Wings of Flames (NarutoxHighschool-DXD)

Disclaimer: This story is fiction. All the characters, names and places belong to their respective owners.

Hmmm… here's another chapter. I only actually write around 2 to 3k of words per day so longer one are actually multiple days. Hey! I have work as well you know. Anyway, this story is short story (10-30k) long depends. I've been doing Route Roulette in the past few days. I'm going to switch to something else soon. I wasn't going to release this yet, but Milkitia asked nicely so here you go. Enjoy.

=[Wings of Flames]=
Part 2

"What happened?" Minato whispered to his wife, Kushina. They both were sitting at one end of an adequately large rectangular table with intricate designs as befitting of its owner, the Phenex. "I thought we were just knocked him out and put him in bed with Ravel-chan. That way, he would take responsible for his actions. I didn't think we needed to go that far by making them have sex right there and then?"

"Why are you looking at me?" Kushina questioned. "I have nothing to do with it. You were the one who drugged him and place him on the bed with my daughter-in-law! Don't shift the blame to me, baka!"

Minato sighed as it was his wife's plan to begin with. She also provided the potent sleeping drug to knock out their son, but since the plan had messed up beyond repair, he had to take the whole blame now. Initially, he just went along with it since he didn't really care who could be his daughter in law since it was up to his son. Rias, the heiress of Gremory Clan, was a fine girl from her appearance, but he was disappointed in her adamant refusal to meet him and his son even just briefly. The crimson-haired princess of ruin, as she was called, claimed to be busy training her peerage for the fight with Riser Phenex so it was understand somewhat. He accepted that excuse and so did Naruto.

In contrast, Ravel Phenex, was courteous and polite young lady. The blond-haired petite girl truly wanted to meet him and Naruto even though he had visited the Phenex's household before. The first impression was everything as he had taught his son so he'd approved the girl's endeavors. With Lord Phenex's proposal of joining their houses, it seemed like a done deal, but of course, the final say would belong to Naruto.

"Yes, it's my idea. I shouldn't do something like that so I'm sorry. But what's done is done. It's going to be hard to get out of this," Minato admitted with a frown. "All we can do now is minimized the damage as much as we can. If the words got out that our son deflowered Phenex's daughter while staying as their guests, what left of our standing will plummet."

"Who cares about that," Kushina retorted. She never really cares about her family's social standing in their society. "Ours already are as low as they could be the moment we'd faked our deaths and abandoned our master Leviathan. What I'm more concern about is our guest's one. The Phenex are very aristocratic. If Sochi doesn't take responsibility, this is like a great insult to their honor and bloodline."

"Yeah, I supposed so," Minato said and sighed again. "I really didn't think it would go this far. The plan seemed great when we… I mean I planned it. I must apology sincerely to Phenex-kun for the misconduct, and will try to uphold the proposed contract as much as I can."

A third person coughed and spoke up: "So it was you two, how could you sell me out like that? What kind of parents are you?"

"NARUTO!?" Both the parents screamed like they just saw a ghost before blinking and dropped their shock immediately. They were veteran of a devastating war and they just showed something they should not have.

"What have you heard so far?" Minato asked as Naruto glared at him before dropping down on a free chair by the middle of the table.

"Nothing much… just the important parts," Naruto stated dryly before leering at his parents. "That would explained why I don't remember anything after the feast. I'm pissed that you would do something like that. You could have asked me whether I want to pursue Ravel-chan, instead. It wasn't like I have my eyes dead set on Rias-chan. I've only met her one time after all."

"Sochi, Kaa-san is sorry for not stopping your father," Kushina said remorsefully, massaging her son's shoulders from behind like a genuine servant. "But Ravel-chan isn't bad at all. She's honest, sincere, polite, and just so darn adorable like her mother. I know I haven't met Rias Gremory yet, but you should consider her as your wife, or first wife if you still wish for Rias' hand in marriage."

Naruto doubted that the prestige Gremory's household would allow their daughter, their only daughter and heir, to be of any title less than an official wife. In addition, even if he agreed to something like that, girls rarely like to share in anything. They might accept it first, but most will regret it later. Then it would be more or less a headache unless he separated them from each other, and once that particular path is opened, there would be no reason to stop at just one or two girls.

"Would they all be happy? Huh? Why am I thinking of something like that. That wouldn't be fair to any of them, and haven't heard any well-known devil having multiple wives either, even Sirzechs-kun have only one," Naruto questioned as he was bordering on Issei's mentality.

"Then choose Ravel then, she's more or less your woman by now, and I have something to say to Lord Phenex," Minato pointed out after hearing his son spoke his mind.

"Eh, not so fast," Naruto said. "You two only drugged me and brought me into her room right?"

"Yeah, I'm terribly sorry," Minato apologized.

"Shut it, I'm still pissed at you," Naruto retorted and leered up at Kushina. "And you too. But if that's the case then who drugged Ravel-chan? I'm sure she would be against something like that since the last time I checked, she's a girl! And I don't think what happened last night was like what you all seemed to decide as the truth. I only have flashes of hazy memory, but it felt surreal like it was an implanted false memory. If that the case, someone must have created it while I was snoozing."

"What about the evidence?" Kushina asked as Naruto rolled his eyes.

"The blood's still wet, that mean it was recent, not from something like six hours ago," Naruto answered with a sigh. "The awkwardness between Lord Phenex, Lady Phenex, and their sons are very suspicious from what I could tell briefly before Kaa-san sent me out the house with a punch."

"Ah, Kaa-san was over reacting, are you hurt?" Kushina asked as she hugged her son from behind. It obviously wasn't considering her personality.

"No, but I need a moment to think about what happened," Naruto said, removing his mother's hands around his neck. "If I did something like that even unconscious, I will take full responsibility."

[Yesterday, late afternoon]

"Greeting, Namikaze-sama, Uzumaki-sama, and Naruto-sama. My name is Ravel Phenex," the blond curly-haired girl introduced while giving a polite bow before the seated guests in the room. Her father, Lord Phenex, or commonly known as Phenex to others as the birth name no longer be used commonly once they ascended to Lordship of their house smiled and nodded approvingly.

"She's so cute," Kushina said with her eyes sparkled while Minato gave out a forced cough. Naruto, on the other hand, introduced himself to the girl formerly even though he had met her during the battle a few days ago. She was an opponent, but he didn't bother to attack her as she wasn't a threat.

"We need to have a private conversation without the kids here. Ravel, can you take Naruto to show him around the house?" Phenex requested as Minato nodded in agreement. Kushina wanted to go Ravel to know her better, but her desire to catch on old times won in the end. It had been centuries since they last talk like this, and it wasn't in a comfortable home surrounded with expensive furniture, but rather on a battlefield with rock like chair while their peerages and comrades screaming from their grievous wounds.

The times had changed in the centuries passed, and the underworld was more peaceful now.

"Yes, father," Ravel answered politely. She then grabbed the blond hand and pulled him with her out the door of the common room.

"Ah? But if this is about me, I should stay here and give my opinion," Naruto requested by Minato told him to go since it did not concern him. Naruto sighed and followed Ravel around the massive house. It was much bigger than his home from the numerous unused rooms.

"Ravel…-chan, where's your brother, Riser?" Naruto asked after she explained some of the rooms and kind of arts was decorated along the paths.

"Onii-sama has becomes a recluse after you defeated him. He's sulking in his room," Ravel said before her expression saddened. "I've tried to get him out, but he yelled at me and ordered me to leave him alone. He has never yelled at me before."

"Is that so? I'm sorry for kicking his arrogance ass," Naruto jested with a cheeky grin.

"I do not believe it is your fault, Uzumaki-san," a blond-haired man and deep blue eyes said. He was wearing fine clothing, reflecting his heritage and nobility. "My brother had grossly underestimated his opponent. This inevitable loss will teach him not to rely so heavily on his regenerative ability, but think and planned first hand."

"Ruval Phenex-san, nice to meet you," Naruto greeted the eldest son of the Phenex clan. "I have read and studied your battle tactics in the rating games… as much as I could get my hands on. You managed to defeat many Ultimate Classes even though you're not one yourself. Why did you drop out the last game? Was your opponent that much stronger than you?"

"Please, Uzumaki-san, call me Ruval," Ruval said. "As for the reason why I've dropped out then, I think winning against her would be costly at the time, and she had another battle that afternoon so I wanted her to fight with her top shape since it was more important than mine. I have re-arranged another with her at a later date to settle our differences and reclaim my top ten ranking. If you are interested, would you like to spectate then?"

"I would be honor, Ruval. Likewise, please call me Naruto. Uzumaki-san is my mother, and it felt weird when someone called me that," Naruto suggested humbly before dropping his all too formal disposition.

Ruval nodded in response. They both then smirked as something went between them at Ravel's confusion.

"We are only in the shadow of our parents, aren't we?" Ruval asked with a smile as Naruto nodded in agreement. Everyone knew Minato Namikaze and Kushina Uzumaki, but not so much about their son, Naruto Uzumaki. War was always a great mean to make a name for one self.

"Yes, I want people to know me as Naruto, not Uzumaki and Namikaze's heir," Naruto spoke his mind freely as Ruval understood it as well. An heir of any devil clan was a great burden as they must succeed their father and bring prestige to their house. A pureblood heir was even more so since many would expect them to surpass the previous generation like the four Satans did.

"I as well, unfortunately. I will work toward that goal, and one day we can sit down and have a laugh about our folly," Ruval joked as Naruto chuckled. "Also, I see you've taken a liking to my dear sister. I hope to see you two more acquaintance after this day, and maybe we would be brothers instead."

"Eh? One can only hope," Naruto answered as Ravel looked at him deeply.

"You will stay for tonight dinner won't you? We are preparing a large feast with all our peerages attending," Ruval asked.

"Yes, of course since my parents will catch up with yours for a while," Naruto said. "Will Riser-kun be there? The battle is over, and I don't feel right hurting him like that."

"That remains to be seen, Naruto-kun," Ruval said with a frown. His youngest brother was still depressed and shut himself in his room. "It's nice to meet you, but I must be going. I will meet you at dinner, or maybe earlier than that."

Once Ruval left, Naruto paid attention to his guide. "Can you take me to your brother, Ravel-chan?"

"I can, but why do you want to see him?" Ravel questioned. "Onii-sama is not going to talk to you, you know. He won't leave his room at all even if I begged. I really want him to return to his normal self."

"He won't leave huh?" Naruto questioned as devilish smile formed on his face. "If I can get him out of his room, say in the next hour, what would you give me for it?"

"Umm… ahh.. umm.. what do you want, Naruto-sama," Ravel asked shyly. She had seen her brother making out with his peerage all the time, and she only knew one thing that boy wanted. Needlessly to say, she was somewhat okay with it.

"How about you show me around the surrounding estate you have instead of staying here?" Naruto asked as Ravel blinked several times.

'What was I hoping he asked for?' Ravel questioned mentally. "Yeah, I can do that. I will show you our beautiful garden as well."

"That would be great, let's go smoke your brother out," Naruto said excitedly and mischievously.

XxXxX

"Riser-sama," his peerages muttered as he, himself, looked out the window with depressing eyes. He had a fiancé as well the invincibility of his immortality just a short time ago. Naruto Uzumaki, the temporary knight of Rias Gremoy, had showed the most blatant weakness of his family's power. As long as something embedded in them, they cannot regenerate the obstructed part. It was fatal if their heart cannot be reformed in time.

"Go away until I needed something," Riser ordered as his peerages looked at the ground. They vanished afterward, leaving him alone in the room. "Naruto Uzumaki…"

A few minutes later, Riser noticed his room was filled with dense black smoke. He coughed heavily and raced to toward the door and noticed the toxic fume was leaking in the gap near the floor.

"You can't do something like that!" the voice that sounded like his sister, Ravel Phenex, called out from beyond the door.

"Why not? Even I'm not immune to smoke," a familiar voice answered. "And it's the quickest way of getting someone out unless they have a death wish."

"But, what if Onni-sama doesn't? Would he suffocate in the room?"

"That's a possibility," Naruto answered childishly. "But I want to see if Phenex's resurrection can revive a person in something like this? Even if it did, he would suffocate and died again wouldn't he? That's a terrible way to go, constantly reviving and dying, unable to stop it."

"Another weakness?" Riser questioned angrily. If he didn't go out now, he would be in such a torturous state until his power no longer able to resurrect him.

Author Note:

This route is more or less about Phenex's family since it never really showed that much in the cannon of DXD. Considering their tears were the most sought after item in the whole underworld, wouldn't their house be wealthy and held in high esteem? Mostly dedicated to Ravel's and Naruto's interaction! It's their romantic story after all. As stated, all routes are different from each other so you can read this as standalone or linked. While Route Roulette shared the same background, what I described from onward are completely different from the other one. Hey, I don't want to recycle materials ^^b.