Here's chapter 2!
I don't own D. Gray-Man or NARUTO.
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Naruto yawned as he woke up. He looked around. His eyes suddenly went wide, he didn't recognize his surroundings. The bed he was in was large, and soft, with big pillows! The room was far too nice to be his apartment! The curtains on the windows looked like velvet, the walls were a bright red, the floor was carpeted, carpeted!
Movement made itself known just to Naruto's left. He the blond jerked away in fright. He was met with the half-masked face of a man with red hair. Suddenly all of last night's events came rushing back to him.
"Cross-san." Naruto said.
Cross looked at Naruto drearily, his one eye half closed, "Nnnrgh, what Allen?"
Naruto looked at Cross perturbed, "Allen? Who's that?"
Cross seemed to snap out of whatever heavy sleep he still in and shook himself, "It's nothing, Naruto."
"You sure?"
"Yes, I'm sure." Cross said a bit to roughly. Naruto flinched back at his tone.
Cross softened as he realized his mistake, "Sorry, gaki, I'm not a morning person."
"I-It's okay." Naruto said a bit nervous, "I'm sometimes grumpy in the morning too."
Cross chuckled as he patted Naruto's head, "Let's not piss each other off in the mornings then!"
"Alright!" Naruto smiled.
Cross shook the tangled mess of covers away from his feet and stood up giving his neck a crack. He pulled on his coat and gloves and slipped his shoes on. He turned to Naruto.
"Hell are you doing still sitting in bed?" Cross demanded, "Get up! We're going to go talk to this Hokage of yours."
"Eh, Jiji?" Naruto asked confused, "Why?"
"Because! I need his permission to leave with you!" Cross said, "Now get up!"
"H-Hai!" Naruto leapt from the bed to floor in less than three seconds.
Cross grabbed Naruto by the scruff of his neck and slung him over his shoulder. Cross walked out of the hotel room and out the front door passing the desk without a care, not paying a cent as usual. He'd just slam the bill on the next guy he saw… which just so happened to an ANBU with a dog mask and silver, gravity defying hair.
Cross continued on until he reached the Hokage Tower. He stared up at the tall red tower. It was nothing compared to the Black Order, he thought, the Hokage would probably crap himself if he saw the old Main Branch of the Order.
Cross chuckled to himself as that image fixed itself into his mind.
"What's so funny?" Naruto asked trying to get out of Cross's grip, "I wanna know what's so funny!"
"Nothing, gaki." Cross said sharply, "I'm just thinking."
Cross set (dropped) Naruto on the ground, the older man held the done open with a smug grin on his face, "Little girls first."
"Little girl!" Naruto cried, "I'm a boy, damn it!"
Cross raised an eyebrow, "Oh-ho! So someone can already swear! I'll make sure to beat that out of you once we're gone!"
"Wh-But Jiji hasn't even said I could go yet!" Naruto protested.
"Not if I get my way." Cross retorted, "And I always get my way."
Naruto gulped.
"Well? In you go brat!" Cross ordered.
Naruto hurried inside to nervous to notice the secretary at the front desk glaring at him as he came in. Once Cross stepped in, however, her eyes turned into massive pink hearts. Cross gave her a smile with a wink and the secretary fainted instantly.
Immediately after that happened Cross's face turned into a neutral disgusted look. He stared at the fainted secretary, pathetic. He may be a womanizer, but he knew a real whore when he saw one. Not the kinds that someone would find in the red light district of some place but the kind that'd go for anyone that that looked decent and were complete bitches to others.
"Go on!" Cross said pushing Naruto up the stairs, "Let the old man know we're here!"
Naruto rapped on the door to Hokage's Office, "Come in."
Cross lashed out with his foot and nearly slammed the door off its hinges as it exploded inward. Naruto gaped at Cross. The Hokage himself, an old wrinkled man in red and white robes, jumped when the door was blown away from its comfortable place in its nice frame.
"Um… hi, Jiji." Naruto said scratching the back of his head.
"Naruto, I see this... 'nice' person has opened the door for you." the Hokage said taking out a pipe and putting it in his mouth, "Who is he?"
"He's-"
"Cross Marian!" Cross stated boldly, "And I'm here to talk with you, you old goat."
The Hokage frowned at Cross's boldness, "Of course, and for what reason?"
Cross pointed at Naruto, "This gaki right here."
Naruto chuckled nervously while the Hokage's expression turned dark, "What about Naruto?"
"I want to take him out of this hellhole that people think is practically heaven." the Hokage stared at Cross.
"I do hope you know what you're implying right?" the Hokage asked with an edge.
"Yes, I do." Cross said, "Are you going to give me a reason not to?"
"The council," Sarutobi stated, "They will never let Naruto leave on his choice or anyone else's, only their's, and they will not let him leave, not even if I want him out of here."
"Then your-what do call it?- Will of Fire is all but gone you old prune!" Cross smirked, "You're a pathetic excuse for a leader, and if you think a bunch of bastards that have bit of political power is going to stop me then…"
Cross let out a disturbing laugh as he put his hands on the Hokage's desk and leaned over so his and the Sarutobi's faces were only a few inches away.
"…Then you've gone worthlessly senile." a twisted grin came over Cross's face as he backed away from the Hokage's gawking face.
"But since I'm a gentleman," Cross said folding his arms over his chest, "I'm sure we can work out a compromise?"
The Hokage closed his open mouth and gave himself a mental slap, "What might you have in mind?"
"You could give me a trial," Cross said, to him he was to old for tests and to strong for challenges.
"Like what kind of trial?" Sarutobi questioned.
"One that'll show you I'm strong enough to take care of Naruto," Cross said, "Until he comes back that is."
Naruto looked up at Cross. 'Come back'? He was going to come back?
The Hokage looked just as surprised, "Pardon?"
"The age for entering the Ninja Academy here is eight, right?" Cross smirked, "Naruto is five right now, so after I pass my trial I'll take him away for three years and he can come back after that and take on the Academy; and pass, of course."
"You seem very confident that you'll get your way." Sarutobi stated, "I won't make your test easy."
"Go ahead," Cross said, "Make it impossible, I'll still win."
The Hokage frowned, "Give me two hours. Then come to the stadium, it's big and there's only one, you can't miss it."
Cross extended his hand, "A deal then?"
The Hokage tightly gripped the hand, "A deal."
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Cross stood in the center of a wide open arena laid out with grass, dirt and trees, all natural Cross could tell. There was a man standing next to him, a sickly looking jonin with his headband in a bandana style.
Directly across from Cross stood a small group of people. Cross could see three teams of three genin, a team of four chunin, and finally a lone jonin.
…Was this all? Too easy.
Cross looked at the jonin that was to be the judge for his trial, "So are we going to be starting soon?"
"When the Hokage gives the OK, we will." the jonin coughed in a wheezy voice.
"Tch, then the old bastard better hurry up." Cross frowned, he'd been standing here for ten minutes already! The jonin suddenly turned around and looked up at the Kage's box he saw Naruto standing next to the Hokage, the Hokage raised his arm, the jonin nodded.
"Ladies and gentlemen! May I have your attention!" the jonin called to the stands full of people, civilians and ninja's alike, "The test of Cross Marian for the custody of Naruto Uzumaki is about to begin!"
The entire crowd cheered, they had already heard that if this Cross person won he'd take the demon child away! They all wanted him to win.
"So who's first?" Cross challenged.
"The genin will participate first!" the jonin called, letting everyone know, "All others please clear the field!"
"No." Cross said, "This won't take less than a minute."
"You think some old fart like you can take on train ninja like us?" one of the genin taunted, "Yeah, right!"
The next instant the genin was huddled on the ground clutching a broken and bloody nose. Cross cracked his knuckles, the edges of his white mask spread out and wiggled around in the air as if trying to find some unseen object. Cross laughed as he pointed two fingers at the rest of genin and the tips glowed blue as rune appeared in front of them.
"Fyr!" blue flames leapt from Cross's finger tips and engulfed the genin, they screamed as the flames burned them, Cross snapped his fingers and the flames disappeared after the genin had passed out from shock. Cross brought up his boot and brought it down on the remaining genin's head, knocking him out.
Cross looked at the other ninja and grinned, "I suggest you all come at me at once if you even want a chance to touch me!"
Cross whipped out Judgment and pointed it at the closest chunin who jumped away with the rest of the other ninja.
"That won't help at all." Cross smiled. Two chunin charged him one running in with two kunai in his hands, swiping at Cross, who dodged each attack with ease, before lashing out with a kick that sent the chunin close to five yards back. The other chunin had been forming hand seals while the first had been keep Cross busy.
"Katon: Hōsenka no Jutsu!" a dozen fireballs flew form the mouth of the chunin all aimed at Cross, they hit area surrounding Cross throwing up clouds of dust.
"Did I get him?" the chunin mumbled.
"Get who?" the chunin whipped around just in time to see a the back of a gloved hand collide with his cheek. Cross kneed the chunin in the gut and threw him away.
Cross shook his head. He looked at the two remaining chunin and one jonin. He fired a single shot. The two chunin jumped away while the jonin stood still, the bullet barely missing him by a hair. Everyone, however, was shocked when the bullet circled back around and started chasing one of the chunin.
"My bullets don't stop until they hit their target." Cross said, he pointed Judgment at the two Chunin who were busy twisting and dodging away from the one bullet, "Have some more!"
The rest of Cross's clip was quickly emptied as he fired off the rest of his bullets. Three slammed right into one chunin's spine, while the other one flew at the second one.
The chunin rapidly formed hand seals, "Doton: Domu!"
The chunin's skin turned black and the bullets struck him but were straining against his skin.
"Oh?" Cross queried, "You can turn your skin to stone? Not bad, but…"
Cross fired Judgment off at a rate that didn't seem humanly possible unleashing a literal storm of bullets, that took on the shape of bright blue arrows, down on the poor chunin.
"Heaven's Judgment." Cross said as the dust that was kicked up, cleared showing the lump of flesh that was once the chunin.
"And what about you?" Cross asked the jonin that was still standing in the same spot he'd started in, "Are you going to attack or give up?"
Cross noticed something interesting, the jonin's eyes were closed, the red haired man raised an eyebrow at this as the jonin exhaled deeply.
"I could tell those others didn't have a chance against you from the moment I saw you." the jonin said, "Which is why I've been channeling my chakra into my most devastating technique."
The jonin brought his hands forward, "Kinjutsu: Akuma no Shakuzen!"
Cross stared at the chunin as… nothing happened…
"Was that supposed to do something?" Cross asked.
'Really, was it?' everyone in the audience thought.
The jonin suddenly started laughing in a creepy tone that soon swelled into over the top laughter.
"What's so funny?" Cross asked, something wasn't right, he could feel it.
The jonin had demented look on his face, "Your death."
"My death?" Cross repeated.
"Yeah, you're going to die here!" the jonin cried out as a pair of purple armored hands burst from his back, "You will die, EXORCIST!"
The jonin's body was torn to shreds as an figure in purple armor stepped out of the remains, "What's up, Exorcist?"
"A Level 3?" Cross questioned, "That fat load of lard is going to need a lot more than that to kill me."
"You've been AWOL for a while now, Marian." the Akuma said, "Earl-sama has made an abundance of advancements in the creation of Akuma and in how strong they are, including creating a jutsu to create Akuma from a raw human, just for these ninja. I'm plenty to take you on!"
"Really?" Cross asked cockily, "If that's the case then…"
Cross extended two fingers and blue light played at his finger tips, as symbols played at the edges of the light. A magic circle appeared behind Cross and coffin rose up from the circle.
"Activate," The coffin slowly opened to reveal a beautiful woman in an equally beautiful black dress with a bow wrapped around her eye that looked much like a butterfly, "Grave of Maria."
"Carte Garde." Maria's mouth open and a hymn exited her lips and the Level 3 gripped his head a pain exploded through it.
"Bastard!" the Akuma ground out.
"Now hold still." Cross ordered the Akuma as he pointed Judgment at monster's head.
The Akuma struggled in its unseen bind on its mind and body.
"I won't die unless I take someone with me!" the Akuma shouted, red eyes opening up all over it head. It's eyes all turned to the Kage's Box, "There! I can feel it! Innocence! I'll destroy it!"
The Akuma got enough control over its body to leap at the Kage Box, the moment all of its eyes landed on Naruto it scream in glee, "I've found you!"
"Naruto run!" Cross shouted, "Maria! Peccamen Carmen!"
Another song left Maria's lips as the Akuma's whole body felt like it was being ripped apart from the inside out. The Level 3 roared as it brought back its hand and a dark liquid surrounded its fist.
"Die! Innocence!" the Level 3's fist shot forward, faster than even Sarutobi could see, what was this thing? The thought echoed through everyone's, but Cross's, minds.
The second Naruto's eyes saw the level three appear in front of him they started burning and his chest felt like it was going to explode. He could see a black shadow hovering behind the Akuma.
"Help me… Please…!" the shadow pleaded.
'What's… happening to me…?' Naruto thought with horror as the Akuma's fist came closer and closer to him.
His left arm acted against his will and flew up and caught the fist that was coated in the liquid Dark Matter.
"What!" the Akuma stared at the hand, it had grown well out of proportion with the rest of the boy's body. The arm had turned black and the hand had claws for fingers, a green hexagon was at the back of the hand and green line traveled up the arm and ended at the scapula-joint on the boy's arm where it flared out into and ethereal green flaming glow.
The arm still acted of its own accord and threw the Level 3 away back into the field, the event was surprising enough that Maria had stopped singing without Cross's orders. The arm moved itself forced Naruto over the edge and sent him crashing down to the hard ground. The impact sent dust flying up and large shards of earth were split away from the rest of the ground.
When the dust cleared there was giant of a monster standing in the place were Naruto had landed. It was easily ten feet tall and including the horns on top of its head. It arms were the same as Naruto's left one was like before he fell, the feet were the same as the arms, they were black with the outlines of green hexagons on the top of the feet with a green line traveling up the legs until it reached the acetabulum and flared out in that same fiery green ethereal glow.
The rest of the body was also black and was rippling with muscles, emblazoned on the torso was a green flaming cross that had lines going off to meet where the flames on its joints were at, spikes spread out of the collar bone and flared out and up behind the head like a crown of sorts. The head was wide to go with the rest of its massive body but it also had slim features like something out of nobility, tall devil horn sprouted from the top of its skull as a flaming mane of green fire flowed around its head. Rows of sharp teeth like the Level 3 had lined its mouth.
The black-red-ringed eyes of the monster stared at the Akuma.
"Pitiful Akuma," the monster's voice spoke, a far more adult sounding version of Naruto's, "May your soul be saved."
Cross chuckled as he put Judgment away and waved Maria back into her coffin to rest once more until needed. Yes, he knew now, this was undoubtedly Cedak. His Innocence was so similar to his parents' it was scary… well, when they started out that is.
"May my soul be saved?" the Akuma sneered, "Yeah, right! Get real!"
Liquid Dark Matter spewed from its mouth and took on the form of a dragon as it raced toward Naruto. All Naruto did was merely raise a hand as glowing white flames appeared in the palm of his hand.
The dragon and the fire collided and exploded on impact, Naruto's massive Innocence form jumped high in the air.
"Waltz of the Cross." the hexagons on Naruto's hands and feet flared to life as they all swiped at the air in what almost seemed like a dance each swipe sending down burst of wind condensed in the shape of a cross.
The Akuma responded by covering its fists in Dark Matter and throwing punch after punch into the each one sending his own projectiles of Dark Matter to crash into wind-crosses.
"You'll have to do better than that!" the Level 3 shouted.
"Then how's this?" a giant black hand wrapped around the Akuma and hoisted him into the air.
"Cross Grave." the Level 3 screamed as it broke free of Naruto's grip and clutched at his chest as a blinding white cross shown on his chest.
"Bastard! Bastard! Bastard!" the Akuma shook with rage as the pain from the cross on his chest was burning him from the inside out, "Damn you, die!"
The Akuma opened his mouth wide and Dark Matter began gathering inside of it, a very massive amount of Dark Matter.
"If I can't win, then I'm taking everyone here with me!" the Akuma roared.
The next thing the level 3 knew Judgment was in his mouth. Cross on the opposite end.
"Don't you know when to shut up?" Cross pulled to the trigger and watched as the Akuma's head was blown to pieces, sending the collected Dark Matter shooting into the air and dispersing.
The shadow-figure behind it, as Naruto could see, smiled as it disappeared in a white light, "Thank you… Thank you…"
Cross turned around and looked at Naruto, or rather, he looked up at him, "Not bad… Cedak."
Naruto's entire form burst into green flame that disappeared as quickly as it had come, leaving Naruto the same as he had been before but with changes.
His hair was flattened out and his hair had turned to a dark green that turned white after it reached his shoulders his hair now going down to his shoulder blades. His eyes were now a grayish-purple. And his whisker marks had turned red with one jagged red line running through each set of whiskers and over his eyes to meet in the center of his forehead on the tip of an upside down pentacle.
His shirt had changed into a black vest and black gloves covered his hands and his pants and shoes had also turned black and his chest was now red and scaly and looked deformed with the same small green gems in the pattern of a cross embedded in his chest.
The small boy suddenly toppled over in a heap on the ground. Cross looked at Cedak for a moment before putting Judgment in its holster and picking Cedak up in his arms.
"You did damn good." Cross smiled, "For a brat of my Filthy Apprentice, I mean."
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