AN: VigilantSempai is back again with the third chapter of Catalyst of the Supernatural. Before I start, though,I would like to apologize for the long wait for the chapter. Life is never easy, so I can't really use that as an excuse, but that's that. On the bright side though I was able to use the time between chapters to finalize the harem. I don't know if people want it to be a surprise or not, so comment if you want to know or not.

Speaking of comments, I'm going to take a little bit of time to rely to some from the first two chapter. 1: Yes, Naruto's landlady is Ikumi from Bleach. I don't have a real reason for putting her in there other then I needed someone to take the role of a landlady. 2: I do plan on incorporating the Narutoverse into this story, though not for a bit. and Yes we will be seeing Madara and Sasuke again. 3:An anonymous user, as well as Darth Renatus guessed my planes for Tsukiko; she is a succubus.

4: For people that might feel that the story might have been rushed or cliched I can only say that the second chapter was admittedly not the greatest. After reading through it again, I can see a lot of things that I would have done differently, but I still consider myself an ameture writer. despite that though, There is a reason as to why I had Naruto's childhood the way it was.

5: And to answerthat one commenter who guessed that my personal major was in the writing field, I have to disappoint you and say that you are wrong. While I do plan on getting a minor in creative writing, my major is in the air right now between biochemistry and physics.

Disclaimer: I own nothing but the OC's and the story. I make no money from this.


The first thing he noticed was the absolute silence.

Opening his eyes slowly, Naruto made out the ceiling above him, the light of the sun illuminating the room enough for him to clearly see it. Slowly looking around his living room and rubbing the sleep out of his eyes, Naruto couldn't help but find the quiet of the world highly unnerving. It was as if everything was holding it's breath for something to happen. The feeling soon fled, as the sound of a car passing his apartment complex tore through the silence and, like a switch was flipped, the world erupted into noise. Birds started chirping, more cars passed his apartment building, one of his neighbors yelled something while a helicopter flew off somewhere in the distance.

Naruto sat up, idly scratching his bare chest before giving a yawn and stretching. He relaxed after several seconds, and made to get up, but noticed a piece of paper lying on the table next to him. Quirking an eyebrow, he picked it up and immediately recognized Tsukiko's elegant handwriting

Naruto,

I know some weird things happened last night, and I'm sorry for reacting the way I did. I heard your conversation with your landlord, and I hope that I didn't cause you any problems or damages. That said, I decided that I'm going to work out my whole 'wings and tail' dilemma on my own. Not that I don't think you would be of any help, I am sure you would, but I know you have your own things to think through. Please take care of yourself, and trust your instincts. But think before you do anything, as well. I know that's an oxymoron, but try and do it, okay? I'll see you on monday!

Yours

Tsukiko

Next to her name, Naruto saw that she drew a chibi Tsukiko holding up a peace sign, and he couldn't help but chuckle. Then he noticed the post script.

P.S. Make sure you do your homework!

Naruto bit back a groan, realizing that he still had to finish the paper that was do in her class next monday. Deciding to do it later, Naruto stood up and made his way over to the kitchen. He took out some eggs and bread, planing on making himself some eggs and toast before he took a shower. And that's exactly what he did, and half an hour later, he stepped out of his bathroom a towel wrapped around his waist, hair pulled into a ponytail with a sated stomach.

Stepping into his room, Naruto immediately noticed the effect Tsukiko had on his room. His nose was assaulted by the smell of citrus. He noticed that the sunlight streamed through his open blinds as well as the fact that his clothes from the last couple of day was in the hamper instead of a pile next to it. His eyes roamed the room, taking in any differences that he could see, ignoring the increasingly familiar feeling bubbling in his stomach.

He quickly dressed, throwing on a black shirt and dark wash jeans. Grabbing a pair of socks and his old converse, Naruto headed back to the living room where he plopped down on the couch. Slipping on the socks and shoes, he stood again, before pausing questioning what he was doing.

He knew that he had said that he needed to train last night, but he wasn't sure what he was doing, or much less where he was suppose to do that. He bit his lower lip in thought for a second, before he just shrugged. Tsukiko had said to follow his instincts, and he decided that they were telling him to go to the woods, and preferably, seeing as he probably wouldn't want people to see him using weird powers, he'd go to the outskirts of the city to the large forest there.

With a destination in mind, Naruto spent the next five minutes trying to find his keys and phone. With both securely in his pocket, Naruto left, locking his door behind him.

It was a very nice day outside, hot but with a frequent breeze and clouds to keep people cool. He smiled when he stepped outside, before he took a left toward the nearest train station.

It took Naruto over an hour and a half to get to the outskirts of the city and fifteen minutes to find a clearing that was far enough away from people as well as large enough for him to train. Of course he was going off of intuition, so he couldn't be sure. He walked into the middle of the clearing, gazing at the trees that surrounded him, though they were small in comparison to the one he had encountered in his dreams, something that made him feel oddly disappointed.

The clearing was actually rather large, with a width wide enough for a soccer field to fit comfortably. The grass was spotted with clumps of weeds, and off to his left was an overturned tree that rested under the shade. He made his way over to it before stipping off his shirt and setting it on the bark before setting his phone and keys on top..

'Okay, objective one: test insurance.'

Taking a deep breath, Naruto started running around the outskirts of the clearing, deciding that five laps would be a good warm up. It took him far less time to finish then he thought it would, though it he still was winded and felt the burning in his body. Ignoring that, Naruto let his body work on autopilot as he started stretching his body. It took him less time to finish that then running the clearing, though he was suddenly hit with the desire to bend over backwards and lift himself into a handstand.

Internally shrugging, Naruto bent at the waist, letting his toros run parallel to the ground, before he raised his hands and let them land softly on the ground. Feeling sweat running freely on his skin, he gave a grunt as he pushed off lightly with his legs, tightening his core at the same time. In the end, the soles of Naruto's converse pointed toward the sky, as he held his body up with his hands.

Naruto managed to hold that position for over two minutes, before his arms started shaking, and he was forced to let his feet touch the ground again. Breathing deeply to regain his breath, Naruto closed his eyes, before letting his instincts walk him over to a tree. Hesitantly, he took a stance.

He faced the tree sidelong, his right side forward with all of his weight shifted to the balls of his feet. His left hand was held parallel to the ground, right at his bellybutton; while his right was held in front of him, his fist held just below his chin in height.

The first time his fist landed against the bark of the tree, Naruto knew he had thrown the punch wrong. Rather than just the pain in his knuckles, there was more in his wrist. Shuffling back a little, Naruto punched gain, and smirked at the sensation. It felt natural, and he could feel a sense of pride glowing in his chest.

'One,' he thought before letting the same fist land on the tree again. 'Two.'

He did it again.

'Three.'

And again.

'Four.'

And again, and again and again, until he lost himself into the rhythm of the exercise. At some point he switched hands, then he threw hooks instead of jabs, then he started kicks. Then he switched his stance letting his left side lead. He continued, for hours, bloodying his knuckles against the rough bark, until he started leaving smears of blood, only then did he start using his elbows, and his knees. Throughout it all, Naruto took it slow, making sure that every punch he threw was correct, that the way he twisted his body was right, that the way his muscles coiled when he leaned in to use his elbow felt natural.

With one final punch, Naruto stepped back, suddenly aware of the fatigue in his body, Naruto made his way back to the fallen tree and all but collapsed against it. Sinking to the ground, he rested his back and head against the bark, not even bothered by the rough bark. Reaching up blindly, Naruto clutched for his phone, taking note of the sunlight still streaming through the gap in the trees.

Feeling his hand wrap around the smooth surface of his phone, he brought it in front of him, and turned it on.

2:56

Sighing to himself, Naruto set his phone back where it was, before he noticed the state that his hands were in. The top layers of skin were gone and blood leaked from the wounds. His forearms weren't any better. Suddenly, he was set upon by an intense bout of stinging pain from his hands, forearms, and shins from the sweat that dripped from his body into the open flesh. Hissing, he glanced at his legs, noticing the fact that he had worn several small holes into his pants over the course of the day.

Letting out a sigh, Naruto reached out, wincing as he felt the fresh wounds become aggravated slightly, Naruto fingered a hole, figuring he could still use the jeans but not again for training. Tomorrow, he'd come with basketball shorts, and a towel. And gauze.

A lot of gauze.

And music.

Heaving himself to his feet, Naruto moved to the center of the clearing again. He didn't plan on leaving for another three, maybe four hours, so he might as well experiment with his new mysterious power. Putting his hands into a familiar feeling cross shaped pattern, Naruto felt his chakra react to it in a weird way that he hadn't felt last time.

"Kage Bushin no Jutsu!" he called, and a large puff of smoke filled the clearing, and as soon as it cleared, Naruto could only nod his head in appreciation. He stood in the center of some fifty odd clones of himself, all equally shirtless and bloodied. When he saw all of them looking at him expectantly, Naruto was tempted to have them all fight each other in pairs of two, but realized he couldn't get to do anything, so he paused.

After a couple seconds of thinking, Naruto told them all to move to surround him and another clone. They all hesitated for a second before complying. Nodding to himself, Naruto glanced around making sure he had clones that were looking at him from all angles before he raised his fists into the same position that that he had been practicing in.

If he was correct in remembering that he got all the clones memories, then that means that when he was finished, he'd have a three-hundred-sixty degree view of the spars that he plans on having.

"Okay," Naruto said to the clone of himself across from...him. Shaking off the creepiness of it, he continued. "We are going to spar, but I want you to take a different stance than the one I was using earlier. Got it?" Seeing the clone nod, Naruto thrust his hand out to the side randomly, pointing at a startled clone. "You're going to be the one to call start, got it?"

"Sure, boss," the clone smiled.

"Okay," Naruto said rolling his shoulders a little, before falling into his stance. "Whenever you're ready." The clone across from him nodded and dropped into a stance.

Unlike Naruto's aggressive stance, the clone's was much more passive. He crouched his feet shoulder width apart, his left foot leading was also pointed toward him, while the right foot was pointed to the side. The clone faced him sidelong, his left arm held out in front of him, his elbow only slightly bent while his right hand rested about a foot ahead of his chest. Both were held at chest height, while he didn't close his hands into fists, instead both hands were open, their fingers slightly curled.

Refusing to be put off by the weird stance, Naruto tensed his muscles, the adrenalin pumping through his body. There was a tense silence, before Naruto saw the clone off to the side raise his hand stalling for a second.

The hand dropped.

"Hijame!"

Naruto shot forward, closing the several meter gap between him and his clone in a second. He telegraphed a left straight towards the clone's head, making it shuffle back causing Naruto to smirk. Using the same motion Naruto unleashed a left kick, his foot slicing through the air. Naruto's foot connected, but only to the clones hastily thrown up block.

Before Naruto could do anything else, the clone grabbed his foot and yanked Naruto foreward who yelped and hopped toward the clone, only to receive a palm stick to his stomach that took the air out of his stomach. Naruto's back landed in the dirt, gasping for air, before he quickly rolled to the side to avoid having his chest caved in by the clones foot.

Before he could scramble to his feet, Naruto was forced to once again to roll away as the clones fist landed where his head had once been. Growling in anger, Naruto made a show of trying to stand up, leaving his right side open for the clone. It is to be noted that Naruto's clones react the same way he would, or so he believed, so when he saw the clone take the obvious bait he could only hope he wasn't as stupid as that.

Letting the clone get close, Naruto kept himself open until the clones kick was about to hit, before he suddenly twisted, letting the foot pass his chest. He grasped the leg, and threw his weight into toppling the clone over, where it landed on it's back with an 'Omf!'

Not waiting for the clone to react, Naruto readjusted his hold on the clones leg quickly, one hand on it's ankle the other on it's knee, he yanked yanked up letting his weight fall onto the middle of the clone's femur which snapped.

The clone managed to give a strangled cry, before dispelling the action causing Naruto to wince slightly. While he didn't feel the pain, the memory of having your leg snapped by yourself was still kind of unnerving. Standing up, Naruto pointed to another clone, slightly winded.

"You're next."

This time the clone took a similar stance to his, but started hopping from foot to foot like a boxer. This time when Naruto beat the clone (with a well timed punch to the face) he got the memory of himself beating that clone and the one before it. Quickly realizing that if he took time to analyze each clone's memory after each fight that it would progressively take too much time to keep up, he decided that he'd sift through them later.

He pointed at another one.

"You're next."


It was nearly ten at night, when Naruto stumbled into his apartment. He looked worse for were, covered in bruises and small nicks, and there was even that cut on his cheek where one clones nails had caught.

Stumbling over to his table, Naruto set his bag down, before continuing on toward his bedroom, where he left his towel before doubling back to disappear into the bathroom. Half an hour later, he reemerged a towel securely wrapped around his waist and water dripping from his limp hair. He went to his bedroom and put on new boxers and some sweatpants. Clothed for the night, Naruto went back into the his living room, before sitting down on the couch resisting the urge to go to sleep right there.

Opening the plastic bag, Naruto took out some antibiotic cream and a large bandage, both of which he placed one of his elbows, where the wounds were healing but would still take some time to heal. Doing the same to his other elbow, Naruto then applied the antibiotic to the cut on his cheek, before putting a small bandaid on it. Done with everything else, Naruto then put some cream on his left forearm and knuckles, before wrapping both in gauze followed by tape.

Naruto bit back a cuckle, realizing that it had been a while since he had had to do some first aid on himself.

It took him a little longer to do his right hand, but it was done just as well as his left, before he moved to his legs.

Breathing a sigh of relief, Naruto put all the first aid back into the plastic bag before he brought it to his room, where he dumped it into a duffle bag, which was quickly followed by a two clean towels, several pairs of basketball shorts and t-shirts. Taking the partially full bag into the living room, Naruto left it on a chair before heading to the kitchen. Fixing himself a diner of fish and rice, Naruto had enough mental function left to take some granola bars that he had and stuff them in the bag. His preparations for tomorrow finished, Naruto sat down and ate, shifting through his clone's memories as he did.


Naruto raised a taped fist and used it to cover his mouth as he yawned. Early that morning he had decided that even though his wounds were disappearing by the time that he had gotten up as well as any fatigue, he didn't want to risk messing his arms up again and so wrapped his arms in gauze and tape like he was going to workout at the had a really long night last night, having been up until the early morning finishing his neglected homework. The thought of the time consuming paper that he had just finished not four hour prior brought a feeling of weariness. Before that, though, Naruto had been in a great mood after his training took a surprise turn.

After being thrown at a tree during one of his final bout with his clones, Naruto had instinctively shifted his body in midair channeling chakra to the soles of his feet before they landed on the surface of tree. Naruto hadn't noticed it at first, only looking at the clone across from him angrily before he realized that he was sticking to the side of a tree.

He promptly fell off.

After, Naruto had swarmed the forest with more clones, ordering them to try walking up the tree. After a couple of attempts himself, Naruto realized that if he didn't use enough chakra he'd fall off the tree, and using too much would launch him off of it, therefore he was to find the medium between the two. With the help of his clones Naruto had gotten the exercise down before he left the clearing, though he noticed that he was more tired than if he had just worked his body out.

It was after a nice shower and dinner at about midnight, when he was laying in bed, that Naruto realized he still had to do his paper for Tsukiko-sensei. So two and a half hours after, Naruto finally managed to go to sleep, paper done, and ready to be printed.

So now here he was, walking to school tired and slightly irritated, but that changed when Naruto saw Hyoudou Issei looking like Naruto felt. His brown hair was messier than usual and his blazer for his uniform was inside out. The boy was scowling, his lips turned down wards, and every so often he glanced at the sun, his face becoming darker.

Naruto's lips quirked up and he suddenly felt slightly better, before a voice shattered Naruto's newfound amusement.

"Uzumaki Naruto, Kaicho has requested your presence."

Slowly turning around, the blond found himself face to face with Shinra Tsubaki. The bespectacled young woman, was slightly shorter than himself, though her natural impassive (read: resting-bitch) face gave whoever she was looking at the impression that she was looking down her nose at them. Her impassive stare was augmented with the fact that her eyes were two different colors; her left being violet and her right a nice light brown. In spite of her rather impassive and imposing stature, being one of the smartest in the whole school as well as the vice-president of the Student Council and one of the best looking girls in the school, she was actually rather kind if serious and straight laced, not to mention she had a rather beautiful smile. Much like Akeno, One of the two Great Onee-Sama's of Kuoh Academy, Tsubaki's black hair fell well past her back, stopping at her knees, though she let it fall freely instead of holding it in a ponytail.

As a consequence of having been sent to the student council president so many times, Naruto had been able to form a sort-of friendly acquaintanceship with the entirety of the Student Council, with the exception of the new guy. Looking at Tsubaki right now, he could tell that the reason for him being called to Souna was much more serious than a simple prank. Just the thought of Souna brought a sense of forbidding to Naruto. He had a really good idea as to why she was calling for him, and the fact that he hadn't had an opportunity to pull a prank as a distraction made the matter worse. Now Souna would have her full attention on the fact that he'd stolen her first kiss, most likely, as well as for the fact that it could be considered sexual harassment.

Naruto's eyes flickered around the courtyard trying valiantly to find an out for his situation, at least to postpone his impending meeting with Souna. Suddenly his ear twitched as he heard what the other students in the courtyard were saying.

"Do you see that?"

"Why's Shinra-san talking to him?"

"Do you think he pulled a prank again?"

"He's never been caught before, but if she's talking to him-"

"You think it finally happened?"

"That bastard. Taking all the beautiful girls and oppai."

That last comment caused Naruto's eyes to narrow, and he turned his gaze away from Tsubaki and glared at the speaker, Issei. He stood on the opposite side of the fountain, a good ways away from the blond. Seeing Naruto's blue eyes lock on his brown one's with a glare, Issei started, his earlier fatigue suddenly gone.

"D-did he hear me?" Issei asked himself. Naruto slowly nodded his head, before raising a single hand, he clenched it into a fist and drew his thumb across his neck. Issei just about crapped himself before he turned and fled the courtyard.

He watched the fleeing boy disappear into the school building, a sense of satisfaction warming his body in a similar way to his chakra. He liked the guy, he actually did, but the fact that he had tried to associate Naruto with his perverted tendencies called for retribution in the future. He shrugged, he'd prank the guy later. The sound of someone clearing their throat nearby reminded Naruto of his current position.

"As I said," Tsubaki said looking at him intently, "Kaicho wants you to come to come to her office, but only after school." Letting out a sigh of relief, Naruto nodded meeting Tsubaki's gaze evenly.

"Gotcha," he said, before giving the girl a grin. "How are you this fine morning?"

The vice president stared at Naruto for several long moments before turning away. "Fine," she said, "Get to your class, Uzumaki Naruto. And make sure you are at Kaicho's office no more than ten minutes after classes end." Without giving him another glance, she started walking away. Naruto stared after the girl and frowned, only slightly curious about her rather cold dismissal. He had a pretty good guess for that, and couldn't fault her for how she was acting to him. No, what really caused him to frown, was how the girl 'felt'.

She 'felt' dark, something he hadn't noticed beforehand. No dark didn't really accurately describe how she 'felt', a better word would have been colder, like her presence was pulling the metaphorical heat from the air except that it wasn't actually doing that. It was subtle, but entirely different from the next person that passed him as he stood in the school's entrance.

Frowning, Naruto tried to place where he remembered feeling a similar feeling before, before he was jostled out of the way, rather rudely, by a passing student. Quickly posting the guy's face on his 'shit list' in his mind, Naruto huffed and readjusted the bag in his grip before heading into the school.


School passed rather quickly, too quickly for Naruto's liking. If he was being honest with himself, the only reason he was complaining was because he didn't want to have to deal with Souna. He'd normally feel ecstatic that the day had gone as quickly as it did.

His day was actually rather productive, if he was honest with himself. After only giving his teachers (sans Tsukiko, of course) the barest amount of attention in the beginning of class, Naruto had set out to get a 'feel' of all the student's in his classes. He's established what he called a normal, based on the fact the most of the kids and teachers had a similar 'feel', though he did note that all the Student Council had a similar 'feel' to Tsubaki. Surprisingly enough, Naruto found out that Issei and another boy in his grade, Kiba Yuuto, had a similar feeling as well, there was a notable difference. What it was, Naruto didn't know.

He had spent most of his class focusing on figuring out what this new understanding of people meant. How long had he had it? Sense he was a kid? If he did why didn't he know it yet? Odds were that it was somehow connected the weird night he had and his chakra. Thinking of the mystical energy had just brought up more questions. How had he known its name? Moreover how was he seemingly able to use it instinctively? Was it chakra that he was sensing in people or something else? And why had Tsubaki had a different feel than Kiba and Issei? Why did they have a different feel, period?

He'd even tried feeling Tsukiko when he was in her class, and wasn't really surprised that he felt a similar feeling that he had when he looked at Tsubaki and the others. Did that mean that they were the same as her? Tail and all? Did they have powers like him?

Furthermore when he had 'felt' some of the students that fit in the 'regular' category in his mind, he realized that some he was able to 'feel' easier than others, such as the the Kendo Club members. This brought up more questions, that Naruto refused to even acknowledge. He had enough to contemplate as of right now.

The only time that he had taken away from the large puzzle had been at lunch when he had pranked Issei and the unnamed guy, a third year. Nothing really bad, at least for Issei, he'd gotten off lightly with the words 'Oppai Lover' written on his chest and a bucket of water dropped on his head. The other guy, though, would be found by the next gym class, hanging upside down in only his briefs. With his work done, Naruto had spent the rest of his time coming up with a plan to make it out of his meeting alive.

After the last bell had rang, Naruto had only taken a second to say hi to Tsukiko (though throughout the whole time he had tried to make conversation she refused to meet his eye or make more than a one syllable response) before he left to confront his doom, or, worse yet, a possibly angry Souna. The hallways were rather packed as all the students were still in the process of leaving, so rather than the three minutes it would normally take him to get there it took seven.

He knocked on the door, ignoring the sense of forbidding that started creeping up on him. There was a couple moments of stillness, before the door opened to reveal Tsubaki, her face impassive as always. She gazed at him, her eyes seemingly boring through him and into his soul. Still, though, Naruto didn't back away, instead choosing to giver her a sad and slightly awkward grin.

"Is that Uzumaki-kun?" a voice asked from inside, and Naruto couldn't help but grimace slightly. Just the sound of her voice filled him with a sense of regret and self-loathing. Naruto broke eye contact, looking down and shoving his hands into his pockets.

"Yes, Kaicho," Tsubaki replied, and Naruto thought he could hear a small amount of contempt in her voice.

"Send him in."

Naruto felt Tsubaki's gaze leave him and she moved out of the way for him to enter. The Student Council's room was, like always, impressively clean. There were several small tables spread out throughout the room and a covered window that rested on the wall behind Souna's desk, and impressive piece of furniture if he was to say. Like every other time Naruto had been sent/called here it was borderline dark, though the several lit candles throughout the room helped.

Ignoring the fact that Tsubaki's mismatched eyes were, once again, following his every move, Naruto crossed the room and took a seat in one of the two armchairs that rested before Souna's desk.

Souna herself hadn't spared him a glance, her head was bowed as she poured over several documents in front of her, taking her pin to sign or write notes on each individual paper. She didn't look up for several minutes, working diligently all the while with Naruto sitting in front of her and Tsubaki having taken a position behind her.

Naruto took his eyes away from the working class president, and let his eyes wander around the room. He knew that the Student Council actually had several converted classrooms for their exclusive use, all similar to this. Letting his eyes rove over the room a couple of times Naruto sighed, scratching the back of his head before gazing back at Souna as she finished on what he hoped would be the last paper. Souna took whatever paper she had just finished with, placed it on a stack of papers that before picking it up and holding it up over her shoulder.

"Tsubaki," she said glancing over at the girl behind her, "take these to the Occult Research Club and make sure that you give them to Rias."

"Yes, Kaicho," Tsubaki said as she took the papers and starting heading out the room. She didn't spare Naruto a glance.

"When you are finished," Souna called as she stood up and turned to the window, "feel free to take the rest of the day off."

Naruto heard Tsubaki stop walking for the briefest of seconds before she continued. "Yes, Kaicho." She left, shutting the door softly behind her; leaving Naruto and Souna alone.

The room was silent for several seconds, Souna looking out the window while Naruto fidgeted in his seat, one of his legs bouncing. The silence in the room stretched for several minutes, both occupants refusing to break it. It was when Naruto took a deep breath to calm himself that he froze, the smell of water lilies hitting his senses like a sucker punch.

He recoiled, shaking his head as if to evade the scent, but it persisted becoming stronger, the smell of paper and mint seemingly kissing his sense of smell. Something hot seemed to move within him almost like it was uncoiling. It seeped through his body, spreading like a fire on dry kindling. Naruto fought against it, trying to reign it in, before the feeling and smell vanished just as suddenly as it came, leaving him slightly sweaty and the scent of pollen in his nose.

"Uzumaki-kun." Souna's voice cut off whatever though he was going to have. He slowly focused his eyes on her back, the light streaming in through the curtains gave her a dark silhouette like she was made out of shadows. "What do you know about the supernatural?"

Naruto blinked. He had expected her to ask him about what happened last Friday, not a random question about the supernatural. He opened his mouth intent on asking what the random question was about, before he realized that it was actually a rather valid question. Four days ago, Tsukiko had almost died, probably had, and he had gotten a weird mystical power called chakra. Then, Tsukiko was revealed to have had wings (wings!) and a tail, and he could make solid clones of himself.

Not only that, but he could sense the fact that there were others in the school that weren't exactly normal. Souna, herself, felt almost exactly like Tsubaki, though her 'feel' was… larger. Assuming that what he was feeling was a power similar to his, then he could guess that there were people that she was associated with, likely the student council, that could sense him as well. Going with that, then that would mean, as the Student Council, President, Souna was the leader of whatever group of beings that had the dark feel to them.

Thoughtfully chewing his lip for a second, Naruto refocused on Souna. "Do you mean like angels, demons, werewolves, vampires, ghosts? Stuff like that?"

Souna turner her head enough so that she could pin him with a one-eyed stare before she returned to looking out the window.

"In a sense," she said, "though by your word choice I would say you don't know anything."

Slightly affronted by her statement, Naruto narrowed his eyes and took a gamble. "What I do know," he started, "is that until Thursday off last week I was a regular guy and then Friday morning I had this weird energy, that I think is called chakra. I also know that you and the rest of the Student Council are not entirely human if you are at all. You all have some weird energy in yourselves as well, and judging by that fact that the Student Council seems almost like a hierarchy, you seem to be the leader of whatever you are. If I were to use chess as an analogy, I'd call you the king, Tsubaki the queen and the rest your underlings."

Silence reigned in the room for several long moments, before Souna turned and gave Naruto a sly smile. "An adept comparison, as expected of you Uzumaki-kun."

Naruto swallowed thickly, suddenly very aware that he was in the same room as Souna, the girl he had practically molested in the hallway the last time he saw her, and the smell of water lilies and mint were choking his senses again. God her smile was beautiful, and the way that the light from the setting sun illuminated her face and set off her eyes… they were like burning amethysts…

With an enormous force of will, Naruto turned his eyes away missing the way Souna frowned lightly.

"You are correct in the assumption that the Student Council is not human, though many were at one point." At that Naruto turned back to her, his curiosity overrideing his lubido. At his raised eyebrow, Souna continued. "Yes, I said at one point. Currently they are devils." At her proclamation, two wings identical to Tsukiko's sprung out of her back.

Naruto examined them for a second, before looking Souna in they eyes. "I'm going to let you explain before I assume anything… unless you plan on taking my soul or something."

Souna giggled, a single, delicate hand being raised to cover her mouth. It was such a far cry from her usual stoic and stern disposition. It was cute. At the thought, something in his chest expanded again, burning red hot and making him feel like his collar was too tight. With some struggle, Naruto forced it down, taking quick, shallow breaths through his nose to try and keep himself from jumping Souna.

"Out of everyone I told that too, you are the only one who took it so calmly." Souna soon master herself again, though a small smile could be seen on her face still, and for some unknown reason, Naruto felt himself relax.

"So…" he started, "were you human?"

Sounas wings disappeared, and she seated herself at her desk. "No. I was born a devil." Her eyes scanned Naruto's face for a reaction before continuing. "To be blunt, Uzumaki-kun, there's a war going on, one that's been going on for the past several millennia." She paused, getting a slow nod from a stunned Naruto. "There are three factions. The Angles of the Biblical God, the Fallen Angels under the Grigori, and the Devils under the Four Great Maou. With me?"

Naruto nodded again.

"A time ago, there was the Great War that lasted over a century. All three factions fought until the war degraded into a three way standoff. In comparison to human warfare, the standoff would be the the First World War. The details are sketchy toward the end of the last major battle, but it eventually ended and the Three Factions were in an uneasy armistice that has lasted to this day."

Naruto blinked, trying and failing to connect everything that Souna had just told him into his mind. It wasn't that complicated, it was actually rather easy to understand; no what he was having trouble with was putting the rather fictional story she was telling him and connecting it to real life. It shouldn't have been as hard as it was, after all he had gained chakra, and Tsukiko got wings just like Souna's.

"S-so, peop-er- beings with wings like yours… are devils?" Souna made to nodded, but words just started flowing from Naruto's mouth. "And what about Angels and Fallen Angels? You said that Angles worked for God right? Does that mean that there are other gods out there? And what about monsters?" Realizing that he was bombarding her with questions, Naruto snapped his mouth shut.

Souna smiled lightly. "In order: Yes, if you see someone with wings like mine they are devils; both angels and fallen angels have wings, the former are white and eagle-like, and the latter are black like a crows. Yes, the Angles are under the direct leadership of the Biblical God," she winced, "and, yes, there are other pantheons out there. As a direct consequence, monsters do exist as well in a different faction that we classify as Youkai, though it is much more complicated than that. Anything else, Uzumaki-kun?"

The way she said it, so casually, as if what she was telling him wasn't totally life changing, made Naruto slump in his chair suddenly aware of the fact that he had a massive headache. He rubbed his temples and sighed. "That's a lot to take in." He sighed again. "Why are you telling me this?"

Souna was quiet for a while, so long in fact that Naruto thought she had ignored his question. He glanced back up at her, intent on asking the question again, but seeing the look on Souna's face, he decided he'd wait a little longer.

"I'm telling you," she started, "because recently, I've noticed that you have had a massive jump in power." She paused, gazing at him with piercing amethyst eyes. Naruto didn't react, already coming to the conclusion that people- supernatural beings he corrected himself- could sense him as well. "A rather strange occurrence happened last thursday night, where there was a massive spike of energy somewhere in the city. It happened too quickly for anyone to be on the scene in time to witness it in person, and the energy dissipated well before we got to the scene of the disturbance.

"Coincidentally, Uzumaki-kun, the next day you appeared in school with a massive boost in your energy reserves." She paused, her eyes never leaving Naruto's. "I don't believe in coincidences," she said after a while, "and as one of the two people that have jurisdiction over the city of Kouh, it is my duty to take care of any supernatural disturbance that threaten the peace of the city. Understand?"

Naruto swallowed and nodded, her vague threat not being missed.

Souna nodded herself, before letting a small smile graced her lips again, the action causing Naruto stiffen. The scent had come again. "I believe that I have a good understanding of you, Uzumaki-kun," Souna said, "and because of that I have decided not to take physical action against you, and instead make sure you have the knowledge to survive in this new world."

Naruto swallowed thickly, more from her scent than the news. "Wait, does that mean I'm in danger?"

Souna's face smoothed over again. "Yes, and while most of the devils that you meet are not going to attack you, and any angels or people of the clergy will not do anything other than try recruit you, fallen angels might try to kill you."

"What!?" Naruto leaned forward, his hands grasping the edge of her desk tightly. "What do you mean most devils? And didn't you say that you were one of the two peo-devils that were protecting the city? Who's the other one, and why the hell would the angels want to recruit me, or the fallen want to kill me?"

Souna sighed, her eyes closing momentarily, before she pinned him with a hard look. "Please calm down, Uzumaki-kun. You yourself said that it's a lot to take in, and what I told you is just a general overview of everything. I've only told you so much because I know that you can handle it, but you still need time to adjust to the knowledge." Naruto met her hard stare with his own, idly noticing how fast both their moods were swinging. Taking a deep breath, he let the scent of waterlilies and mint wash over him for a second, calming him, before sitting back in his chair; if he hadn't he'd probably have jumped Souna again.

"Go ahead," he said rubbing his eyes suddenly very tired.

"One of the reason's I called you here was because I wanted you to work with me."

Naruto lifted his head slightly. "Like on the Student Council?"

Souna shook her head. "No those spots are only for my peerage, and before you ask," she said seeing Naruto's mouth open, "a peerage is a system used by the devils to reincarnate beings into servants under a devil."

The blond frowned. "It sounds similar to slavery," he stated.

She sighed sadly. "In many cases, that is a fact. Devils are inherently greedy and selfish beings, and many High Class devils use there peerages in a similar, if not outright same, way. But that is not the case with several families of the 72 Pillars, the Gremory Clan especially."

Naruto blinked. High Class devils? 72 Pillars? Gremory? Like that Rias girl? Souna must have seen his confusion, because she just waved a hand dismissively.

"Another time, Uzumaki-kun," she said. "But what I'm trying to say is that I want to make a contract with you." Naruto cocked his head to the side, a question mark practically visible above his head. "Basically, I would make you an unofficial member of my peerage, letting you take the place of a spare piece. In doing so, you would be under my protection, and as the heir to the Sitri Clan, and the ceasefire that we are in, you'd be practically untouchable."

Naruto nodded slowly, understanding her logic and ignoring the fact that she apparently had a different name, but still confused as to why she would go so far to keep him safe. Surely having people under her would be helpful and all, but there must have been a limit to the amount of people she had. And what about Tsukiko? Would she be protected as well? Not to mention that he had to tell her about all this. And what about all this clan, and peerage like slavery, nonsense? And who's to say that he'd even be attacked at all? The city was under Souna's and, judging by the information he had, Rias' protection. He should be safe.

But then again, he had been at the center of whatever had happened last Thursday night, and Tsukiko had been attacked. Who was to say it wouldn't happen again. And what about the consequences of actually agreeing? Would he have to listen to her every word, and do as she commands? The thought of serving someone, losing his freewill, made Naruto feel sick.

"I-I need to think about this…" he said. He glanced at Souna who nodded, her distinct smell slamming into his senses again.

"I understand," she said. "Will a day be enough time."

No.

"Yes," he said, breaking eye contact and getting to his feet. The room swam, black dots flashing around him and his knees felt weak. He raised his hand to his head, as if to stop his migraine from growing. He felt his temple throb, and he groaned.

"Na-Uzumaki-kun are you alright," Souna asked, worry evident in her voice.

Naruto felt the feeling growing in his chest. It was like a mixture between a blossoming flower and a spreading fire. And it was growing quick. He was panting now, quick, shallow breaths that did more harm than good. His body was covered in a thin film of sweat and his muscles felt tense. And her scent was growing stronger, headier, swirling in his head and stopping him from thinking properly.

"Naruto," Souna said, her voice close now, and Naruto only had time to register that fact before she laid a hand upon his arm. He jolted, a thousand volts of what felt like electricity flowing through him, and, from the way Souna's hand tightened on his bicep, he knew she felt it too. His eyes opened and fell on her deep purple ones. They were shining, the light from the nearby candles and setting sun creating an alluring contrast on her features.

His body moved on it own, turning with one hand grabbing her hip the other one moving to the small of her back; both pulling her flush against his chest. She gave a sigh, her breath watching over his face, causing him to lick his lips. Mint.

In some corner of his mind, he knew he should back up, get away. This wasn't him, and he wasn't trying to take advantage of her, but damnit, he body felt so go pressed against his. They way her breasts flush against his chest, and how her hips were pressed against his.

"Naruto," she whispered, and a growl rumbled in his chest. He felt her heart rate increase, rising until it matched his own. He leaned in, more of what was left of his self control crumbling. Their foreheads touched, and he felt her arms wrap around his neck loosely.

He leaned in closer still, letting their noses touch. He felt her sigh again, and her warm breath washed over him again weathering away at the very last of his self-control. Her face was flushed, a beautiful rosy red on her cheeks, connecting over the bridge of her nose. She looked so different from the stern Student Council President that Naruto had to chuckle.

"Senpai," he breathed, a small smile on his lips. Souna gave a small whimper, tightening her hold around his neck, her hips pressing more firmly into his. A plea. He have her hip a squeeze, relishing in the feel of her body so close to his. He could already remember the feel of her lips that had ghosted over his in the hallway…

The thought was like bucket of water being poured over him. he pulled back, quickly unwinding her arms from around him, and stumbled away from Souna nearly tripping over several chairs.

Souna stood where she was, a dazed and confused look on her flushed face, her arms held limply at her side. "Wha…"

"Sorry," he gasped, tearing his eyes from her. His thoughts were a mess and if he didn't leave now, he might just actually jump on her like a dog in heat. "Tomorrow. Air. Now." He was barely able to formulate the words, and could already smell her scent in his nose again. "Sorry."

And with that, he fled.


Naruto ran until he couldn't run anymore, his only purpose was to get away from Sonua before he did something that he knew he could never apologize for. He collapsed on a bench, his chest heaving and sweat plastering his school uniform to his body uncomfortably but he ignored the feeling in favor of trying to calm down his heart rate.

It took several minutes before he was able to take in his surroundings. He was in a rather seedy district on the opposite side of the city from his school. Naruto took several more deep breaths astounded at how far he had come in such a short time. He glanced at his watch, seeing that it had only been about five minutes since he had fled from the Student Council President.

The thought of the petite brunette caused a myriad of emotions to assault him. On one hand he had really, really wanted kiss her, and judging by the way she reacted, she had wanted him too. He had long ago made a conscious acceptance of his affection toward her, but what was worrying him, was what he would do if he actually kissed her. Would he be able to stop himself from jumping? Or even worse, what if she actually wanted to go further? He didn't even have protection!

On the other hand he was kind of wary of Souna herself. He considered one of the few people he could actually say was someone he cared about. Not to the extent that he cared about for Tsukiko, but with the amount of time he spent with her (under suspicion of having pulled a prank) he had built a close-ish relationship with her. The fact that she hadn't trusted him enough to tell him something as big as her being a devil, let an odd taste in his mouth. But then again, it didn't change his perception of her unless she decided that him know her secret was something that changed their relationship.

On the flip side, he was ecstatic that she had reciprocated his advanced (no matter how unintentional it had been); while at the same time afraid of how he was going to face her tomorrow.

He had run out on her.

A large feeling of forbidding blossomed in his chest, and Naruto knew there was no way he was getting out of that one. Feeling the need to listen to some music he reached to his side and groped for his bag blindly, glancing when he felt nothing but air and the cool wood of the bench under his hand. He groaned. He left his bag somewhere at the academy; the bag that held his headphones.

Giving another groan, Naruto glanced around again, noticing another guy approaching him. Naruto's blue eyes meet his red ones, and he suddenly felt the need to get away from the area. Quickly breaking eye contact, missing the manic grin that spread over the guys face, and turned to leave just as his instincts screamed for him to dive to the side.

Naruto had never be happier that he listened to his instincts because just as he dove out of the way, the guy with the red eyes appeared in front of where he had just been, a lightsaber like sword cutting through the bench he had been sitting on like it was not even there.

Naruto rolled, letting his momentum propellum as far away from the guy as possible, before getting his feet underneath himself and standing up, his converse sliding slightly on the concrete. He glanced at his attacker, finally taking in his appearance.

He was a little shorter than Naruto, but only by a margin large enough to be noticeable. He had short white hair that hung limply around his face, and had a wide, almost psychopathic-like, smile on his face. He wore white clergy clothes under a long blue coat trimmed in gold.

Swallowing, Naruto stared into his attacker's red eyes for several moments, before breaking the eerie silence between them.

"Is that how you greet everybody?" he asked, noting that the man's tongue poked out from between his lips before licking them. Naruto felt his chakra thrum inside his body, the sight of a pale man with tarnished-golden eyes flashing before his eyes. His body tensed, the adrenalin in his body finally kicking in.

"No," the man said, and Naruto got the feeling that the man wasn't all the way there just by his voice. "I usually greet them by shooting first, but since you're the first shitty devil that I've come across in this town, I decided to have some fun."

Naruto tried to subtly shift his stance and the face the guy sidelong, opening his feet a little so that his feet were shoulder width apart, but, by the way the guy's grin grew, he knew he hadn't been successful. Still, Naruto frowned as his mind worked furiously, before he latched onto something the guy said.

"I'm not a devil," Naruto said, hoping that the guy would take the bait and talk. He needed time to think of something.

"Really," Red-Eyes said, genuine surprise in his voice. He raised a hand to his chin and stroked it. "You reek of shit. There's now way you can't be a piece of shit devil." Naruto's jaw clenched, knowing that the guy was insulting Souna. If Red-Eyes saw his anger, he didn't say anything about it, instead letting his eyes rove over Naruto, before he took his hand off his chin and snapped his fingers in realization. "You're a student at that shitty academy. Aren't you, bastard of a shit pile."

Naruto felt his body tense in anger, but he kept himself in check. That guy had moved extremely fast, had to have, to get to the bench from where he had been not a second before. "Yes," he groused out.

"Fucking shit!" Red-Eyes shouted, before dropping into a crouch and gasping his head in both his hand, the lightsaber deactivating. "I can't kill you then. But wait!" he said shooting to his feet again, his eyes filled with sickening glee. "You know what a devil is!"

Immediately, Naruto's back was prickling in anticipation. If he didn't say something quick, he probably be shish-kabobed. "I only said I wasn't a devil. I have no idea what a devil is."

The man across from him shook his head, his grin growing into a full blown smile. "You still reek of devil," he said. "You'd have to get real close, to smell so much like shit. Did you fuck that steaming pile of shit? Did you bury your dick into that warm shitpile?" Red-Eyes, liked his lips again, raising his sword.

Naruto tensed some more. "No."

"Well, fuck. I guess I can't kill you then," the man said, but he slid into a crouch, his sword moving slightly. "That's okay, though. I'll just purify you of your filthy, shity sins." He didn't even give Naruto a chance to reply, exploding forward.

Naruto didn't know if it was the adrenaline, or his new powers or something else, but even though he knew that Red-Eyes was moving really fast, he was able to follow him with his eyes. He watched as the man approached, his arm pulling back and telegraphing his slash. Judging by the height his arm was at, he was aiming to take of a good portion of Naruto's head.

So much for not killing him.

Blue eyes narrowing, Naruto focused on the man's arm calculating the time of his swing by distance and length of both arm and blade. In his mind's eye he saw his plan. He'd duck under Red-Eyes' slash, before stepping diagonally away with his left foot, and doing a full rotation on his foot to gain momentum, before lashing out right fist and smashing the back of his knuckles into the the man's head.

Fists clenching at his side, Naruto waited patiently eyeing the man closing in upon him when his body suddenly froze.

This man was trying to kill him! This wasn't some alteration born from anger and flared tempers, where inhibitions was lost and instincts reigned. This man had deliberately attacked him, the only provocation being that he could smell Souna on him. This was crazy! This guy was crazy! What the hell was Naruto going to do!? He'd only been training for two days to fight, and only because he had been trying to find out answers about chakra not because he actually thought he'd get into a fight.

No scratch that, Naruto had been in fights before, knew how to protect himself from high schoolers that played at being yakuza and gang members. He knew how to throw a kick and a fist. But how the hell was he suppose fight a guy who was super fast with a fucking LIGHTSABER if all things!?

Not to mention he had said he usually shot first. Didn't that mean that he had a gun too!?

Naruto's thoughts were cut short when his chakra thrummed, his body moving on it's own. Jerking his head back enough that the sword only cut a gash of skin above his left eye, Naruto's body continued falling backward. He threw his hands out onto the concrete, and thrusting off the ground with his feet, left knee first. chakra coursing though his legs

His knee connected, sinking deep into Red-Eyes' stomach, and Naruto heard a satisfying 'oof' as the air was forcibly driven from his lungs. Surprisingly enough, the man's body was lifted into the air, but before he could move more than three feet in the air, Naruto's other foot connected under his chin, and threw him several yards away where he crashed into a brick wall.

Naruto's found himself on his feet in his stance, facing Red-Eyes as he groaned and started getting to his feet unsteadily. As he watched, Naruto remembered Souna's words from earlier. "Yes, and while most of the devils that you meet are not going to attack you, and any angels or people of the clergy will not do anything other than try recruit you, fallen angels might try to kill you."

So this guy was probably affiliated with the Fallen Angels despite the fact that he was wearing the clothes of a father. Naruto narrowed his eyes, ignoring the blood that flowed around or over his left eye, as Red-Eyes finally managed to get to his feet though the hilt of his sword lay on the ground, and he was swaying on his feet. Making a quick decision, the blond ran forward, chakra humming through his body.

He felt ashamed that he had frozen, the feeling of fear having totally washed away his will to live. At that point in time, he had been nothing better than a coward, even worse than when he was going to jump off the school's roof. He wasn't going to die.

Finally reaching, Red-Eyes, Naruto threw a punch that he was able to dodge, though he didn't see the follow up elbow until it smashed against his nose. Red-Eyes' head shot back, rebounding off the brick wall. Naruto didn't relent, reaching around the guy and grasped the cloth of his jacket. With chakra coursing through his arms, Naruto lifted and flipped him, before slamming him onto his back and landing three quick jabs jabs to the man stomach.

Tsukiko's face, pale with blood dribbling from her mouth, flashed into his mind. He growled, slamming an elbow into Red-Eyes' ribs and felt some give away. He wouldn't die.

The memory of Souna's body pressed against him, her gasping breath resounded in his head. Her small, soft smile gracing her face, and the way the setting sun had illuminated her features in an ethereal way.

No, he refused to die.

Naruto grasped his attackers head, raising it before quickly slamming it onto the ground below it. He saw the Red-Eyes' red eyes widen and roll into the back of his head, and suddenly he realized what he had just done. The dash that he had initially used to get close to the white haired guy at his feet had happened in less than a second, though it had felt like it had taken several. Not only that, but he and Red-Eyes were in the center of a rather large creature, and there was a blood splatter righter where he had slammed his head, both on the wall and on the ground.

In fact the blood splatter on the ground was growing.

Shakily standing, Naruto staggering backwards realizing that his hands were covered with blood, both figuratively and literally.

He staggered further, hearing a voice yell at him, but as he turned to see the person, his world suddenly turned and faded into darkness.


AN:So what did you think? Leave a comment, and I'll be sure to release a ne chapter really soon, or at least sooner than this one came out. Also don't forget to tell me if you guys want to know the harem or not.

Last but not least, and I know I say this a lot, but I plan on posting some new stories as well as updating old ones. I know people are still waiting for Naruto: Unabridged, Through the Mist, and The Night's Burning Pleasure, but please bear with me. I have some rather shocking crossovers in store for the future as well as oneshots that I have in the tank as well.

If anyone has any suggestions for short oneshots that they want, feel free to PM me. As much as I like to write my own things, I find great pleasure in using promts from others.

Anyway, I hope you guys liked the chapter and are ready for what I have in store for our blond protagonist. (Hint: It's gonna get kinda dark)

Goodbye, and remember, Sempai always notices you.