Hope you guys are doing well, and soon I hope you guys are doing well. At this same time, I'm letting you guys that I'm working on remaking some of my old stories and at this time I will be posting the notice on the title that they are going under remake. If you guys read the first few chapters, you realize why I'm doing this since I know for a fact while these stories are loved by many there are too many mistakes to ignore and too many points where I listened to people too much and got away from the original idea.
Onto the story.
Chapter 3
Gremory Ace and Nun
Sona was sitting in her office going over some school documents that the student council needed to fill out.
Shuffling through the papers, she saw one of the teachers asking for Naruto to be forbidden from returning due to him not attending any more of the basic courses without a real excuse. She narrowed her eyes on this document, and the peerage gulped at the sight of her having a dark aura form around her body. She wrote something down on the paper before having her familiar appear on her desk.
It was a small black cat with wings with golden eyes that burned with a fire in them. This was known as the Demon Hell Cat, and it is considered a moderately rare familiar that one can get. Not only does it have tremendous fire abilities but it also can shapeshift on its own while growing to learn other powerful skills such as illusions and granting elemental resistance to allies. A very versatile partner for someone that is considered one of the most strategic devils among the rookies.
"Take this to the school board and make sure to have this followed to the word." She then pulls out a treat from her desk, a small cat snack that it started drooling at the sight of. It took one paw and gave a salute and ate the meal before poofing away in a small torrent of fire with the document in paw. Sona nodded her head happy her work for that matter was done but then heard a cough, looking up she saw it was a blond boy with the school uniform minus the jacket. He was similar to Naruto in that they both have blond hair and dark eyes, but the problem is that he was not as unique as him. While Naruto's eyes were slits and he just had a natural magnetism he was more of the person that was a pretty boy. This seemed to win over some of the girls in the peerage plus his helpful personality, but she and Tsubaki were not impressed with him. If they didn't have a crush on Naruto already, they might have entertained the idea of dating him or Kiba at least, but that was not the case.
Tsubaki was interested in Kiba at a time, but when she confessed to him, he admitted that he was not interested in her and wanted to stay good friends with her and be more of a brother figure to her. She was upset but agreed to this and soon developed a good between them and this lead to him teasing her when they met in the hall about Naruto and her crush on him. Might not be noted, but she did put him into a wall a few times for those teasing remarks, and she had to fix them and use magic to erase the memory that there was a dent in the wall.
"Yes, Saji?"
"I was wondering about something. It is about the new girl that took Rias's place, Rebecca."
"Yes, what about her?"
"Who is she exactly, I mean I can guess she is relative but what exactly is the whole relationship with them?"
Sona sighed and put her pen down seeing the rest of her peerage that didn't know staring at her as well.
"Rebecca Gremory, she is a rookie devil like myself and born of a high-class family as well. Her standards are the same as mine and Rias only she is looked down on lower than Rias due to her not being the heiress to the clan. However, she has a legitimate claim for the title since she is the daughter of the oldest sibling of the head of the clan. While her mother did not have an interest in leading the rest of the clan wants to see her succeed instead of Rias."
"Why though?" She sighed,
"As you might have guessed Rias's recent activities have not exactly been the shining example of someone that is an heiress. The clan has grown even more frustrated with her being super picky about her peerage pieces thus having the fewest out of the rookies and also being considered by any one of the weakest of this generation. While her power and the power of her queen could easily swamp out most peerages, the problem is that she has focused too much on quality over quantity. Whereas Rebecca is the opposite, even being born without the Power of Destruction she has shown incredible feats unheard of someone that is in her position. Many say her mastery over magic is top tier and she even has mastered multiple rare elements at this time along with forming a powerful peerage. I've only seen one or two of them, but I've never seen the whole thing."
"How strong is she compared to us?" Tsubaki was curious about the girl's peerage.
"Ha! I bet we could take them!" Sona shook her head,
"No, we can't Saji, more because I know for a fact they only need their rook to beat us. She is a monster in her own right with a powerful sacred gear that makes her even more dangerous. Compared to the rest of the rookies she is second in the strongest list of them. Sairaorg is considered the strongest purely because Rebecca does not act out in public or make her presence known, she is the one that flies under the radar the most."
"I see," Saji sweated at the thought of a Rook so strong that it could take down a peerage by itself while he knew no one in their peerage could do that in the slightest.
"That is not the only thing to be worried about. Due to Rebecca, Rias feels her position is threatened by her and the clan is pushing for her to step down for Rebecca. This ultimately I fear is going to lead to the clan having a fight between the two of them to find out who is the rightful heiress and the one that is going to lead the clan into the next generation."
"But does that mean Rias's father will be outed?" Sona shook her head.
"No he will still be the clan head, but he will pass the duties onto Rebecca when the time comes." Sona sighed and looked out the window, "But I fear the day it happens, for this will change everything for everyone in the underworld."
Hidden Plains Realm
There was a clashing of swords ringing throughout the landscape. People would see two blurs moving at incredibly high speed and just barely able to make out two swords smashing into each other. One that was larger than the other and just being blocked by the narrowest margins. They broke away again, and another strike would follow with a big forward thrust before being redirected into the sky. Then a bolt of lightning came from the smaller blade and aimed at the one with the bigger sword. But they managed to move out of range of the attack and disappear into the distance.
The two blurs stopped at the top of opposing mountains showing Naruto standing on the peaks breathing heavily. Veronica is on the other one and is just standing there nonchalant with some sweat coming down her forehead. She aimed her blade at him and was gone in another blur, Naruto managed to block this strike but was sent flying through another rock pillar. He crashed through and then hit the ground behind him and left a small crater.
"Is that all you got?" Naruto coughed before standing up again on wobbly legs.
"No, I can keep going." Veronica stared at him while floating there with her wings. She smiled slightly before sending her sword away. "I can respect that but unfortunately our time here is up."
"Huh has it really been a day?"
"Yes, a week has passed in this world meaning a day has passed in the real world."
"Okay, so I can go then?" He sent his sword away, and she nodded her head.
"Yes but you have to return in a few days for another session. I can see you clearly have pushed yourself beyond normal limits and I think you can have tomorrow to train in the real world. Consider this a break from our busy schedule. The only reason I'm doing this is that you have worked so diligently with everything. Your swordsmanship has improved tremendously that you can see my moves."
"Yeah first time we did this I ended up cut up pretty badly." She nodded her head.
"Yes, but your reaction time has improved, and I can honestly say that you are ready for most skilled sword masters at this time. But don't think…"
"I know there are hundreds of weapons and styles out there that can easily harm me even if the sword user is weaker than me. You've told me that every day we've been in this world." Naruto sighed and sat down on the ground, "But I will admit the first thing that I had to deal with was this insane amount of gravity. If not for that I think my training might not have been as fruitful as before."
"Well if Jack's report is accurate then you are a natural even with it being a while since you held a weapon and seriously trained martial arts. You'll be able to move better than you today soon."
"Okay, anything else?" She nods her head.
"Yes, your magic you seemed to bring out an unknown form of lightning that is black. I don't know about it much myself, but it is something to be careful in using alright? Don't want to hurt someone when you don't mean to okay?"
"Sure can't do much with it yet but at least I can draw it out when I need to." She smiled.
"Yep, now get going." She waved her hand and summoned a portal so he could leave. The minute he was gone she sighed before pulling out her sword again and started going through some more drills. She couldn't let a child catch up to her too quick. After all, Sona only deserved the best from her suitors, and he was no exception to this rule.
Back in the human world, Naruto felt the difference in the gravity immediately. First, he felt it when he stepped into the student council room and seemed to be able to move faster with the smaller amount of resistance than he had before. More so, he managed to get past the normal boundaries that were set in front of him, and Sona even mentioned when seeing him she could sense the difference in his power from before.
Naruto thanked her and told her he was going home and would join her tomorrow for anything they might have tomorrow. She mentioned that they were going to be doing a job to kill some Stray devils in the nearby area and that Rebecca was going to be joining them in this excursion.
Nodding his head he walked out of the office and off campus, he was tired and only wanted to get some sleep after barely sleeping in that other world. The gravity was a problem, and sometimes Veronica would not let him rest until he managed to complete a specific drill or do something to her that she felt was needed to survive like push her back a few feet or just lead to redirecting one of her strikes.
But on his way home he saw a girl struggling with her luggage, knowing his caretaker would want him to help he walked up to her.
"Hello there you need help?" The girl turned to him in shock,
"Oh, sir you can understand me?" Naruto stared at her for a few seconds before continuing,
"Yes, I was trained as a child to be bilingual."
"Amazing!" She had starts shining in her eyes, and he laughed. She then put her fingers together, "Um could you help me; I'm currently lost." Naruto smiled she was so innocent, but the veil might be the reason why she was a nun from what he gathered. From what he was told by Veronica and Sona the church where their enemies and someone that they should not associate with. But he told both of them he would judge the person and not the group, no matter what has happened in the past. Sona was conflicted while Veronica smiled saying,
"You'll be a good King."
He didn't know what she meant by King exactly, but he was happy she agreed with his perspective.
"Sure, where are you going?"
"I'm supposed to volunteer at the nearby church. But I can't seem to find my way there, and anyone that I ask brushed me off or had this weird look on their face and drooling." Naruto's eyes twitched, and he smiled,
"Don't worry about them, I'll show you." He led her away from the station, and soon they proceeded to the church. But on the way there she saw a boy had scrapped his knee and healed him. He saw it was a green glow showing she had some kind of magical power or a sacred gear if he had to guess. She smiled at the child, but the mother quickly took her kid away while telling him not to talk to such people.
Naruto frowned at the comment, without warning he sent a small pulse of lightning magic from his hand into the woman's back, and this caused her to moan out loud before blushing. Naruto smiled, he might not have the exact science down yet, but he could produce his magic to work as stimulation too. So yeah, she climaxed in public and now has to walk home knowing this.
"What a bitch."
"You shouldn't say that most people act that way when I use my gift." Naruto frowned and pat her head, she looked up at him and smiled,
"Anyone that acts like that just don't understand how awesome you are, I'm sorry I never got your name." She smiled, feeling happy that someone felt so positive about her.
"I'm Asia, Asia Argento."
"I see, well then don't worry about it. I know that your gift is something amazing and so do many others that will you meet in the future. I promise you ever need anyone to stand by you come and find me and I will." She hugged him shocking the poor boy and feeling some of his injured ribs cracking from the pain. But he just ignored it feeling the tears running down his shirt.
"Thank you, I've never felt such joy before may God bless you." Naruto smiled while wondering why he did not have a headache from hearing his name. Might be something to look into soon.
"It's okay Asia now let's get to this church you need to get to." They continued their walk through the city until they arrived at the church where he sensed a dark presence from. She thanked him and offered some tea, but he declined to say he had to head home otherwise he would miss tomorrow. She thanked him again and told him to stop by when he could, and he agreed, feeling he might have to look into this soon.
SCR
Sona had narrowed eyes at Naruto, and he looked at her defiantly.
"You can't see the nun again."
"Tough Sona-chan, I'm the one person in town that see her and help her when she needs it."
"But the church-," Naruto raised his hand stopping her,
"Look the issues of the past. Are just that, the past there is no point in holding onto old grudges that have long past. I mean I'm not saying trust them completely, but we should be basing this off the character of the person rather than the group they are a part of." Sona narrowed her eyes,
"Even if they try to kill you?"
"If they do, then I will deal with it, but as of now all I see is a girl that needs someone to stand by her." Sona and Naruto held a stare down while the peerage gulped at this and soon the thickness faded with Sona sighing.
"Fine but please be careful. With the return of Sparda, this is going to draw many people to try and take you out."
"I know, but I will stand against all the odds no matter what it takes." Before the group could continue about the job that was on task today, a small imp-like creature appeared holding a big box on his back while carrying a little note card in his hand.
"I'm looking for a Naruto Sparda."
"That be me." He walked up to the little imp, and he handed him a slip,
"Here sign this for me." Naruto did, and soon the chest was laid out on his desk. "Ajuka sends his regards and welcomes you, Devil King." The imp disappeared with the slip, and Naruto opened the box and found a set of glowing chess pieces. The King piece was not there, confusing him a bit.
"Because you are a Sparda and were revived with a piece that I had you are already a king in this case." Naruto nodded his head at Sona and saw they were all glowing with tremendous power then it hit him,
"They are all mutation pieces."
"Yes, you know what that is?" He nodded his head,
"Yeah, some of the stuff you made me read mentioned that they are scarce to get and to have a whole set is almost unheard of."
"Indeed so you are one lucky devil in this case." Naruto nodded his head before closing the box up again and using a pocket dimension to hide the pieces.
They heard a knock at the door and entering the room was Rebecca with two people behind her.
One was a boyish-looking girl wearing a kimono with a jacket over it and an eyepatch. She had bluish-white hair and carried herself with a more stoic look.
At her side was a girl with faded pink hair and a large chest, introverted red and black eyes that were opposites of each other. She was very pale and seemed to have one jagged line going down her left eye. Both women were stoic and seemed to barely register anyone in the room.
"Rebecca."
"Sona are you ready for the excursion?" She nodded her head and saw Naruto before bowing to him, "Greetings Lord Sparda it is an honor to meet you. More so since I know that you are allied with my friend Sona and the issues with Rias being the most prominent. Please know the rest of the clan is not like her, and we wish you do not have a negative opinion of the rest of us."
"I know and please just Naruto I'm not sure I fit the position of that of a lord."
"Very well Naruto-Kun." She smiled at him, and Naruto blushed slightly. But then he felt his side being pinched by an annoyed Tsubaki wondering what her deal was.
The group soon teleported out of the SCR and in front of an old building that seemed to have seen better days. Entering the building Naruto and the group immediately sensed the presence of three devils that were lurking in the shadows.
"Something smells delicious, can't wait to peel the skin from your bones!" Out of the shadows came a woman with the bottom of some kind of dark, sinister creature but the top of a beautiful woman. Her bare breasts were on display leading to Saji blushing at the sight of them until smacked on the back of his head to focus. His king was explaining everything to him along with what it means to be part of a peerage at this point. Naruto sighed figuring this was the worst time to go over the system with a new member, hell she forced him to stay after school to learn about this two days ago. Also, he feels two more powerful presences in the room and saw that it was two devil horned looking man with red eyes.
"Seems she has back up." Rebecca turned to her Rook Hokuto, "Be a dear and deal with that one on the right. I feel this would be a waste of our time either way, but I feel you are best suited for the job."
"Of course my King."
Without hesitation, the man with horns and a white shirt was sent flying into a wall with a vicious hook. From there, she disjointed her left shoulder and out of it came a sword made purely of bone. She then swung the blade around before charging the devil again who was struggling in summoning some magic of his own to counter her. But her speed was higher than most Rooks and in time was cutting him to pieces while piercing different parts of his body.
"What is that?" Naruto looked at Rebecca who smiled,
"That is my Rook, Hokuto's special sacred gear known as Dead Bone Pulse. It is known as a powerful gear that can harden the body to the point of never breaking, fire bones out of the fingers like bullets, creating spikes out of their backs, and finally even creating powerful bone weapons. However, as you can guess there is a drawback of doing this." Naruto looked at her and saw she was avoiding most strikes one as a rook would take usually.
"The more she pulls the bones out or uses her gear, the weaker her body gets over time?"
"Exactly, that is why I also made her my Rook with a higher physical skill set than my other pieces and have a better defense overall."
"Good choice strategically, this gives her a chance of higher survival when in reality in other positions it might leave her vulnerable in a fight." Out of the corner of his eye, he saw the other demon rushing at them with a black orb in his hand. Naruto summoned his sword and covered it in lighting before swinging it at the man.
He forced the man to dodge the beam of lightning coming at him, but he quickly appeared behind him with flash covering his whole body. He then swung his blade into his back sending him into the ground with authority. The devil growled firing another blast at him, but he dodged the attack before appearing a reasonable distance away from him. There he saw an opening when he started to gather his magic into a powerful orb where he fired it at him. Naruto then dashed forward where he tore through the sphere and then slashed his head off his shoulders sending it crashing to the floor with a thud.
'Guess all that training is really paying off. I mean I can't believe how easy it was to kill that fool.'
Looking over he saw Sona and her group having Viser pinned to the ground after beating her severely. On the other side, he saw Hokuto going all out against the demon, but he seemed to be bleeding badly.
"This is boring. My King ordered your elimination thus it shall happen."
"Try it bitch I was listening when your king told them about your weaknesses!" He charged another dark orb and fired it at Hokuto who just slashed it to pieces.
"Just because you know my weakness does not mean you can actually do something about it fool." She pushed the bone back into her shoulder before concentrating on a bone in her fingers and aimed them at the demon. "Now Die."
"You first!" The demon rushed at them and at the same time he was shot in the head and fell to the ground with a thud.
"Is there anything you want to say Viser?" They both saw that Sona had Viser pinned and ready to finish her off while Saji had managed to summon his sacred gear out to protect the peerage earlier from a sneak attack. But then the demon was snarling at them,
"Fuck you." Naruto narrowed his eyes and felt his energy spike a little, but he calmed down. Sona opened a magic blue circle, and soon water hit her, and this erased her from the spot while washing the blood away from the scene.
"That is all there is to it Saji."
"That is so cool president." Sona laughed lightly, and the rest of the group joined in while Rebecca giggled. Oboro and Hokuto, on the other hand, were just staring at him with boredom in their eyes. Naruto could only shake his head, this was really an odd group of people, but he could see things were just going to get more interesting with them around.
Kuoh
After the job, Naruto decided to fly home. He felt the need to stretch his wings before having to worry about another brutal training session with Veronica tomorrow and hopefully when he is out on the town soon he can find Asia again. He felt guilty for not telling her who he was and wanted to be honest with her and maybe having her join his peerage as one of his family. More since she was such a little sister to him and he wanted to protect her from the perverts of the world and basically make sure she always received love from him.
He heard a crash, looking down he was shocked to see Asia was lying on the ground surrounded by broken window shards. Not just that, her outfit was missing the top leaving her breasts bare for all to see and her panties seeable. Naruto growled at the sight and saw a blond-haired man with a gun and crazy look in his eyes approaching her. Naruto finally snapped when he licked her face and head to the ground. There he stood across from the man with his sword now at his side.
"Oh, another shitty devil huh?"
"Huh funny coming from a shitty priest." He smiled while pulling out a light sword,
"You won't talk so high and mighty to me when I cut you to pieces! Time to tear you to shreds!" He first fired three rounds of his holy gun, but Naruto just used his lighting to move faster than the bullets. This caused him to dodge the strikes and thus allowing him to remain unharmed. He saw Asia watching them fight and crying tears, she was showing the eyes of someone that was confused, betrayed, and humiliated. Naruto was going to get this asshole for doing this to such an innocent girl.
"Huh, so my bullets won't reach you? Then how about this!" He swung his sword down at Naruto. He moved out of the strike and just saw how slow he was. Naruto sighed, this guy was a joke compared to Veronica who could have cut this guy in half while he was talking. So to settle this matter, he gathered lighting from the sky and shouted,
"Lightning!" The bolt hit the crazy blond priest and forced him to the ground feeling fried to a crisp. Naruto frowned, this guy was weak, but he could see how a new devil might get killed for underestimating a nut case like this guy. But he had another thing to worry about,
"Listen, Asia, I know you have a bunch of questions but let's get you somewhere safe first okay?" She didn't answer, just nodding her head. So Naruto picked her up in a bridal carry and flew into the sky leaving the priest screaming for him to come back and face him and die for being a heathen.
After arriving at his home, Asia passed out on his couch, and he quickly left her extra clothing to cover herself in when she awoke. Going to his seal, he called Sona and filled her in on what was going on.
"So you are saying that this crazy priest was killing people in the city and might be connected to the fallen angels?"
"Yeah look I know it is your position and your territory, but I'm not going to sit back and let these monsters do something to her when I can stop it."
"I'm not asking you to Naruto, but please understand the consequences of your actions and what you want to do." Naruto shook his head,
"I know it is dangerous and she could hate me for this, but I refuse to leave her in that situation. Even if I have to fight another faction to save her, you can bet I will." Sona looked at him through the hologram and sighed,
"Fine, just don't get carried away if it comes to it, please. The last thing our world needs right now is another great war to break out."
"Will do," he saw Asia was walking into the room and hung up to try and slowly make sense of the situation that is going on at this point.
Naruto made some tea for her so to calm her nerves and at this same time started making a place for her at his table while facing her after she took a deep drink.
"So, I guess you have questions for me?"
"Are you really a devil?" Naruto nods his head,
"Yeah I wanted to tell you the next time we met but today kinda complicated things."
"I see and does that mean you finding me was just some form of the plan?"
"No that was an honest accident I never expected to run into you like that." She sighed.
"I understand, but I'm so confused why you are helping me."
"Because I want to." She looked at him shocked, he smiled, "I don't want to hold grudges from the past, I want to move into the future and try to form bonds based on the person instead of the faction."
"You truly an honorable person Naruto-san." He smiled,
"Yeah I get that, but some call me an idiot."
"But you're not!"
"Thanks that makes me feel better. But can I ask you a question now?" She nods her head, "What were you doing with that guy and why did he throw you out the window?"
"He was Freed, a rogue exorcist that has a fetish in killing people who are demons or summon demons. After killing the man he wanted to get 'fresh' with me apparently due to the fact killing people seems to set him in what he called the 'mood.'"
"I see and the reason you went through the window?"
"He wanted me, I didn't want to, so he tossed me through after ripping off part of my top." Naruto nodded his head and walked up to her rubbed her head,
"Well just so you know no matter what I won't ever let him touch you again. I see you like someone I knew long ago. But in spite of that, I wanted to ask you something significant." He summoned his peerage set and brought out his pawn piece shocking her, "I want you to join my family, not as my peerage or servant but as my sister. I want to protect you as my family, and this is the best way for me to do this. Please let me do this for you."
Asia looked at the piece, then to Naruto, and back to the piece before closing her eyes.
She then opened her mouth.
Chapter End
So good news for those that are waiting for it, I'm currently in the process of updating Kyuubi Rising and soon should have a new chapter for you guys shortly. At this same time, I'm working on making the next section for Dragon's Bane and Seraph and Monster and the new version of Replaced while brainstorming the new Neglected Gremory concept so be on the lookout in the next week for more updates.
At this time I'm pointing out these are the stories that are going to be updated often at this time:
New Neglected Gremory
Ghoul King (replaced new version)
Dark Prophecy
Saiyan of the Underworld
Dragon's Bane
All other stories will be on hold until one of these is finished and then they will be added to help move things forward unless I need to cut back on stuff for certain stories.
