Hello everyone. I'm back with a new story... It sounds so lame... and ordinary. But whatever the case, I'm really back with this new idea.

Sorry for disappearing for so long but I would rather not telling the reason since... it sounds lame.

However! Be warned though. The Naruto in this Fanfic may not be the Original Naruto that you all loves. It's more like an OC named Uzumaki Naruto. I just want to warn you ahead since there are case people going in, reading for a while and then, reviewing that [This isn't Naruto!] then raged. I seriously don't want this to happen.

I just want to remind you that, This is a Fanfic. All Authors sweating and wracking their brain to write a good story, fanfic for you. Please don't be so selfish and close-minded.

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A Nephilim's Chronicle

Chapter 1 - Uzumaki Naruto Meeting The Devil.

It was a peaceful night in Kuoh, the sky was clear and the moon was shining brightly. The street was now void of people going back and forth and all the shops had also closed. Amidst that silent scenery, under the peaceful night sky of Kuoh, a single man casually strolled. Based on his height which was roughly 6 feet, the man must be in his early twenties. He had spiky blond hair and sapphire blue eyes which didn't lose their brilliant light even in the dark. His current attire consisted of a long-sleeve orange T-shirt which had a big reversed power sign in black on the front. The shirt hugged his body perfectly, hinting his slim but muscular, well trained body underneath. On top of his orange shirt, the man wore a short-sleeve, standing collar white coat which had red details and the kanji word for [True] in black surrounded by burning red flame. For bottom, he wore an ordinary black pant and a pair of black leather boots.

Overall, the man looked like a cool character in some cool, action game who had just stepped into the real world. The white sheathed nodachi in his left hand only emphasized that impression even more.

*ROARRR*

If someone was to gaze out of their window at this hour, they would definitely think that their eyes were playing trick on them or they were still dreaming. Standing or rather, lying in the middle of the street was a huge mass of black flesh as big as a two-story tall building. On its massive and ugly body were numerous bloodshot yellow eyes glaring at every direction like it was searching for something. Instead of limbs, it had numerous black tentacles from small to large, befitting its status as a monster.

High-Level Stray Devil

Power: Fast Regeneration

Trait: Mindless Creature

Unstable Body Structure

A small white board appeared on top of the massive, ugly monster as the man gazed his sapphire blue eyes on it. He knew it was a Stray Devil, but he refused to acknowledge it as such simply because it was even uglier than the ugliest thing he had ever known. Gazing at the mindless creature with a serious expression on his face, the man slowly walked toward it without even an ounce of fear.

*ROARRR*

The monster looked at him with its countless eyes and let out a mindless roar as if it was excited to see its prey. Its numerous black tentacles rushed towards him, wanting to impale him and brought him to its mouth. However, the man still walked forward casually, his right hand rested on the handle of his white Nodachi.

*Slash*

With a simple swing, the man unsheathed his white nodachi, revealing a divine blade made out of pure [Blessed Divine Steel], a material usually used to forge Holy Sword. With its holy attribute, the sword easily cut through any defense the monster had and also negated its regenerative power. More than a dozen tentacles were cut off with just a single swing of his nodachi, making the monster roar in pain and anger.

With a loud roar, the monster sent all of its tentacles forward. The man didn't flinched however. He ran forward, the blade of his nodachi shone brightly before suddenly, it erupted in brilliant blue flame. The man stomped the ground and jumped up high into the night sky, the light produced by his flaming Nodachi illuminated his face which was bearing a cold, expressionless mask as he glared at the monster with his shining sapphire eyes.

With fluid movements, the man easily cut off and burned all the tentacles came at him with his nodachi. As gravity began taking him down, a white mid-size magic circle appeared under his feet. Crouching down on the solid magic circle, the man channeled his power into his legs and propelled himself toward the massive monster at high speed while holding his flaming nodachi with both hands.

*ROARRR*

The monster roared loudly and opened its massive mouth which located on top of its massive body. Its large black tongue flew out like a dangerous snake, trying to catch the blond man. But even when flying, the man could still control his body to some degree. He shifted his body to the left, barely evaded the gigantic tongue before slashing down with all his might, easily cut it into two. The cut off tongue was burnt into ashes just a second later with the blue flame of his nodachi.

Another white magic circle appeared beneath his feet and using it, the man lunged at the monster again, this time faster since he didn't want it to interrupt him again with another attack. Blue flame engulfed his entire form, turning him into a shining blue spear which easily impaled the massive monster, leaving behind a gapping hole in the middle of its body.

The blond man reappeared on the ground after dispelling his blue flame, his eyes still as cold as ice and brilliant as ever, the blade of his nodachi shone dangerously as he stomped the ground and leaped at the monster. Thanks to the strong Divinity of his blue flame and the Holy attribute of his nodachi, the monster couldn't regenerate its wound, making the fight easier for him.

Numerous eyeballs flew out of its body and lunged at the man, each with a small mouth full of sharp teeth opened as an attempt to intercept him. Not even surprised by the attack, the blue flame surrounding his nodachi exploded into a huge wing of blue flame and with a horizontal slash, the man easily burnt down all the eyeballs coming at him.

*ROARR*

The monster let out a painful and angry roar. It wanted to revenge, it wanted to eat the man before it since it could sense a huge amount of magical power inside him, along with some Divinity. However, it felt fear. Even though it was a mindless creature, its ability to think when it was still with its master had been taken away the moment it turned into a Stray Devil, it still had some basic instincts and those instincts were screaming at it, telling it to run away from the blond man before it.

With its special trait [Unstable Body Structure], it could turn its body into water and escaped using the underground waterway…

…however, the chance for it to utilize its special trait never came.

The huge monster fell into two separate parts and turned into ashes seconds later due to the intense blue flames. Standing on the ground, the blond man slowly sheathed his nodachi his eyes still cold and his face still bore an indifferent expression as he watched the monster burned away.

Finally, when all the ashes had flew away, leaving behind no trace, the blond nodded and let out a deep sigh.

"Mission Completed! Time to get my money and eat some ramen!" The blond shouted out excitedly as a cheerful smile appeared on his face, his expressionless mask nowhere to be seen. With his white Nodachi on his shoulder, the man walked away while humming an unknown happy tune.

"Man~ This suck…" The blond man complained with a sigh as he counted the money he just received. No, he wasn't complaining about the low reward for slaying such a huge monster simply because he couldn't. One must know that instead of asking the Church or summoning a strong devil to take the job which was expensive, the commissioner had decided to ask the underground rogue guild because it was cheaper.

The underground rogue guild was a world wide organization for Rogue Exorcist, Onmyouji, Magician and overall, people with supernatural ability without a faction to take on mission and earn money. The source of those missions could be from some high ranking priest or Exorcist from the Church who wanted to get money without the risk of dying so they tasked it to the guild, dividing the reward so that both parties could make a profit out of it.

For example, if the original commissioner wanted the Church to slay a monster with 100G, the exorcist who took that mission would task it to the Rogue guild with only 70G so that he could do nothing but still earn 30G. The Rogue Guild would then put the mission on the board for someone to do it. However, the person who accepted that mission must first pay the guild 25% the reward of the mission which was 18G since without the guild, they wouldn't have any mission to do. So in the end, the reward for the person who accepted that mission from the guild would only be 52G which was roughly 50% the original reward.

Even so, no one complained. They knew the guild wasn't forcing them to accept those missions. They could just ignore it and did nothing, but if they didn't do anything, they wouldn't have any money. That's the hard life of those who didn't belong to any faction.

"Saving for almost 3 years and still nowhere near my goal… Ah… Dear Mother, when can I build a Church for you?" The blond man said with a sad face as he let out another sigh. Three years ago, when he committed treason against the Church, he had been exiled and was now a wandering Exorcist. Most of the money he earned during the past three years, aside from paying for his living expense, was saved up to build a beautiful first class church for his mother. Only by building a church for her and providing her with lots of faith and belief would she be able to break off her imprisonment.

But because the needed money to do that was so large that he couldn't see how much time it would take for him to gather, he had decided to buy the abandoned church in Kuoh as the first step to free his mother. It was only a third rate abandoned Church but its nice position and beautiful scenery had turned it into an ideal place to build a church for his mother. Sadly, even with his three years saving, it was still too much.

As the blond dragged himself through the dark alley of Kuoh while thinking about his sad future, he saw a young girl leaning against the wall like she was waiting for someone. She was a young girl with a slim figure, black hair styled in a short bob cut and captivating violet eyes behind her red frame glasses. If he remembered correctly then the uniform she was wearing must belong to the famous Kuoh Academy. With his sapphire blue eyes shining brilliantly as ever, the blond man lazily gazed at the young girl.

High-Class Devil

Power: Advanced Water Magic

Intermediate Dark Magic

Above Average Magical Power

Trait: High-Class Devil

Scholar

Highly Intelligent

[Eyes of Purity]

It's one of the special abilities he had inherited from his mother. It had accompanied him since his birth but had only been awakened three years ago when he turned 18 and met his mother in his dream. Its other name was [Mystic Eyes of Matchless Truth] which granted him the ability to see through any kind of transformation and disguise spell. Aside from that, it also granted him the ability to reveal the truth about someone or something but not much at the moment since he was still inexperience.

"Uzumaki Naruto, formerly a top class Exorcist, exiled after committing treason against the Church. Wielder of a Holy Sword named [Dazzling Starlight]. Naruto-san, I'm Sona Sitri, the current heiress of the Sitri Clan, nice to meet you." The young girl calmly said when she saw the person she had been waiting for arrived. As for the young man named Naruto, he could only raise an eyebrow at the amount of information about him the girl had in her hands.

"…Are you possibly… a stalker?" The blond asked dryly as he lazily gazed at the young girl who upon his question, blushed bright red, obviously angered by the very aspect of someone calling her a stalker.

"What? How could you call me that? Am I look like a stalker to you?"

"Not really much, but I don't think I'm that famous. I just arrived here for a week."

"…" Sona looked at carefree blond and couldn't help but let out a deep sigh.

"You defeated 9 Stray Devil in only a week, if that isn't a way to catch other's attention, especially the owner of this city, then I don't know what is."

"…"

"And your information isn't that hard to gather either, I just ask the guild. Apparently, you are one of its most active members, so when I asked about a man with blond hair, using a nodachi, everyone knew it's you." Sona said calmly while fixing her glasses. Hearing her, the blond could only let out a defeated sigh. He knew this territory belonged to the Sitri Clan of the Devil Faction so he had thought that he would immediately move out after slaying all the Stray Devils. But it seemed that he had underestimated her ability… or maybe their ability? If he remembered correctly, Kuoh was a shared territory of both Sitri and Gremory.

The Rogue Guild was an independent guild which didn't belong to or ally with any factions so its member could freely travel into Devil's Territory or the Church's Territory without any problem. However, that didn't mean they could do whatever they wanted in other's territory and slaying Stray Devil was one of them. It's not that they forbid slaying Stray Devil in their territory, but since Stray Devil could serve as target for training other than economic purpose, they would rather not letting others steal them all.

And since Naruto had eliminated 9 of them in just a single week, it was obvious that he had crossed the line and made them angry.

"Sorry, it's my fault for slaying too much Stray Devil in your territory. I will leave immediately…" Naruto said sincerely and made his way out of the alleyway. He would come to the neighboring region and continue his business there.

"What are you talking about? I'm not here for the Stray Devil. I came here to make a direct request for you." Sona said when she saw the blond was about to leave. It's true that Naruto slaying so much Stray Devil in such a short time without permission was challenging their authority but it's not like she and Rias had a problem with it. Rias didn't have a complete peerage yet and she heard that the red head was still focusing on finding a good pawn while Sona herself had yet to reincarnate anyone into her peerage.

They didn't have the power to face some of the stronger Stray Devil within Kuoh so Naruto's appearance had really saved them the time and money needed to request other Devils. To tell the truth, the commissioner for all those missions to the rogue guild in Kuoh was Sona. Aside from having someone do the job for them, they could also use this opportunity to scout some potential peerage member.

And Uzumaki Naruto was one such potential peerage member.

Rias literally had stars in her eyes when she thought about scouting such a powerful person into her peerage. They had followed, not stalked, and watched every battles after his third day in Kuoh when he slain his forth Stray Devil. The blond was extremely strong and experienced, at least in their eyes. He could use magic to maneuver in the air, enhance his physical power like speed and strength and most importantly, his ability to create and control the mysterious blue flame.

Rias assumed that it must be a Sacred Gear while Sona thought it could be the ability of his Holy Sword [Dazzling Starlight]. But either way, Rias still wanted Naruto in her peerage and even Sona, for the first time ever, wanted to recruit someone to be her peerage member. She felt that if she missed this opportunity, she would regret it for her entire life, and so the heiress had listened to her feelings and convinced Rias to let her try first. If she failed, then it would be Rias's turn to recruit him.

With a sincere smile on her face, Sona confidently faced the exiled Exorcist, Uzumaki Naruto and made her request.

"I want to make you my peerage member, name your price, Naruto-san."

"…What?"

"I want to make you my peerage member, Naruto-san."

"…" After confirming that he didn't mishear what the devil girl before him had said, Naruto narrowed his eyes, his indifferent and carefree expression had been replaced with a serious one.

"My freedom isn't for sale."

"I'm not buying your freedom. I'm buying your loyalty, servitude and power."

"What's the different?"

"The different is that after you become my peerage member, or more accurately, my knight, you are still free to travel around Japan, hunting Stray Devil. I'm not forcing you to be by my side at all times, you only need to do some missions I task you with and some duty as a devil." Sona stated calmly with a smile on her face as she summoned a sheet of papers which was the contract she had prepared beforehand and gave it to Naruto. On it was the amount of money she was willing to pay for him to become her knight, his monthly salary, privileges as a member of her peerage and his duty as a devil.

To tell the truth, aside from all her saving ever since she was a little girl, Sona had also took out a portion of her Clan's money to increase her success rate. To say that she had gone all out wasn't an understatement. If the same contract was offered to some minor sub-devil clan, they would gladly accept the contract and become her servants, even those subs from the 72 Pillars would still find the offer tempting. Just that was enough to show how much she valued Naruto and her determination.

"And as a devil of the Sitri Clan, it's possible for you to accept various rewarding missions from Solomon's Society to earn more money. I won't stop you." Sona added with a smile while looking at the interested Naruto. Based on her observation, not stalking, and the information she had managed to gather, Uzumaki Naruto was in need of a very large amount of money. No one knew what he needed those money for but if there was ever a rewarding mission in the Rogue Guild, he would go through all length to complete it before anyone else, no matter how hard or ridiculous it was. With that in mind, she had thought that by offering him a large sum of money, she would be able to buy him into her peerage but…

"It's not enough…" Naruto had completely shocked her with his answer. The blond shook his head, a disappointed expression on his face after he skimmed through the contract. For a moment, Sona didn't know what to say as she wasn't sure how should she react to his answer.

"But, you are the owner of this city, right? Good, then I have an offer for you." Naruto said and handed the contract back to Sona. The serious expression on his face caused Sona to be cautious of his offer. Negotiation wasn't really outside of her expectation but if his offer turned out to be outrageous, she had no other choice but to give up on him.

"I won't take the money you pay to buy me, you can keep it. In exchange, I want the abandoned church." Sona narrowed her eyes at his offer. It's true that there was an abandoned Church in Kuoh. In fact, for safety measure, her and Rias's families had banded together to force the Church away from their territories in the past for them to have a safe time living here. Since Devil couldn't go near the church without suffering pain, they had left it be ever since then. Not that giving the Church and the piece of land surrounding it to Naruto could cause any problem since in the end, it was still Sitri's territory when he became her knight, but what could he possibly do to it after he became a Devil?

"I have no problem with that offer, Naruto-san. But may I ask why?"

"I want to rebuild that church."

"…Naruto-san, Kuoh is my territory and I don't want any church here. Furthermore, you are about to become a Devil." Sona said, her voice as cold as ice as opposed to the friendly attitude she had showed from before. Her sudden change in attitude was understandable though since no sane devil would want a church in their territory.

"I understand your worry, Sitri. But the church I want to build is different from those you know. First, it's my church so it's not under control of Vatican or the Angel Faction. Second, it's friendly to all race in the world, including devil, youkai, and even demons. Third, it's not worshipping God or dedicated to him thus, having no God's Blessing." Naruto explained slowly and calmly to clear the misunderstanding between him and Sona. When he said that he wanted to rebuild the church, Sona must have thought that he was still loyal to the Angel Faction and was working in order to return to them. But in truth, ever since he met his mother, his faith in God and what the church called justice had dropped to zero.

"How can I trust you?"

"What should I do to make you trust me?"

"Don't build any church then."

"Sorry, but It's impossible."

"...How about you prove that your church is safe for Devil?" Sona asked, a little uncertain since she hadn't heard about a church being safe for her kind at all. It just sounded ridiculous, but she wanted to believe Naruto. It might be her desire to recruit him that clouded her judgment, but wasn't it fine to at least, let him try? If Naruto succeed, then he could build a church here, in Kuoh without affecting her kind as he wanted while she would gain a strong Knight in return. And even if he failed, she wouldn't lose anything other than letting him go, to Rias's hand or out of Kuoh.

It's worth a shot.

"Just lead the way." Naruto smiled cheerfully with determined eyes when he heard what the girl wanted him to do. Removing God's Blessing on a Church or anything that was Holy or Divine was considered impossible, however, Naruto had a way to, at the very least, negate the effect.

"I have to confront with Rias about this though. So tomorrow's morning, we would come to see your performance."

"Fine. Tomorrow then." With that said, Sona slightly bowed to show her respect before walking away, leaving behind an excited Naruto in the alleyway. How could he not be excited? He had wanted to buy that abandoned church ever since he knew about its existence but couldn't since he didn't have enough money. Now though, a devil suddenly appeared out of nowhere and agreed to give him the abandoned church in exchange for him becoming her knight.

If that was some normal devil, then he would just brush off the offer and walked away since he knew very well the fate of a Reincarnated Devil should they chose the wrong master to serve. However, the one coming for him was Sona Sitri of the Sitri Clan. Ranked 12th among all 72 Pillars, Sitri was famous for their intelligence, strong economic power and fair treatment for their peerage, servants.

The contract Sona had offered him was quite tempting too since it was even better than working for the Church. More freedom, higher salary, more privileges, etc… he couldn't ask for a better contract. From the beginning, Naruto had never had a problem with becoming a Devil since his mother and even Naruto himself believed that every race, every being had the right to live equally.

No race was better than others. Devil and Fallen Angel were once Angels until they fell from Heaven a long time ago so, basically they were of the same race, all created by God. They just changed overtime to better suit the environment and conditions they lived in through evolution and adaption.

In the supernatural world, Human was viewed as the weakest being but if Human ceased to exist, then what would become of all the God and Goddess in this world? Those deities fed on the faith energy that human dedicated to them through religion to exist, if there were no longer human in this world, they would also, disappear.

All race, all kind of beings were equal. That's his mother's belief and was also his belief. It's not like he wanted to build an ideal world where every race and kinds lived with each other peacefully and happily since it was just childish and naive. As long as emotions existed so were evil intentions. As long as differences existed, so was conflict and war. He just opposed to God's teaching that Devil was evil being and thus, must be eliminated. Fallen Angel was those who had strayed from the right path and thus, must be eliminated. That's just plain stupid and ridiculous to judge the life and death of others based on their race and kind.

Stray Devil was an exception though since they weren't considered a race or a kind, but more like mindless animal who gave in to their evil desire.

His belief was only further proven true during his three years journey around the world. He had met various races including a True Vampire, descendent of a Shinso Vampire, a youkai monk, etc… Not all of them were evil like what the church taught him to believe…

…Naruto had long lost his faith in God and Heaven

The end of Chapter 1.

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