Kyokai no Ken
Disclaimer: I own nothing.
Pairings: Naruto x "Holy Girls"
AN: Thank you for the wonderful reception everyone. It was so good to see that I still have it after such a long period of inactivity. Because of the reception I was happy enough to release the next chapter of this series. Please enjoy.
Tags: AU, Violence, Gore, Character Deaths, Ecchi, Minor Xover
-Kyokai no Ken-
Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God.
Matthew 5:8
-Kyokai no Ken-
Chapter 2: Thy Mission
Play Gintama OST: Mukashi No Yuujin Ga Kawarazu
The sky was tinted in orange signifying the sun starting its descent into the night.
By that time it was late in the afternoon or early evening the various patrons and workers of the church where in the garden was located were already leaving, for the day. Some went back to their homes in order to go back to their families that awaited for them, others went on to the city to seek enjoyment for the coming night, while the others simply walked away not really knowing where they were heading for in the dark future.
Yet, despite the late hours of the afternoon turning to the early evening a small child around the age of six or seven and maybe eight stood in front of a beautiful garden. Despite that fact that the church was quickly being vacated, that there was no longer anyone barring him the boy, he still stayed behind. After all he and a few others lived in the church which somewhat acted as an orphanage.
Thus despite the passing of time, the boy's blue eyes was firmly placed upon the beautiful blue flowers that were growing from the various bushes and foliage. He was staring at them intently, not really knowing the reason why he was doing such an action. He just stared at the flowers which just looked so unnatural yet somehow mystifying, and in his young mind even beautiful.
There was just some form of beauty in the blue flower's unnaturalness.
"Wha cha doing?" a soft and childish voice reached his ears prompting him to stop his ministrations for but a moment and instead focus his attention towards the speaker. Turning his head to the side he saw a familiar looking blond-haired girl who was wearing a dark blue nun's habit and a small silver cross around her neck. He immediately recognized her as Asia Argento, a girl that he became acquainted with a few months back.
"I was just looking at the flowers." He said as he head slowly turned back towards the garden filled with beautiful blue flowers
"Why?" She asked while carefully walking towards his side until they were a foot a part.
"I don't know, I just found myself staring at them for no reason." Naruto replied, his voice rather flat and passive, bordering that of emotionless..
She tilted her head to the side, confusion evident in her features. "I thought you were watching them cause you liked them since they're really pretty."
"I don't dislike them." Naruto started, his eyes still gazing upon the blue flowers which were now waving about due to the passing a gentle breeze. "But I don't like them either. You could say I'm just watching the flowers for the sake of watching them, and nothing else."
"So you don't like watching the flowers?" Asia asked.
"I don't dislike it." He replied rather quickly.
The girl in the nun habit found herself asking another question. "Then you like it?"
"I don't not dislike it."
"So you don't like the flowers but you also don't not dislike it." She placed her head on her temples, her fingers interlocking with her smooth golden blond locks. "Muu...You're confusing me Naruto, do you like these flowers or not?"
"Roses."
She blinked in surprise not expecting that response from her fellow blond."Huh?"
"Those flowers..." He pointed at the blue flowers that the girl was most likely referring to. "They're called Roses."
"But aren't roses supposed to be red not blue?"
"I don't know why their blue..." The boy stared at the blue roses, his mind processing the information that blue roses weren't natural. "But what I do know is that Master Garule planted them, he told me they were roses and since master said that they were roses then they must be roses."
"Then why are they blue?"
"Perhaps they got tired of being red so they turned blue?" He replied not really knowing the reason behind the roses colour. Perhaps it was the result of some chemicals or even magic.
"Is that possible?"
"We see it with our eyes at these very moment. We're both looking at it and we both see blue flowers." He reached towards the roses with both hands and grabbed one of the roses by its stem, not really caring about the thorns the pierced his small hands. With one fierce tug he plucked the flower from the bush. "I'm holding it in my hands now." He said as he showed his fellow blond the flower. "Then it exists. Blue roses are within the realm of reality."
"Naruto you're bleeding again!" The girl shouted in shock at the sight of blood that now flowed from his hands.
"Oh..." He muttered in surprise or at least to him it was surprise as to others he would have sounded flat and apathetic. "I didn't notice."
"Muuu you need to take better care of yourself." The nun grabbed his bleeding hands and enveloped it with her own as a mystical green hue covered her hands. Upon contact with his hands the cuts and gashes started healing. "I won't always be here to patch you up when you hurt yourself." The girl said innocently as she stared at the boy's hand.
"I'll keep that in mind."
"You said that the last time."
"Did I?"
"Mhmm."
"I forgot."
"Muu well you better remember this time." Asia said as the green glow on her hand subsided signalling the full healing of his injured hands.
"I'll try." He replied as he flexed his now healed hands. He didn't really understand why did she care so much about him getting injured. There was no big deal when he bled during training. It was just cuts and bruises that eventually held with time.
He then notice that the girl was no longer paying attention to him, instead she was looking down on the ground. Raising an eye brow in confusion the boy decided to follow the girl's life of sight, his gave eventually landing on the very same object that garnered the girl's attention.
There on the ground was the blue rose that he plucked earlier. The beautiful and majestic blue rose was on the ground covered with blood, his blood.
It looked wonderful.
He didn't even noticed that he actually let go of the flower, for all he knew he still had it within his hands, but apparently somewhere between her grabbing his hands and healing them, he released his hold upon the flower.
Without even thinking he bent down and picked up the flower, this time being careful not to wound his hands in the process. "Would you like it?"
She muttered some words under her breath that he didn't catch before she nodded.
Placing his hand upon the flower's thorn stem he carefully plucked the stem until there was only a small thorn-less part of it left. He then turned to Asia who was waiting excitedly. The boy took several steps towards her, his hands holding the now stemless blue rose -whose petal's were slightly tinted red with his own blood-. Leaning towards Asia the boy placed the flower on the left part of her hair, between her bangs near her ear. "Here." He whispered as he looked at both her and the flower. "It suit's you." The boy said in all honesty.
A tint of red appeared on the girl's cheeks as her hands went on the rose placed on her hair. She then smiled, that smile very same smile which she sent her a few days ago, the one that brought a weird feeling to his chest. "Thank you."
What was it again?
What did people feel when they smiled?
What emotion was it that the girl in front of him was showing.
Oh yeah, one of his teachers Master Gerule mentioned something about that emotion. It was called happiness if he remembered it. "You're... happy right?" He mumbled after a few seconds of deep thought, wanting to confirm the conclusion he reached.
"Of course I'm happy!" The girl replied without any hesitation. "I'm specially when I'm with you since were friends after all." She added before her eyes widened, the girl placed her hand in her mouth as if she regretted the words she just uttered.
It was as if she wasn't sure if they were really friends.
Was she afraid that they were friends?
But were they even friends? He didn't recall her inviting him to become friends. Was that it? Did she want to be friends with him? "Do you want to be friends?"
"Yes!" Asia almost shouted, her eyes were wide and filled with hope and the emotion that was called happiness. "I've never really had friends so I was really hoping we could be friends. I was going to ask but you beat me to it." The girl admitted.
"Friends huh... does being friends with you... make you happy?"
"Yep!" She chirped happily.
The boy closed his eyes, as his mind went through hundreds of thoughts in a span of a few seconds. After a few second of silence in his part the boy opened his eyes, his blue orbs meeting the nun's innocent green coloured eyes. "Then, as long as you're happy. I'm happy as well."
-Kyokai no Ken-
A pair of blue eyes opened slowly revealing unto the owner a flash of bright light that forced him to momentarily close his eyes and blink several times.
"Ugghhh... stupid sunlight." Naruto groaned out as he placed his hands upon his eyes and gently rubbed them in order to lessen the devious effects of the rays of the gaseous entity known as the sun which was seen through the cloudless blue the sky.
He let out a small yawn as he felt the need to stretch out his body, but doing so he might disturb the passengers sitting beside him on the train he was on. He went with the alternative of simply stretching his arms over his head as to not hit his fellow passengers.
"Good morning Shinpu-san (Mr. Priest), I hope you have had a nice nap."
With a stifled yawn Naruto turned his attention towards the man sitting beside him, a man around his twenties with brown hair wearing a casual business suit.
"It was a good sleep. I even had a nice dream." Naruto replied, as he recalled the dream he had about his younger days with Asia.
"Oh... from the sound of it you probably enjoyed your dream isn't that right Shinpu-san."
"It was so-so. You could say that I liked the dream yet hated it at the same time." The bespectacled priest replied honestly as he contemplated the fact whether the dream could be considered a happy dream or a nightmare. In one hand it was a precious memory to him, yet on another it was dream that reminded him off his mission to kill the very same person with him in that dream.
"That sounds rather..." The working man paused as he tried to think of a proper word to use since he didn't want to offend the nice priest in any ways."...complicated."
"You could say that..." Naruto said promptly ending the conversation as his eyes went from the gentleman sitting beside him towards the transparent window to his side. Cerulean blue orbs gazed upon the urbanized buildings underneath the early morning sun that the train passed. If the information that he gathered from various sources and representatives from the churches in Japan was right then at one of the stops along this rail line will lead him to the City where his old friend now resided, or at least where she was last spotted.
"Umm Shinpu-san." said the brown-haired man.
"Hmm? What is it?" Naruto casually asked as he returned his attention to the man sitting beside him.
"I apologize for disturbing you but I was just wondering if I can ask a favour."
"It depends on what it is."
The brown-haired man chuckled as he scratched the back of his head. "You see I'm getting married soon and I was just wondering if you could give me your blessings. Cause you know I heard that marriages lasts longer when the couples receive blessings from the church even before their marriage ceremony."
Naruto sighed before he delivered the bad news to the excited man. "I'm sorry sir but I'm not the type of priest that gives out blessings to those who are about to get married."
"Then what kind of priest are you, Shinpu-san?" The brown-haired man asked, an eye brow raised, his curiosity piqued as he thought that priests normally did a myriad of services not just specific ones.
"The one who give people the last rights before they die as well as the one present for funerals and burials." Naruto said effectively ending the conversation between him and the young man who by now had a rather sheepish expression on him as if realizing his mistake. Just as he ended the speakers of the train suddenly came to life.
[ATTENTION PASSENGERS WE APOLOGIZE FOR ANY INCONVENIENCES. WE ARE NOW ARRIVING AT KUOH STATION. KUOH STATION. KUOH STATION.]
Upon hearing the announcement Naruto found himself standing up just as the train stopped. "I apologize for not being able to help Mr. But I do hope you and your wife can live a happy life in the future." He sent the man an apologetic bow as he walked pass him and went towards the exit.
"Ah it was no problem. Thank you for your time Shinpu-san." The man sent a happy smile at Naruto, to which the bespectacled teen responded by giving another nod towards the man as he exited the train.
The exorcist still garbed in his usual white priestly vestment reached for his pockets as he walked towards the station's exit. Without a care in the world the blond took a phone -one of those new android phones- out of his pocket. The bespectacled youth then quickly pressed several buttons, opening up various search engines and typing up several keys before proceeding with the search, in a matter of seconds, he was given the location of two churches within the city. The first one was abandoned and about to be demolished in the near future while the other was still somewhat new, one of which was set up just a few years back. It was the very same institution where the current representative of the church in this town dwell upon.
Nodding his head in satisfaction the exorcist closed all the search engines along with his phone before depositing it within the recess of his pocket.
Naruto yawned one last time as he finally exited the train station amidst a sea of people also heading out of the station. "Time to get some Intel." He said as he blended in with his surroundings.
It took Naruto less than thirty minutes to reach his destination, a simple and quaint looking church located near the train station around the outskirts of the city of Kuoh.
By the time of his arrival it was still early in the morning, and as he expected there were little to no parishioners within the church. Actually as he pushed the wooden door leaning into the church he was welcomed to the sight of no one in the little church aside from a nun who was kneeling in front of an altar where a depiction of the son of God nailed to a cross was held up high in all it's glory. As if noticing his sudden intrusion, the nun stopped her prayer and rose from the ground.
The nun was around his age. She has light grey hair bordering silver and dazzling fold eyes. She was wearing a dark blue nun's habit, the usual church robes, along with a hat. A round her neck hung a red cloth, one which looked rather plain to the normal eyes, but to those savvy in the mystical arts they would see that the cloth itself was some sort of sacred object. A holy shroud.
"Naruto Uzumaki-san I presume." The nun said softly.
"Indeed." Naruto nodded his head in confirmation as he took several steps towards the nun, passing several benches that lines the church until he was half way between the nun and the altar. "And I'm guessing you're the church's representative in this area as well as the informant that I seek."
"It is as you say Naruto-san. My name is Caren Hortensia and I am the temporary representative of Kuoh."
Naruto tilted his head to the side in confusion. "Temporary representative?"
"I'm currently filling in for this church until a proper representative can be found. I am supposed to be stationed in Fuyuki which is a few districts back but the church found the need to station me here for the moment due to special circumstances." Caren answered politely.
"I see." Naruto nodded. "I will not ask what the circumstances entails as I value a person's privacy but I'd prefer if you can tell me what I need to know."
"Ask and thou shall receive an answer." The girl replied as she folded her hands together and rested them around her abdomen.
"Are you fully aware of the happenings in this city?" Naruto asked purposely stressing with the word fully to see if the nun was privy with certain information.
"Of course I am aware of the happenings of this city be it the normal daily occurrences of men or the dastardly events of the world which you and I belong to. For example just a few days back a stray devil plagued the lands killing a few humans until the heathen itself was slayed by a devil specifically the peerage of one of the two devil representatives of this land."The grey haired nun answer, her golden coloured eyes showing no hints of any lies.
"Do they belong to the 72 Pillars?" Naruto found himself asking.
The temporary representative of the church answered rather reluctantly. "The Gremory and Sitri."
Naruto found his eyes slightly widening in surprise. Those were two famous names among the seventy-two pillars. "The former family of Two of the Four Satans..."
"Indeed, so if your mission has anything to do with regards to them then I suggest you abandon it since it would be nothing more than suicidal. Yes you might defeat them but an angry Maoh will not bode well for the current balance between the Three Factions."
"Then we're lucky that I have no plans to even touch a hair of their family, rather my target is someone who everyone in the church should be familiar with." He clarified, not really wanting the girl to think that he was some sort of renegade exorcist who was out to start a war between the three factions.
It was the nun's turn to ask a question."And who is your target?"
"Asia Argento." Naruto replied not bothering to hide who his target was, after all he needed Caren to confirm Asia's location.
"The Fallen Maiden..." The nun looked down on the ground in sadness no doubt familiar with the story of the holy maiden who fell from grace. "Such a pity, may God have mercy on her soul." The nun made the sign of the cross, bowing her head down slightly as she sent a silent prayer to the biblical god."Amen."
Naruto remained silent for a moment allowing the nun to pray before asking his next question. "Do you know her where about or at least can you confirm if she really is in this town much like my informants have told me?"
"Your information is rather accurate. She has been spotted in this town recently. Asia Argento is most likely with the group of heretical exorcists and fallen angels that came to the city about a week ago. "
"Fallen Angels in the middle of devil territory?"
Caren nodded slowly. "I was lucky enough that they haven't attacked this church. The old church further within the city however wasn't so luck as it was made into a pseudo base of operations for the angels."
"And where did you get this information from?"
"My familiars. They are able to scout through the city undetected."
"I see." Naruto muttered, her explanation was sound as he knew full well that there were certain types of familiars that were adept for spying purposes. "Do you know where Asia is normally seen?"
"Hmm..." The nun placed her hand upon her chin as she adopted a thoughtful expression. "She's mostly seen in the parks around the city and aside from that the girl also frequents the shopping district."
"Thank you for your help." Naruto slightly bowed his head in appreciation before he turned around, his back now facing the nun.
"Oh... you're going to soon."
"Yes, I have a mission to carry out."
"Very well." The woman closed her eyes, as she grasped the rosary placed upon her neck. "Then may God guide you along your mission. May he give you the courage to face all adversity. The strength to vanquish your foes, and the wisdom needed to make the right decision. Amen."
"Amen." Naruto mechanically replied as he exited the church, leaving behind the silver-haired nun. For some reason the girl just seemed so familiar though he couldn't put his finger in it. Internally shrugging the exorcist left the church and stared walking towards the city.
-Kyokai no Ken-
For most of his life Issei Hyodou has been what one would call a pathetic perverted human being with no future ahead of him.
However a few weeks ago his life drastically changed. Through a series of unfortunate events the brown-haired second year student of Kuoh Academy found himself getting killed during his first date by his girlfriend who turned out to be a Fallen Angel and based on what she wore a Fallen Angel that has a fetish for bondage or S&M.
It was the worst first date ever.
It would also probably be considered his worst and last day in this world if not for the fact that his crimson haired senpai Rias Gremory revived him from his death-bed and turned him into a low-class devil.
Yes, the perverted entity known as Issei Hyodou was no longer human.
Reborn Issei was now in his own words a pathetic devil with zero talent and slightly better albeit more chaotic future ahead of him.
Truth be told not much has changed in Issei's life aside from his discovering that he had awesome super powers that he could use to make a copy of the kamehameha attack, sudden life and death encounters with insane priests, tit flashing monstrosities, and whatever the hell Mil-tan is. Mil-tan... that name still scares the hell out of him, he swore what ever the hell that thing was it wasn't human. It was a devil, maybe worse.
Though his days as a devil were not really in his mind, for today he was lucky enough to find himself in a date with Asia Argento, an innocent blonde nun who he had the pleasure of meeting several times for the past few days.
Normally he would be in perverted mode but the sheer innocence that the beautiful nun showed brought out the protective instincts from within him that he never knew he had. It really was a shame that Asia was apparently allied with that insane exorcist that not only slaughtered his clients but also almost killed him. But alas despite that fact he was still able to reunite with the girl and was even able to have the pleasure of taking her out on a date. Unfortunately the date was cut short when Yuuma or Raynare as she called herself now suddenly appeared out of nowhere and abducted Asia. Damn S&M fetishist, fallen angel of an ex girl friend, if it weren't for her boobs or the fact that she was stronger that him then he would have punched her in the face when she abducted Asia.
Now being the kind and determined person that he was, Issei immediately planned to rescue the nun. Though much to his ire his Buchou, his beautiful and Buxom King Rias Gremory told him to forsake the girl to her fate. Obviously he opposed this idea and reacted rather harshly after being admonished by Rias by rushing towards the abandoned church where Asia was held with reckless abandon. Fortunately for him the blond pretty boy swordsman Yuuto Kiba and the cute but powerful rook Konoko Tojou decided to come along and help him in his quest to save the girl from the clutches of her evil captors.
However before they could even attack the church the trio decided to wait for night fall before attacking the enemy's stronghold for the sake of planning out their assault. In another world their plan would have gone off without a hitch but alas fate had something different in store for all of them.
For unknown to the young devil, during the entirety of his date, as well as the abduction of Asia, a pair of cold blue eyes watched from a far.
A pair of cold blue eyes that belonged to a young man who Issei would soon come to know as his enemy.
A pair of cold blue eyes that belonged to one Naruto Uzumaki.
-Kyokai no Ken-
[Before Issei and co attacks the church]
The sun has set and the moon has risen, darkness returned and embraced the sky, the city itself along its populace was now asleep ignorant of the events that go on in the dark hours of the night. Standing in front of an abandoned church where which contained not only Asia Argento but also a few Fallen Angels and most likely a few stray exorcists, was none other than the executioner of the church, the infamous hound of the vatican known for his ability to tear through all his opposition, Naruto Uzumaki.
The exorcist's face showed no emotion as his cold blue eyes gazed upon the wooden door leading to the enemy's base. 'Should he really kill her?' The bespectacled youth though as he stood idly bye. After all she was after all a gentle and kind girl who was a victim of circumstance, a victim of the deviousness of the devils who tricked such a kind girl into doing a taboo. Though to not kill her would mean a lot of people would be mad and sad, he didn't want people to be mad and sad so it was best to just kill one person in order to make the majority happy. In this case a lot of people would be happy to find out that the fallen maiden has perished.
But then again she is Asia.
The first in what he considered a short list of people who he considered precious to himself, a list of people that he had no doubt's he was willing to die for if the situation were to arise. The gentle and kind girl who cared for him when he was injured. The kind girl who tried to play with him when he was younger. The warm and guiding light that shone in the darkness of his early life;
Should he really kill her?
To kill his first friend for the sake of the church.
For the sake of the happiness of many.
Naruto closed his eyes and took in a deep breath as he steeled his nerves. His mind already working into overdrive trying to look for a way to solve this situation. Almost all of them ended with the girl dead on his feet.
A faint pulse of demonic essence coming from nearby snapped Naruto out of his thoughts. "Asia…" the teen whispered before quickly shaking his head, there were no more room for hesitations, the time to act was now before the devils decided to interfere and blow this situation into bigger proportions. From here on out anyone who got in his way was an enemy to be slain by his swords.
No exceptions.
Play Black Rock Shooter OST: Battle of BRS
Naruto took a deep breath before he clapped his hands together. "Kekkai no Jutsu: Shishienjin! (Barrier Technique: Four Violent Flames Battle Encampment)" he yelled out.
Four holy swords -which he embedded around the perimeter of the church earlier- created a large rectangular barrier which glowed brightly, each sword released streams upon streams of sacred blue flames that engulfed the barrier which was now made of intense pure blue sacred flames. Attached to the handle of the blades were slowly burning blessed papyrus that containing various seals, symbols, and runes which acted both as a timer and as a catalyst responsible for the erecting of this four cornered barrier which incinerated all that came into contact with its walls whether coming from the inside or out.
"This will last me a good thirty minutes." exclaimed Naruto as he started making his way towards the main gate of the church. Before he could even take two steps the exorcist was already forced to jump back several times until his back was near the very same barrier he erected to evade three spears of light.
"Oh what do we have here? A human?" said a rather smug feminine voice.
"I was expecting some devils to attack us but instead we get a human." Complained an old sounding guy.
"Hehehehe he looks so weak. Neh guys can I kill him?" asked a girl with a rather childish tone.
Turning his head towards the source of the voices Naruto found what three Fallen Angels sitting on top of an old tree. He wasn't surprised at the presence of the three Fallen Angels as he detected them exiting the church the moment he finished erecting his barrier. "Why did you attack me?"
"Hahahaha a human like you expects us to answer your questions? That the best joke I've heard in years." The youngest looking one, a blond girl, laughed out.
The buxom fallen angel smirked "We don't answer to you human." she said in a condescending manner.
The only man in the group crossed his arms around his chest "Che, know your place mongrel." The man snapped out.
The first impression the exorcist got was that the three reeked of arrogance.
From their words he already knew that they were underestimating him because he was only human, a being that they most likely consider inferior when compared to devils, angels, and fallen angels.
When he was young he recalled getting taught that everything in this world could be used as a weapon. An enemy's arrogance, superiority complex, and condescension were definitely things that the exorcist could use to his own advantage to devastate his adversaries.
In essence, the Fallen Angels were physiologically and magically superior than he was and if they took him seriously then he would be in for a fight but if they think of him as just a lowly human like all the others that could be killed by a throw of their spear then they were grossly mistaken.
He didn't really listen to the three as they continued to belittle and mock him for a good three minutes. They even introduced themselves but he didn't pay attention. No he didn't care about that or anything else they said at the point, he just opted to carefully evade every spear they tossed at him while he patiently waited for one of them to lose patience and do something reckless and stupid.
Like he predicted eventually one of the Fallen Angel's snapped.
The smallest of the group a girl with blond hair and a petite body created a lance of light which she wielded in her hand. She then decided to charge at Naruto without a care in the world, most likely thinking the he was easy pickings, after all almost any human with decent knowledge of magic can erect a barrier, what he did was nothing special.
*WOOSH*
The fallen angel soared through the air, flying straight towards the bespectacled blond at speeds that would leave normal humans befuddled.
A small smile tugged the side of the exorcist's lips. He was ready to prove them how wrong it was to underestimate your opponent.
And so his eyes did it's job as he carefully observed his incoming opponent. Almost immediately the exorcist couldn't help but feel the need to shake his head at the fallen angel's charge. It was simple and head on actually it would have been effective if she had the speed to back it up but alas she was slower than the vampire he recently killed. That said, her attack was easily predictable to a point that even without concentrating his eyes on her he could efficiently land a counterattack or better yet a killing blow with ease.
Chances of victory was at a ninety-nine percent, chances of performing a deathblow in one hit fifty percent, chances of killing the foe in two blows thirty percent, chance of maiming the opponent then killing her with the follow-up attack nineteen percent.
He really liked his chances with this one.
Thus the exorcist did nothing but wait, wait until the girl was within his own reach.
The blond fallen angel had a smug smile on her face as her target did not move making it easier fer her to land what she thought would be her own killing blow.
*SWISH*
In one swift and fluid motion the fallen angel trusted her spear of light forward, the smug look on her face refusing to fade away as she watched her weapon get closer and closer into reaching her target and ending his pathetic life.
It was then that the exorcist moved.
Just as her spear was about to land on his chest the exorcist allowed himself to follow the flow of her attack. His body moved as smooth as water while he took a step to the side easily avoiding her blow. He then swirled around the length of her spear until he managed to close the distance between the two of them.
For a second his cold blue eyes met the Fallen Angel's own blue orbs.
In a span of that very second the exorcist right hand lashed towards the Fallen Angel catching her in surprise as he grabbed her by the back of her head. Naruto then twisted his body and used the Fallen Angel's momentum against her, the teen channeled a bit of his chakra on his hand before smashing her face rather violently against the barrier he erected, the very same barrier meant to burn anything in contact with it whether touching it from inside or out.
The blond fallen angel immediately screamed out in pain, her body squirmed, and shook rather violently as her skin started heating up, then burning. The smells of flesh wafted in the air as smoke covered the fallen angel's face while the skin, muscle, and bones of her face were charred intensely while in contact with the flaming barrier.
*STAB*
*SQUELCH*
Her anguished shouts of pain were only silenced when the exorcist stabbed a holy sword in between his fingers and through her head, killing her on the spot.
Two moves, all it took were two moves of his part to kill the Fallen Angel.
"That's one down." Whispered Naruto as he released his hold on the Fallen Angel's body and allowed it to fall lifelessly on the ground, splattering the burnt content of the head all over the ground bringing forth a gut wrenching sight of utter gore.
"So who's next?" he asked purposely using a bored tone to provoke his enemy.
"YOU BASTARD!" the buxom dark-haired fallen angel garbed in an over coat shouted as she charged in towards him in blind rage, a rage that the exorcist was already planning to use to his own advantage. As she was charging at him like a mad bull only seeing red, he could see that she was planning on just stabbing him with her spear much like the first Fallen Angel attempted.
She really should have learned after the first attempt that this kind of approach would not work against him.
Unlike with the first Fallen Angel he did not allow the second one to even come close to him. With a wave of his hands four holy swords of light appeared in each hand, in a precise and almost automatic manner the executor accurately tossed all eight blades at the incoming fallen angel before jumping to his side to dodge the attack.
Since she was charging at him in full force the Fallen Angel was not able to dodge the swords that came at her at surprising speed, all eight blades dug inside her body: two of the holy sword's pierced through both of her wings rendering them useless, two were stabbed on each of her arms one going through the her forearm and bicep and the other pierced her from her palms and nearly sliced her arm vertically, the other two found their way in her legs pinning her on the ground, the last two blades found their way to vital areas, both blades were sticking out of her back, one around her liver, the other in her chest.
A moment later, as he charge came to an abrupt halt the trench coat clad Fallen Angel fell on the ground screaming in agonizing pain.
Naruto looked down on the seriously wounded and screaming Fallen Angel, "Let that be a testament for not only underestimating your opponent but also attacking in blind rage." He sighed as she continued to scream in pain and curse him out.
"Now that's two." As soon as those words came out of his mouth Naruto ducked and rolled away to evade getting mowed down by the only male fallen angel in the area.
*SWISH*
The exorcist then turned towards the fedora wearing man and carefully dodged each thrust of the man's spear, high, low, mid, left, right, it didn't really matter as he quickly got used to the man's speed and was able to react accordingly.
The bespectacled blond back flipped to avoid another wide arcing swipe from the man's sacred spear, he landed just a few feet away from the body of the first Fallen Angel he slayed.
"I guess you'll do for a warm up human." Said the male fallen angel.
"So you don't think I'm strong for defeating your comrades?"
"They were weak. That's what you expect from women. The only thing their good at is opening their legs and seducing others. Unlike me! I am a warrior! A Fallen Angel born for combat! You just got lucky against those whores."
"So am I weak?"
"Compared to me, yes! A pitiful human like you can never be as strong as me!" The fallen angel boasted as he brandished his spear of light.
The man was still underestimating him despite having already seen what he was capable of when he took down both of the man's comrades. Conclusion, the last fallen angel what an idiot.
Naruto held back a sigh, seriously what was up with every mythical/paranormal entity that he encountered. Why do they always have to look down on him for being human? Seriously if any of them took him seriously from the start then he would have been long dead.
Then again arrogance was the undoing of many of those creatures and he just loved taking advantage of it, after all everything is weapon in the battlefield.
Naruto smirked as he attempted to provoke the last fallen angel."Then why don't you come at me with all that you have?" The exorcist boldly pointed as his chest. "Here stab me through the heart oh great one." he said in a mocking tone trying to rile up the angel who fell from grace.
"Tsk? Who the hell do you think you are to tell me what to do whelp?" the Fallen Angel roared out as he threw his holy spear at the blond's chest only for it to completely miss its target as the blond jumped away from the spear's path.
"You need to do better than that old-timer."
The sharply dressed man growled out as his wings flapped more violently kicking up more wind around the area. With one strong flap the man flew up in the air. "I've had enough of you human!" yelled the fallen angel as another one of his holy spears materialized within the grasps of his hand.
The fallen angel then dived towards him spear in hand, following a straight line just like the previous fallen angels.
Did they really think that he was that weak?
"You can have all the strength in the world but it won't matter as long as you can't hit me with it." Naruto whispered as he prepared to deal with the fallen angel.
In a complete replay of what occurred against the vampire he fought a few weeks back, the blond timed the charging of the Fallen Angel before jumping over the man. However instead of raining down flaming swords upon his target, the blond chose to just throw eight of his holy swords at the man that stabbed him in several parts of the body and pinned him on the ground just a few inches away from the still living trench coat clad fallen angel. Arrogance led to his downfall.
Upon landing on the ground two holy swords appeared in his hands.
"D-damn you…" choked out the still breathing female fallen angel.
Naruto didn't bother listening to her instead he clashed both of his swords causing a spark to flash and ignite both blade in blue flames.
"W-what are you doing?" asked the male fallen angel as he tried to push himself off the ground but found himself unable to do so thanks to the swords that pinned him.
"Purifying your souls oh arrogant creatures who fell from the light." He walked slowly towards the two living fallen angels who were struggling to either get up or writhing in pain, he stopped just a few steps in between the two.
"Ashes to ashes." He raised both of his azure bathed swords up in the air. "Dust to dust." The exorcist simultaneously stabbed one of the burning swords in each of the bodies of the still living male and female fallen angels. As soon as they dug through their skins the other swords that impaled the two were immediately released torrents of blue flames from each blade which slowly burned the two fallen angels into oblivion.
"May god forgive you for your sins." He released his grip from each blade and made the sign of the cross. "Amen." He said before walking away from the two slowly burning bodies as he made his way towards the church.
The Fallen Angels' horrific pain filled cries echoed loudly beneath the night sky.
-Kyokai no Ken-
[The same time]
For Issei Hyoudou that day felt like it was the longest day of his life, from the moment he woke up the young devil immediately tried to convince his Buchou to help him rescue Asia. Of course the high-ranking devil was against this endeavor but not all was for nought as the Rook Koneko Toujo and the Knight Yuuto Kiba decided to join his party in hopes of rescuing his newest friend.
After said recruitment the young devil spent the entirety of the day hiding in the shadows of a building nearby the abandoned church where the nun was held captive as he, Kiba, and Koneko planned out their assault of the enemy's stronghold.
However, before they could even sneak in from behind the enemy's base a bluish like barrier made of fire formed around the area, if it was not for Kiba who quickly pulled him and Koneko back then they would have most likely been burned alive by those intense blue flames holy flames.
At first Yuuto proposed a tactical retreat saying that whoever placed the barrier was out of their league but being the man who he was Issei refused to retreat and managed to convince the other two to try to find another way to get inside the church.
They didn't exactly find a passage way of some sort of opening but instead what they saw was a young man who looked around their age wearing white clothes that gave him the appearance of a priest standing in front of the wooden gates that lead to the abandoned church, flying above the man were three arrogant looking fallen angels.
To say that they were shocked at what they witnessed shortly after would have been the understatement of the century. The three couldn't believe their eyes. What they bore witness to was not even a battle, no for all intents and purposes what occurred could only could be described as a one-sided slaughter.
Whoever the man was he systematically took down all three fallen angels in a span of a minute or two without even breaking a sweat or taking a hit. It also didn't take a genius to figure out that this man was also responsible for the barrier that barred their entrance from the church making him obviously dangerous.
'Just who was this man?' Kiba and Koneko helplessly thought as they stood outside the barrier where they are forced to wait at less they want to suffer the same fate as the first Fallen Angel who suffered a rather gruesome demise.
Ise on the other hand gritted his teeth in anger as he watched the scene. The man was stronger than he was, and from the way he saw the blond move the guy was as fast as Kiba. The young sacred gear wielder couldn't help but curse his weakness.
"Stay safe Asia…" Ise whispered while clenching his fists with enough force to draw blood. He wanted nothing more than to go through the barrier and inside the church to rescue his friend but for now he'll have to wait and leave the nun's fate to the exorcist.
-Kyokai no Ken-
[Fifteen Minutes Later]
Blood was splattered across the walls of the abandoned church, spilled organs, sliced appendages, chunks of meat and gore scattered about on the church's floor as the smell of charred flesh from burning remains wafted the air to a sickening extend that would have made most who walked in to the scene flinch at not only at the brutality of the scene but also at the sickening smell of death. Such was the fate of those who stood in the way of he who served as the sword of god, the hound of the Vatican, Naruto Uzumaki.
Just like the other three outside this fallen angel looked down on him along with the dozens of exiled exorcist that stood against his path -with the exception of one, a familiar looking exorcist with silver hair who upon seeing him decided to flee immediately- a lone fallen angel by the name of Raynare was about to share the same fate.
Located in the deepest regions of the church was a simple chapel, unlike any other there was a mystical altar in this chapel. A simple altar designed with magical circles and runes that was used for a ritual to forcibly extract the gifts given by god onto mortals. However, instead of its intended purpose in the altar lay not one who wields the gifts of god but rather one who fell from god's grace, an angel who lost her way.
Kneeling on the ground with her hands impaled into the altar by swords of light and her legs pinned to the ground was none other than Raynare. The swords went through the bones and meat of her legs as they continuously burned with blue flames that brought about unimaginable pain. Gone were the wings that she was once proud as it was sliced off and burned by the cold-blooded killer who stood in front of her. His once white and pure robes was splatter red in blood as he continued to look down on her with an apathetic gaze as if she were a bug, a wingless bug unable to get away from a greater predator.
"No! No! This can't be happening!" She screamed in anguish, tears falling from the side of her eyes. It was not supposed to end this way. She was supposed to extract the Sacred Gear from the nun's body and use it to appease her master not be in the receiving end of a rampaging human. No he wasn't a human, he was a beast, a demon, a monster! "I don't deserve this No! No! No!" she shouted out while a pair of cold blue eyes kept looking at her.
Her killer knelt in front of her, his blue eyes meeting her own.
"I kindly asked you to surrender but you didn't heed my warning." He said, tone cold as ice. "Instead of surrendering you mocked me and assumed I was inferior to you because I'm a human unlike you. That's the reason I won and you lost. Simple as that."
"I was so close to completing my plans…" She muttered out, by now no longer thinking straight as the pain began to erode her mind.
Shaking his head the exorcist slowly, stood up his robes fluttering about despite the lack of wind. "Have you said your prayers?" Naruto asked as a sword appeared in the grasps of each hand.
"I-i…" she shook in fear, blood-red tears now streaming down her eyes as her life flashed before her very eyes. "Azazel-sama." She cried out just before her head was severed from her body by the Executor of the church.
"Amen." The blond whispered while the blades of his mass-produced holy swords dematerialized before the very handles of the swords themselves disappeared within the sleeves of the blue eye exorcist's clothes as the fallen angel's head rolled on the ground, a pained expression forever marred upon her face.
"How foolish if you surrendered, you could have suffered a painless death. You just made it harder for yourself." The exorcist said exasperatedly before taking a deep breath and turning towards the last person within the chapel, the only witness to his spectacular macabre of death.
"You've grown since I've last seen you." He looked at the young woman in front of him from head to toe immediately recognizing the changes upon her body. "In more ways than one." He joked trying to brighten up the mood only to fail miserably as the girl just looked at him with a rather confused expression most likely missing his joke. He sighed internally, really was it only he who made jokes and had a sense of humour in the church? Shaking his head the blond took another deep breath in order to clear his thoughts. "It's been a long time Asia." He said gently making the girl's eyes slightly widen in recognition.
Its been a few years since she last saw him when he acted as her bodyguard but he hasn't changed that much. Same spiky blond hair, same beautiful yet cold blue eyes, he even had the same face which betrayed little emotions. The only person aside from Issei that she thought would arrive here to rescue her from the hands of her captor. Her beloved friend from her youth.
"Naruto!" The girl exclaimed happily as she ran towards the young man and quickly engulfed him in a warm hug completely missing the rather pained expression on his face. "It's been so long!" She uttered tightening her hold on the blond, not noticing that his clothes were soaked in blood.
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"Asia do you know why I'm here?" Those were the first words that left her fellow blond's mouth after their brief reunion.
She looked up to him and tilted her head to the side in a rather cute way. "To save me?" the girl innocently asked. To her his arrival was a miracle of god, one of her prayers which was answered by the holy lord.
He shook his head while slightly pushing her away effectively breaking their hug and forcing her to take a few steps away. He took a deep breath, steeling his resolve as he revealed to her the contents of his missions to his friend. "I was sent by the church to kill you."
Asia's eyes widened as she felt the world collapse around her. "W-what? How… can that be? Why would they-" She couldn't finish any of her sentences, several string of words came out but none could fully represent what she felt.
"It's because they want to appease the masses… you see after you left rather than calming down the loyal followers of the church demanded that you were to be executed, beheaded, burned to a stake, or stoned, it really did not matter which method but their wishes were clear. They want you to die Asia." He admitted rather bitterly as he faced the exiled nun.
He paused taking a deep breath, allowing the girl a few seconds to process the information before he suddenly grinned. "But to hell with them… Do you want to live? Asia you're my friend, and I would do anything for you. If you want to I can fake your death and bring you to a secluded place, away from the eyes of the church. You will no longer see any of us after that but you shall live." Naruto asked in an almost pleading manner, he was sure he could create a false body, through the use alchemy or even necromancy. He just needed a body, a body that matched hers down to the very essence, if he burned that body until it was unrecognizable then he might, might have a chance of saving her life while making everyone else happy.
Yes, an effective way to get through the happiness of the many outweighs the happiness of the few, mantra that was one of his core principles.
The Nun stared as his eyes for a moment, her eyes meeting his normally stoic blue eyes that now showed a hint of desperation that seemed oh so foreign for the blond. Asia smiled sadly and shook her head. "No, I can't accept that. I don't wish to get you in trouble Naruto. If they find out they'll excommunicate you like they did to me... or worse. That and…" the girl suddenly went quiet as if carefully thinking about her next choice of words.
"And?"
"I found people here who became my friends much like you were before I left the church. One even took me out on a date and brought me around the area. He showed me a lot of stuff and experienced a lot of things that I didn't know was possible." She looked slightly melancholic as she remembered the fun times with Issei. "
Naruto internally sighed, he knew this was a possibility. "Is it the brown-haired devil boy?" he couldn't help but asking unintentionally revealing that he was shadowing her, meaning that he was well aware of the small date the girl had with the devil.
"If it was possible I would want to have stayed here with them but I know... I know what you do... and I know what you must do..." The nun answered with a bit of hesitation in her part.
There was a brief moment of silence between the two of them as the blond exorcist began thinking about the best course of action. There was one that came to his mind, one that would assure Asia's happiness but it would also mean committing a taboo on his part. An act that will turn her into that which he hunted down and killed."Are you happy?" He asked, his voice showing no emotion.
"Huh?"
"Are you happy? And I mean truly happy to be here in this city despite being surrounded by devils? Away from the church… away from me…" He whispered the last part mostly to himself and it seem that even Asia didn't catch those sad words which would have most likely affected her response.
"Yes... I'm truly happy here... happy like those days we spent together when we we're child en. Happy before everything fell apart. I want you to be here with me when I enjoy this happiness but I know it's not possible. You have a lot of responsibilities and I know that you're needed in other places." She took a second to take a deep breath, steadying herself as her eyes shined with resolve. "If... if I'm allowed to be selfish even once in my life then just allow me to be selfish this one time."
"I see…" Naruto closed his eyes, if that was her choice then there was no avoiding what was to come. This was a gamble on his part. There was a hundred percent chance that he would succeed in his mission. Whilst there was only a low chance that Asia would survive this encounter. He would respect her decisions. "You know what the means right?"
Asia stared at Naruto for what seemed like an eternity until his words finally sank in. "Yes…" replied the innocent maiden as tears threatened to spill from her eyes, a single tear being the first of the many to escape.
"Please don't cry…" he whispered gently while wiping away a single tear that fell from her beautiful face.
"But you're, you're going to taint your hands with my blood. You're going to sacrifice yourself for-" the exorcist moved his hands, softly trailing down on her cheek where it stopped, he then leaned towards the nun his lips landing on her own catching her in a soft chaste kiss.
That stopped any other words from escaping her mouth.
To the nun it was like time stopped, the teen who was her first friend, her only friend before arriving here in Kuoh, and her former bodyguard was kissing her. If it wasn't for the direness of the situations she'd be squealing in joy or be dumbfounded in shock but instead the simple act nearly caused her eyes to break out into tears.
Eventually their two parted lips, their kiss ephemeral. "It's a burden I'm willing to carry for your sake." He said with his tone filled with kindness and gentleness.
"But this is wrong… This will make you sad…"
"If I being sad can bring you happiness... If it can bring other people happiness then I wouldn't mind it at all." Naruto looked at her, his normally cold eyes showed a hint of warmth that has only been seen by a few in his life. "So please smile…" He begged her. "I hate to see it when people I care for are sad."
She tried to smile only to fail miserably as tears began falling out of her eyes. "C-can you do something for me?"
"Anything you want." He replied with no hesitation.
"Can you pray for me?" She pleaded.
He closed his eyes and broke his gaze from the now crying girl. "You wish for me to pray for you?" He asked, tone both soft and gentle.
"I've never seen you pray. Not even when we were in church. Not even when we grew together. For some reason you never prayed. So if it's okay with you just pray for me. That's all I ask for you."
"Are you sure?"
The girl merely nodded silently as tears kept falling from her eyes.
"If that is your wish." Naruto closed his blue eyes as he recited a prayer, one of the few he uttered outside of combat. "May He support us all the day long, till the shades lengthen, and the evening comes, and the busy world is hushed, and the fever of life is over, and our work is done." Spoke Naruto as he reached for the holy sword strapped in his back, slowly unsheathing it from its scabbard which was wrapped in several suppression seals to block out majority of its holy essence.
If he was going to kill her then she at least deserved to be killed by his strongest blade. The legendary true holy sword that his ancestor took from the dead body of an evil dragon that threaten to harm his children.
It was one of the three Sacred Treasures of the Second Sage.
The Kusanagi no Tsurugi.
The blond teen then fully pulled his magnificent blade out allowing Asia to see, its was beautiful even to her who held little to no knowledge about swords. The holy blade was about 25 or 26 inches long, moderately curved and slender. It's single-edged blade that rose from its guard-less handle promised an absurd amount of sharpness unlike anything she's ever seen on the face of this world. It was as if just staring at the silver holy edge was enough to make her feel that sword's sharpness along with the immense amount of holiness that just radiated from the blade. "It's beautiful." the nun thought admiring the beauty of the pure white and sacred blade while she listened to the exorcist's prayer.
"There in His mercy may He give us a safe lodging, and a holy rest, and peace at the last." He muttered the last phrases of the prayer as he closed his eyes preparing himself for the inevitable.
"Amen." whispered Asia, realizing that indeed the prayer has ended, as the last wish from her friend was granted the nun found herself closing her eyes as well.
"Amen." whispered Naruto his soft and low tone echoing within the premise of the abandoned chapel. He opened his eyes and without any hesitation pointed the tip of his blade over the Nun's chest, and with one swift thrust the exorcist stabbed Asia Argento through the heart.
The exorcist allowed himself a few seconds of silence before pulling the sword out of the nun's body which slowly fell on the ground, a small pool of blood immediately forming around the wound, her life essence quickly fading away.
Within seconds she was dead, lying on the ground in a pool of her own blood.
With a flick of his wrist he removed her blood on his blade before returning the blade in it's sheathe.
Naruto made as sign of the cross as he looked down at her body, he saw that she was smiling kindly despite her death.
She looked so peaceful, so serene, so beautiful.
Much like that distant memory of the past.
She looked like a blue rose.
A beautiful blue rose amidst a puddle of red.
The sight actually made him feel a slight pang of pain in his chest for the act that he has committed but by then there was no more room for regret.
What's done is done.
He just hoped that this was for the best.
-Kyokai no Ken END-
-Jutsu/Magic List-
Kekkai no Jutsu: Shishienjin (Barrier Technique: Four Violent Flames Battle Encampment): A solid, strong barrier formation, performed by either for people or using four holy swords with various seals and chakra in it. Standing or placing the swords in a square formation, the catalysts are covered from all sides. The faces of the barrier are made from blue flames. The barrier does not allow anyone to enter or exit unless the users are harmed or the swords has and seals has reached their time limit. The body of anyone touching it will immediately be engulfed in flames. In addition, there is no way to destroy the formation from inside the barrier, since the four people or objects also have a barrier on the inside protecting them. Breaking out is extremely difficult.
-Jutsu/Magic List END-
EN0: Yep he killed Asia. Let the shit storm begin.
EN1: The focus of this chapter was more on Naruto's actual character and how he thinks and acts a lot differently than normal humans. In his childhood Naruto could be described as robotic, an emotionless husk whose lack of purpose or void kept gave him a hard time grasping concepts such as emotions and so on. As he grew older Naruto started to realize and gain said emotions, he can perceive happiness and sadness though in a rather different extent than normal humans. Naruto is also what many could call an extremist, for the sake of happiness he will do what he thinks is necessary, such in this case killing Asia for the church's happiness and the girl's own happiness (a gamble since he doesn't know if Rias will revive Asia, but we know what would happen right?). Naruto is also a firm believer of the majority rules as seen when he outwieghs his own happiness and the happiness of Asia for the sake of the happiness of more people. Although he also shows a part of him that is willing to find an in between, a loop hole to his own rules for the sake of making everyone happy.
EN2: The fight between Naruto and the Fallen Angels, was purposely made into a curb stomp battle for several reasons. First those angels were considered cannon fodder and thus weren't a threat at all. Second, the battle shows the arrogance usually present in mythical beings and how underestimating ones opponent can lead to swift defeat. Third, the battle is a representation of the sheer efficiency and brutality that Naruto possesses as it was not properly show against the fight with the vampire as the creature was more of his equal putting his power around the level or just slightly below the level of the members of the Hero Faction of Khaos Brigade.
EN3: Yes, he has the Kusanagi no Tsurugi and it is his weapon of choice when he is not using his mass produced holy swords Ciel and Alexander style. Aside from the sword he also possess the Yata no Kagami (His Glasses) and the Yasaki no Magatama (his necklace). The latter two are not sacred gears but considered more along the lines of sacred or ancient artifacts. Each of the three treasures has their own ability. His if I say disc one Nuke or disc one finisher involves invoking all three sacred treasures in order to attain something similar to balance breaker which will be seen later on.
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