Authors note:Haha! And number three is done. I am on fire! I'm sure this is a nice Christmas present for some. I wish you all very enjoyable holidays and hope that you enjoy this chapter just as much.


Naruto's apartment, Japan, Local time: 10:26 pm

The blond haired superhuman, Naruto, was laying on his bed, resting from today's ordeals.

Naruto stared at the black feather between his fingers turning it, feeling the soft thrum of residual power, a reminder of his first failure.

"But I still don't understand how the body could disappear like that. Someone had to have taken the body, but for what purpose?" the blonde asked himself when he noticed the vibrations of his cellphone on the night stand next to his bed.

He picked his cellphone up and looked at the screen. The called ID showed it to be Victor. He pressed the accept button.

"What's up Victor?" Naruto asked his voice downtrodden, both from exhaustion and the grim feeling his failure had left him with

'Well I actually just wanted to ask if you had made any progress so far with your investigation but... you sound really down. Did anything happen?'

"Yeah, you could say that." the blond responded in a grim voice

'So what is it? Girl trouble?'

Naruto groaned in annoyance not in the mood for any such shenanigans" I had hoped you would not act like that too. Marcus is already annoying enough without you adding to it as well. But no it doesn't have anything to do with girls."

'I'm sorry, Naruto. I didn't mean it like that. I guess even with all that superhuman thing we want you to be just like a normal human, to not feel any different. So what happened then that you sound like this?'

"A few hours ago Issei, one of the students at my school, was attacked by a fallen angel and fatally wounded. I beat the snot out of the angel and called an ambulance after that hoping to be able to save him only the body had gone missing. No blood there, nothing. He is probably dead by now anyway but a corpse should not simply disappear like that." Naruto explained feeling a little anger well up again which he quickly quelled

'Hmm... You are right a corpse and the blood couldn't simply disappear like that. This is really strange.' Victor mused in thought' I'm sorry for your loss. It can't be easy taking a failure like that considering the heavy burden we placed on you as a human bastion against the devils.'

"It's alright, it was bound to happen sooner or later..." Naruto sighed"I guess I just did not expect it to happen so soon, you know? But you stole some texts from the church about the supernatural right? Anything that has to do with needing a corpse or anything like that?"

'I'm afraid not. The most we could get from our informant before he got caught were really the basics of the basics. A rudimentary rundown of the three factions, how they came to be. The general hierarchy among them. Bits about the great war and snippets of Sacred Gears appearing throughout history in particular those that were possessed by a saint.' the russian scientist explained' Any idea why the boy was attacked?'

"Not really. Do you know what could set off a fallen angel?" the blond inquired and could hear clicking and typing on a keyboard in the background

'Well the texts about fallen angels and devils are pretty biased so I couldn't tell you how accurate that is but according to the church most fallen angels harbour a great deal of animosity for devils and will go out of their way to kill them. Do you think the one that was attacked could have been a devil in disguise?'

"No, I don't think so. The fallen angel that killed him even called him a human. So that couldn't be it. Anything else?"

'The only other relevant information would be that they are trying to tempt the remaining 'pure'-angels into falling but I don't think that really applies here.'

Naruto tried to think of something that would cause a fallen angel to go out of it's way to kill a human but could think of nothing.

'Maybe this Issei guy was somehow dangerous to the fallen angels and they decided to take care of them before he could act on it.' Victor suggested

"But what could make a fallen angel so afraid of a human that they would kill him...?"

'Besides being someone that could actually kill them like me.' Naruto thought

"A sacred gear!" 'A sacred gear!' scientist and soldier both exclaimed at the same time arriving at the same conclusion

"Did the church record any sacred gears of incredible power that would make something like a fallen angel nervous?" Naruto asked and hear Victor rapidly hammering on his keyboard

'Here we have it.' he proclaimed' Amongst the record here there is a mentioning of thirteen sacred gears with extraordinary powers. They are called longinus, named after the Holy Spear of Destiny of Saint Longinus that supposedly struck the final blow against the son of god, Jesus Christ.'

"So it had to have been a longinus." Naruto stated 'To think that such a powerful thing was stuck in the body of that pervert.'

'That's one part of your mystery solved then.'

"Yeah, I don't think I will find out anything more at the moment though."

'Now did you make any progress in identifying the devils and discovering their intentions?'

"So far I have not yet been able to determine the identity of any devils for certain, however my list of suspects has increased to encompass the members of what is known as the Occult Research Club. Something I think that could be well qualified as hiding in plain sight."

'That indeed sounds suspicious.' Victor agreed' What more could you find out?'

"The members of this club are Yuuto Kiba, who I already mentioned as suspect. Toujou Koneko, Himejima Akeno and Rias Gremory, I mentioned those last two to Marcus when I last talked to him."

'Yeah, the two drop dead gorgeous girls you met.' Victor said' That is pretty unfortunate.'

Naruto rolled his eyes not that Victor could see it"Yes, very unfortunate." he stated drily, since it was just annoying how those two had to push him to finding a girlfriend"Anyway I will be joining that club tomorrow and that will put me into a closer position to continue my observation."

'Excellent.' the scientist said 'And before I forget it, Marcus was pretty excited a few days ago. Something about a new toy for you to try out. I think it's going to be delivered to you tomorrow and Marcus will call you about it as well.'

"That's good to know. Thanks for the notice." the blond answered "Well if that was everything I will end the call now and go to sleep. I have a major headache."

'Sure no thing, Naruto. Sleep well.' Victor wished him a good night and Naruto hung up, throwing the cellphone back on his night stand before falling into a deep sleep.


The next day

Naruto was woken by the bright light streaming into his room and birds singing on the other side of his bedroom window.

Groggily Naruto pulled himself up"How late is it?" he asked himself, noting that he hadn't been woken by the infernal noise of his alarm clock

He checked the clock on his cellphone display, which told him that he had woken up half an hour after when he usually was woken"Fuck." Naruto muttered, he really had to stop the habit of breaking his alarm clock each morning. Normally he would have replaced it 'But with everything going on yesterday, I must have forgotten about it.'

With greater than human speed he threw himself out of the bed, changed into his school uniform, pocketing the feather and downed a glass of orange juice before rushing out of his house towards his school.

Luckily he was quick on foot and arrived long before the bell for the first lesson rang, fifteen minutes before in fact.

Most students were leisurely strolling into the building conversing with eachother, however one panicked youth stood out amongst them.

It was a familiar boy with brown hair who was going around asking everyone he saw a question.

'What is this?!' Naruto thought alarmed. He was sure the boy had to have been dead some sort of corpse laying hidden somewhere on this planet' And yet here he is completely confused, rushing from person to person.'

Just one day ago Issei's life had been great. He finally had a girlfriend after all the years of hoping and trying and then somehow everything went wrong.

He had this weirdest dream that Yuuma, his girlfriend, had transformed into some busty bondage woman with black wings, summoned a spear of light and impaled him on it.

But that was just crazy, right? So he decided to call his girlfriend, see how she was the day after their date and if she wanted to meet up with him again after school.

That was when the next strange thing happened. He couldn't find Yuuma's cellphone number anywhere among her contacts in fact the contact amongst his address book had been gone as well.

When he came down to have breakfast with his family, he asked them about Yuuma. He was sure he had told them about his girlfriend but they thought that he was joking or had once again fallen in love with some kind of character from an anime or a hentai game he had played, but hey that had only happened once and Issei had been much younger then.

So Issei thought that his parents had never believed him in the first place about Yuuma but both of his friends Matsuda and Motohama had not only met her but he had personally introduced them so the two had to know her but they didn't.

The two acted like Yuuma had never existed, said he should stop pulling so obvious pranks on them.

Issei then had started everyone he met about her. Surely someone must have seen him leave with her, anyone at all. But they all ignored him or told him to stop deluding himself.

'I...I can't be going crazy can I? I did not imagine Yuuma or did I?' the more people claimed to not know her the less Issei was sure of his sanity, that was when he spotted a familiar tall blond

'That's right! Naruto warned me about her, he must know about Yuuma.' the brown haired pervert rushed to his only hope "Naruto-san, tell me you remember Yuuma, Amano Yuuma, my girlfriend?"

Naruto stared at the desperate boy in front of him. Naruto was sure that it was no illusion, someone with a mask or any kind of impersonator.

So he shot the boy a look filled with scrutiny, which might have come across as a glare and asked one question"Who are you?"

Issei recoiled in shock. Naruto didn't recognize him, so did that mean he didn't exist as well?

'No that can't be right. A lot of people recognized me.' Issei thought to himself after being filled with even more panic for a brief moment before calming down. Then he remembered how much of an asshole he had been to the blond yesterday' He probably just meant well.' Issei thought to himself' And with the situation I am in now, I think he was right.'

"I'm Hyoudou Issei." Issei stated" Listen I know I was a jerk to you yesterday and I am sorry about that but..."

Issei's attention was pulled towards the ringing bell and when he turned back to where Naruto was supposed to be the blond had already pulled way ahead.

'No...' Issei thought in dismay as he failed to get a response from the blond' And the way he is surrounded by girls very lunch break I'll never get to talk to him.'

While Naruto was walking to his classroom he was in deep thought about Issei' Dead or near dead bodies don't just walk around like nothing has happened. Even if he survived and was somehow brought to a hospital by someone else he should be bedridden for weeks, month even!' Naruto cursed inwardly at the even bigger mystery' I'll probably have to cut my time in the Occult Research Club short and observe him these next few days.'

This lunch break he sought out Rias to show her the proof of his completed task.

The crimson haired girl was together with Akeno chatting amicably when they noticed him.

Rias smiled pleasantly at him"Hello, Naruto-kun." she greeted him

"Ara, ara. Nice to see you again, Naruto-kun." Akeno greeted him as well

"It is nice to see you two beauties again." he complimented them returning the smile

"My. Isn't he the charmer, buchou?" Akeno commented praisingly, leaning her right cheek into her palm" I could just eat him up." she licked her lips seductively and a small shiver trailed down Naruto's spine

'Is that a good thing?' he asked himself uncertain of the answer to that question

"So did you come to give up on your task, Naruto-kun?" Rias asked and hoping that he would do so

'It wouldn't do well for a normal human to be involved in my peerages inner dealings.'

And yet there was a little part of her that hoped he would succeed, so she could keep seeing him.

"Oh no on the contrary, I came to tell you that I succeeded." Naruto said with a big grin and pulled out the black feather

Rias' and Akeno's eyes widened in surprise and both were shocked into a stupor. At this moment one could hear a pin drop were one to be dropped.

Rias could not believe it, this absolutely normal human had somehow managed to acquire the feather of an angel, a fallen angel to boot. She could feel the residual power of the angel resting inside the feather.

The red haired devil wanted to scream in frustration at the mystery that was Uzumaki Naruto' How did he manage this? This should have been absolutely impossible.' Her thoughts raced and revolved around the blond. Somehow she found that quality of his to do the impossible attractive. But she wasn't falling in love with a human or anything like that.

"That is incredible, Naruto-kun." Rias managed to say completely composed so as to not arouse any suspicion" Tell me where did you find it?"

"Oh it was just laying around and I happened to stumble upon it. Pretty lucky wouldn't you say?" if possible Naruto's grin widened hoping it would put a further crack into their composed exterior

"Ara, ara. It seems like our club as a new member,buchou." Akeno stated

"Yes, welcome to the Occult Research Club, Naruto-kun. Congratulations." the club president said and her voice seemed slightly strained

Rias knew that she could have put the authenticity of the feather in question but the task she had given him was already pretty 'illegal'. No club was allowed to demand any sort of entrance test, Naruto had just nice enough not to call her out on it. Now if she tried to deny him further he could go to the administration with the case and force entry into the club since they still had to adhere to the human rules.

But the blond haired young man frustrated Rias to no end, she could make no sense of him 'Who or what are you?'

"Thank you, Rias-chan. Wait I probably should call you Rias-buchou now, right?" he asked for confirmation and the red headed woman nodded absentmindedly "Oh just so you know, I don't have much time these next few days so I am not going to be able to spend much time in the club until I am done."

"That's alright, Naruto-kun. The club is pretty flexible in its attendance times anyway, so don't worry about that." Akeno told him and for some reason Rias felt a pang of sadness that he would not be in the club as often.

The young superhuman nodded and bid the two ladies of Kuoh farewell.


After school Naruto began tailing Issei, who seemed just as confused and uncertain as this morning.

He had at first spent time at the house of one of his friends from the pervert-trio. Apparently the three at watched some sort of erotic video. As twilight enveloped the city he had left the house again. Naruto continued to tail the brown haired boy back to the park to the fountain at which he had died.

"I'm not imagining things am I?" Naruto heard Issei ask himself

'Does he think that the events of yesterday were not real?' the blond thought to himself' If he were some kind of devil or angel doppelgänger there would be no need for that, since who would he fool with that right now, he does not know I am here so there is no need.'

Especially if Naruto considered his behaviour and actions from tomorrow morning he knew that this was the same Issei that Naruto had seen killed by the fallen angel yesterday.

Suddenly soft steps echoed with each step from behind Issei as a man in a black coat and fedora approached the boy.

"All alone, boy?" the man asked with a sense of intrigue and caused Issei to turn around replying with a confused"Huh?"

"Tell me who is your master?" the man demanded of Issei

"I don't know what you are talking about I have no master." Issei shouted back at the man in confusion

"No master, no comrades and no magicians mark? So I must assume you are a stray then." the man grinned beneath his fedora and Naruto could now sense the bloodthirst emanating from the man" Which means I can get rid of you without problems!"

"LEAVE ME ALONE!" Issei shouted in both confusion and fright as turned around and ran away

"And my prey runs away." the man complained with fake annoyance

'Even if I don't know how he survived I won't fail my duties a second time. This time I will protect Issei.' Naruto thought

A pair of black wings spread from the back of the man and he flapped them a few times for good measure as he took to the air, flying slightly above the ground, as he was about to follow the brown haired boy.

Only a blast of force knocked the angel aside "Don't even think about it, fallen angel scum." Naruto warned the man while complaining inwardly 'Again I'll have to do without a weapon.'

The fallen angel had only been slightly startled by the attack and turned his attention upon Naruto.

"Ah the mysterious human that almost managed to kill Raynare." the man stated and grinned" She told us about you and I couldn't believe that she let herself be bested by a human but if you really are as strong as she claimed you are then you would be an even better pray than that stray."

"Your friend couldn't deal with me yesterday so what makes you think you can?" Naruto asked and threw another blast of pure force which the angel dodged rather easily" Don't think me to be as inattentive as that Raynare. You will have to do much better than that to best me." a spear of light formed in his hands and the airborne spearman charged at the blond, who dodged out of the way and manipulated a torrent of water to shoot at the fallen angel. The water rose from the fountain and with incredible speed moved towards the angel, who turned around and with a downward slice of his light spear cut the torrent in half making the water pass on each side of him.

"Admirable effort but not good enough." the fallen angel spoke and seemed rather disappointed"It seems Raynare exaggerated when she told us of your power."

Naruto remained silent and concentrated his power on the water once more, pulling even more from the fountain until it was empty. The water swirled around the fallen angel in a whirlpool like fashion until it resembled a small tower.

Naruto then used his powers to drain the thermal energy from water which instantly froze in the air as a large explosive flame shot towards both ends of the ice funnel. He used his powers to fuel the flames more as the torrent of flames behind the ice caused it to melt into water again, followed by steam.

As the steam dissipated Naruto stared at the aftermath of his attack. The fallen angel was still hovering in the air, however his clothes had been nearly fully burned away, including his flesh, which was marred by severe burns.

The fallen angel grunted in pain" You are indeed strong human." the angel praised him"Your efforts are admirable, but in the end they were futile. You are probably exhausted from that attack right?" the angel asked and Naruto knew that it was true

While the use of his power was not quite as taxing on his body as yesterdays use had been, using it in so many different manners compared to his single form of manipulation he had used during his training, did drain him pretty fast.

'As long as I don't have a working weapon against the angels and I am so quickly exhausted from using my powers I am at a real disadvantage.'

"Let it be known that your death was brought at the hands of the fallen angel Dohnaseek." the fallen angel readied his spear but stopped mid attack as he sensed something. The fallen angel seemed annoyed"It seems our fight has to be cut short. Consider this a stroke of luck. The next time we meet I will finish you off." the angel warned and flew away

Naruto could now hear two pair of feet walking towards his position which meant he had to get out of here.

He used the rest of his mental reserves, fortunate that it didn't take much to do what he planned to and stepped into the shadows of the trees. He sunk into the shadow and at the outskirts of the park he stepped out of the shadow of another tree.

The blond held his hand in front of his mouth as he felt sick.

He had only tested this shadow movement once before and while it allowed him to travel from one shadow to another as long as they were connected he still felt disoriented once he stepped out of the shadows.


Back at the scene of the fight

Rias and Koneko had just arrived where they had sensed the fight to be. Originally Rias had sensed her newest acquisition, Issei, to be in danger and so had, together with Koneko, teleported to his position to protect him.

Only to find him completely safe. After promising the startled and absolutely confused boy an explanation tomorrow she wanted to know what made the fallen angel stop chasing Issei.

As normally a fallen angel only stopped chasing a presumed stray devil if said devil was dead, which Issei clearly was not.

After her pawn had pointed her into the direction from which he came she and Koneko arrived there as fast as they could only to find...nothing.

However Rias noticed that the water out of the fountain was missing and that the air was unusual humid and hot, in fact the air had a tropic feel to it.

"Fire and Water Magic?" Rias muttered to herself, as Koneko stayed on the lookout for anything.

Rias didn't know anything that favoured these two types of magic so who could have fought against the fallen angel and kept her pawn safe?

Mystery after mystery kept piling up for Rias"First Naruto and now this."


The next day Naruto wasn't woken up by the sound of his alarm clock, which he finally managed to replace but by the sound of his doorbell ringing. Naruto heaved himself out of his bed and managed to get to his door. He opened the door to his apartment and outside of it stood a deliveryman with a long packet in his hands" Delivery for Uzumaki Naruto." he said and pushed a clipboard with a sheet of paper and a pen towards Naruto.

The blond signed the delivery and received the packet" Have a good day." the deliveryman said and got back into his truck driving to the next building he had to make a delivery at.

He placed the packet down on the floor and opened it. Inside of it was a sniper rifle, most likely light gun type.

Attached to it was a card. High penetration, thermal scope, light rifle prototype.

He weighed the rifle in his hands and like the previous light gun he had it was much lighter than an actual sniper rifle would have been.

During lunch break Naruto got the call from Marcus, just like Victor said he would.

He left the classroom to have some piece while he talked to Marcus on the phone. Without the call taking his attention Naruto would have notice that Kiba had left the classroom which he rarely did during lunch break.

"What's up Marcus?' the blond asked his favourite engineer

'Hey, Naruto. Did you get the packet?' Marcus inquired

"Yeah I got it. So what is so different about it from the light gun?" Naruto spoke quieter so that nobody would overhear them

'I was just about to explain that.' Logos engineer stated' You do know how the light bullets have a pretty little penetration power, because the array runs on battery power instead of magic power and that causes a lack of regulation in how much power actually is supposed to be used?'

"Yes, I remember that much." The light gun's bullets went pretty fine through flesh, after which it dissipated when fired at something through an object, even if it was just a very thin stonewall, the leftover destructive power went close to zero.

'Well I haven't wholly managed to fix that, but when you test this we will see how well I did. See after the algorithm of the IT guys deciphered enough for me to add my own lines I managed to have the array drain a full battery for a shot. In theory that should 'overcharge' the bullet so much that it could punch through quite a few walls without loosing any bit of its destructiveness. That's why I choose to go with a sniper rifle model, so that in case you miss or it doesn't work as intended there is enough distance between you and whatever you were trying to kill that you can come up with an alternative plan.'

"That's good to know. Next chance I get I'll try this out. Was this the project you asked me about my powers for?"

'No, no not at all. As I said it's a very far off thing. Anyway you have school right now, right? So I will no longer keep you from anything important.' At that moment Marcus had hung up.


Meanwhile in the Occult Research Clubroom

Kiba had brought Issei to the occult research room, where the brown haired boy was greeted by Himejima Akeno, who he had only known by name. Toujou Koneko, whom he had met yesterday evening and Rias Gremory.

"Hello, Issei." the clubs president greeted him "As promised I said I would give you an explanation about yesterday evening's events. The person that tried to attack you yesterday was a fallen angel. He desired to do so because you are a devil."

Issei laughed loudly "Come on. Devils and angels aren't real. Don't try to trick me like that."

Rias expanded her bat wings causing Issei's jaw to drop in astonishment" Do you now believe me?" she asked him and retracted the wings "Every member of this club is a devil, Issei. Well...all except one but he isn't here and he hasn't been in very often yet. This club is a cover for my peerage and you are a part of it too."

"But how? I was, am a normal human. I couldn't be a devil." the brown haired boy tried to deny what he was hearing

Rias pulled out a picture of an, too Issei, all too familiar face" Yuuma-chan!" he exclaimed

"This girl, Amano Yuuma is a fallen angel. She killed you two days ago. And with your last breath your strong desire to 'at least die in the arms of a girl' summoned me to you. I sensed a strong power inside of you and resurrected you as my pawn." she explained to him and slowly Issei began to resign to the fact that he was a devil.

The crimson haired devil then explained to him the relationship between the three factions, which was much too complicated for Issei. In the end she decided to get him motivated for the existence as a devil and her pawn by telling him that if he rose to the rank of a high class devil he would eventually be able to have his own harem.

Once Issei was about to leave Rias told him one last thing.

"Don't tell Uzumaki Naruto about any of this though." she ordered him

"Huh? Why would I tell him?" Issei asked confused as to what Naruto had to do with all of this

"Naruto is the last member of this club the one that is not a devil and not part of my peerage. He is a normal human. So I want to keep him out of the dangers of the world of devil and angels."

The perverted boy nodded in understanding" Alright, buchou. I wont mention a single word to him."

The rest of the day went by without much fuss for Naruto. He had continued to observe Issei after school, who for some reason cycled through the city on his bike like a maniac screaming something about becoming a harem king. And he visited the strangest people not like Naruto was interested in that.

The few things of note were that he once more was attacked by a fallen angel, a female one, however she left pretty fast after Issei had managed to activate his longinus gear. But other than that nothing noteworthy happened on that day.


The next day had begun and Naruto was woken by the ringtone of his cellphone. He checked the display and saw that he was being called by Logos which probably meant that it was Gonzalo who.

As the number corresponding to the ID Logos belonged to the operation control room where Gonzalo spent a lot of time.

Naruto accepted the call" How can I help you, Gonzalo?"

'New orders for you.' the spaniard stated and began elaborating' On the outskirts of the town we detected the signature of a low class devil. Local reports have revealed that quite a few people have gone missing around that area. Since the location is pretty close it wont interfere with your primary mission.'

"Alright consider it done, Gonzalo." Naruto answered confidently

'I expected nothing less of you, Naruto.' Gonzalo answered' Good luck. I'll be waiting for your report.'

Gonzalo then ended the call.

"Well, I guess I could test that prototype I've been sent." the blond mused to himself" I'm excited to see how well this works. I guess I wont be able to keep an eye on Issei today then."

After the boy had awakened his longinus he seemed capable of defending himself so Naruto guessed it wasn't all that bad that he wasn't there to keep track of Issei.

He actually didn't plan to follow him around all that longer after school, two or three days at most.

Darkness had blanketed the town and Naruto sat patiently in a tree able to observe the building the devil occupied. He used a burst of telekinetic energy to push the door open.

He looked through the thermal scope and saw a huge, quadruped form resting inside the building. On top of the devils lower body was the upper body of a normal human.

'This will be pretty easy for a change.' the large devil only now realized that the door had opened and Naruto took aim at the things head. He pulled the trigger of his rifle and for the first five seconds nothing happened and then a large streak of white burst from the nozzle of the weapon and punched straight through the devil's head and brain, before punching through a few walls behind the devil's body. An instant kill. There was no cry of pain, the body simply fell to the side sending a weak shock wave through the ground.

"One shot, one kill." Naruto muttered in confirmation and pulled out his cellphone and called Gonzalo

"Hey, Gonzalo? The stray has been eliminated and tell Marcus that the test run of his weapon was a success."

The blond then slung the rifle on his back and hung up, making his way back to his apartment.

If he had stayed a bit longer he would have noticed five people appearing just outside the building in a large red circle with various magic symbols.


"There are devils that betray their masters which often involves killing them." Kiba explained to his new comrade "Their powers run rampart and they do as they please. This devil has been luring humans here to devour them."

Issei gulped audible "Devour?" the new devil asked

"Alright Issei." Rias called for the pawns attention "When we engage the devil I want you to pay good attention this will teach you things you need to know about devil combat."

The group of five entered the building and were surprised that the stray didn't reveal itself, thinking a human had entered its domain.

"Ara, ara. I think I have found our target, buchou." Akeno commented grimly" It seems someone was faster in taking care of it." She gestured to the devils corpse. The hole in it's head leaking fresh blood on the ground.

"It's pretty fresh too." Kiba analysed" Maybe ten minutes or so at most."

"What does this mean?" Issei asked

Rias took a look at the wound on the devils head "The wound was definitely caused by light. But it's far too small and clean to be something inflicted by an angel or fallen angel."

"What about an exorcist, buchou?" Akeno suggested" This would be possible with an exorcist gun wouldn't it?"

"It probably would..." Rias agreed at first" But look at the way of the hole. It's a straight line. With how big this devil was an exorcist would have shot from her chin up through the roof of her head at best. To achieve this kind wound the marksman would have to have shot from an elevated position, like outside in the trees. And exorcist guns don't have that kind of range." Exorcist guns tended to be used at a maximum range of five to ten metres, so as to not be too draining on the exorcist. The crimson haired beauty then noticed the hole in the wall behind the devil" And they especially don't have enough power to penetrate the devil AND this stonewall."

"What are we dealing with here?" the blond haired bishounen asked

"I don't know, Kiba." Rias admitted and bit down on her thumb

'First that fire/water combination used in the fight against the fallen angel yesterday and now this. If I had found the same MO as yesterday I would have said it was one and the same person.' Rias thought' But now I will have to assume that there are multiple people who can deal with low class devils and fallen angels.'

So not only were there unknown people messing around in here area but to make matters worse she had to give Issei an explanation on the Evil Piece system. He had not understood the first explanation she had given him so she thought it wise to elaborate what she was explaining by having it shown to him first hand. The fact that she got rid of a stray devil on her territory was an added bonus.

"Alright let's get back to the club room." Rias ordered and gathered her four comrades around her and teleported them back to the club room

However the mystery would resolve itself for Rias the next evening.


On the next evening Naruto decided to keep watch on Issei for the last time.

The blond followed the longinus user to a rather neat looking house.

'He's visiting rather strange people these last few days.' Naruto thought and shrugged' Well that's no concern of mine.'

However this time he had a strange feeling. Something wasn't right in that house. The superhuman's gaze remained fixed on the building as Issei walked inside by himself.

'Nobody, would just leave their door open like that.' Naruto moved closer to the house and now he could smell something metallic in the air' Now I definitely know that something is wrong.' Naruto walked rushed into the house' It could be a fallen angel once again...'

He heard two sharp cries of pain that belonged to Issei and he saw a young white haired boy, light sword raised in his right hand to decapitate, Issei. In the left was an exorcist gun. The boy was dressed in clerical clothing and a small silver cross hung from his neck.

Just as the exorcist was about to behead Issei, Naruto kicked him in the back sending him careening into a nearby shelf.

"Naruto-san?!" Issei exclaimed in surprise"What are you doing here?"

"I could be asking you the same." Naruto replied and pulled the boy to his feet, noting the injuries on his body. A shot to through his knee and a slash across his back.

"We have time enough to discuss that later, you should be getting out of here. Now!" Naruto ordered Issei

"I can't leave you alone against him..." Issei argued leaving the 'because you will die' out at the end

"Kyaahhh!" a new voice shrieked and Naruto now noticed that a young blond haired nun had entered the room and was shocked at the scene before her

"Asia!" Issei called out as he apparently recognized the girl

"W-what is this?" she stuttered out full of fear

"Stop acting like a total beginner and start healing me you stupid nun." the white haired boy complained as he had pulled himself up from the floor. The blond girl was intimidated enough by the exorcist that she complied with his order and a green light enveloped her hands and the bruises his involuntary trip into the furniture had caused.

'A sacred gear!' Naruto realized' If his wounds keep getting healed this could get pretty ugly, especially if I have to take care of Issei as well.'

Once the boy's wounds had been healed he looked at Naruto with an insane glint in his eyes.

"And what are you? A little devil lover... or maybe even a devil yourself?" the exorcist asked him in a very creepy voice before grinning at him" Say nothing. I will kill you anyway. Isn't that great?"

"Shut up you maniac." Naruto retorted coldly and a burst of psionic energy shoved the exorcist into a nearby wall "What right do you have to kill an innocent human and attack another one?"

'I have to be careful with using my energy. If he has any more reinforcements lurking around I can't exhaust all my energy on him.'

"What right I have? The one I killed was a shitty devil lover and the one you are helping right now is a devil. I'm just fulfilling my duties as a priest."

'Issei a devil?' Naruto asked himself' It can't be. I was pretty sure that he is a human.'

"Now be ready to die." he pointed his sword at me and his gun at Issei as the blond haired girl suddenly jumped in between them

"Stop this father." she begged him with teary eyes" I beg you, please forgive him. He may be a devil but Issei is a really nice person."

"Oy, are you for real?" the exorcist deadpanned and Naruto cursed inwardly he had wanted to incapacitate the exorcist but she had moved right into his line of fire" Do you even realize what you are doing?" he asked full of anger.

The guy way clearly insane and even if he wasn't a supernatural being he was part of that world so he couldn't let him hurt the sister or Issei. Naruto could still decide if Issei really was a devil later on.

Naruto started manipulating the shadows in the room, which started edging closer to the priest ready to ensnare him.

"Don't even think about it." the white haired boy warned Naruto and pulled Asia dangerously close to him his weapons close to her vitals "I could just off her if your shadows get any closer, you know? I'm sure you two wouldn't like that at all."

And Naruto was right, he couldn't risk Asia's life like that. So he pulled his shadows back which Issei noticed 'How is he doing this?' He asked himself but decided to curse at the exorcist "Let her go you asshole." Butt in his current state it was more of an act of desperation than anything else

Suddenly a bright red circle appeared in the air.

"Ara, ara. Quite the problem we have here." Naruto heard someone say and he could identify the owner of the voice as Akeno

"Exorcist." the emotionless voice of Koneko followed

"We came to help, Issei." Kiba stated, having a sword drawn

"Ahhhhh." the exorcist had a look of orgasmic bliss on his face" The whole devil organisation appears. So many targets to choose from. Which should I kill first?" he asked himself" One of the shitty devils or the shitty devil lover?"

"Why don't I take that choice off your hands?" a final voice, which Naruto noted belonged to Rias, asked darkly

'Devil lover?' she thought confused and now noticed Naruto's presence in the room "What are you doing here, Naruto-kun?"

"Making sure that, that guy doesn't kill anyone else. What else?" Naruto asked sarcastically as he glared at the exorcist

Rias was about to open her mouth when Naruto interrupted her" I know what you meant but we have enough time for that after this."

'Apparently my suspicions were right and the occult research club members are all devils.'

Rias then turned to Issei"I'm sorry we came so late, but I noticed so late because there was a barrier around this place."

"A barrier you were supposed to keep up you shitty nun." the exorcist spat angrily and then dragged his tongue over Asia's cheek"I guess I will have to punish you later for that."

The brown haired boy growled in anger"No, you wont." despite his wounds he was about to throw himself at the exorcist

When a strange portal appeared over the exorcists head.

"Fallen Angel." Koneko stated

"Buchou?" Akeno asked, waiting for orders

Rias didn't want to involve her peerage in an open conflict with some fallen angels with Issei being an absolute newbie when it came to being a devil and fighting, especially with him wounded like that it was a bad idea to fight.

"Our first priority is getting Issei to safety." Rias commanded her peerage" Koneko take care of Issei."

The white haired girl picked the wounded devil up and a large red circle appeared around the five of them.

"But we can't leave Asia here!" Issei tried to argue

"That's impossible only those of my peerage can use this teleportation circle." Rias explained robbing Issei of his hope of rescuing Asia from Freed

Naruto guessed they were likely going to teleport to the occult research club's club room.

"Only you are left devil lover." the exorcist stated with a grin and Naruto knew that if he had to face the boy and one, possibly more fallen angels he would died and that would serve no one.

So as much as it pained him he too had to leave the girl behind but he swore to do something about it as soon as he could.

"This time you win." Naruto admitted even if he didn't like it and melded into the shadows transporting himself away, leaving the despairing blond nun behind.


Following this small skirmish Naruto made his way to the club room where he was already expected.

Issei's wounds had mostly been taken care of already. Naruto sat down on one of the couches, Rias on the opposite of him, so that she faced him directly. A pair of glasses framing her face.

To her side was Akeno, Koneko sat in one of the chairs and Kiba was standing ready for anything.

"Now please answer honestly, Naruto-kun. Who or rather what are you?" Rias demanded to know" You aren't a devil, angel, fallen angel or any type of youkai. You are a normal human, no magic potential, no sacred gear...nothing. And yet you managed to keep that exorcist off of Issei from what he told us. And you were likely the one who took care of that stray devil yesterday and who protected Issei from the fallen angel three days ago, right?"

Naruto nodded" You are right that was me both times. And you are also right I am a human that is neither a mage and neither a sacred gear user."

"Then what are you?"

"I? I am humanities protector against supernatural threats." the blond explained "I have undergone rigorous training and body enhancing processes to elevate me far above the level any normal human could ever achieve."

"But you clearly used powers that are close to magic but yet isn't magic. What about that? Clearly that's not anything a normal human is capable of."

"That..." Naruto hesitated "I am actually not sure of myself. All I know is that they are the result of a mutation."

"What is your purpose here? You lied about your parents dying in an accident." Kiba inquired determined to find out the truth, when he realized that he spoke out of turn"I'm sorry, buchou." he apologized

"It's alright, Kiba." she forgave him, where another devil might have punished him

"Well that was no lie depending on how you look at it." Naruto sighed as he remembered their deaths and retold the story in a solemn voice"My father was killed by a stray devil that had sought refugee in our house after being wounded by a fallen angel. The fallen angel had caught up to the devil a little after my father had died and killed the stray. The angel then demanded that my mother give him her body as a payment but she resisted and was killed by him for that. There was no one that would believe me when I told them what really happened that night."

"That's horrible." Issei exclaimed

"I'm sorry about that." Rias apologized knowing that this had been a very unfortunate turn of events

The superhuman shook his head"Don't be. It's nothing you could have done about it."

"So what are you here for then? Revenge against devils and angels?" the crimson haired devil asked

"No, that is not my goal. I am the product of Logos. The international organisation tasked to deal with everything supernatural. We have complete ambassadorial responsibilities in representing humanity as well as defensive ones. After we determined that this was the largest gathering of devil energies I was to discover the identities of the devils hiding here as well as their motives. If you were deemed a threat to humanity I would have full authority to eliminate you in any way possible..."

Kiba was about to draw his sword but Rias stopped him.

"But quite frankly you do not seem like you have any malicious intent. However I would still like to set up a meeting for tomorrow with your race's leader or leaders."

"Well I suppose I could arrange something with my brother..." Rias thought about it

"Her brother?" Issei asked confused

"Her brother, Sirzechs-sama is one of the four leaders of the underworld." Akeno explained for the pawn

"That would be great." Naruto stated and stood up"I would love to stay and chat some more but since you need to contact your brother and I need to inform my superiors as well we best take care of that now."

As the blond stood in the door frame he turned around a last time"By the way the glasses look pretty cute on you, Rias-chan." he complimented the red haired beauty, leaving her blushing as he left the building

She couldn't be falling for a human now, could she? However Rias wasn't so sure about that anymore.

All that could still be heard was Akeno's amused"Ara, ara."