far in regards to plot.
This is my second Highschool DxD work as I have another one titled Future God Complex if you want to give it a try. It's Highschool DxD centric with elements of Overlord, featuring a very different Issei as the titular protagonist. I'm going to be updating it soon so... yeah, that's interesting.
Anyways, school starts again for me tomorrow wish me luck!
Chapter Notes:
Lemons and limes are likely in future chapters since this is Highschool DxD. However they will be to advance the plot, not even kidding that's usually why I even bother writing them.
The Heaven System can be used to help prevent fallen Angel's from falling. There are seven separate Heaven's that make up "Heaven" in the Highschool DxD universe.
Before anyone makes any presumptions angels don't require sexual intercourse to be created in this story. Archangels can be born from celestial parents, but they can also just as easily be created using godly powers over creation and life. It's up to your personal tastes what you associate each archangel with, they can either be born out of Naruto and God's power over creation and life or some of them could have biologically born if you prefer. Either way they are still the creators of angels and the parents of the archangels, at least in their eyes. I say this in order to make the possibility of a future Naruto and Gabriel relationship less awkward...
Legend/Bestiary:
Spirit Children: The souls of young children, ignorant of sin they have been deemed pseudo angels by God and are allowed free roam beyond the Third Heaven. They often can be observed aiding angels in their daily tasks and playing in the spirit world. Amiably referred to as little angels by other celestial beings they are able to traverse from one Heaven to another without difficulty. Also referred to as orphan angels.