LEGEND OF THE TRUE SAGE
Hey friends I have decided to start a new story this time a cross over story between high school dxd and Naruto. But I am not abandoning my protector's pride story it's simply a side project an idea that won't leave me alone.
Disclaimer: I own shit neither high school dxd nor Naruto.
summary: in the world where gods and devils walk the earth; where skies are dyed red by the flames of dragons; this is the story of a boy brought back to life after three thousand years to once more be given a chance at the redemption.
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GHOSTS OF THE PAST part one
Naruto had returned with the enigmatic fallen angel leader to the familiar building once more. He had decided to get to know this Rias person a chance, if Kurama felt there was merit to the suggestion and finally he could have a family then he was all for it. The first thing he noticed upon the return trip was the life force surrounding the building, there was an aura of happiness surrounding the building now. Azazel strode in to the building motioning him to follow behind. The sun was rising by then and first light of the day filled Naruto with hope.
Rias was arguing to her second in command and her childhood friend Akeno when a loud noise of throat clearing disturbed her. She was not surprised to see Azazel sitting in the sofa and smiling impishly, the fallen angel governor was invisible to their senses when he wanted it to be and she had learned to accept it. What surprised her was the person standing behind the sofa, the deep blue eyes and the sun kissed blonde hair was trademark of the person his brother referred to her as the first nine tailed fox.
She was about to ask the question when Ise beat her to it. "Umm sensei! Why is Kyuubi-san here?" Issei was confused and a bit worried, he had not forgotten the display of power earlier and it filled him with apprehensiveness.
"It is very simple. He is here to stay as a guest and may eventually join you." Azazel's voice was jovial but unlike others he had not missed slight twitch of Naruto's chakra at being referred to as Kyuubi. That in itself was strange for he knew the boy was in tune with the beast inside, they were now almost one entity.
Rias composed herself fastest, "but who decided that?" her voice was hard. She was not sure about the blonde yet and he had injured her beloved Ise which didn't make him popular to her.
Naruto could sense the apprehensiveness of the persons surrounding him. He could sense how the brown haired boy was gathering energy in his left hand, his sharp eye catching the tensed muscle of the other lean blonde haired boy and the girl in green mesh. Only one who seemed at ease was the black haired beauty Rias was talking to earlier. He sighed, this was expected and only proved that this bunch of people were no stranger to fight.
"Hello everyone" he spoke at last "I am Naruto Uzumaki, the last remaining ninja of the shinobi ages. I possess absolutely no threat to any of you…." Then he as an afterthought he added "as long as you don't attack me first, I hope we get along well." He finished with his trademark grin.
Rias could sense absolutely no ill intent from the boy before her; more over the cool controlled of power that he released reminded her of her cousin. Still there was one question, "why were underground and why did you attack Ise-kun?" she asked her voice still impassive.
Naruto locked eyes with the busty crimson haired devil, "I don't actually remember why I was there, my memory of those few days are rather faded and as for why I attacked the boy over there; I cannot be sure really but I guess in that situation my mind treated them as threat to me and as such I acted so aggressively" Naruto replied honestly.
A slow smile spread over Rias's lips the dialect Naruto used was ancient and only her gift as the devil allowed her to understand his words. "Then welcome to the occult research club I am Rias Gremory. Please treat me well" she spoke bowing her head.
Following her lead the black haired beauty also bowed, "I am Akeno Himejima please treat me well." "I am Koneko Tojue, please treat me well" The small white haired girl spoke her tone even and emotion less. "I am Asia Argento I am really happy to meet you Naruto san I truly hope we can be friends" the blonde haired girl in the green robe like dress greeted him cheerfully. Her warm personality was like the healing jutsu Naruto remembered Sakura or Tsunade baa-chan using; it filled his mind with the warm memories.
'Kurama can you feel it' Naruto thought but he received no reply. Not that he had really expected one; he knew the beast still held much bitterness in his heart. He listened almost carelessly as the next three members introduced themselves. The one who however caught his eye was the brown haired teen may be one year younger to him. He was slightly dumb looking reminding Naruto of his younger days. Finally he grinned at them, "it was good to meet you, and I really hope we get well together."
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The next two days had been the most peaceful Naruto had ever lived. However unfortunately it was also the most boring time he had ever spent. No missions, no training and no more prejudice he felt lighter than he felt in years and he was bored out of his mind. Naruto never was one to sit and wait something out; he had always been in the thick of it. It was a complex feeling on one hand he was tired of the endless fighting but on the other hand he desperately needed something motivate him something that would make him feel alive.
He could not go out in to the city until mastering the language of the local people and time perfectly. Even now he had a hundred clones reading the books Akeno had provided him with. He didn't mind reading the books at least it gave him something to do but still he found learning languages to be more complicated than mastering sealing arts. 'Well at least this time I have some human teacher rather than amphibian' he thought to himself, before pausing in his tracks. He had forgotten about his summons in the confusion. 'Well time to rectify the mess' he thought before tearing a small bit of skin from his finger with the elongated canine. The blood splattered on the ground as Naruto moved through his familiar hand-seals with blazing speed.
Naruto pumped as little amount of chakra he could push in to the jutsu. He was a guest in the old building and didn't dare to summon something larger than a pup. While before the war it wouldn't have been a problem but right now his chakra was at least ten times more potent than he was before. The design of the seal spread on the ground but nothing happened. Naruto frowned, this was not supposed to happen; the toads could not die like this. They had been before the sage of sixth path's time the true children of the chakra; he pumped some more of his chakra at least doubling the amount but again nothing happened. Naruto felt his hopes dying, he had expected to find one link that tied the two times something that would be an anchor for him but all he got was despair.
The last shinobi let out a sigh; he had felt the person standing outside the room for a while. "You can come in Himejima-san, you know that I can sense you just fine" he called out.
Akeno pouted he didn't want the blonde to treat her like an unknown but the boy was too stubborn. Akeno didn't know what was about the boy that attracted her but not only was he cute, he was way hotter than Issei. She still liked the brown haired boy after all he had accepted her despite of knowing her past, making him the second person since Rias to do so but still in Naruto there was something that turned her on.
"Aww! Naruto-kun that's not fair I told you to call me Akeno." She said in a seductive whisper, "May be you would like to have some more incentive to call me that." She whispered bringing her face close to the whiskered cheek of Naruto Uzumaki.
Naruto shivered in excitement as the voice was arousing him, 'this is no good I am not like my godfather that useless pervert'. Thinking of Jiraiya sent new pangs of pain through his chest, that man was the one who shaped his entire ideology and Naruto loved him despite of his flaws.
"Thinking once more of the past" Akeno knew the look in the shinobi's eyes. It appeared in her own eyes whenever she thought of the life she enjoyed with her parents.
Naruto didn't answer at first, he was still confused about he felt in this world; on one hand he had been given a second chance at life without the constant threat for life and on other hand he still felt alone the club members were certainly good and he loved interacting with them. But still their personalities were too much of a reminder of what he had lost. "Yes sometimes it becomes unavoidable" Naruto muttered his eyes staring on ahead but looking nowhere.
The dream of having his entire team grow up and have families together becoming the hokage of the village seemed so far away, never again will he meet Yugito, Sakura-chan or have arguments with Sasuke.
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There were many things Akeno could say but in the end the words meant nothing. "Maybe you should go out in the city enjoy the day" she whispered pressing her considerable assets in the strong back of the blonde boy. She was more than aware of the effect her body had on the males and she enjoyed it. That was the reason she acted dominatrix because in the end she had never found someone who could match her in every move.
Naruto felt the feeling of pleasure spreading through his body; even when he didn't want to he was being aroused. "It seems like a good idea" he managed to speak; now he realized why Jiraiya acted like that; the feeling of pleasure was too much to ignore.
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Naruto walked along the streets of the city, Akeno hanging from his left arm. "So why were you here this time? Should not you have classes like others" he asked after a while of silence. Akeno smiled sweetly at the question, the boy was just too naïve. "Don't be such a spoil sport; cant I just I want to spend time with my favorite shinobi?" she spoke concealing her laughter and batting her eye lashes.
Naruto blushed a deep red; "is it just you or all of the devils are like this" he asked. This girl was breaking through his shields like they even weren't there and he was trained by one of the greatest pervert to ever live. He had designed the sexy jutsu for crying out loud, he was the closest damn thing there was to immune to the lure of flesh.
Akeno pretended that she didn't even hear the question before quickly steering Naruto towards the mall she frequented. However she had barely taken three steps forward when she had the sense of being watched over. "Do you sense it as well" she whispered, the slight nod of Naruto's head confirmed her doubt.
But still that left the question of who it was; for one thing it was neither fallen angel nor devil in nature. "Akeno-san you should get away from here, I recognize this power and things are about to get messy here" Naruto spoke his tone of speaking changed into a much more determined and dangerous one. Akeno shivered the commanding tone of the voice and the inner confidence turning her on. "I am staying" she said in a determined voice, "I am the queen of Rias Gremory not some weak human girl. You have to protect".
The passion in her voice stopped Naruto's rebuttal, in a way it was similar to the females he was familiar with. A small thin smile graced his lips as he closed his eyes storing nature chakra in his pathways. His pupils changed to resemble that of a toads and orange color forming below his eyes. During the war his mastery of sage chakra had reached a point never imagined before even by the toads. He focused on the countless number of life forces present in the area, filtering the humans from super natural beings until he had zoned into the very being stalking him.
Akeno froze as she felt the energy signature of the blonde shinobi changed significantly, in a way it became nearly untraceable. Still the outpour of the energy increase at least by multiple folds. She followed him as he moved through the busy street like an arrow released from the bow. While not nearly as fast as a knight his speed was still formidable and Akeno was having a hard time catching up with him. 'I was right he is impressive even without using that power' she thought, but her musings came to an abrupt halt when she saw the said boy dodge a strike from the scythe that would have taken his head clean off.
Naruto had sensed the incoming strike of the scythe from afar and just a slight lowering of his head allowed the deadly weapon to pass over his head harmlessly. He had already formed a rasengan in his hand and thrusted his deadly sphere of chakra forward but he found the attack blocked by the staff section of the scythe. He only had a brief glance of the hooded skull that marked it as a grim reaper before it disappeared from the place. Appearing behind him already the blade in mid swing the servant of lord of dead felt he was about to win.
Akeno pushed her demonic power forward, forming spears of ice forcing the grim reaper to dodge. She didn't let go however thunder clouds formed in the sky before striking down repeatedly. She snarled in frustration as the reaper dodged or blocked her attacks with relative ease.
Naruto sighed in relief as the sure fatal strike never came, one cross shaped hand-seal later four more clones appeared by his side. However he could sense the rapidly incoming sources of power, many more grim reapers all in this amount of power drew closer. 'Boy you need to end this soon' Kurama's loud voice confirmed the conclusion Naruto had reached, he could not afford to elongate the fight not when Akeno had been dragged into it. He scanned the area his sage mode pinpointing the movement of the reaper in spite of his enormous speed. 'Gotcha' he thought with fierce satisfaction as the reaper in its attempts to dodge the endless attacks Akeno sent at him came closer to him than before.
Akeno felt the familiar and terrible energy once more, she could no longer see the skull head but she didn't dare to let her attacks cease. Out of the corner of her eyes she saw a golden flame like aura wrap around Naruto's body, black seal-markings spread all over his body and the power she identified as that of the Kyuubi's saturated the air. She could not dare to take her eyes off him but he vanished from his spot, it was pure speed that much she was certain but in the very least it matched that of Kiba and that boy was the fastest knight she had the chance to know. The only thing she saw was a golden flash and the next thing she heard was an explosion of immense power.
Naruto didn't held back this time, a large rasengan formed in his hand as he dashed with all of his speed. The agent of lord of death didn't even have a clue when the much more powerful attack hit him. The rasengan that broke through rocks without an effort had done its job. Naruto was about to let the power fade away when he had to freeze, his body wrecked up with incredible pain. Pain unlike anything he had ever known.
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Azazel was in the process of lecturing Ise, when the tracking charm he had placed on Naruto wore off. "Fuck" the fallen angel governor cursed out loud in a way that didn't suit his character but this time he was desperate. "Issei gather others and meet me in the park you were stabbed. Do it fast" he growled out loud, before vanishing in an explosion of speed.
Akeno could not believe her eyes, she was surrounded by grim reapers, and judging by their levels of power they were all stronger than her by a large margin. Naruto had already taken out two more, but his energy is dwindling with time as if the wound he sustained fed on it. She just hoped help was on its way.
Naruto crumpled down the chakra cloak vanishing without a trace. He was weak, even after all the years of training as a shinobi he was no match to this reapers. All it took was three shallow scratches and already he felt worse than he had felt against fighting pain and these new lot used something like jutsus to block most of his attacks. "In the end I die without doing anything" he whispered as the pain brought him to his knees.
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When I opened my eyes again everything was so peaceful, I didn't hurt anymore. Standing up from the couch I was surprised, this looked like my apartment. The place I lived for the entire life of mine. Was I dreaming then? No the memories seemed vivid enough. I tried calling to the fur ball but for the first time in my life I was alone in my body.
May be this is after life; then is this paradise? But I don't think I am worthy of that. Not with so much blood on my hands. I walked forward guided by the instinct to where the door was. But before I could go there I had to stop cold. There were two doors in the place of one. A sound of singing was filling my mind steadily; I remember this song it was our song. It was the song I used to sing with Yugito in the nights of full moon.
I still remember the urge. We were happy; we were tired of the bloodshed. We dreamt of having a family somewhere far from the feud of the shinobi business. As if controlled by some divine power I turned back.
There she was, wearing the same white clothe she loved wearing so much after our love making. Her eyes glittered with unspoken mirth, her hair flowing behind her. She was the goddess, who changed my life; who taught me to live instead of just surviving.
"Hime" the word slipped my mouth before I could think, that was what I called her. For she was princess to me; my feet guided me to her even without my thinking. There was so much I wanted to tell her, tell her I was sorry for failing to saving her; tell her I was sorry for breaking my word to her; for leaving her alone. But I could not, as she opened her arms to embrace my shame melted away; this was the only reality.
Her scent was the same, her warmth so familiar to me. "Is this dream, or am I dead?" I whispered in her ear. If this was a dream then I didn't want it to end and if I was dead then it made no difference to me. "It is what you want it to be" her voice the same melodious one I loved hearing so much. "You can go back to finish the job you left unfinished or you can move on to the afterlife where I wait for you" her words so soft yet felt so heavy; I wanted to be with her but for the sake of my loved ones for her sake I wanted to try to bring peace once more. With the curse of the shinobis over with me there was a chance I would succeed. Also Akeno was there surrounded by the numerous grim reapers.
I could not leave her to die not when I could go back and save her. I had failed to save the ones I care about in one life; I didn't want to repeat it. And just like always my princess knew what I was thinking even without me uttering the words. "Go back Naruto; I will always be here waiting for you. My love; I will be here my time is over but not yours. Live it to fullest, the way you taught me to live" she whispered. I knew my time was running out, "I am sorry, so sorry I could not be there when you needed me most. I couldn't save you from akatsuki" I whispered to her. She only smiled before placing her lips on mine, her love pouring off her. I understood everything from just that kiss; she didn't blame me but most importantly her love continued even beyond the grave.
I stood there as she faded away; I was not worried for I knew I would see her every time I needed her. Her memories would guide me but for the time being I only had one thing to do. That was to live.
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Azazel blocked the scythe's slash with his light spear. Naruto was behind him still alive but fading away fast. The members of Rias's group were struggling against the attack of high level reapers but so far they were still unhurt. Suddenly a great amount of power started building up behind him; this was a much larger concentration of the yokai power than he had ever witnessed. One glance behind revealed the towering figure of huge fox demon. The tails flickered around the air before lashing them out, penetrating through the bodies of the grim reapers around the space with incredible speed. Azazel glanced at the towering spectral figure. It was as menacing as it was beautiful. The reapers perished in a flash as the nine tailed figure finally died down revealing the crouched body of the blonde shinobi.
AUTHOR'S NOTE: THIS CHAPTER IS TAKING PLACE IN THE BETWEEN THE TIME FRAME OF FIFTH AND SIXTH LIGHT NOVEL. IN THIS CHAPTER I BEGIN THE NEW ARC THAT WILL DELVE NARUTO'S PAST. HOWEVER I MUST MAKE ONE THING CLEAR NARUTO IS NOT GOING TO BECOME A DEVIL. YES HE WILL WORK CLOSELY WITH THE OCCULT RESEARCH CLUB BUT HE WILL NOT JOIN THEM AS TRUE MEMBER. THE STORIES OF THIS PARTICULAR CROSSOVER MAINLY DELVES IN THE MANNER OF A DEVIL NARUTO WITH GOD LIKE POWERS BUT I WANT TO DO SOMETHING DIFFERENT, ALTHOUGH NARUTO WILL BE A MAOU LEVEL POWERHOUSE, HE WILL NOT BE INVINCIBLE. WITHOUT RESORTING TO THE SAGE MODE HE CAN NOT EVEN BEAT AKENO IN STRAIGHT UP POWER MAYBE DRAW EVEN WHILE IN SAGE MODE HE IS MORE OR LESS STRONGER THAN ALL OF THE OCCULT AND RESEARCH CLUB MEMBERS EXCEPT ISE IN BALANCE BREAKER. IN HIS KYUUBI SHROUD MODE ONE HE IS STRONGER THAN THE TRIANA AND IN THE MODE TWO HE IS MORE OR LESS EQUAL TO VALI IN HIS EMPERIO JUGGERNAUT DRIVE. AND THE NEW THING I HAVE PLANNED FOR HIM WILL TAKE HIM TIME TO MASTER BUT IN THE COMPLETE FORM HE CAN MATCH MOST OF THE GODS IN A WAY IN THAT MODE HE IS A LIVING WALKING LONGINUS.
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