A/n (edited 6/23/16)– Alright, if you're reading this than you've obviously finished the first chapter. This is the follow-up to my rewrite of the first chapter. THIS CHAPTER IS NOT A REWRITE!Only the Author's notes are being edited, something I feel is completely justified. If you're re-reading this then you'll notice I took down the stupid power scale. I got so many pissed off reviews on just that alone I figured I'd just go and get rid of it. Now this is still the original second chapter so nothing's been changed. Enjoy.
Chapter Key;
"Speech"
'Thought'
Technique Name
I neither own Naruto nor Highschool Dxd, they belong to Masashi Kishimoto and Ichiei Ishibumi respectfully. I make no money off of my work and I write for the pure enjoyment of writing.
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Path to Peace: Devil's Advocate
Chapter 2: When You Say Devil…
When Naruto and Sasuke regained consciousness, it happened in a brief instant. They both shot up quickly.
"Wha..huh? What happened?" Naruto asked drowsily. He shook his head before looking around. They appeared to be in some sort of forest.
"It worked then." Sasuke said coolly.
"Seems like, but how can we tell?" Naruto questioned.
"For now, we gather intel. Just to be safe, we should transform into other people." Sasuke responded.
Naruto nodded and the two performed a simple Henge technique.
Naruto transformed into young girl around 10 in a dress, her short black hair hung loosely. Sasuke had transformed into a man around 35 with dark brown hair dressed in a comfortable long-sleeved shirt and pants.
Sasuke glared at the little form of Naruto.
"I really hate you sometimes, Naruto. Now it looks like we are a father and daughter pair. Why did you pick that form?"
"I figured people would be less suspicious of a little girl than a teenage boy." He said in the voice of a young child.
Sasuke could not refute Naruto's point, but held his glare for a short while after.
Turning away, Sasuke gave a short "Hn." before he began walking.
As they exited the forest silently, they both gaped.
"Whoa! Those look like the things we rode in back in the Land of Snow!" Naruto exclaimed.
Sasuke quickly shook out of his stupor and pulled Naruto with him. "Come, we need to get more info." Sasuke said as he began walking down the street.
After two hours of scouring the small town, the Shinobi duo had found very little in terms of intel. It was nearing twilight now and the pair had stopped in a park (after dispelling their transformation) and brooded over their predicament.
"…I'm leaving." Sasuke said abruptly.
Naruto turned in surprise. "What do you mean 'leaving'?" he asked.
"I mean we're splitting up." He said simply.
"Why!?"
"Right now we have no information on where we are. All we found out was the date. When we left, it was October, now its late spring. It's pointless staying together; we should split up and try to find anything we can." Sasuke explained.
Naruto admitted that Sasuke had a point; it just didn't sit right with him.
"Besides, I'm going to be training. You keep those scrolls that the Hokage's gave you. You need them more than I do."
Naruto stared at Sasuke in shock before realizing that Sasuke had just challenged him.
"Teme! Just you watch, I'll find where we are and train so hard you'll be left in the dust."
Sasuke smirked. "I still want to fight you, seriously fight you. One on one, all out."
"Ossu! Train hard teme. I want a challenge when we fight." Naruto challenged back with a confident grin. He knew Sasuke would be okay, the bastard was too stubborn to die, just like Naruto himself.
Sasuke held out his fist and Naruto immediately bumped his with it. They pair nodded and turned away from each other. Sasuke left in a swirl of leaves and Naruto slowly walked out of the park.
"Even if I said all those things, it's still kinda lonely." He mumbled to himself as he walked away.
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By now, it was dark and had started to drizzle. Naruto, who had ignored the rain, walked on as he pondered where he would sleep that night.
Naruto stopped in mid stride as he felt a large burst of killing intent.
'What the hell? I gotta check this out, maybe it'll help me figure out where I am.' He thought to himself.
Taking to the rooftops, Naruto quickly reached where the killing intent was strongest. Looking towards the ground and lowering his presence, he saw two figures locking swords. He had barely noticed that it had started to pour.
They were both around his age; one wore what looked like a school uniform the civilians wore. He had blond hair that fell on his face. The other wore some type of robe, he had crazed look on his face. He had long white hair and was cackling loudly.
In Naruto's opinion, they were sloppy with their movement or more as if they were not masters in kenjutsu like Zabuza or Kisame. Hell, he heard there was the samurai Mifune who was a master. The blond guy seemed like he had more practice than the weird white haired guy though, he had talent.
In any case, they had caught his attention and he paid rapt attention to them. Unfortunately, he couldn't hear what they were saying but it looked like the blond one was getting angry. Then the one with the stupid grin said something that made the blond guy look shocked, then his sword started to glow and a bright light flashed and he was gone from sight.
'I can still sense that weirdo, but I'll let it slide for this golden opportunity.' Naruto thought as he silently hopped to the floor.
The other boy was glaring at his hands (oddly enough, his sword had disappeared) and seemed to be mentally cursing.
"Oi! Sword guy!" Naruto called out, the boy whirled around, and a sword manifested in his hand. "Hey, hey. Calm down. I'm not gonna attack ya, I just got some questions for ya." Naruto said lightly.
"What are you? I can't tell if you're an angel, devil or a fallen angel." The person asked.
"What the hell are you talking about? Angels? Devils? My name is Naruto."
The boy lowered his sword slightly but kept a ready stance. "I am Yuuto Kiba." He said simply. "Now answer me. What are you?"
Naruto frowned slightly. "I'm a human." He said. 'Well technically a jinchuuriki but he doesn't need to know that.'
Kiba seemed to be in thought. He looked back at Naruto and lowered his sword. "You don't seem to be lying. Fine, you said you have questions, so do I. I'll take you to my master. Follow me." He told Naruto as he began to walk away, however he had kept his sword materialized.
Naruto followed silently through the rain. 'He said, "Master", so he's like a servant or something?' He thought to himself. He followed him to a large building. "Oi, Kiba right? What the hell is this?" He asked to the other boy ahead.
"This is Kuoh Academy." He said simply.
'Whoa! THIS is a school? It's at least five times bigger than the Shinobi Academy back in Konoha!' Naruto exclaimed in his head.
Kiba lead Naruto to a smaller building off to the side. Entering inside, they ascended a flight of stairs and reached a door. Kiba knocked lightly before stepping inside. Naruto stayed back for a moment to see what happens.
"Yuuto, you're back?" He heard a female voice say almost in shock.
"Buchou, there's someone for you to meet." Kiba said with a somewhat detached tone.
"You can come in now." The woman called out to Naruto.
Naruto stepped through the door and looked at the girl in front of him. She was about a year older than he was, with breast that rivaled Tsunade. She had long crimson hair and seemed to hold herself with a sense of regality. She was very pretty in Naruto's eyes.
"I'm Rias of the Gremory family." She said lightly.
"Ah, Uzumaki Naruto at your service! Nice to meet ya." Naruto said happily. He saw several couches and chairs but opted to stay standing because he was still wet.
"Buchou, he says he's a human, but I didn't sense him until he presented himself." Naruto heard Kiba whisper to her. She seemed shocked.
"What can I help you with? Is it a high cost request then, Uzumaki-san?" She spoke formally.
"Naruto's just fine, but no, I just have some questions."
"Alright, let's hear them Naruto-san." She said.
"Well, first of all. Where are we?" He asked.
Rias raised an eyebrow. "We're in a small town in the country of Japan." She said it almost sarcastically.
"Great! What's Japan?"
Rias was stumped; she was shocked that he did not even know where Japan was. "I have a question of my own if you'll indulge me."
"Shoot."
"What are you?"
Naruto sighed. He did not want to reveal too much but he had little choice if he wanted answers, and these people obviously had answers.
"Fine, but it's a little hard to believe." He told her.
"Try me."
"Well. I'm from a different dimension." He stated bluntly.
She blinked in surprise. "Really?" She asked.
"Yep."
"Okay."
"Wha..what! That's it? 'Okay'!?" Naruto asked in shock.
"Well it's certainly rare, but not unheard of for people to travel dimensions." She spoke calmly.
Now it was Naruto's turn to be surprised.
"Well that clears some confusion up for me." She said as she sighed and crossed her arms under her (massive) bust.
"You're in the "Human" world, on planet Earth, in the small country called Japan." She stated.
"Alright, that works for now." Naruto mumbled, filing that precious information away for later. "Now what the hell are angels and devils?"
Instead of answering him, black bat like wings grew from her back, as well as Kiba's back.
"Whoa! What the hell is that?" He shouted.
"We are devils; I guess we could also go by "demons" in some circles." She explained.
"Demons…I see, even this world has demons." Naruto said softly.
"There were demons in your dimension?" She asked.
"Yeah, but there called Bijuu by us. They were huge and had monstrous power. There were nine of them. Each had a set number of tails with the highest being nine." Naruto said in a tone of reverie.
"You sound as if you knew them personally." Kiba finally interjected.
"You could say that. I'm what we call a Jinchuuriki."
"'Power of Human Sacrifice'…Why?" Rias asked curiosity etched on her face.
Naruto lifted his shirt and channeled a bit of chakra. His seal appeared, looking almost like a tattoo.
"This is the seal to keep the Kyuubi no Kitsune sealed inside me. We used to hate each other, but we made up and now we're precious comrades. He seems to be sleeping now."
"So it's almost like a sacred gear." Rias mumbled.
"Sacred what now?"
"I'll tell you later. I have a feeling we will be seeing a lot of each other; however, back to angels and devils." She said.
"Right. Now what are angels?" Naruto asked, pulling down his shirt.
"Do you know of God from the Bible?" Rias questioned.
"Not a clue. Is he like the holy log, or the Shinigami?" Naruto responded.
"Holy…log?" Rias and Kiba asked in shock.
"Ah…I'll tell you later."
"Well, I guess you could call him…'Almighty Creator'."
"Oh, you mean like Kami-sama?"
"Yes! That makes thing easier. Well, Angels are his messengers, and his warriors. They usually have white feathery wings growing out of their back. The more powerful 'Seraphs' have golden wings."
"I see, are they bad?" Naruto asked.
"Well it depends on who you ask. They are the natural enemies to us devils but like humans, their personalities vary but most of them believe in divine righteousness. All races have their share of 'good and bad'."
"I see, is there peace?" Naruto asked, his face serious for the first time since he entered the room.
Rias looked taken aback at the sudden question. "It's not so much as peace as it is a cease-fire. Between us devils, the angels and fallen angels."
Naruto sighed and relaxed his face. "Fallen angels, what are they?"
"They are angels who have 'betrayed God'. They gave in to desire and fell from Heaven where God and his angels live." She explained.
"Ah, I see."
"Is that all Naruto-san?" Rias asked.
Naruto looked embarrassed and scratched the back of his neck.
"Well, I was transported to this world a couple of hours ago, so I was wondering if you knew a place where I could stay."
Rias giggled, all pretenses of seriousness gone. Naruto thought that she looked more natural that way.
"Yuuto, will it be a bother for him to stay with you?" Rias asked Kiba.
Kiba looked more relaxed but still had an air of intensity about him. "…I don't mind, are we done now Buchou?"
Rias sighed. "Yes, we are." She sounded a little hurt by his tone.
'I don't think this Kiba guy acts like a dick usually. Something must have happened…maybe it has something to do with that freaky guy earlier.' Naruto pondered to himself.
"Can you bring Naruto-san here tomorrow before school? I'd like him to meet everyone else, plus we have more to discuss." Rias asked of Kiba. He nodded silently. She turned towards Naruto and smiled. "Well then, I will see you tomorrow and introduce you to everyone."
"Got it Boss-lady." Naruto grinned.
"B..Boss-lady?" Rias stammered.
"Ja ne! Come on Kiba, let's go!" Naruto said loudly.
Kiba sighed before stepping out the door.
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As Kiba lead Naruto to his apartment he was quiet. It stopped raining sometime while they were talking inside.
"Say, Kiba. Are you ok with me staying with you? I mean, I could find someplace else…"
Kiba sighed before stopping and turning towards Naruto. "I apologize if I came off as rude. I have a lot on my mind and I need time to think. I don't mind you staying at my apartment." He sounded calmer and less agitated. Kiba smiled lightly. He stuck his hand out and introduced himself.
"Sorry for being rude earlier. I'm Yuuto Kiba, 17 and second year in high school."
Without missing a beat Naruto shook his hand.
"Uzumaki Naruto, 17 and Gennin rank Shinobi." He responded lightly. He let go and started laughing. "Ah! That's better. Say, Kiba. Know any good places to eat? I'm starving!"
Kiba chuckled. "Well, everything's closed now, but I'll make something when we get to my home." He promised.
"Ossu! Lead the way!"
Kiba nodded and started the trek to his home once again. He somehow felt like he could get along with his fellow blond. He certainly was interesting company; however, Kiba made sure to file away the fact that Naruto claimed to be a "Shinobi".
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A/n – So this won't be the only author's notes I'll edit, but it was definitely the most needed because of the frequency people have reminded me of the that goddamn power scale…anyways, not much is needed to be said, it was relatively straight forward.
So yeah…review please! Believe it or not I go through each and every one of my reviews, good or bad and it does help me evolve as a writer.
