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Who the World Had Forgotten

Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto or Seven Deadly Sins

"What is all this!?" The ten year old Naruto Uzumaki said when he came across something in some kind of forest. He was boy that looked to be ten but was rather short for the average ten year old boy and the same could be said for his fashion sense. That orange jumpsuit and tight black shorts along with the same style shirt didn't do him any justice. It was like he covered himself in neon and had a sign on his head that screamed, 'Here I Am!'

Right now Naruto was in the forest because he was rejected by his crush, humiliated by his greatest rival and laughed by all his peers when he finally entered the academy but already got off to a bad start by failing the very first exam. He needed some place to blow off some steam.

He just had to wander through the village and into the far outskirts of the village. That is until it started to downpour on him. Naruto was fortunate enough to have spotted an open cave in the forest, at the base of one of the mountains. But that was the strangest thing, Naruto never remember seeing a mountain in the forest after climbing up the fence surrounding it.

Not caring as long as the cave sheltered him from the rain, he explored it. Naruto always loved exploring new places, who knows what you will find next. But this is something that Naruto never thought to find in a cave,

It was a very vast one that Naruto never counted on because the entrance was barely big enough for himself. And inside was a mess of a collection of weapons and relics that Naruto never seen before. The designs were something out of a nightmare with thorns and teeth and claws surrounding the sword scabbards and on the shield and at the tip of the spears. And from the looks of some of them, they were gigantic in size and Naruto betted with his life that those few must weight a ton or more.

But what got his eye was this pedestal with a giant sphere embedded in the flat topside. There was something inside the sphere and it drew Naruto into touching it. But when he did,

"Where am I?" Naruto was not recognizing his new surroundings and then saw that he wasn't alone. Seven people of difference sizes and faces were looking down on him.

"Is he our successor?"

"He looks short."

"But there is something off about that boy for sure."

Sayings went off like sudden fireworks which creeped Naruto out. So much that one of them managed to silence them with a motion of his arm, "Enough everyone. We need to introduce ourselves."

He is exceptionally short and looked like a child compared to other shadows, with messy blond hair and a pair of emerald green eyes. He also lacks facial hair, further accentuating his adolescent appearance. Regardless of his stature and youthful looks, he is relatively muscular, possessing an array of well-developed abdominal muscles. He is often shown wearing an ordinary, clean white button-front shirt and a black sleeveless vest on top with a loosely worn tie. His broken sword's scabbard is held on by a green leather belt with gold-colored buckles. Without any socks, he wears a pair of black boots. His most distinctive trait is his Dragon symbol carved at the top of his left arm, just below his shoulders. "My name is Meliodas. This is Diane."

Diane was several times larger than an ordinary human being. She is a fair maiden, with purple eyes and medium length brown hair which is tied up into large twin tails. She has a particularly well-developed and curvaceous body. Like most of the other Deadly Sins, her facial appearance is relatively childlike and has shown little change over the years. Diane's wanted poster depicts her with light colored hair. Her symbol, which is of the Serpent, is located on her left outer thigh. "You sure are as cute as you are tiny!"

"Ban."

Ban is a tall muscular man with pale skin, who possesses a set of well-developed abdominal muscles. He has short light-colored wild hair and thin eyebrows, as well as a pair of scarlet-red eyes. On the left side of his neck, he has a large scar. He is shown wearing a red colored jacket and pants with metal pieces sown into both, and shoes of a similar color. "Yo!"

"King."

King resembles a young boy with short orange-colored hair, a high forehead, thin eyebrows, and orange eyes. He wears an orange and green sweatshirt with a hood, navy blue undershirt, quarter-length pants, and buttoned shoes. He also carries a leopard pattern pillow. "Hey."

"Gowther."

Gowther has amber eyes and dark red hair (sometimes depicted as magenta) that reaches just past his jaw. His usual attire consists of a gray long-sleeved shirt underneath a white sleeveless top, as well as a pair of dark pants and short boots. He has a very feminine face, and as such, can be mistaken for a girl. Gowther also wears a pair of glasses with light frames and apparently cannot see without them. [Greetings], it was the weird and robotic voice that made Gowther seem even creepier.

"Merlin."

Merlin was first seen wearing a long violet cloak that covered her whole body, making her sex ambiguous. However, when the cloak was ripped apart, Merlin is shown to look very similar to her appearance on her wanted poster. She is seen as a slim, attractive, tall woman with three beauty marks below her right eye (though after her reappearance after Hendrickson's defeat, she appears to only have a single, lower-placed, larger beauty mark). Her outfit consists of a highly revealing and open fur collared long coat, with heart shaped buttons, short shorts with a heart on it, and thigh high boots. Merlin's hair is at shoulder length and black. "Hello darling."

"And Escanor."

Escanor was some to be a very youthful looking, but slight and weak young man with short-cut hair and a set of clothes that seemed too large to fit him. "..Hi…" His voice was as meek as Naruto had judged him.

"We were all once part of the Nanatsu no Taizai, the strongest and cruelest order of Holy Knights in the kingdom of Liones until it meant its ruin to the passenger of time. And when that happened, we never saw each other again. That is until we all meant our end and yet we didn't move on." Meliodas said and everyone started their own two cents,

"We all found each other again right here."

"But we were still gone from this world and we are now nothing but souls."

"Someone had detached us from the rest of the world and placed us in this cave."

[Even what we left behind had found its way here.]

"Not one of us has that power even if we weren't unable to interact with this living world."

"…It is strange indeed…"

"But what does all this have to do with me?" Naruto had to know all this and the strange people all looked at each other and nodded.

"Okay, this is all we ask of you. We need you to train to be out successor and to do that. I will have to make you a demon." Meliodas said and Naruto was shocked while the others looked down with shame that this was unavoidable.

"A demon!? I had to be treated like trash, kick out of the orphanage at four, eat out of the trash until I was ten, live in the worst inns and still be treated like trash! All because they call me a demon and now you want me to become one!?" Naruto had to get that out of his system and saw that the souls had taken on a darker visual that scared him. Maybe he shouldn't have said that? But instead,

"I understand how you feel, I thought that I was human too every time I look in a mirror but I was down casted when I found out that I am actually a demon." Naruto had to agree because I thought that Meliodas was a human but was instead a real demon with the appearance of a human. "But I made the best of it and my demonic nature only made me eternally youth and nearly immortal. It gave me three thousand years of getting stronger and to become the captain of a bunch of outlaws and misfits like everyone else to be my personal group of knights." The other souls all agreed that they didn't fit in as easy as their captain which actually made Naruto feel like he finally walked into a place that he felt welcome and among real friends, even if they were already dead.

"Fine." Naruto said, "I will do it. I don't care anymore, you want this and you have no other choice. I want to make this worth at least something." That made the former knights feel themselves smile, "But how are you going to make me a demon and what should I do once it is done?"

"I am glad that you have agreed to this and here is what is going to happen…" Meliodas started. Time seemed to drift from point on and only Naruto could understand what this soul of a demon is going to tell him.

XXXXX

3000 years of training and 3 years of growing up later, Naruto was back in Konoha. Because he still had no home left after the last mob had trashed the apartment complex that the blonde was finally allowed to live in. But that didn't bother him because he is a different person for sure that none of the ones that hated him ever recognized him.

`I shouldn't be complaining. I always wanted this and now I have it and I will never regret it.' Naruto thought as he headed to the academy after meeting up with the manager to one of the more suitable apartment complexes for his new home. It took a few minutes of getting friendly waves and 'good morning's from the civilians in order to get to the academy building but he soon he felt someone running into him.

The sudden impact didn't hurt him but instead caught him off guard when he was soaking in the new atmosphere. Naruto then fell to the ground and saw something of an angel on his chest, hugging it like a lifeline. "P-please…keep h-h-him away f-from me…" That beautiful girl that seemed to be in her early teens, the age of ninja academy graduates. But Naruto forgot about that the second he heard these words belonging to scum.

"Hey! That bitch is my girl and if you know better than to hand her over!" Naruto knew that tone very much, the dark side of lust and the reason it is a deadly sin. It causes even the most faithful men to leave their wives and throw their lives and dignity away thinking that getting the attention of a beautiful woman who caught your eye was all worth it. It never is and that was how most men had brought themselves to ruin. "I said give that bitch to me, she deserves to be punished for not wanting a real boy like me!"

Naruto didn't recognize that boy and didn't care for him at all. He just looked like the spoiled and bratty heir to a clan with his selfishness brought to a new level once he reached puberty. "I think I am going for the lady on this one. If she doesn't want you then man up and get it over with."

"You bastard! I get what I want and if you don't like it than you can take to my father! Don't you know who I am!?" That boy was stubborn as he was selfish. But he soon made a complete 180 that showed his true colors; a complete and utter coward that hides behind anything and especially empty words and disguises.

"I only fear a few things and spoiled brats and their terrible fathers are not. Besides, those were famous last words. What to know why?" Naruto said in a tone ticked with KI, Killer Intent. That boy didn't say a word and saw instead something that even his nightmares came close to scaring him. It was a monster, a giant beast that looked at him with hunger for his flesh.

"What is going on here!? I was hearing some screaming and then felt someone using KI on one of my students!" Someone had barged in and caused Naruto left his KI out of the atmosphere. It was a man of average height and build. He has black hair that he keeps in a ponytail, dark eyes and a scar that runs across the bridge of his nose — which he has had since his youth. He wears the standard Konoha shinobi outfit complete with forehead protector, sandals, and flak jacket. His sleeves are also rolled up about ¼ way. He was Iruka Umino, a primary instructor of the academy and one of the few teachers to actually tolerate Naruto's presence.

"Iruka-sensei! He…!" That boy tried to tell on Naruto for use of KI and probably gave him the fake innocent bystander gig only if Naruto didn't interfere,

"I was just coming to the academy and this young lady ran into me, from you! She asked me to keep you away from her." Naruto said and that boy tried to savage what little of his ego as possible.

"You will have to try harder than to lie to an academy instructor! You are a real jerk!"

"Stop! He was there a-and I did r-run into him…" That same girl tried to say but that boy sure didn't appreciate it and seemed to forget that Naruto and Iruka was there watching.

"Shut up you bitch! I ought to…!" That spoiled clan heir of a boy never got a meter towards the young girl when Iruka appeared out of nowhere,

"I saw everything, honest student of mine. It is now use for you to lie to me." Iruka made his own point clear across. That boy was to be punished for attempted rape of a fellow academy girl; his clan never helped him on that one, they all agreed that he went too far with his spoiled nature.

XXXXX

Later, in one of the academy rooms, discussions filled the room. Noises were all one can make of the voices chatted at once and yet they could recognize what the other was talking. There was one single subject involved and it was all on one single young girl. Now that the sun was shining on her clearly, she was a young girl with dark blue hair and fair skin. She also has strange white eyes, which have a tinge of lavender. Her hair was in a short, levelled hime-cut style just above her forehead, with chin-length strands framing her face. She wore a cream-coloured hooded-jacket with a fire symbol on the upper right and left sleeves and fur around the cuffs and hem, with navy blue pants.

"Was it true?"

"Yeah, that sexist and spoiled jerk finally got caught with his true colors and got it bad in the end!"

"Finally! I thought that will never happen, did you see what he looked on each of us!?"

"He made some of us look like worthless while the others was nothing but trophies!"

"And you got all this gentleman to yourself, you are lucky Hinata-chan!"

"Yeah Hinata-chan!"

Hinata herself didn't appreciate that she was about to be raped and she would have been if it wasn't for Naruto and Iruka. No one else helped her and just waited for the scoop and be the first to spread it around the school and pretty soon the entire village too. That will be even worse for her; that is how bad her life is.

"T-thanks but I am only g-going to g-get into more t-trouble with m-m…my clan if they hear a-about this. They already h-hate me for being like m-myself." Hinata said with her usual low self-confidence that made others around her feel pity for her.

"Hello everyone. I am glad to finally be back." A voice that only Hinata seem to recognize had emerged throughout the crowds and despite how casual it was, it got the attention of every single student in the classroom and while they didn't seem to know who it was, one of them finally broke the ice.

"Naruto!? Where were you for the past three years!? You missed the entire academy years and now how are you going to train!?" Kiba Inuzuka was a boy who seemed to have an attire consisted of dark greyish pants reaching to his calves and a grey, hooded fur-lined coat, with the hood usually placed on his head, over an apparent plate of armour and fishnet undershirt with a blue forehead protector and blue sandals. He has messy brown hair, sharp black eyes with vertical slit-like pupils, pronounced canine teeth, and nails that he can change into claws. He also has the distinctive red fang markings on his cheeks.

"Naruto!?" "That dobe became this hunk!?" "Where was he for the last three years!?" Yelling ran off and for good reason because this thirteen year old Naruto had finally revealed himself from the heavy black cloak of this morning.

He was wearing clothes similar to Meliodas with some of his own accessories. Such as shoulder blades, twin swords in their sheaths, spiked gloves, white bandages on his entire arms and bindings over his body and held everything together. Overall, he looked something that most teenagers will call 'a badass'. Now they were jealous about the good stuff that Naruto had gotten his hands on and looked like he is ready for battle.

But while everyone was focused on that, Naruto had steeled his focus on the other academy students who are about to become Genin. He saw something that not even the special eyes of Hinata's clan can see. He saw every single life force and if any of them has the same mark as he. And there were plenty in this classroom, 'They truly are the reincarnations but why don't I recognize some of these? Maybe…' Naruto thought to himself until he decided it was time to start talking.

"I am not the same person as before everyone, I will not let you down. I rather die painfully before that could happen." Naruto said with real conviction behind those words. It was so thick that even the least experienced students were filling it, it was all starting to creep them out.

End of Chapter 1.

*Just like with my crossovers between Naruto and Toriko, I am starting to set the trend of Naruto and Seven Deadly Sins crossovers. I hope you like it, I am including seven of the Konoha Twelve for the basic ones and I will include the other five for other Sins so they will become knights on their own accord.

I hope this will set the standards since I will form a bad example if I don't follow my own rules. Just expect more of this if you will continue to support me, I don't find any fun doing something that you all don't like. I bet none of your will feel any different so please tell me what do you think!*

Translations:

Nanatsu no Taizai – Seven Deadly Sins